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Approved 9/10/2013 OC Board of Adjustment – 7/8/2013 Page 6 of 82 to do it now and we have put the lot on the market and it listed for $375,000. When I told my seller that there will be a 1 cell phone tower put right up the street, she was really upset. 2 3 Samantha Cabe: It was her decision to refrain from building a million dollar house …. 4 5 Armand Lenchek: I am sorry, I didn’t mean to give you that impression, she had already decided not to build a million 6 dollar house and I am trying to sell the lot. 7 8 Samantha Cabe: Just for the record, she made the decision not to build the house before she knew about the cell 9 tower. 10 11 Armand Lenchek: Correct. I am saying now that she knows there will be a cell tower up the street within a visible 12 distance of her lot, it will probably drop the price. 13 14 Samantha Cabe: Wouldn’t it be the lack of offers that would make her drop the price, not the existence of the cell 15 tower. 16 17 Armand Lenchek: The cell tower is going to be perceived as being one of the main reasons we won’t be getting an 18 offer. 19 20 Samantha Cabe: But you don’t know that you won’t get an offer because it is not listed yet, right? 21 22 Armand Lenchek: It is listed. 23 24 Samantha Cabe: How long has it been listed? 25 26 Armand Lenchek: Over a year. 27 28 Samantha Cabe: You haven’t got an acceptable offer on the property without the cell tower? 29 30 Armand Lenchek: That is correct. We just recently reduced the price from $398,900 to $375,000 and this will 31 probably make her reduce the price even further. 32 33 Helen Figueror: I have been sworn in. I have my own personal experience with power lines and it is also the same 34 impressions. I brought some quotes about people saying, beautiful home but I don’t want to live next to these things. 35 They are visible when you come into my neighborhood but the interesting part is that we have had three sellers in my 36 neighborhood that just closed last month and one of the homes sold which didn’t have the power lines and the other 37 home didn’t have a problem with the power lines. One sold for $15,000 more and it wasn’t as nice a house as this 38 house. I personally know the other house because I had it listed before and the other house that sold did not have the 39 problem with the power lines. I know the other two were visibly, as far as quality for the home, they were similar but 40 the house that was the best house with the largest yard had at the very end of the yard, one of those big tower things 41 and people would come in and say I don’t want to live next to the power lines and there has been research now. The 42 thing is that you can get two kinds of research. You can get from Duke Power there is no problem, you’re not going to 43 get sick and you have other research that came from Europe, that ….. 44 45 Larry Wright: What you need to do when you deal with this again with your customers is to have them look at the 46 National Library of Medicine which is the premier medical library in the world… have them go to Medline Plus and key 47 in telecommunication towers… it talks about radio frequency, etc. There is no direct evidence that gathered literature 48 from all over the world, there is no evidence that radio frequencies from cell phone towers and all kinds, tissue 49 penetration and everything, I know about this. You need to consult that and that will answer your question. The 50 studies are not definitive. 51