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A good mortgage broker will be able to look at your credit and give you a good estimate of what your mortgage rate would be, which can help determine how much you can afford.
Be careful that a lot of online calculators will underestimate the payment per month or overestimate the amount of house you can afford because they want you to dream big. I find that a mortgage broker will be a bit more realistic with rates and affordability so that they don’t overpromise with you.
There are lots of factors to consider, how much do you have for down payment? How much other debts do you have? How much do you spend/save? You can check out Nerdwallet (or many other sites) and use the calculators/tools to figure it out.
General rule of thumb is to spend 28% of your monthly pay on housing, which would be $5800 for you ($250k / 12 x 28%). Subtract monthly property tax and home insurance to get to your mortgage payment amount. Then you can use a mortgage calculator to get to how much of a loan it equate to, add your down payment of $100k to the loan amount to get to the purchase price you can afford.
Coach
You can buy so much house for not that much in those areas. It really depends on what your other bills are like, but you can likely find what you need for under $500k.
Sylvia Nagy is a great broker in that area and knows the Carmel area, specifically quite well. She will be able to answer any questions.
Community Builder
Give me a shout and I can help run some numbers for you. I’ll send you a dm