Renting stables from your home

Im glad to see this thread has taken a more positive turn! I am going into it with my eyes open and I know who I would and wouldn't be happy to share my home with. I think I must make sure we are very open and have a clear set of rules.

We making our mind up this week whether or nto we put an offer on the house.. I really hope we do but until then I'm trying not to get too excited!
 
We bought our place a year ago and I love having the horses at home and the process of putting stables and arena in is so exciting.
I had a friend's horse here for a few months but as circumstances changed she moved on. It hasn't affected our friendship and I would consider having friends' horses here again but I'm a bit nervous of taking on strangers horses as I have health issues which prevent me helping anyone out as well as the planning permission issue of me helping anyone.
It is exciting and I hope your offer is accepted. Good luck.
 
I think I shall keep it as friends only. Theres permission for 8 stables but only 3 built so for now i think it will be me and then the spare stable will be my friend. I don't think for now I'll bother with puting up the additional stables. I'd rather have fewer horses and keep better grazing.

I'm still waiting for Bracknell to get back to me but if not I may ahve a fair few more questions!

Look at me .. talking like we already have it! I need to relax a little and go with the 'what will be will be' idea!!
 
paulineh said:
What a shame people feel that having a friend or two as liveries is a bad thing.

In the past I have had normal liveries and it has not worked. I now have a friend and it works out much better. We help each other out.

I have a clear set of rules which we both stick to.
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I think it depends on the true meaning of 'friend'. I am lucky to have a dear friend keeping her horse with me. She would and does absolutely everything she can to help me without being asked, and it is hardly a balanced set up with her having one horse and my 6 ! We work as a team on the yard especially in winter, as we both have very different home/work lives. For instance she has a family to get to school, I do not so I do all mornings. She finishes work at 2pm I do not, so she does a mid afternoon yard and I feed and finish up at 7pm.

Nothing is set in stone and there have been plenty of times I have had a crisis in the morning and not done as much as I should have done before running out of time - she receives a text message saying sorry ! We have been through a lot of good and bad times with the horses together and we trust each other totally. There is never an 'i do more than you feeling' It is a set up that works and long may it last.

On the other hand when a 'friend of a friend' was given livery a very different situation happened. This persons idea of team was spelt with an 'i' in it. She was only interested in her own horse and despite me doing it for her in the mornings she would happily leave the other horses without water or with slipped rugs etc. It was of no advantage having the third person about the yard because she would ignore a horse in trouble if it was not hers, and grumble if asked to do something. She decided very early on that poo picking was done by a magic fairy that arrived daily in her absence.

Get the right person and it is a lovely way of keeping horses, bit of company to ride with, share problems with and have a good laugh with. Get the wrong person and it is a yard of misery and bad feeling.
 
Orangehorse said:
I am surprised at so many negative replies. There would be advantages too, because there would be someone there if you are going to be late back/away for the weekend/have to go somewhere extra early. All these things I have to pay someone to do since I only have my own horses at home. Also someone horsey to share things with, go on rides with, share vet and farrier visits, etc.

I think if you go into it with your eyes wide open and have everything in writing from the start (what happens if the horse is neglected/they don't pay and disappear/horse destroys the fence/stable, kicks other horses). Just say it is a standard livery contract.
If these people are already your friends and you have the same standards of horse care it should work out OK.
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I agree.....we have two liveries and everything works fine. If i'm late back from a show or out for the day one of the liveries gets my others in and i do the same for her. Obviously you can have liveries who can be a pain but you just have to be straight with them. yours are friends though so hopefully it will be different for you. We dont advertise and all of my liveries have come via word of mouth or are friends of mine which helps to have some background. I would say go for it and if you dont feel it works you can always ask them to find somewhere else.
 
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