How to succeed through our service versus 'whistling in the wind'.
Dear MindMyHouse member. Congratulations for taking out a house sitter membership with us. You are well on your way to finding those great house sitting assignments you are seeking!
There are a few simple things you can do to maximise your chance of success through our service. See the following as instructions rather than guidelines. If you don't follow these instructions you will be wasting your membership!
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Create your own sitter available listing. Seventy percent of home owners contact our house sitters directly. If you don't display your services with us they can't find you!
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Opt in to our Local Sitter Search database. Home owners in your area can then find your listing on a Google map and contact your directly.
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Create an 'all countries' email alert. However, if you only want to sit in France, then an alert for 'France' only will do. This way, you receive an email every time a relevant sitter wanted listing is posted to our site.
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Check your email inbox daily for your alerts and for messages from home owners.
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Keep your contact details current in our database.
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Respond to home owner's messages and to sitter wanted listings as soon as you can.
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Write a fabulous 200 word 'standard response' to use as the basis of your applications to home owners.
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Tell home owners how you can meet their needs and why you want to house sit for them.
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Be prepared to meet your own travel expenses and your costs while on assignment.
- Make sure that you have referees that you can call upon.
- Get a police check.
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Become an animal lover. Have fun with it!
Sitters join for only US$29 (12 months access)
Read our new house sitter member guide
This guide contains all you need to know about becoming a house sitter and for existing members too.
The latest conversion rates from US$ are: Euro€25, Can$38, Aus$43, UK£22, NZ$50, US$29.
Please note that we don't automatically renew your memberships!
We do not keep your credit card details and would never presume to automatically renew your annual membership. Instead, we send you an email reminder one month before your account expires, with an invitation to renew your membership. If you go ahead, you will then have to re-enter your credit/debit card details again.
From our members
MMH is still my favorite ( Owner)
We are a home owner in New Mexico, US, and we have 3 dogs and 2 cats that are very special to us. It is very important to us that we have a pet sitter who loves on them and walks the dogs and spends time with them all. We have found numerous great pet sitters through Mind My House and are very impressed with the awesome people who we have met or even just connected with. MMH is still my favorite, and the website is user friendly.
From our members
MIndMyHouse gives us the chance to meet people from all over the world ( Sitter)
We have been members of MindMyHouse for several years and regularly praise the site for its qualities. It’s a platform that connects pet owners and pet sitters, and it works perfectly. If we have any questions for the site, we receive a really quick response, even though it’s run from the other side of the world, in New Zealand, That's truly fascinating. We now have complete confidence in the system, which we really like because it gives us the chance to meet people from all over the world, who have positive outlooks and are often extraordinarily open-minded. It enable us to visit places abroad in a way that is very different from the usual group tourism. Our heartfelt congratulations.
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