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CANADA’S ONLY international holiday home exchange
agency is operated right here in North Vancouver.

West World Holiday Exchange
is linked with 20 affiliated com-

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panies with listings from all over
the world. The company issues ex-
change books listing homes twice a
year, once in February and once in
April.

The company charges a $35
basic fee for a homcowner to
become a listed subscriber and $30
to receive just the exchange books
alone.

The concept allows homeowners
the chance to swap their home with
another home located at a chasen
holiday destination.

While the home exchange option
is the most popular, the agency
also facilitates home renting, dou-
ble family exchanges, the boarding
of paying guests, bed and
breakfast arrangements, travel
companion connections and youth
hospitality exchanges.

Jack Graber operates the com-
pany and began with a smaller
company called Trading Places in
the summer of °86.

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Said Graber:‘"As a teacher | saw
all these homes sitting empty in the
summer and I thought, ‘Why not
have peaple fram other countries
using these homes?’"*

He gradually broadened the
scope of his service from B,C. res-
idents to the west coast of the con-
finent to the present affiliation
with the Directory Group Associa-
tion when he bought out the
previous Canadian affiliate.

Working with a Canadian client
base fluctuating between 1,500 to
2,000 members, Graber said the

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A NORTH Shore woman is bring-
ing the old-fashioned values in-
stilled in her during her nursing
education in Germany to her new
enterprise as the Customized
Homemaker.

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business last year and does
everything from cleaning, cooking,
baking, shopping and mending to
party assistance and assistance to
seniors.

“We do more than basic clean-
ing. Whatever someone would like
done, we'll do it,’" Urbanski said.

She has two handymen on call
and can handle food catering
through a connection with Scan-
dals restaurant in North Van-
couver.

For more information call 980-
5953.

At the following companies:

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