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Costa Rica House Sitter

House sitting is an interesting service, mutually beneficial for sitters and home owners: people who have to leave their homes for more than a few days get people (usually a couple) to house sit for them, giving them full access of their homes and in some cases even privileges such as the use of their cars. Having someone to take care of your home, garden and pets while you are away will give you that extra peace of mind you need when you leave your home: did I turn off the stove? Did I close all the doors? These are questions you will not have to worry about anymore. House sitting services connect you with either house sitters or home owners all over the world and give you the tools to communicate with each other and make great deals with interesting and responsible people. However be careful about fraudsters, like in any other business there are people looking the ingenuity of others for their own benefit. They will contact you asking you for money to pay a fake debt; they will use false money wires that would look certainly real. The usual way to recognize them is because you will have no other source of communication but email, they refuse to give you their phone number with apparently understandable excuses and you will be scammed. Be careful.

In Costa Rica, house sitter service is not as popular as it is in other countries such as the United States and Europe. Costa Ricans are not too familiar with leaving their homes in the hands of strangers and most of the time they are not even away for so long. Another reason for this is that families usually live nearby and keep an eye on the properties themselves. If you are really interesting in contacting a house sitting service, we recommend you contact an international house-sitting company such as www.housecarers.com, this web site is a community of house sitters and home owners that interact everyday and get exactly what they want from each other. You may also make some research on house-sitting forums and luckily you will the perfect house sitter for your home while you are away. Please contact our in house attorney in case you have any questions about insurance or the contract for house sitters and home owners.

If you are a homeowner in need of a house sitter keep in mind that you have to trust you intuition when choosing a house sitter, you are leaving one of your most important assets to someone else and this person should be someone you feel comfortable with. Be very clear about your expectations from the house sitter and make sure you let them know everything that needs to be done in your absence. In the flip side, if you are interested in house sit yourself, remember that this usually a win-win situation: the home owner gets peace of mind while away and you get accommodations for free. Take care of the home, pets and gardens as if they were your own and remember that you are also guest, and for this matter you have to respect the house just the same as the owner would. During you stay in the house you will be caring for you are responsible for paying the services and utilities bills, make sure the arrangements of this situation are stipulated in the contract. Home owners and house sitters have to be comfortable with each other, so the more contact both parties have the better.