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Mortgage With High DTI Guidelines On Home Loans

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Qualifying for a mortgage with high DTI can be very challenging.

  • The reason why qualifying for a mortgage with high DTI is extremely challenging
  • This is because most lenders will have overlays on debt to income ratios
  • This often causes a loan denial when it comes to qualifying borrowers applying for a mortgage with high DTI
  • Debt to income ratios also referred to as DTI
  • DTI is taking the borrower’s total monthly minimum payments and dividing it by the borrower’s gross monthly income
  • The result is the debt to income ratio, which is a percentage of debts divided by gross income
  • Borrowers can have perfect credit scores but if they have high debt to income ratios, they will not qualify for a home loan
  • Borrowers with high debt to income ratios can qualify if they have someone who can be a co-borrower on the mortgage loan

Lending Guidelines For Mortgage With High DTI

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There are two types of mortgage lending guidelines with regard to a mortgage with high DTI.

  • There are federal minimum mortgage lending guidelines for debt to income ratios and then there are mortgage lender overlays
  • Lender overlays are additional lending guidelines that are set by the individual lenders that are on top and addition to the minimum federal lending guidelines
  • For example, the maximum debt to income ratios allowed on FHA Loans is a back end debt to income ratio of 56.9% DTI and 46.9% front end to get an approve/eligible per automated underwriting system
  • However, even though borrowers with debt to income ratios qualify for an FHA loan with a 56.9% back end DTI under FHA guidelines, most banks and mortgage companies may set a maximum debt to income ratio cap at 45% DTI
  • Most borrowers who are told they do not qualify for a mortgage with high DTI is due to the mortgage company they went to has overlays can qualify at Gustan Cho Associates
  • Gustan Cho Associates Mortgage Group has no overlays on government and conforming loans

We have no lender overlays on debt to income ratios.

Lender Overlays Versus Agency Mortgage Guidelines

Just because borrowers do not qualify for a home loan with a particular lender due to their overlays on debt to income ratios does not mean that they do not qualify with a mortgage company with no overlays like myself.

  • We are lenders with no overlays
  • As long as borrowers meet the federal minimum lending guidelines on debt to income ratios, we will not impose any other overlays
  • We can approve a mortgage with high DTI as long as the borrower gets an approve/eligible per Automated Underwriting System
  • A large percentage of our mortgage applicants have high debt to income ratios and were told that they do not qualify for a home loan due to overlays

Borrowers seeking a mortgage with high DTI, please contact Gustan Cho Associates at 800-900-8569 or text us for faster response. We are available 7 days a week, evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Credit Scores And Mortgage With High DTI

Every mortgage program has its own debt to income ratio requirements. Conventional Loan requirements on debt to income ratios are capped at 50% DTI. USDA Loans are capped at 29% front end and 41% back end debt to income ratios. Most jumbo lenders cap the debt to income ratios on Jumbo Mortgages at 40% DTI. Condotel Financing and Non-Warrantable Condominium Loans have a debt to income ratios capped at 43%. FHA Loans are the most generous when it comes to debt to income ratios caps. With FHA Loans, if your credit scores are at least 620, the maximum front end debt to income ratios are capped at 46.9% and the maximum back end debt to income ratios are capped at 56.9% DTI.  With FHA Loans, if credit scores are below 620, then debt to income ratio caps will get reduced from 56.9% DTI to 43% debt to income ratio caps.

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