A: Home Base Holidays members join and list their homes for exchange for one or two years. Members can update their offers whenever needed (many will change destinations and dates after Some members will forget to update their offers or to add the suitcase symbol once an exchange is arranged and, we can't guarantee either that a member will be interested in a particular exchange offer (members contact and make their arrangements directly). When an exchange listing seems such a good match as the one you found, it would be very disappointing to find that the member was not interested in your offer. To make it worth your while joining Home Base Holidays, you really need to be open to other exchange offers as well as the one that looks a perfect match.Q: What if the home exchange listing that is tempting me to join is no longer current, because the people concerned have found someone? I guess what I am asking is what is the system by which a successful swapper removes their request from the site, whilst remaining a member, so that they are not bothered by more enquirers, but also so that new people are not joining when it will already be pointless for them to contact that particular member? The one I am interested in has said December 2005 for 3-4 weeks in my own home town. - Belinda, UK
arranging the first exchange they wanted). Others, unable to consider further exchange offers at the time, can indicate this in their listings; such listings have a suitcase symbol beside the brief listing to show this and, 'Exchange Request Fulfilled' at the top of their full listing. A few members also request that their listings be hidden for a time (examples: members who move and can't yet consider exchanging their new home and also those who have a serious illness in the family).
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