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Feb 1, 2013 12:19PM
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I live in NY and it looks like they forgot to put a 1 in front of the 63k. Plus you would need to add spousal income. Article is ridiculously dangerous.
Feb 1, 2013 11:18AM
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does it account for OTHER living expenses??? i make $60,000 and only have a $112,000 house and i barely have money for the fun things in life. i couldn't imagine only making $20,000 and in the same house. wow!!!
Feb 1, 2013 10:52AM
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Assuming 20% down, this article suggests that 31% of "needed" income go toward Principle+Interest only.  Assuming zero debt outside of the mortgage, this could fly, but like most other posters have mentioned, this is very misleading and a very bad idea for 99.9999% of people.
Oct 8, 2012 3:44PM
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I will go back to 1972. Combined income of $20000.00.Morgage payment $145.00 a month .Guess where my wife and I started out?
Oct 8, 2012 2:28PM
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Seens that someone is putting out bad information.  FHA will not allow you to use more than 29% of monthly income towards the TOTAL house payment in any state.

 

$20,000 annual  income is  X 29% =$484.00 to be used towards the home payment.

 

if thats the case,  than you would have to subtract about $130.00 + or - a month for Taxes , Hazard insurance and Mortgage Insurance premium (MIP to the FHA).  so that means that out of the 484.00 u only can use $354.00 + or - for the mortgage payment

 

at an interest rate of 3.9%, the factor is $4.75 for every thousand you borrow so

 

$354 divided by 4.75 will get you a $75,000 house.  

 

$354.00  Principle and Interest

$100.00  Taxes & Hazard Insurance

$  30.00   FHA MIP

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$484.00   Total Payment.

 

With their math, we will continue to have many more foreclosures.  This is not Demo or Repub because both parties will say or do anything to get in office,   this is the shady lenders and uninformed realtors along with un licensed Mortgage Loan Officers.

 

You make the call

Oct 8, 2012 2:25PM
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Where is someone making $15,000 a year going to get 20% or $24,000 for a down payment on a $120,000 house?
Oct 8, 2012 11:51AM
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Are you kidding me? These homes are far too expensive for that income. No wonder the typical American is broke. Everyone is house poor.
Oct 8, 2012 10:12AM
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looks like bad math to me. For tampa at 144K, with a 10% down, and 3.5% interest, Principal+interest comes to abt $736, then add property tax and insurance, est 125 monthly, add mortgage insurance as well, looks like at least  $900, or 50% of gross income. I thought rule of thumb was to loan no more than 33% of income. Far too expensive a home for that income.
Oct 8, 2012 7:49AM
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The "no money down" scam was/is meant to put people who, if they have a minimum wage job or just live on welfare, into a suburban home and out of the inner city ghettos.  Unfortunately, the idea that everyone should have their own house while a solid liberal/Democrat Party ploy, does not consider the ramifications of what happens when you have someone no home caring experience, no money saving experience/ability, and no "middle class values" moving into a middle class neighborhood.  What you see around each of the most "affordable" cities (Phlly, Cleveland, etc) is that solid working/lower-middle income class neighborhoods are now quickly turning into crime ridden slums.   No one, especially Democrats, want to admit to and address this problem.  Like the crisis in education, it's not that the school facilities and teachers need more money (they get enough already), but that parenting, and especially lack thereof, needs to be improved if you want kids who are in school to learn, and who behave, and who are not disruptive troublemakers or just plain novice criminals.
Oct 8, 2012 5:45AM
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In what land of fantasy can someone making $20,000. per year afford a $150,000. house?  Lets do it another way.  Lets go back to the old rule of thumb of being able to afford a house which costs 2.5 times your annual salary, then see what sort of houses are available in those price ranges.  If banks went back to those lending rules you would see real estate prices return to realistic levels.
Oct 8, 2012 5:27AM
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Attention MSN:  If anyone buys a home in New York City for $429,900 on $63,712 annual income they will need to live in poverty or eventually go bankrupt. The writer of this article is either a fool or a moron. Your fact checking procedures are obviously a joke(if they even exist). Im done with you.

Oct 8, 2012 3:25AM
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How dare this article actually suggest you should have a job, display responsibility, or wow, even have a down payment? Do they not realize we are living in obammis dictatorship of "fairness and social justice"?
Sep 6, 2012 11:20AM
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okay well i see alot of people slamming the article writer but let me say the person who wrote this was stating the ammount required for only paying the mortgage and it was pretty evident to me so that means 20k to just pay for the house

 

which was what this article was all about

Sep 6, 2012 11:19AM
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No cable, no phone, little travel, work close to home and save, take lunch to work, have no children and other sacrifice in life and you might be able to do this, My life style has me at 50k tops the insurance and taxes kill more expensive home dreams. Just saying it is possible but you cannot support the stores and prices that exist in today’s markets. Note that at 35k a year you are in a 15% tax bracket, If you take advantage of ever possible avenue you can do what they say in the article and buy a home instead of renting but it would be hard. 1000000 on a 30 year mortgage at 4% = 477.42 not including taxes and insurance. This is within the range of a low rent apartment. I imagine that if you are well versed in a lot of money matters or have good advice you might be able to see this happen. the issue is in what and where you place your values stops a lot of people from gaining the most out of what we do accomplish. Go a month or two on a reduced budget a see what you can save the try and forum a budget based on the reduced spending model.

Sep 6, 2012 11:12AM
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LOL!  Now just take these numbers (income) and double them!  That's the income you really need.  Unless you don't care about lights, cable, a phone, heat/air conditioning, maybe a car, and oh, how about food??? 
Sep 6, 2012 9:59AM
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This article makes perfect sense if you can afford to put at least 70% of your income toward your mortgage. If you don’t want or need things like water, food, electric, cable, furniture, transportation, clothing, savings (for emergencies or retirement), etc., then this article seems perfectly logical.

Sep 6, 2012 9:59AM
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This article makes perfect sense if you can afford to put at least 70% of your income toward your mortgage. If you don’t want or need things like water, food, electric, cable, furniture, transportation, clothing, savings (for emergencies or retirement), etc., then this article seems perfectly logical.

Sep 6, 2012 9:28AM
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THIS IS OUR TIME! Time to get our share of the wealth. G000GLE the term ''SLICK RICH CASH'' and go the very first website. Once you get there, click on their insurance page to see what the rich are trying to keep all for themselves. Don't let their greed take it all...get some for your family.

Sep 6, 2012 9:26AM
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15 of 27 "Miami" that is of the strand in downtown West Palm Beach. at least check the photos first.
Sep 6, 2012 9:10AM
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I knew right away that was Chicago.  Those kind of brick houses are really common in the Chicago area. 
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