this is why I absolutely will not go to other forums

Gary Reeder
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Monday, February 18, 2019, 13:36 (2754 days ago)

they all think they are better than the folks that read their forums. They have all kinds of special rules like this bullshit I pulled off that forum that rgates posted on here...

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Why even have a forum if you only allow certain people who "qualify" to be on the forum. When I decided to have a forum on this web site I told Jim Taylor what I had in mind and he did it perfectly.Exactly what I had in mind. I will shut this forum down before I will change it to the style of those other forums. What a bunch of egotistical pricks.

Really appreciate this forum Gary.

RonE
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Monday, February 18, 2019, 13:55 (2754 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

Interesting posts about guns and hunting, along with a lot of great stories, pictures, and frequent cogent information and advice.

Amen!

SPB
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Monday, February 18, 2019, 14:03 (2754 days ago) @ RonE

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I wouldn't last an hour on another forum with all

Gary Reeder
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Monday, February 18, 2019, 14:16 (2754 days ago) @ RonE

the arrogant and egotistical yoyos running them. Crap, half my posts are not gun related and there is no reason they should have to be. Everything we think about and talk about is not always about guns. One of my best friends on here said a good while back talking about this forum, he said "this is not really a forum, it is a gathering of friends" and hopefully it will stay that way.

This is the only one I am on....

Amede
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Monday, February 18, 2019, 13:57 (2754 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

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Joining up with some forums is like buying a house

Ray
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Monday, February 18, 2019, 14:20 (2754 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

that has a homeowner's association governing it.

several years back an old fellow in Scottsdale had a Bronco

Gary Reeder
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Monday, February 18, 2019, 14:33 (2754 days ago) @ Ray

completely reworked. Rolled and pleated red and black leather seats, red carpeting,new black paint with red accents, lots of engine work done. Cost him $12000. Then about a month after he got it back he died. His son got the truck and ran an ad in the auto trader. I called him about it. He said the homeowners association was going to fine him several hundred dollars a day if he didn't get "that truck" out of his driveway. They didn't allow "those kind of vehicles" in their little gated community. So I got it at a steal.
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But the gist of this spiel is that unfortunately there are organizations that have to rule over people they consider beneath them. I couldn't live like that. And like the homeowners associations, most forums tend to be like that.

Who in their right mind would live in a gated

John W
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Monday, February 18, 2019, 14:55 (2754 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

Community with such a covenant?

When me and the wife were looking for a place

Amede
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Monday, February 18, 2019, 15:13 (2754 days ago) @ John W

here in Portland. I told the Realtor absolutely no houses that are in a HOA. Complete waste of money and freedom.

Absolutely agree. You have to be a Nazi to be on an HOA

RonE
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Monday, February 18, 2019, 16:07 (2754 days ago) @ Amede

board. I think it's a rule.

I am the President of our subdivision's

Larry Fry
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Monday, February 18, 2019, 19:47 (2754 days ago) @ RonE

HOA. Before purchasing a house in our SD a copy of the Protective Covenants and Restrictions is given to the home buyer. They have the option of either agreeing to the covenants or not and not buying a house in our subdivision. No one buys a house and invests hundreds of thousands of dollars and then wants their next door neighbor to put a car on blocks in the their front yard and leave it there. Parking in the front yard, nope...... We do have rules and we are reasonable about them. There are NO anti Flag or anti American clauses in the CR only common sense rules that we all agreed to live by. I have been elected for the past three years and told the HOA that this would be my last year. It is a pain in the ass to listen to people complain and then have to arbitrate between neighbors... So far no one has threatened to burn me out but I am waiting.... Not all HOA's are reasonable so please don't paint them all with a broad brush. We try to maintain the value of the property that all of us have put a lot of money into.

OH, and BTW, I am not a Nazi.

Larry Fry
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Monday, February 18, 2019, 19:48 (2754 days ago) @ Larry Fry

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Larry, I wouldn't live in a HOA no matter what. You take up

Gary Reeder
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Monday, February 18, 2019, 20:12 (2754 days ago) @ Larry Fry

for them like they were your lord and master. They are a bunch of pricks. I know several of them and they wouldn't piss on me if I was on fire. I can't believe you take up for these arrogant pricks.I would rather live next door to folks that have a car on blocks than next door to some of those egotistical morons who have rules that tell me how to live in my own home and fine me if I don't live up to their rules. You can have your HOA.

I don't know the man but he sounds like a liberal

J. Baxter
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Monday, February 18, 2019, 20:49 (2754 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

democrat to me, telling me how to live my life and bad mouthing anyone that doesn't live up to his level.

Where you live does not

DennisD
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Tuesday, February 19, 2019, 06:23 (2753 days ago) @ J. Baxter

show your political leanings. One of my brothers (the rich one) is one of the most conservative people I know, yet he lives in an area with a HOA. Gets along fine. The nice thing about this country is you still get to choose

I 100% agree with you Gary.

IC
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Monday, February 18, 2019, 21:15 (2754 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

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Thanks Irv, and I agree with J. Baxter below.

Gary Reeder
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Monday, February 18, 2019, 21:35 (2754 days ago) @ IC

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we have several gated communities in Flagstaff

Gary Reeder
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Monday, February 18, 2019, 15:18 (2754 days ago) @ John W

and they all have insane rules and regs. I think Jesus would have a hard time qualifying to live there.

Nice Bronco!

Derek
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Monday, February 18, 2019, 18:45 (2754 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

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I used to regularly contribute to at least 4 others

Drdougrx
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Monday, February 18, 2019, 14:24 (2754 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

In 2015 I stopped all of it Now it’s here or not at all.

At the end of a long day

BlackPete
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Monday, February 18, 2019, 16:03 (2754 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

I look forward to Gary’s forum. I feel all us Misfits are like one big family. Pete.

Absolutely Tre!

Grover Sr
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Monday, February 18, 2019, 22:56 (2754 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

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