- Location
- East Sussex
Another simple don’t answer here. I suppose if you get the ideal tenant then at least they could look after your own while you’re away. Don’t give an inch ……… not even an eighth
Horse Liveries - Do's and Don'ts
- Thread starter Juggler
- Start date
Princess Pooper
Member
- Location
- East Mids
Planning permission, as mentioned above,
You will then fall into business rates but you should get rates relief so not need to pay anything.
Insurance
Make sure you have some fire extinguishers & clear instructions.
Set yard rules - smoking, kids, poo picking, litter etc.
You need to be able to call vet if a genuine emergency and can't get hold of owners
Passports as security
Direct debit - definitely
Loo and somewhere to wash hands, possibly mess room where they can clean tack, have a cuppa etc.
Make sure you have decent security especially with trailers/horse boxes/tack on site.
If they are coming from another yard, try and get the back story of why they are leaving.
ANY extras on top of what is in your agreed 'offer' make sure you charge properly for them (eg if they go on holiday).
It's more about managing people than horses.
Good luck
You will then fall into business rates but you should get rates relief so not need to pay anything.
Insurance
Make sure you have some fire extinguishers & clear instructions.
Set yard rules - smoking, kids, poo picking, litter etc.
You need to be able to call vet if a genuine emergency and can't get hold of owners
Passports as security
Direct debit - definitely
Loo and somewhere to wash hands, possibly mess room where they can clean tack, have a cuppa etc.
Make sure you have decent security especially with trailers/horse boxes/tack on site.
If they are coming from another yard, try and get the back story of why they are leaving.
ANY extras on top of what is in your agreed 'offer' make sure you charge properly for them (eg if they go on holiday).
It's more about managing people than horses.
Good luck
ollie989898
Member
The up front £200 deposit should sort the wheat from the chaff. Lot of horsey folk pick up charity cases and can't afford to keep any horses, much less multiples thereof. A sizeable deposit keeps away those in the payday lender category.
serf
Member
- Location
- warwickshire
That's what lasagners are for ....
ollie989898
Member
Loo and rec room with kettle is useful. I agree farm security will have to be beefed up, CCTV covering the entrance and good locked rooms for tack is a good idea.
Proper gate to lock the site off at night may also be useful but it will have to be substantial (i.e resist ramming or battery angle grinders).
Proper gate to lock the site off at night may also be useful but it will have to be substantial (i.e resist ramming or battery angle grinders).
M-J-G
Member
Your place isn't your own once you have liveries, as said above it's not the horses, and in most cases it's not the owners but the owners dodgy boyfriends or cousins etc. knowing where you keep your bike, trailer or power tools.
We used to do liveries on a reasonable scale and it has it headaches, and I'm happy that now I don't have them and when I leave the yard there aren't other people about the place.
Also, beware of the rates man, it's not farming.
We used to do liveries on a reasonable scale and it has it headaches, and I'm happy that now I don't have them and when I leave the yard there aren't other people about the place.
Also, beware of the rates man, it's not farming.
DeeGee
Member
- Location
- North East Wales
Rule one strictly no dogs.
£200 deposit refundable when they leave providing everything is tidy and that they have taken all their ‘possessions’.
Make a list of written rules and make everyone read and sign a copy.
Livery payment a month in advance on the first of every calendar month.
£200 deposit refundable when they leave providing everything is tidy and that they have taken all their ‘possessions’.
Make a list of written rules and make everyone read and sign a copy.
Livery payment a month in advance on the first of every calendar month.
Greythundercloudys
Member
Don't have a. Affair with a 20 year old horsie girl for a start. Most around hear have and all ended in disaster.
DeeGee
Member
- Location
- North East Wales
Don’t have an affair with a twenty year old horse either.
- Location
- South Lanarkshire
What could possibly go wrong
When I started ours I made a vow to myself I wouldnt do that, even after I got divorced and one girl (not that different in age to me and divorced) made it plain she was up for it and although single I avoided her and was glad I did as some time after she got behind with her rent and I asked her to leave, can just imagine what she would have said to the other girls. Never worth the agro
Exfarmer
Member
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
I have posted elsewhere of a certain farmer who was caught collecting the rent one day. Cost him the farm !Just don’t get caught, where you should not be
- Location
- South west
Some really good advice above. But the insistence of direct debit is a good one, will make the bad payers and those that go from yard to yard think!
a lot always bang on about how much they want an arena at a yard...put one in and they don’t blinking use it! Then the excuses for not riding start.... oh he’s lame...waiting for saddle fitter.. he’s teeth need doing, i could carry on!!
What might work is one owner with 2, can be a lot less hassle than multiple owners at your place at the same time!
a lot always bang on about how much they want an arena at a yard...put one in and they don’t blinking use it! Then the excuses for not riding start.... oh he’s lame...waiting for saddle fitter.. he’s teeth need doing, i could carry on!!
What might work is one owner with 2, can be a lot less hassle than multiple owners at your place at the same time!
serf
Member
- Location
- warwickshire
Yep fit birds only .....
- Location
- Wormingford, Essex
I know of one who was caught with a 'tenant' who he then married after divorcing, then new wife caught him with another.
- Location
- Portsmouth
Take a bigger deposit than £200.
We take three months. It's great for eliminating those that can't really afford to have a horse. It's also enough to actually mean they give a sh!t about leaving on good terms etc
We also insist of strangles tests, vaccinations up to date etc to reduce the chance of bringing something onto the yard.
The cost and administration involved in this helps sort the wheat from the chaff.
We take three months. It's great for eliminating those that can't really afford to have a horse. It's also enough to actually mean they give a sh!t about leaving on good terms etc
We also insist of strangles tests, vaccinations up to date etc to reduce the chance of bringing something onto the yard.
The cost and administration involved in this helps sort the wheat from the chaff.
- Location
- south norfolk
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AnyOldName
Member
- Location
- The Motor City
The horse could fall over dead inside the stable, then you’d have to figure out how to move it.