We are a retired school teacher and retired executive and educator from Wharton School. I am a "neat freak" and my husband is the "handyman" around our homes. We presently own two homes ourselves in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area and on Hilton Head Island and understand both the love and care it takes to maintain a home as well as the concern it involves to leave one while away. However, being a double home-owner has not diminished our love for adventure and travel. We are "on the go" often with travels all over the U.S. as well as Europe and Asia...even South America a time or two, and thought it would be great fun to house sit in an area for awhile to not only enjoy a home, rather than a hotel, but also to see the immediate area of the owner. We have rented apartments for extended stays all over the U.S., as well as in Great Britain and Italy...in fact, just returned from an apartment in Florence, Italy where we stayed for a month! We will happily pay all our transportation costs and will take immaculate care of your home as well as your pets. We are especially fond of cats!