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Do you think its fair that having handed in notice at yard, YO has changed me another 4 weeks livery at Full whack full livery AND got another livery coming in a few hours after I move my horse to have my stable!

Is this what yards normally do?
 
most yards are one month notice, you just stay the notice, if you are leaving early without staying the notice there are still aloud to charge for the month even if someone new is moving in straight away
 
If it after/on the day your notices ends then yes would see nothing wrong with that.
If YO has charged you for a months notice fair enough. But if you have paid for a month but leave before that and YO gets someone to take box and charges therefore getting paid twice for same time/space think its really cheeky.
Our YO is good that way if you paid til end of month but leave before he won't use it.
If he does get someone to take box within that time he won't charge the leaving livery as well.
 
I was given a months notice to leave my old yard, happily I left after 4 days with the 2 horses & stuff we needed immediately. As I had paid till the end of the month, as specified in the contract & reiterated in the letter I was given, my lovely kind husband moved everything I had left behind, jumps, rug boxes etc into the 2 stables. When questioned by ex YM, who had someone lined up for the stables he just told her that we had paid till the end of the month & so were using the stables as storage, he moved the very last items very late on the last evening of our notice period...
 
Paying the notice for the months livery is the right thing to do, but have to admit being slightly irked when the YO knew she had horses filling the stables the day I was due to leave although I another 3 weeks livery paid.
This meant we had to lift and scrub the matting the night before we left and then put fresh deep beds down on the disinfected concrete ready for the last night. Then stack up all our kit ready to load, so the new people had room to move in.
As luck would have it, the new yard was snowed in so we had to stay another day.
It would have been nice to have been able to move the horses and then return on a less busy day to sort everything out as we had paid for this.
 
merlinsquest said:
I was given a months notice to leave my old yard, happily I left after 4 days with the 2 horses & stuff we needed immediately. As I had paid till the end of the month, as specified in the contract & reiterated in the letter I was given, my lovely kind husband moved everything I had left behind, jumps, rug boxes etc into the 2 stables. When questioned by ex YM, who had someone lined up for the stables he just told her that we had paid till the end of the month & so were using the stables as storage, he moved the very last items very late on the last evening of our notice period...
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Yep, I would do this
 
I wondered though from the OP whether the horse has been sold? In those circumstances I've found yards do not hold to the notice period?
 
Horserider in your case I would not have been forced into doing that. If the yard owner wanted it next day they should have cleaned it. Or I would have said I would be back Monday to clear it ready for another. You haf paid after all.
 
SonnysHumanSlave said:
Do you think its fair that having handed in notice at yard, YO has changed me another 4 weeks livery at Full whack full livery AND got another livery coming in a few hours after I move my horse to have my stable!

Is this what yards normally do?
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No personally I don't think its fair if they have another livery. If they are charging you rent and services for the rest of the month than you are entitiled to receive those rent and services. Presumably full livery comes with food and bedding etc so this should still be supplied to you and the stable should be yours to use. What you do though, depends on how much you like you're YO's and how much you want to kick up a fuss.

Have you tried talking to them about it?
 
What a cheek.

I have been a livery customer and a livery yard owner. I hate both ends of the stick.

Thank god neither are anything I have to put up with anymore.

Use your stable as storage until notice period is up. Although if I was YO and had another livery coming in I would have refunded your notice period.
Have you left on good terms, if not then this usually explains situations like this.
 
SonnysHumanSlave said:
Do you think its fair that having handed in notice at yard, YO has changed me another 4 weeks livery at Full whack full livery AND got another livery coming in a few hours after I move my horse to have my stable!

Is this what yards normally do?
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Have you sold the horse or are you moving it??
 
tankgirl1 said:
Just use it for storage of something - it's your space and you have paid for it for another month ;)
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I rent out a couple of flats if a tenant wants to exit there contract early, I normally have no issue with this. If I manage to re let the property prior to the end of the months notice. I would always refund the difference.Providing the tenant has been polite and kept to there obligations.
I would would speak to the YO and ask if they intend to refund you the difference as they have re let the box. If they say no then I would do the above ^^^^^
 
You could have left and the livery YO not find a new livery for months. The decision was made to move before the notice was up, you could stay or you could get on with your move. Your contract will involve anotice period. What the YO does with the stable after you have gone is up to them, why not cash in on the situation, it could have been empty for months. It's not like there is billions of £ in doing livery so I'd cut them some slack personally
 
Paying full livery costs is a bit harsh though, as said previously this involves feed/bedding and those you definatly wont be using so if i was you I would try and speak to them and pay for the stables only..if they wont budge then I would 'store' things in the stables that youve paid for..:confused:
 
I get your point but why make life tricky for the YO when you could be back on their doorstep desperate for a yard in future? If I didn't want to lose the benefit of money already paid then I wouldn't move till the end of the notice period.
 
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