Home swapping is a great way to see the world but to do it in a trusted and safe community, there’s gotta be a few rules. Below are the48dots rules. It’s what our system uses to automatically allow or disallow swaps.

Core rules

1. Every member must be verified before a swap is finalized.

2. You must share your home for your first transaction by either having a simultaneous swap or non-simultaneous trade. Meaning, you can either exchange homes at the same time or at different times. Swapping homes is totally free.

3. If you opt for non-simultaneous trades, you are also able to stay in other members’ homes by having non-reciprocal stays. That means you can stay in any member’s home on our platform without them staying at your home.

4. You can’t stay in other people’s homes more than 2 times before you have to share your own home. Meaning, if you have 2 non-simultaneous trades that haven’t resulted in the other member staying in your home you can’t keep staying in other homes until your home is shared. You get no more than 2 non-reciprocal stays before you have to offer your home simultaneously

5. If you are disrespectful to the community or reported by another member for valid wrong-doing, you can no longer be a member of our platform, much-less swap.

6. Checkin is at 4:00 and checkout is at 11:30 as the default, regardless of if you do a home exchange or book vacation rentals with points.

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