Tag: home exchange
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Become A Green Traveler With A Home Swap
When we go on vacation, our home sits empty. While away, it is easy to worry about the empty house—water leaks, mold growing, the failure of the furnace or air conditioner to keep running, adequate home security by the security system or alert neighbors. All the usual expenses for our home arrive each month and…
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Home Exchange – Travel With A Friend
When we travel, we bring along a friend, Rick Steves. We recommend that all our family and friends take Rick along as their travel partner as well. Is Rick busy traveling with us, our family, and our friends? Well, we believe he is a busy traveler, but we have never met Rick. Rick Steves writes…
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Travel As A Lifestyle
As we prepared to move, in a box of old electronic devices, I found a telephone that had a “cord” attaching the handset to the phone cradle. I showed this ancient piece of equipment to our grandchildren, ages 8 and 10. It was like transporting them back in time. Something else from the old days:…
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“Happier Trails” As Home Exchange Listings Increase
HomeExchange.com is the #1 home exchange network in the world. But, the entire home exchange industry is in its infancy. These are the days of pioneers. The first wagons have only recently started to cross the Missouri into the wild frontier. It’s like we are living back in the days when cities in western USA…
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Alban Institute and Home Exchange
For 40 years, Alban Institute was an amazing ecclesiastical institution serving congregations and their leaders. In 2014, this organization founded by the Rev. Loren Mead in 1974, entered into an agreement with Duke Divinity School to transfer it’s intellectual properties to Duke. As a result of this agreement, Duke Divinity maintains an archive of the…
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Getting Your Home Ready For A Home Swap
It’s not so hard to get your home ready for a home swap. Chances are, you know how to keep your home, flat, condo (or whatever is home to you) clean. Or, at the very least, how to clean it up when guests are coming to visit. That’s the general idea, when you prepare for…
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Sonora, California and Home Exchanges
We love to learn about the world we live in by searching through home exchange listings and as we prepare our replies to the inquiries of potential home exchange partners who contact us. This is how we learn about so many beautiful places we had never heard of before, but now have added to our…
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Home Swap in Grand Rapids Michigan
Grand Rapids, Michigan, on the Grand River, is 25 miles from Lake Michigan. The population is about 200,000, but the population of the greater metropolitan area of Grand Rapids is over 1 million. Besides being a great vacation destination, there are lots of others reasons that Grand Rapids is an excellent place for doing a…
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The Netherlands and Home Exchanges
If you are thinking to travel to The Netherlands, be sure to check out home exchange listings in The Netherlands. The Netherlands is one of the 150 countries which you, as a member of archive.christianhomeexchange.com/, can contact in The Home Exchange Network. Currently (February 22, 2017), this network has 2,314 available home swap listings. The…
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The Home Exchange Staycation Is Win-Win!
The recession and deflated real estate prices left many feeling the blues. Thousands of dollars of home equity vanished. For some this means the loss of hope that they can take a vacation, retire, or go on a sabbatical. It is easy to think there is no light at the end of this tunnel—and find…