Temple Off Campus is located at 2301 N. Broad Street. is conveniently located just two blocks north of Temple University’s main campus and 9 blocks south of Temple University’s Health Sciences Center. It is the perfect address for anyone going to school or working at or near Temple University Main Campus.

The property is situated on the northeast corner of Broad and Dauphin Streets. There are 12 apartments, 8 two bedroom and 4 one bedroom. Each floor has its own laundry room.

About the Building

2301 N. Broad St. is a Victorian style, turn of the Century, 16,000 square foot mixed-use Property. The building was completely “gutted” and re-built in 2005 and 2006. Both the interior and exterior of the Property are “new construction” quality. The building is now home to 12 large apartments, NovaCare Outpatient Rehabilitation and United Tailoring.

The off-campus apartment entrance is located on Dauphin Street. The building houses 8 two bedroom apartments and 4 one bedroom apartments. The two bedroom apartments range in size from approx. 850-950 square feet. The one bedroom apartments are approx. 550 square feet.

Mail is delivered to the main lobby of the building. Elevator service is available from the main entrance lobby to each floor. Each floor has its own laundry room and coin-op vending machines are conveniently located in the 2nd and 3rd floor lobbies. The building has a security surveillance camera system for improved resident safety. The property also has an intercom and doorbell system for safety and convenience. A residents only bike rack is located in the building’s private north side alley. Free, private, residents only, off-street parking is located directly behind the building in our fenced-in surface lot.

About the Off-Campus Apartments

Compare 2301 N. Broad St. to any of the large “close to campus” apartment buildings and the difference is clear. The competition uses a “dorm” style approach to housing. They generally pack 4 to 6 students into small apartments with little to no common living area. Bunk beds, small rooms and no personal space is the norm.

At 2301 N. Broad St. you can expect a new, modern, luxury apartment with plenty of space, large room sizes, architect designed open air floor plans, the highestlevelsof construction quality and loads of modern amenities. Our apartments are approx. twice the square footage of the competition!!!!

For more information and/or applications for housing, be sure to visit http://templeoffcampus.com.

When you think about the client/consultant relationship we find ourselves on each end of the spectrum at some point. It’s always funny when we are in each role how different we act. When we are the client we are always searching for the best deal and when we are the consultant we just want someone to pay promptly, the price we give them without complaint. Although, we may respond differently according to the role we are in, the question arises as to who actually wins in the ongoing consultant/client relationship?

Typically if you are the client you would say that the consultant wins because you have to pay them. As the client, you feel that the consultant wins because they know you need the service and can charge you a high fee since you need the situation fixed asap. The consultant thinks that the client wins because they get their issue fixed at the benefit of you knowing what to do. The consultant also thinks that the client wins because they are at their whim for payment and feel that the client may abuse that notion in hopes to get more service for less money. From each perspective it is easy to see where the other is coming from, but the question still remains as to who has the advantage throughout the ordeal?

If we really take a hard look at this complex/tricky relationship of the consultant and client, it could be a fair assessment to say that they both win. If you look at the client, they are the beneficiaries of the intellectual prowess of the consultant in their giving field. For a few dollars (not literally, but figuratively) the client gets to bypass hours and hours of studying to solve a problem quickly within reasonable time. Once the client contracts a consultant the client can then shift the burden of responsibility to the consultant and continue on with their day. Not only this but if the client has a withstanding relationship with the consultant, the client in most cases will receive contracted services at a discounted rate, or hours where there is no charge at all.

The consultant wins primarily because they receive compensation for their work. If the consultant is good at what they do then they will be referred out for more work, which in turn means more compensation (not to mention the repeat call for other issues.) The more issues the consultant sees and solves the more seasoned and experienced they become in their field. This is a definite plus for the consultant as they are only as good as the real world experiences they face. In addition to this if the consultant has a problem themselves in that particular field, they are able to correct the issue. More importantly the consultant should know the tricks of the trade and pass this on to the client in the form of discounts. This solidifies the relationship and makes the consultant in your mind stand out, which makes the second call to them that much easier.

So as we can see both the client and the consultant mutually benefit from the relationship. Now at times it may seem that one may benefit more than the other, but if the relationship continues, the seesaw battle will even itself out many times. Some go through many consultants before they find the right ones. Some consultants fire many clients just to get to the ones worth keeping. In the end we all have jobs to do as the client and consultant; hopefully we are great at both.

