If someone gives you a bad check, but it has pictures of pretty horses and mountains on it, it's still BAD.

Cost of the second closing might not be a big issue, not sure of costs in your state.If you need investors NOW in order to make this deal work you may have gotten the horse before the cart.

hahaha. god, this place is funny.maybe you should have added a little more like, "no seriously. thats what it was. it was because his feet weren't being picked up and placed in front of each other, faster than the other horses. i saw the whole thing."

> Vendor discountsEspecially for those "one horse" operations where the handyman wants to get paid "right away", rather than allowing accounting to post payables in a batch, require an additional % discount for payments made in less than 10 days.

Get off your high horse Mike.

I also love horses, art - particularily oil paintings, camping and spending time with with my fiancee!

Our unemployment rate is also 1.1% below the US average, and we our the horse capital of the world

Just in my situation it would nearly be like putting the cart before the horse.

As a conservative, I don't have a horse in this race.

If you're outside the city in a McMansion in a subdivision on 1 acre lots, why aren't you in a rural McMansion outside the city on a 5-50 acre piece of land zoned agricultural, costing less in taxes and at the very least, leasing out horse boarding or commodity growing rights to another farmer?