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On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 1:34 PM Brian Webster <[email protected]> wrote: > > Might be worth getting the tower and parcel given to you, then make a decent > offer for an additional lease area around the tower to encompass the guy > anchors. The farmer may be ok with the location of the anchors if he is > making more money. In the end if you get the tower given to you or possibly > even be paid to take it (they have the cost of decommissioning plus they own > the parcel and still have taxes on it so paying you to take it off their > hands is still attractive). Worst case would be you take the existing tower > down and replace it with something that fits on the parcel. There could also > be the issue that the farmer just doesn’t like the current owner and you > being somewhat local he may have a change of heart to support local business. > I would work this a little harder and see if you can’t take it in a different > direction that the situation as it stands. > > > > Thank You, > > Brian Webster > > > > From: AF [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Fankhauser > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2018 12:44 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] acquiring tower from American Tower > > > > I looked up on the property records who's parcel of land that tower is on and > was able to google search a name and find a phone number and called it. Long > story short the tower is on its own parcel of land but the guy wires go into > a neighbors field and they messed up the original contract for the easement > and basically the farmer doesn't want to farm around the wires anymore and > there are attorneys involved and the tower company is decided to tear the > tower down since its vacant anyway. Sounds like a mess. > > > > On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 12:09 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > > Discounted net present value of future easement payments is an easy figure to > come up with. Then cut it in half and offer it as a one time payment for a > “perpetual easement that runs with the land”. > > > > From: Lewis Bergman > > Sent: Friday, September 7, 2018 10:01 AM > > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] acquiring tower from American Tower > > > > I have done this a few times. I have had some success converting annual > leases to one time easement payments. If you would like to discuss give me a > shout. I have done both ways. Taking ownership of an abandoned tower from a > landowner, buying a tower cheap and renegotiating land lease, I even got paid > to take a tower once. > > On Fri, Sep 7, 2018, 9:39 AM Kurt Fankhauser <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have heard that American Tower is going to be tearing down dormant tower > in my area, is there any reason they would just give this tower away to > someone like me to get out of it? How do i call at ATC to inquire about this? > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > ________________________________ > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
