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POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT

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Title: POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT
Governing Law: New York     Date: 6/7/2005

POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT
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                 STRUCTURED ASSET MORTGAGE INVESTMENTS II INC.,

 

                                   DEPOSITOR,

 

                            JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.

 

                                    TRUSTEE,

 

                     WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

 

                                MASTER SERVICER,

 

                     WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

 

                            SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR,

 

                                       and

 

                             EMC MORTGAGE CORPORATION

 

 

 

 

 

                         POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT

 

                            Dated as of March 1, 2005

 

 

 

 

 

             Structured Asset Mortgage Investments II Trust 2005-AR1

                       Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates

 

                                 Series 2005-AR1

 

 

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                                TABLE OF CONTENTS

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                                    ARTICLE I

                                   Definitions

 

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   Section 1.01.         Definitions...............................................................................1

   Section 1.02.         Calculation of LIBOR.....................................................................40

 

                                   ARTICLE II

                           Conveyance of Mortgage Loans;

                        Original Issuance of Certificates

 

   Section 2.01.         Conveyance of Mortgage Loans to Trustee..................................................41

   Section 2.02.         Acceptance of Trust Fund by Trustee......................................................43

   Section 2.03.         Assignment of Interest in the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement...........................45

   Section 2.04.         Substitution of Mortgage Loans...........................................................46

   Section 2.05.         Issuance of Certificates.................................................................47

   Section 2.06.         Representations and Warranties Concerning the Depositor..................................48

   Section 2.07          Covenants of the Master Servicer and the EMC Servicer....................................49

 

                                   ARTICLE III

                 Administration and Servicing of Mortgage Loans

 

   Section 3.01.         Master Servicer..........................................................................50

   Section 3.02.         REMIC-Related Covenants..................................................................51

   Section 3.03.          Monitoring of Servicers..................................................................51

   Section 3.04.         Fidelity Bond............................................................................52

   Section 3.05.         Power to Act; Procedures.................................................................52

   Section 3.06.         Due-on-Sale Clauses; Assumption Agreements...............................................53

   Section 3.07.         Release of Mortgage Files................................................................53

   Section 3.08.         Documents, Records and Funds in Possession of Master Servicer To Be Held for

                        Trustee..................................................................................54

   Section 3.09.         Standard Hazard Insurance and Flood Insurance Policies...................................55

   Section 3.10.         Presentment of Claims and Collection of Proceeds.........................................56

   Section 3.11.         Maintenance of the Primary Mortgage Insurance Policies...................................56

   Section 3.12.         Trustee to Retain Possession of Certain Insurance Policies and Documents.................56

   Section 3.13.         Realization Upon Defaulted Mortgage Loans................................................57

   Section 3.14.         Compensation for the Servicers and the Master Servicer...................................57

   Section 3.15.         REO Property.............................................................................57

   Section 3.16.         Annual Officer's Certificate as to Compliance............................................58

   Section 3.17.         Annual Independent Accountant's Servicing Report.........................................58

   Section 3.18.         Reports Filed with Securities and Exchange Commission....................................59

   Section 3.19.         EMC......................................................................................60

   Section 3.20.         UCC......................................................................................60

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   Section 3.21.         Optional Purchase of Defaulted Mortgage Loans............................................60

 

                                   ARTICLE IV

                                     Accounts

 

   Section 4.01.         Protected Accounts.......................................................................62

   Section 4.02.         Distribution Account.....................................................................63

   Section 4.03.         Permitted Withdrawals and Transfers from the Distribution Account........................64

   Section 4.04.         Distribution of Carryover Shortfall Amount; Carryover Shortfall Reserve Fund.............66

 

                                     ARTICLE V

                                  Certificates

 

   Section 5.01.         Certificates.............................................................................68

   Section 5.02.         Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates....................................76

   Section 5.03.         Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Certificates........................................79

   Section 5.04.         Persons Deemed Owners....................................................................79

   Section 5.05.         Transfer Restrictions on Residual Certificates...........................................80

   Section 5.06.         Restrictions on Transferability of Certificates..........................................81

   Section 5.07.         ERISA Restrictions.......................................................................81

