Mark spent his childhood summers at the family farm in Orange NSW, time was spent building/mending fences, moving cows between paddocks, installing irrigation, driving the tractor. He has also house sat in Australia on small farms taking care of goats and ducks. More recently in Canada, Fafa & Mark have house sat on farms where we were required to care for poultry, tend to vegetable crops and orchards. Through an interest in permaculture we have volunteered on working farms to learn basic organic food production techniques and even helped with some wonderfully weird projects like construction of subterranean green house for northern winter climates.
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+15 yrs house sitting — References — Handy — Communicative — Active with pets and in garden — Professional — Seriously loving
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Why we are sitting...
We are excited to have permanently moved back to Australia in Dec 2023. We would like to spend 2024/25 House Sitting around Australia to explore different regions and see where we would like to settle and start a family.
A bit about us...
We joined 'Aussie House Sitters' in June 2023 and have been house sitting full-time around Australia since Jan 2024. Prior to our experience in Australia we collected a swag of happy house sitting testimonials during our time away including the best references we could ask for, homeowners who found us mature, responsible and have invited us back on multiple occasions which we’re happy to share.
We met in Montreal Canada in 2009 and have since lived together (14 years). During this time, we house/pet sat together across Canada and also became the go-to pet and plant sitters for friends, friends of friends and friends of friends of friends. Chihuahua's to shepherds, rats, cats and farmyard friends... we love'em all. Also having been on the other side of the house sitting fence with sitters in our home, we know what it feels like to hand over the keys.
While we build our history on the platform, we’ve put together a PDF with some more of our experience including:
• Personal bio's, history and visa information
• International House Sitting testimonials
• AirBnb reviews/Profile
• Photos from our experiences
• Police checks
• Links to our LinkedIn profiles
👉 Drop us a line we'd love to share the link.
As HOUSE SITTERS we have experience with houses, farms/properties and apartments.
Taking care of inside tasks like managing AirBNB accounts, collecting mail from PO boxes, general cleanliness and day-to-day home maintenance. As well as tending to things outside like lawn care, pool maintenance, veggie patches, orchards, pruning/hedging, yard work and smelling the roses.
As PET SITTERS we have cared for 🐶 dogs (big/small), 🐱 cats (long/short hair), 🐠 fish, 🦜 birds, 🐀 rodents, 🐔 chickens, 🦆 ducks, 🐮 cows and 🐐 goats.
Doing things with them like walking, running, administering medicine, snuggles, catering to special dietary/behavioral needs, wrestles, grooming and of course cleaning up… 💩
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The good stuff...
✅ "Get to know us" (online, phone or in-person)
✅ Police checks (Current Australia & Canada)
✅ Fire safety conscious & experienced
✅ Professional AirBNB comms & management
✅ In-ground/above ground pool maintenance
✅ Handy on the tools with carpentry experience
✅ Tech Savvy & comfortable with security systems
✅ Work from home: present and attentive
✅ Avid back-country enthusiasts full of resilience
✅ Drivers license and car
✅ Non-smokers
✅ Additional strangers or parties, NOT our thing
✅ Languages: English, Português, Français
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If you made it this far... Thank you! We know it's a lot.
We'd love to hear more about your trip and potential opportunities to help make it as relaxed and stress free as we can. We think we are pretty humble and genuine folks, but please reach out and prove us wrong haha.
Warmest regards Aussie home owners,
Fafa & Mark
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