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By Craig Johnson

Figure Your DTI in 3 Easy Steps

You should know your DTI when you shop for a loan just like you know your size when you shop for shoes.

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The banking industry is populated by numbers types, the kind of people who score and rank everything, who don't believe something is real unless it is assigned a number, who gaze at spreadsheets as if they are crystal balls. So it's no wonder that a single number assigned to you plays such an important part when you try to borrow a lot of money. On...
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