In recent years, there has been a significant increase in offers to landowners to “pre-pay” cell tower leases with a single lump sum, instead of regular
Steel in the Air’s 2022 Predictions for Cell Tower Leasing and Valuation While 2021 certainly impacted many industries negatively, the wireless industry wasn’t one of
Getting What You Deserve from your Cell Tower Lease! Missing Income: Electric and tax reimbursement clauses in cell site leases. In the standard cell tower
AT&T (via BlackDot), is contacting tower owners and landowners and trying to convince them to renegotiate their leases. If you have read our previous content-
One of our municipal clients has a water tower with T-Mobile and Sprint on it. T-Mobile has proposed to add antennas and equipment with Band
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).
A number of our clients have ground leases with Crown Castle that contain revenue sharing clauses. They contacted us recently to ask why their lease
If you have followed our musings over the years, you know that we don’t like the lease renegotiation industry. In the past we have observed
One of our clients received a proposal from a tower company that included a revenue share clause. Generally, revenue shares are not proposed by wireless
A few times a year, we are contacted by someone that believes that a wireless company attached equipment to an electric tower (not a
