He’s probably got some good acreage. Can’t say I blame him.

I suspect (knowing the area like I do) and from some of the maps he showed, he's on ~2acres. Maybe a bit less/more. There's a ton of these small subdivisions springing up in the Ann Arbor area. Houses tend to be in the 750k-1.5m range and are usually plopped on an acre or so. Its country-ish living.

I'm not surprised at the slow Internet speeds and options though. Michigan has pretty bad rules for municipalities that want to offer Internet service and the density in these areas are too low to make financial sense for Comcast and phone companies to roll out any sort of advanced service.

What really surprises me is that his little subdivision didn't have cable service. Almost all of them I'm aware of have paid for Comcast to roll service into the neighborhood and swallowed the 50k or whatever cost. Then they just built that connection cost into the price of the property when they sold it on.

Yeah, he mentioned in the video that he tried to fundraise the $50k for comcast and the neighbors didn't go for it. But then he managed to get some support from the local township... I'm a bit surprised they couldn't get the Comcast blood money by going to the township.

Taxes! They build stuff!

Yeah people are super cheap. No one likes to pay for anything, especially if they think they can just wait you out. Once one person ponies up for the connection, everyone wins (because Comcast will wire the whole neighborhood). So they're just waiting for someone to cave. This guy came up with a different option and good for him.

I’d pay double for anything but one of the major telcos. Comcast will (hopefully permanently) be in my past in 2021. Can’t wait.

You too can start a telco and do this. Like I said it was just $1k to get on the list.

No. I self financed. There was another township that did go to the voters near me. One passed and another failed.