How much are your rates?

Was just organising a weekly direct debit for my rates, and I was just wondering what other people pay for theirs??? I hate rates :wall: ! 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:wall:

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.

ours are $415 a quarter

Just on $3000...:doh:

Thats what I get for building a nice house in a s****y area
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We are sooooo far behind, they agreed to let us pay $20 per week, just so we were paying something....

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

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

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.

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

Regards,
Dianne

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.

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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!!!!

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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...

omg! i will never complain again

we have a $250k house, and our rates are $240 a quarter!

I live in Adelaide. $233 per quarter so $932 a year. It is cheaper though if you pay the year up front in full.

Our place cost us $260,000 to build, but worth around the $430,000 mark...:doh:

I should of built "on the wrong side of the tracks" :lol::lol:

Jeepers, I'll never complain about our rates again!

Ours are around 800 and something annually (plus another 800 something for water rates annually) and our house and land we bought for 290,000. Dunno how much it's worth now though.

I hate rates too! But I think I'd hate a bond more ;)

Ours are around $1000 every 6 months, with 5% discount, and interest at 20+ percent accumulating from the day after last date to pay.
We pay for our water on top of that too! Use to be a sliding scale, but now they just charge our town (others in the region are still sliding scale or much less) a flat rate for all our water consumption....
Dog Rego after the council amalgamations also went up from $25 per year to $80

Nic

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Ours are around $1000 every 6 months, with 5% discount, and interest at 20+ percent accumulating from the day after last date to pay.
We pay for our water on top of that too! Use to be a sliding scale, but now they just charge our town (others in the region are still sliding scale or much less) a flat rate for all our water consumption....
Dog Rego after the council amalgamations also went up from $25 per year to $80

Nic

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Jeez that's a bit rough about the dog rego. We're naughty and haven't got ours rego'd. Fingers crossed the council never finds out.

hmmm so me thinks my $229/quarter isn't so bad now....

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We pay for our water on top of that too!

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so do we! it's going up 73% over three years too! we technically have one house block, but because the water board see us as having two (one title, but can be subdivided) and our current house is at the opposite end to the old house, we get flogged twice for water rates - one for havig water connected to the house (last bill just on 270) and one for just having it available to connect (last bill 102 for the quarter). grrrrrrr

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!

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.

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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!

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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).

We pay $275 per quarter and our house cost 500,000 last year and is prob one of the cheapest in the suburb! (gotta love stupid Sydney prices)

thats very cheap then mrsmac!

Ours are $550 a quarter so $2200 a year. We built our house for $360k about 4 years ago and I think it is now worth close to $500k.