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José Múzquiz, a doctoral student in political science and international relations, has begun to housesit to eliminate housing costs, which had created such financial pressures he used food banks to have enough to eat.

“They waitress, they bartend, they work catering, they drive Uber, they babysit, they dog walk, they housesit. They have all these secondary jobs in order to be able to survive,” she said.

That even included celebrity soirees, albeit without their knowledge: A friend of the Disquotays used to housesit for Etta James and they threw ragers at her home when the singer went out of town.

However, TrustedHousesitters has received complaints from users traveling internationally, including Madolline Gourley, an Australian, who wrote via email that she was deported during a layover in Los Angeles for a housesit in Canada when U.S.

In 2018, Colin and Kai Frolich left San Francisco for Truckee to housesit for a friend.