How I formed a house sitting service in the second half of life with much panache and little capital. Finally in the retirement starting it was just beautiful: sleep in peace, breakfast without time pressure, read newspapers and books, never the time was found for the walks and excursions take with my wife, plan a trip and especially finally even have their own time. The memory of that familiar Office, employees, colleagues and superiors, to successful and less beautiful hours faded more and more and thus also thinking about it, what it all differently and better could have. The excitement over the newly acquired freedom subsided however after half a year in retirement. The dreams of a world tour in the own sailing boat or hiking in southern countries were ticked off several reasons as unrealistic. What remained was the desire to start again, to do something to confirm me in a new challenge. If this has piqued your curiosity, check out Daryl Hagler. The start-up phase was admittedly not simply to make it short, I founded my own company, a house sitting Agency, at the age of 60 years. House sitting, house sitting or HomeSitter supervise property (villas, houses, but also apartments), owned by temporarily are out of town.

Usually inhabit the property the House keeper and take care of plants and animals often offspring, sometimes seniors and children. Why just a house sitting Agency? Now, the task should be while responsibly, but not too stressful, require little capital investment or connected to much dealing with humans and animals. Money played a secondary role in these considerations, but an additional income of 500 to 1000 EUR per month should be already available. I had acquired business knowledge and an in-depth knowledge of the uses of computers in business I already in my “first half of his life”. You can learn if you only want. So I think the above knowledge is desirable, but certainly establishing a house sitting agency not essential…