Is a 49% debt to income ratio doable for someone who lives very frugally?

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Are you speaking of a mortgage DTI? That’s an extremely high conventional DTI, and most automated underwriting systems won’t approve your loan on this number. If you do a conventional loan, the max DTI IS 45% and can go as high as 50%, an FHA loan the allowable DTI is 43%. But can approve you as high as 53%. The higher DTI’s are predicated on verifiable compensating factors (6+ months of savings, long job history etc). You may be living frugally but from what you’ve written here, you have too much debt, sans your 49% DTI. Try and pay off some of your debt to get it at or below 45%. The lower the better your chances will be to obtain a mortgage. Feel free to direct message me if you have additional questions. Best of luck

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