April 14, 2026 ⢠20 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let me take you to Houston.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Okay, so there can eat at the spindle top the it's.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Opened, it's back open.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
So there is a there's two houses that are side
by side. They they are not townhouses, but they are
very very close together, although they do they do call
it a townhouse.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
But it doesn't look like there's a shared wall between them.
Maybe there is.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
It's for sale, three bedrooms, two and a half bath,
three hundred and fifty nine thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
However, Diane, I'll show you the picture. Can you tell
me what's wrong?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
What is that in the middle of the driveway so.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
You can notice that, Yes, okay, you can't drive over.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
It in the middle of the driveway of one. There's
side by side driveways.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Right, so there's a photo. Can you give me a
keyword so I can pull it up.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
What neighborhood is Lyndale Park, Houston Townhouse.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Okay, that's good enough.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
So the driveways are side by side, right.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
The driveway on the right is a regular driveway, two
car garage. You pull into the driveway, you pull into
the garage. The one on the left has two cable
wires that have come down and are planted in the
driveway and they come off of a utility pole that's
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twenty feet down the street. So like you know, if
you see a utility pole or something like that, you'll
see those big kigs cables that come down and go
into the ground.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
That's what those are.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
But they decided to put them in the driveway.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
They are right in the middle of the apron of
the driveway, like where essentially where the sidewalk becomes part
of the driveway.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
So to explain this, I feel like we need to
hear from someone who would represent both sides. What do
you mean, the home builder and the utility company.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
The listing is oh, they say.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
This seller the polls will be taken down once a
buyer is secured.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Now, I bet okay.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Other people who and again this started going around yesterday.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I thought this was very odd.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Other people online noted situations like this while unusual in appearance. Yes,
because you agree, you're.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Not what's wrong?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I'm looking at a video.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Oh yeah, the video is even worse. So there's no
driving in You're you're not getting into your driveway?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Which was which which was put up first?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Did you say, yeah, chicken out of the egg?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
People commented online, saying situations like this, while unusual in appearance,
aren't entirely uncommon. Builders can complete construction before utility companies
are able to relocate. Infrastructure, and marketing materials sometimes reflect
a property's intended final state, so that may have already
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been done, and the utility companies like, oh, you know,
it's funny, we haven't installed the cables yet. So they
drop them right there, and they said unusual. Yes, uncommon,
not so much. But do you end up being able
to get them taken down? Like at some point somebody goes, what.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Kind of like tower are there's cables attached to It
looks pretty substantial.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
It looks like a very tall electric pole, like electrical pole.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
But I want them down and my drive I repaired
day one.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Ish, Oh well we will as soon as I buy a.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Place resecure buyer, we'll get on that.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
But what is this, Elie. This is a screenshot from
realtor dot com where you don't see it. So they're
averageizing this home like it's a problem. You know.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Sometimes you can go online.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
And they've like virtual stage, virtually staged, yeah, extensively.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
In this one, I have virtually staged the drive Oh
my god.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yes, so they like the one online.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
You could look in theo and it looks fine, and
then people are showing up and going, hey, you know
I can't get in the driveway right there's poles in
the middle of the driveway or cables.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, there's a picture that shows the pole and the
cables coming down onto it. Kristen, will you do me
a favor? Number one?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Will you find me somebody from a utility company. You
agree that's power? Right?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Like, that's not a phone, looks looks like it.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah, I think it's power.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Will you find me somebody who works for a utility
company please, or somebody who's ever seen this, Like they said,
it's it's unusual in appearance, yes, but not uncommon.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I've never seen that.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
You said. It's a case where the house is completed
but the utility companies have to come in later.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Construction is done before utility companies are capable or able
to relocate infrastructure.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
But people buy homes before they're finished, before they're fully built.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Correct, So this isn't.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Like, hey, we're going to take it down once there's
a buyer. In other scenarios, there could be a buyer.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
There's a buyer because I already bought the land to
have the plot, to have the house built.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
And there is you've talked about in the past that
they don't Necessarily contractors and homebuilders don't love this, but
there are those people that go to the site every
single day. Yes, they hate that, and that's when stuff's
going well swimmingly. Could you imagine pulling up and then
seeing the utility company taking chunks out of your sidewalk
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and driveway to put these wires in?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Hey, what that for? Yeah? I don't know what you
would do. I have no idea what you would do.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
And if you're the home builder who's probably already annoyed
that you keep doing excite checks, what are you gonna do?
