Deductions & credits

as long as you did not cash out refi; just add the two 1098's together.

 

technically, the average of each loan is the interest paid / the interest rate; then add the results together for the two mortgages to get the average balance for the year.. 

 

see publication 936, page 13 in the middle column 

 

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p936.pdf

 

your result should be about what you are expecting, regardless of what TT says