Sun Runner Stables
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Okay warning you now, long and complicated.
We bought our barn in 2002, right after 9/11. It came with a girl who had been taking care of the barn for the previous owner, and she stayed on. Loved her, but of course, she meets a boy and up and moves to Canada. (Miss her!!) Before she moves, while I am in Europe, she asks my mother (who co-owns the barn with me) if Her friend/mentor can come stay in our barn for a special reduced rate, as should would help out. She calls me in France, and we agree. It's suppose to be short term, but we all know how that goes. She has 3 horses, a stallion, who's good, but still a big stallion, a mare and a gelding. We have almost No baorders, and everythings lovely for a long while. When I get home from Europe, my original girl leaves for Canada, leaving her 1 old horse here with us, with a seperate bank account for said horse, and the friend in charge of paying his board every month, and taking care of his feed/feet/ver bills. There was a substantial amount of money in the account for the horse...
After the my orginal friend leaves, the barn starts to decline as far as grass and ant care, etc. The second friend is suppose to keep up, but does not. Eventually, do to my busy scedule, I end up trading her barn care of my horses, feeding, turn out, and occasionally stalls, for 1/2 her board. (I had 5 big horses at the time, and 4 minis, who never got moved.) Due to problems with my mothers help, and a need to still make money over the summer, I moved my horses from my barn to the barn I agreed to teach Camp at. All my horses, except for 1 rescue.
The second friend agrees to take care of the rescue for a month, and feeds my mothers dogs, and bird, and then only takes care of her horses. Her stallion leaves and goes to a new home. (The farm had neither myself or my mother there at this time.) This goes on for 3 months, then my mother comes home. The friend was offered money for taking care of the animals, and accepted.
The farm is a WRECK! Fences down, the barns dirty and coverd in cob-webs, the rings are all grass, and so on. I move home about 2 months after my mother did, with my then 2 horses. I immediatly start cleaning up the barn, fix fences and so forth. Our tack room looks like a tack store exploded in there,along with 1/2 the spiders and dirt in florida, so two of my students and I spend a whole DAY cleaning it out. ( I gave them free lessons for a month Each, worth about $180 bucks apiece, it was That Bad. ALmost ALL of it was this persons junk. She now takes up 1/4 of the tack room, 1/3 the bathroom, and part of one of her ponies stalls, and She Does Not Even Ride!!!
I then find out that said friend has Not paid board on any of her horses OR my canadian's friends horse since the last years hurricane. Plus she hasn't taken care of the barn at All, or cleaned my mothers house. (Another thing we had her do when she couldn't pay her board.) At this point I am livid, and realise that she has been taking advantage of my mothers health to her own benifit. I quickly route up my mom, have a come to jesus meeting with her, and she talks to said friend. She gives sob story, (one is ture, her Mare who was prone to colic, coliced and died on her way out of the state, running from Wilma...the money situation...well after quiting several jobs because her good for nothing boyfrind didn't like her working there, and living off of the 1st friends bank account, along with her ailing mothers monetary help...
) and promises to start paying. I am satisfied for a week. In the mean time, I have moved a few more lesson horses home, and a few minis, and a few horses leave.
Said friend then dedcides she needs to bring her stallion back, and demands that he needs a stall, and after having had one accidential pregency on my farm, I agree. But only for a week. I now have to kick out one of my <Money Making> school horses to accomadate her. But hey it's for one week, right? Wrong. Finally, I ask her when he is leaving, and she snipliy tells me, not for awhile. AWHILE??? My horse is outside. As time has gone on, I have been asking her to turn out my horses when she feeds. (About 5 times a week, usually AM when I am at school. I have a total of 4 horses on the property that need to be moved around. She has 5 there now, and another boarder has 3. ) This takes about 10 min total, as all are easy going school ponies, and paddocks are close together. (I know if I owed somone thousands of dollars, I would sure be happy to do little things to help catch up!)
Well 2 days ago, she calls me up as I am pulling into the barn, and starts SCREAMING in my ear about how dare I ask her to move my horses around, she has a deal with my mother, not me, and I have just dropped these horses off for her and the rest of the poor barn boarders to deal with, and stoutly denies that she owes my mother the amount of back board that she does, said that
"All her Hard work made up for it" Right..... There's more, but I'll stop there. She then goes on to say, well the other girls are right here, talk to them. I talk to them, and they say they just needed more help to blanket in the evenings, and were hoping pne of the older students could help out. Not a problem, and I am happy to oblige. Furhermore They are paying boarders, and not supposed to work off board, they are just helping, and get free lessons or use of my horses in return. They then go on to complain about the Other one, A) for putting words in their mouth, and B) for being rude to not only them, but Students who ride with both of us.
Now here's the glitch. Do I kick this person out NOW like everyone is screaming at me, Or wait for her to move to Georgia, which is imminent? (This is my mothers way, as she Hates to be tough, and this person had been a friend before she started to take advantage of her friendship.) She has not yet apologised, (but will wave merrily from her truck at me in passing..
