Glasgow Housing Association was in and out of the wars even before it formally took over more than 80,000 of the city's old council homes in 2003.
That transfer was months behind schedule as the sheer scale of the country's biggest ever conveyancing exercise became apparent.
Then came what many insiders now regard as the inevitable politicking of a major new player appearing in Glasgow's establishment.
Glasgow Housing Association was in and out of the wars even before it formally took over more than 80,000 of the city's old council homes in 2003.
A decade on, GHA's current chairman today admitted his organisation did not always rub along as well as it could with its "stakeholders".
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Gordon Sloan said: "It has not all been plain sailing.
"Far from it. In the early days, we simply didn't get our relationships right with the city council and the Scottish Government."
The biggest problem: so-called second-stage transfers.
As we revealed yesterday, there was always a tension at the heart of the housing stock transfers between those who wanted a "council housing department in drag," and those who wanted to break up the new giant into smaller, tenant-led units.
Eventually, after what insiders admit was a bitter civil war in the Glasgow housing community, GHA unloaded some of its homes to community-based housing associations last year.
But this only took place after action by Scottish ministers.
Mr Sloan today admitted GHA had been too slow on the issue.
He said: "We took far too long to kickstart and then complete the Second Stage Transfer programme where GHA houses were transferred, if tenants voted for it, to community-based housing organisations."
Mr Sloan, a tenant, insisted peace had now broken out.
He said: I am glad to say there has been a significant turnaround in recent years on both fronts.
"Our relationships with the city council, as the strategic housing authority, and the Scottish Government these days are really strong and we place a high emphasis on working with them as our partners and stakeholders for the benefit of tenants and the city."
GHA officials and supporters, meanwhile, even as they struggled with SST and other issues, pressed ahead with the repairs and demolitions that have done so much to transform Glasgow's landscape.
Mr Sloan is convinced tenants did the right thing to vote Yes for stock transfer back in 2002.
He said: "It was a brave decision. But it was the right one.
"In one sense, there was really no alternative. The city council's housing debt was heading towards £1billion.
"More money was being spent on servicing that massive debt than maintaining the city's 82,000 houses and flats and providing services to the people who lived in them
"Our houses were literally crumbling before our eyes: damp, old-fashioned and not homes in which we really wanted to raise a family.
"The opportunity to have the city's housing debt wiped clean was too good to miss.
"I'm so glad we – the tenants and the politicians – had the guts and the vision to see it through."
Glasgow Housing Association came into being with no debt and the ability to raise huge amounts of funds to immediately begin tackling our city's housing shame.
"That meant knocking down thousands of flats and houses that were beyond repair and refurbishing the remainder, as well as building lovely, new, modern ones."