   Section 5.08.         Rule 144A Information....................................................................83

   Section 5.09.         Appointment of Paying Agent and Certificate Registrar....................................83

 

                                   ARTICLE VI

                         Payments to Certificateholders

 

   Section 6.01.         Distributions on the Certificates........................................................84

   Section 6.02.         Allocation of Losses.....................................................................88

   Section 6.03.         Payments.................................................................................91

   Section 6.04.         Statements to Certificateholders.........................................................91

   Section 6.05.         Monthly Advances.........................................................................94

   Section 6.06.         Compensating Interest Payments...........................................................94

 

                                   ARTICLE VII

                               The Master Servicer

 

   Section 7.01.         Liabilities of the Master Servicer.......................................................96

   Section 7.02.         Merger or Consolidation of the Master Servicer...........................................96

   Section 7.03.         Indemnification of the Trustee, the Custodian and the Securities

                        Administrator............................................................................96

   Section 7.04.         Limitations on Liability of the Master Servicer and Others...............................97

   Section 7.05.         Master Servicer Not to Resign............................................................98

   Section 7.06.         Successor Master Servicer................................................................98

   Section 7.07.         Sale and Assignment of Master Servicing..................................................99

 

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                                  ARTICLE VIII

                                     Default

 

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   Section 8.01.         "Event of Default"......................................................................100

   Section 8.02.         Trustee to Act; Appointment of Successor................................................102

   Section 8.03.         Notification to Certificateholders......................................................102

   Section 8.04.         Waiver of Defaults......................................................................103

   Section 8.05.         List of Certificateholders..............................................................103

 

                                   ARTICLE IX

             Concerning the Trustee and the Securities Administrator

 

   Section 9.01.         Duties of Trustee.......................................................................104

   Section 9.02.         Certain Matters Affecting the Trustee and the Securities Administrator..................106

   Section 9.03.         Trustee and Securities Administrator Not Liable for Certificates or Mortgage

                        Loans...................................................................................108

   Section 9.04.         Trustee and Securities Administrator May Own Certificates...............................108

   Section 9.05.         Trustee's and Securities Administrator's Fees and Expenses..............................108

   Section 9.06.         Eligibility Requirements for Trustee, Paying Agent and Securities

                        Administrator...........................................................................109

   Section 9.07.         Insurance...............................................................................109

   Section 9.08.         Resignation and Removal of the Trustee and Securities Administrator.....................109

   Section 9.09.         Successor Trustee, Paying Agent and Successor Securities Administrator..................110

   Section 9.10.         Merger or Consolidation of Trustee, Paying Agent or Securities Administrator............111

   Section 9.11.         Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee...........................................111

   Section 9.12.         Federal Information Returns and Reports to Certificateholders; REMIC

                        Administration..........................................................................113

   Section 10.01.        Termination Upon Repurchase by the Depositor or its Designee or Liquidation

                        of the Mortgage Loans...................................................................116

   Section 10.02.        Additional Termination Requirements.....................................................118

 

                                   ARTICLE XI

                            Miscellaneous Provisions

 

   Section 11.01.        Intent of Parties.......................................................................120

   Section 11.02.        Amendment...............................................................................120

   Section 11.03.        Recordation of Agreement................................................................121

   Section 11.04.        Limitation on Rights of Certificateholders..............................................122

   Section 11.05.        Acts of Certificateholders..............................................................123

   Section 11.06.        GOVERNING LAW...........................................................................124

   Section 11.07.        Notices.................................................................................124

   Section 11.08.        Severability of Provisions..............................................................124

   Section 11.09.        Successors and Assigns..................................................................124

   Section 11.10.        Article and Section Headings............................................................125

 

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   Section 11.11.        Counterparts............................................................................125

   Section 11.12.        Notice to Rating Agencies...............................................................125

 

 

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                                     EXHIBITS

 

Exhibit A-1       -    Form of Class A and Class X Certificates

Exhibit A-2       -    Form of Class M Certificates

Exhibit A-3       -    Form of Class B Certificates

Exhibit A-4       -    Form of Class R Certificates

Exhibit B         -    Mortgage Loan Schedule

Exhibit C         -    [Reserved]

