# What is your outstanding mortgage balance to household income ratio?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 8, 2005, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-outstanding-mortgage-balance-to-household-income-ratio/288975 "2005-02-08T12:47:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elza\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-outstanding-mortgage-balance-to-household-income-ratio/288975/41 "2005-02-10T14:24:34Z")

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We don’t close for another month and a half, but when we do, the ratio will be somewhere around 1.8. That’s with both of our salaries, though, and the mortgage is only in his name - but we’re both paying it.

E.

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