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I didn’t want to pay rent so I'm a professional sofa surfer, I've called mansions in Surrey & townhouses in London home | The Sun
STEPPING outside the enormous country pile in Surrey, Thiago Araujo takes in the glorious views of the rolling hills of Dorking.
Inside the movie-like mansion his wife Cleo is readying the Labrador puppy for a walk in the enormous forest that backs onto the property.
But the couple aren’t heirs to a family fortune or lottery winners, but travellers with no permanent home owning nothing but a backpack and a bike each.
And yet the husband and wife, originally from Brazil, have called some seriously valuable properties their home over the past three years in some of the UK’s most exclusive locations.
The couple, who work in various freelance positions, ditched their rental property in Liverpool in 2020, choosing to become professional sofa surfers and saving themselves thousands in the process.
Speaking exclusively to Fabulous, Cleo says: “When we arrived in the UK in 2020 we were stuck in Liverpool because of the pandemic.
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“We were desperate to leave behind our regular jobs and regular lives and so we started to research how we could travel around the UK for free.
“We didn’t have a big budget whatsoever and Airbnb was an obvious but not a viable option for us.
“After some research we came across the website TrustedHousesitters and that seemed like the perfect alternative.”
Members of TrustedHousesitters pay as little as £99 for an annual membership.
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