Wrap spread looks like 3 points until I actually amortize both notes
Ran the numbers on a deal in front of me and the headline spread is misleading. Underlying: 218k remaining at 3.9, roughly 22 years left, payment 1,430 plus escrow. Proposed wrap: 265k at 7.25 over 30 years, payment about 1,808. So I collect 1,808, pay out 1,430, keep 378 a month. Fine. But the underlying amortizes on a 22 year schedule and my wrap runs 30, so the senior balance falls faster than the wrap balance. Around year eight or nine my equity position in the paper is materially different from day one and the spread stops being the whole story.
What I can't decide is whether the faster senior payoff is a feature or a trap. It builds real value for me, but it also means my monthly outflow is fixed and heavy relative to the inflow while the buyer's balance barely moves. If the buyer defaults in year four I'm foreclosing on a note where I've paid down someone else's lien with their money. How do people actually think about the term mismatch here, and does anyone match the wrap term to the remaining underlying term instead?