musical comedy wrote:Why do you not want a roof or a covered arena?
A large part of the joy of riding for me is being outside, even in the middle of the winter. In 30+ years, I've only ridden in 2 indoors that didn't feel extremely claustrophobic and weren't dank or dusty — and that's including at some high-end farms ($2000+/month board). I'd rather have a field to ride in (and have done so at one barn) than ride in an indoor.
As for the bathrooms at the 4 acre farm — those clawfoot tubs were one of the positives of that house!
). That said, my property is nicer, and certainly much bigger, and I have the indoor. I would hope I could sell for the $575 figure IF I wanted to sell, but who knows. I'm glad I'm assessed low, because the assessor didn't seen the indoor as the value I do and then the land is farmland assessed.
I probably oughta replace my brown horses with palominos, though, before I move in....hmm.... Plus it looks like they've done a thoughtful job with updating a 1700s (!!!!) house, and I LOOOOOOVE those wide-plank floors. It looks like you could make a guest apartment out of that living space by the horses. There's a man-cave. The horse area looks pretty thoughtfully laid out. It says there's 30 miles of trail very close by, and that would be a dream for me. 
I didn't cave to my obsession with yellow when putting my house together, and I frequently get "do you want to sell your house?" notes in my mailbox, so I couldn't have done too bad, at least as far as curb appeal. MC is gonna gut my house when she buys it, though 
