Oh? That's news to me... American seems to be buying up tons of cold
steel with no customers on them.
On 7/16/19 3:01 PM, Lewis Bergman wrote:
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]
<mailto:[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]
<mailto:[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]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
<mailto:[email protected] <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
>
>
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