House and Home Sitters Ltd have been providing professional house and pet-sitting services in the UK for more than a decade. During that time, our sitters have shared some funny and heartwarming experiences. Here are a few of our favourites: The dog who ate the homework: One of our sitters was looking after a dog [...]
The True Story of Italy’s $1 Homes... read on! Italy’s been famous for its $1 homes but, on that subject, we need to tread carefully because there is Jill, a new homeowner in the village of Sambuca, Sicily. This ancient village in Italy’s countryside was dying until the local government decided in 2019 to sell [...]
As professional sitters, we have learned and discovered some useful points in the process. Here are 12 top tips we share with all house sitters. 1. Ensure your lines of communication are in place before, during and even after the house sit. Make certain you touch base before the assignment, establish a good relationship-connection early, [...]
There is nothing worse than going away on business or on holiday and coming back to leaking pipes, slates off the roof and worse. I live in a flat where, on separate occasions, the two previous tenants upstairs have had a blocked cistern, and left the tap on in the kitchen. I had been in [...]
Our house-sitting community is quite adaptable, both for homeowners and house sitters alike. One thing we all know after being under “house arrest” for so long, is we’re itching to travel again. The world has shrunk in terms of our travel options, but with cruises and international flights impacted for us in the UK, the [...]
Bishop's Stortford - Our Welcome Stay My daughter, Lauretta and I recently house sat in Bishop's Stortford for a night and two days. We looked after 2 dogs, a Lhasa Apso and Havanese named Boo and Isabelle, and we also cared for a Chinchilla named Sophia. The couple who we sat for greeted us with [...]
