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Conventional Loan Debt-to-Income Ratios. Generally, the maximum debt-to-income ratio (DTI) for a conventional loan is 43%. However, exceptions can be made for DTIs as high as 50% with strong compensating factors like high credit and/or lots of cash reserves.
For a conventional home loan (one that is not insured by the government), mortgage lenders typically cap the front-end DTI ratio somewhere between 28% and 30%. That is the maximum percentage of income that can go toward mortgage payments. Again, this is just a rule of thumb used by most lenders -- it's not set in stone. Some lenders will allow a higher percentage to go toward monthly payments. But the 28% rule has long been a standard within the lending industry.