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MORTGAGE LOAN PURCHASE AGREEMENT
THIS MORTGAGE LOAN PURCHASE AGREEMENT dated as of March 30, 2005
by and
between FIRST HORIZON HOME LOAN CORPORATION, a Kansas
corporation (the
"Seller"), and FIRST HORIZON ASSET SECURITIES INC. (the
"Purchaser").
WHEREAS, the Seller owns certain Mortgage Loans (as hereinafter
defined)
which Mortgage Loans are more particularly listed and described
in Schedule A
attached hereto and made a part hereof.
WHEREAS, the Seller and the Purchaser wish to set forth the
terms pursuant
to which the Mortgage Loans, excluding the servicing rights
thereto, are to be
sold by the Seller to the Purchaser.
WHEREAS, the Seller will simultaneously transfer the servicing
rights for
the Mortgage Loans to First Tennessee Mortgage Services, Inc.
("FTMSI") pursuant
to the Servicing Rights Transfer and Subservicing Agreement (as
hereinafter
defined).
WHEREAS, the Purchaser will engage FTMSI to service the Mortgage
Loans
pursuant to the Servicing Agreement (as hereinafter
defined).
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing, other good
and valuable
consideration, and the mutual terms and covenants contained
herein, the parties
hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
Definitions
Agreement: This Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, as the same
may be
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in
accordance with
the terms hereof.
Business Day: Any day other than (i) a Saturday or a Sunday, or
(ii) a day
on which banking institutions in the City of Dallas, or the
State of Texas or
New York City is located are authorized or obligated by law or
executive order
to be closed.
Closing Date: March 30, 2005
Code: The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, including any successor
or
amendatory provisions.
Cooperative Corporation: The entity that holds title (fee or an
acceptable
leasehold estate) to the real property and improvements
constituting the
Cooperative Property and which governs the Cooperative Property,
which
Cooperative Corporation must qualify as a Cooperative Housing
Corporation under
Section 216 of the Code.
Coop Shares: Shares issued by a Cooperative Corporation.
Cooperative Loan: Any Mortgage Loan secured by Coop Shares and
a
Proprietary Lease.
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Cooperative Property: The real property and improvements owned
by the
Cooperative Corporation, including the allocation of individual
dwelling units
to the holders of the Coop Shares of the Cooperative
Corporation.
Cooperative Unit: A single family dwelling located in a
Cooperative
Property.
Custodian: First Tennessee Bank National Association, and its
successors
and assigns, as custodian under the Custodial Agreement dated as
of March 30,
2005 by and among The Bank of New York, as trustee, First
Horizon Home Loan
Corporation, as master servicer, and the Custodian.
Cut-Off Date: March 1, 2005.
Cut-off Date Principal Balance: As to any Mortgage Loan, the
Stated
Principal Balance thereof as of the close of business on the
Cut-off Date.
Debt Service Reduction: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, a
reduction by
a court of competent jurisdiction in a proceeding under the
Bankruptcy Code in
the Scheduled Payment for such Mortgage Loan which became final
and
non-appealable, except such a reduction resulting from a
Deficient Valuation or
any reduction that results in a permanent forgiveness of
principal.
Deficient Valuation: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, a
valuation by a
court of competent jurisdiction of the Mortgaged Property in an
amount less than
the then-outstanding indebtedness under the Mortgage Loan, or
any reduction in
the amount of principal to be paid in connection with any
Scheduled Payment that
results in a permanent forgiveness of principal, which valuation
or reduction
results from an order of such court which is final and
non-appealable in a
proceeding under the United States Bankruptcy Reform Act of
1978, as amended.
Delay Delivery Mortgage Loans: The Mortgage Loans for which all
or a
portion of a related Mortgage File is not delivered to the
Trustee or to the
Custodian on its behalf on the Closing Date. The number of Delay
Delivery
Mortgage Loans shall not exceed 25% of the aggregate number of
Mortgage Loans as
of the Closing Date.
Deleted Mortgage Loan: As defined in Section 4.1(c) hereof.
Determination Date: The earlier of (i) the third Business Day
after the
15th day of each month, and (ii) the second Business Day prior
to the 25th day
of each month, or if such 25th day is not a Business Day, the
next succeeding
Business Day.
GAAP: Generally accepted accounting principles as in effect from
time to
time in the United States of America.
Insurance Proceeds: Proceeds paid by an insurer pursuant to any
insurance
policy, including all riders and endorsements thereto in effect,
including any
replacement policy or policies, in each case other than any
amount included in
such Insurance Proceeds in respect of expenses covered by such
insurance policy.
