{"id":1643,"date":"2023-05-10T17:02:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T22:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gifnet.us\/?p=1643"},"modified":"2023-05-15T10:48:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T15:48:10","slug":"in-search-of-dark-skies-could-the-end-be-near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gifnet.us\/?p=1643","title":{"rendered":"In Search Of Dark Skies &#8211; Could the End Be Near?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was surfing listings for land when 116 Kovac Road, Oak Grove, Louisiana, 71263 showed up.<\/p>\n<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-spotlight\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/116+Par+Rd+543,+Oak+Grove,+LA+71263\/@32.9766038,-91.3004687,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x862eaeade23b92c3:0xaaa9db7122b40590!8m2!3d32.9766038!4d-91.2978938!16s%2Fg%2F11frvnl1y5\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"116 Par Rd 543 \u00b7 116 Par Rd 543, Oak Grove, LA 71263\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-4 vlp-link-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/api\/staticmap?center=32.9766038%2C-91.2978938&amp;zoom=16&amp;size=256x256&amp;language=en&amp;markers=32.9766038%2C-91.2978938&amp;sensor=false&amp;client=google-maps-frontend&amp;signature=rAnqabU4nQ9C9rxez3zJUrCiJns\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-title\">116 Par Rd 543 \u00b7 116 Par Rd 543, Oak Grove, LA 71263<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-summary\">Building<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-button\">Read More<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-url\">www.google.com<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Some quick research showed the location is probably the best location I will be able to find within the budget I have for this.&nbsp; SQM = 21.75, Bortle rating 3.7, to the east are bayous then a short distance to the Mississippi River and after that, Mississippi.&nbsp; There is a cell tower 600 feet from the house to the west.&nbsp; Two houses, one about 250 and the other about 300 feet away, the closes one after that is 600 feet. The area is known as the Ark-La-Miss in West Carroll Parish.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve set up a look-see with a realtor, Hannah Williams, this Saturday for 17:30.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Update:<br \/>\nThe price dropped on the property by $10,000.&nbsp; I had Pam go out and take a look.&nbsp; I got an hour video tour of the interior.&nbsp; It was open and unlocked.&nbsp; Locks don&#8217;t appear to work.&nbsp; Electrical can&#8217;t be turned on, it&#8217;s been gutted for copper and absolutely anything else of value. Found out from the notice on the window that the house is in foreclosure and owned by a bank.&nbsp; I&#8217;m still going out this Saturday to have a look see with my own eyes but in the meantime, I&#8217;ve submitted an offer for $32,500, they&#8217;re now asking $45,000.&nbsp; Hannah tells me that things are going to go much slower because a bank owns it.&nbsp; And they don&#8217;t usually counteroffer, they just reject and then we resubmit.<\/p>\n<p>Update:<br \/>\nNo there still no end in sight for this journey. The house weas in need of repairs to make it livable and it was within budget but the cell tower I thought was so good breaks it because it is so close.&nbsp; I move on in hopes of finding at least as good a location as this one but without a cell tower 600 feet away with an aviation light flashing white.&nbsp; Perhaps if it were flashing red, I would have tried to take the time to see if it could be filtered out but alas, white is a broadband signal, while red is narrow band.&nbsp; If you filter out white, you filter out everything.<\/p>\n<p>Clear Skies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was surfing listings for land when 116 Kovac Road, Oak Grove, Louisiana, 71263 showed up. Some quick research showed the location is probably the best location I will be <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gifnet.us\/?p=1643\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[151,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gifnet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gifnet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gifnet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gifnet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gifnet.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.gifnet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1652,"href":"https:\/\/www.gifnet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions\/1652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gifnet.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gifnet.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gifnet.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}