Thank you for your suggestions. I tried two things:
1. I tried entering the loans incrementally as you suggested. When I get to adding Bank 2, I end up with the same problem. And yet my response (which it says is in error) is the only way that the loans get considered incrementally and show only one loan open at the end of the year (on the Ded Home Mort form). If I change to their answer, it shows as two open loans at the end of the year.
2. Alternatively, I entered Bank 1 with the full interest for the year and it all worked fine giving me the same result as when I have them sequenced (although sequencing gives me an error)
Somehow with multiple loans, it doesn't like my answer. When I look at the above referenced the summary mortgage interest worksheet, the responses I have are the only ones that produce only one mortgage active at the end of the year...as it should be. Otherwise it takes them as separate loans, which of course they're not.
I read above that Turbo Tax had an error in this area at the beginning of the year but hard to imagine any such error would prevail to now. I'm willing to think it's me and will continue to review. Thoughts?
Thanks for staying in this conversation.