Put your hands on I don't know what that is.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I'm not the utility company. Take it up with them. Yeah,
I don't know what you do. I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
So I guess I'm maybe a builder, a utility person,
or somebody who's got really bad luck and this happened
to you.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I don't know what.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
I don't know what you would call that eight six
six to Elliott eight six six two three five five
four six eight Let me go to Line one Hi
Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Hey, I bought a house and Canton downtown Baltimore about
ten years ago, and the same exact.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Situation happened to me.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
It was in the parking pad though in the back.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
The utility pole was right in the center of the
parking pad. And they actually, like during the process, they said,
if you want to build in ten grand to the
mortgage to pay the utility company to move the pole
like seven feet to the left, you could turn the
area into a parking pen.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
So wait a minute, So you didn't even just have cables.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
You literally had the utility pole in the middle of
your your parking pad behind your house exactly.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
I was the only house on the block that didn't
have a parking pad because of the location of the pole.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
And if you wanted it moved, the utility company would
do it if you paid ten grand.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
I could have built it in the mortgage for ten
grand or just paid out of pocket ten grand.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yep, what did you do?
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Left it there and kept the fence in the backyard
of the city, which I felt.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
Was a little bit for like safety purposes.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
So no, I can come to.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Visit brop me Hey, do you do you still own it?
Speaker 5 (07:42):
We sold it last summer, moved up to Abington.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
When you sold it, what did the people say? Nothing?
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Nothing. I think some people actually kind of like the fence.
I mean, it sucks not having a parking pad there,
but we just sold it as is.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I understand they may like the fence.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
What was their view of the utility pole in their
in their backyard.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
I mean, it's it's the city.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
They're everywhere, so it kind of just is what it is.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
It's a little bit.
Speaker 8 (08:06):
Different than Houston situation.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
But nothing came up about it.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Right, No, No, And listen, I understand that they're all
over the place, but usually you would find those not
in your property, Like it may be like up towards
the street or like in that little patch or something.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Normally it's not buried right in the middle of your backyard.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Yeah, it was kind of like on the edge of
the yard in the alley, So I think it was
just kind of normal for the area.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Wow, good for you, Good for you, all right, dud,
I appreciate it, Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Yes, Tyler, quite a.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Few listeners have dealt with poles in the middle of driveways.
Are you serious.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
So it's not even cables, it's the.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Whole pole like the collar you.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Line four. Hi Elliott in the morning, Yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 7 (08:52):
I will say my name, but I work in the
Tori Tilly consulting industry and deal with developers and the
mini power and other utilities in the area.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Does this happen all the time where there's a pole
or cables that are dropped in the middle of somebody's driveway,
parking pad yard.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I don't even know what it would be.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
Yeah, it's not uncommon. Unfortunately, utilities are not the quickest
moving and they kind of go at their own pace
and we'll we'll. You know, they have easements too, so
they have the right, you know, to put their stuff
wherever they have an easement. So if you're if they
put in the wrong spot and if you're driveway, then
you got to pay it in the movement.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Yeah yeah, but that would the I don't want why
am I paying? Like they didn't notice it was a driveway.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
They were Whoever put the stake out in the ground,
They're gonna put that polehere. That steak is.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
That is the most that is the most important thing
we learn because if you come home and there's some
random steak in your driveway, pull it out and throw it.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Absolutely I would lose. And it's does ten grand? Sound right?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Oh yeah?
