BRBO — Barn Rentals By Owner — is the marketplace for horse boarding and barn rentals. A horse owner searches for a barn, applies with the horse’s records, and books, signs, and pays in one place; a barn owner lists stalls and reviews applications instead of fielding phone calls. The same account also books verified horse haulers, farm sitters, farriers, vet clinics, trainers, photographers, and show services. BRBO launches in full on December 1, 2026, starting in Ocala and Florida’s winter circuit — until then, the site is free and fully unlocked.

Use barn search: filter by location, board type (full board, partial board, self care), amenities, disciplines served, and stay terms (long term, seasonal, nightly). Boarding on BRBO is application-based — you apply with your horse’s profile, and its Coggins, health certificate, and vaccination records travel with the application automatically. The barn reviews and approves, the boarding contract is generated and e-signed, and your first payment is held by BRBO until your horse checks in, plus a 48-hour dispute window.

Posting your barn listing is free. The Farm service — $49/mo or $470/yr — adds stall counts and care levels, the availability calendar, and the applications inbox that unlocks your applicants, plus one featured boost a month, a quarterly market report, $35 background checks, and waived lease setup. Transaction rates: an 8% commission on initial bookings, and 3.9% payment processing on payments. Farm job postings are always free. Until the December 1, 2026 launch, everything is unlocked with no subscription.

A hauler completes a verification profile — USDOT number, MC authority number in active status, and insurance on file — then quotes trips and posts runs on a Spaces Available board: the rig’s total spaces, and how many are booked, held, and open on each run. Owners book by the space at the hauler’s per-space rate. The hauler keeps 100% of their quoted rate; the horse owner pays BRBO a booking fee of 10% of the quote (7% at 25+ bookings a month, 5% at 100+). The owner’s payment is held by BRBO until the haul begins, plus a 48-hour dispute window.

Each lists a bookable profile with its services and rates. Pick the service and a date on the profile and send the request; the provider confirms, and your payment is held by BRBO until the appointment, like every BRBO booking. Farriers carry a 5% booking fee charged to the provider — never added to the owner’s bill — and vet clinics carry no booking fee at all. Trainers list their services on their own profile, and clients can grant a trainer access to their horses on the same account.

BRBO fully launches on December 1, 2026. Until then the site is free and fully unlocked — every feature and application in full, no subscription needed. The launch region is Ocala and Central Florida, the heart of the winter circuit, and the marketplace already reaches well beyond Florida: barns, haulers, sitters, and workers list wherever they operate.

BRBO is based in Florida — the heart of the winter circuit — with barns, haulers, sitters, and workers across Central Florida and well beyond it.

No — one person, one account. You can't create or hold multiple accounts, not under a different email, a variation of your name, or a business name. You don't need to: one account can hold every role and service at once — owner, barn manager, hauler, sitter, trainer, organizer — and you add only the services you use. If you run more than one farm, that lives on the same account too: with a Trainer account you can list multiple farms under your single account, each farm as its own listing, instead of opening an account per farm. If BRBO finds duplicate accounts for the same person, they may be merged or closed, with listings and bookings moved to the account that remains.

Yes — if you have a Trainer account. Add the Trainer service ($29/mo or $278/yr) to your single BRBO account and you can list multiple farms under that one account, each farm as its own listing with its own stalls, rates, availability, and applications. One person still holds only one account — the Trainer account is what lets that one account carry more than one farm.

No. Boarding on BRBO is application-based by default: the Barn Manager/Owner reviews the owner, each horse, and each horse's documents, then approves or declines. Payment is only charged on approval — and it goes into the payment hold, releasing to the barn when the horse checks in, plus a 48-hour dispute window.

BRBO is one account with a separate subscription per service you add — you only pay for, and only see, the services on your account. The Farm service ($49/mo or $470/yr) adds your barn or stall-block listing, stall counts and care levels, availability calendar and applications inbox, and processing stays at 3.9% all-in, with one featured boost a month, a quarterly market report, $35 background checks, and waived lease setup included. Farm job postings sit outside the subscription entirely — posting, searching, applying, reviewing, and accepting are free for everybody. Standard transaction rates still apply: an 8% commission on initial bookings and monthly board processing. A farm-only account has no hauler, trainer or sitter fields in it at all.

