We are a family of 6 and have a 5 bedroom home. I can’t tell you how often we get requests from 1 bedroom apartments. I just wish you could set a minimum criteria for exchanges. I reply to everyone but I do get frustrated. We live in the South of France so when are house is online we gets hundreds of requests. I’d also like to be able to tag geographic zones that we are not interested in visiting. Ultimately the site should ensure that when you make a request it is better validated.
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This is not possible yet, but, if you have not done this already, you can put these things in your profile. You can write things like:
- please, only message us if you have a home with five bed rooms
- we would like to exchange with people from …
- we are not interested in exchanging with people from …
If you get so many requests, you could even post this text on the page that describes your home AND on the page of your own profile.
Good luck!
PS I live in a place not many people have heard from and don’t get very many requests, would certainly like some more!
Yes that’s pretty much what we’ve already done, even though it feels a bit rude. I just think people bulk send requests without even reading the profiles. When I do my requests I always try and personalise them and I think I get a much better response.
Hm sending bulk requests is not very HomeExchange like … I am sorry you are getting all these messages, despite having put all thhose things in your profile …
I always send very personalised messages, too. Though mine might be a bit (too) long. 
It happens the same to us with a flat we have in BCN. We say in the first lines of our home description that we don’t swap it for GP and that we won’t be travelling anywhere for less than a week. We carry on receiving countless messages for very short stays for GP! Many people just don’t read the descriptions. There should have to be a way for us to red flag those messages, and if they received repeatedly red flags from different families, the website could manage to program an automated message to be sent to them by asking them to not to spam people or get a consequence.