A. To calculate the maximum monthly payments you can apply to your mortgage is really quite simple. You can use up to 32% of your monthly income for mortgage payments, and an additional 10% for other debts. Thus you can have a maximum of 42% of your monthly income used for debt payments before you no longer qualify for a mortgage.

ex. If you make a combined $10000 in your household, $3200 can be applied to mortgage payments and an additional $1000 can be used for other debt payments. if you have $2000 in other debt payments then you would be able to apply $2200 to your monthly mortgage payment, as long as your total debt payments with your mortgage do not exceed 42% of your monthly income.

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