Exhibit D         -    Request for Release of Documents

Exhibit E         -    Form of Affidavit pursuant to Section 860E(e)(4)

Exhibit F-1       -    Form of Investment Letter

Exhibit F-2       -    Form of Rule 144A and Related Matters Certificate

Exhibit G         -    Form of Custodial Agreement

Exhibit H-1       -    EverHome Subservicing Agreement

Exhibit H-2       -    Wachovia Servicing Agreement

Exhibit H-3       -    Bank of America Servicing Agreement

Exhibit H-4       -    GMAC Servicing Agreement

Exhibit H-5       -    First Tennessee Servicing Agreement

Exhibit H-6       -    GreenPoint Servicing Agreement

Exhibit H-7       -    EMC Servicing Agreement

Exhibit I         -    Assignment Agreements

Exhibit J          -    Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement

Exhibit K         -    Form of Trustee Limited Power of Attorney

 

 

 

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                         POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT

 

 

         Pooling and Servicing Agreement, dated as of March 1, 2005, among

Structured Asset Mortgage Investments II Inc., a Delaware corporation, as

depositor (the "Depositor"), JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., a banking association

organized under the laws of the United States of America, not in its individual

capacity but solely as trustee (the "Trustee"), Wells Fargo Bank, National

Association, as master servicer (in such capacity, the "Master Servicer") and as

securities administrator (in such capacity, the "Securities Administrator"), and

EMC Mortgage Corporation ("EMC").

 

 

                              PRELIMINARY STATEMENT

 

         On or prior to the Closing Date, the Depositor has acquired the

Mortgage Loans from EMC. On the Closing Date, the Depositor will sell the

Mortgage Loans and certain other property to the Trust Fund and receive in

consideration therefor Certificates evidencing the entire beneficial ownership

interest in the Trust Fund.

 

         The Trustee on behalf of the Trust shall make an election for the

assets constituting REMIC I to be treated for federal income tax purposes as a

REMIC. On the Startup Day, the REMIC I Regular Interests will be designated

"regular interests" in such REMIC and the Class R-I Certificate will be

designated the "residual interests" in such REMIC.

 

          The Trustee on behalf of the Trust shall make an election for the

assets constituting REMIC II to be treated for federal income tax purposes as a

REMIC. On the Startup Day, the REMIC II Regular Certificates will be designated

"regular interests" in such REMIC and the Class R-II Certificate will be

designated the "residual interests" in such REMIC.

 

         The Trustee on behalf of the Trust shall make an election for the

assets constituting REMIC III to be treated for federal income tax purposes as a

REMIC. On the Startup Day, the REMIC III Regular Certificates will be designated

"regular interests" in such REMIC and the Class R-III Certificate will be

designated the "residual interests" in such REMIC.

 

         The Mortgage Loans will have an Outstanding Principal Balance as of the

Cut-off Date, after deducting all Scheduled Principal due on or before the

Cut-off Date, of $817,459,122.

 

         In consideration of the mutual agreements herein contained, the

Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator, EMC and the

Trustee agree as follows:

 

                                    ARTICLE I

                                   Definitions

 

         Section 1.01.   Definitions. Whenever used in this Agreement, the

following words and phrases, unless otherwise expressly provided or unless the

context otherwise requires, shall have the meanings specified in this Article.

 

 

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         Accepted Master Servicing Practices: With respect to any Mortgage Loan,

as applicable, those customary mortgage master servicing practices of prudent

institutions that master service mortgage loans of the same type and quality as

such Mortgage Loan in the jurisdiction where the related Mortgaged Property is

located, to the extent applicable to the Trustee or the Master Servicer (except

in its capacity as successor to a Servicer).

 

         Account: The Distribution Account and the related Protected Account, as

the context may require.

