I just spoke with a woman whose mother had previously been a member of Intervac long ago. The daughter now wants to join as her mother had wonderful stories about vacations swapping homes.
Since Intervac has been around since 1953 (we were the first home exchange company ever founded), we have second generation exchangers - those whose parents took them on home swaps when they were little - and even third generation members.
In fact, my husband Josh is a second generation exchanger himself - his mom, Paula Jaffe (with husband Dennis, at photo left), was the Intervac US representative for 20 years, until she retired 3 years ago and my husband and I took over the "family business". I had never heard of home swapping until I met Josh, who told me of childhood swaps in Spain and Paris. Now we do a home exchange in Europe every year.
My own parents, who are looking for their first home exchange now, recently told me that they wished that they had known about home exchanging when I was little. It was one of their dreams to take me and my brother to Europe, but the trip would have been prohibitively expensive with the hotels so we never did go.
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