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Preferred locations
SA, VIC
Additional Info
References available, Police check available, Non smoker, Experience with Domestic Animals, Experience with Farm Animals
About
Hi, we're Paul & Sharon, ex Poms (now Aussie's). Sitters since 2009, now full-time nomads. I work remotely so available for your pets through the day, Sharon is a cleaner so give her a task and you'll find your place cleaner than when you left! Police checks & good references available. 100% response rate, full profile has availability & location.
**Presently in WA, planning to head to SA & VIC September'19-Jan 2020. After that we will travel overseas, have no plans yet for September onwards.**
Hello thanks for looking, I’ll try and keep this brief!
We are Paul and Sharon a long-term couple of nomads. Since we emigrated from the UK in 2009 we first got into house-sitting as a way to discover our first home Adelaide and Australian suburbs. We also wanted a pet fix, as we emigrated and hadn’t decided where to settle and at the time it seemed unfair to get animals of our own. Then after three successful years sitting while holding down full-time jobs in Adelaide we decided we wanted to travel Australia more. So once we became full residents and citizens we hit the road in 2013, we have been volunteer ‘Helpx-ing’, business/house-sitting and travelling since.
We are now in our mid 40’s, no kids. Sharon is a cook/cleaner/carer by experience. My background is graphic design. We travel, camp and sleep in our 4wd Troopy when not helping/sitting so we can get to most places easily.
We are now lucky enough to have the opportunity to live, work and travel on the road for the foreseeable future, so we can travel anywhere, we tend to mix our travels with camping, meeting people by volunteering and house sitting. I (Paul) now have a small income from online marketing work connected to my graphic design background, so work remotely for a few hours a day to support our lifestyle. So having the internet is an advantage, but it does mean we have no need to be away from your pets and property to go to work. We are also active and happy to get stuck in exercising pets or working on a property.
We can provide many references form a huge variety of people we have helped, after a break from happy house-sitters we have decided to rejoin now they sell the country as a whole membership package rather than individual areas when we were last members. We can provide lots of references from our previous stint on this site as well as other sites and people we have helped by word of mouth since.
Sharon also ran her own cleaning business in the UK, she has excellent written references from professionals such as doctors and barristers who trusted her with their homes. As such you would find us quite, tidy and respectful of your home, we are mature and responsible as I’m sure our reference would confirm. We also had extensive police checks to gain our Australian residency and now have Australian police checks as part of our citizenship.
We don’t smoke, mainly enjoy sitting in watching a film with some nice food. As well as more traditional pets we also have experience looking after parrots, ferrets, rabbits, snakes, other reptiles and farm animals. We are animal lovers in general and I grew up helping my grandparents who ran boarding kennels in the UK so have heaps of handling experience, we know how to be calm and quiet with animals, at the end of the day we are in their home, so comfort and keeping up the routine is our top priority.
As we are experienced volunteers we are also comfortable helping with any projects you may have ongoing or gardening requirements, we have lots of experience with odd jobs and even running peoples farms and business while away.
Thanks for your time, hope to talk to you about helping to look after your little ones soon. (we reply to all emails) Cheers, Paul & Sharon.