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Susan and David

ID: 5g2

Name:

Susan

Status:

Couple

Age group:

55 plus

Profession:

Retired carpenter and retired bookkeeper

Years active:

4 years

Preferred locations:

ACT NSW QLD TAS (full regions list)

Reply rating:

5 out of 5

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More information about this house sitter

My husband and I were original Sydney dwellers for 30 odd years and have always owned our own homes up until 2000. We had a hobby farm in Tasmania for 15 years, with farm animals including sheep, goats, chickens, a horse, a cow, dogs and cats. We are familiar with living with tank water/ water pumps, wood heaters, septic systems and basic requirements for rural living. Leaving Tasmania in 2000 we lived in Sydney for a couple of years then moved to the Central Tablelands, NSW for 11 years on a 90 acre goat farm. During that time I did volunteer work on a regular basis over a period of 8 years which involved 6 month periods away from home at a time staying with different families every week, so I am very accustomed to living in other peoples' homes. David worked as a full time carpenter in the local area accompanying me regularly on various trips. After leaving the central tablelands we volunteered on a 7 acre retreat centre in Victoria for 7 months maintaining the property and looking after 3 acres of garden. We returned to South Coast, NSW for 6 months living by the water at St George's Basin when we decided to try house sitting.

I have a background in admin/bookkeeping and David a carpenter. We are responsible, trustworthy, mature adults and we have experienced many different lifestyles including living in Asia and a short time in Tibet. We enjoy the experience of new lifestyles and environments and house sitting gives us the opportunity to do what we love and enables the home owner to do what they wish, comfortably knowing that their homes and pets are well cared for, with mutual care and respect on both sides we all benefit. We are very loving with the animals we care for as we have been in situations ourselves where we have needed to call on strangers to look after our pets as we were never comfortable with leaving our own pets in boarding kennels or the like so rest assured your pets will be in a loving and caring environment whilst with us.

Ideally we would like long term house sits of 3-6 months or more so we can get to know different areas, preferably rural/coastal NSW but Southern QLD and Tasmania would happily be considered.

Our interests include travelling, walking/hiking and water sports. We are both fit and healthy, we don't drink or smoke and we enjoy the outdoors. We feel that we are able to fit into a city or rural environment as we have lived in both and would certainly care for your home, garden and pets as if our own. We are clean, tidy and very respectful of people's homes.

We have been house sitting continuously for over 3 years. So far we have cared for 20 dogs, 9 horses, 5 cats, 22 sheep, 15 cows, numerous chooks, tropical fish and 1 bird.

We are more than happy to discuss any house sitting assignments, answer any questions, provide references, police checks, photos and anything else to make you feel comfortable that you have chosen suitable sitters.

With kind regards
Susan and David Kirkwood
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