Amy Froelich and her wife Marla have been Airbnb hosts since 2015. They started in Iowa City, Iowa, and continued on to Madison, Wisconsin, where they own a four-bedroom home in a lush neighborhood ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Meagan Cignoli, a sculptor based in Los Angeles and a member of Kindred, a home-swapping network. Kindred members do direct, one-to-one home swaps ...

In the world of travel, the concept of home swapping is far from new. Traditionally seen as a cost-effective way for adventure seekers to immerse themselves in new locales while avoiding hefty hotel ...

In just two years, I have swapped homes with strangers over a dozen times. My two-bedroom flat in Barcelona was bartered for a townhouse in Brooklyn, romantic studio in Milan, park-facing pied-à-terre ...

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