02/17/2026
Let's talk about BUY NOW, PAY LATER loans.
If you are trying to purchase a home or planning to purchase one in the future, please be aware that those buy now and pay later options could cause you not to be approved for as much as you would like.
For example: Let's say you used Affirm to purchase 6 different items and now you have 6 individual monthly payments/loans towards those items you purchased. For some of the mortgage loan types available, if the cumulative payment amount of all those payments is more than 5% of your monthly income, then they have to be counted towards your debt-to-income ratio. The higher the DTI, potentially the less you can be approved for. Or you may have to pay some of them off to qualify for a higher loan amount.
The fun part for you and for me is we have to have these documented. That means more paperwork/pdfs to download from each loan.
These are options like:
Affirm, Afterpay, Klarna, Zip, Paypal in 4, and Sezzle.
If you have any other questions pertaining to this or any other mortgage related questions, please feel free to reach out!
It's a great time to get pre-qualified to purchase or to think about doing a rate and term or cash out refinance. Reach out to me for any of these!
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