Just to put a roof over our heads

penguin83

Mine is

Mortgage - 931.13
Council Tax - 109.00
Gas/Elec - 150.00
Dont have any contents insurance
Water 53.58

Total - 1243.71

3 bed semi in the North West. 4 of us so 310.93 per head! x x

fiodyl

Rent £301
Council tax £126
Gas £23
Electric £30- seems to be rising every month, its a key meter but I'm trying to get it changed
Water £29
Contents Insurance £11

Total £520
for 2 adults and 2 kids living on a rough estate in a very expensive town in the South east

mummytofour

penguin83 wrote: »

Mine is

Mortgage - 931.13
Council Tax - 109.00
Gas/Elec - 150.00
Dont have any contents insurance
Water 53.58

Total - 1243.71

3 bed semi in the North West. 4 of us so 310.93 per head! x x

A big Ouch for you hunni!

Toto

Ouch my council tax is £181 per month, and no there are no arrears or anything like that and I don't live in a mansion either just a 3 bed town house 20 miles north of london.

Rent is £960
electricity £89
gas £39
water £46
Contents £22

= £1337 per month

continualdiamond

Mortgage - £439.04
Council tax - £105
Gas - £30
Elec - £40
Contents ins - £10.11
Building ins - £13.50

TOTAL - £637.65

For 2 people in a 2 bed ground floor leasehold flat, but in a lovely village location (Nottinghamshire) and we get a backgarden. Building ins outta our hands as landlord controls it and we pay per year.

becky_rtw

My new London pad is:
rent £800
bills £100
c/tax £50
insurance £8

Gosh thats nearly £1000 a month for a double room in a shared house...no going out for me ever again!

nearlyrich

Rent /Mortgage £0 paid off a few years ago
Council tax £152
Gas/Electric combined £123
Water £54
Buildings and Contents Insurance £29

£358 pm 4 adults (3 working one retired) 4 bed house nice area North west bought 16 years ago...we couldn't afford to buy it now.

It's never been harder for many people with rising food and fuel prices, increased costs of running a car, mortgage rates going up.... our council tax is one of the highest in the country and we have one of the worst performing councils. Water rates based on the old ratable value, not sure if a water meter would work out cheaper but as long as my daughter the dolphin lives here I am not going there.

orlao

Mortgage £585
Council tax £65
Gas/Electric combined £43
Water £33
Buildings and Contents Insurance £20

£746 pm for just me in a 2 bed semi in south Essex.....

Keeping_Positive

Rent 426
C Tax 131
Gas and Elec 50 - should be higher guestimate 80
Water 28 (meter)
Contents Ins 14
Total 649 - 679

Five in a housing association 3 bed house in Oxfordshire. All I can say if thank goodness for HA rent.

onlyme35

Single mummy, two kids and having to private rent as my lovely Council decided when I was homeless that judging by my dress I worked, yes, correct, their advice was, sorry your only option, private rent, so off I trotted, stupidly.

Rent £650, no garage, garden, terraced
C/Tax £80
Gas £56
Elec £30
Water £33
Contents ins £16
Phone £14.50
TV Lic £12

Then mobile, petrol, food etc blah, blah blah

Can't complain the Council recognise that earning £900 a month that I warrant housing benefit.....oh yes, £2.30 per week!!!!!!!!! How I cried. Anyway, they pay me that taking into account child benefit of £31.25 per week, maintenance and the bit from WFTC. Total p!ss take if you ask me but hey am on a council house register and will take six years to get homed being I am housed as I should be because I took their crap advice. Can't change jobs to earn more as would lose a whole lot more, so kinda stuck which is just wrong. Sorry for the moan but like most cost of living a bad joke. Grrrr. Wonder why so many do not work and take all they can get.