Thursday, March 08, 2012

Looking to Swap

I'm loading information about our house on homeexchange.com. We're paying a discounted rate of ~$12/mo for 3 months. Goal is for the homeowners of this house http://www.homeexchange.com/show.php?id=177365 to want to come to Cincinnati in June.

Now, our willingness to house-swap is getting some raised eyebrows from Jim's co-workers. One guy says "I'm cheap, but I'm not trading houses to go on vacation cheap." We don't see it that way at all (and I suspect everyone else registered on the site sees it our way too).

For the record:
  • I am not worried at all about theft
  • I am a little freaked out about someone else having sex in my bed but I'm reminding myself that if I was at a hotel THOUSANDS of people would have had sex in the bed I'd be sleeping in each night.
  • I hope that the kid-themed bedrooms Chris and Nic have aren't too big of a turn-off.
  • If we can't find a swap partner in Chi-town for this summer, our intention is to renew for a 1-year term next time, potentially determining the location of the vacation itself by the availability of a property
  • I am not sure how to feel that we're just the fourth property in Cincinnati to be listed. Is this good (no competition) or bad (no one wants to come here)?