OH NO, a Cell phone tower.

[Furby]

I know what you are saying, and it is happening here left and right.
While I may not live in the country, I'm a country boy at heart and wouldn't have a problem with a pig farmer moving in next door.
I'm currently down wind of the local land fill and many farms, yes it would worse next door, but I try not to be one to get into other peoples business.
Around here, the majority of people move on to a different home within 5-10 years, it's simply a stepping stone type thing.
Will the tower affect the value of neighbors property? Maybe, maybe not.
As urban sprawl increases, there are more and more people who are willing to accept "blemishes" such as a local tower.
Having said that, there are still plenty of trouble makers who take great pride in causing trouble for others and trying to control them.


My parents have had their place for several decades, and there are only a handful of home owners that have been on the street longer.
Two houses down there are some people that made a fair amount of their living buying cars at auctions and fixing them up for resale.
The house across the street from them went up for sale due to the owners death, and could not be sold due to it's condition and asking price. Rather then blame the condition of the forsale, the agent called the township to complain about the house across the street and the cars. Now they did have a few cars and some scattered parts that would sit around for a bit before being taken care of, but it really wasn't bad. Township came in and told them to clean it up as well as going down the street issuing other clean up notices. My parents got one for the cars in the yard.
Guess what, the house still didn't sell after all the cleaning up in the neighborhood. They were forced into dropping the price to closer match the real value, and the house is now owned by someone who has for the better part of time that they have had it........kept the yard worse then those who were issued clean up notices. :

[Murf]

When they first started rushing to put in cell towers there were some big problems up here.

One of them resulted in the Kennuck guberment making very strict regulations, amongst the things that they all but insisted on was the cell phone company owning the land the tower sat on.

At first private companies were building towers and leasing them to cell companies, then one of them went bust, a whole bunch of farmers ended up with rubber rent cheques and a big land-tax bill and liability issue for a big expensive tower that wasn't really theirs. They also had a problem with the electric people looking for payment from the farmer who owned the land.

Some of them got in a real stick over it.

Those ding-a-lings at Bell came along and bought up a bunch of them, the competition bought what was left, but it was a first class messed up for a while till it got sorted.

[pigman]

How would you feel if your next door neighbor decided to lease out his lot to a pig farmer?  Now on the other hand, if you were a pig farmer, should you have to shut down because someone new moved in next door?

Just saw on the news the other day  where a landowner in a nearby county put in 100 pigs to spite his neighbors.  The whole story was that the owner wanted to sell his land for development and retire. The neighbors and govment wouldn't let him because his land was zoned agriculture. The surounding  land was already developed was the reason he wanted to develop his land. He said  his land was not a "park" for the neighbors. He knows after the pigs are there for a spell the govment will change the zoning on his land.  ;D ;)