Maybe they'd get enough for the land that they could afford a tiny home. Not that you want the inlaws right outside, but better than IN your house, perhaps?
It got worse when the (insert profanity) EZ Fiber contractors hit the Always Terrible & Telephones fiber, leaving us with no interwebz. Hubs put in a ticket on the AT&T system on Tuesday evening for a Wednesday appointment. The rep shows up at our door and shakes his head, apologizes and says "I see the problem here". He called back to HQ and told them it's not an individual line in issue, but a much larger one caused by (morons). At least AT&T under promised and over delivered. The anticipated time for restoration was this morning but around 6pm, Kid2 noticed his wifi was working on his device. He rejoiced because, well, kids these days don't know what it's really like to have to self entertain like we did before interwebz existed.
Working yesterday while tethered to my phone was less than fun. We talked about back up wifi but honestly, we shouldn't have to fork over the cash for that. AT&T has a robust system with power back up that even when Centerpoint can't provide power for homes, AT&T can for their fiber. During Beryl last year when we were powered by generator, we had interwebz (yet again, another reason the teenagers descended upon our home - AC & interwebz go a long way!).
These companies should be put to a vote - do we want them to come in and rip up our yards for their services? If the majority say no, that's a hard pass. Precovid, sure, I'd have potentially voted for them but that was because we had one option for fast interwebz. Since then, we've had 2 other fiber companies install, so this is a third. Evidently enough, the first ones that brought services in hit the trunk line for our former ISP and damaged it to a point that our previously robust, reliable service became horribly unreliable.
See, many reasons to take up profane seafaring. Or, maybe it's just flashbacks to my oil patch days. Like sailors, patch workers speak a similar language!