[TowerTalk] Deed _protection_ for antennas using CC&R's

[Tom Anderson]

While I'm not a land appraiser, I just know how they appraised my 
current QTH. They took a list of "comparable" homes both in my 
neighborhood and outside it and somehow came up with a value.

To my knowledge, the Tarrant County Appraisal District (one of 254 such 
agencies in Texas--one in each county and what a boondoggle in my my 
opinion. They're not there to assure "fair" appraisals, but to maximize 
land values as much as they can so govts can get as much $$$ as they 
can) has never used the fact a ham antenna was in a neighborhood as a 
reason for lowering a property's value--at least they haven't lowered 
anyone's property around me for that reason.

Tom, WW5L



Alan NV8A wrote:
> But the sellers could still claim -- but cannot prove -- that their 
> homes would have sold at a higher price if it were not for your tower.
> 
> There is no way of *proving* either assertion because it is impossible 
> to compare the results of selling the same property to the same 
> purchaser on the same day when your tower is there and when it isn't.
> 
> 73
> 
> Alan NV8A
> 
> 
> On 06/30/07 01:59 pm J. Gordon Beattie, Jr., W2TTT wrote:
> 
> 
>>Adjacent blocks with similar homes and no towers went up in the same manner.
> 
> 
>>>Your data doesn't support your position.  Your data simply says 
>>>values went up with your towers in place.  Just because values went 
>>>up does not mean that they would not have gone up more if your towers 
>>>had not been there.  You/we simply have no way of knowing.
>>
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