NOTED & QUOTED

“We used to joke around here that the standard lease was six years’ free rent on a five-year lease,” says a Houston banker. “That joke has spread to Dallas.”

-Vie Wall Street Journal



“With one exception the same markets have held their positions on the [merging Trends in Real Estate Best-Worst Cities tor Investment’ survey for the third consecutive year. New York, Washington. D.C., Los Angeles, and Boston again rank as the best cities for owning properties, while the oil patch triumvirate of Denver, Houston, and Dallas remain mired at the top of the hands-off list.”

-Equitable teal Estate Trendwatch



“A year or so ago, I heard a talk by the superintendent of schools of Dallas, Texas, in which he recited a part of the list of subjects required by state laws to be taught between the first and twelfth grades. There were over 200, including kindness to animals, family living, driver education, sex education, plain cooking, social studies, and No Sex Education. This scatterbrained menu is disregarded, of course, but even the left-overs are too much, especially since many are offered as electives to young people who cannot possibly know what they are getting or what they should have.”

-philosopher Jaeques Barzun in Basic Education Issues, Answers & Facts

“When clubgoers do go out these days they are going to places like Nell’s in New York or Pasha in Dallas-clubs that look like cozy living rooms.”

-writers with strange notions of cozy living rooms in Newsweek