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What is RSS?

In a world heaving under the weight of billions of web pages, keeping up to date with the information you want can be hard work!

Wouldn't it be better to have the latest news delivered directly to you, rather than clicking from site to site?

Using RSS allows you to see when sites from all over the internet have added new content. On Home Xchange Vacation you can get the latest properties in your favourite destinations, as soon as they are registered, without having to remember to visit the site every day.

Not all websites currently provide RSS, but it is growing rapidly in popularity and many others, including the New York Times and CNN do provide it.

How do I start using RSS feeds?

In general, the first thing you need is something called a news reader. This is a piece of software that checks RSS feeds and lets you read any new articles that have been added to them. There are many different versions, some of which are accessed using a browser, and some of which are downloadable applications. Browser-based news readers let you catch up with your RSS feed subscriptions from any computer, whereas downloadable applications let you store them on your main computer, in the same way that you either download your e-mail using Outlook, or keep it on a web-based service like Hotmail.

Once you have chosen a news reader, all you have to do is to decide what content you want to receive in your news reader, by finding and subscribing to the relevant RSS feeds. For example, if you would like the latest properties registered in France, simply visit the France area on the world map and you will notice an orange RSS button on the left hand side.  

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If you click on the button you can subscribe to the feed in various ways, including by dragging the URL of the RSS feed into your news reader or by cutting and pasting the same URL into a new feed in your news reader.

How do I get a news reader?

There is a range of different news readers available. Google offer a free newsreader:https://www.google.com/reader
 
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Have you seen 'The Holiday' with Cameron Diaz and Jude Law? It is a great example of just how well home exchange works!

Home Exchange, Holiday House Swap and Apartment Swapping
We specialise in fantastic vacation house swapping. Different members around the world describe the concept as vacation home swaps, house swap holidays and house trade. These are the phrases most frequently used when travellers begin the process of finding great villas, beach front vacations and holidays and city centre accommodation.

Popular house exchange and apartment swap destinations
Very often a country is added to identify the preferred destination, for example house swap in Australia, apartment swap New York London, swap apartments and vacation house trade London Paris, house exchange UK France, apartment and flat swapping Paris Rome, property and condo trading Florida Europe, property, villa, cottage, condo swapping Italy France, villa, condo, cottage exchange Spain Switzerland or Sydney, villa trade United States Australia Melbourne, condo trade California New York London, trading houses for vacation Colorado Florida, holiday house swap UK America, vacation house-swap Sydney Australia France, swap holiday Scotland Ireland and vacation house-swapping New Zealand Italy!!

While the phrase our members most easily recognise changes from country to country the idea is always the same. A fantastic vacation involving the exchanging of homes. In the United States this is often known as house trade California to London, property trade Ireland to New York, condo exchanging Florida to Tuscany, condo trade and house trading vacations Queensland to Italy and vacation home trade New York to London.

Apartment Exchange
A very popular area within swapping is apartment swapping, particulary apartment exchange swap New York London, apartment exchange swap New York Paris and apartment exchange swap Paris London. Christmas generates a lot of interest in flat swapping and flat swaps.

Royal Wedding House Swap London

Our service will soon be available in many more languages including French, Spanish, Italian and German at our new website, exchangeaway. The different language variations on apartment swap and apartment exchanging will be fun!

Italia
Scambio casa Francia, scambio casa Regno Unito, scambio casa Stati Uniti, scambio casa Spagna.


Important tips

- Confirm dates with the exchange accommodation before you make travel arrangements via email, fax or letter with a signature if possible to avoid dispute.

- Arrange how you will collect the keys for the property, and how both sets of keys will be returned.

- Inform the person you exchange with of any special features in your home e.g. timers, alarms and security systems.

- Ask for a list of other useful numbers to be left in the house.

- Be clear about use of the phone and other facilities.

- Leave the exchange accommodation as you would wish to find your own.

How to improve the number of replies you receive:

- Please enter a good description of your home and area plus a selection of clear photos. Allow plenty of time to find and arrange an exchange before the dates you want to travel.

- Prepare an appealing message to send, offering to be as flexible as you can on dates and length of exchange. Save your message in Word and then copy and paste the message into the message form which appears after you click on ‘Send email to member’. Try to personalise each message before sending – e.g. say what attracts you to their home and area. Also everyone responds well to messages which indicate you have read their listing carefully.

- Target your messages using the ‘Who wants to visit your country’ search feature. This shows the members who want to visit your location.

- It would be unrealistic to expect everyone to reply to every exchange offer. But by contacting other members who want to visit your location, and sending your exchange request to a good selection of members, you will find a good match.

Last updated 6 January 2011.

This website is moving and changing it's name to exchangeaway.com.
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