Bulletin 22.02.14

Welcome to a new week!

Office News:

• Brooklyn Square Gym Grand Opening - Brooklyn Square is launching their Brooklyn Square Gym today!

  • It is open to employees of Brooklyn Square only.

  • The Gym is located at the Lower Level of the Building, Suite B-101

  • There will be separate hours for Men and Women (Men: 7am-10am & 4:30pm-7pm) (Women: 11am-3pm)

  • You can download the Membership Agreement and Pricing below.

Gym membership.pdf

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• Bushburg University? - Well, not exactly. but we are working on creating a series of trainings that will be given to Bushburg Employees to help them navigate the commonly used software. In preparation of that, we have made a short survey to gather information of what features are needed the most.

  • Please click on link for Survey, everyone's participation is greatly appreciated.

  • Interested in knowing what your learning style is? Here is a short quiz to find out. Learning Styles can be Visual, Auditory, and Tactile.

• Laura's Bushburg Anniversary - February 14th, 2005, was Laura's first day at Bushburg.

  • Our office was located in what is currently apt 101 at 385 Troutman Street, and the office consisted of a Property Manager, and 4 in-house Brokers, one of them was David Lifshitz, who some of you know.

  • We did rentals and Condo Sales. Advertising was done through Craigslist and we managed only 3 buildings: 385 Troutman Street, 538 Johnson (2nd Floor only) and 175 Stockholm Street (The Tea Factory)

  • Tenant Transactions were managed through a software called Leashold which did not have a search feature. Making it necessary to memorize every name of every tenant just in case we received a check with no apartment number on it.

  • Tenants would come to pay rent in person, sometimes barefoot and in pajamas.

  • We did not have a ticket system, tenants would simply call the office and we would take notes.

  • All bills were paid manually, and all of them came in the mail

  • Tenant payments were taken to the bank to get deposited.

  • Bushburg was my first receptionist job. Before Bushburg I used to work for Box Art, a Williamsburg based Art Crating Company and I was a Project Manager to Sotheby's in early 2000, and then I worked for a Williamsburg local magazine, as writer, publisher and advertising assistant. Bushburg was my first non art centered job.

  • Bushburg has had 4 different logos since I have been in the company and we have been in 3 different offices.

  • It is amazing all that has changed in 17 years!

Holidays:

Today is Valentine's Day what some people call the Day of Love or the Day of Friendship. Valentine's Day can mean anything you want it to mean and it has an interesting back story which you can read about here.

Weather you celebrate or not, I hope you have a great day!