"Hello -
I enjoy your blog and email list. I just noticed something in your recent post that I wanted to ask about. Do you enter into some sort of written contract with your exchange partners? I thought I saw a reference to one. If so, would you be willing to share sample language?
Many thanks,
Paul
Brooklyn
headed for our second exchange this summer"
You may have seen a previous column where I wrote about home exchange contracts. Didn't see the use. That was before I started doing so many swaps. This year alone we have eight scheduled.
Most of my upcoming swaps will take place over long holiday weekends. Only two are as long as a week. Each of these vacations represents multiple agreements with eight different home-owners.
One man is lending us his car. He let me know who could drive it and what the deductible would be if that person drove it badly. In exchange, we provided VIP Broadway theater tickets for him and his family.
Another swapper needs us to feed her cat and, since she will be gone for longer than we are using her home, to notify the cat-sitter when we leave.
A third family gets to pick between two weekends they specified to let us use our half of a non-simultaneous swap. Which two weekends were those again?
I could re-read the dozens of emails I have exchanged with each family to make sure I'm not missing any details we arranged. But there is a better way to have the specifics of each swap at my fingertips: a contract.
The increasing number of exchanges we have arranged is one reason we have moved to contracts. There are some other reasons as well, and places to go to create a contract. I will share those next time.
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