Evil Kristin W. agreed to a Huntsville, Alabama swap, then stopped answering calls and emails a few days before the start date. If a blonde Southern art student with a small child ever wants to do a home exchange with you, you have been warned.
Finding a swap in the rural South of the United States is difficult. The largest home exchange club has more than 11,000 members in the USA. But there is not a single swap home listed within an hour's drive of the medium-sized city I need to visit.
In desperation I turned to a free classified ad site that I have successfully used for everything from selling a car to renting an apartment. In a year of posting and re-posting my swap offer I had two legitimate responses. Both of those families got cold feet right before the home exchange was scheduled to begin. That has never happened when I arranged a swap through a home exchange club.
My search has now turned even more desperate. Perhaps it is being trapped in this tiny hotel room at the Holiday Inn. Maybe I just like a challenge. I have turned to an entirely new method of finding a swap home in this area. Stay tuned for details.
SUBSCRIBE NOW You can subscribe to this blog to receive each day's post. Just enter your email below :
No comments:
Post a Comment