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Posted: 3/28/2017 11:27:06 AM EDT
About a year back, a member here bought a substancially-sized piece of land, couple hundred acres I think. Most of it woods. Out in the middle of his property he found a massive, functioning electrical substation, with no signage or anything stating what company or utility it belonged to.

He checks his deed, title records, etc, and nothing from the previous owners (deceased) indicated any kind of lease or agreement with any company.

ARFCOMMER calls several companies, local utilities, etc, and no one knows anything about it, no paperwork or records of a substation. Eventually he threatens to shut the damn thing down and suddenly a utility company remembers it belongs to them, but they have no lease agreement or paperwork from the previous owners allowing them to have the substation on the land. They offer him (ARFCOMMER) a ridiculously low amount of $$$ to stay on the land and get all pissy when he decided to check and see what comparable stations are leasing land for. Apparently the utility had no legal legit lease for his land, nor could they produce any agreement with previous landowners.

I checked in the archives but couldn't find anything, wondering how it was resolved.
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 11:28:11 AM EDT
[#1]
I thought it was a cell tower? Might be a different incident.
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 11:28:24 AM EDT
[#2]
Big Electric had him snuffed.
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 11:29:01 AM EDT
[#3]
It was a cell tower. I don't know what happened. The OP kept on just dragging it along without any real updates
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 11:29:21 AM EDT
[#4]
Yeah he made a deal with them and purchased a Caribbean island with the money.





















(I kid, I never saw the first post)
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 11:30:28 AM EDT
[#5]
Resistance (<1 ohm) was futile. 
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 11:31:44 AM EDT
[#6]
Wondered about that too.

@bassackwards
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 11:31:55 AM EDT
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Yeah I think you're right, it may have been a cell tower/complex, the photos made it seem to be pretty big, not just a tower. I think whoever owned it low-balled him and said "take it or we'll just keep on keepin' on and pay you nothing".
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 11:33:11 AM EDT
[#8]
Would probably be a better payday if you climbed it and jumped off, breaking your leg and starting a massive lawsuit.
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 11:33:44 AM EDT
[#9]
This sounds interesting.  Hopefully someone links to it and that OP has updates.
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 11:35:26 AM EDT
[#10]
cell tower leases are good money.  I know a guy who bought three of them and basically lives of it.
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 11:36:35 AM EDT
[#11]
In for a trip down memory lane.
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 11:44:39 AM EDT
[#12]
Holy smokes!  I missed thst thread completely!
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 11:47:04 AM EDT
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NICE!!!...
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 11:48:08 AM EDT
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Your search-fu is weak.

Archive thread
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 11:48:56 AM EDT
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Pretty sure it was a cell tower, IIRC.  I lost track of the thread as well.
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 11:50:20 AM EDT
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engineer humor

@bassackwards
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 11:51:03 AM EDT
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Yeah I think you're right, it may have been a cell tower/complex, the photos made it seem to be pretty big, not just a tower. I think whoever owned it low-balled him and said "take it or we'll just keep on keepin' on and pay you nothing".
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It was a cell tower. I don't know what happened. The OP kept on just dragging it along without any real updates
Yeah I think you're right, it may have been a cell tower/complex, the photos made it seem to be pretty big, not just a tower. I think whoever owned it low-balled him and said "take it or we'll just keep on keepin' on and pay you nothing".
I'd be more along the lines of "Move your shit or I'll move it for you".
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 11:51:13 AM EDT
[#18]
Sawzall would fix that problem.
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 11:51:50 AM EDT
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About a year back, a member here bought a substancially-sized piece of land, couple hundred acres I think. Most of it woods. Out in the middle of his property he found a massive, functioning electrical substation, with no signage or anything stating what company or utility it belonged to.

He checks his deed, title records, etc, and nothing from the previous owners (deceased) indicated any kind of lease or agreement with any company.

ARFCOMMER calls several companies, local utilities, etc, and no one knows anything about it, no paperwork or records of a substation. Eventually he threatens to shut the damn thing down and suddenly a utility company remembers it belongs to them, but they have no lease agreement or paperwork from the previous owners allowing them to have the substation on the land. They offer him (ARFCOMMER) a ridiculously low amount of $$ to stay on the land and get all pissy when he decided to check and see what comparable stations are leasing land for. Apparently the utility had no legal legit lease for his land, nor could they produce any agreement with previous landowners.

I checked in the archives but couldn't find anything, wondering how it was resolved.
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Sorry, he didn't make it.
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 11:52:27 AM EDT
[#20]
Tag.
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 11:53:59 AM EDT
[#21]
a 17 page safe thread.

OP should have been banned.

literally!
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 11:54:34 AM EDT
[#22]
Interesting, off to wade through the old thread
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 11:54:52 AM EDT
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I remember the thread... Unsure what happened though

I bet Hillary used to send her personal email through that tower... Another ARFCOM legend lost 
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 11:56:38 AM EDT
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From what i remember he got them to sign a lease with back pay

And yes it was a cell tower in middle of expensive property in Texas
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 11:59:44 AM EDT
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He never updated the thread with a final resolution.  Last he posted on like page 16 was that he had an offer on the property to sell it and it was super secret and couldn't talk about it like the CIA was buying it or something.  LOL
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 12:01:59 PM EDT
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Your search-fu is weak.

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many thanks
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 12:03:16 PM EDT
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And yes it was a cell tower in middle of expensive property in Texas Tennessee.
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That other "T" state.
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 12:05:13 PM EDT
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Lol. I member that thread.

He had a secret famous neighbor too.
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 12:06:34 PM EDT
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I remember he got really pissy when people would ask repeated questions to him or for details he felt he had already provided.
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 12:06:42 PM EDT
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Normally after the fact easements are a cha ching for the landowner.
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 12:08:26 PM EDT
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The whole thread, from start to finish, was totally bassackwards.
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 12:09:29 PM EDT
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That other "T" state.
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Or Taxachusetts.
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 12:14:46 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 3/28/2017 12:16:25 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 3/28/2017 12:18:41 PM EDT
[#35]
I remember that thread.
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 12:28:19 PM EDT
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He was just online yesterday, someone shoot him an IM and ask
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 12:30:54 PM EDT
[#37]
I followed that and do not remember how it ended .
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 12:32:40 PM EDT
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He died mysteriously.
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 12:32:54 PM EDT
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Yeah, but wasn't there someone who had a water driven
generator in a building and he got it running?
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 12:33:11 PM EDT
[#40]
In on page 1!
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 12:39:25 PM EDT
[#41]
OST
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 12:40:15 PM EDT
[#42]
Last he spoke someone was offering to buy said land and he couldn't talk about it. Nothing said since.


@bassackwards
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 12:41:02 PM EDT
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Id be happier than a pig in mud if I found something on my land.  Id be cool about it and just say.. make me fair lease deal and we are done.
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 12:42:21 PM EDT
[#44]
His tower, his rules?
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 12:44:54 PM EDT
[#45]
Oh yea.. that whiny douche nozzle.
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 12:46:06 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 3/28/2017 12:46:51 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 3/28/2017 1:07:43 PM EDT
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Turned into a safe thread.
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It's a safe thread about a safe thread. We're meta
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 2:07:13 PM EDT
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I thought that was a different guy- wasn't part of the problem phase matching?
Link Posted: 3/28/2017 4:29:39 PM EDT
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Totally different, but this is the thread you're asking about: https://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1690536_.html


@xanadu
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