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debating whether to do so or not.
big 175 foot cell phone tower is like 600-750 feet from the house.
my wife says we should go ahead and buy the house.
i'm not so sure. we have 2 little kids as well.
 

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your teeth will never be whiter, and your garden will produce 5 pound tomatoes...so definitely go for it!!
 
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I'm sure you are getting a Great price on this house.

But No Way, No How would I move to this house !

I think the radiation levels might be to high to even take the chance on something like this. And you have two Kids !

I'm sure somewhere in the papers on this house, there must be some kind of clause that you will not hold them harmless if something happens down the road.

I just wouldn't do it.
 

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I wouldn't do it. My brother and his wife lived very close to a cell phone tower and both died from cancer as well as some friends in the neighborhood.
 

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house is at least 50k cheaper than a comparable house in a different part of town.
i think i'm going to back out of this deal.
have 10 days to do so if i want to get my deposit back.
just have to convince wife now.
for some reason, she isn't concerned about the cell phone tower as much as i am.
 

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dude, your on crack! either your stoned or a real fool,,,

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If you ask the government, no studies have shown conclusive evidence that radio-frequency emissions, a form of electromagnetic radiation (EMR), from cell towers are harmful.

According to the Food and Drug Administration:

"RF [Radio frequency] exposure on the ground is much less than exposure very close to the antenna and in the path of the transmitted radio signal. In fact, ground-level exposure from such antennas is typically thousands of times less than the exposure levels recommended as safe by expert organizations. So exposure to nearby residents would be well within safety margins."

Cell phone companies also maintain that no risks exist from the towers. "There are no health risks posed by the towers. Independent scientific panels around the world have reached this conclusion," said Russ Stromberg, senior manager of development at T-Mobile.

The government and cell phone companies maintain cell towers (and phones) are safe.

But other studies seem to tell a different story, with findings such as:

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A study by Dr. Bruce Hocking in Australia found that children living near three TV and FM broadcast towers (similar to cell towers) in Sydney had more than twice the rate of leukemia than children living more than seven miles away.
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Says Dr. Neil Cherry, a biophysicist at Lincoln University in New Zealand:
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"Public health surveys of people living in the vicinity of cell site base stations should be being carried out now, and continue progressively over the next two decades. This is because prompt effects such as miscarriage, cardiac disruption, sleep disturbance and chronic fatigue could well be early indicators of the adverse health effects. Symptoms of reduced immune system competence, cardiac problems, especially of the arrhythmic type, and cancers, especially brain tumor and leukemia, are probable."
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Biomedical engineer Mariana Alves-Pereira says exposure to cell phone towers can lead to vibroacoustic disease. "From what I understand, some of the complaints are similar in what is seen in vibroacoustic disease patients, which are people who develop a disease caused by low frequency noise exposure," she said. Symptoms can include mood swings, indigestion, ulcers and joint pain.
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Dr. Gerard Hyland, a physicist who was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize in medicine, says, "Existing safety guidelines for cell phone towers are completely inadequate ... Quite justifiably, the public remains skeptical of attempts by governments and industry to reassure them that all is well, particularly given the unethical way in which they often operate symbiotically so as to promote their own vested interests."
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According to the Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center, "Studies have shown that even at low levels of this radiation, there is evidence of damage to cell tissue and DNA, and it has been linked to brain tumors, cancer, suppressed immune function, depression, miscarriage, Alzheimer's disease, and numerous other serious illnesses."
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According to Dr. W. Löscher of the Institute of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmacy of the Veterinary School of Hannover in Germany, dairy cows that were kept in close proximity to a TV and cell phone tower for two years had a reduction in milk production along with increased health problems and behavioral abnormalities. In an experiment, one cow with abnormal behavior was taken away from the antenna and the behavior subsided within five days. When the cow was brought back near the antenna, the symptoms returned.
 

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"If you ask the government, no studies have shown conclusive evidence that radio-frequency emissions, a form of electromagnetic radiation (EMR), from cell towers are harmful."

What I take from that is stay away from them...
 

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I can't say I've exhaustively studied the topic, but I doubt seriously non-propagating radiation poses much of a health risk. If it did then studies on high voltage wires would have brought that out years ago. Most studies that show a link were trying to reach that conclusion before they even started. Personally I wouldn't want to live near one because I wouldn't care to look at it everyday.
 

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told my realtor to cancel.
so now i wait for refund for deposit from title company.
 

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my real estate teacher has bought a ton of stuff over the course of his life, and a fewof his properties had cell phone towers on them. He collects a pretty substantial monthly premium from AT&T on them; you should look in to that..i can't say for sure, but I want to say it's in the hundreds monthly or quarterly.
 

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These towers are everywhere nowadays. Tough to avoid them in most areas I thought. You can do a search on them here:

http://www.cellreception.com/towers/


I got like 12 of these things within 10 miles of my house........pretty scary.
 
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I would be much more worried about your CELL PHONE than the towers.

Find a phone with low radiation output.

By the way, most high-end gadget phones(iphones and the such) are very high in radiation. Look for a phone with an outside antenna attached to it(before 2008). Phones made by LG are some of the very best in low radiation......while Motorola has tons of potentially dangerous phones as a whole.

Having said that, I certainly would not buy a home within one mile of a cell phone tower.

FH
 

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buy it...then rent it out to gtc

A welfare check and food stamps won't pay for rent...It's obvious that guy may have a GED at best...
 

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