 

         Accrued Certificate Interest: For any Certificate (other than a

Residual Certificate) or for any Component of the Class X-1 Certificates on any

Distribution Date, the amount of interest accrued during the related Interest

Accrual Period at the applicable Pass-Through Rate on the Current Principal

Amount (or Notional Amount, with respect to the Class X-1 and Class X-2

Certificates) of such Certificate or Notional Amount of such Component

immediately prior to such Distribution Date, less (i) in the case of a Senior

Certificate (other than a Residual Certificate) or a Component of the Class X-1

Certificates, such Certificate's or Component's share of any Net Interest

Shortfall from the Mortgage Loans in the related Loan Group and, after the

Cross-Over Date, the interest portion of any Realized Losses on the related

Mortgage Loans in the related Loan Group to the extent allocated thereto in

accordance with Section 6.02(g), (ii) in the case of a Senior Mezzanine

Certificate, such Certificate's share of any Net Interest Shortfall and the

interest portion of any Realized Losses on the related Mortgage Loans to the

extent allocated thereto in accordance with Section 6.02(g) and (iii) in the

case of a Subordinate Certificate, such Certificate's share of any Net Interest

Shortfall and the interest portion of any Realized Losses on the Mortgage Loans

in the related Loan Group, to the extent allocated thereto in accordance with

Section 6.02(g). Such Net Interest Shortfalls will be allocated among the

Certificates (other than the Residual Certificates) in proportion to the amount

of Accrued Certificate Interest that would have been allocated thereto in the

absence of such shortfalls. The amount of any interest shortfalls (not including

Interest Shortfalls or the interest portion of Realized Losses) with respect to

the Mortgage Loans that are not covered by servicing advances will constitute

unpaid Accrued Certificate Interest and will be distributable to holders of the

Certificates entitled to such amounts on subsequent Distribution Dates, to the

extent of the Available Funds remaining after current interest distributions.

Any such amounts so carried forward will not bear interest. Any Interest

Shortfalls will not be offset by a reduction in the servicing compensation of

the Master Servicer, the Servicers or otherwise, except to the extent of

applicable Compensating Interest Payments. The interest portion of Realized

Losses for the Mortgage Loans will be allocated sequentially, in the following

order, to the Class B-6, Class B-5, Class B-4, Class B-3, Class B-2, Class B-1

and Class M Certificates, and, following the Cross-Over Date, (A) the interest

portion of Realized Losses on the Group I Mortgage Loans will be allocated on a

pro rata basis to the Class A-1 Certificates, to Component 1X of the Class X-1

Certificates and to Component 2X of the Class X-1 Certificates to the extent of

the Group I Allocation Fraction thereof and (B) the interest portion of Realized

Losses on the Group II Mortgage Loans will be allocated on a pro rata basis to

the Class A-2 Certificates, to the Class X-2 Certificates and to Component 2X of

the Class X-1 Certificates to the extent of the Group II Allocation Fraction

thereof. Interest on the Certificates (other than the Residual Certificates) and

the Components of the Class X-1 Certificates shall be calculated on the basis of

a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months; provided, that the initial

Interest Accrual Period for the Adjustable Rate Certificates is only 18 days. An

additional 12 days of interest will be paid to the

 

 

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Class X-1 Certificates as an additional distribution on the first Distribution

Date. The Residual Certificates shall not bear interest. No Accrued Certificate

Interest will be payable with respect to any Class or Classes of Certificates

that bear interest after the Distribution Date on which the outstanding Current

Principal Amount or Notional Amount of such Certificate or Certificates or

Notional Amount of a Component of such Certificate or Certificates has been

reduced to zero.

 

         Adjustable Rate Certificates: The Class A-1 Certificates, Class M

Certificates, Class B-1 Certificates, Class B-2 Certificates and Class B-3

Certificates.

 

         Aegis:   Aegis Mortgage Corporation and its successor in interest.

 

         Affiliate: As to any Person, any other Person controlling, controlled

by or under common control with such Person. "Control" means the power to direct

the management and policies of a Person, directly or indirectly, whether through

ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise. "Controlled" and

"Controlling" have meanings correlative to the foregoing. The Trustee may

conclusively presume that a Person is not an Affiliate of another Person unless

a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge to the contrary.

 

         Agreement: This Pooling and Servicing Agreement and all amendments

hereof and supplements hereto made in accordance with the terms herein.

