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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. |
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I thought it was a cell tower? Might be a different incident.
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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
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Yeah he made a deal with them and purchased a Caribbean island with the money.
(I kid, I never saw the first post) |
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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 View Quote |
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Would probably be a better payday if you climbed it and jumped off, breaking your leg and starting a massive lawsuit.
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This sounds interesting. Hopefully someone links to it and that OP has updates.
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cell tower leases are good money. I know a guy who bought three of them and basically lives of it.
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Pretty sure it was a cell tower, IIRC. I lost track of the thread as well.
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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". View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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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 |
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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. View Quote Sorry, he didn't make it. |
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a 17 page safe thread.
OP should have been banned. literally! |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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Lol. I member that thread.
He had a secret famous neighbor too. |
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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.
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[#30]
Normally after the fact easements are a cha ching for the landowner.
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The whole thread, from start to finish, was totally bassackwards.
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He was just online yesterday, someone shoot him an IM and ask
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[#39]
Yeah, but wasn't there someone who had a water driven
generator in a building and he got it running? |
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Last he spoke someone was offering to buy said land and he couldn't talk about it. Nothing said since.
@bassackwards |
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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.
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Yeah, but wasn't there someone who had a water driven generator in a building and he got it running? View Quote @xanadu |
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