Behind the Scenes at Newcastle Square Realty

   There are two ladies who work here at the World Headquarters of Newcastle Square Realty who take care of the behind the scenes action while the Brokers are busy meeting with Listers and Buyers, showing property, negotiating contracts, holding open houses and all of the other activities that fill up their days.  These two ladies keep the information flowing and produce the high quality advertising and promotional pieces that we use as well as meeting and greeting those folks that walk in our door both literally and figuratively via our Internet portal.  Let me introduce them to you:

   On the right is Stacey Cole.  Stacey has been the long time assistant to Becky Brown and Miles Geisler and came to our organization with them when they joined us a few years back.  Both of them are superstars in their own right but it's Stacey doing the paperwork behind them that frees them up to be doing what they do best which is to list and sell a lot of property.    We've been able to pry Stacey away from them for a few hours a week and she has proven invaluable to us.   She has the ability to shift gears and jump right into what ever needs to be done and if she's ever gotten flustered I've missed it.

   Stacey grew up in this area, lives in Bristol with her fiance Jimmy a local lobster man and in her spare time likes to make jewelry and wicked good chocolate treats!

   On the left in the picture above is Linda Mitkus, our long time Office Manager. Previous to joining Newcastle Square Realty, Linda worked as a legal assistant for a local attorney and before that in a law office in Massachusetts from where she and her family moved 14 years ago.

   In addition to being the first person clients usually come in contact with here, Linda also does all of our computer input and has become quite skilled with Adobe photoshop and with creating most of our varied advertising pieces.  Linda and I have a deal, we're walking out the door here together at the end of our careers in real estate. I don't want to even think about trying to replace her.

   Linda's husband John is well known in his own right having been a long time bus driver for the local elementary school. Many children (and their parents) consider John an integral part of the faculty. Linda and John love "the hunt" when it come to antiques and we lose them when they go off to Wallace Nutting conventions.  If you come into the office be sure and ask Linda to see the pictures of their dogs Ruffian and Finnegan.  Linda has been known to provide what practically amounts to concierge service for many of our clients whose needs can be varied and complex at times. 

   Now you know the secret of what really keeps our office running so smoothly and makes all of our brokerage staff look good!

Jim Cosgrove 

Comments

[Kathy Wyman]

Jim,
Are you crazy letting the public at large know about our incredibly vaulable office staff?
Linda and Stacey both do SO much here at NSR to keep everything and everyone running so smoothly! They are both practically clairvoyant in their ability to help out with whatever is needed.
Someone may try to steal them away from us!
Can you imagine the chaos in our office without these two keeping us in line, answering our questions, assisting as we fumble with files, data sheets, advertising copy etc. etc?
Hopefully they like us enough to stick around but at the very least I am sensing huge end of year bonuses!!

[Jim Cosgrove]

Gee Kathy, I was thinking that a nice blog post, with picture, was better than any old bonus.