Home Page
   Articles
       links
About Us    
Traders        
Recipes            
Latest Articles
What's a fair price for 3 acres
Page Previous  1, 2, 3  Next
 
Post new topic   Reply to topic    Downsizer Forum Index -> Finance and Property
Author 
 Message
Rob R



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York
PostPosted: Fri Feb 25, 05 7:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

tahir wrote:
He's maintaining everything, the land's in appalling condition there's only one field which you could say looks grazeable. In my pinion it looks like he's had too many horses on there.


One is too many

tahir



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45389
Location: Essex
PostPosted: Fri Feb 25, 05 7:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

The whole place is ramshackle and on the verge of falling over, he's never spent a penny on it.

sean
Downsizer Moderator


Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42207
Location: North Devon
PostPosted: Fri Feb 25, 05 7:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Have you got any chance of getting him off completely?

tahir



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45389
Location: Essex
PostPosted: Fri Feb 25, 05 7:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

He's not interested, he says he wants to be there till he dies, and to be fair we won't even know he's there, the field that he's after are screened by a huge bank of conifers and have their own road access.

sean
Downsizer Moderator


Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42207
Location: North Devon
PostPosted: Fri Feb 25, 05 7:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

How old is he?

tahir



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45389
Location: Essex
PostPosted: Fri Feb 25, 05 8:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

In his 70s by the look of him

jema
Downsizer Moderator


Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28100
Location: escaped from Swindon
PostPosted: Fri Feb 25, 05 8:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

tahir wrote:
In his 70s by the look of him


So he is probably pretty unhappy with the uncertaintly that goes with a change

tahir



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45389
Location: Essex
PostPosted: Fri Feb 25, 05 8:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I think so, and most of his horses are in their 20's, he showed us a 30 year old this morning, so he doesn't want to move them

nettie



Joined: 02 Dec 2004
Posts: 5888
Location: Suffolk
PostPosted: Fri Feb 25, 05 9:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Sorry hun but that many horses on so little land will be unworkable unless they are all kept in and only let out a couple of hours a day. Not very nice if you're a horse. No wonder he was using the rest of the land.

Remember he will be getting money from the other liveries too, (unless they were paying the owner direct) at least £15 a week per horse, more if he is looking after them on behalf of the other owners.

You could easily charge in excess of £250 a month for the yard and grazing, (and that would be cheap) if the fencing was fixed up and the place tidied, although I suspect he has been paying nowhere near that amount. And I guess you'd feel a bit mean charging that much!

Jonnyboy



Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.
PostPosted: Fri Feb 25, 05 9:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

What would be the ethical way of dealing with this?

nettie



Joined: 02 Dec 2004
Posts: 5888
Location: Suffolk
PostPosted: Fri Feb 25, 05 9:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Depends whether you're talking about ethical for the bloke or ethical for the horses

Lloyd



Joined: 24 Jan 2005
Posts: 2699

PostPosted: Fri Feb 25, 05 10:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Sounds like far far too many horses are there, which in turn devalues the rentable value somewhat. As Nettie says, you ideally want one acre per horse with one spare acre perhorse.

Jonnyboy



Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.
PostPosted: Sat Feb 26, 05 8:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I assume that the horses must need extra feed brought in then if the land wont sustain them. It can't be too good for the soil.

What about of the guy departs this mortal coil, is Tahir then responsible for them?

Lloyd



Joined: 24 Jan 2005
Posts: 2699

PostPosted: Sat Feb 26, 05 9:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Now that really would be a pain, and an expensive one at that! old horses are high maintenance!

jema
Downsizer Moderator


Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28100
Location: escaped from Swindon
PostPosted: Sat Feb 26, 05 9:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Jonnyboy wrote:

What about of the guy departs this mortal coil, is Tahir then responsible for them?


Legally i'd assume not. But then this thread is not about legal obligations. But even ethically you cannot always run around grabbing responsibility for "other peoples problems"

Post new topic   Reply to topic    Downsizer Forum Index -> Finance and Property All times are GMT
Page Previous  1, 2, 3  Next
Page 2 of 3
View Latest Posts View Latest Posts

 

Archive
Powered by php-BB © 2001, 2005 php-BB Group
Style by marsjupiter.com, released under GNU (GNU/GPL) license.
Copyright © 2004 marsjupiter.com