 

         Alliance Mortgage: Alliance Mortgage Banking Corporation and its

successor in interest.

 

          Allocable Share: With respect to the Senior Mezzanine Certificates and

each Class of Subordinate Certificates:

 

         (a) as to any Distribution Date and amounts distributable pursuant to

clauses (1) and (4) of the definition of Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate

Optimal Principal Amount, the fraction, expressed as a percentage, the numerator

of which is the Current Principal Amount of such Class of Certificates and the

denominator of which is the aggregate Current Principal Amount of all Classes of

the Senior Mezzanine Certificates and Subordinate Certificates; and

 

         (b) as to any Distribution Date and amounts distributable pursuant to

clauses (2), (3), (5) and (6) of the definition of Senior Mezzanine and

Subordinate Optimal Principal Amount,

 

                      (1) for any Distribution Date on which the Senior

             Mezzanine Loss and Delinquency Test has been satisfied, as to the

             Senior Mezzanine and each Class of Subordinate Certificates (or, if

             the aggregate Current Principal Amounts of the Senior Mezzanine

             Certificates has been reduced to zero, the Class of Subordinate

             Certificates having the lowest numerical designation as to which

             the Class Prepayment Distribution Trigger shall not be applicable)

             for which (x) the related Class Prepayment Distribution Trigger has

             been satisfied on such Distribution Date, the fraction, expressed

             as a percentage, the numerator of which is the Current Principal

             Amount of such Class of Certificates and the denominator of which

             is the aggregate Current Principal Amount of all such Classes of

             Senior Mezzanine Certificates and Subordinate Certificates for

              which the related Class Prepayment Distribution Trigger has been

             satisfied and (y) the related Class Prepayment Distribution Trigger

             has not been satisfied on such Distribution Date,

 

 

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             0%; provided that if on a Distribution Date, the Current Principal

             Amount of the Senior Mezzanine Certificates or any Class of

             Subordinate Certificates for which the related Class Prepayment

             Distribution Trigger was satisfied on such Distribution Date is

             reduced to zero, any amounts distributed pursuant to this clause

             (b)(1), to the extent of such Class's remaining Allocable Share,

             shall be distributed to the Class of Subordinate Certificates

             having the lowest numerical designation and to the Subordinate

             Certificates which satisfy the related Class Prepayment

             Distribution Trigger in reduction of their respective Current

              Principal Amounts, in the order of their numerical Class

             designations; and

 

                      (2) for any Distribution Date on which the Senior

             Mezzanine Loss and Delinquency Test has not been satisfied, as to

              the Senior Mezzanine Certificates, 100%, and as to the Subordinate

             Certificates, 0%; provided that if on a Distribution Date, the

             Current Principal Amount of the Senior Mezzanine Certificates is

             reduced to zero, any remaining amounts distributed pursuant to this

             clause (b)(2) shall be distributed to the Classes of Subordinate

             Certificates which satisfy the related Class Prepayment

             Distribution Trigger and to the Class of Subordinate Certificates

             having the lowest numerical designation in reduction of their

             respective Current Principal Amounts in the order of their

             numerical Class designations.

 

         American Gold: American Gold Mortgage Corp. and its successor in

interest.

 

         American Residential: American Mortgage Express Corp. doing business as

American Residential Mortgage Corp. and its successor in interest.

 

         Applicable Credit Rating: For any long-term deposit or security, a

credit rating of AAA in the case of S&P and Aaa in the case of Moody's (or with

respect to investments in money market funds, a credit rating of "AAAm" or

"AAAm-G", in the case of S&P, and the highest rating given by Moody's for money

market funds, in the case of Moody's). For any short-term deposit or security, a

rating of A-l+ in the case of S&P and P-1 in the case of Moody's.

 

         Applicable State Law: For purposes of Section 9.12(d), the Applicable

State Law shall be (a) the law of the State of New York and (b) such other state

law whose applicability shall have been brought to the attention of the

Securities Administrator and the Trustee by either (i) an Opinion of Counsel

reasonably acceptable to the Securities Administrator and the Trustee delivered

to it by the Master Servicer or the Depositor, or (ii) written notice from the

appropriate taxing authority as to the applicability of such state law.

