Aibu to make my 'friend' move her horse from my field?

[lonelylou09]

Hi mum's netter.. Advice appreciated please.
5 year ago I was lucky enough to take over a field near my house for my horse. I was sharing with someone and then she moved so my best friend talked me into letting her put her horse in the field too.
To cut a long story short I was reluctant as she is very lazy and very tight with money even though she is much more well off than me financially. But she promised to pay her way and pull her weight.
So for 3 years it was just as if expected, with me doing all the work with both the field and the horses and also always having to chase her for money.
So last year I sold my horse and agreed that she could use the field for a year while it was still under my name. She paid the rent to the landlord in advance and moved a mutual friends horse in.
She knew I was devastated over selling my horse and I thought she would let me help out with hers as and when like I had before. I said to her that I would like some form of payment for items is bought but couldn't sell because her horse was using them... Fencing, watering equipment, gates ect.
She said she'd discuss it with her husband and let me know.
So a year down the line and she's not spoken to me once since the day my horse was sold, her husband has badgered me everytime I've seen him to sign the contract over to them while telling me they won't give me any money for any of my things as they are worthless or they have broken them anyway. The mutual friend who moved her horse in unfriended me at the same time and hasn't spoken to me since.
So... Am I being unreasonable to give them both their marching orders?!!
I wish to buy another horse and be in my field without people there how don't speak to me, don't look after their horses and will be a pain in the arse to get the money out of...
I've got other horse friends who will pay me that are no problem so it then won't cost me anything for my horse.
She has technically one week left that she has paid for even though she still owes me money from before.
Just wondering how others view this situation and how to go about telling her to sling her horses somewhere else.
Ta

Good plan, let us know how it all goes :)

Good plan, OP.

And if the EA is happy with your proposal you can use that to bin off Mr and Mrs CF - "Landlord not happy about the land not being maintained, my responsibility to put it right, you had your chance, do one"

Good luck!

Are you a member of the BHS? They have a great legal team that can give specialist advice on things like this.

Good plan OP. I particularly liked BingleBong's wording and timing.

How did it go at the estate agents OP?

Good luck UP

good grief.. I mean OP..not UP lol

*I'd be inclined to pay someone to transport the horses to a horse rescue charity at an extreme.

At the other end of the scale, when they next turn up I would be waiting with a hose pipe on jet and I'd blast the fuckers with it until they and their horses were out of the field.*

Tork what on earth is wrong with you?

Hope it goes well OP.

Update so far.. Nothing too exciting sadly.
I've emailed estate agent asking to renew contract, stated work and improvements previously done and also stated that I'm Inbetween horses at the moment so intend to get my sharer to remove her horse for a rest period so I can crack on with the work and any repairs needed. Waiting for a response. Hoping it comes before the 1st as if I am going to serve a month's notice I'd like to know it's going to be worth it.
Fingers crossed

Is the land owner not furious that you’ve given his land to some random person who has trashed it and padlocked it?? Jfc. I would be suing you/boiling with rage (if I owned a field, and chose to rent it out, risking £10,000s)

Maybe try reading the OP’s comments before you rush of to Judge Rinder.

I did, thanks.

Even if she does fix the damage herself, the owner can’t trust that their property won’t be padlocked and trashed again if it’s kept by this tenant. Obviously the OPs choice of ‘friend’ is a disaster, but that’s all her choice, her problem, and her who will be legally liable for fixing the destruction of the land and fences etc.

Have you contacted the “friend” yet?

Just remember that you don’t actually have to give her an excuse or reason. Just say it’s not convenient anymore and to move by the end of the month. You don’t owe them anything, so who cares if they are upset or not?

Give them a months notice stating you are getting a new horse and will be sharing field with another friend with horse.

You put a lot of money into a field that wasn't yours? More fool you.
Horse field equipment like electric tape, posts, buckets is worthless. So forget clawing that back.
Walk away with your sanity and money. The horsey world is notorious for this sort of behavior, you haven't got a horse so you don't need it. Move on.

Have to agree with PP, if you don't have a horse right now, why bother renewing the tenancy? Why wouldn't you be better just letting the tenancy lapse and finding another field when you are ready for another horse?

good luck OP

Good luck

@Electrical
In reply to your comments.. Hardly the situation at all. When I got the field there was no fencing down one side, no gates, no water. The old fencing on one side had been replaced.. The old fencing had been ripped out and left in piles over grown with weeds which I spent weeks sorting out.
As it was next to a gypsy field it was completely over run with ragwort which for the first few years took me weeks every summer to sort out. Leaving the field in this condition as it was when I took it over could of resulted in the landlord being taken to court and fined by defra for allowing weeds to grow and spread on to neighbouring land. - now it takes a couple of days of pulling at most.
Yes prehaps more fool me for spending my time and money this way but it was still cheaper than private livery and at the time I didn't drive and live very rural where public transport is hardly existant.
I actually enjoy working the land by hand, doing it naturally with the horses watching on.
My friend had shared the field with me for 3 years as was agreed in my contract I might add. I haven't made any money from this.
Any damage to fencing has been to fence posts I'd bought and installed myself, not the landlords fencing.
Damage caused to the land can be sorted.. I know farmers who will sort that out for me no problem.
Yes my choice of friends is crap.. But people change and its when you stop being of use to them that you see their true colours.
As for them putting a new lock on the gate.. I have bolt cutters and its my gate.. There was nothing on either of the 2 gateways to the field when I got it so the landlord was hardly looking after his own land

@ChequerBoard as I've previously said this land is right at the end of my road, 2 minutes walk so I'm always able to check on and get to the horses quickly, it also comes in handy for bringing them through into the back garden for Bath times.
I've worked very hard to improve the land and I'm proud of that. Yes I made a stupid decision last year but I have paid for this year's rent and I want to get another horse.
Why would I want to be struggling to find somewhere to put a horse, miles away from my home and pay ten times what I'm paying now? Makes no sense.
Grazing is very scarce where I live. Farmers don't want horses on their land and livery is also hard to come by and expensive... Hence my so called friends being so keen to have the field for themselves

Have you given your “friends” notice yet?

How are you OP.. has you lease been renewed ?

Hoping you’ve managed to get your field back.

Hope you’ve given them notice!