House Sitters
House Sitters
Create a website for those who are looking for house sitters. You can provide a list of reputable house sitters to choose from on your website, where they can find each other. Let the householders place an ad free on your website. Charge those looking to house sit a fee of about $50 or more per year.
This is a smart idea for a website business. No matter where you live, people would feel better leaving their homes, if they could have a trusted person stay and keep an active eye on their house and precious belongings. Many people would travel more often if they became aware of a service such as this.
Reputable people providing the sitting would be your true customers. Charging the sitters a yearly fee to belong to your website and have access to people needing their services. The most important aspect of your service would be to assure the validity of the sitters that would have access to your site for work.
A secure website that provides services to only people looking for work in this field would have to be selective on your part. Make sure that certain detailed information be communicated to only truly interested parties. This would best be shared privately between the sitters and travelers. Educating people about the process of using your site safely, and what to advertise, would be of utmost importance, helping them to provide very little personal information, such as name, addresses, and too specific dates they are interested in looking for someone.
You could also offer this service for people looking for house and pet sitters. Often times this combination is needed also. People will be willing to pay you more too, keep their pet at home in familiar surroundings and provide the pet food, walking, and individual human association while they are traveling.
Including plant watering and care can also be something that you can provide while house-sitting. Bringing in the newspapers and mail every day would also be included in the sitting services.
This business would need some advertising to get off the ground, so initially you may need to invest in advertising on-line. In addition, leaving small advertisements, or business cards, with Travel agencies could help you get started quickly too.
This could prove to be a promising decision to offer people, providing a service that you will be required to check on occasionally, but providing a constant income. Just maintain the working site and advertise occasionally when business is slow. This could be your dream come true type of business.
Resources:
http://www.thesitewizard.com/gettingstarted/startwebsite.shtml
http://www.housecarers.com/
