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Since 2004, Steel in the Air has served over 3,000 clients, reviewed over 10,000 cellular leases and tracked over 2,000 lease buyout offers. We represent private landowners, corporate property owners and public entities in lease negotiations against wireless carriers and tower companies. We also consult on cell site and cell tower valuation and brokerage. Our cell tower and cell site database has grown to encompass over 285,000 cell site locations nationwide.

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Our Wireless Forecasts For 2020

January 29, 2020 Ken Schmidt

Seem Like Offers to Buy or Extend Your Cell Tower Lease Are Getting Better?

Coupled with low cost of capital and their recent conversions to REITs, tower companies have every incentive to convert leases (long term operating expense) to easements (upfront capital expenditure).

May 31, 2019 Ken Schmidt

Verizon’s Tricky-Tricky Cell Site Lease Assignment Language

We applaud Verizon for their interest in preventing their leases from being sold to third parties like lease buyout companies.  It …

August 22, 2017 Ken Schmidt

Want a Kinder Less Aggressive Tower Company Leasing Specialist? Just Fill Out a Survey!

One of our client's called us yesterday to let us know that they had been beleaguered by a tower company …

July 27, 2017 Ken Schmidt

Everest Infrastructure Partners: The Phoenix of Tristar Investors?

HISTORY OF TRISTAR INVESTORS Back in 2008-2013, a company called Tristar Investors was attempting to acquire ground leases under American …

February 27, 2017 Ken Schmidt

CCI expresses interest in buying Verizon towers

Crown Castle (CCI) is the largest of the Big Three U.S. tower companies, and currently owns 40K towers nationwide (followed …

October 14, 2014 Ken Schmidt

Tristar Investors Lawsuit Against American Tower Corporation

On Feb 16,  2012, Tristar Investors sued American Tower Corporation alleging that American Tower had violated the Lanham Act, unfairly …

December 4, 2013 Ken Schmidt

Best Practices Guide for Lease Buyout/Optimization Companies

The article is written tongue in cheek- I was just feeling a little rambunctious today about the myriad of “strategies” that lease buyout companies, tower companies, lease optimization firms, and wireless carriers use to try to convince landowners to do something that is not in their best interest.

October 19, 2011 Ken Schmidt

Crown Castle and Nextel Revenue Sharing

On a few occasions now, clients of ours with Crown Castle tower ground leases have received proposals to either purchase …

July 29, 2011 Ken Schmidt

When People with Good Intentions Make Poor Decisions Out of Ignorance

A gentleman contacted me this past week, a bit upset in that his church board had decided to sell a …

November 1, 2010 Ken Schmidt

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