Power lines vs. property values

Flickr image by radiant guy.

About a mile from my house sits the local elementary school, and across the street on the south side of the campus is a long straight block of homes with more than the usual number of for-sale signs.

The only thing that distinguishes this block from all other blocks around the school where there are few homes up for sale is that the backyards of these homes run up against a power-line corridor, and, oddly, in one place where the power line shifts direction, there is an empty lot next to the home where a tower sits.

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