[TowerTalk] Location

[Tom Anderson]

Fellow Tower Talkians:

Years ago when my XYL Cheryl (WY5H) and I were looking at new homes we
went to one development and wound up with a sales person and her manager
that were about to promise us the moon just to sign on the dotted line.

The first thing I did was ask to see their deed restrictions and amongst
them was an outright ban on any kind of outside antenna. Most any
development that has buried utilites can nearly always be a tipoff to no
outside antennas we've found in past experience. 

I told them no sale, but they tried to get us to sign anyway by saying
"oh we can get it written into the contract by the ower that you're not
bound by the deed restriction and you can put up a tower."  I said sure
and what will the umpteen other proeprty owers say on their way to the
courthouse to file suit against me?

Also, we seem to toss Realtor and other terms for a real estate sales
person around.  When I was a newspaper reporter for 20+ years and had to
write an obituary or a news story about a person identified by the
funeral home or anyone else as a "Realtor" (copyrighted term) we were
required by staff policy (the Fort Worth paper had a circulation of
350,000 then) to check with the local Board of Realtors to see if they
were a member or not.  If not, we just identified them as a real estate
sales person, etc., but not Realtor.  The Fort Worth Board of Realtors
used to scream, write letters to the editor, call the news editor on the
phone, etc. when we'd run an obit or other news story and identify
someone as a Realtor who wasn't a member of any Board of Realtors.  Most
of the time if it was going to take too long for someone from the local
Board of Realtors to confirm the name, I'd just call the person (dead or
alive) a real estate salesperson and not have to worry about getting a
bunch of phone calls.

It was kind of like running a story and saying "coke" rather than "Coke"
and waiting for a letter from Coca Cola's trademark attorney.  

Tom, WW5L
Colleyville TX (NE of downtown Cowtown <Fort Worth>)