House sitting in Boston
Owners who listed here mostly had sitters to choose between: 76% of 288 watched listings drew at least two applications within 48 hours. Boston has 29 open sits across 20 homes right now. Living in sits here: 61 gapless days across 1 sit starting 15 Sep.
Pick your window. We chain the open sits that hand over cleanly inside it — computed right here, nothing sent anywhere.
The open listings chain into 61 consecutive housed days across 1 sit beginning 15 Sep.
of owners had a choice of sitters within 48 hours
filled to the five-application cap within 48 hours
Floors, not verdicts — fast-filling listings are the ones most likely to escape measurement, and these are 48-hour rates: a speed gauge, not eventual success; many sits fill after the window. How we measure →
Too few open listings here to describe a typical stay length.
Of 20 homes: 9 are dogs-only, 8 cats-only, 3 keep both. Plan around the animals first — they are the job.
Will my pet-sitting listing get applicants in Boston?
Measured, not guessed: of 288 Boston listings watched from zero applications, 76% received at least two applications within 48 hours, and 13% reached the five-application cap. Both are floors — fast-filling listings are the ones most likely to escape measurement — and both are 48-hour rates: listings often keep drawing applications after the window we count.
Do house sits actually get filled in Boston?
Yes — at least 1,736 sits have provably completed in Boston since 2016, 659 of them ending in the last 12 months. A completion requires a chosen sitter, so every one had at least one real application. These are floors from listing histories, and they cannot be turned into a fill rate: sits that went unfilled leave no trace, so there is no denominator.
Can you live in Boston full-time on house sits?
Today's board chains into 61 consecutive housed days across 1 sit beginning 15 Sep. That is one bookable itinerary from live listings — it moves daily as sits are taken and posted.
Open sits — live listings with a current or future date window; a home with several windows counts once per window.
Applicants — the count reported on each open listing at last refresh.
Posting lead — days between a listing first appearing and its start date, median across open listings.
Gapless days — the longest bookable run of consecutive covered days assembled from open sits beginning within the next 90 days: no overlaps, each sit starting the day the previous one ends.
Full methodology — how these are measured, and what they cannot say.