Your base account is free — search, applications, messaging, and daily-digest alerts. The Horse Owner service ($9/mo or $86/yr) adds unlimited horse profiles with their records and care fields, sale & lease postings, instant alerts, expanded record storage, an 8% transport booking fee (instead of 10%), and Verified Horse Reports at $19. Add other services to the same account only if you use them — a Hauler service if you haul, a Trainer service if clients grant you their horses. Board itself is paid in the app by card or autopay on the barn's due date.

Barn Managers/Owners upload their own boarding agreement once and map its fields. When a horse is approved, BRBO auto-fills the contract with that horse's and the owner's information and routes it for e-signature by both parties. The executed copy is stored on the booking and the horse's profile. A platform default agreement is available for Barn Managers/Owners without their own.

Yes. If you lease a block of stalls — as a trainer, barn manager, or operator — you list as a Barn Manager/Owner and sublet that block on BRBO. Your block gets its own listing, availability toggle, per-type capacity and prices, and applications, independent of the property owner's own stalls.

By checking boxes — there is no box where you type out what you have. The farm profile is a structured checklist: round pen; arena with its surface (grass, sand, or fiber); jumps; the disciplines you serve; run-ins, tack room, feed room, and wash rack; trainer on site and whether outside trainers are allowed; board types — full board, partial board, and self care; housing — RV hookups (full or partial), apartment, room, and house; and stay terms — long term, seasonal, and nightly, with 53' big-rig fit and turnaround and driver lodging checked for overnight stops. What you offer is a multi-pick list — stalls, pasture board, housing, and RV hookups — and picking one opens just its dropdown: how many stalls (offered as a whole block, as individual stalls, or a mix), how many pasture spots, the housing details (home type — mobile home, single family, camper, or an RV already on a spot — plus bedrooms, bathrooms, square footage, parking, and how many it sleeps), and how many RV connections are on the property. Your number of turnouts is typed in. What you pick is exactly what boarders can filter by in barn search.

BRBO's show search finds the show — rodeos included, and every other competition you enter a horse in, from cutting, ranch sorting, and reining under Western to the rodeo events under Rodeo; registration still happens with the show or rodeo. Shows and rodeos are worldwide — search by continent, region, state / province, and city, plus name, venue, dates, discipline, or association — and each result carries two links: View show, to the show's official website, and Registration, straight to that show's own entry page on its official platform (HorseShowing.com, Show Management System, ShowGroundsLive, Equestrian Hub, EventEntries, and others), with the platform named on the result. BRBO links to the registrations, it doesn't replace them. From the same result you can also find boarding near the show, overnight stalls nearby, and haulers to get there.

Yes — that's part of registering. Every show result, and every one-tap entry packet, includes the tack stores and feed stores around that show's location: tap “Tack stores near this venue” or “Feed stores near this venue” on the show and you get the stores for that exact venue, each with its full address and its proximity — the distance from the show grounds — sorted nearest first on the map. It works for shows on any continent, not just in North America.

Members pick one of the horses under their membership profile on any show result and tap ⚡ One-tap register. BRBO checks that show's published requirements against the profile — rider, owner, and horse identification numbers (federation IDs: USEF, USDF, FEI, USEA, USHJA; breed-registry numbers: AQHA, APHA, Jockey Club, Arabian Horse Association, NRHA, USTA — every one optional on the profile, plus microchip and passport numbers), Coggins, vaccination record, and health certificate — pre-fills the entry fields from the profile, and bundles the documents that show requires into one packet, flagging anything missing before you leave. You finish the entry on the show's official platform, with everything already assembled. Each horse's documents can be pushed into any registration that asks for them — entered once, reused everywhere.

Register your show or rodeo on BRBO and claim its listing: a rodeo organizer claims a rodeo the same way, with its events picked from the Rodeo list. You control the Registration link and the requirements riders and contestants see. BRBO also gives your listing an API link — connect your system or your entry platform once, and it pushes registration information straight into your BRBO page: dates, entry windows, your registration page, and your requirements, kept current automatically.

Yes. Every hauler completes a verification profile before they can quote: a USDOT number, an MC authority number in active status, and insurance on file — a certificate of insurance covering commercial auto liability and cargo / care, custody & control for the horses they carry, with its expiry tracked. Only profiles with every required item present and current carry the Verified Hauler badge owners see, alongside ratings from completed trips. Coggins (12 months) and health certificate (30 days) paperwork is handled in the flow.