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Liquidation Proceeds: Amounts, including Insurance Proceeds,
received in
connection with the partial or complete liquidation of defaulted
Mortgage Loans,
whether through trustee's sale, foreclosure sale or otherwise or
amounts
received in connection with any condemnation or partial release
of a Mortgaged
Property.
MERS: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., a
corporation
organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware,
or any successor
thereto.
MERS Mortgage Loan: Any Mortgage Loan registered with MERS on
the MERS
System.
MERS (R) System: The system of recording transfers of
mortgages
electronically maintained by MERS.
MIN: The Mortgage Identification Number for any MERS Mortgage
Loan.
MOM Loan: Any Mortgage Loan as to which MERS is acting as
mortgagee,
solely as nominee for the originator of such Mortgage Loan and
its successors
and assigns.
Mortgage: The mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument
creating a first
lien on the property securing a Mortgage Note.
Mortgage File: The mortgage documents listed in Section 3.1
pertaining to
a particular Mortgage Loan and any additional documents required
to be added to
the Mortgage File pursuant to this Agreement.
Mortgage Loans: The mortgage loans transferred, sold and
conveyed by the
Seller to the Purchaser, pursuant to this Agreement.
Mortgage Loan Purchase Price: With respect to any Mortgage Loan
required
to be purchased by the Seller pursuant to Section 4.1(c) hereof,
an amount equal
to the sum of (i) 100% of the unpaid principal balance of the
Mortgage Loan on
the date of such purchase, and (ii) accrued interest thereon at
the applicable
Mortgage Rate from the date through which interest was last paid
by the
Mortgagor to the first day in the month in which the Mortgage
Loan Purchase
Price is to be distributed to the Purchaser or its
designees.
Mortgage Note: The original executed note or other evidence
of
indebtedness evidencing the indebtedness of a Mortgagor under a
Mortgage Loan.
Mortgaged Property: The underlying property securing a Mortgage
Loan,
which, with respect to a Cooperative Loan, is the related Coop
Shares and
Proprietary Lease.
Mortgagor: The obligor(s) on a Mortgage Note.
Principal Prepayment: Any payment of principal by a Mortgagor on
a
Mortgage Loan that is received in advance of its scheduled Due
Date and is not
accompanied by an amount representing scheduled interest due on
any date or
dates in any month or months subsequent to the month of
prepayment.
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Proprietary Lease: With respect to any Cooperative Unit, a lease
or
occupancy agreement between a Cooperative Corporation and a
holder of related
Coop Shares.
Purchase Price: $412,975,105.62
Purchaser: First Horizon Asset Securities Inc., in its capacity
as
purchaser of the Mortgage Loans from the Seller pursuant to this
Agreement.
Recognition Agreement: With respect to any Cooperative Loan, an
agreement
between the Cooperative Corporation and the originator of such
Mortgage Loan
which establishes the rights of such originator in the
Cooperative Property.
Scheduled Payment: The scheduled monthly payment on a Mortgage
Loan due on
the first day of the month allocable to principal and/or
interest on such
Mortgage Loan which, unless otherwise specified herein, shall
give effect to any
related Debt Service Reduction and any Deficient Valuation that
affects the
amount of the monthly payment due on such Mortgage Loan.
Security Agreement: The security agreement with respect to a
Cooperative
Loan.
Seller: First Horizon Home Loan Corporation, a Kansas
corporation, and its
successors and assigns, in its capacity as seller of the
Mortgage Loans.
Servicing Agreement: The servicing agreement, dated as of
November 26,
2002 by and between First Horizon Asset Securities Inc. and its
assigns, as
owner, and First Tennessee Mortgage Services, Inc., as
servicer.
Servicing Rights Transfer and Subservicing Agreement: The
servicing rights
transfer and subservicing agreement, dated as of November 26,
2002 by and
between First Horizon Home Loan Corporation, as transferor and
subservicer, and
First Tennessee Mortgage Services, Inc., as transferee and
servicer.
Stated Principal Balance: As to any Mortgage Loan, the unpaid
principal
balance of such Mortgage Loan as specified in the amortization
schedule at the
time relating thereto (before any adjustment to such
amortization schedule by
reason of any moratorium or similar waiver or grace period)
after giving effect
to any previous partial Principal Prepayments and Liquidation
Proceeds allocable
to principal (other than with respect to any Liquidated Mortgage
Loan) and to
the payment of principal due on such date and irrespective of
any delinquency in
payment by the related Mortgagor.
