{"id":9146,"date":"2013-07-01T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9146"},"modified":"2013-07-01T10:03:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T14:03:42","slug":"extreme-house-sitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/extreme-house-sitting\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme House-Sitting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/070113_1359_ExtremeHous1.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"432\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lucy Wallis looked at the practice of extreme house sitting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With almost a million empty homes across the UK, homeowners need to find a way to ensure their properties aren&#8217;t vandalized or burglarized while they&#8217;re waiting for the properties to be sold.<\/li>\n<li>Companies have sprung up that match those who need a place to live, with those who need people to live in their properties.<\/li>\n<li>In exchange for a small rent (as little as \u00a3180 &#8211; $274 \u2013 a month for a 35 bedroom mansion) an individual agrees to live in the property and protect it.<\/li>\n<li>There are certain restrictions \u2013 the house-sitter can&#8217;t host any parties, has to have a stable income, and can&#8217;t have a criminal record. They must also stay for at least three months.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not just homes. Uninhabited hospitals, pubs, schools, police stations, observatories, and even a theme park need a sitter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about why there&#8217;s a surge in interest after Christmas, how you can be a house-sitter in the UK, and other creative ways an individual can find a place to live for low rents over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-23082912\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-23082912\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucy Wallis looked at the practice of extreme house sitting: With almost a million empty homes across the UK, homeowners need to find a way to ensure their properties aren&#8217;t vandalized or burglarized while they&#8217;re waiting for the properties to be sold. Companies have sprung up that match those who need a place to live, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/070113_1359_ExtremeHous1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9149,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9146\/revisions\/9149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}