The dime a dozen label is often tagged onto computer geeks and techies that maybe warranted but there is a reason the good ones stay around. Have you ever had a computing experience that made you say I am glad I have a computer guy to call? Or even the opposite, I wish I had a computer guy to call? It is because of these moments that propel the notion that a computer guy is just as important as your car insurance. It maybe hard to think about the computer guy in that way so maybe some real life experiences can materialize it better.

You have just ordered on your own new computers for your entire office and set them up yourself over the weekend. Monday morning comes and your business management software tech support says they don’t support the operating system on the machines you brought. This would be a devastating thing to hear, but this happens and often. So, you’re left with having to purchase the proper operating system for the machines (if the hardware will support it) and redoing all the machines from scratch, all the while the business is down until the work is done.  In this situation consulting with a computer consultant before your initial purchase would have helped, because they would have likely advised you on what machine purchase to make with the correct operating system based upon your software environment.

Another instance is if you hard drive crashes, the computer won’t turn on and you don’t have a backup of you data. Without the information contained on that hard drive you and your business are severely handicapped. In this example knowing a good computer consultant will give you at least a 50/50 chance of recovering your data. By using advanced techniques they may be able to take your hard drive and retrieve all the data you need to continue to function after you get a new machine.

With these two experiences alone you can see the need for a computer consultant and why their role in this modern day computing world garners respect. We may not have the fancy slogans as “Your in Good Hands” as Allstate would say, but our effect is just as impressionable.  Now one may say that yes, in these types of instances I will call a computer guy, but for the everyday things I am fine with goggling the answers.  While Google may have a ton of answers ready at your disposal, what happens if you don’t understand the terms and language of the proposed resolution? A consultant is the medium between the terms and language of the computing world and the pc issues in question.

It’s is said that an intelligent person knows theory’s and equations, but a smart person puts the right people around them that knows those theory’s and equations. It is always a good bet to have a good computer consultant handy for the NIC has just disabled itself removing you from the network causing the blue screen of death because of the lost in connectivity from the operation system TCP/IP (SMILE.)

The latest operating system for Microsoft is Windows 7. Since its release on October 22, 2009 it has been a big hit compared to its predecessor Windows Vista. Geeks and consumers alike have all praised the OS (operating system) for being a stable, secure, and fun operating system ready to go right out of the box. With a newly designed user interface for a better look and feel as well as a few other notable features, Windows 7 was widely accepted as a formidable upgrade from Windows XP than Vista. One of the most notable features was the ability to parallel the Windows 7 OS with a Windows XP OS dubbed as “XP Mode.”

XP Mode essentially is you running two operating systems on one machine. So why is this important and why would something like this appeal to me? Two words….Legacy Apps. The machines running in your office are severely outdated and it is time to upgrade them but you don’t want to lose any functionality essential to running the business from a software perspective. To keep your business running you more than likely rely on certain applications to run efficiently or you can’t do business. These applications have been used in the company a long time and they have uniquely experienced data that must be accessible at all times and cannot be lost or the business is doomed.  The current version of the software stops their support with Windows XP and it won’t work on Windows 7. The cost to transfer the data from the old software to the new version of the software is too expensive to even consider for the age of the program. With these being some of the examples whereby XP Mode is a great opportunity for the business to take advantage of the backward compatibility of Microsoft’s technologies and the latest and greatest operating system of Windows 7.

With the professional versions of Windows 7 and above you will have the capability to download and install Windows XP Mode on your new machine. Once XP Mode is installed you can then migrate the legacy applications and data from the outdated system to the new system and it will seem like you never missed a beat. At the same time enjoy all the benefits of a new machine with more memory, bigger hard drive, and faster processor. In this mode it is as if you are still working with Windows XP just the way you were used to.  Highlighting some of the cool features of this type of operating are, copy and pasting information between both operating systems can be done. Applications installed in XP can be opened in Windows 7 without issues. All of your documents from the old machine and the new machine are in one place for simplified access.  These are just a few of the nice features that would make the transition smooth and easy for you to upgrade.

There are some small issues related to this method of upgrading that may or may not be an issue for you but it’s nice to know what you are getting into. Since XP Mode is really a virtualized overlay of the operating system the graphic display isn’t a good as the standalone version of the OS. Some of the system settings don’t display correctly for example the date and time zone settings sometimes are incorrectly labeled. Applications don’t get their own start menu shortcuts but, rather are all listed under Virtual PC folder in the start menu.

Hope this gives you a general understanding of Windows XP Mode so when you are looking to upgrade your machines and there is an option for XP Mode you will know what it means.

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