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Cell Tower Leasing for Commercial Landlords, Developers and Real Estate Investors

Understand the terms of your cell tower lease and avoid provisions which harm property values and the future use of the property.

This program provides commercial landlords, developers, investors, units of government and all property owners with the A to Z basics of cell tower leases and lease sales and is taught by two faculty members with decades of experience representing property owners on cell tower leases and sales. This program covers entering into a lease, renewing a lease and selling a lease while emphasizing rents, sales prices, terms and avoiding provisions which harm property values and the future use of the property. This material will help property owners and attorneys who only occasionally deal with cell leases be better able to negotiate with wireless industry personnel who work on leases every day. The program starts by covering key business issues in cell site leases, including lease rates, who gets the revenues from additional antennas or carriers being co-located at a site, the rent increases possible at renewals, avoiding clauses that interfere with the normal use of the property, and why 5G service should have little impact on the preceding. Why leases for rooftop and side-mounted building antenna sites are more complicated, requiring special provisions, is then addressed. After covering more conventional lease terms the program addresses the sale of cell leases and future leasing rights. This includes typical sale prices (often around 200 times monthly rents); when to sell and when not to sell; and how to get the best price and terms in a sale. An emphasis is avoiding sales terms which the presenters have seen destroy a property's value by preventing its normal use and development. For municipalities, the program addresses additional key items in cell leases and lease sales that are unique to them. For all wireless landlords, the program covers such topics as lease term and terminations, access requirements, radio frequency interference, design and camouflage, and radio frequency emissions safety. This program is particularly important for commercial landlords, developers and the like, who often own very attractive sites for cell leases, but are most at risk from poor lease or sales terms harming the value of the property with the lease.

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Entering a Cell Tower Lease

  • Basics of Cell Lease Rents, Getting Rents From Additional Companies on the Tower
  • Increasing Rents at Lease Renewal
  • Location of Leased Area, Access and Utility Easements
  • Final Survey, Engineering Drawings Needed Before Signing
  • Changes and Modifications to Lease, Leased Area
  • Identifying, Avoiding Terms Which Harm the Normal Use of the Property
  • Utility Service and Backup Power Supplies
  • Relocation and Right of First Refusal
  • Insurance, Bankruptcy Protections and Other Key Lease Terms
  • Rooftop Cell Antenna Leases Very Complicated, Special Lease Terms Needed
  • How 5G Deployments and Industry Consolidation Affect Leases
  • Maintaining the Visual Appearance and Structural Integrity of the Building

Selling a Cell Lease

  • Typical Sales Prices - Using Bid Process to Get the Best Price, Often 200 X Rent
  • When Cell Lease Sales Make Sense, and When They Don't
  • Selling Property With a Cell Lease - Sell or Retain the Cell Lease First
  • Avoiding Terms That Harm Property Values, Limit Future Property Development
  • Length of Time for a Sale, Start to Finish
    • Lease Terms That Impair or Prevent a Sale
    • Rooftop Antenna Lease Sales More Complicated, Special Terms Needed
    • Addressing OneSided Sales Documents
    • Buyer Compliance With Building, Safety Codes

State and Local Government Issues

  • Bond Counsel Approval Often Needed
  • Dillon's Rule, Governmental Authority for a Sale
  • Property Specific Restrictions, Reverters
  • Procurement, Waste Issues

Drafting and Counseling Issues

  • Business Pros and Cons
  • Visualizing the Deal (Ground Level Sites; Rooftop Building Sites)
  • Getting Multiple Offers via a Rfp Process
  • Reimbursement of Property Owner's Legal Fees and Other Transactional Fees
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This course was last revised on March 26, 2020.

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  • CA MCLE 1.75
     
  • Lorman Business Center, LLC. is a State Bar of California approved MCLE sponsor and this course qualifies for 1.75 CLE hours of participatory credit.
     

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This program does NOT qualify, nor meet the National Standard for NASBA accreditation.

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Jonathan L. Kramer, Esq.

Jonathan L. Kramer, Esq.

Telecom Law Firm, P.C.

  • Senior partner at Telecom Law Firm, P.C.: Offices in Los Angeles, San Di ego, and Boston
  • Attorney admitted in California and New Mexico
  • Wireless leasing and zoning experience for more than 25 years
  • Over 6,000 wireless projects (zoning, leasing, lease enforcement, lease sales)
  • Radio frequency/Broadband telecom engineer for more than 45 years
  • Doctor of Law and Policy, Northeastern University
  • Can be contacted at [email protected] or 310-312-9900, ext. 121
John W. Pestle, Esq.

John W. Pestle, Esq.

Varnum LLP

  • Chair of the Telecommunications Group at Varnum LLP law firm
  • Representing property owners nationwide on cell leases for 27 years
  • Helped clients sell over 100 cell leases
  • Graduate of Harvard, Yale, and Michigan Law School
  • Can be contacted at [email protected] or 616-336-6725
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