For owners: What are the advantages of having a house sitter rather than a paying tenant in my home?
If you don’t need income from the sale of your property to fund your adventures it often makes more sense to choose a house sitter to mind your house while you’re away rather than let your house to a paying tenant. The benefits of having a house sitter to care for your animals in your absence are obvious. But even if you’ve only the welfare of a few pot plants to consider, the advantages of having a house sitter over a tenant are many. Your pets will thank you for it Animal psychologists and vets agree that boarding your animals for any length of time can place a huge strain on their physical and emotional health. Even taking your pets on holiday with you can be a far less pleasant experience for them than it is for you (think of cargo holds, vaccinations and sedatives, time spent in quarantine, time spent in a travel container, motion sickness, unfamiliar surroundings, hostile strange animals, unfamiliar food, heatstroke, having to sleep outside – the list goes on). A house sitter can
