The Home Exchanger

A great house and car trade in Germany

While taking the slow summer months to clean up the files, I found a lovely card from Scott and Diane Mulligan describing a home exchange in Germany they had completed the previous summer. Dated October 25, 1999 (we don't clean our files that often), this is what these Intervac members wrote:

I wanted to let you know we had an excellent exchange in July 1999. We traded with Ernst & Heidi Klungler from Speyer, Germany. We exchanged for three weeks and traded cars as well as homes. They are a very nice couple/family and we enjoyed meeting Ernst in September when stopped in Oregon at the end of a cross-country bicycle tour. Thanks for this excellent service.

Here's a picture of Speyer:

   

                                                                    

Marin County family secures Nice, France home exchange

Intervac USA receive hundreds of home exchange agreement forms each year. Most members don't file them, but we encourage it because it helps better define the terms of the house swap. Most documents are very simple and serve mainly to provide both parties to the house exchange that there is an objective outsider who is aware of the trade.

In this case, Intervac members in San Rafael, California agreed to trade homes with a French family for three weeks in September. The flat in Nice is less than 2 kilometers from the Mediterranean and looks wonderful from the photo below.