Approached to lease your land for a cell site or cell phone tower?

Many people who are contacted by a wireless provider or a cell tower company often do not know how to evaluate what the fair market value of their property is in regards to a cell tower lease. That is because there is no standard answer. There are other web sites that claim that $1,500 a month is standard, but that is woefully inaccurate. For most landowners, if you ask for $1,500 a month, the site acquisition agent will move to the next landowner, and you will get nothing except the opportunity to look at the cell phone tower on your neighbor's property for the next 30 years.

For some landowners, $1,500 a month is too little, but to get this type of money, your property must be in an urban area and must be unique in terms of zoning. Some hilltops in urban areas can command much more.

The problem has been that there is no reliable source for this information. If you are at this website, you have probably found this out. www.privateline.com has some good information to start, but outside of that there are few websites that talk about what a fair value is for your cell tower lease.

Many landowners assume that because their friend or cousin got $xxx.xx a month for their cell tower that they should receive that amount too. But your properties are not the same. They are invariably different sizes, have different zoning classifications, and have different proximities to cities and roadways. Every property is unique, and every location has a unique fair market value.

Contact us for an evaluation of your property. We can provide consultation on what bonus payments or services you can ask for that most companies will give freely. We can help you decipher the technical language of the cell tower lease and how it applies to you (see our webpage on the subject of Lease Language). This is not a legal review and should never take the place of having the proposed lease reviewed by an attorney. Most importantly, we can help advise you on how hard to negotiate your cell tower lease and when to back down so that you still get the cell tower on your property and not your neighbors'.

Our goal is to provide you with the knowledge necessary so that you can negotiate your cell tower lease on even footing and are secure in knowing what to ask for. Most importantly, we can help you make the lease agreement less one-sided.

Our typical consultation for a new cell tower lease takes around 2 hours.  Our hourly fee is $500/hour.   We recognize that you may be hesitant to pay $1000 to find out whether your site has additional value.  Thus, we will offer the following guarantee.   If you don't receive at least $50/mo more after retaining our services or other additional compensation that warrants our involvement, we will only bill for the first hour.  In some circumstances, we will agree to assist you for a percentage of any increase you procure from their initial offer.

Many potential clients ask us to justify our rates. While our hourly rate may be considered high, consider the cost of your being wrong in negotiating your lease. If you leave a mere $100/mo on the table during negotiations, over 25 years, you will have passed up $40,000. See our Cell Tower Lease Rate chart that shows what you pass up over the course of a lease if you fail to negotiate properly. Compared to the cost of being wrong, our $1000 fee is minimal. And in many cases, we can advise you how to get the carrier to pay the fee.

Please Contact Us for a free quote.

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