How much strata do you pay??

We live in a two bed two bath unit. No lifts/gym or other extras like that. Just a basic 3rd storey, 2bd, 2 bth unit. It gets 'cleaned' once a week (if you can call it that!), gardens done regularly (not sure how often, but the gardens aren't extravagant nor very well kept). Can't think of anything else to add...

Our strata fees have gone up for the 4th year in a row. $100 per quater this time. So that makes it $460 per quater now. Absolutely ridiculous if you ask me.

So what do you pay and what do you get for it??

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Anyone??

You're totally going to hate me - but with the unit we are currently purchasing (3 bedroom, double garage etc) um..

Its $200...

A year...

WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG!!!!!!!!! I can understand that you have brought in a different area, yada yada, but that much different???????? Arrrrggghhh. It's not like we live in a top suburb of Sydney...it's actually not a very nice suburb at all! (In my opinion...) and it's a good 45min-1hr drive from actual Sydney.

It doesn't help that I am not liking where we are living at all either. The area is sh***y, I am sooo sick of three flights of stairs. Nothing is easy to do, even just going to the car is a struggle! And grocery shopping, don't even get me started!! This place sucks and I hate it. I can't wait for the day we can afford to move.

Kellie goes off to look at my dream houses on realestate sites....I want a house *grumble grumble*

There are 2 other units in the same part as me for sale as well ;)

Only $260,000. 3 bedroom. All ground floor ;)

Oh - but its in tassie :p

LOL, thanks Mel, but no. Couldn't do Tassie....waaaayyyyyy too cold for me! But I'm not sure where we will end up living.....Sydney is a bit too pricey these days! Especially for a place in a nice suburb. And for what I want in a house!

I pay about $1600 a year for my body corporate and about the same for my rates.

We've just recently had the outside stairs/rails painted, we get the gardens done every month. Don't forget this amount covers your sinking fund AND insurances etc. If you are in an old building then you can expect the body corp to raise over time as they work out there isn't enough money in the sinking fund to cover anything that may come up.

We pay bout $1200 year body corp. Includes building insurance, insurance of common land, gardening to common areas, and whatever other work comes up, new pavers were put down last year, our garage is flooding in heavy rains so they're fixing the drainage out there.
TBH I don't like being part of one, its a pain, like often big jobs come up and we all end up having to pay extra levies outside the normal payments.

The unit we just recently sold we ere paying $600 a quarter - does that help you feel better?

It was for the stupid strata managers (who did stuff all), a gardener who charged for once a week (but only came about every 6 - yes I complained) and the sinking fund.
A rort I tell you.