Speaker 7 (10:02):
Starting at sing grand. It's a larger pole. You could
be up to thirty grand. No way, no way, yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Wow, all right, very good, thank you. We'll just build
it into the mortgage. Well I can't already build a
car into the mortgage.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
That is such a nerve wracking feeling when you come
home and you see that your yard's been marked up
by the spray paint, but you don't have a project,
and you're like, what are they going to have to
do to my property?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Good, they're going to trench it.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I hate that.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Richie, though, says no problem for him. He rides a motorcycle,
get right around between. Yeah, but you only seldom a motorcyclist.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Dream house. Where am I going? I'm one. I can't
believe how many people have dealt in Hello Hello, Yeah, Hey,
I'm gonna be it's loud. That's in the buckets me?
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Who's that?
Speaker 7 (11:03):
How you know it?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (11:04):
I lived in Baltimore for about ten years.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
I rented a house out in Canton.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
For about two During COVID and the telephone pole was
part of the deck.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I'm sorry, like like a like a like it came
through the deck.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
Yeah, so where you would have a normal structure for
like a six by six or you know whatever you're
bracing it up with, the telephone was part of the
actual structure of the deck.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Wow, And what did that bother? You were cool with
that or did it bother you?
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
I didn't care.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
I'm a single father. Didn't bother me at all.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I dude, I appreciate it, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
What is that? That is chris Is house he grew
up in. Now it's a similar setup with the pole
and the support cable, but it's not it's not blocking
the drive for right?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Is it just ugly?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
This is a childhood home?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Okay, I'll answer, yeah, somebody could look.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
I had ugly houses and I was growing up.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
It actually is a really cute house. I like to
look at the house.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Do you like when you look out from the front
door that all you see are cables attached right in
front of your walkway?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I don't know. You tell me, is is that pretty?
Speaker 4 (12:20):
I know there's pegs. Don't you dare climb up that pole.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Now, I will say this is better than the Houston situation.
But your your entire front is cables.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
But you're also able to use your driveway.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Yeah, you can't run out of your front door. Well,
you're going to run into the cables. To me, this
is an electrocute yourself.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Maybe not ideal, but this is not completely prohibiting use
of a motor vehicle.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
True. No, I said it's better than Houston.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
What do they call that.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
White trash?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Just is there something people need to be on the
lookout for if they are buying?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Somebody else said, wait, if you have to be on
the lookout for you is there do you think that's
in the listing? Oh, stainless steel, hardwood floors, utility cables.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
But you know they disguise stuff like when we lived
under the L in Chicago and our row home, you
would say, like public public transport right next door, public
transit next door. How would they put that in there
in a clever way to disguise what someone's going to
roll up on when they go check out.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
The house close to the power source.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Always will have a place to chain your bicycle.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
And once that box up top starts sparking, right, in
your house.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Look at that.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Look at mess A lot of wires, yes, except.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
For two because two of them go right in your
front yard. No, but it's nice.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
It's nice Chris, thank you for sharing.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah, listen, it's his childhood. Hope you moved up Helly
Line three. Hi Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
Hey, good morning guys.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yes, sir, what can I do for you?
Speaker 6 (14:25):
I just bought a house on Eastern Shore. A tree
fell on the roof and it's a sixture upper. I
had no power going to it, so I had to
call the electric company, had to pay them thirty five hundred.
I had to put up the pole. They run the
wire to the pole and it's going to be high
certain hype, and then you run the cables to wherever
you want to have your outdoor outlet to do your
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construction with. So it's a construction's tower. There's no power
going to it right now. They just never took it out.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Wait a minute, I don't understand. So you have to
put the pole up yourself.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
Well yeah, yeah, and they won it from the main
power line like they would run into the house, but
they run it to your temporary you know, it's got
to be inspected by an electrician your temporary power source.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
And then you got to run the cable yourself.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
No, they run the cable, but you have to have
the pole and the outlet box there. It's got to
be an outdoor box. And they come and they run
their cables to it. But from that box you have
to run your cable for wherever you want your power
to go. So this builder sounds like he had his
pole and he had his box inside the house where
he was plugging everything into. The power company ran the
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cables into the house for the temporary power. Right now,
there's no power going to it. I'm pretty sure I
got you know, mine was outdoor. Mine was completely out
Mine is still completely outdoor. So there's no cable to
run anywhere. And it's coming down and says I'm done
work on the house and they can run the power
to a circuit box.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yeah I don't want that. Yeah, definitely, I'm not running
that into my house.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
It's a builder. The builder lazy and didn't take it
off responsibility. It wasn't the power company. The power company
is only responsible for running power to your temporary pole
and inspecting it, making sure everything's cake go in to
your power source.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Good to know. I'll tell you this, I couldn't I couldn't.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
Have bought that half five hundred to have that done.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
I can't do that. I couldn't do that, Thank you, sir.
