re: Perkins Road homeowner comes home from work to huge utility pole in front of house.

It absolutely sucks, but you should be aware of all right-of-ways when you purchase your home. It's like when people build a house next to empty land or woods and then get mad when a new neighborhood starts to build on the land. But in the homeowner's defense, nobody expects a giant power pole to be placed in front of your house like that, even if the right-of-way is there.

Ideally, Entergy should have been smart enough to realize that was not an ideal location and should have figured out a better way to do this...if possible.

In actuality, they had every right to do what they did, so re-sale value shouldn't be Entergy's problem. Was that location really the only option? Entergy says yes, so who knows?