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You add up all of your monthly income and derive a number.

You then add up all of your debt. Home loans, auto loans etc.

The difference is your debt to income value.

What you are really looking for, and what banks want to know is your monthly debt to income ratio.

In this you will take all of your monthly bills. Auto loan payment, rent, phone and every bill you can think of. you add these together. You then look at your total credit card debt and divide this by 12. You add that into your total monthly payments. This is your monthly debt payment.

To be considered to be sound as far as banks go, you total debt payments should NT be more then 50% of your income. It used to be 25% of your monthly income could go towards a mortgage or rent. They have moved that number up some, but it is a nice point to aim for.

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