 

         Appraised Value: With respect to any Mortgage Loan originated in

connection with a refinancing, the appraised value of the related Mortgaged

Property based upon the appraisal made at the time of such refinancing or, with

respect to any other Mortgage Loan, the amount set forth as the appraised value

of the related Mortgaged Property in an appraisal made for the mortgage

originator in connection with its origination of the related Mortgage Loan.

 

 

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         Assignment Agreements: The agreements attached hereto as Exhibit I,

whereby the Assigned Loans (as defined therein) and the related Servicing

Agreements were assigned to the Trustee for the benefit of the

Certificateholders.

 

         Assumed Final Distribution Date: April 19, 2035, or if such day is not

a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day.

 

         Available Funds: With respect to any Distribution Date, the sum of the

Group I Available Funds and the Group II Available Funds for such Distribution

Date.

 

         Average Loss Severity Percentage: With respect to any Distribution Date

and each Loan Group, the percentage equivalent of a fraction, the numerator of

which is the sum of the Loss Severity Percentages for each Mortgage Loan in such

Loan Group which had a Realized Loss and the denominator of which is the number

of Mortgage Loans in the related Loan Group which had Realized Losses.

 

         BancMortgage: BancMortgage, a division of SunTrust Mortgage, Inc., and

its successor in interest.

 

         Bank of America: Bank of America, National Association and its

successor in interest.

 

         Bank of America AAR: That certain Assignment, Assumption and

Recognition Agreement, made and entered into as of March 31, 2005, among EMC,

the Trustee and Bank of America.

 

         Bank of America Servicing Agreement: That certain Flow Mortgage Loan

Sale and Servicing Agreement, dated as of March 1, 2003, by and between Bank of

America and EMC, as attached hereto as Exhibit H-3, as modified pursuant to the

Bank of America AAR.

 

         Bankruptcy Code: The United States Bankruptcy Code, as amended, as

codified in 11 U.S.C. ss.ss.101-1330.

 

         Bankruptcy Loss: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, any Deficient

Valuation or Debt Service Reduction related to such Mortgage Loan as reported by

the applicable Servicer to the Master Servicer.

 

         Book-Entry Certificates: Initially, all Classes of Certificates other

than the Private Certificates and the Residual Certificates.

 

         Business Day: Any day other than (i) a Saturday or a Sunday, or (ii) a

day on which the New York Stock Exchange or the Federal Reserve is closed or on

which banking institutions in New York City or in any of the jurisdictions in

which the Trustee, the Master Servicer, any Servicer or the Securities

Administrator is located are authorized or obligated by law or executive order

to be closed.

 

         Carryover Shortfall: With respect to the Class A-1, Class M, Class B-1,

Class B-2 and Class B-3 Certificates and any Distribution Date for which the

respective Pass-Through Rate for such Certificates is equal to the weighted

average of the Net Rates on the related Mortgage

 

 

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Loans, the excess, if any, of (x) Accrued Certificate Interest on the Class A-1,

Class M, Class B-1, Class B-2 or Class B-3 Certificates, as applicable, for such

Distribution Date, using the lesser of (a) LIBOR plus the related Margin, as

calculated for such Distribution Date, and (b) 11.00% per annum, over (y)

Accrued Certificate Interest on the Class A-1, Class M, Class B-1, Class B-2 or

Class B-3 Certificates, as applicable, for such Distribution Date at the

weighted average of the Net Rates on the related Mortgage Loans.

 

         Carryover Shortfall Amount: With respect to the Class A-1, Class M,

Class B-1, Class B-2 and Class B-3 Certificates and each Distribution Date, the

sum of (a) the aggregate amount of Carryover Shortfall for such Class of

Certificates on such Distribution Date which is not covered on such Distribution

Date by interest distributions otherwise payable to the Class X-1 Certificates,

plus (b) any Carryover Shortfall Amount for such Class of Certificates remaining

unpaid from the preceding Distribution Date, plus (c) one month's interest on

the amount in clause (b) (based on the number of days in the preceding Interest

Accrual Period) at a rate equal to the lesser of (i) LIBOR plus the related

Margin for such Distribution Date and (ii) 11.00% per annum.

