How Much Can You Afford?

Source: Yahoo! Real Estate If you’re like many first-time homebuyers, ... -to-income ratio. This is the figure lenders use to determine how much mortgage debt you can handle ... (Debt-to-income ratio) = $2,340 (Total allowable monthly debt payments) Next, add [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 12:27:26

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What The Heck Is ‘DCR’ And Why Should Real Estate Investors Care?

I get this question from time to time, as DCR isn’t as commonly known as some real estate investors might think. It stands for Debt Coverage Ratio ... loan amount. On your handy dandy loan calculator, mine is and will forever more be an HP 12C ... . It’s ratio of Net Operating Income to total annual Debt Service (a year’s loan payments [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 00:32:23

YRC Worldwide Pursues Long-Term Solution to Improve Financial Condition

Cancels Tender Offer and Evaluates Better Opportunities with its Banks National Integration to be Complete by Early Spring 2009 YRC Worldwide Inc ... facilities that would enhance the company’s financial flexibility including changes to its leverage ratio. The company’s credit agreement defines the leverage ratio generally to be total debt [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 09:26:02

Results of Capitalizing Leases (2)

United Airlines declared corporate bankruptcy on December 9, 2002.8 The ratios in Exhibit 4.8 tell us why—United has very little equity and has been heading in the wrong direction, even before September 11. The adjusted debt-to-total capital ratio shows that equity makes up only 1 percent [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 00:06:53

Predicting 02009 in retrospect

Predicting 02009 in retrospect January 2nd, 02009 by Alexander Rose Stewart Brand sent me this excellent piece by past Seminar Speaker, ... correct at some point… “With total debt above 350 per cent of US gross domestic product ... , Americans simply could not stabilise the ratio of their debts to their disposable incomes. The paradox [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 18:52:35

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