How much are your rates?

**Pretty Butterfly** · May 14th, 2009, 12:30 PM

hehehe, thats a sw@nky area....

**Hosanna** · May 14th, 2009, 01:18 PM

yikes..$3000, that is massive! i would want gold plated garbage bins for that!!

i am always a bit behind with ours, but to be honest i'd rather be up to date with all our other bills like we are at the moment, but i thought if i set up an automatic direct debit payment each week like i do with all our utilities, we will get on top of it.

**diannescruffy** · May 14th, 2009, 02:34 PM

Wow can't believe how expensive your rates are, we pay $780yr and our house is worth $300,000.

Regards,
Dianne

**Erin_25** · May 14th, 2009, 02:48 PM

ouch $3000 & i've been ranting about ours!!! we pay $950 half yearly.....they make us pay every six months here, I don't know why. We bought our house for $310,000 in country QLD & I can't believe they are soooo much. Prob wouldn't bother me if we got something for what we paid!!! we don't even have proper footpaths...if I want to go for a walk with DS I have to walk in the bike lane on the road, or the road where there isn't a bike lane!!!!
We lived 15mins for the CBD in a nice area of Adelaide before & only paid approx $800 a year!!! hmmm should move back there.

**briggsy's girl** · May 14th, 2009, 03:01 PM

We bought our house for $310,000 in country QLD & I can't believe they are soooo much. Prob wouldn't bother me if we got something for what we paid!!! we don't even have proper footpaths...if I want to go for a walk with DS I have to walk in the bike lane on the road, or the road where there isn't a bike lane!!!!

our house is valued at around 250k and our rates are ummmm, i think about 1300 a year (well, they were last year - havent' gotten this years yet). we get garbage pick up and that's about it. very expensive garbage collection

we have no roadworks out here, no maintenance unless it's just before council elections - we are part of a massive council (area wise, not population wise) and all the money goes into the three or four biggest towns - the rest of us pay through the nose and get nothing. i think the thing that frustrates me most is that our rates are HIGHER than they are in the towns that get looked after cos our house is newer - and as soon as our shed goes up, they'll go up again... sigh...