Sharing a house and need an easy way to work out everyone’s share of the rent, power and other bills? Rental calculator site Split The Rent has revamped itself and launched a site better suited to helping Australian renters stop the squabbling.
We covered the original version of Split The Rent back in February. While it’s a helpful site, the original version had a US-centric vision of the world, with rents assumed to be monthly and dates in American formats. The new local site offers weekly and fortnightly rent options, and defaults to the more familiar dd/mm/yy format. (That happened in part because the site’s founder moved to Melbourne.)
The site has also tweaked some of its other options, including the ability to add recurring bills and a furniture calculator to work out how much a shared piece of furniture is worth after you’ve all been using it for a few years. Split The Rent is free to use.
66biscuits
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at 2:04 PMCan it make the other person do the dishes, buy toilet paper and not steal food?
Rohan
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at 3:02 PMThumbs up! :) Lifehacker really needs to add a ‘like’ or +1 button to their forum posts.
Sam
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at 3:41 PM…Erm there is a Facebook like button – top right of the article…
Sam
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at 3:02 PMHeh, I should run through this and issue it to my wife just to see what reaction I get :P
Salma
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at 3:08 PMTest the comfort of your couch first! ;)
Mike
Sunday, August 7, 2011 at 11:08 AMI’m in Australia and it still forces me to use the MM/DD/YYYY format. Settings are ‘English (Australia).
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Friday, August 26, 2011 at 10:24 PMMany have been led to believe that the only way in which one can purchase property is by getting a loan from a bank, which has its downside of high interest and costing extra hundreds of thousands of dollars in interest over 30 years, etc. In the old days (Actually not quite that long ago) farms were all bought and sold using Vendor Finance terms (rent to buy), in fact, farms are still being sold in this manner throughout Australia.