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[RC] need advice on problems with boarding facility owner - Laney Humphrey

I'm looking for advice of resolving problems with the person who owns and runs the boarding facility where my horse lives. The overall problem is that he is not only not a horseperson, he also has no experience in running a business. I was among the first boarders when he opened 2 years ago. He asked us to sign a boarding agreement/liability waiver which was fine except that the one he offered was incomplete so I drafted a better one which he accepted. (I based it on ones used at other local facilities plus examples I found on the web.)
He has always made it clear that he offers a no frills place. He offers 3/4 acre paddocks, feed 2x day and that's about it. The boarding agreement specifies that there will be no more than 3 horses per paddock and that he will feed oat and alfalfa hay. (I live in California by the way.)
Here are the problems:
1. he continually switches hays because he buys it weekly instead of laying in several months' supply. Most of the horses now have loose poops.
2. he isn't keeping up with needed repairs. The pipe to the automatic waterer that sits between 2 paddocks (serving 6 horses) has been broken since Sat. He solution has been to run a hose out to the tank instead of fixing the pipe.
3. he expanded from 15 horses to 24 during the summer. The dividing fence between adjoining pastures is 2 hot wire tapes. Oddly, the horses in the original paddocks have never challenged it, probably because the tapes were originally hot. But he's never been able to keep the entire system working and none of the tapes have been hot for months. The horses in the new paddocks have torn the tapes down and they are lying on the ground since he won't even pick them up. One boarder put in his own hot wire which works fine.
4. he told a boarder who wants to move his horse into one of the paddocks where the hot wire doesn't work that he would have to put in his own fence if he put his horse there!
5. he told a boarder she could put a 4th horse in one paddock (the other owners objected & it didn't happen.)


Sorry this has gotten long! To sum up, does anyone have any ideas about how we can "encourage" him to comply with the agreement that he signed? None of us want to move and we don't want to start a war with him but it's gotten to the point that we are considering buying (& possibly feeding) our own hay just so we can get some consistency. And I'm about to call a plumber to get the pipe fixed.

Thanks a bunch!
Laney
        

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