Three required items: (1) your USDOT number, under the legal business name that hauls; (2) your MC authority number, with the authority active; and (3) insurance on file — upload your certificate of insurance (COI) showing your commercial auto liability and cargo / care, custody & control coverage, policy numbers, limits, and expiry date. Your profile shows each item as on file, missing, or expired, and quoting pauses if one lapses until it's renewed.

Yes — you can sign up and start the profile. You just complete verification before your first booking. Each missing item opens a help walkthrough in the app: for a USDOT number, check FMCSA's records in case you already have one, then register through FMCSA's Unified Registration System; for MC authority, apply through the same system and line up the BOC-3 process-agent filing and your insurer's filing with FMCSA; for insurance, what coverage a for-hire horse hauler needs, how to get a certificate of insurance from an agent who writes equine transport, and how to upload it. Enter or upload each item as you get it and BRBO verifies it against the federal record.

On their profile, typed and drawn — including on a map, with shapes, not just a list of towns. Draw a radius around a home base and set its distance, drag a rectangle over a region or corridor, or tap out a free-form polygon that follows your exact route. Add as many shapes as you need and mix types: one hauler might keep a radius around home, a polygon along a regular Ocala–Wellington run, and a rectangle over the winter circuit. Name each shape, and edit, pause, or delete it any time. BRBO only sends you trips inside your shapes, and owners only see you on lanes your area covers.

At signup every hauler picks their type from a pick list — one pick: independent contractor (an owner-operator driving their own rig, booking under their own USDOT and MC numbers, confirming bookings themselves) or commercial hauler (a company or fleet — Brookledge is the example — with its own drivers and an office or admin team). The pick changes the verification profile: the required documents shift to match it. An independent verifies their own USDOT number, MC authority, and insurance certificate; a commercial hauler verifies the company's numbers and fleet insurance, its BOC-3 filing, and a named admin contact — because it's the company, not a driver, that stands behind the booking.

Through a connector. When you book spaces on a commercial run, BRBO sends the booking packet — your and your horse's details, the route and dates, the spaces booked, and your paperwork status — to the hauler's own booking site or its admin team. The company confirms, adjusts, or declines in its own system, and that answer flows back into BRBO: the booking becomes final, and the payment hold captures, only once the company has confirmed. You never have to re-enter the trip on their site, and the hauler never has to re-type your booking into theirs.

Through Connected Apps. Many shows require health documents through a specific app — WEC Ocala, HITS, and Desert International Horse Park use EquiTrace EventPass — and entries through their entry platform (HorseShowing.com, Show Management System, ShowGroundsLive, Equestrian Hub, EventEntries). Connect your account in each app once, under Connected Apps on your BRBO account, and when a show organizer requests items, BRBO pushes your horse's numbers and documents through that app and pulls your entry confirmation, stall assignment, and results back onto your booking and your horse's show record. The same hub connects your federation accounts (USEF, USDF, FEI), your vet's records app, and the rest of the horse apps you already use — entry platforms like Horse Show Office, Fox Village, and Show Monkey, Equipass, and your barn's own stack: Stable Secretary for barn management and the paperwork stored in it, QuickBooks for the books, and Square for payments. You approve each connection and can disconnect any of them at any time.

Yes — that's how hauling works on BRBO. A hauler's rig has a total number of spaces (a 6-horse rig has 6), and each booking takes spaces, not the whole trailer. The hauler's Spaces Available section shows, for every run, the route and date, the total spaces, how many are booked, how many are held pending paperwork, and how many are still available. Different owners can book different spaces on the same run — three owners can share a 6-horse run with 3 spaces still open — and the hauler approves each booking separately, on its own horse's paperwork. A run only closes when its last space is taken; then it reads Full — waitlist only, and a cancellation frees its space back to available.

Just the space (or spaces) you need: one horse is one space, priced at the hauler's per-space rate for that run. You can see spaces available on the hauler's profile and on the quote before you book, and you can filter haulers by how many spaces you need — so if you're moving three horses together, you only see runs with at least three spaces open. If you want the trailer exclusively, ask the hauler for a private haul — all spaces on a run, agreed before shared bookings open on it.

