With the credit crunch looming over us for the last however many months, there has been plenty of advice as to how your money can go further. One idea is cooking for yourself rather than buying convenience food or take away meals. Cooking for yourself and your house mates can not only save you money, it can be a healthier way to eat too….it can also bring people together, be the basis of lots of good chat, help reduce washing up, keep bills low, be a challenge and enjoyable.

If you plan your weekly menu, it can make shopping easy and you can turn any left overs into soup, sandwiches or stews. These could even form part of your lunch, saving on money when you are eating away from home too.

However, always follow hygiene guidelines, especially with meat, frozen food and re heating. Make sure you stock your fridge properly, avoiding raw and cooked items sitting together.

If you have any hints and tips that have worked for you and would like to share on student life made easy or making your budget go further,  please send to:

louise.andrew@grantmanagement.co.uk

For some it may be a day on the beach, spending time with friends and family or staying in with a load of DVDs. For the team at Grant Management it is business as usual.

The phones in the call centre are ringing with countless prospective tenants trying to arrange viewings for houses and flats to rent.

Our team of property buyers are out and about viewing properties which may be suit our investment model.

The property management teams are offering support and advice to tenants and landlords, on a whole range of subjects!

If you need to get in touch for any reason, please let us know.  We are here to help.

To access online help 24/7 visit: www.gmhelp.com

To contact the team call: 0131 220 6360 and follow instructions

To view available houses and flats to rent visit: www.grantmanagement.co.uk

To arrange a viewing: 0845 230 2288

or emal: rentahome@grantmanagement.co.uk

We have sourced some superb investment properties with yields above 6% in prime rental areas of Edinburgh, Dundee and Stirling this week.

“Our investors have been snapping them up this month, we only have a couple left!”

“We’ll be hiring a bus and driving students around our available properties.”

With the universities just about to start the next academic year, students who have come through clearing, fallen out with their friend, left it too late or have come from overseas still need to find student accommodation.

“We do this around this time each year. It is great for us as we get to spend time with the students and take them around our houses to rent. The students like it as it takes the pressure off them having to drive around an area they don’t know.”

If you want to see some really good houses and flats available to rent in Newcastle, take a look at the selection here.

To help people find flatmates and flat shares, we regularly put on flat share evenings.

These are especially good for people who are new to the city and don’t know where to start.

Not only are these evenings good to view the flats available, people can get to meet potential flat mates before they move in. This way they know what to expect and can put a face to the name of their flat mates.

We host these evenings for students and professionals, so really we do cater for everyone.

If you want to find flat mates or come along to our next flat share evening, call the team on 0845 230 2288.

Everyone welcome!

Take a look at Edinburgh flats to let here!

Nicole says: “We are in keeping in close contact with the accommodation office at the University of Birmingham, to find out whether we can help. The Grant Management houses to rent are of a really good standard,  so we are sure they will go quickly! We have lots of our new tenants coming back to Birmingham after a summer of festivals, who are excited about moving into their new ‘digs’, particularly the 2^nd years who are experiencing this for the first time.”