Peter Lohmann and his mom discuss what happens when a horse owner stops paying boarding fees. Unlike evicting a tenant, the law requires the farm to publish a newspaper notice and hold an auction on-site. The facility has to keep feeding the horse the whole time.
So I've been dying to ask you this. In terms of non-payment of boarders, have you ever had to evict a horse?
You don't evict a horse. What happens with that is there's a legal process and the horse gets put up for auction. And you have to— this is actually, this is legally how you do it. It's a little different than how you evict your people.
Cause you can't just let the horse—
turn them loose on the city streets. Back when I had to do this, you ran an ad in the newspaper saying that this horse was going to be auctioned off on this day. I would auction at your farm. For nonpayment of board.
This is unbelievable. I never really thought through the logistics of like if someone just stops paying for their horse at your farm, you're paying still to feed it and everything and you can't— I mean, unless you know where they live, I guess you could drive it over and drop it off at their house or something.
It really only happened to me once, but it's a very common problem. And now that newspapers are passé, I don't know what you do, but you run this one-liner in the newspaper that nobody actually reads, but you've legally said that this horse is for sale for nonpayment of board and you send a certified letter to the owner saying that they haven't paid their board. And so how many days? And so the horse is now for sale. And I did take ownership of a horse that way.
