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Verizon Cell Tower - Negotiating A Lease

Steel in the Air, Inc is not affiliated with Verizon Wireless. Verizon and Verizon Wireless are trademarked terms by Verizon. If you have mistakenly found this website while looking for a contact to Verizon Wireless, please go to www.verizonwireless.com. Verizon Wireless acquired Alltel in a merger finally consummated earlier this year. Verizon Wireless currently has approximately 87.6 subscribers in the US and reported $43.9 billion in revenue in 2007 per Wikipedia. Verizon is a conglomeration of Alltel, Bell Atlantic Mobile, NYNEX Mobile, Airtouch Communications, PrimeCo Communications and GTE Mobilenet.

Steel in the Air, Inc. is a consulting firm that assists landowners and building owners who have been contacted to place a Verizon cell tower or Verizon cell phone antennas on their property or rooftop. We also provide services to help landowners and rooftop owners evaluate the extension of an existing lease. For more information on negotiating or extending a Verizon or other cell tower lease, please see our page on expiring cell tower leases.

We assist landowners with Verizon cell tower proposals by reviewing the location. As we have done with numerous other landowners, we start by backwards engineering the site acquisition process through an examination of our proprietary cell tower lease rate database. We examine what other parcels would meet their needs for a Verizon cell phone tower. We check local zoning ordinances, attempt to backwards engineer their radio frequency goals for the cell tower, and examine which other parcels would be both suitable and interested. We then provide you with an evaluation of whether your property is the only property that meets their needs, the preferred property, or one of many that meets their needs.

It is in first two options that we can be really effective in helping you maximize the rent being proposed. We can share with you what other landowners have received in comparable situations. Please note that we don’t just share what other owners are getting- because that assumes that every property is the same. Your property may be more desirable or less desirable to Verizon for a cell tower than the person up the street that has a tower. Furthermore, different carriers negotiate differently. Personally, we like dealing with Verizon for cell tower leases. They are straight forward and tend to pay more for unique locations. However, their legal department is much more stringent in their review of the lease. If you are looking for help with reviewing the lease legally, please see our Verizon Cell Site Lease page at Cell Tower Attorney.

As part of our services, we also review the other financial terms in the proposed lease agreement like escalation, option payments, revenue sharing (if appropriate), and attorney fees, ect. We can also help you determine how best to negotiate a Verizon cell tower lease. Our services are offered on an hourly basis at $500/hour. (see why we charge $500/hour here) It typically takes between 2-2.5 hours to complete an assessment – with an additional 30-45 minutes if you want a written assessment.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us via email or call us at 1-877-428-6937 to see how we can help with your Verizon cell tower lease proposal. (Please don’t call us to see if we can help you get a Verizon cell tower on your property- we can’t).