@Cathleen47
Homeexchange is no rental. It's swapping houses.
It used to be one-on-one.
Nowadays you earn "points". You can use these points to go to another place in the world. It's more flexible, but I also liked the one-on-one. It's more personal, while the point exchange is more Airbnb-ish.
Most of the time, guests stay longer than a night. Otherwise, it's too much hassle to prepare your home.
We will use our points to stay a long weekend in Berlin.
A family of six from Peru will stay in our home for five days. We get points for that.
We stayed in their home about five years ago. That was their second home.
They saved the points to travel to Italy, and after that, they will come to us in The Netherlands.
We've done it 33 times mow.