Marissa Brockette’s hobby farm in Shelbyville, Tenn., is an hour away from Nashville.
COURTESY MARISSA BROCKETTE
If you’re like many horse property owners around the country, suburban sprawl and increased development has made your neighbors these days less likely to be farmers and more likely to be folks unfamiliar with horses. This scenario can be tricky to navigate. But there are pros to living in closer proximity to others, and by taking some steps to be prepared, you can pave the way to good neighborly relationships.
THE PERKS
Living in the country away from lots of people has its benefits. But living among residential neighborhoods can also have merit.
Steve Archer and his wife Andrea live in Richmond, Texas, a town inside Houston—Texas’s biggest city, population 2.31 million. They’ve run their reining horse training operation from this location for close
to 30 years. Their place used to be surrounded by farmland, but today, their 10 acres are surrounded by subdivisions.