Re: Mortgage amortization no longer working properly

On 01/21/2023 4:36 PM, John Pollard wrote:
> On Saturday, January 21, 2023 at 2:58:07 PM UTC-6, Kobac wrote:
>> On 01/14/2023 1:59 PM, John Pollard wrote:
>>> On Saturday, January 14, 2023 at 12:51:48 PM UTC-6, John Pollard wrote:
> 
>>>> Next, while the same loan payment Reminder was selected,
>>>> I clicked its Edit button, and opened the split in the resulting dialog.
>>>> At that point, the split had become hosed,
>>>> just as did the previous test loan payment transaction I entered.
>   
>>> Sorry, there is one wrong word in that paragraph, making the whole thing wrong.
>>> That paragraph should read (emphasis added):
>>>
>>> Next, while the same loan payment Reminder was selected,
>>> I clicked its ENTER button, and opened the split in the resulting dialog.
>>> At that point, the split had become hosed,
>>> just as did the previous test loan payment transaction I entered.
>   
>> You may not be surprised by this, but the same thing happens with a
>> regular loan too.
> 
> I'm not surprised because I assumed the problem occurred when the
> "Enter Transaction" button is clicked during the manual Enter process for
> all loan payment transactions.
> 
> I never thought it had anything to do with
> the type of loan - and that's largely because, in Quicken, there's really only
> one loan type: a traditional mortgage loan. Every Quicken manual loan is
> constructed using the criteria for a traditional mortgage loan.
> 
>> I just paid my car loan and it put the entire payment
>> on a blank line with no category.
> 
> Based on comments in the Quicken Community, I believe Quicken is aware of the problem;
> and while I know better than to make predictions about such things, this seems like a problem
> Quicken can fix within the next one or two patches (depending on how far along they were with
> the next patch before they became aware of the problem).

Let's hope so. No biggie. I always had to adjust Quicken's amortization 
anyway for each payment—a penny or two for the mortgage and a few 
dollars for the auto loan.