How can a mortgage be so low?
Simple, it isn't for the current valuation of the property. Hourse is probably worth $650k, outstanding loan $100k. so costing $5k per year for mortgage.
I wonder about property taxes (wealth or land tax), they can be up to 7% of valuation per year in the USA. Which is as Communistic as it comes.
How much does she pay in local taxes on top of the $450/month?
If your boyfriends family have influence and power, its a totally different story.
Poland has been called the Italy of the north. The fact is you need support from family to survive, I don't have any in the UK thanks to my murdering father but the family in Poland stick together. The people in their village are a mutual support system, food is bartered and favours swapped. I dunno if its power and influence, because favours have to be repaid.
an impossible question to answer, that all depends on how much house you buy, where you buy it, etc.
Its a collected statistic. Milky should be able to find it himself.
Around 20-40% is normal in the western countries. US is lower end of the scale about 20% i think in the current market.