IVIV (1) Aunt Reet

[Mark Kohut]

GREAT FIND!   I hope you consider posting it on the wiki?........and I even knew how to say REIT and dit'n think of it.......

--- On Tue, 8/25/09, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IVIV (1) Aunt Reet
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 12:20 PM
> She sure does sing the blues for all
> them poor people getting
> up-reeted and shuffled off the grid by the Pigs, but she
> ain't all
> that clean her ownself now is she?
> 
> A Real Estate Investment Trust or REIT (pronounced
> /ˈriːt/) is a tax
> designation for a corporation investing in real estate that
> reduces or
> eliminates corporate income taxes. In return, REITs are
> required to
> distribute 90% of their income, which may be taxable, into
> the hands
> of the investors. The REIT structure was designed to
> provide a similar
> structure for investment in real estate as mutual funds
> provide for
> investment in stocks.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Dave Monroe<against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Ian Livingston<igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Anagrammatic, too, Reet and tree.
> >
> > As in "tree section"?  Me, I can't help but think,
> Reet Poteet, but I
> > also haven't quite found any justification for
> assuming that's the
> > case beyond, well, the fact that (a) it's the first
> thing that comes
> > to mind when I see Reet (again, Jackie Wilson, "Reet
> Petite"), and (2)
> > there IS a character by the name of Poteet, so ...
> >
> 
>