I went to visit our friend, Anna’s, barn and now I am spoiled, she has climate control in her barn and riding arena.
It was so nice and I absolutely enjoyed the visit.
However, after our 3 mornings were up I had to go back to my own home and our own barn! Anna and I both own barns, that is how we make our currency. We lease out stalls to owners. Depending on how much care you want to do yourself, our rates vary! My barn is not as classy or as up scale as Anna’s barn. Mine has all of the basics but we don’t have climate control in the barn or for the indoor riding arena. I asked Anna how much it cost her to get the heating and cooling installed and she said it was less than I would think. Then she provided me a number that I couldn’t believe. It was high however it wasn’t astronomically high. I absolutely do want climate control at our riding facility even though I am not sure that I’m ready for it yet. More importantly. I am not sure that our buyers are ready for climate control at our barn yet, I cater to a different crowd than Anna does. She has the dressage people and extreme competitors. I have more of the upper middle class and folks who have decided to buy a pony for their kids. I am still not cheap even though I charge a lot less than Anna does. However, I do wonder if I could begin changing that by changing little things at a time until our barn is high class too. I would begin with heated and cooled barns and riding arenas.