Chapter 5
Qualifying ratios
Will the payment fit the income?
An explorable chapter on qualifying a borrower: what goes into PITI, the front-end and back-end debt-to-income ratios, and working back to the largest payment or debt load allowed.
- 5.1What goes into PITIPrincipal, interest, taxes, insurance, and more
- 5.2Front-end and back-endHousing alone, then every debt
- 5.3Working back to the limitIncome times the ratio, less what is already owed

