A question about giving notice at a yard.

Loulou2002 said:
As a yard owner it annoys me when people give me hardly any notice but as I don't have contracts I can't do anything if people want to leave.......its just more mannerly I think if I have a months notice. I could never ask someone to go and expect them to move their horse the next day but I have had liveries do this to me. Like I said though there is nothing your yard owner can do and if its that bad I would move the horse.
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Oh it isn't a bad yard. But for some reason my Horse just isn't settling there. I do think its due to the indivudal turnout though. It is also very busy. But it would suit some Horses and most of the Horses do well there. Mine thrived there in the summer (they live out in a herd and then seperated for winter) my girl is usually very laid back, but since being seperated, she is now very insecure and really not herself. So I have decided to move somehwere that is quieter and offers group turnout. I also have no doubt that they would treat her any differently (me however might be a diferent story ;))
 
Like another poster said its sometimes better to keep things amicable.....incase you want to go back, so you might be better off paying the £50.00.
 
Loulou2002 said:
As a yard owner it annoys me when people give me hardly any notice but as I don't have contracts I can't do anything if people want to leave.......its just more mannerly I think if I have a months notice. I could never ask someone to go and expect them to move their horse the next day but I have had liveries do this to me. Like I said though there is nothing your yard owner can do and if its that bad I would move the horse.
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ARRGGGHHHH! How many times do how many people on this thread have to say that a LEGALLY BINDING CONTRACT IS IN FORCE EVEN IF IT IS A VERBAL ONE???

For example a conversation like this:-

"Can I keep my horse on your yard?"
"Yes, if you pay me £XX a month"
"OK then, thanks"

Is a contract.

If you pay monthly you give a months notice or pay a month's rent in lieu of that notice.
 
Too many people burn bridges. I teach a fair few people who have for what ever reason has to leave their current yard and trying to find them a new yard is a nightmare because the horse world is tiny and it doesn't take long for rumour to get round. My advice is always try as hard as you can to leave on good terms as you never know when you may want to go back or what other livery owners they know. Plus it's good manners at the end of the day :)
 
This whole thread just points out how much easier it would be if all YO's produced a livery contract. On the last yard I was on we had a great contract, it covered almost every eventuality, and when I had to leave as we were moving away from the area, both YO and myself knew exactly where we stood and there was no confusion.

My current yard is sadly very different. The YO does not have a contract for any of the liveries. Her notice periods differ depending on her mood - from "Thats OK take as long as you need to find a new yard" to one livery who was a friend...to "it's my *******ing yard and I will do things how I want. If you don't like that then *******ing leave" (this was after a livery complained when she continually found the YO's cigarette butts in the hay store. She saddled up her horse and rode to her new yard that very moment.) I am in the process of trying to find a new yard, and do not intend to giver her more than a weeks notice. She is not a polite person to me, so doesn't deserve any respect returned from me. I would never return to this yard.
 
Spyda said:
What if you pay weekly?
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(sigh)Then you give a week's notice. In the unlikely event that you pay daily you give a day's notice. If you pay 6 monthly then 6 month's notice. The only exception to this is if an alternative arrangement is part of your written or verbal contract.
 
Shadeyoak said:
You can pay weekly but still have to give a months notice, I did, it was in the contract.
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Yes, what's in a written contract will override how often you pay.

If there is nothing in writing, then a reasonable amount of notice has to be given by both sides. How often you pay is taken by as a rule of thumb when defining reasonable for legal purposes.
 
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