The dust has settled, the budget has been and the houses are still standing after all the huffing and puffing. We can again concentrate on the business ahead and how to get through the tough times and how to make the most of it.

Winter is well upon us. Insulation, heat-pumps, weather related maintenance issues and tenants falling on hard times are all topics we get confronted with.

What a fantastic dinner we had with about 75 members and friends of our association at THE OLD CHURCH in Meeanee Rd, Taradale. People got talking during, before and after the speed-dating presented by Graeme Eagle (Vice President), designed so you may not just talk to whom you always talk to.

Quietly working away in the background is the Tenancy Agreement Subcommittee, trying to find common ground on an improved version of a “standard” tenancy agreement, that is fair to all but also covers all bases without becoming a cumbersome document. Let us surprise you!

Planning is well advanced on future investors’ meetings right up to the Christmas Holidays. With membership numbers down both regionally and nationally, it is vital, that we all make an effort to keep our membership base strong. There is strength in numbers and we need the numbers to have a voice. Please introduce a friend to our meetings, free of charge, so they may see for themselves the benefits of belonging to HBPIA.