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#62 ·
Hell I don't even know what I am left or right. I am just an educated white boy, that doesn't like to be messed with... In turn I try not to mess with everyone else either, unless they are being anti american, socialist or power hungry, I have a tendency to get involved then, but otherwise I am pretty tame... :eek:gre:
 
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#63 ·
Mudball said:
Hi Pointerman:

Yup, starter homes are tough. You need to have everything in perfect order to make a little later on, when someone else wants to buy your place.

Once you outgrow the city life, you may want to find something near water, but close enough for work, and forgiving enough to allow your toys to be right in your face. That's always tough.


Best of luck with your 'city' existance...
Kent
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You assume too much from my post. My home is not a starter home (over 2800 sq. ft on an 11 sq. ft. lot) and I really don't live in the city (pop. of about 50K). I live about 5 minutes from the California Delta and I am quite happy. In about two years there is a planned community that will be started with lots available on the bank of the Delta and I will move when they become available so I can have my boat on the water all the time, but I will still have many CC&Rs to deal with due to the community.

Anyway, I agree with Kid in a way. If people had ANY common sense these types of regs. would not be necessary. Problem is that most people just don't seem to care and in order to preserve the quality of a neighborhood these types of things are necessary. I have stored a boat outside (when I had two) for a while and went to all of my neighbors and explained why. None of them had a problem with it, but I wanted to make sure I was not pissing anyone off. Most people are not like that.

P.S. Read my post again, I do spray my neighbors weeds. I don't go after his grass though because he would never replace it. I should probably offer to help him pour some concrete to extend his driveway and end the problem. Heck, I would pay for it just to get rid of the eyesore. My wife wants me to build a little wall. :rolleyes:
 
#66 ·
I once lived in a community where you could not keep anything in the driveway without moving it for more then 48 hours. So, every other day, I hooked the boat up and moved it to the other side of the driveway. Kind of a pain, but a loophole I climbed through to keep the boat at home.
 
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#67 ·
Shameless said:
Damn, I guess I left you an opening too, good one Bill! ;)
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Bill - Ya gotta be carefull who ya show those pictures to :D

Off subject....I tried some of the Long Haul. Seems to work as well as the Race Glaze. But, it makes any little scratch or nick in the white gel stand right out {9 year old boat :( }. For that reason, RG seems to be best on the gel. But, the LH is nice to use on the sides of the hull where the graphics are. Because it doesn't show the "white" along the edges of the graphics material, know what I mean?? Fortunately my truck is light pewter, so the LH is great for the truck :)

Just a few thoughts and observations ;)

Bill
 
#68 ·
I know what you are talking about Bill, that is the downside to the color of Long Haul. I don't use it for that reason, but is it good stuff. It stains you clothes really bad if you get eny on them. Oh well. I took a buffing wheel to mine last week with RG because I had some dulling from fenders rubbing while rafting. Anyway, I forgot to do the transom, so I slapped a coat of another pruduct on because of the quickness. I think you know what I am talking about. Well, when I pulld out of the water Sat., I could not get off the line on the transom! :angry1: I went over it with RG/LH, the line came right off and when I used the boat Sunday and pulled it out, it wiped right off. Live and learn!!! Are you allowed to work on your boat in the drive way Bill??? :laugher: :laugher:
 
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#69 ·
LOL The main "restrictions" placed on me are done so by the allied supreme commander ... the wife. She's the one I have to answer to :rolleyes:

Think I mentioned to you before, the other stuff is good for a quickie in between job. And it really is good for that. I use it on the tops sides when we're on the lake, while Barb basks in the sun :)
 
#71 ·
I paid my own money for my house and my land (NO Mortgage!), I do the upkeep, I pay the taxes, I mow the lawn etc etc etc etc.....

What right do you have to tell me what color to paint my house, which tree to cut down, what I do on MY property???????

Of course that is just my opinion, I might be wrong.......

PS The next time some nosy neighbor bothers me, I am gonna put up a clothes line in my front yard!!!! In Florida we have a solar-rights law that prohibits local ordinances from restricting clotheslines and other solar devices.

Now do I want a clothes line in my front yard????

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!

But leave me and mine alone!!

Thats my rant.....

Sorry.................................
 
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#72 · (Edited)
I've been reading this post from the beginning. I just have two differn't points of view I want to express here.

First, I agree completely that a man's house is his castle and he should be able to do as he pleases. That is true as long as it doesn't impose on the man and his castle next door!

It is very much a way of life that when people live close together some things will bother some people, regardless of what it is.

I can tell you how I cured the bothersome neighbor situation in the past, I bought a big property with seclusion! That worked for me at the time.

Here is the place where I could give a fiddlers *uck what my neighbor was doing. It sat on 2 1/2 acres, corner lot with trees buffering all sides. I needed a telescope to see my neighbor! It was what I wanted at the time.
 

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After the kids were all grown and out on their own I wanted the waterfront place that was always my dream.

I bought this place which was on a 50 foot wide lot. Suddenly, there were neighbors in my face and things on their property that wasn't the way I would have done things.

The great part was it is on the water, 5 minutes from the Chesapeake Bay. The satisfaction of the activity on the river and the ability to hop in my boat as conveniently as the car in the driveway, more than offset any bothersome things brought about by being close to neighbors.

I do have RVs and boats all over the place but that is what you should expect living in a place that is more like a resort than a city!

Here is what the place looked like when I bought it in 1999.
 

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#74 ·
Now, with a small lot, the only way to get some piece from neighbors is to go up!

Here is the same place, currently under reconstruction from Hurricane Isabel last year.

I'll like looking down on my neighbors when the deck is completed!

Bottom line is, if you don't like where you live, move! This is my 4th place I've owned in my lifetime. You're the only one who can make you're own happiness!
 

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