How much are your rates?

[Hosanna]

Was just organising a weekly direct debit for my rates, and I was just wondering what other people pay for theirs??? I hate rates ! Ours are $1300 a year. I think our house is worth about $300,000, we live in Country Victoria. I especially hate them this year, because our Council spent millions and millions of dollars upgrading the shopping mall here (that didn't need upgrading), and it turned out 100 times worse than it was!! There is actually a Facebook page devoted to those that hate it!!! They took away ALL the shade.....seriously

[Arimeh]

Ours are $2000 a year - in the crappiest suburb on the sunshine coast. Our friend lives about 5km up the road from us and pays about $800 a year (he doesn't have garbage removal and some other stuff cos he lives on a property).

Damn rip off.

[kirsty_lee]

ours are $415 a quarter

[Pretty Butterfly]

Just on $3000...

Thats what I get for building a nice house in a s****y area


We are sooooo far behind, they agreed to let us pay $20 per week, just so we were paying something....

[Pretty Butterfly]

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

[Hosanna]

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.

[Floweryfields]

I pay around 1200 per year. A boom from a mine starting in my area forced the prices up alot a number of years ago, they left, prices never came down!

[Antheia]

Where we live we pay $1080 per year. Water is paid ontop of that.

On our vacant block of land we pay about $1500 a year but that includes water.

[Floweryfields]

I pay around 1200 per year. A boom from a mine starting in my area forced the prices up alot a number of years ago, they left, prices never came down!

Oh - and mine includes water, except if you use over your allocated amount, then you pay per kilolitre extra. I never have so far (I have a big tank and use mostly tank water anyway).