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Your gonna love this - in my own neighborhood!

BlueTicBlueTic Member Posts: 4,072
edited July 2002 in General Discussion
As posted before - I just got home from a 3 week vacation. I had in the mail a news letter from the association where we live. A little background - this is a 148 site developement, all owners having 1/2 to 1 acre sites (I have just slightly over 1 acre), that was started in 1960's. Very rural, non-city and has horse pastures and trails. Not very big time as far as fancy associations, but a bunch of Canadian vacationers and some new Kalfornicators. Can you see where this is going?
The article in the letter stated that the "Board" has decided that nobody can use BB guns in the area, carry firearms, or discharge firearms on our own property. This was started when a window was shot with a BB gun, culprits identified, and actions taken. Children are not allowed to carry BB guns at all!!!
Now - I immediately went out and test fire my Boy's new .22 and sighted in my daughter's scope on her's. I told my wife that I will walk around the area with my holster and .45lc (unloaded) in plain veiw. My daughter wants to walk around with my SKS (folder/bipod/extended mag). There are no county regulations about discharging firearms on ones own property. I use a back stop and there is a wooded hill on the back of mine, so I guess each of my firearms will need some practice (every day - how else do you become proficient). Oh - I need to put the finishing touches on the 2nd generation golfball cannon.
How would you react - Our next "Board" meeting is not untill October.

IF YOU DON'T LIKE MY RIGHTS - GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY (this includes politicians)
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    Hey Tic, which development is that? Semi-ah-moo?(sp.)

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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    BlueTic

    Sounds about right to me. That should cause a major incident at the homeowners meeting. I wonder who the people are that think they can restrict your carrying a gun on your own property. Must be products of our "newer more improved Liberal Society".

    Keep on shooting and enjoy!

    Lt

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  • daddodaddo Member Posts: 3,408
    edited November -1
    H.A.'s have certain restrictions on them. To decide to innact such a rule may present serious legal problems to them should they decide to enforce such restrictions. You have lived in that area for a long time and need to go before the board and convince them (by advice of an attorney) of the legal aspects of such a ruling. Not having read the letter,I'm not sure of their exact intent, or whether it beyond their legal realm of authority.
    I wouldn't put up with it.
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  • BlueTicBlueTic Member Posts: 4,072
    edited November -1
    Naa - Semi-ah-moo is way over my head - we are in redneck villa "Double R Ranch", a little south east from there, but still in the Birch Bay area.. These Yahoo's are always trying to come up with restrictions and codes. We are supposed to submit any building plans (including fences, and outbuildings) to the association. I built my shop a few years ago and never once contacted them. I got a county permitt to reside and roof an old existing garden shed and posted it on a tree. I told one of the board members that I was building an indoor range. I used to be on the board (roads chairman) until they started some crap about other stuff.

    IF YOU DON'T LIKE MY RIGHTS - GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY (this includes politicians)
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    I know what you mean. My brother used to have a place in Sudden Valley. He build his ol' lady a greenhouse in the back of their lot. About 10' x 10', 2x4 frame with translucent fiberglass siding. Couldn't see it from the road or from any of the other properties. He got a letter from the "ASSociation" telling him to remove it because it violated about a dozen of the covenant rules. He told them to piss up a rope. When he finally sold the house 5 years later he was still getting letters from them.

    Right after I bought my home I had the 20 year old cedar shake roof replaced. I bought top-of-the-line 40-year architectural composition roofing. About half way through the job this old geezer from the Country Club rules committee came by to inform me that only cedar shake roofing was "allowed" in the development. He said that I should stop the job immediately, remove the offending comp. roof and re-roof with cedar. He said that if I didn't, the rules allowed the association to have my house re-roofed and send me the bill.

    I told him that I wasn't going to do anything of the sort and if the association's roofer stepped foot on my property he would go straight to the hospital, and after I finished kicking the roofer's * I'd be going after the rules committee. That's the last I ever heard from them and since I put the comp. roof on my house 7 years ago about a dozen houses around me have done the same.

    If I had a dozen junk cars in my yard maybe they would have a legimate beef, but just 'cause they don't like my roof...?

    Get real.

    Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.
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  • airborneairborne Member Posts: 1,728 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When you mentioned migrants from California, you said it all.

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  • MercuryMercury Member Posts: 7,842 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    First rule of real estate: NEVER BUY A HOUSE WITH C&RS!

    Merc



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  • BlueTicBlueTic Member Posts: 4,072
    edited November -1
    Well I just got through sighting in a red dot on my SKS. My neighbors came by and just laughed. We have a tight group here on our dead end street. The rest of the association just calls us "The ****** RD. Bunch"

    IF YOU DON'T LIKE MY RIGHTS - GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY (this includes politicians)
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  • snarlgardsnarlgard Member Posts: 1,310 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    What happened to people idea of private property?
    I WILL DO WHAT I WANT TO ON MY OWN PROPERTY
    as long as I don't hurt or dammage other people or there property they have no say in what i do
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  • will270winwill270win Member Posts: 4,845
    edited November -1
    They will have a hard time enforcing that one! I would bust caps all day long everyday if they tried that with me. You got the right idea BT.


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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    I made it a point, when we bought our current home, to make sure that it was in an unincorporated area, with no restrictions, no covenants, and no homeowner's association.

    I don't shoot a lot here, having a gun club about 3 miles away. I won't shoot heavy rifles here because of the cows and the neighbors, but I shoot .22s, shotguns at clay birds, and function test guns (shooting into ground) whenever I feel like it. When I do shoot, I use the pond dam for a backstop, except for shotguns. The shot won't go far anyway.

    There has been some talk of annexation. I would allow that, in order to get a sewer line. They can annex the house and the acre it sits on, but not the 3 acres behind. That's mine.

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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I do not know the names of these types of communities but I do know that there are communities that you can enter into if you sign a form agreeing to abide by certain restrictions that the community (as a majority) imposes upon itself. Such restrictions sometimes include restrictions on clothes lines in the backyard and where/how you can mount satellite dishes on your property.
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  • Rob GreeneRob Greene Member Posts: 102 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sattelite dishes and clothes lines are not specifically mentioned in the Constitution, but I'd fight someone telling me I couldn't have one. The very concept of "Majority Rules" being equal to "Majority is Right" escapes me. How is it that some people think that if they can find a bunch of people that think the way they do, then they must be right? That's what Hitler did. He wasn't right then, and your homeowner's association isn't right now.

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  • 96harley96harley Member Posts: 3,992 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    BlueTic,

    Get some camo netting and place it over a propted pole made to look like a howitzer. That should wake them up to more than BB guns. I just can't express how I feel about people who know best for us poor dumb guys and how we should live our lives. Makes me want to go postal.
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Bluetic, sounds to me, that since you weren't invited to the board meeting, the president needs an a** kicking. And you should let it be known that the neighborhood is a free carry zone.

    If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.

    The sound of a 12 gauge pump clears a house fatser than Rosie O eats a Big Mac !
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