About Joining
Membership Fee
By adding you property to the house exchange list you will help to build something truly exciting. In return for your faith in us and your support we will designate you as a Founder Member. This means you will be joining at a discounted rate of £45 (from £120) which will apply annually for as long as you continue to renew your membership. So why not join now?
You will be able to advertise your home for exchange on our website, contact others on the site and receive email enquiries about house swaps from fellow members.
What happens when you join?
You will be asked to fill in some details of your property which will be displayed on the site. This is straightforward but if you have problems let us know via the contact button and we will help. If you are not able to upload photography of your house, you can email jpegs to SimplyHouseSwap and it will be done for you. Although your personal details will be maintained on the data base during your membership, your name, telephone number, email address and full postal address will not be on the site; you can provide these when you make arrangements to house swap with another member. Anyone can log on to the site to see the properties available but only members will have the ability to make contact. When a message is sent from one member to another, the receiving member's personal email inbox will show a SimplyHouseSwap alert informing them of contact on the site.
Registering Simplyhouseswap members are also asked to provide a short personal profile so that those with whom they may wish to house swap have a basic knowledge of their potential swapee on which to form a relationship of trust. This can include hobbies and areas of personal interest such as rambling, walking, golf, bird watching, visiting gardens or National Trust houses etc.
For security, all Simplyhouseswap payments are processed through Pay Pal. You will be required to open a Pay Pal account, but this can be cancelled at any time if you decide not to renew your membership. The padlock sign indicates that you are in a safe zone in which to share your card details.
Once you have registered and paid, you are ready to consider house swapping. Please note that contacting a fellow SimplyHouseSwap member to gauge interest does not constitute a house exchange offer and no commitment is made until both house swap parties are happy to proceed.
The site hosts a guidance page on how to go about preparing for a house swap, something which should become automatic after the first few times. You will also have access to a check list which you can share directly with your "swapee". This involves practical arrangements and the idea is that both parties agree to do the same thing for each other. Simplyhouseswap members are encouraged to add to the check list as they see fit. It's simple.