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Pay Dirt...go figure


straycat

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This afternoon I go some news from a contractor for a natural gas company:


I offered some of my property to a natural gas company last year when they were inquiring about running a pipe line through a section of property owned by three of us property owners. They said they need rights of way instead of buying some of the land we own. I asked them to pay us $6,000 for a section of the right of way and that section of the property would be there’s. They told us they don’t need the property (tax loophole maybe) and just need the right of way instead. Well, The natural gas company came over today with a contract and offered me and two other land owners $40,000 total to lay a natural pipeline across the corner of our far most outward piece of property. This is the fourth time they have offered any of us property owners in the area a deal and this will be the second time they are going to dig in the area to run the pipe. They will have to lay pipe a total of 3 acres across our property and two other property owners. Later they will have to connect the pipe to the area they are going to hook up it up to. That area is ready to be accessed by customers future and present. But first, they have to run the pipe across our property. We saw them do this before and it was done really nice and the area was not ruined by them.

So, instead of paying me the $6,000 I asked for on that far section of the property they will now have to pay three of us a little over $13,00 each. That is just great for us. I can pay off my cabin up in Mississippi. My dad paid for the cabin on my property up there and I still owe him 2 years on a 6 year loan for it. Finally, we will be debt free!! The gas company will not damage the property and when they are done you will never know they were there. It is a dense portion of the property and they are not allowed to cut down any trees or run the pipes anywhere near the river or the pond area. The gas company is adding to an area where an older and a newer subdivision and shopping division is and this of course will make them more money in their pockets in the long run. We have natural gas and we love it. I use it for the stove and the wall mounted tank less water heater and our natural gas whole house generator.
 
and the winch fund for my awesome b2!!! i'll pay you back in 2 years!
 
Nice job Stray! Don't forget your buddy out Salt Lake way. :D
 
score !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Nice.

I wish some utility would offer me a hunk of cash for an ROW access on my property.

One thing: Make sure you READ the agreement. See if they have rights to service their pipeline if needed or if they have to give you notice when they'll be on the property. Look at the details. Might be worth having an attorney give it the quick once-over.
 
Not to bring you down, but I would watch the movie GasLand. You may find it very informative.
 
When they're done you'll know they were there. I locate for a gas company and i can assure you they will leave their mark. They will put up permanent markers along the route (usually yellow, some of the oddball companies like panhandle, trunkline, enterprise, kinder morgan, etc... use other colors) there will be vent pipes, anode vaults, test stations, regulators, valves, meter stations, and other such things protruding from the dirt when they are done. But for $40,000 who really cares!

If its not too late you may try to work something into the deal for un metered gas service to your house there is a farmer here with a gate station in the middle of his field. His propert gets unmetered natural gas as long as the pipeline is in business. He has since installed several generators to power his house, barns, grain augers, fans, etc... Thanks to the pipeline he has no gas bill and no electric bill.
 
Sorry, guys...I am paying off the cabin and putting the rest in our savings account....and that is the 'Straycat Fund'...lol. I have seen other areas they have run the gas line through and they did a real good job. There are some markers (small post that say 'Natural Gas Line'). The area they are running through is at the corner of our property and there is nothing there put a few trees and brush. They will not be in the area the pond is or the area where the property is very dense with foliage and we are happy with that. But..I will be there a few times a week when they are doing the work to see that they do not tear up anything. We have had natural gas in all our homes for years and I am not worried about anything.
 
Cool...good for you...nice to see someone getting ahead of the game...:icon_thumby:
 
Both of my properties have gas pipes. My rental house has a trans-continental pipeline--twin 36" pipes at 900psi. This house has a 10" alongside a 20" feeding the west side of Indianapolis. They fly the pipelines about once a week a couple hundred feet up. They don't have to ask you to access it. You might wake up with a tractor bush hogging it. They won't let anything grow on it except grass.

The good part is, they are more generous if you are cooperative. They have torn up sections of the pipe 3x in the last 12 years, but they go out of their way to make sure you are happy when they put it back. Since you are agreeable, they don't have to eminent domain your ass--which is better for you.
 
Great information, Will. I will be over there a few times a week and I will bring some refreshments along and bring my guitar and a buddy and they will know we are good people and I will see what happens after all is done. I have seen the other areas they did a few years back and it still looks great.
 
Both of my properties have gas pipes. My rental house has a trans-continental pipeline--twin 36" pipes at 900psi. This house has a 10" alongside a 20" feeding the west side of Indianapolis. They fly the pipelines about once a week a couple hundred feet up. They don't have to ask you to access it. You might wake up with a tractor bush hogging it. They won't let anything grow on it except grass.

The good part is, they are more generous if you are cooperative. They have torn up sections of the pipe 3x in the last 12 years, but they go out of their way to make sure you are happy when they put it back. Since you are agreeable, they don't have to eminent domain your ass--which is better for you.

Gas lines like that have massive easements. I'v seen ones like that with something like 80ft. Whatever one is going on Strays probably isnt very big at all. Just make sure you not getting a reg station or something and other than a yellow line from time to time or marker a post it will never bother you. Lucky dog!
 
Not to bring you down, but I would watch the movie GasLand. You may find it very informative.

you may want to research the details of that movie as well.


the sell on that is absolute horse shit.


glad you came out ahead stray:icon_thumby:
 

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