bro, i shortcut a bit cos thought you understood since that guy said that he's paying 1.7k/month for 40 years, so you can pay 2.4k(/month) for 20 years, same effect...
cos definitely your loan application will get rejected if you apply for 20 years with a low salary... some more people nowadays have credit card debt...
what i'm trying to convey is you can take a long loan but don't take a long time to repay... you got increment, dump in more, you can bonus, you put more in... then you can get out of debt earlier... housing loan is not a car loan where the interest is calculated and charged upfront...
my dad has this interesting thinking... want to buy house, don't take loan, buy cash...

he's not wrong... just that houses don't cost 20k like 20 years ago...
MBSB... by giving gahmen servants low rates, they charge the public faqing high rates to cover up...
once you owe the bank, you owe the bank despite the project gets abandoned... this depends on how good your research is...
+1. One can take a longer loan period but settle it off earlier than that. get bonus- dump in for house payment. Housing loan, unlike car loan, is based on reducing balance (check your loan terms first). So, if you have proper planning you can settle off faster than the stated tenure. Buying with cahs -possible if you are loaded , won a lottery or earn 30k/month. By the time you save just say 500k cash for your house, the houses might be a million. It is pretty unrealistic for a middle income person to buy a house by cash using his/her monthly salary.