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what is home sitting and pet sitting?

Home sitting is a service provided for homeowners away on business, vacation, or other personal reasons. Whether they are away for a day, a week, or several months, most want someone trustworthy to look after their pets, property, and valuables. Homeowners are often reluctant to impose on a neighbour, friend, or relative, for a variety of reasons, therefore, find that a professional home sitter meets that need.

While the homeowner is away, the home sitter will visit the unoccupied property as often as the client wishes, and provide services similar to the following:

• Check security of buildings
• Pet care
• Give the home the occupied/ lived-in look
• Clear the mailbox of newspapers, flyers & mail
• Plant care
• Check furnace, water pipes, fridges, freezers, etc.
• Lawn maintenance
• Snow shoveling
• Emergency visits (floods, hail storms, cold spells, alarm response, etc.)
• Special requests (bill payment, mail forwarding, hot tub and pool maintenance, etc.)

Is home sitting difficult? No, not at all. In fact Hawkeye's Home Sitters® has refined its business system to include comprehensive operations manuals, business forms, marketing tools and an ongoing support system to make home sitting extremely simple and easy to understand. Being your own boss and working out of your home makes it both, personally and financially rewarding. It definitely beats the stress associated with unemployment or the boring 8-4 office job.

Variety, exercise, and flexibility is inherent in the day to day duties of a home sitter. Whether it's petting a cat, walking a dog, cutting a lawn, or shoveling the walks, your day is never tedious and always includes some fresh air and exercise. Plus, you get paid for this on a per visit basis, often immediately.

This business is 100% service oriented, therefore demands the highest level of customer service, quality care and reliability. That is what the success of Hawkeye's Home Sitters® was built on. There is nothing more rewarding and satisfying than receiving a box of chocolate covered Hawaiian macadamia nuts, a bottle of wine, or an unexpected cheque in a Christmas card from a client in appreciation of your exceptional service.