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re: What % of your net take home pay is your mortgage payment?

Posted on 4/7/26 at 4:17 pm to
Posted by Popths
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2016
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Posted on 4/7/26 at 4:17 pm to
Debt free!!
Posted by tigergal918
Member since Feb 2022
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Posted on 4/7/26 at 4:54 pm to
16% including escrow
Posted by MSTiger33
Member since Oct 2007
21657 posts
Posted on 4/7/26 at 7:03 pm to
Of the net? About 20% if you include taxes and insurance. 40% of our monthly payment is taxes and insurance.
Posted by Rize
Spring Texas
Member since Sep 2011
19377 posts
Posted on 4/7/26 at 7:08 pm to
23%. I sure do miss my 10% in Baton Rouge
Posted by SmackoverHawg
Member since Oct 2011
31607 posts
Posted on 4/7/26 at 7:13 pm to
4% counting taxes and insurance. Gone in 6 months.
Posted by Grinder
Member since Nov 2007
2685 posts
Posted on 4/7/26 at 8:18 pm to
Mortgage is zero.

Taxes and insurance is 2%.

Posted by SquatchDawg
Cohutta Wilderness
Member since Sep 2012
20085 posts
Posted on 4/7/26 at 8:35 pm to
About 17% w/escrow…6 yrs to go…2.8% ish
This post was edited on 4/7/26 at 8:35 pm
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
74850 posts
Posted on 4/7/26 at 10:35 pm to
quote:

What % of your net take home pay is your mortgage payment?
We have a mortgage on a second property we got during COVID.

Sub 3% interest rate, 15 year note. The total mortgage payment & escrow is about 15% of our monthly net take-home.
Posted by Rize
Spring Texas
Member since Sep 2011
19377 posts
Posted on 4/7/26 at 10:35 pm to
quote:

4% counting taxes and insurance. Gone in 6 months.


I’ve got 29 years left

My taxes and insurance are $2,000 a month.
This post was edited on 4/7/26 at 10:38 pm
Posted by tigerbacon
Arkansas
Member since Aug 2010
4640 posts
Posted on 4/7/26 at 11:00 pm to
16% bought pre Covid
Posted by Fat Bastard
alter hunter
Member since Mar 2009
91081 posts
Posted on 4/7/26 at 11:03 pm to
ZERO

house paid off since 2012
Posted by Upperdecker
St. George, LA
Member since Nov 2014
33505 posts
Posted on 4/8/26 at 5:54 am to
quote:

ill be going from 8% to 20% soon and im not happy about it.

Are you significantly upgrading your home? Or is it weighted in higher mortgage interest?
Posted by Elusiveporpi
Below I-10
Member since Feb 2011
2753 posts
Posted on 4/8/26 at 6:59 am to
quote:


quote:
ill be going from 8% to 20% soon and im not happy about it.

Are you significantly upgrading your home? Or is it weighted in higher mortgage interest?


Going from my Bachelor pad to building a custom home. Plus loosing my 3.5% interest rate. But what the wife wants the wife gets.
Posted by NewIberiaHaircut
Lafayette
Member since May 2013
12452 posts
Posted on 4/8/26 at 7:54 am to
6%. But my monthly income can vary greatly. So that 6% is yearly mortgage payment vs yearly take home.
Posted by StonewallJack
Member since Apr 2008
1012 posts
Posted on 4/8/26 at 8:21 am to
40% - about to start a go fund me
Posted by Roy Curado
Member since Jul 2021
1606 posts
Posted on 4/8/26 at 10:20 am to
33.7%. This is accounting for both my rental and primary mortgages and I am factoring in my rental income into my net income.


Just my primary and all net income minus rental income = 25.4%
Posted by TheOcean
#honeyfriedchicken
Member since Aug 2004
45942 posts
Posted on 4/8/26 at 11:26 am to
We live in a large home on the water here in Tampa. We're at 3.5%. Got insanely lucky buying during COVID
Posted by dualed
Member since Sep 2010
4780 posts
Posted on 4/8/26 at 12:18 pm to
We're at 14.5% including escrow. If we upgraded our house to something we really wanted, we'd be easily at 33%. That's with rolling over all of our equity to a new home too. I truly don't know how people are doing that. I refuse to be house-poor.
Posted by DrSteveBrule
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2009
12504 posts
Posted on 4/8/26 at 2:01 pm to
Exactly 33%. Not exactly the situation I want to be in, but I just got this house a few months ago and it was what I was willing to accept with how high interest rates currently are.

Compared against my NET pay, I am well below any commonly accepted rules of thumb. I haven't changed any of my investments.

33% is inclusive of mortgage, insurance, escrow
This post was edited on 4/8/26 at 2:15 pm
Posted by Clint Torres
Member since Oct 2011
2845 posts
Posted on 4/8/26 at 2:04 pm to
I’ve found that this percentage matters somewhat less the more you make
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