Set your total capacity once on your rig profile — total spaces, and each space's type (box stall, slant / standing, extra-large). Then, for each run you post, set the spaces available on that run and your price per space. As bookings come in, BRBO counts booked and held spaces against that run automatically; you don't keep a separate tally, and you can't be booked past your rig's total. Pause a run, reduce its open spaces, or close it any time — the count owners see updates when you save.

They can be — and owners can see it before they book. A sitter earns the Verified Farm Sitter badge by completing all three checks in their verification profile: an ID check (a government-issued photo ID matching the name on the profile), a background check, and references from farm owners, barn managers, or trainers they've sat or worked for, confirmed by BRBO. Each check shows on the profile as done or outstanding, and only sitters with all three carry the badge and can take sitting bookings.

Each sitter builds their own service list: the services they're willing to do — feeding and turnout visits, stall cleaning, full days of farm care, overnight or live-in stays, night checks, medications and special care — and the rate they charge for each, per visit, per day, or per night. There is no platform price list; the sitter sets every number, and owners see the full list and every rate on the sitter's profile before they book.

Hauling: the hauler quotes their rate and keeps 100% of it; the horse owner pays BRBO a booking fee of 10% of the quoted rate at booking (on a $900 haul, $90). Hauling firms earn the fee down to 7% at 25+ bookings a month and 5% at 100+. Farm sitting: one fee of 20% of the sit's rate, split — 15% comes out of the sitter's rate and the owner who hires the sitter pays a 5% booking fee on top. On a $400 sit, the owner pays $420 in total, the sitter receives $340, and BRBO keeps $80.

On every booking — boarding, hauling, farm sitting, and stays (RV spots and housing) — the payer pays at booking confirmation and BRBO holds the money; it is not passed straight through. The hold releases to the barn, hauler, or sitter when the service starts — the horse checks in, the haul begins, the sit starts, the guest checks in — plus a 48-hour dispute window. Both sides see the status on the booking the whole time (“Held by BRBO until check-in”). For boarding, the hold covers the initial booking payment; monthly board after that runs on autopay as usual. The payment hold, step by step →

Accepting opens the boarder's board terms, and the acceptance isn't complete until you've set them: the monthly board amount; whether the first period is prorated — charged by the day from move-in to your first due date — or billed as a full month; the board due day, the day of each month board is due; the auto-processing toggle — whether BRBO charges the owner's card monthly on that due day, or you collect board yourself; the end date, which you can leave open-ended; and any per diem late fee — a per-day amount that accrues for each day board is late. The first payment still runs through the payment hold (above); monthly board after that is not held. Every accepted boarder lands under My barn → My Boarders, where you pick any boarder from the dropdown to see their terms, change the due day or late fee, cancel auto-processing at any time (you take over collecting that boarder's board directly, starting with the next due date), and reactivate it whenever you want BRBO to resume charging.

Both sides hear about it, and the charge doesn't just die. The moment a monthly board charge is declined, BRBO sends a decline notification to the barn owner and the horse owner, then retries the card automatically: 24 hours later, again on day 3, and a final retry on day 5. If the barn set a per diem late fee, it accrues for each day the board stays unpaid after the due date, and it's shown on the receipt when a retry succeeds. If the final retry fails, BRBO sends a failed-payment notice to both the barn owner and the horse owner and pauses that boarder's auto-processing until the owner updates the card on file or the barn reactivates it under My Boarders. The horse's boarding itself is governed by the boarding agreement — BRBO's notices and retries never move a horse out of a stall on their own.

Your module subscriptions are all monthly, and they charge the one card your account holds on file in Stripe. If that charge is declined, you get a decline notice about the card on file and your account goes into suspended status. Suspended is view-only: you can still sign in and see incoming applications and bookings — including the applicants' contact information — but you can't act on them (no accepting, declining, or processing) until you're reinstated. While you're suspended, your own contact information is hidden from the other parties on your pending applications and bookings. Fix it in Settings → Subscription billing: update the card, BRBO runs the monthly charge again, and the moment it succeeds the suspension lifts — actions reopen and your contact information shows again.

