I have a little debacle and would appreciate some advice. I bought an investment property 815k with 700k down a year back (under my name). My spouse has no affiliation to the loan or deed. We would like to buy a new single family and not sell my property as it cash flows well.

I make 130-150k (raise / bonus hits in 3 weeks) and she makes 73k as a teacher. I would like to attempt to buy the home under her name to take advantage of first time home owner rates.

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How can extend her income on paper to raise our purchasing power? We’d like to buy a 600k house so a little less than 3x our income.

Any ideas? My rental property will bring it 1500-1800 cash flow every month but I don’t know if associating her to the income will break our approach

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Really appreciate any advice on this!

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Could you pay her a fee to manage the property? How high do you think her income needs to be to qualify on her own?

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I thought the bank would approve as much as 45% of pre tax income so about 100k would suffice…

You put 85% down for an almost million dollar property to bring in (at best) $21,600? Is this a property you are considering living in and just renting until you retire or? For that amount of money you could’ve bought a pretty sizable multi family.

Ahh I follow your ask, it was originally owner occupant so good rate and lower down required. 700k loan wasn’t even the max they’d approve, with the rents

700k loan, even at 5% rate is at least $3700 a month. Tack on property taxes, insurance, capital expenditures… won’texpenses be at least $4500 a month if not more?
Are you managing the property yourself?

3.5% rate it was a year ago, and yes I can’t afford a property manager. Taxes are low so 4200 a year.

Way off the initial question lol

If this is a new spouse, you should seriously consider keeping and tracing some of those funds into a separate vehicle as they are premarital. The second you move it all into into one property the marital partner touches, lives in, has some responsibility for, etc., the asset becomes transmuted into defacto marital property and divide up upon divorce.

Appreciate the advice but the original question still looking for some advance on

Probably visit the personalfinance or firsttimehomebuyer bowl on Reddit for more thoughts on what you are asking.

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