What am I looking at here?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
That's another pole mid driveway, but a little bit different.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
That one's not as bad.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Yes it is.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
It's okay, but you can maneuver around it. At the
other place you can't.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
First of all, it's a two car garage, but it's
two singles. So the space where the single is like
in between the two go all the way down to
the end of the driveway, or just follow the massive
crack and.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Then it's at the end of the driveway.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
It is paved. It's not grass.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
No, But you don't have to pole in your driveway.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
You don't have to own a motorcycle.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Yes, do you know what?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
But you have to get all the way over to
turn because you can't turn into your driveway.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
It does look like a pretty compact suv. I wonder
if you are limited and can't have one of those
just big escalades or whatever. Actually, don't think an esclae
would fit in that garage.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Okay, can we I don't care what kind of car
you own. You realize the entryway to your garage, your
your driveway has a massive electric pole coming right out
of the middle of your driveway. But we were okay
with it because we don't ride motorcycles.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
No, the top is more kempt, like, it's not as
messy as the other one with the wires.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
You're right, so on the iore scale, it's better.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I just what if kappiest grandmother's listening.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Oh, that's Gima's house.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yes, I know why she still lives there. Can't sell
it with that goddamn pole in the driveway.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Well, we're hearing this is very common now when you Oh, hey,
Jennifer Young, I'm looking for a house.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
That has the poll They're so common.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I want the pole. I guarantee you.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Kappi's like she's grown to accept it. But Kapy's grandmother
does not love that.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I bet Jennifer Young could come up with a lovely
way to describe it in a listing.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Oh yeah, a pile of vess. I bet Jennifer wouldn't
even show you the house.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Now you're buying that, think Tyler's right.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
You're buying that you're like, well, I've found this three
houses for me, the.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
How does it work for you?
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I forgot you don't ride a motorcycle.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Capy does say my cousin was twelve and backed her
mom's car into the pole. No kidding, Well maybe because
they were twelve years old.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Yeah, or maybe because you can't turn regularly into the driveway.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
And by the way, Chris points out, and we didn't
think of this for his pole situation with the support
cables just in the.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Oh the front right in the front strep on.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
The other side of the sidewalk in the grass pit's
street parking.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
No, you can't open your door now.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
It's just severely limited because you were stuck in the car.
Speaker 9 (19:21):
Ye what Hi, Elliet the morning, Good morning sir, Welcome back, Diane.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Hey, what's going on dude?
Speaker 9 (19:29):
If you look at that picture close, those guidewires going
into the driveway are old and weathered. The builder built
that driveway around those guide wires.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Oh really, so you're telling me those have been there
a long time?
Speaker 9 (19:44):
Well you look how they're all bent up and mashed
up and got you know, rust and stuff on them. Yeah,
they've been there a long time and that concrete around
the square. If you look closely, it's not only like
it's been cut, it looks like it was formed around
those holes.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Wow, you know what Like now that you pointed out,
I think you're right, Like it does look like that.
Speaker 9 (20:05):
Yeah, I don't think the utility company planted that there.
I think the builder probably the one guy that called
and said the utility company just hasn't moved it yet.
That's probably the case. They finished building it, they're waiting
on the utility company to come out and move that bole.
