Queens Realtors

what horse boarding facility has the biggest turnover for boarders?

I was at a facility where one owner Jim was a drunk who smoked like a crack head in the barn. And the other owner..we’ll just call her Victoria was an extreme Drama Queen who was always looking for a sugar daddy. Endless promises were made, money collected and owners Never followed through.. and to this day the other boarders don’t even know their facility is listed on Realtor\.com. What a joke! Everyone who has left has been on bad terms of course always the boarders fault but never actually looking at their own faults of mis-management and fraudulent use of money so graciously donated by their boarders.

In my over 40 years of boarding my horses out (A few of those years I was lucky to have my own place.). There are MANY reasons for turnovers, not just mismanagement.

In the years I had my small stable, some of the reasons for losing boarders were lack of payment (They skipped out owing me board), loss of finances (I had to actually find a buyer for one boarder’s horse and saddle.) then one boarder had her horse put down and so on and so on. Some stables, don’t feed per weight of a horse, they feed by the flake and charge extra if your horse happens to need more to get by. Those stables figure they will just replace the horses that move out with more horses. My old Azteca’s my barometer, he’s an easy keeper and if he starts losing weight then I know something’s wrong.

I used to have a horse who would tear your barn down if you didn’t feed him enough! He wasn’t cribbing or chewing, he’d just grab the side of his stall and pull! Then look at me, look at his feeder and grab the stall wall AGAIN! I got called on this by the barn owner and my comeback was “If you fed him enough, your barn would be intact!” He upped the gelding’s hay per feeding it was cheaper than replacing the plywood in his stall.

The Singing Realtor—Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” 5/22/2008