When my parents got people to house sit, they usually just took them out to a nice dinner and we brought them a nice gift from where we were at. Sometimes a nice bottle of wine and whatever. Depends on how long they were gone for etc. Usually payments are kind of weird since they're most likely good friends.
When I house sat for a friend when they went to Cuba, they brought me a box of nice Cubans and a bottle of something I forget. It was nice though and that was perfect.
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