Advice please regarding livery fees

Sunbeamstarshine said:
I shall repeat, in case you missed it in my previous post, how is it possible to give a months notice to someone who you believe is capable of causing harm to your horse once they realise you are leaving? How on earth can you be expected to stay for a whole month when there is no trust whatsoever that your animal is safe?? So on that basis, how is it fair or reasonable to expect me to pay? Moreover why should I be accountable for a months notice to someone who has caused me to be out of pocket myself as I have had to feed her horses hay for 3 weeks? Yes thats right, I HAD to, I could not leave horses with no grazing to fight and hurt each other because they were so hungary! And my horse was stuck in the middle of that!
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It isnt morally fair and it doesnt feel right and I have been there too. But you have an arrangement to pay monthly therefore legally you owe her a months paid notice whether your horse is there or not.

Compared to having your horse or tack damaged it isnt going to cost you that much. Borrow it off someone if you have to, pay it, move ASAP and pay the money back over a few months.
 
I have moved to the new yard, thank god! But after the threatening behaviour I have encountered today she will not receive a single penny more out of me! Not to mention her threatening my family!! I have never encountered such a devious, nasty, egomeniacal person ever before! Any agreement we had she has completely gone back on and I feel utterly lied too and blagged into moving onto the yard in the first place. She has taken advantage of my good nature and used me to provide hay for her horses. So if nothing else we are 'quits'. As far as I am concerned the safety of my horse comes first!!
 
I agree it's normal to give a month's notice if you pay monthly, but her only recourse would be breach off contact, and if holly never agreed to give a month's notice it Isn't a contractual term
 
This is why I always advise people to have a contract drawn up on both sides. IMO a proper yard well run with good standards should always have one. If it doesn't you could end up in many awful situations.

We just had a new livery who gave a months notice but left to come here a week later.

If someone here wants to leave they give a months notice (paid up front) but they can leave anytime within that as long as monies are paid.

The only one person we had who gave notice half way between the bills ( ie they used the last 2 weeks of the rent) then would not pay the other 2, we threatened with small claims then they paid. Most now use our livery month as a bases.

We have a propper livery paperwork drawn up, saying what you get what is included and you sign to say your happy also yard rules.

That way the livery knows fully what comes with their livery. I would not go on a yard which hasn't got a contract.
 
We have this at bottom of our contract

Notice of termination of livery is 1 month for either party where there is serious fall out between yard owner and client, the owner reserves the right to terminate this agreement with immediate effect, and they must remove the horse from the yard.


We have only had a couple we had to ask to leave asap
 
what about -

livery fees is £XXX per month and signed contract/no conract signed so 1 month notice to be given.

livery fees is £XX per week, but livery pays for the whole month as they dont want to be having to pay livery fees every week, what is the notice period then? IMO it should be a week!
 
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