Vacation Home Exchange

[rrufrano]

Does anyone have experience with a vacation home exchange or belong to an agency who coordinates this? What are the fees, mandatory regs needed in your home, terms and conditions, etc ? Which agency is regarded as the "best", easiest to work with, lowest fees, reaches the largest audience, etc ?
It would be great to hear from someone with direct experience. Good experience, bad experience, would you do it again, still doing it ? Is there still a vacation Home Exchange Club in the Villages?
Thanking you in advance for your interest and help.
Ron

[HimandMe]

We use housesitters.com. A1. People come with past recommendations and police checks, most retired couples looking fora vacation and will watch your home and pets.

[waverley9]

We have had a good experience with homexchange.com. We
did 5 exchanges 2 years ago to Australia & NZ. We asked for no children. All our exchanges were with professional people.
U can view their web site as a guest but it costs a modest $125 for yearly membership to communicate with participants. We know 2 couples who have each done close to 50 exchanges over many years & have had no problems. Usually a car is exchanged. Just submitting your info on the web site is not sufficient. I picked out locations where we wanted to stay & communicated directly. U have to start months in advance to coordinate both parties schedule.

[Dbinac]

Been using home exchange.com for about 15 years. Wonderful experience. Never had a problem or a bad exchange. Many of our exchange partners have beecome friends and we stay in communications with many of them.