renting a house with stables

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Has anyone rented their house with stables ? Was it a success or did they wish they had just rented the house . Was the house looked after better than the stables or vice versa ?
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I did, and loved it - but realistically, it was a bind. you had no back up when you went away for a night, nobody to feed breakfast, and we were only saving about £100 a month on livery+rent costs, with a crappy school. It also made the jump from renting to owning a "huge deal" - first world problems right there! ;-)
 
Thanks for the replies. I have a house with land and stables to let and I wondered if this was more hassle then just renting the house by itself.
 
ahhh! I thought you meant that you were going to live in it yourself. In that case I would say we probably left the house in better nick than the stables. The landlord tried to screw us over re: deposit (£900!!!) so I left my FULL deeplitter beds for him. I'm kind like that.

I'd be expecting that normal wear and tear will be higher than a house by itself - we had issues with keeping carpets in any way decent nick - they were the type that every hair and grain of sand/muck etc just stuck to like glue.We only wore boots/shoes to the door, and I hoovered every day but it just never looked "done" - and wet coats hanging in the hallway etc didn't lend itself well to the wallpaper - that type of thing!
 
annagain said:
Auslander has just done this - well land anyway. It might be worth looking at her posts on the matter.
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I have indeed, and it has changed my life! I have never been so happy and relaxed. I love wandering out and patting noses over the garden fence, and am on hand if something goes wrong (one of my liveries fractured his splint bone at 10.30 at night, and was able to get him out of the field, and the vet on the way within 10 mins - he'd have been like it all night if he was at my old field)

I'm really lucky with my landlords - they've done a load of work on the house, and are currently clearing one of the outdoor schools for me. I did the first one, and they spotted me with loppers in hand and told me not to be so silly - just ask and they'd be there with machinery!!
 
MrsMyope said:
Thanks for the replies. I have a house with land and stables to let and I wondered if this was more hassle then just renting the house by itself.
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Where are you?!!


We have looked into this.
I can see the pros and cons.
But as always for the landlord just get your references, a decent deposit and a detailed inventory, of both house and stables etc.
 
I am in Aberdeenshire. Little stable yard is at the bottom of the garden . I used to put something in the oven then go out with a kitchen timer and set it for the time my dinner needed and groom or muck out then ping! inside WASH hands dish up. Horsey housekeeping ! Loved it
 
Why not advertise with or without (assuming you can access the yard/ land) without going through the house - you might get someone who wants both or you might find it easier to price separately for local people who want a small yard but don't want to move home and a much wider range of general house renters that don't have horses.
 
MrsMyope I replied to your message earlier but not sure if you received as got a message saying you could not receive any messages due to no storage space ��
 
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