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Sue Botelho-USDA Rural Housing Mortgage Pro

How do you make sure your client isn't buying "too much house"?

In this day of "post mortgage meltdown", buyers are being forced to actually qualify for the mortgage they are getting. Because most first time homebuyers are doing FHA or Rural Housing loans, your buyer will not be able to buy more home than they can afford due to:

  • FHA has a maximum debt to income ratio of 41%
  • Rural Housing has the same, unless it was built post January, 2001, and then it is 43%.
  • Both of these loan programs are FULLY VERIFIED programs
  • There are some compensating factors that can help your buyer go higher (ie: a lot of cash reserves after closing, etc.) but for the most part, these debt to income ratios are strictly enforced

If you don't want your buyer to be overextended on the house they are purchasing, make sure you work with a Lender that will offer them either FHA or Rural Housing loans. They will make sure the buyer is able to afford their new home and they will be a constant referral source to you because you didn't get them in "over their head"!