After careful consideration I found I was being too emotional with my first investment property (after a 15 year pause).

  $225 per month in lost rent would give me pause.

After consideration I found I was being too emotional with my first investment property (after a 15 year pause).

I do not know how DTI was factored for loans that were paused for home buyers, but this could lower the buyer pool if factored differently. 

I also dont really have any debt besides a small amount of paused student loan debt.

This pattern continued as the speaker would periodically pause and ask, "Who wants a free _____."

@Brendan Fooks You know, I've been on that site countless times for my own properties and even for a few I was trying to buy and for whatever reason it just didn't occur to me when I paused for a second to wonder how to find that information.

We are pausing and just doing social nights through the summer, but you can find the events in the events tab at the top under "Learn".  

You could certainly make a plan to buy houses at 75% LTV until your DTI is too high for conforming loans, then pause and let your DTI come back down, or find non-conforming lenders with more relaxed DTI rules at the expense of paying higher interest rates.It's a matter of looking objectively at your budget and deciding how many worse case scenarios you can absorb.

After 10 interest rate hikes in a row from the Federal Reserve, we have now had the first pause.