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re: Income to house cost ratio: Assuming pretax income, what is the marginal ratio?

Posted on 6/3/15 at 2:54 pm to
Posted by LSUtoOmaha
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Posted on 6/3/15 at 2:54 pm to
Wait, so you are saying if someone makes 100k a year, a bank will pre-approve them for a house that costs 400k?
Posted by Salmon
On the trails
Member since Feb 2008
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Posted on 6/3/15 at 3:03 pm to
that is the % that my mortgage lender was willing to lend me back in 2010

maybe it was my high credit score and the low interest rates
Posted by Hawkeye95
Member since Dec 2013
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Posted on 6/3/15 at 3:16 pm to
quote:

Wait, so you are saying if someone makes 100k a year, a bank will pre-approve them for a house that costs 400k?


Maybe, depends on credit and downpayment.

but the monthly payment on 400k in debt falls within the correct ratios for 100k in income, assuming minimal side debt.

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Consider going significantly less. You don't want to be house poor.

This. Paying 28% hurts if you want to have any semblance of a life.
This post was edited on 6/3/15 at 3:20 pm
Posted by TigerTatorTots
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Member since Jul 2009
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Posted on 6/3/15 at 10:53 pm to
quote:

Wait, so you are saying if someone makes 100k a year, a bank will pre-approve them for a house that costs 400k?

I find that low...we were preapproved for a house 5 times larger than our combined income which is absolutely absurd. No wonder people go into major debt
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