The 2020 Annual OPIA Bus Tour
Come along to the annual social and educational event to start off 2020.
There will be several properties to have a look around Dunedin suburbs - with the trip concluding back at Zingari for the ever popular barbecue.
Please wear easy to remove footwear. more >>
17 March 2020
7pm for 7:30pm start
Chisholm Park
Heather is a passionate 'buy and hold' investor with a sizeable portfolio of houses in the Manawatu. She is an IT project manager by day in both Auckland and Wellington, and a renovator in every spare hour she can find when home in Palmerston North.
Heather has had experience in trading, rent by room and multi-income properties, both in the Manawatu and in Auckland. Specialising in turning distressed homes into homes that tenants can't wait to snap up, she can show you how to make a big impact on a small reno budget.Profiled in the NZ Prop erty investor twice, she is often called upon by the magazine for her view on the bank lending environment, property business plans and financing strategies.
Come and hear Heather talk as she has a wealth of knowledge to share with you. more >>
21 April 2020
7pm for 7:30pm start
Chisholm Park
With an election looming later this year its a great time to put your questions to National party MP Hon Micheal Woodhouse (Dunedin North) and see where National sits with all the policy changes around landlording and housing that is happening under the Labour lead government currently.
Current National party housing spokes person Hon Judith Collins has also been invited and e are just waiting to confirm.
(Several Labour MPs were invited to come and speak to the OPIA at their convenience and no one has replied since October 2019) more >>
19 May 2020
7pm for 7.30 start
Chisholm Park
Nick is a fellow Property Investor and co-owner of Investment Property Buyer's Agency iFindProperty.
In the last 4 years, Nick has built up a portfolio that generates 6-figures in passive income. He did this in a city that he visits 2-3x per year, mostly after the boom and LVR restraints had arrived and while spending more than half of each year overseas (his wife runs a business in Japan). Nick will share lessons he learned along his journey. more >>
Very quick OPIA AGM and then our speaker for the evening ex BNZ Economist.Â
More info to come but you can read his latest newsletters at:Â http://www.tonyalexander.nz/publications.phpÂ
He has been doing these updates since he left BNZ and is now an independent economist and is now talking all over NZ and was a main speaker at NZPIF conference in 2019 and was fantastic. more >>