What is the name of your state? COLORADO
We have been boarding our horse at a stable under a contract requiring 30 days notice of leaving. If we were to leave earlier, we would lose our $75 deposit. Since then we acquired 2 more horses, but were'nt required to sign any contract or make a deposit on those 2. Then the owner of the stable notified us that the stable had been sold, and he was relocating to a home off of the property. He said we could stay through summer 2005, per the development schedule (being leveled and homes built) and hoped that we would. Many of the boarders left at that time to find spaces elsewhere early, and to encourage us to stay, he lowered our board $100 per horse. We decided to stay. Then my husband lost his job in the summer of 2004, and we struggled to pay board, but did so. After selling my horse trailer to pay for part of the board, we decided to sell the first horse to completely pay off the final amount due on the board, which is $1,500. He called my husband four days ago and said that he is shutting down the stable early, and that we will have to leave along with most other horses. Yesterday we finally sold the first horse (we'd been trying for awhile), and called him to tell him that we had sold him and had the full amount of the board due for him. We asked him to please take the chains and locks off of the other 2 horses' stalls so that we can exercise them (it's not healthy for horses to not be able to exercise. He had said we "can't enjoy our horses at all if we are behind in the board", at the beginning of the chaining in the last couple of weeks). Now he says that he wants more than this amount, and wants to charge us an extra $150 for wood shavings, the last half of this month's board for the first horse which is gone ($200), and next month's board for all 3 horses at the original full price when we first arrived with the first horse (which would be an additional $975). Doesn't the stable closing void the contract about 30 days notice, and should we pay for something we haven't been using (shavings) because of the poor health condition of it? It's obvious whether a horse has shavings in their stall or not... we have been doing without. We seem to now be faced with cutting the locks off of our paid up horses, and trying to leave the property without this volatile man catching us and making a huge scene. He's also threatening to go to court, which is fine with us... we believe we've done everything required of us. We don't want a huge scene where he calls the police and says we're stealing horses (his by default if we had refused to pay board at all), and that we owe him these for future costs and unused shavings? We can have the items with us to show the police, such as the titles to the horses, and the money order receipt for the $1500 board balance. This man is extremely emotional, and for my husband and my young daughter's sake, I'm worried about something crazy happening at that time. Any help you can send this way---(asap!) will be greatly appreciated. Thankyou so much in advance!
We have been boarding our horse at a stable under a contract requiring 30 days notice of leaving. If we were to leave earlier, we would lose our $75 deposit. Since then we acquired 2 more horses, but were'nt required to sign any contract or make a deposit on those 2. Then the owner of the stable notified us that the stable had been sold, and he was relocating to a home off of the property. He said we could stay through summer 2005, per the development schedule (being leveled and homes built) and hoped that we would. Many of the boarders left at that time to find spaces elsewhere early, and to encourage us to stay, he lowered our board $100 per horse. We decided to stay. Then my husband lost his job in the summer of 2004, and we struggled to pay board, but did so. After selling my horse trailer to pay for part of the board, we decided to sell the first horse to completely pay off the final amount due on the board, which is $1,500. He called my husband four days ago and said that he is shutting down the stable early, and that we will have to leave along with most other horses. Yesterday we finally sold the first horse (we'd been trying for awhile), and called him to tell him that we had sold him and had the full amount of the board due for him. We asked him to please take the chains and locks off of the other 2 horses' stalls so that we can exercise them (it's not healthy for horses to not be able to exercise. He had said we "can't enjoy our horses at all if we are behind in the board", at the beginning of the chaining in the last couple of weeks). Now he says that he wants more than this amount, and wants to charge us an extra $150 for wood shavings, the last half of this month's board for the first horse which is gone ($200), and next month's board for all 3 horses at the original full price when we first arrived with the first horse (which would be an additional $975). Doesn't the stable closing void the contract about 30 days notice, and should we pay for something we haven't been using (shavings) because of the poor health condition of it? It's obvious whether a horse has shavings in their stall or not... we have been doing without. We seem to now be faced with cutting the locks off of our paid up horses, and trying to leave the property without this volatile man catching us and making a huge scene. He's also threatening to go to court, which is fine with us... we believe we've done everything required of us. We don't want a huge scene where he calls the police and says we're stealing horses (his by default if we had refused to pay board at all), and that we owe him these for future costs and unused shavings? We can have the items with us to show the police, such as the titles to the horses, and the money order receipt for the $1500 board balance. This man is extremely emotional, and for my husband and my young daughter's sake, I'm worried about something crazy happening at that time. Any help you can send this way---(asap!) will be greatly appreciated. Thankyou so much in advance!