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The real cost of servicing notes in a spreadsheet
Spreadsheets are excellent at arithmetic and bad at three specific things note holders need: day counts, late fee rules, and escrow. Here is where the errors actually come from.
- spreadsheets
- servicing
- escrow
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What a payoff statement must show, and why borrowers dispute the ones that do not
The line items a payoff quote needs, why a good through date matters more than the total, and the four disputes that come from leaving something out.
- payoffs
- servicing
- compliance
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