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Coach
The equity in the first home won’t matter. It’s based on your debt to income ratio. People house hack using FHA loans all the time, switching homes every year or 2. They barely have 5% equity in their homes by the time they apply for the 2nd or 3rd mortgage and they still get approved.
Coach
That should be doable. It’s seems like you already know that this strategy does come with risk that most Tim took and Instagram creators won’t tell you. If it is something you want to do just know the risks that come along with it
Subject Expert
Sure. Are you selling the first house to buy the second or keeping it? You just have to be able to qualify for the second loan. They don’t care the situation in the first.
Keeping the first one, I’m trying to buy the house across the street and rent out the first one.
Mentor
Yes
It’ll likely be a question of debt to income ratio. If you make enough it probably should not be a problem. If you can get a signed lease for one of the properties before closing that can help a lot because a bank can count the income from the lease to help towards the ratio, but it has to usually be a signed lease and sometimes they want to see deposit in your account for first month’s rent and security deposit (cannot just say I’m going to rent it out for $x/per month).
All about debt to income