International Vacation Home Exchange
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Our Aim

We aim to be different from most home exchange web sites, not so much in competition but just different. Most web sites charge a set fee for the year for a listing with unlimited exchanges. When it works it is a really economical way of having a holiday. With our experience, we have found that simultaneous exchanges are often difficult to arrange.It can be hard to find the host a comparable property in the preferred location, making a simultaneous exchange more of a hit and miss affair.

Our aim is to offer a personal service to all members, to get involved in all aspects of the "exchange" before and after.

A Few Things We Do Differently.

1. Comparable property: Your property can be exchanged with any type or size of property using our credits system and no one loses out. You do not have to exchange on a like for like basis giving you greater flexibility and more interesting choices. This means you can exchange your 5 bedroom Caribbean paradise for a smaller 2- bedroom luxury apartment in London without losing out.

2. Location: You can travel the world with our online home exchange system. You are not limited with an exchange to a place you do not want to go to or have visited already.

3. Time factor: The timing of your holiday is not guided by the other party's schedule. You may want a one-week stay while the other party may want a two-week stay at your property. International Vacation Home Exchange makes this possible.

4. Different seasons: As a global exchange site the properties are listed from all over the world. The seasons in different parts of the world do not occur in sync with one another. Vacation times are also different. American school holidays are in June/July while English ones are in July/August. Our system means that a simultaneous exchange is not required.

5. Expectations: As you do not need to exchange properties on a like for like basis this helps to remove the obvious comparison's that may be made between homes.

The above scenarios, help to highlight the benefits of our system.

There is NO joining fee. We are aware our fees are more than the conventional listing sites but then so are our services. We want to offer something different, combining Internet technology with a more personal service.

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Our committment to our members:

• We are spending and will continue to spend a lot of time looking for the right sort of properties, in well-travelled or exotic areas and that are of a high quality. We are not looking for thousands of listings to places people do not want to travel to. International Vacation Home Exchange will not suit everyone. We are looking for quality and quantity but not volume.
  
  
• We will keep a database of our members and their credit accounts.
  
  
• We will keep the web site up to date with as much information as possible to minimize wasting your time with properties that aren't suitable for you.
  
  
• We will respond to e-mail's or phone enquiries most of the time in less than 24 hours, and would like members to do the same where possible, or if they prefer, we are happy to make phone enquiries.
  
  
• If we do not have a member in the location you would like to visit, let us know and we will put every effort into finding a suitable property owner who would like to become a member.
  
  
• We will do our best to make sure the information given to us by members is as accurate as possible, we will take 2 references, preferably from a guest who has stayed at the property exchange or rental, and who we will contact.
  
  
• We will send feedback forms to both host and guest after an exchange, and will keep records of these; they will be available to other members.
  
  
• Although we cannot take responsibility of things going wrong, we will take any complaints very seriously and investigate as thoroughly as possible. Any members that have given false or misleading information about their property could end up loosing credits. And in the worst case, loose their membership.
  
  
• All members agree to be responsible for any damages that they might incur during their stay in a property, and any member failing to honour this commitment in a manner satisfactory to all concerned loses his or her membership. Members will need to agree to our Terms and Conditions, which covers all of the requirements above.
  
  
• We will expect every property to have a comprehensive "guide" to their property as well as instruction books for appliances and emergency contact numbers.
  
  
• If the property is not a rental property, we will need some proof of the rental value, either from a rental agency or we will try to find a web site address with a comparable property in the same area.
  
  
• We will expect honesty, as misleading information will come out in the feedback form.
  
  I hope the above has answered most of your questions, if you have any that we haven't covered please e-mail us or fill in our online form
  
  
  To apply for Membership go to our Terms & conditions page

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