Yes. For 48 hours after the service starts, either side can open a dispute from the booking itself — the horse arrived at a different barn than the listing, the hauler never showed, the sitter didn't come. Opening a dispute keeps the hold in place until it's resolved: BRBO looks at the booking, the contract, and the message thread tied to it, and releases or refunds accordingly. And if you cancel before the service starts, you're refunded from the hold under the booking's cancellation policy — the money never left it.

When the service starts, plus 48 hours. Your customer's payment is captured at booking confirmation and held by BRBO — so the booking is backed by real money, not a promise — and it releases to your payout account 48 hours after check-in / the haul's start / the sit's start, as long as no dispute is open. The platform fee for that booking type comes out of the release (haulers keep 100% of their quote — their fee is charged to the owner, on top). Your booking shows the hold status and the release date from the moment it's confirmed.

Only the two parties to a completed, paid booking — a boarding stay, a haul, a sit, or a stay — and it runs both ways. Owners review barns on facility accuracy, care, and communication; barns review owners on payment reliability and the accuracy of the horse's information — and the horse itself. Haulers are scored on timeliness, communication, and the horse's condition on arrival; sitters on updates and reliability. Reviews publish blind: neither side sees the other's until both are submitted, or the 14-day window closes — so there's no retaliation and no score-trading. Profiles show the average, the count, and every review. There's no way to review someone you haven't actually booked with, and published reviews can't be edited — though the person reviewed can post a public response, and BRBO can hide a flagged review that's false or abusive (never just for being negative). How reviews work →

From your farm profile (My barn), tap Post a job. The form asks for the job title, type, and hourly rate, the start date, schedule, experience, and a description of the work — plus a multi-pick list of the services you're looking for, in two columns — Farm services (stall clean-outs, feeding & turnout, night check, and more) and Horse show services (groom, braiding, show stall care, and more) — the same list workers pick from, so matching lines up. The posting belongs to your farm, gets its own page, and appears on the public Farm Jobs board, where anyone can search it by location, city, state, or map — free. Your exact street address shows only to members with a profile; the public sees your city and general area. Workers apply from the posting, and you review the applications on your farm profile, grouped under that posting, with an Accept button on each. Posting, applying, reviewing, and accepting are all free.

Yes — a barn posts a clinic on its own property, with the clinician, the dates, and the number of rider spots and auditor spots it can take. Members register in the app: as a rider, picking a horse from their own profile so the horse's records travel with the registration, or as an auditor, with no horse at all. When every spot fills, the posting reads waitlist only — it stays up, and registering joins the waitlist for a spot that opens.

Yes, when the farm offers them. Farms post RV spots and short-term housing on their barn listing as bookable availability: an RV posting shows the hookup details (full hookup or electric & water, 30- or 50-amp, sewer or dump station) and the spot count, and a housing posting names the unit — apartment, bunkhouse, cottage, or room — and how many it sleeps. Every stay shows per-night, per-week, and per-month rates. You can book a stay in the app alongside your boarding, or on its own with no stall attached. Stays are request-to-book: the farm approves your dates before payment, the same as a boarding application.

Add them to your barn listing as stays: for each RV area, the number of spots and the hookup details; for each housing unit, the type (apartment, bunkhouse, cottage, or room) and how many it sleeps. Set a per-night, per-week, and per-month rate for each, and the dates each is open. Boarders then request-to-book those dates in the app — with a boarding booking or on their own — and you approve each stay before it's charged.

Yes — from its profile, not from a blank ad. Pick the horse under your membership profile, add photos and a description, and set an asking price or list it as Private treaty, with its discipline and location. You also pick the acceptable terms you'll sell on from a multi-pick list — cash, owner financing, third-party / bank financing, trade considered, lease-to-own — and if you pick owner financing, you post your financing terms (down payment, interest rate, term, monthly payment, balloon if any) right on the listing. The listing automatically carries the horse's breed, age, pedigree (sire and dam), and the registration numbers you added to the profile, plus its performance record — placings, its typed Score (percentage, points, or time), and winnings — and the documents you choose to share from the profile, like breed papers, Coggins, and vet records. Buyers search on exactly the fields the posting carries — discipline, breed, sex and age, price, location, acceptable terms, and owner financing with down-payment and monthly-payment caps — and inquire through the app. BRBO helps the sale along with flows already on the platform: the profile's paperwork and record travel with the horse, verified haulers quote the trip home, and the buyer can line up boarding through barn search. When the horse sells, mark it sold — the listing leaves search and the profile persists.

