General Question - How Long to Wait for a Response?

[S1969]

@2DogsFarm

All barns here are on private property - in that it is not land owned by the County.
But the lessons barns are all open to visitors*.
I visited several when looking to relocate my horses.

*Make that visitors with common sense and/or horse sense.
I.E. you don’t unload the school bus outside a barn without having made arrangements to visit.
But a single person can walk into the barn if inquiring about board or lessons, ask for the BO/BM & go from there.

Yes, you can walk into a barn without an appointment. I just wouldn’t recommend it. Call or text first and ask when it is a good time so that you make sure that they are expecting you and have time for you. As was said before, if the trainer is on a green horse or in the middle of a lesson, it isn’t the best time to just stroll down the aisle. You are interrupting.

[Spudsmyguy]

She got back to me on Saturday. She said after checking her schedule, she would be unable to accommodate me at times I am available for lessons. Back to square one.

S1969, I totally agree with you. I would never stop by and just walk in the barn. I did it once before and it ended well, but this was not a boarding or training facility, it was a woman’s property who had a lot of gorgeous unused pastures with shelters and an indoor. She was really nice and we had a good conversation and she’s now one of my friend even though she didn’t want boarders.

[wsmoak]

@Spudsmyguy

She said after checking her schedule, she would be unable to accommodate me at times I am available for lessons.

I feel your pain! The kids take all the good late afternoon lesson times!! The only reason I can take a weekly lesson is that I work from home and can block off Thursday afternoon from 12:30-3:30. I finish a meeting, sprint out of the house, fling lunch hay at the ponies, drive to the barn, hike to the far end of the pasture to retrieve lesson horse, get him reasonably clean and tacked up and hopefully make a 1:15pm lesson start.

[2DogsFarm]

ETA: saw your esponse @Spudsmyguy
Sorry this didn’t work as hoped.
But…

Can we agree to disagree?

OP had texted & not gotten a response.
Would you find texting one last time, saying you will stop by on a certain day/time objectionable?

It is possible to enter a barn & suss out if going farther inside would interrupt anything: lesson, training a greenie, whatever.
I’d hope OP could determine if waiting outside would be a better option.

[Spudsmyguy]

I know the trainer kind of abstractly. We used to know each other better when I trained with her best friend. She has a very good reputation locally and competes a lot with her group. Unfortunately, her friend that I trained with has gone in a different direction and no longer teaches lessons. That was a sad day for the eventing community.