Forget Hotels.. Exchange Your Home for your next vacation. # trade show booth of life

With 43,000 members, HomeExchange is one of the nation’s largest members-only home exchange businesses.  HomeExchange helps participants reach agreements to swap their homes for vacations or business trips. The deal provides each with a house or apartment, and it eliminates the need to pay for hotel rooms. Members pay about $120 per year for access to the company’s member database.

The idea was born in the early 1990s when Ed Kushins vacationed in Washington, D.C., with his children, staying at a home he found through a Europe-based home exchange program. Impressed, he decided to launch his own home exchange business in the U.S.

When the Internet started to become widely available and popular, it totally changed this from being a hobby to being a business because, instead of having to send letters to one another, members can use email to communicate instantly.

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LA Times