But that definitely that pole has been there long before
that house was
Let me take you to Houston.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Okay, so there can eat at the spindle top the it's.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Opened, it's back open.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
So there is a there's two houses that are side
by side. They they are not townhouses, but they are
very very close together, although they do they do call
it a townhouse.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
But it doesn't look like there's a shared wall between them.
Maybe there is.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
It's for sale, three bedrooms, two and a half bath,
three hundred and fifty nine thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
However, Diane, I'll show you the picture. Can you tell
me what's wrong?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
What is that in the middle of the driveway so.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
You can notice that, Yes, okay, you can't drive over.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
It in the middle of the driveway of one. There's
side by side driveways.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Right, so there's a photo. Can you give me a
keyword so I can pull it up.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
What neighborhood is Lyndale Park, Houston Townhouse.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Okay, that's good enough.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
So the driveways are side by side, right.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
The driveway on the right is a regular driveway, two
car garage. You pull into the driveway, you pull into
the garage. The one on the left has two cable
wires that have come down and are planted in the
driveway and they come off of a utility pole that's
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twenty feet down the street. So like you know, if
you see a utility pole or something like that, you'll
see those big kigs cables that come down and go
into the ground.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
That's what those are.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
But they decided to put them in the driveway.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
They are right in the middle of the apron of
the driveway, like where essentially where the sidewalk becomes part
of the driveway.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
So to explain this, I feel like we need to
hear from someone who would represent both sides. What do
you mean, the home builder and the utility company.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
The listing is oh, they say.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
This seller the polls will be taken down once a
buyer is secured.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Now, I bet okay.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Other people who and again this started going around yesterday.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I thought this was very odd.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Other people online noted situations like this while unusual in appearance. Yes,
because you agree, you're.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Not what's wrong?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I'm looking at a video.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Oh yeah, the video is even worse. So there's no
driving in You're you're not getting into your driveway?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Which was which which was put up first?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Did you say, yeah, chicken out of the egg?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
People commented online, saying situations like this, while unusual in appearance,
aren't entirely uncommon. Builders can complete construction before utility companies
are able to relocate. Infrastructure, and marketing materials sometimes reflect
a property's intended final state, so that may have already
(03:15):
been done, and the utility companies like, oh, you know,
it's funny, we haven't installed the cables yet. So they
drop them right there, and they said unusual. Yes, uncommon,
not so much. But do you end up being able
to get them taken down? Like at some point somebody goes, what.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Kind of like tower are there's cables attached to It
looks pretty substantial.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
It looks like a very tall electric pole, like electrical pole.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
But I want them down and my drive I repaired
day one.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Ish, Oh well we will as soon as I buy a.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Place resecure buyer, we'll get on that.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
But what is this, Elie. This is a screenshot from
realtor dot com where you don't see it. So they're
averageizing this home like it's a problem. You know.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Sometimes you can go online.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
And they've like virtual stage, virtually staged, yeah, extensively.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
In this one, I have virtually staged the drive Oh
my god.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yes, so they like the one online.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
You could look in theo and it looks fine, and
then people are showing up and going, hey, you know
I can't get in the driveway right there's poles in
the middle of the driveway or cables.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, there's a picture that shows the pole and the
cables coming down onto it. Kristen, will you do me
a favor? Number one?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Will you find me somebody from a utility company. You
agree that's power? Right?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Like, that's not a phone, looks looks like it.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah, I think it's power.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Will you find me somebody who works for a utility
company please, or somebody who's ever seen this, Like they said,
it's it's unusual in appearance, yes, but not uncommon.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I've never seen that.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
You said. It's a case where the house is completed
but the utility companies have to come in later.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Construction is done before utility companies are capable or able
to relocate infrastructure.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
But people buy homes before they're finished, before they're fully built.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Correct, So this isn't.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Like, hey, we're going to take it down once there's
a buyer. In other scenarios, there could be a buyer.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
There's a buyer because I already bought the land to
have the plot, to have the house built.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
And there is you've talked about in the past that
they don't Necessarily contractors and homebuilders don't love this, but
there are those people that go to the site every
single day. Yes, they hate that, and that's when stuff's
going well swimmingly. Could you imagine pulling up and then
seeing the utility company taking chunks out of your sidewalk
(05:55):
and driveway to put these wires in?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Hey, what that for? Yeah? I don't know what you
would do. I have no idea what you would do.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
And if you're the home builder who's probably already annoyed
that you keep doing excite checks, what are you gonna do?
