LOL Careful what you wish for! marlon
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Kunze" <[email protected]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 9:10 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Starting a wisp - required capital > On 5/24/2009 9:25 PM, Marlon K. Schafer wrote: >> I'd start MUCH smaller and grow organically though. You should be able >> to >> start with less than $25k and keep the rest for operating and unexpected >> expenses. > > I tend to agree, and have been at this just as long. The luckiest thing > I did was to put up my main tower back around 2000. > > www.do-it-yourself-tower.com > > The turn-key quote for such a tower was around $60k back then, it's > probably a bit more now. But by doing it myself it was less than $25k. > And no, I had no experience. It was actually the first time I ever > poured much concrete! But the alternative, renting tower space, would > have cost just as much on a monthly basis yet the tower was paid off in > 3 years and now I've got monthly revenue coming from it due to cell > phone company colocation contracts. I've already made all the tower > money back. > > I'm considering putting up another one to be honest. A few more of > those and this Internet business can burn to the ground for all I care! > > Rk > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
