Take Vacation By Exchanging Home

April is the cruelest month but summer is not far away and probably this
is the time to prepare for a vacation with your family and especially kids.

In recent years, swapping or exchanging homes located throughout the
world is gaining more and more popularity as an attractive part of taking
vacation.

For an annual membership of around $50, you may enlist your home on
an exchange site. If someone is interested in your home, they will email
you and when you come across anything that you like, you email them.
Finally you decide to cut a deal depending on mutual preferences and
options. Some people even go beyond to exchange their cars too. You can
even agree to take care of each other's pets.

Three leading (and Big too!) house-swap sites are: HomeExchange.com,
Intervac.com, Homelink.org .
Besides that there is SinglesHomeExchange.com for swapping apartments
and also some quite interesting ones like TeacherHomeSwap.com which
provides the specialized service of finding other teacher swappers who are
very likely to search for houses for similar vacation dates.

Even with so many websites available, it might not be very easy to find an
exchange home of your choice. Vacation is precious and you may not
afford to spoil it by a hurriedly-made choice by you. So, start early, plan
properly, have a talk with the exchangers and take about three months to
decide how your summer home should be. Many people who did that say
that they want to do it again. It's worth the trouble and time.