Put your hands on I don't know what that is.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I'm not the utility company. Take it up with them. Yeah,
I don't know what you do. I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
So I guess I'm maybe a builder, a utility person,
or somebody who's got really bad luck and this happened
to you.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I don't know what.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
I don't know what you would call that eight six
six to Elliott eight six six two three five five
four six eight Let me go to Line one Hi
Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Hey, I bought a house and Canton downtown Baltimore about
ten years ago, and the same exact.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Situation happened to me.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
It was in the parking pad though in the back.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
The utility pole was right in the center of the
parking pad. And they actually, like during the process, they said,
if you want to build in ten grand to the
mortgage to pay the utility company to move the pole
like seven feet to the left, you could turn the
area into a parking pen.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
So wait a minute, So you didn't even just have cables.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
You literally had the utility pole in the middle of
your your parking pad behind your house exactly.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
I was the only house on the block that didn't
have a parking pad because of the location of the pole.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
And if you wanted it moved, the utility company would
do it if you paid ten grand.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
I could have built it in the mortgage for ten
grand or just paid out of pocket ten grand.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yep, what did you do?
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Left it there and kept the fence in the backyard
of the city, which I felt.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
Was a little bit for like safety purposes.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
So no, I can come to.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Visit brop me Hey, do you do you still own it?
Speaker 5 (07:42):
We sold it last summer, moved up to Abington.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
When you sold it, what did the people say? Nothing?
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Nothing. I think some people actually kind of like the fence.
I mean, it sucks not having a parking pad there,
but we just sold it as is.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I understand they may like the fence.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
What was their view of the utility pole in their
in their backyard.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
I mean, it's it's the city.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
They're everywhere, so it kind of just is what it is.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
It's a little bit.
Speaker 8 (08:06):
Different than Houston situation.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
But nothing came up about it.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Right, No, No, And listen, I understand that they're all
over the place, but usually you would find those not
in your property, Like it may be like up towards
the street or like in that little patch or something.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Normally it's not buried right in the middle of your backyard.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Yeah, it was kind of like on the edge of
the yard in the alley, So I think it was
just kind of normal for the area.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Wow, good for you, Good for you, all right, dud,
I appreciate it, Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Yes, Tyler, quite a.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Few listeners have dealt with poles in the middle of driveways.
Are you serious.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
So it's not even cables, it's the.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Whole pole like the collar you.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Line four. Hi Elliott in the morning, Yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 7 (08:52):
I will say my name, but I work in the
Tori Tilly consulting industry and deal with developers and the
mini power and other utilities in the area.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Does this happen all the time where there's a pole
or cables that are dropped in the middle of somebody's driveway,
parking pad yard.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I don't even know what it would be.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
Yeah, it's not uncommon. Unfortunately, utilities are not the quickest
moving and they kind of go at their own pace
and we'll we'll. You know, they have easements too, so
they have the right, you know, to put their stuff
wherever they have an easement. So if you're if they
put in the wrong spot and if you're driveway, then
you got to pay it in the movement.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Yeah yeah, but that would the I don't want why
am I paying? Like they didn't notice it was a driveway.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
They were Whoever put the stake out in the ground,
They're gonna put that polehere. That steak is.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
That is the most that is the most important thing
we learn because if you come home and there's some
random steak in your driveway, pull it out and throw it.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Absolutely I would lose. And it's does ten grand? Sound right?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Oh yeah?
