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• Front end ratio
  • A common rule of thumb is that they'll allow you to pay around 30% of your gross income toward your mortgage payment every month. This is known as the front-end ratio. In this example, 30% of $4,000 is $1,200 a month
  • If 100K, up to 2.5K
• Back-end ratio (or debt ratio)
  • Your debt ratio, or back-end ratio, on the other hand, is $400/$4,000, or 10%. That's not bad. They don't want more than around 40% of your gross income going to total debt -- mortgage, credit card interest, and other payments -- and in this case, your payments add up to 39%. (These ratios can vary somewhat; the ones given here are just examples).
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