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Sukesh Shekar
Dec 5, 2022
Altgage PrePay was born because a mortgage broker told me I could not get a 23yr mortgage. He called it an “odd-term amortization.” I did not know what amortization meant and asked — “why not?” If it isn’t 15 or 30-yrs, it’s odd, but what in the world was amortization?
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