Listing is free, and if the horse doesn't sell, you owe nothing. When a sale completes through BRBO, the seller pays a 5% success fee on the final sale price — asking-price listings and Private treaty sales alike. The buyer pays no BRBO sale fee. On a $38,500 sale, the fee is $1,925 and the seller receives $36,575. Any owner financing on the sale is between the seller and the buyer on the terms the seller posted; BRBO isn't a lender and isn't a party to it.

At sale time, the seller can add a flat-fee package on top of the 5% success fee — $99 for sales up to $10,000, $179 up to $50,000, $249 above that — covering a bill of sale generated from the horse's profile and e-signed, the buyer's deposit held through Stripe until the sale's conditions are met, and pre-purchase exam scheduling. It's optional; a sale without it pays just the 5%. Buyers can also purchase a Verified Horse Report from any sale listing for $29 ($19 with the Horse Owner service) — a dated record check generated from the horse's profile (registry IDs, pedigree, performance record, document status). Leases: listing is free; when a lease is set up, the lessor pays a $49 setup fee and the lease agreement is generated and e-signed like a boarding contract, and monthly lease payments can run through BRBO at 3.9% all-in processing, the same as board — $25.35 on a $650 payment.

Any boarding, sale, lease, or hauler listing can be featured with a 7-day boost for $12, bought in the app from the listing itself (the Farm service includes one boost a month). A featured listing carries a gold ★ Featured badge and sorts first among the search results it matches — it still has to match the search, and the badge means it's always labeled as a promotion, never an organic ranking. Shows and clinics feature as events — the Organizer service includes one featured event per month — with first placement in show search for its dates and area. Separately, entries that go through BRBO's one-tap registration flow carry a $2.50 per-entry platform fee charged to the organizer or clinic host ($1.50 per entry with the Organizer service) — entrants pay no BRBO entry fee — and the organizer's entry summary itemizes it.

$39 per check, renewed annually at $39 ($35 with the Farm service; included annually with the Farm Sitter service), bought through BRBO's screening flow. Farm sitters must have one — paid by the sitter — to earn the Verified Farm Sitter badge. Haulers can add the same check to their verification profile, and barns can require one for staff hires (the job posting says whether the barn covers it or the applicant does). Profiles show the check's status and the date it was run — clear and current, or not on file; BRBO keeps the status, not the report.

With the Trainer service: $29/mo or $278/yr. Each owner grants you access to their horse, horse by horse, and you manage the granted horses across every BRBO barn they board at — profiles, records, documents, show records — and coordinate applications, hauls, and entries from the horse's profile. Access is only ever owner-granted and can be revoked at any time; without a grant, the horse doesn't appear in your account at all. The Trainer account does double duty: it's also the account that can list multiple farms — every farm you run goes on this one account as its own listing, no second account needed or allowed.

Yes — Horses for Lease sits beside Horses for Sale and works the same way: the listing is built from the horse's profile, so its record and shared documents are the trust layer. The listing states the lease type — full, partial / half, or lease-to-own — the price per month or per season and the term, whether the lease is on-site at the horse's home barn or off-site, and what's included. Lessees search by discipline, breed, location, lease type, on-site vs. off-site, and price, and inquire through the app. When the lease is taken, the lessor marks the horse leased and the listing leaves search; the profile persists, ready to relist when the term ends.

Yes — save a search in Horses for Sale or Horses for Lease and BRBO matches you when a horse fits. A sale search captures discipline, breed, price range, age, and location & radius; a lease search captures those plus lease type, term, and on-site or off-site. Choose instant alerts — the moment a matching horse is listed — or a daily digest with one summary each morning. The alert takes you straight to the listing, and you inquire through the app, the same as browsing to it yourself.

It's where people post services for hire at a specific show location — braiders, grooms, clippers, night check, stall cleaning, and the like — available while exhibitors are in town for that show. Each posting names its show and venue (from BRBO's worldwide show directory), the days the poster is on the grounds, the service, and the rate they charge. Exhibitors open the board for their show to find and hire help on site; providers post once per show they work.