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Visit us at http://ow.ly/tCbpg for practical advice for worldchanging entrepreneurs. • If you are a location-independent entrepreneur, there are many options for where to stay. Housesitting provides a cost-effective way to work and travel in new locations. In this video, you will discover: • The type of traveler this attracts • Pros cons of housesitting • Online housesitting resources • TRANSCRIPT • 00:01 Today I'm gonna look at the pros and cons of housesitting as a way to travel and do business in the short and long term. One of the services that came across my radar is trustedhousesitters.com. There's a couple that I met in Chiang Mai, who used trustedhousesitters to travel throughout Europe. They're involved in Internet business; they have a drop-ship store, and the guy is a programmer. It was really exciting to discover the world of housesitting as a way to stretch out long-term travel and also be able to have an environment where you can work from home. • 01:15 There's pros and cons to using housesitting services. Some of the pros are you can radically reduce the cost of accommodation; it's great because you don't have to pay hotel costs in the different locales that you're in. Chances are if you are a housesitter, you'll be exchanging your housesitting services for free, or radically reduced, accommodation, depending on the locale that you're in, and how hot the housing market might be. • 01:51 Another benefit of using housesitting services is that you can drastically reduce the cost of your food. So, if you are staying in a hostel or a bed and breakfast or some kind of hotel, even a business travellers hotel, chances are you won't have access to a full kitchen, which means that you're gonna be eating out a lot, and that's gonna increase your cost of food. So if you are a housesitter, you'll have access to the fridge, the stove, the oven - all of the wonderful amenities of being at home. Therefore, you could go to the supermarket or the organic farmers market and just make your own food, which is much healthier and much more economic. • 02:33 Another benefit of being a housesitter is you will have access to dedicated Internet, and have a location where you can work for long stretches of time in a quiet location. So your office is no longer that really busy WiFi cafe with cappuccino machines blasting in the background; you can work from the comfort of your home-away-from-home, have client calls, and just a lot of peace and quiet, which is a lot more supportive of concentration and creativity. • 03:10 Another benefit of using housesitting services is that you can actually travel for long periods of time, especially if you are a big fan of slow travel. Depending on the housesitting assignment, some of these are for a week or two, or even just a weekend, but some of these assignments can really stretch out for months, even a year or two. And this is especially the case for vacation homes as well, where the homeowner might not want to be in Costa Rica all year round but they want someone they can trust present in the house, taking care of things, taking care of the gardens; maybe there's pets as well that need to be fed. So housesitting is a great way to do slow travel if that's the kind of person you are. Another benefit of house-sitting is that you might have the wonderful companionship of a pet - or more. • 04:04 Some disadvantages of housesitting include limited flexibility around the location and travel dates. Really the housesitting assignments are up to the hosts' schedule, so you're gonna have to fit in and figure out how you're gonna get to the locale, and how to make the dates work for you. In some cases you might actually need a car if the house in question is in the countryside, for example. • 04:30 Another disadvantage of using housesitting services as a way to accommodate long-term travel is that there is some work involved. It might involve everything from gardening, feeding a pet - which could be fun and cool - but you may need to know how to deal with a fuse box, or if something happens with the pipes; are you gonna have to fix it? So it's important for you to determine what the responsibilities are, and whether you're up to them. • 05:00 Another disadvantage is the likelihood that there is gonna be some cost to you. If you're housesitting in a really popular location like the San Francisco Bay area, some of these housesitting jobs actually have rent. It might be radically reduced rent from local market prices but still, you're paying a big chunk of money for monthly rent. Some of the home owners might want you to pay for utilities as well, which is reasonable. • 05:35 It's up to you to really look at the details of the assignment, and decide whether or not it's a fit. One thing you're gonna have to do, which will improve your chances of getting assignments, is to get a police report done to send as a supporting document to the homeowners when you apply for a house-sitting assignment.

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