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#ed_op#/DIV#ed_cl##ed_op#DIV#ed_cl# #ed_op#/DIV#ed_cl##ed_op#DIV#ed_cl#Are there other ways to live?#ed_op#IMG src="http://forums.equestrianconnection.com/richedit/smileys/Teasing/12.gif"#ed_cl##ed_op#/DIV#ed_cl##ed_op#DIV#ed_cl#I'm not quite sure from your original post if the owner is actively trying to sell or if you are just hoping to buy?#ed_op#/DIV#ed_cl##ed_op#DIV#ed_cl#If as Patricia says, this horse was standing in a field doing nothing and you have made him worth something then I really feel the owner should cut you a deal, and also consider payments.#ed_op#/DIV#ed_cl##ed_op#DIV#ed_cl#How many hours a week do you work to pay off his board?#ed_op#/DIV#ed_cl##ed_op#DIV#ed_cl#Personally I would not buy the horse if it means moving him to a place that you won't be able to ride all winter, unless you fear he will go through an auction, then by all means save him if you love him. The reason I say this is that it is obvious you are strapped for cash, and there is little point in working all sorts of hours not to be able to ride.#ed_op#/DIV#ed_cl##ed_op#DIV#ed_cl#I agree about the not showing until you can afford it, showing is fun and I certainly leave myself short to do it, but at 36 I don't know how much longer I'll have the nerve to ride the big bouncy warmbloods, so I like to make the most of each year, but at 16 you have many years ahead of you to show. God willing.#ed_op#/DIV#ed_cl##ed_op#DIV#ed_cl#Giddy Up works at Tim Horton's and says they have flexible hours so that might be an option. When I was 17 and bought my first horse (who was only $400 - like you I had been riding this horse for a year already so her owner let me have her for a fair bit less than what he was asking) I worked off her board by working weekends at the barn and also worked at a grocery store. When I was in college I moved her to a place with no arena, worked off half her board, worked one or two mornings a week at another farm for cash, dealt blackjack part-time and cleaned Draygonfyne's parent's office. All that and still maintained an average that was well into the 90's. I also had a couple of nasty student loans, and will readily admit that I could have graduated pretty well debt-free if I hadn't kept her, but who wants a 15 yo psychotic 14.1hh Morgan with sesamoiditis? The meat man, and that wasn't going to happen, so I stick by my decision, but if she had been a saleable or leasable horse I probably would have looked at going through college without her.#ed_op#/DIV#ed_cl##ed_op#DIV#ed_cl#You just need to make sure that you can balance school and work, yet still have time to ride, otherwise you'll be stretching yourself thin for nothing.#ed_op#/DIV#ed_cl##ed_op#DIV#ed_cl##ed_op#/DIV#ed_cl#Pretty_Pony72 wrote:#ed_op#DIV#ed_cl# #ed_op#/DIV#ed_cl##ed_op#DIV#ed_cl#Do you really want to spend the rest of your life working up to pay for your horses??
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