Is 30% of gross income still a good benchmark for what to pay in rent?

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Depends.

$100k salary, he'd be spending $2500 on rent. If he values a nice place to stay I think that's fine.

$50k salary, spending $1250 is going to put you in a shite hole without roommates.

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spending $1250 is going to put you in a shite hole without roommates.

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Entirely dependent on the city

I spend 33.33333% on rent. sucks what that comes out to in take home amount

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You may want to remath that baw

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Ramsey would say 25%.

30% is a lot, he might want to look for room mates to keep cost down. Tell him to save, invest, and pay off any debt before going and getting more debt with fancy car, credit cards, and a house that is too big for him.

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If $1250 gets you a shite hole here, I'd imagine that is the case most places.

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Good point. But I think there’s a balance between city size and rent price. Lafayette and BR seem to have decent apartments for that price.

If he doesn’t have a girlfriend and has a buddy or two in the area he should for sure look at having roommates for at least a year.

someone said something about roommates. I've used them since I was 20 on a shitty fastfood worker income, and now have a nice 2 story house. It needed repairs when I bought it 15 years ago during the housing crisis. but kept saving roommates money and finally did all the repairs. Now it's worth about 400k, and I have 100k worth of antique vehicles and 207k in the stock market.