Speaker 7 (10:02):
Starting at sing grand. It's a larger pole. You could
be up to thirty grand. No way, no way, yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Wow, all right, very good, thank you. We'll just build
it into the mortgage. Well I can't already build a
car into the mortgage.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
That is such a nerve wracking feeling when you come
home and you see that your yard's been marked up
by the spray paint, but you don't have a project,
and you're like, what are they going to have to
do to my property?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Good, they're going to trench it.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I hate that.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Richie, though, says no problem for him. He rides a motorcycle,
get right around between. Yeah, but you only seldom a motorcyclist.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Dream house. Where am I going? I'm one. I can't
believe how many people have dealt in Hello Hello, Yeah, Hey,
I'm gonna be it's loud. That's in the buckets me?
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Who's that?
Speaker 7 (11:03):
How you know it?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (11:04):
I lived in Baltimore for about ten years.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
I rented a house out in Canton.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
For about two During COVID and the telephone pole was
part of the deck.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I'm sorry, like like a like a like it came
through the deck.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
Yeah, so where you would have a normal structure for
like a six by six or you know whatever you're
bracing it up with, the telephone was part of the
actual structure of the deck.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Wow, And what did that bother? You were cool with
that or did it bother you?
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
I didn't care.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
I'm a single father. Didn't bother me at all.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I dude, I appreciate it, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
What is that? That is chris Is house he grew
up in. Now it's a similar setup with the pole
and the support cable, but it's not it's not blocking
the drive for right?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Is it just ugly?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
This is a childhood home?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Okay, I'll answer, yeah, somebody could look.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
I had ugly houses and I was growing up.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
It actually is a really cute house. I like to
look at the house.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Do you like when you look out from the front
door that all you see are cables attached right in
front of your walkway?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I don't know. You tell me, is is that pretty?
Speaker 4 (12:20):
I know there's pegs. Don't you dare climb up that pole.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Now, I will say this is better than the Houston situation.
But your your entire front is cables.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
But you're also able to use your driveway.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Yeah, you can't run out of your front door. Well,
you're going to run into the cables. To me, this
is an electrocute yourself.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Maybe not ideal, but this is not completely prohibiting use
of a motor vehicle.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
True. No, I said it's better than Houston.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
What do they call that.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
White trash?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Just is there something people need to be on the
lookout for if they are buying?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Somebody else said, wait, if you have to be on
the lookout for you is there do you think that's
in the listing? Oh, stainless steel, hardwood floors, utility cables.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
But you know they disguise stuff like when we lived
under the L in Chicago and our row home, you
would say, like public public transport right next door, public
transit next door. How would they put that in there
in a clever way to disguise what someone's going to
roll up on when they go check out.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
The house close to the power source.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Always will have a place to chain your bicycle.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
And once that box up top starts sparking, right, in
your house.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Look at that.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Look at mess A lot of wires, yes, except.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
For two because two of them go right in your
front yard. No, but it's nice.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
It's nice Chris, thank you for sharing.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah, listen, it's his childhood. Hope you moved up Helly
Line three. Hi Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
Hey, good morning guys.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yes, sir, what can I do for you?
Speaker 6 (14:25):
I just bought a house on Eastern Shore. A tree
fell on the roof and it's a sixture upper. I
had no power going to it, so I had to
call the electric company, had to pay them thirty five hundred.
I had to put up the pole. They run the
wire to the pole and it's going to be high
certain hype, and then you run the cables to wherever
you want to have your outdoor outlet to do your
(14:48):
construction with. So it's a construction's tower. There's no power
going to it right now. They just never took it out.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Wait a minute, I don't understand. So you have to
put the pole up yourself.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
Well yeah, yeah, and they won it from the main
power line like they would run into the house, but
they run it to your temporary you know, it's got
to be inspected by an electrician your temporary power source.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
And then you got to run the cable yourself.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
No, they run the cable, but you have to have
the pole and the outlet box there. It's got to
be an outdoor box. And they come and they run
their cables to it. But from that box you have
to run your cable for wherever you want your power
to go. So this builder sounds like he had his
pole and he had his box inside the house where
he was plugging everything into. The power company ran the
(15:36):
cables into the house for the temporary power. Right now,
there's no power going to it. I'm pretty sure I
got you know, mine was outdoor. Mine was completely out
Mine is still completely outdoor. So there's no cable to
run anywhere. And it's coming down and says I'm done
work on the house and they can run the power
to a circuit box.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yeah I don't want that. Yeah, definitely, I'm not running
that into my house.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
It's a builder. The builder lazy and didn't take it
off responsibility. It wasn't the power company. The power company
is only responsible for running power to your temporary pole
and inspecting it, making sure everything's cake go in to
your power source.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Good to know. I'll tell you this, I couldn't I couldn't.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
Have bought that half five hundred to have that done.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
I can't do that. I couldn't do that, Thank you, sir.
