Rental expenses: experts recommend spending no more than 30% of gross income on housing per month. What’s your: 1) monthly gross, 2) % spent on housing, 3) high/medium/low cost of living city? Trying to get an idea of how y’all investment fish prioritize housing vs savings.

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1: $24,000 not taking bonus in to account (married)
2: 12%
3: HCOL (DC)

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Nope. Capco. This is combined with my wife. So that adds about $7k a month.

1. $12k (single income) 2. 14% 3. HCOL- chicago

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I’ll start: 1) $12,500, 2) 8%, 3) MCOL, time to upgrade 😬

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1) $13,500 2) 21% (PITI not including utilities) 3) HCOL

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1. $20k (married)
2. 13% (includes taxes, insurance and utilities)
3. HCOL (note Boston has a resident property tax rebate so it’s very reasonable to own in the city)

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1. 7.5k 2. 24% including utilities 3. HCOL

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1800?

1) 12k 2) 18% 3) HCOL

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10k, 13%, MCOL

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9k, 11%, MCOL

1. $29k without bonuses (married) 2. 11% 3. HCOL - NYC

1: $23K (married)
2: 20% (including taxes, insurance, HOA)
3: HCOL (Boston)

1) 7.8k 2) 25% 3) hcol nyc

1. 30k (partnered) 2. 10% 3. HCOL, NYC

30k, 12%, HCOL city

$22,500
15%
HCOL Boston

OP, are you going to make some graphs of all these data points?

$8.7k, 10%, HCOL

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