Hi Everyone, Do people normally follow up with the HO after they’ve submitted to check in? Just a “Hey, I hope everything is going well with the process, hoping to hear from you soon.” ? It’s generally something I would do, but want to make sure it’s a thing here or if I would be weird. …

No, we don’t. We submit a detailed application, it is then up to the HO to review and decide if they want to continue chatting with us. I feel it might be overloading their inbox if we send follow-up messages. There is another thread currently going about how long to wait for a response before movin…

hi @dana_sitter , My opinion may not be very popular here but I LOVE when applicants reach back out with a “hey, just checking in” follow up message. I’m a new parent and while I really try to get back to applicants in a timely manner and nail down a time to schedule a video call sometimes it just …

The two or three times I’ve followed up, I’ve gotten the sit. So I highly recommend it. (I usually wait about two days for a response before my follow-up.)

Hi all, I applied to a sit 9 days ago which I’m extremely keen on, however the home owner has read my application -which was a very short quick message to make sure I got my application in in time before I sent a full application message 5 mins later- but they have not read nor responded to that me…

Since you are very interested in the sit and you have not heard anything in 9 days, it seems reasonable for you to send them a quick message to ask if they have an update on their decision making process, re-emphasizing your interest in the position and offering to do a video interview. You have no…

Yes, I would send another message mentioning that you have noticed that your second message has not been read and has it got missed during the pausing process.

This has been discussed before on the forum. One of the moderators might link it to that. Otherwise search for the topic

Hello @otto , Welcome to the forum we’re happy you’re here! Here are a couple of threads that have discussed your topic about following up with the HO. I’m going to merge your post into this thread so that other members when coming here can easily find suggestions from the largest group of our memb…

Hi @otto Interested to know whether you followed up with the HOs and if you heard back. A similar thing happened to me recently, though I decided to cancel my application. When I did, the HOs apologised and said they’d received over 50 responses to their ad, which I didn’t think was possible given …

Thoughts on follow up submissions

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PetSitterBug 29 August 2022 22:14 4

We follow up after 2 - 3 days with a simple note asking if the HO has any questions of us or if they would like to chat further about us caring for their pet(S).

No response from home owner

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