A tower company won't want a tower bought in eBay. They want towers that have ASR, environmental certs, 2 carrier, etc. They also are not interested in towers without good annual revenue numbers. You might be able to ditch some in a bundle with revenue producing towers but those will be deducted but added from the number.
On Tue, Jul 16, 2019, 1:54 PM Colin Stanners <[email protected]> wrote: > At least in our area, tower companies (mostly older 2-way providers) are > not buying / building many towers - most of the builds outside of WISPs are > cell carriers, who will only use heavier-duty towers than what most WISPs > will build. > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 1:50 PM Matt Hoppes < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Remove? Why not sell them to a tower company? >> >> On 7/16/19 12:44 PM, CBB - Jay Fuller wrote: >> > >> > 1) if he doesn't have the money you're not going to get it. >> > 2) i've been thinking about this a lot lately too. everyone who only >> > values based on annual revenue (as i used to do and have made several >> > purchases based on that) is probably not taking into account owned >> > vertical real estate. a lot of times smaller wisps are only renting >> > water tanks or someone else's tower but as you get bigger you tend to >> > build. i think we must own at least 15 towers...i'm not sure. we >> don't >> > own the land (we own SOME of the land) but we do own the towers. >> > if you're shutting down, there is money involved in REMOVING those >> towers. >> > >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > *From:* TJ Trout <mailto:[email protected]> >> > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <mailto:[email protected]> >> > *Sent:* Tuesday, July 16, 2019 3:59 AM >> > *Subject:* [AFMUG] Wisp value >> > >> > I've been mentoring a friend of mine, he's young and rather >> > ambitious. He started out his 'wisp' using a residential cable >> > connection, I've helped him for basically free for the last three >> > years grow his base to 250 customers, he just last week acquired a >> > failing wisp with 65 subs on a no money down, pay us a commission >> > basis. I've been managing most of his core network and providing him >> > IPv4 and transit for a steal of a price, I even loaned him a >> > substantial amount of cash recently to buy a bunch of surplus >> > equipment. Well anyway I guess he got caught with another women and >> > his wife is demanding he shut down or sell the wisp for >> > whatever reason, he called and put this all on my plate today. >> > >> > Instead of offering to sell me the company (I don't really want it) >> > he tellse that he's going to try selling to a local competitor whom >> > I consider slightly a better personal than a child molester. >> > >> > So anyway I'll try to stop rambling, what's a wisp Worth these days? >> > Gross revenue for a year is what I figure (max) with his all used >> > ubnt equipment? >> > >> > The other dilemma is that he's about 3 months behind on his transit >> > and his note is due for repayment Monday ~$15k total. >> > >> > I need a way to ensure I get paid current and I don't let him get >> > behind during the 'sale'. I was thinking to quit being the nice guy >> > and demand the past due balance + the note in full + 3 months >> > transit in advance so I don't get screwed during the sale process if >> > he gets behind again. I don't know if he can even come up with the >> > money and my only leverage is to turn his port down... I have a >> > strange feeling he may try to stall me as long as possible until the >> > competition can thing in transit and run off without paying the >> bill.... >> > >> > >> > Sorry for he rant, just sick of helping people because every time I >> > do I end up regretting it. >> > >> > TJ >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > >> > -- >> > 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
