how much should I spend to buy a house

My hu*****and and I are tryimg to buy our first house. Here is our situation: two kids, one 5, one 1.5 yrs old. The day care fee for younger one is $1000/mon. My daughter is in a private kindergarten, with fee $1000/mon. We plan to let her go to public school next fall. we two have a salary about 150K/yr. We live in mid west. we have about 50K savings now. I have no ideal about what kind price/house we should look at, any one has any suggestions? Thanks.

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• go to any bank to get a pre-approval letter to see how much you -aimeili- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/09/2007 postreply 12:03:57

• how much you're qualified to borrow -aimeili- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/09/2007 postreply 12:04:24

• salary 的3倍就很轻松了. -luxuryhome- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/09/2007 postreply 12:05:32

• salary - before or after tax? -jijing- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/09/2007 postreply 12:15:07

• before tax. -luxuryhome- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/09/2007 postreply 12:21:32

• thanks -telly.bird- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/09/2007 postreply 12:09:46

• See where your money goes if you buy a $450k house -borisg- ♀ (708 bytes) () 10/09/2007 postreply 12:36:52