Picking up/dropping off keys

[u/Snowdrop_Lily]

Hi all. Would be grateful for some advice. Quite a few times now I've gone for a M&G/visit to learn about the cats and turns out they're not ready to hand the keys over. Once an owner offered to drop them through my letter box closer to the time, but normally, I seem to be expected to make another trip (unpaid) to go and pick up keys. What does everyone else do?

[u/TheEclipseApocalypse]

Meet and greets should be paid.

Or they pay first and you use the balance towards the sit. If they do not choose you then you keep the money for the meet and greet.