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Dyami Pike
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Debt to income for mortgage

Dyami Pike
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So I am looking into moving out of state. I own a home in Missouri and I'm planning on moving to Houston area. I've owned this house long enough that I can get another conventional or FHA low down payment, but I don't want to sell this house and I would want to rent it to keep building my net worth. The numbers work for it so I'm not concerned about renting it, but for a second mortgage I know they look at DTI ratio. Would my rental income counterbalance that? I don't really get how that works.

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Marc Dube
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Marc Dube
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you can use the rental income from your current property as long as you have a signed and dated lease. Lenders will use 75% of your gross lease amount, then look at what your mortgage payment is. If your lease income is greater than the monthly payment you will have a positive dti...if your mortgage payment is more than the rental income then you will be hit with the negative difference

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