Thoughts on a 5.8k / mo. mortgage when combined household income is 230k? Have combined student and car debt of 1.3k / mo. and a child. I see our income rising closer to 300k over the next 2 or 3 years.

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That is way too tight. We’re $275k HHI with 2.4k mortgage and $400 car payment and I feel on the top range of comfortable

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I mean that is 3.25x your current mortgage. I would expect a 1.8k mortgage to be easy

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Are you maxing out your 401k and HSA?

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Too close to the bone

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I’m 6.2K with 345 before commission and it’s already tight with kids

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Proposing 230k before variable compensation but I get you. Variable compensation would bump us to 250k in a bad year.

We have no kids. Combined is $500k. We max out 401k and HSA. We aggressively save. Our mortgage is $3500 per month lmao. We’ll do this for a few more years and then our mortgage on a new, larger property will likely be $7000 max.

With that said, OP, I would never feel comfortable with those numbers.

And if you’re not maxing out retirement, you don’t have your priorities straight.

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Some people can have other priorities u know?

I think we always imagine the future where our income goes up. Have you also mitigated the risk of becoming a one income house for 6 months? If you have a sizable emergency fund maybe. Also with a $5800 mortgage have you done a 30 year projection on buying vs renting. In some markets renting is the better investment right now.

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300K combined HHI - two homes with 1600/month mortgage (first one is rented out) and we want to make this number even lower with a short term rental in our basement. You don't want to be house poor and have regrets. Is that house really worth it ? Your mortgage shouldn't be more than 30% of your combined income l.

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Yeah that's what I'm worried about. Don't want to be house poor. Wanted to see if others were in a similar boat and gmhow they feel about it.

You will be house poor for sure. But you might be able to make it work if 1.) $5.8k includes property tax and insurance, 2.) your jobs are very secured (no layoff coming), 3.) you have decent savings in emergency fund and other non tax advantaged accounts, and 4.) you are in no income tax state.

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5.8k is the fully baked amount. Loan, interest, property taxes, insurance, HOA.

We’re just under 4k with over 300k combined income. No kids for a while yet.

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We’re at $5.8k per month mortgage with $375k HHI. Also one kid. You gotta do what you gotta do. Folks here will give widely varying advice based on their markets. If you’re northeast or cali and want good schools, at these interest rates that’s probably what you’re looking at.

Keep in mind that there are tons of unforeseen costs with a house and obviously also with kids.

Out of curiosity what rate did you get?

Yeah exactly the house we want to build is 800k. Right now we take home about 12k a month and gross 230k a year before any overtime or bonus. Variable compensation is usually another 20-30k a year. She works 3 days a week at the moment but we need a babysitter 2x a week. Daycare 2x a week once he's a little older will be about $250/ week.

What’s your take home after taxes and deductions? Is your mortgage close to 50% of your net monthly income?

Yeah idk kind of in the same boat as you but don’t feel comfortable with such a high mortgage payment

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Why $5,800? Is it specifically for a home where you see yourself happily raising a family and a price point for the area you’re wanting to search in, etc?

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