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Summary: In order to calculate a debt-to-income ratio, calculate monthly income, monthly expenses and divide the expenses by the income. Calculate a debt-to-income ratio before looking at a home loan with tips from a financial consultant in this free video on credit cards and personal finance.
Carrie Kukuda has a business administration degree, and was branch manager of a community bank. Kukuda owns a consulting business for one-on-one credit education & budget/debt...read more
"Do you ever wonder when it comes to applying for a loan and you hear the term DTI? Hi I'm Carrie Kukuda and I'm the Someday Coach. I'm here to calculate, help you to calculate your DTI which is your debt to income ratio. First you need to calculate your monthly income. So anything that's coming in through a job, alimony, pension, social security, rent, anything that you are receiving funds for. And then you need to calculate your monthly expenses, this would include such as, anything that you see on your credit report which entails your credit cards, loans, student loans, auto loans any kind of personal loan, anything that you are going to see on your credit report. And then you are going to divide the total monthly expenses by your total monthly income. And you want to keep, there's going to be a decimal and a percentage and you want to be under point three six. That's going to help you pretty much if you are looking at a home loan or anything else to make sure that your debt to income supports the fact of being able to, be able to afford that mortgage. So basically it's used for the lenders to see if that's a factor of whether you can afford and be able to stay in the home. Thank you Carrie Kukuda."
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