My question involves real estate located in the State of: Tennessee
am hoping to get some direction, insight, or help with a situation dealing with a utility company in my area ( TDS).
My boyfriend and I purchased rural property in Waynesboro TN. We made this purchase without looking at the property, since it was an undeveloped lot that we planned to build on. While corresponding with the agent selling the property we specifically asked if there were any easements or right of passage on the parcel ( we have the emails inquiring about this). We were directly told “no” that there were no easements or right of ways. When we got down to the property after purchasing we discovered that there were utility lines that ran across the whole frontage of the property. Since you are not allowed to build within a certain distance of the lines this renders a large portion of the property useless. The property is shaped like a pie following the curve of the road, and the utilities lines litterly run across the whole thing. When we contacted the realtor they essentially said sorry for the misunderstanding.
We have contacted the utility companies. TVEC is the power company and TDS is the phone company. We were told our options were to bury the lines or have them relocated across the road. Either way we needed to pay the cost. We were told by Tvec that the cost to relocate the lines was $1700 and the estimate to buried them was 6k due to the need to purchase conduit to house the wire and the cost of digging a trench to a depth of 4ft. When we contacted TDS were were told there was no charge from them and they would dig their own trench for their lines.
We elected to have the lines buried, since we want to purchase the property across the street as well. We paid TVEC and had the work done in November.
We called TDS the day the work was being performed to make sure we did not need to leave the trench open for them and again we were told that they would
just come out and do their own work. The project was completed by TVEC and
we are still waiting for TDS to do anything.
We have contacted them repeatedly, and nothing has been done. My last contact was with a customer service manager named Sal, who told me that although he did not have timetable that a “significant investment was required from us” he also did not have an amount. We were then contacted by a field engineer by the name of Mark George, and he told us that the cost would be over 18k!
Since getting this obscene quote we called Tvec back and inquired about just paying to have the poles relocate as to remove the lines from the property, and we were told that TVEC will not remove the poles until the phone company moves their lines since they have an agreement with one another.
How is this legal? what recourse does an average person have against these awful companies? They are terrorists in their own way. We have no intention of ever using the service provided by either company, as we will be off grid. I feel like I am being held hostage by this company. As it stands now I am out the money for burying half the lines and still unable to do what I want with the property. Is there a way to get them to remove the lines from the property in a timely manner? Do I have any rights as the property owner, or do big companies just get to lie and use the land as they deem necessary? I am at wits end and am not sure what recourse I have. If you could help me, I would really appreciate it Thank you in advance.
am hoping to get some direction, insight, or help with a situation dealing with a utility company in my area ( TDS).
My boyfriend and I purchased rural property in Waynesboro TN. We made this purchase without looking at the property, since it was an undeveloped lot that we planned to build on. While corresponding with the agent selling the property we specifically asked if there were any easements or right of passage on the parcel ( we have the emails inquiring about this). We were directly told “no” that there were no easements or right of ways. When we got down to the property after purchasing we discovered that there were utility lines that ran across the whole frontage of the property. Since you are not allowed to build within a certain distance of the lines this renders a large portion of the property useless. The property is shaped like a pie following the curve of the road, and the utilities lines litterly run across the whole thing. When we contacted the realtor they essentially said sorry for the misunderstanding.
We have contacted the utility companies. TVEC is the power company and TDS is the phone company. We were told our options were to bury the lines or have them relocated across the road. Either way we needed to pay the cost. We were told by Tvec that the cost to relocate the lines was $1700 and the estimate to buried them was 6k due to the need to purchase conduit to house the wire and the cost of digging a trench to a depth of 4ft. When we contacted TDS were were told there was no charge from them and they would dig their own trench for their lines.
We elected to have the lines buried, since we want to purchase the property across the street as well. We paid TVEC and had the work done in November.
We called TDS the day the work was being performed to make sure we did not need to leave the trench open for them and again we were told that they would
just come out and do their own work. The project was completed by TVEC and
we are still waiting for TDS to do anything.
We have contacted them repeatedly, and nothing has been done. My last contact was with a customer service manager named Sal, who told me that although he did not have timetable that a “significant investment was required from us” he also did not have an amount. We were then contacted by a field engineer by the name of Mark George, and he told us that the cost would be over 18k!
Since getting this obscene quote we called Tvec back and inquired about just paying to have the poles relocate as to remove the lines from the property, and we were told that TVEC will not remove the poles until the phone company moves their lines since they have an agreement with one another.
How is this legal? what recourse does an average person have against these awful companies? They are terrorists in their own way. We have no intention of ever using the service provided by either company, as we will be off grid. I feel like I am being held hostage by this company. As it stands now I am out the money for burying half the lines and still unable to do what I want with the property. Is there a way to get them to remove the lines from the property in a timely manner? Do I have any rights as the property owner, or do big companies just get to lie and use the land as they deem necessary? I am at wits end and am not sure what recourse I have. If you could help me, I would really appreciate it Thank you in advance.
Removing Lines
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