Complete practical guide
The house sitting book that starts with a stain on a ceiling and an insurer asking when it began
37 chapters and 68 printable worksheets on house and pet sitting as a side hustle - why the daily record is the product rather than the paperwork, why access is the whole job, and the two numbers that measure the failures nobody else can see.
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What this guide is
Most guides to this trade are about being trustworthy, being good with animals, and being reliable. All true, and none of it is where the business fails. This book opens with eleven days in somebody's house. On day seven there was a faint damp smell in the hall, which seemed like the towels. On day eleven there was a brown stain spreading across the kitchen ceiling. The insurer asked three questions: when did it start, was the property occupied, and what was observed. There was no log, no photographs, and no record at all. Sacha had not failed to prevent a leak - Sacha had failed to be able to say when it started, and in an empty house that is the same thing. That is the shape of this trade. The characteristic failure is not dramatic; it is slow, quiet, and invisible until it is not, and the person who could have seen it was standing in the building the whole time. Which is why the first of the four rules is that you are the only person who was there. Nobody else can say what the house looked like on the seventh day, what the animal ate on the ninth, or whether the door was locked on the eleventh. That is not paperwork - it is the entire service, and everything else in this book is machinery for making it true.
What you get out of it
Specifics, not promises.
- Four rules covering what actually ends these businesses - the record, the boundary, the access, and the emergency
- Six to ten fixed photograph checkpoints framed identically every day, because change is only visible against a consistent series
- Why the days when nothing happened are the ones you must write down
- The veterinary authorisation with a spend limit and an instruction for when the client cannot be reached - and the difficult conversation to have before the holiday, not at two in the morning
- Why you locate and physically operate the stopcock at the handover rather than being shown where it is
- The departure record, which closes more of your exposure than the arrival record because claims arrive late
- Why an overnight rate has almost nothing to do with hours - and everything to do with the night nobody else can book
- The two numbers that fail silently: complete-log percentage and unrecorded access events
- Why access codes are the one record you destroy rather than keep
- 148 AI prompts with their constraints written in - and not one takes an address and a date of absence
Ideal for
People already sitting informally for friends, neighbours, or family and wondering whether it could be paid work; dog walkers, pet sitters, cleaners and errand-runners being asked to add overnight cover; people with a flexible living situation looking for work that fits around it; and anybody already doing this who has never taken an arrival photograph and has not yet had the booking where that mattered.
- Anyone starting house or pet sitting alongside other work.
- Anybody already doing it who has never taken an arrival photograph and has not yet had the booking where that mattered.
What's inside
Format
- Digital download, delivered instantly after payment
- Formatted for letter paper — read on screen or print it
- Yours permanently, re-downloadable from your library any time
- Licensed for use in your own business
By the end you can
A reader finishes with four rules written where they can see them, a written refusal list applied before any agreement, a property file per client updated after every booking, an access register that counts everything in and out and is destroyed at the close, a pet care record with microchip number and photograph taken at intake, a signed veterinary authorisation with a spend limit and an instruction for when the client cannot be reached, a verified escalation sheet with isolation points they have physically operated, a daily routine checklist with six to ten fixed photograph checkpoints, a dated daily log written on the day including the days nothing happened, arrival and departure condition records that mirror each other shot for shot, a reviewed agreement with access, authorisation, liability and cancellation clauses, prices built from the true cost of a booking including the night nobody else can book, a cover arrangement made before it is needed, a weekly five-minute review, a quarterly audit producing dated changes, and thirty-day and ninety-day launch plans.
A complete working system for a house and pet sitting business alongside other work - built on four rules covering the contemporaneous record that is the actual service, the absolute boundary around somebody else's home, the control of access that outlives the booking, and the limit on what may be attempted in an emergency - with the daily log treated as the product rather than the paperwork, and two operational numbers that measure the failures nobody else can see.
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