Tips for Investment Success – Promissory Note Loan Servicing

A Practical Guide to Protecting Your Promissory Note Investment

Writing a check to invest in a promissory note begins the investing process that will provide you with future income and possibly capital gains. After your check is cashed, numerous administrative functions are necessary, on an on-going basis, to protect your investment and maximizeize profitability. The administrative functions are called “Loan Servicing”.

Unfortunately, the Loan Servicing function is little understood by many and neglected by most. This neglect causes a discount and devaluation of your investment. Let’s learn how to increase your promissory note investing success and protect the investment through intelligent Loan Servicing.

Definition of ‘Loan Servicing’
Promissory note loan servicing provides administrative services for the loan from the time the proceedings are disputed until the loan is paid off. Loan Servicing includes: monthly monthly payment statements, collecting monthly payments, maintaining records of payments and balances, collecting and paying taxes and insurance, managing escrow and impound funds accounts, remitting funds to the note holder, and following up on payment delinquencies.

Promissory Note Loan Servicing Reports
Monthly and Annual Reports: gross income collected, real income collected, taxable income collected, and repayment of principal collected must be all tracked separately and reported. Regular payments, partial payments, late payments, late fees, and service fees must be recorded and reported.

Year-end IRS Report Forms: 1096, 1098, 1099-A, and 1099-C must be prepared and remitted.

Loan Servicing Pitfalls and Traps
Realizing the specialization and complexity of the Loan Service function is the first step in dealing with it intelligently. Realizing that neglecting it will discount and devalue your investment is your wake-up call to handle it professionally and carefully. Doing Loan…

Source by Lawrence Tepper

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