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Is there any circumstance in which it is necessary to mark extra payments on a loan as going to “principal and not interest”?
I had a car loan through GMAC and extra money was applied to future payments.   At one point, I received a statement telling me I had 15 months until my next payment was due because I had not marked extra payments as going to principal.