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Helen Bergstein, the chief executive and founder of Digsville, said the company had no reports of theft or major damage since she started her company in 1999. Buckmaster said Craigslist also had received no complaints from the house swap section.

Jim Buckmaster, president and chief executive of Craigslist, has seen similar growth in house swaps. It logs roughly 3,000 postings in that section of its Web site each month, up from 1,600 postings a month one year ago.

Perhaps the USA's reputation as a litigious society rife with insurance fraud puts insurers off. When people abuse the system, the system responds by limiting opportunities for abuse. We see this in our lack of insurance options compared to the UK. I hope that we can all treat our home exchange community with the respect it needs to stay a healthy, accessible system as well.