New home BILLS!!

pokerking · 28 Sep 2011 at 16:37

Hey all, I have been living in a shared house now since leaving home, only cost me £300PM and that included everything.

Now I have just got a home with my girlfriend and I totally didn't realise a home can cost so much!!!

Rent ; £395
Water ; £35
Electric and Gas ; £75
Councill Tax ; £92
TV ; £22

Plus the other stuff like Internet, Home Insurance, Increase in Car Insurance.

It's nice having a home to yourselfs though!!!

I has been a sruggle this month with paying £400 for bond too!!

Who else rents??? I was going to get a mortage and buy a home but I feel like I would be stuck somewhere for life paying it off, I see renting a bit like throwing money away as when you leave it wont be yours!!!

Plus it's bare no sofa and fridge freezer!!! Hahaa this month is costing me a fortune!!

/ Cool story!!

pokerking · 28 Sep 2011 at 16:46

Seems like I have it cheap then!!! £395 for a 2 bed house with a nice front garden in a respected non councill area is good!! Just the other stuff you dont realise you have to pay!

Also I got told by the Agents that it can be our home for life if we so wish, its a 12 month contract with an option to keep extending, they said we can do what we like, get a new kitchen bathroom etc, paint and redecorate. Do you guys who rent fix the house up? I just dont like the fact we can do a lot to it but its not our home so to speak so will seem a waste of time and effort spending a fortune for no reason????

pokerking · 28 Sep 2011 at 16:48

Yeah £395

pokerking · 28 Sep 2011 at 16:49

Should add it is totally bare, they have only supplied a new Gas cooker, and a nice electric heater! Other than that nothing!!!

pokerking · 28 Sep 2011 at 16:59

oli356 said:
Put it this way, our electric and gas for next year is estimated at like £1900, consider yourself lucky I'm glad I don't pay the bills around here

Seriously?? Do you live at Buckingham Palace

R.C.Anderson said:
Is that £395 each, or between you? If it's between you, that's very cheap...

I'm a student, and currently renting a house with 3 others, and we're all paying £275/m excluding bills...

Yeah its £395 for us both, we both work full time making a little over £2k between us a month, so we have a good chunk of spare cash to save

Skidder said:
My mobile phone bill this month was as much as your rent.

I pay £35 for a 02 contract and get I don't know how many free mins and texts, to spend £395 a month on a bill is crazy!!

I live in Leeds, so up North! So maybe thats why its cheap? A town called Pudsey.

pokerking · 28 Sep 2011 at 17:13

Yeah I thought it was a lot, but after seeing post on here I guess not!! All the people who pay much more rent, do you guys live down South?

GeX I take it your home is Band A? What kind of home do you have to pay £575PM?

There a are a lot of Town flats in Leeds City Center for that sort of price but I wanted a garden, its the biggest thing I missed since leaving home, having somewhere to sit when its nice and sunny like this week has been perfect

pokerking · 28 Sep 2011 at 17:26

GeX said:
Band B, but discounted because my partner is a student.

House a modern 2bed end terrace (line of 4), set back from the road, private car park, decent sized garden. Approx 15mins walk from the city centre

We were living in a 1 bed apartment in the city centre which came in at £475 inc secure, underground parking - but we wanted more space and a garden.

Me too a decent sized garden facing the sun was a must for me! My old shared house was a flat with no garden or nothing! I hated it when it was warm and sunny. Nothing like sitting out on your day off when its this nice!