) and I am replacing her feeding duties with a paid staff memeber. She was my mothers friend, and did take care of her animals while she was ill, but I think it's Really gone to far.... Thoughts?? (I would love to put her and her stuff on the corner this evening if I could, but my mom owns half the barn, and so I need to do it politly, should we wait??)
We bought our barn in 2002, right after 9/11. It came with a girl who had been taking care of the barn for the previous owner, and she stayed on. Loved her, but of course, she meets a boy and up and moves to Canada. (Miss her!!) Before she moves, while I am in Europe, she asks my mother (who co-owns the barn with me) if Her friend/mentor can come stay in our barn for a special reduced rate, as should would help out. She calls me in France, and we agree. It's suppose to be short term, but we all know how that goes. She has 3 horses, a stallion, who's good, but still a big stallion, a mare and a gelding. We have almost No baorders, and everythings lovely for a long while. When I get home from Europe, my original girl leaves for Canada, leaving her 1 old horse here with us, with a seperate bank account for said horse, and the friend in charge of paying his board every month, and taking care of his feed/feet/ver bills. There was a substantial amount of money in the account for the horse...
After the my orginal friend leaves, the barn starts to decline as far as grass and ant care, etc. The second friend is suppose to keep up, but does not. Eventually, do to my busy scedule, I end up trading her barn care of my horses, feeding, turn out, and occasionally stalls, for 1/2 her board. (I had 5 big horses at the time, and 4 minis, who never got moved.) Due to problems with my mothers help, and a need to still make money over the summer, I moved my horses from my barn to the barn I agreed to teach Camp at. All my horses, except for 1 rescue.
The second friend agrees to take care of the rescue for a month, and feeds my mothers dogs, and bird, and then only takes care of her horses. Her stallion leaves and goes to a new home. (The farm had neither myself or my mother there at this time.) This goes on for 3 months, then my mother comes home. The friend was offered money for taking care of the animals, and accepted.
The farm is a WRECK! Fences down, the barns dirty and coverd in cob-webs, the rings are all grass, and so on. I move home about 2 months after my mother did, with my then 2 horses. I immediatly start cleaning up the barn, fix fences and so forth. Our tack room looks like a tack store exploded in there,along with 1/2 the spiders and dirt in florida, so two of my students and I spend a whole DAY cleaning it out. ( I gave them free lessons for a month Each, worth about $180 bucks apiece, it was That Bad. ALmost ALL of it was this persons junk. She now takes up 1/4 of the tack room, 1/3 the bathroom, and part of one of her ponies stalls, and She Does Not Even Ride!!!
I then find out that said friend has Not paid board on any of her horses OR my canadian's friends horse since the last years hurricane. Plus she hasn't taken care of the barn at All, or cleaned my mothers house. (Another thing we had her do when she couldn't pay her board.) At this point I am livid, and realise that she has been taking advantage of my mothers health to her own benifit. I quickly route up my mom, have a come to jesus meeting with her, and she talks to said friend. She gives sob story, (one is ture, her Mare who was prone to colic, coliced and died on her way out of the state, running from Wilma...the money situation...well after quiting several jobs because her good for nothing boyfrind didn't like her working there, and living off of the 1st friends bank account, along with her ailing mothers monetary help...
Said friend then dedcides she needs to bring her stallion back, and demands that he needs a stall, and after having had one accidential pregency on my farm, I agree. But only for a week. I now have to kick out one of my <Money Making> school horses to accomadate her. But hey it's for one week, right? Wrong. Finally, I ask her when he is leaving, and she snipliy tells me, not for awhile. AWHILE??? My horse is outside. As time has gone on, I have been asking her to turn out my horses when she feeds. (About 5 times a week, usually AM when I am at school. I have a total of 4 horses on the property that need to be moved around. She has 5 there now, and another boarder has 3. ) This takes about 10 min total, as all are easy going school ponies, and paddocks are close together. (I know if I owed somone thousands of dollars, I would sure be happy to do little things to help catch up!)
Well 2 days ago, she calls me up as I am pulling into the barn, and starts SCREAMING in my ear about how dare I ask her to move my horses around, she has a deal with my mother, not me, and I have just dropped these horses off for her and the rest of the poor barn boarders to deal with, and stoutly denies that she owes my mother the amount of back board that she does, said that
"All her Hard work made up for it" Right..... There's more, but I'll stop there. She then goes on to say, well the other girls are right here, talk to them. I talk to them, and they say they just needed more help to blanket in the evenings, and were hoping pne of the older students could help out. Not a problem, and I am happy to oblige. Furhermore They are paying boarders, and not supposed to work off board, they are just helping, and get free lessons or use of my horses in return. They then go on to complain about the Other one, A) for putting words in their mouth, and B) for being rude to not only them, but Students who ride with both of us.
Now here's the glitch. Do I kick this person out NOW like everyone is screaming at me, Or wait for her to move to Georgia, which is imminent? (This is my mothers way, as she Hates to be tough, and this person had been a friend before she started to take advantage of her friendship.) She has not yet apologised, (but will wave merrily from her truck at me in passing..
