Should I think about moving yards?

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I have found an advert for a yard local to me for rent. Two stables, field shelter amazing hacking and four acres. It is a lot more than what I pay for where I am now but sounds loads better.

I have contacted the people and I am going to view it if someone doesn't take it before I get there.

So I need some help (this is on the basis that it is as great as it sounds).

Yard 1 - where I am now.

Two friends who I share with (both who are looking to move though)

Great hacking but have to use quiet lanes and with my boys napping isn't the best if he spins in and there is a tractor around!

No one to hack out with

Have to consider others and cannot just do exactly what I want as we all share.

The most awful falling down fencing and the owners will not repair.

Stables only suitable for storage.

No room for me to maybe get another horse if something suitable came up for loan.

Yard 2

All my own so can divide fields as I want and ensure access to field shelters in the winter months. No worrying about other people's horses.

Useable stables and seperate tack room

Could get another horse and get mother in law to ride out with me so less pressure to hack on my own

Expensive (but affordable)

Better secure fencing

Miles of immidiate hacking direct from yard (no road work)

Both yards are the same distance from home (different directions), have electricity, running water and are overlooked by the owners houses.

I did say I would never leave where I am as I don't want to go on a livery yard but this place does sound fab! :/

Help!!
 
The new idea sounds promising but remember that you'll have no-one to help you out if you're on your own. Sometimes company is good to have even if it means making the odd compromise.
 
That's the thing I love the company and the girls are fab.

My main worry is if they both leave and I am on my own that is ok but I have no control over who else the owners decide to move in. They may not be as nice as my friends who are with me now!!

But then again they may not move at all and if they both get their youngsters going next year I will have People to hack out with. But there is nothing definite. Yards do not come up often where I am so don't want to regret not looking at this one.
 
Is it possible to renegotiate the rent where you are now to allow the three of you to make the necessary improvements to the infrastructure?

Maybe your friends would be happy to stay put if the fencing and stables were in a better state of repair. That wouldn't give you any more room but at least it would be an improvement on what you currently have.
 
I don't think they would bring the rent down as they want to put it up :(

I currently move my electric fencing with me as I move fields as the fencing is so bad. My friend found my boy one morning wrapped up in wire. I am lucky he was so calm about it.

Even if the stables were sorted and fixes we'd have no where to keep anything!!

My friend has broached the subject of fencing with them and they always say they will do it but it never happens. They are lovely people so don't want to moan at then all the time.
 
I'd love to but there is only room for three at the new place and we have four horses and three Shetlands between us! Also the yard would be half an hour travelling for them. It's only 15mins for me.
 
The only positive you have posted about your current place is the possibility of hacking buddies next year.

Can you afford another horse if you took on the new place? Have you spoken to your mother in law to see if she would be a hacking buddy? Would you be responsible for maintaining fencing at new place ?

It can get lonely on your own and hard work but having total control is great , go see it and go with your gut .. not much help sorry :)
 
Is there nowhere else locally where you would be with MORE people and have facilities/instructor to work on the issues that you are having? I can't see how moving somewhere on your own is going to help you - from you previous posts these friends at your current yard are keeping you going now, or am I remembering wrongly?

Its always worth a look - easier to decide then!
 
I could afford a loan horse but my husband would not give me any more money to buy another one. I already have a Shetland as a companion so wouldn't have to get a third it was just a possibility. I am sure mother in law would be over the moon to ride as she does ask to ride my current horse but won't buy her own cuz she doesn't want the full time hassle.

I don't know the details of what I would be responsible for at the new place. I have a list of questions to ask still.

Yes my friends have been fab in helping me where I am but if they leave I will be left on my own anyway. :(

I just got off the phone to my new instructor who doesn't want me to ride in company anyway due to getting my boy reliant on me and not other horses to feel secure. But I do like having the girls there on foot to keep me calm.

There is one fab livery yard with a school that I am on the waiting list for but there has been no spaces come up in 6 months do it doesn't look hopeful.

The idea of getting someone else in is a possibility I could look in to.

Thanks everyone for your opinions!
 
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