Home swapping is so hard

[homeswap]

So im trying to swap my home im in no hurry to do so but thought id join some sites and have a look around.
Im not looking for for anything up market only a flat as i dont want a house or bungalow neither do i want a garden.
I am on all sorts of home swap sites but my god everyone i message never get back to me.
I sent a message to a swapper that had 5th floor really wants to move to my town replied back with yes defo ill send pics after 2 months waiting i messaged and asked are you still interested no worries if not that was 4 months ago.
I move on not a problem.
But the same thing still happens with other swappers most never look at their messages on the swap sites.
Im thinking now to just give up with it.
Some have emails and i email but get nothing back or i get an email from someone that says im interested in you home please look at mine when i say im interested and would like to talk more or would you like to come view my home bla bla bla thats where it ends nothing back.
Or they change their minds then unchange their minds i have blocked two of them ones.
Ive only had one person in 2 years that i did go and view her home i said no as i changed my mine but this was due to the state of her home i mean it was nothing like the pitchers it stunk of piss and she had dirty pads on the bathroom floor.
The kitchen was just filled with rubbish you could not see the table tops missing doors etc it was awful.

Anyone on MN had this problem did you find your swap in the end.
I cant be the only one can i.

I did a swap and had messages from all over the country despite being very specific about where I wanted to live. I was in a chain sometimes and people would randomly drop out. One family in the chain dropped out because their youngest didn’t like that she was going to get the small bedroom! Honestly , you couldn’t make it up.
Eventually I drove to a house I really liked that hadn’t responded to my emails and knocked on the door. She said she never looked, still wanted to swap and liked my house even though she hadn’t been thinking of moving to my area!
She was bonkers on the day, screamed at everyone non stop, complained that my house was dirty when hers was a filthy tip painted black and purple.
A lot of the places I looked at were either very deprived, no floor coverings just bare concrete or people were just bonkers and made no sense.
Swapping is a good premise, but not for the faint hearted. My swap journey took about 18 months. Glad I did it though.

Took me 5 years! But got there in the end, are you on FB swapping groups as well as Homeswapper etc? Make yours as nice as possible, take very good photos of it, get it on FB sites and be persistent. I've swapped from a 2 bed flat to a 3 bed house but had to move to a different town to achieve it, and since then have done a 3 way swap back to original town. It was hard work and took a lot of persistence and dealing with time wasters etc.

Didnt think of facebook ill join up on there as well.