Parelli FL campus being closed/Sold

CoolsLadyInRed · Parelli FL campus being closed/Sold

Saw this on FB. sounds like they are cutting costs as the rest of the country is.

Copious_Amour

becdubie

Well, just like everybody else...they have to cut back. Smart move to keep the company going. Perhaps they will be able to travel to different places to teach during the CO winter....who knows...something really good could come out of this.

AlythLong

It's a bad time to be forced to sell/close......

CoolsLadyInRed

PasoBaby_CarolU

If it's like here, the $million properties are still selling like hot cakes...lots of millionaires making tons of profits. It's the mid and low price homes that are devalued and not selling. NBC said last night that it might be two years before housing prices stop falling and return to first QTR THIS year prices.

As for Parelli, Inc., they started in Pagosa and that is probably paid for. Before they bought the Ocala property they did Tour Stops in the winter, so maybe they'll go back to the old system.

The horse market sure is taking a hit.

Sunny

karmikacres

cynthia peterson

Well, wait a minute. "Are selling"- does that mean put up for sale, gonna' take a special buyer for that property with deep pockets. Or already sold, repossesed? What exactly does that mean as there are still having some courses there? Linda's contact game for instance. So maybe it's not curtains yet.

becdubie

Just got this in email....hope you can view it and get all the info coming straight from the horses mouths.
http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/...mp;id=a2ca3b5446&e=15afc7afdd

cynthia peterson

After doing some research, it seems two things Parelli said in the news release do seem to be true. First, more level graduates do seem to be foreign. Secondly, the wording that it was getting to be increasingly hard to maintain both centers. According to research on County Board Meeting in on the Florida Property, they were not received there with open arms (unlike Pagosa that wanted them so bad they gave them tax incentives and Colorado gave them funds for each person they employed,) Statements from the board meeting say the new center was built in a floodplain and "not consistent with pristine horse farms" around it. They put restrictions on amount of people there at open time, objected to "open fires" "parsailing (Pat's hobby)" Noise, traffic, "dude ranch atmosphere" "not a horse training facility b/c trainers don't charge $5000 a month (actually it's $5000 for 5 weeks, but that is what there zoning was for, training facility),etc. It seems Mark had to do some battling, and lost a few times. The fancy "pristine farm" neighbors must have been a drain on Mark.

PasoBaby_CarolU

That's interesting Cynthia. I have been to Ocala, but not to the Center there. I knew that flooding there was an issue. I know a couple of their neighbors and had a grand week visiting different Paso Fino farms in the area. A lot of the farms I visited though were not beautiful, landscaped haciendas, but regular horse training, boarding, and breeding farms.

I have been to the Pagosa ranch several times. Other then the weather, it is probably one of the prettiest places I have ever been, and the atmosphere there for learning and enjoying your horses is probably my very favorite.

I know people in Florida who aren't too happy to see Ocala close. Sad, but life goes on.

cynthia peterson

Another interesting County Board restriction was they could only have a active business there in those winter months (Nov. to April.) Odd.