Cell Tower Lease

[Diggin It]

with such a small impact on your property?

I don't know about small impact. I guess it depends on the tower type, but most of what I've seen take up at least a couple of hundred feet square. That's just the facility footprint, not including access roads and any other utility services to feed it. They require a good bit of power for one.

 

[Fuddy1952]

I didn't suggest one can make that leasing part of your property.
What I was referring to was a long term investment strategy. Those returns make a tower lease pale in comparison.
Everyone is different. There are many legal ways to make money, flipping houses, rental income, working, etc. That's not for me.
Personally I wouldn't allow a tower on my property if they paid me $15K/month.

 

[aczlan]

I don't know about small impact. I guess it depends on the tower type, but most of what I've seen take up at least a couple of hundred feet square. That's just the facility footprint, not including access roads and any other utility services to feed it. They require a good bit of power for one.

Power and utilities can be run underground, both are right across the road.
Where we are, it wouldn't be a big deal to run an graveled access road to the high point on the property, its where we drive around the hayfields anyway and a freestanding tower (what they usually put in around here) shouldnt need much more than the footprint of the tower and the transmitter shack.

Aaron Z

 

[4570Man]

I didn't suggest one can make that leasing part of your property.
What I was referring to was a long term investment strategy. Those returns make a tower lease pale in comparison.
Everyone is different. There are many legal ways to make money, flipping houses, rental income, working, etc. That's not for me.
Personally I wouldn't allow a tower on my property if they paid me $15K/month.

Those all require work and risk. And nobody says you can’t do that as well. That’s a far cry from the work required to walk to the mailbox every month. Maybe you can get direct deposit and not even have to do that. That $1500 would help a lot to help pay for the house flipping project or paying your rent house mortgage while it’s vacant. It’s more than a lot of people get from social security so not a bad retirement income supplement either.

 

[k0ua]

How do you like the 891??

Like it ok, but it has some flaws. Operating system and method of changing bands and modes is my biggest gripe. Using the VFO knob instead of the "clickable" multiknob is my biggest complaint. It is a very small rig, duty cycle is fine for SSB, which is how I use it in the truck. Makes a lousy data radio, gets too hot and you must provide your own external soundcard. Overall a pretty good reciever, good noiseblanker, 100 watts on 160 thru 6 meters. Not nearly the reciever the my Ic7300's are, but they are really a bit big for most mobile installs. Overall the 891 is a pretty good mobile rig, I want more in a "base" rig and I have it with my two IC-7300's. You get used to the cumbersome band and mode changes after a bit. Best DX from the mobile is Asiatic Russia and Togo. Both on 20 meter SSB. Not too shabby from a little Tarheel2 in a bed corner mount of the 2010 Silverado. I did replace the stock 32 inch whip with a 48 inch Larson one.

 

[k0ua]

I didn't suggest one can make that leasing part of your property.
What I was referring to was a long term investment strategy. Those returns make a tower lease pale in comparison.
Everyone is different. There are many legal ways to make money, flipping houses, rental income, working, etc. That's not for me.
Personally I wouldn't allow a tower on my property if they paid me $15K/month.

For $15000 a month I would be out there digging the tower base for them with pick and shovel if I had too.

 

[bigtiller]

I don't know about small impact. I guess it depends on the tower type, but most of what I've seen take up at least a couple of hundred feet square. That's just the facility footprint, not including access roads and any other utility services to feed it. They require a good bit of power for one.

A free standing 250' tower with room for 4 equipment buildings takes as little as a 75' square area. They are all chain link fenced in areas and as close to the road as possible.

The utilities are usually underground. A lot of them have their own emergency diesel generator.

 

[4570Man]

For $15000 a month I would be out there digging the tower base for them with pick and shovel if I had too.

I’d probably use my backhoe but then I could buy whatever equipment to play with that I wanted. And a bigger shop. I think I could get over the sour look of a tower for an extra 180k a year.

 

[bigtiller]

I’d probably use my backhoe but then I could buy whatever equipment to play with that I wanted. And a bigger shop. I think I could get over the sour look of a tower for an extra 180k a year.

You're gonna need a bigger backhoe.

My 3 legged tower has 3 holes, each are 7.5 feet in diameter, 32 feet deep and filled with rebar and concrete.

 

[4570Man]

Well I’d rather use the 310 over a pickaxe. You couldn’t dig a 32 feet deep hole in my area without a lot of explosives. But it doesn’t really matter because the tower company does all the construction.