Experienced House Sitters/Resort Manager

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We are two sisters, Katherine (aged 74) and Colwyn (aka Charlie) aged 70 who have a lot of experience between us with house sitting in America, Hawaii, New Zealand and Australia. I have been night manager of a resort at Palm Cove as well as licencee of two hotels with accommodation. We have had lots of animals over the years being dogs, cats, horses, birds, fish, chooks and pet lambs having spent a lot of time as youngsters on our uncle's farm.

We are happy to supply references and are property owners ourselves. We love the idea of being able to stay in different locations.

We have been house sitting some beautiful homes in great locations and are extremely house proud, clean and tidy. We love animals and have no problem with watering, gardening and cleaning. We have excellent referees if required.

We have just completed a wonderful housesit on the big cattle station Yugilbar in northern NSW of 38,000 hectares on the mighty Clarence River owned by the Myer family- of Myers. They fly up in their Lear jet monthly so of course the driveway has to be perfect.

Katherine was on the lawn mower and tractor/slasher mowing the 1.5 kilometre long driveway plus the house yard and around the big shed where they hold cattle sales etc. I was in the house. The painters were here the whole time so it was a big job helping my cousin out by reorganising, cleaning and decluttering her whole house which I offered to do for her while they were away and she was thrilled. It looks fabulous. She will be more than happy to give us references and we have wonderful referees from previous housesits.

I enjoy cooking and the fridge will be stocked up with a meal to pop in the oven on your return.

We look forward to hearing from you. Many thanks.

That was a previous story and these days I am travelling - I am at present driving a 54 seater coach from Alice to Uluru 2 days a week. I am coming to Adelaide to see a specialist and my boss said September is a great time to have bit of time off for this. It will be my birthday whilst I am away and I am hoping my sister will come meet me in Adelaide so we can spend the time together. She used to live there so it would be a lovely catch-up as well.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Charlie

PS photos are of myself at Uluṟu and if course Katherine. 2nd one is our back yard at our 3 acre property at Emerald Beach NSW. 3rd,4th and 5th - us and the 6th is a beautiful property we looked after in Brisbane for a month for a couple - he is the orchid man for Australia and has huge greenhouses out the back. He sends them all over nationally. The last photo is behind the back of our house overlooking our huge dam. Katherine has a beautiful Rottweiler dog who is a gentle giant so your fur baby would be very spoilt by both of us 😀. If you want to check out my Facebook photos I am under my real name Colwyn. I was Charlie when I was in a rock band years ago - went in the Battle of then sounds in Festival Hall in Melbourne and came 2nd back in the day. I played keyboards and sang. The boys couldn’t remember my real name Colwyn😀 and gave me the name Charlie. So years later I left working for one of Australia’s top
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons in 2001 - was sick of talking to women about a wrinkle - and I hit the road working on the Marlin boats out of Port Douglas as chef/ hostess, dive boat out of Cairns as Purser as well as cruise boat as a Purser. Spent a lot of years in the medical fraternity and have been in the road now since 2001 of course spending some time in between at home. Achieved my HR licence 2011- have been driving coaches - biggest 71 seater - in between cooking for drilling crews in the Tanami Desert as well as Corunna Downs behind Marble Bar. Life is great and as you can imagine at this point I’m not ready to hang up my driving boots yet. Read more...