Substitute Mortgage Loan: A Mortgage Loan substituted by the
Seller for a
Deleted Mortgage Loan which must, on the date of such
substitution, (i) have a
Stated Principal Balance, after deduction of the principal
portion of the
Scheduled Payment due in the month of substitution, not in
excess of, and not
more than 10% less than the Stated Principal Balance of the
Deleted Mortgage
Loan; (ii) have a Mortgage Rate not lower than the Mortgage Rate
of the Deleted
Mortgage Loan; (iii) have a maximum mortgage rate not more than
1% per annum
higher or lower than the maximum mortgage rate of the Deleted
Mortgage Loan;
(iv) have a minimum mortgage rate specified in its related
Mortgage Note not
more than 1% per annum higher or lower than the minimum mortgage
rate of the
Deleted Mortgage Loan; (v) have the same mortgage index, reset
period and
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periodic rate as the Deleted Mortgage Loan and a gross margin
not more than 1%
per annum higher or lower than that of the Deleted Mortgage Loan
(vi) be
accruing interest at a rate no lower than and not more than 1%
per annum higher
than, that of the Deleted Mortgage Loan; (iv) have a
loan-to-value ratio no
higher than that of the Deleted Mortgage Loan; (vii) have a
remaining term to
maturity no greater than (and not more than one year less than
that of) the
Deleted Mortgage Loan; (viii) not be a Cooperative Loan unless
the Deleted
Mortgage Loan was a Cooperative Loan and (ix) comply with each
representation
and warranty set forth in Schedule B hereto.
Trustee: The Bank of New York and its successors and, if a
successor
trustee is appointed hereunder, such successor.
ARTICLE II
Purchase and Sale
Section 2.1 Purchase Price. In consideration for the payment to
it of the
Purchase Price on the Closing Date, pursuant to written
instructions delivered
by the Seller to the Purchaser on the Closing Date, the Seller
does hereby
transfer, sell and convey to the Purchaser on the Closing Date,
but with effect
from the Cut-off Date, (i) all right, title and interest of the
Seller in the
Mortgage Loans, excluding the servicing rights thereto, and all
property
securing such Mortgage Loans, including all interest and
principal received or
receivable by the Seller with respect to the Mortgage Loans on
or after the
Cut-off Date and all interest and principal payments on the
Mortgage Loans
received on or prior to the Cut-off Date in respect of
installments of interest
and principal due thereafter, but not including payments of
principal and
interest due and payable on the Mortgage Loans on or before the
Cut-off Date,
and (ii) all proceeds from the foregoing. Items (i) and (ii) in
the preceding
sentence are herein referred to collectively as "Mortgage
Assets."
Section 2.2 Timing. The sale of the Mortgage Assets hereunder
shall take
place on the Closing Date.
ARTICLE III
Conveyance and Delivery
Section 3.1 Delivery of Mortgage Files. In connection with the
transfer
and assignment set forth in Section 2.1 above, the Seller has
delivered or
caused to be delivered to the Trustee or to the Custodian on its
behalf (or, in
the case of the Delay Delivery Mortgage Loans, will deliver or
cause to be
delivered to the Trustee or to the Custodian on its behalf
within thirty (30)
days following the Closing Date) the following documents or
instruments with
respect to each Mortgage Loan so assigned (collectively, the
"Mortgage Files"):
(a) (1) the original Mortgage Note endorsed by manual or
facsimile
signature in blank in the following form: "Pay to the order
of
________________, without recourse," with all intervening
endorsements showing a complete chain of endorsement from
the
originator to the Person endorsing the Mortgage Note (each
such
endorsement being sufficient to transfer all right, title
and
interest of the party so endorsing, as noteholder or
assignee
thereof, in and to that Mortgage Note); or
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(2) with respect to any Lost Mortgage Note, a lost note
affidavit from the Seller stating that the original Mortgage
Note
was lost or destroyed, together with a copy of such Mortgage
Note;
(b) except as provided below and for each Mortgage Loan that is
not a
MERS Mortgage Loan, the original recorded Mortgage or a copy of
such
Mortgage certified by the Seller as being a true and complete
copy
of the Mortgage, and in the case of each MERS Mortgage Loan,
the
original Mortgage, noting the presence of the MIN of the
Mortgage
Loans and either language indicating that the Mortgage Loan is a
MOM
Loan if the Mortgage Loan is a MOM Loan or if the Mortgage Loan
was
not a MOM Loan at origination, the original Mortgage and the
assignment thereof to MERS, with evidence of recording
indicated
thereon, or a copy of the Mortgage certified by the public
recording
office in which such Mortgage has been recorded;
(c) a duly executed assignment of the Mortgage in blank (which
may be
included in a blanket assignment or assignments), together
with,
except as provided below, all interim recorded assignments of
such
