Muppetty question maybe but....

[Nudibranch]

Ok, lost my big mare last year and planned to replace her after a bit of saving up, next spring/summer. Just come back from holiday, so pretty skint, and of course trawling Horsemart I find a very interesting little colt. Now atm I only have about half the cash to buy him - would it be barefaced cheek to ask to loan him for a while before buying him outright? He's been reduced for a quick sale so they seem to want him away.... I dunno, it's probably a bit of a hairbrained scheme! I could withdraw the cash on my credit card but I'd rather not. Somebody shoot me down in flames before I start thinking about this too much!

 

[Ezme]

If you can offer a special home maybe, theres a few loans with view to buys, esp if they need to get rid (unless its for money reasons obv!) but whats the worst that can happen, they say no and you walk away.

 

[Natassia]

I'd say go for it! You've got nothing to lose and if they want to sell him that much they'll loan him out probably, providing you give them a substantial deposit and get a proper contract drawn up so you won't be able to just hand him back if you need/want to, like a loan agreement.

 

[suzyseymour]

If you do end up getting the cash on your credit card, I would get an overdraft facility set up with your bank, it should be much cheaper than the interest rate on your card and you can have it set up in time to pay the credit card off the end of the first month, so you wouldn't have to pay anything at the credit card level of interest.

 

[Kenzo]

You wont know unless you ask, if your offering a lovely home and show you want the horse so much, then I doubt they would take offence, the might even take you up on the offer.