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I think it’s important to see what your monthly take home is from the $335k income. Assuming you are both contributing to a retirement plan, what’s the monthly net? Minus your avg expenses and the mortgage/RE tax, how much you have left over?
Based on $5700 in total monthly payments how much are your other fixed expenses for the month? Will you still feel like you have a decent buffer after maxing retirement accounts for both of you?
I’ve been told to factor an additional 15% of the mortgage amount for maintenance costs. It’s not 15% each month but an average - over time you’ll replace the A/C or a/c needs maintenance yearly, roof leak, have a plumbing issue, washer dies, neighbor wants to split a fence or whatever. It is high and daunting. I decided against owning in CA because it just felt too tight and I worried I’d stop living because of being so worried about trying to afford the home.
That’s a good point. We’ve only lived in apartments before, the house maintenance is a whole new area for us. 🤯
How much is your monthly payment?
~4500 in mortgage payment + ~1200 in taxes
OP - what’s your payment? My wife and I recently bought a place with a 680k loan, HHI of $350k. Our monthly payment is about the same as our last apartment rent but we now have 5x the space. It’s a manageable amount for us. I wish we would have paid less but but timing wasn’t great.
~4500 in mortgage payment and ~1200 in tax. It’s more than our current rent but we do need more space. Rate went up drastically between when we started looking and making an offer. :(
I think it depends on your other expenses. My spouse and I are frugal by nature so we don’t like luxury items. We also cook every meal and DIY most things as we are very handy people. We have both low maintenance non-luxury cars paid off.
HHI 300K with around 800K mortgage at 2.75% rate. We can’t go any lower because of HCOL area. It came to around $5000 monthly payment, tax and insurance included. It’s slightly tight but doable.
Sounds about right given your HHI. First mortgage always feels like a bear but you get more comfortable with this new dynamic to your finances relatively quickly IMO
My HHI is $300k…offered $610k, financing $575k. 6.5% 🤢 only other bill (besides utilities) will be my husband’s student loans. Needed to relocate and needed more space. We’re c/o 2020…we will grow into the mortgage IMO
How much did you put down?
20% of house price
D1 and CorpDev1, this sounds dumb but im around $300k and can’t figure out how to afford more than $450k-$500k mortgage, let alone ~$700k. Can you ballpark your monthly expenses and savings so I can gut check myself?
Haha yeah. Double income no kids with a dog.
This feels very tight to me. I have a similar sized mortgage as 2.8% and thought that was a stretch. Higher HHI too
Yes
What is 28% rule?
I believe gross and includes principal and interest
As they said: Marry the House, date the rate.