Saturday 27 August 2011

Home exchange – cut the cost of your holiday | Money | The Guardian

Home exchange – cut the cost of your holiday | Money | The Guardian

Want a modern, three-bed residence in Edinburgh for a long weekend during the festival? Then wave goodbye to possibly £1,000. Fancy staying 10 days in a vast, $1m-plus, five-bed brownstone villa in Chicago's most happening neighbourhood? You're probably looking at another couple of grand. Yet I got both for free – all I had to do was exchange them for my relatively modest terraced home in south London.

Friends, of course, think you're mad inviting strangers into your home. Your place will be trashed. Once your home is pictured on an exchange site, you'll be targeted for robbery. You'll have your ID stolen and your bank account looted. They'll nick your car.

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