 

         Carryover Shortfall Reserve Fund: An "outside reserve fund" within the

meaning of Treasury regulation Section 1.860G-2(h), which is not an asset of any

REMIC, ownership of which is evidenced by the Class X-1 Certificates, and which

is established and maintained pursuant to Section 4.04.

 

         Certificate: Any mortgage pass-through certificate evidencing a

beneficial ownership interest in the Trust Fund signed by the Trustee and

countersigned by the Certificate Registrar in substantially the forms annexed

hereto as Exhibits A-1, A-2, A-3, and A-4 with the blanks therein appropriately

completed.

 

         Certificate Group: The Group I Senior Certificates and the Group II

Senior Certificates, as applicable.

 

         Certificate Owner: Any Person who is the beneficial owner of a

Certificate registered in the name of the Depository or its nominee.

 

         Certificate Register: The register maintained pursuant to Section 5.02.

 

         Certificate Registrar: The Securities Administrator or any successor

certificate registrar appointed hereunder.

 

         Certificate Registrar Office: The office of the Certificate Registrar

located at Sixth Street and Marquette Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 44579,

Attention: SAMI II Series 2005-AR1.

 

         Certificateholder: A Holder of a Certificate.

 

         Class: With respect to the Certificates, A-1, A-2, X-1, X-2, R-I, R-II,

R-III, M, B-1, B-2, B-3, B-4, B-5 and B-6.

 

         Class Prepayment Distribution Trigger: For the Senior Mezzanine

Certificates or a Class of Subordinate Certificates for any Distribution Date,

the Class Prepayment Distribution Trigger

 

 

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is satisfied if the fraction (expressed as a percentage), the numerator of which

is the Current Principal Amount of such Class of Certificates and each Class of

Certificates subordinate thereto, if any, and the denominator of which is the

Scheduled Principal Balance of all of the Mortgage Loans as of the related Due

Date, equals or exceeds such percentage calculated as of the Closing Date. If on

any Distribution Date the Current Principal Amount of any Class or Classes of

Senior Mezzanine Certificates and Subordinate Certificates for which the related

Class Prepayment Distribution Trigger was satisfied on such Distribution Date is

reduced to zero, any amounts distributable to such Class or Classes of

Certificates pursuant to clauses (2), (3), (5) and (6) of the definition of

"Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Optimal Principal Amount," to the extent of

such Class' or Classes' remaining Allocable Share, shall be distributed to the

remaining Class or Classes of Senior Mezzanine Certificates and Subordinate

Certificates in reduction of their respective Current Principal Amounts,

sequentially, in the order of their numerical class designations.

 

         Class R Certificates: The Class R-I, Class R-II and Class R-III

Certificates.

 

         Class R-I Certificate: Any one of the Class R-I Certificates executed

by the Trustee and authenticated by the Certificate Registrar substantially in

the form annexed hereto as Exhibit A-4 and evidencing an interest designated as

a "residual interest" in REMIC I for purposes of the REMIC Provisions.

 

         Class R-II Certificate: Any one of the Class R-II Certificates executed

by the Trustee and authenticated by the Certificate Registrar substantially in

the form annexed hereto as Exhibit A-4 and evidencing an interest designated as

a "residual interest" in REMIC II for purposes of the REMIC Provisions.

 

         Class R-III Certificate: Any one of the Class R-III Certificates

executed by the Trustee and authenticated by the Certificate Registrar

substantially in the form annexed hereto as Exhibit A-4 and evidencing an

interest designated as a "residual interest" in REMIC III for purposes of the

REMIC Provisions.

 

         Class X-1 Payment: An amount equal to the interest that would have

accrued on the Class A-1, Class M, Class B-1, Class B-2 and Class B-3

Certificates for the period beginning on March 19, 2005 and ending on (but not

including) the Closing Date had interest accrued on such Certificates during

such period. Such amount shall be distributed from Group I Available Funds to

the Class X-1 Certificates on the first Distribution Date.

 

         Closing Date:   March 31, 2005.

