Welcome
Hi! We're Dave and Denise,
and we are live-in Housesitters. If you are looking for someone
to care for your home while you are away for an extended period
of time, we would love to talk to you.
Free free to browse our site. We have tried to supply
as much information as possible to help you understand what to expect
from The Housesitting Experience.
How Does this Work?
If you are thinking of using a live-in house sitter
-- call us! We can talk about:
(a) where your house is located;
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 Who
are we?
We
are non-smoking, in our mid forties, and we sold our home in in July 2003
so we could be mobile to housesit.
We
are university educated. We have raised three children, who have all moved
away from home. Dave is a ATM installer. Denise is a web designer and
satellite technician. We can work from any location that has high-speed
internet available. We have really enjoyed housesitting in Alberta for
the first 5-6 years. However, there are reasons why we prefer to be in
Nova Scotia, so we are actively seeking housesits in Dartmouth, Halifax,
Cole Harbour, Lake Echo, Musquodoboit, Eastern Passage, or other areas
nearby in Nova Scotia.
 We
are happy to pay utilities and care for your home as if it were our own.
We started out with experience working with a local housesitting and petsitting
company in Airdrie, Alberta, and have been live-in housesitters since
2003. We have great references and can provide a clean, recent, criminal
record check. And we have experience with cats, dogs, frogs, fish, and
lizards.
We
do have a pet of our own, a miniature schnauzer. She is completely voice
trained and goes with us everywhere our car goes, so she will rarely be
left alone in your home and will always be in a kennel box if we do have
to leave her in your home. She is completely housebroken and never has
damaged anything in our home, or the other homes in which we have lived.
She is also accustomed to making friends with your pets (including cats).
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(b)
when you hope to leave and return home;
(c) any general or specific initial questions you
may have;
(d) any special needs you may have of a housesitter.
Then if you and we both want to discuss the possibility
of a housesit in more detail, we can arrange a longer phone interview,
or a personal meeting.
What should I do to prepare for having my house 'sat'?
Please feel free to
Click
to email us and we will send you a more comprehensive list,
broken down by seasons, by interior and exterior.
How long is a house sit?
A house sit can be a weekend, a week, a couple of weeks, a month,
6 months, a year or any other length of time. During the months
of June, July and August, when there is a lot of demand for shorter
housesits, we may accept a housesit of 2-3 weeks in Dartmouth,
Halifax, Lake Echo, Cole Harbour, Musquodoboit or the Eastern Passage
of Nova Scotia; however, we do not pay utilities for stays shorter
than 60 days and we do charge a fee for petsitting during housesits
of 60 days or less. Primarily, we seek only long-term (60+ days)
housesits.
We are currently seeking a long-term (over 60 days) housesit
beginning early May 2010 in Dartmouth, Halifax, Lake Echo, Cole
Harbour, Musquodoboit or the Eastern Passage of Nova Scotia.
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