Welcome to MindMyHouse
A global house sitting matching service
We provide all the online tools for home owners and house/pet sitters to find
each other from around the globe (or around the corner) since 2005.
Discover an adventure today!
Home owners
Only US$29 for home owners (Lifetime access)
Need someone to look after your house or pets while you're away? Home owners join for the lowest annual fee on the web.
House sitters
Only US$29 for house sitters (12 months access)
Enjoy free holiday accommodation, save your rental payments and treat yourself on whatever! House sitter members pay the lowest annual fee on the web.
Or…get two for the price of one!
Well, why not? Get 12 months access for sitter account, and lifetime for owner account, for the same price of US$29.
Benefits & features
- Access to all our listings (house sitters or house sitting assignments worldwide) via our filtered search
- Daily (or weekly) email alerts
- Create your own customised profile/listing (the best way to get a quick response)
- Upload and easily edit your listing photos
- Contact members directly
- Message Centre (ie. Inbox)
- Manage all of your applications/applicants
- Access to our editable, plain-English "House sitting agreement"
- Support for multiple listings dates
- Welcome pack template
- 24-hour customer support
- And much more…
Membership has its privileges!
We provide all the online tools for home owners and house sitters to find each other from around the globe (or around the corner). Create your own listing, save favourite listings, search the database, devour our FAQs, set up email alerts, contact home owners…the list goes on.How does it work?
We provide all the online tools for home owners and house sitters to find each other from around the globe (or around the corner).
What is house sitting?
Simply put, house sitting is the practice whereby a home owner, leaving their house for a period of time, entrusts it to one or more "house sitters", who by mutual agreement are entitled to live there rent-free in exchange for assuming responsibilities such as taking care of the homeowner's pets, performing general maintenance etc.
The steps (in brief)…
- Become a member and create your listing/profile
- Search for house sitters or house sitting assignments
- Create an email alert so that you can be notified instantly of new opportunities
- Meet up
- Finalise the deal
Our house sitting agreement
When two perfect strangers meet and arrange to take care of each other's house sitting requirements, it's a good idea that they both go into the situation equipped with a copy of our house sitting agreement. We cover all the bases with this plain-English, editable document.
Why choose us?
MindMyHouse is something of a different creature to those other house sitting matching services you will find on the Internet. For a start, in 'online years' we are pretty old now! We launched our service from a tiny flat in London, UK in February 2005 when we were one of only four online house sitting matching sites with a global userbase.
You also won’t find us on social media for a reason! We think that stuff is fluff. We're just a small 'mom and pop' family business – our business ethos is about providing our members with an advertising free zone in which to find each other and meet up to do all that adventuring while house sitting worldwide. No sponsorship, or pictures of women laughing at salad on our site! We also believe in humans (no bots or AI).
Current activity
- 186 house sitting assignments
- 2481 sitter available listings
- 5417 active home owners (40126 in total)
- 3445 active house sitters
What do our members say?
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I absolutely love this site! ( Sitter)
It has connected me with so many amazing people and magical places that has absolutely continued to enrich this precious journey of mine called life! Hehe! Alan and Susan are so lovely and such a pleasure to deal with. Kind, generous and lovingly open. Thank you for all your time in creating this site! It is truly a bridge expanding past borders and into the hearts of so many wonderful open and loving people and their animals and beautiful homes and land. This is what the world needs more of I feel and it is through this site, that has been part of my amazing adventure. My list of dear, beautiful friends has gone up through connections here. Keep shining! And thank you again!
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Thank you very much ( Owner)
I've been with you for a very long time and have nothing but admiration for the service you provide and have been providing for 20 years. Thank you very much indeed. We have recommended you to friends looking to find solutions for their travels and the feedback has always been very positive. In our case many of the house-sitters have become good friends and come back to us year on year for repeats (this probably explains why you dont hear from us often). Keep up the good work.
From our Community Area
MindMyHouse News
MindMyHouse News August 2025
Dear all, we’re deep in winter here in sunny Aotearoa (New Zealand) and would like to extend a very warm Tēnā koutou (Maori for hello and welcome to a group of three or more) to all the readers of MindMyHouse News August 2025.
MindMyHouse Turns 20!
Dear MindMyHousies, did you know that MindMyHouse is having a very significant birthday this year? Yessssss it’s true! Our glorious global online house sitting platform was officially born on 22 February 2005 – a whole 20 years ago now. Wowsa.
Some stats
Home owners
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5417
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3%with listings
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19958total listings
since 2005 -
3joined yesterday
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40126total members
inc. inactive
House sitters
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3445
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72%with listings
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8joined or renewed yesterday
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10joined
(daily average)
Top home owner countries
- United States 30.7%
- United Kingdom 16.6%
- France 6.6%
- Canada 6.4%
- Spain 5.6%
- Australia 4.5%
- Italy 3.1%
- Ireland 2.3%
- Germany 2.3%
- Brazil 2%
- Netherlands 1.3%
- New Zealand 1.3%
- Portugal 1.3%
- Mexico 1.1%
- Argentina 1%
Top house sitter countries
- United States 40.5%
- United Kingdom 12.6%
- Canada 6.4%
- Germany 6.1%
- Spain 4.7%
- Australia 3.8%
- Netherlands 3.5%
- France 3.4%
- Ireland 2.8%
- Italy 2.2%
- New Zealand 2%
- Switzerland 1%
- Sweden 0.8%
- Portugal 0.8%
- Poland 0.8%
