The idea to look into house sitting and what it entailed came to us when we started to look at ways to fund or reduce costs in our 'retirement'. We have some pocket money additional income strategies going, but they weren't enough (yet) to pay the rent. The rent was eating up our savings too fast! We could see our 'retirement' lifestyle was, at some point, going to become unsustainable. So, we started to think, how can we live rent free? And then it dawned on us... Join discussion...