What am I looking at here?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
That's another pole mid driveway, but a little bit different.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
That one's not as bad.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Yes it is.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
It's okay, but you can maneuver around it. At the
other place you can't.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
First of all, it's a two car garage, but it's
two singles. So the space where the single is like
in between the two go all the way down to
the end of the driveway, or just follow the massive
crack and.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Then it's at the end of the driveway.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
It is paved. It's not grass.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
No, But you don't have to pole in your driveway.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
You don't have to own a motorcycle.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Yes, do you know what?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
But you have to get all the way over to
turn because you can't turn into your driveway.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
It does look like a pretty compact suv. I wonder
if you are limited and can't have one of those
just big escalades or whatever. Actually, don't think an esclae
would fit in that garage.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Okay, can we I don't care what kind of car
you own. You realize the entryway to your garage, your
your driveway has a massive electric pole coming right out
of the middle of your driveway. But we were okay
with it because we don't ride motorcycles.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
No, the top is more kempt, like, it's not as
messy as the other one with the wires.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
You're right, so on the iore scale, it's better.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I just what if kappiest grandmother's listening.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Oh, that's Gima's house.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yes, I know why she still lives there. Can't sell
it with that goddamn pole in the driveway.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Well, we're hearing this is very common now when you Oh, hey,
Jennifer Young, I'm looking for a house.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
That has the poll They're so common.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I want the pole. I guarantee you.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Kappi's like she's grown to accept it. But Kapy's grandmother
does not love that.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I bet Jennifer Young could come up with a lovely
way to describe it in a listing.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Oh yeah, a pile of vess. I bet Jennifer wouldn't
even show you the house.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Now you're buying that, think Tyler's right.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
You're buying that you're like, well, I've found this three
houses for me, the.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
How does it work for you?
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I forgot you don't ride a motorcycle.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Capy does say my cousin was twelve and backed her
mom's car into the pole. No kidding, Well maybe because
they were twelve years old.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Yeah, or maybe because you can't turn regularly into the driveway.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
And by the way, Chris points out, and we didn't
think of this for his pole situation with the support
cables just in the.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Oh the front right in the front strep on.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
The other side of the sidewalk in the grass pit's
street parking.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
No, you can't open your door now.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
It's just severely limited because you were stuck in the car.
Speaker 9 (19:21):
Ye what Hi, Elliet the morning, Good morning sir, Welcome back, Diane.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Hey, what's going on dude?
Speaker 9 (19:29):
If you look at that picture close, those guidewires going
into the driveway are old and weathered. The builder built
that driveway around those guide wires.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Oh really, so you're telling me those have been there
a long time?
Speaker 9 (19:44):
Well you look how they're all bent up and mashed
up and got you know, rust and stuff on them. Yeah,
they've been there a long time and that concrete around
the square. If you look closely, it's not only like
it's been cut, it looks like it was formed around
those holes.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Wow, you know what Like now that you pointed out,
I think you're right, Like it does look like that.
Speaker 9 (20:05):
Yeah, I don't think the utility company planted that there.
I think the builder probably the one guy that called
and said the utility company just hasn't moved it yet.
That's probably the case. They finished building it, they're waiting
on the utility company to come out and move that bole.
But that definitely that pole has been there long before
that house was
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