mortgage (each such assignment, when duly and validly completed,
to
be in recordable form and sufficient to effect the assignment of
and
transfer to the assignee thereof, under the Mortgage to which
the
assignment relates); provided that, if the related Mortgage has
not
been returned from the applicable public recording office,
such
assignment of the Mortgage may exclude the information to be
provided by the recording office;
(d) the original or copies of each assumption, modification,
written
assurance or substitution agreement, if any;
(e) either the original or duplicate original title policy
(including
all riders thereto) with respect to the related Mortgaged
Property,
if available, provided that the title policy (including all
riders
thereto) will be delivered as soon as it becomes available, and
if
the title policy is not available, and to the extent
required
pursuant to the second paragraph below or otherwise in
connection
with the rating of the Certificates, a written commitment or
interim
binder or preliminary report of the title issued by the
title
insurance or escrow company with respect to the Mortgaged
Property,
and
(f) in the case of a Cooperative Loan, the originals of the
following
documents or instruments:
(1) The Coop Shares, together with a stock power in blank;
(2) The executed Security Agreement;
(3) The executed Proprietary Lease;
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(4) The executed Recognition Agreement;
(5) The executed UCC-1 financing statement with evidence of
recording thereon which have been filed in all places required
to
perfect the Seller's interest in the Coop Shares and the
Proprietary
Lease; and
(6) Executed UCC-3 financing statements or other appropriate
UCC financing statements required by state law, evidencing a
complete and unbroken line from the mortgagee to the Trustee
with
evidence of recording thereon (or in a form suitable for
recordation).
In the event that in connection with any Mortgage Loan that is
not a MERS
Mortgage Loan the Seller cannot deliver (i) the original
recorded Mortgage or
(ii) all interim recorded assignments satisfying the
requirements of clause (b)
or (c) above, respectively, concurrently with the execution and
delivery hereof
because such document or documents have not been returned from
the applicable
public recording office, the Seller shall promptly deliver or
cause to be
delivered to the Trustee or the Custodian on its behalf such
original Mortgage
or such interim assignment, as the case may be, with evidence of
recording
indicated thereon upon receipt thereof from the public recording
office, or a
copy thereof, certified, if appropriate, by the relevant
recording office, but
in no event shall any such delivery of the original Mortgage and
each such
interim assignment or a copy thereof, certified, if appropriate,
by the relevant
recording office, be made later than one year following the
Closing Date;
provided, however, in the event the Seller is unable to deliver
or cause to be
delivered by such date each Mortgage and each such interim
assignment by reason
of the fact that any such documents have not been returned by
the appropriate
recording office, or, in the case of each such interim
assignment, because the
related Mortgage has not been returned by the appropriate
recording office, the
Seller shall deliver or cause to be delivered such documents to
the Trustee or
the Custodian on its behalf as promptly as possible upon receipt
thereof and, in
any event, within 720 days following the Closing Date. The
Seller shall forward
or cause to be forwarded to the Trustee or the Custodian on its
behalf (i) from
time to time additional original documents evidencing an
assumption or
modification of a Mortgage Loan and (ii) any other documents
required to be
delivered by the Seller to the Trustee. In the event that the
original Mortgage
is not delivered and in connection with the payment in full of
the related
Mortgage Loan and the public recording office requires the
presentation of a
"lost instruments affidavit and indemnity" or any equivalent
document, because
only a copy of the Mortgage can be delivered with the instrument
of satisfaction
or reconveyance, the Seller shall execute and deliver or cause
to be executed
and delivered such a document to the public recording office. In
the case where
a public recording office retains the original recorded Mortgage
or in the case
where a Mortgage is lost after recordation in a public recording
office, the
Seller shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee or
the Custodian on
its behalf a copy of such Mortgage certified by such public
recording office to
be a true and complete copy of the original recorded
Mortgage.
In addition, in the event that in connection with any Mortgage
Loan the
Seller cannot deliver or cause to be delivered the original or
duplicate
original lender's title policy (together with all riders
thereto), satisfying
the requirements of clause (v) above, concurrently with the
execution and
delivery hereof because the related
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