 

         Code:   The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

 

         Combined Loan-to-Value Ratio: The fraction, expressed as a percentage,

the numerator of which is the sum of the original principal balance of the

related Mortgage Loan at the date of origination and the principal balance of

the related secondary financing and the denominator of which is the lesser of

the selling price of the Mortgaged Property and its Appraised Value.

 

         Commission:   The United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

 

 

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         Compensating Interest Payment: As defined in Section 6.06.

 

         Component: With respect to the Class X-1 Certificates, Component 1X and

Component 2X, as applicable.

 

         Component 1X: Component 1X of the Class X-1 Certificates.

 

         Component 1X Distribution Percentage: The percentage equal to (i) the

Notional Amount of Component 1X immediately prior to the first Distribution Date

divided by (ii) the sum of the Notional Amount of Component 1X and the Notional

Amount of Component 2X immediately prior to that Distribution Date.

 

         Component 2X:   Component 2X of the Class X-1 Certificates.

 

         Component 2X Distribution Percentage: The percentage equal to (i) the

Notional Amount of Component 2X immediately prior to the first Distribution Date

divided by (ii) the sum of the Notional Amount of Component 1X and the Notional

Amount of Component 2X immediately prior to that Distribution Date.

 

         Corporate Trust Office: The office of the Trustee at which at any

particular time its corporate trust business is administered, which office, at

the date of the execution of this Agreement, is located at 4 New York Plaza, 6th

Floor, New York, New York 10004, Attention: Institutional Trust Services/Global

Debt, SAMI Series II 2005-AR1. With respect to the Certificate Registrar and the

presentment of Certificates for registration of transfer, exchange or final

payment, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, Sixth Street and Marquette

Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55479, Attention: Corporate Trust, SAMI II Series

2005-AR1, and for all other purposes, P.O. Box 98, Columbia, Maryland 21046 (or

for overnight deliveries, 9062 Old Annapolis Road, Columbia, Maryland 21045),

Attention: Corporate Trust, SAMI II Series 2005-AR1.

 

         Corresponding Certificate: With respect to (i) REMIC II Regular

Interest A-1, (ii) REMIC II Regular Interest A-2, (iii) REMIC II Regular

Interest M, (iv) REMIC II Regular Interest B-1, (v) REMIC II Regular Interest

B-2, (vi) REMIC II Regular Interest B-3, (vii) REMIC II Regular Interest B-4,

(viii) REMIC II Regular Interest B-5, (ix) REMIC II Regular Interest B-6, and

(x) REMIC II Regular Interest MT-R, (i) the Class A-1 Certificates, (ii) the

Class A-2 Certificates, (iii) the Class M Certificates, (iv) the Class B-1

Certificates, (v) the Class B-2 Certificates, (vi) the Class B-3 Certificates,

(vii) the Class B-4 Certificates, (viii) the Class B-5 Certificates, (ix) the

Class B-6 Certificates and (x) the Class R-III Certificates, respectively. With

respect to (i) REMIC I Regular Interests 1A, 1B and ZZZ, (ii) REMIC I Regular

Interest 2A, 2B and ZZZ, and (iii) REMIC I Regular Interest ZZZ, (i) REMIC II

Regular Interest A-1, (ii) REMIC II Regular Interests A-2, and (iii) REMIC II

Regular Interests M, B-1, B-2, B-3, B-4, B-5 and B-6.

 

         Cross-Over Date: The first Distribution Date on which the aggregate

Current Principal Amounts of the Senior Mezzanine Certificates and Subordinate

Certificates have been reduced to zero (after giving effect to all related

distributions on such Distribution Date).

 

 

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         Current Principal Amount: With respect to any Certificate (other than

an Interest Only Certificate) as of any Distribution Date, an amount equal to

the initial principal amount of such Certificate on the Closing Date plus, in

the case of a Senior Mezzanine Certificate or a Subordinate Certificate, any

Subsequent Recoveries on the Mortgage Loans added to the Current Principal

Amount of such Certificate pursuant to Section 6.02(h) hereof, as reduced by (i)

all amounts distributed on previous Distribution Dates on such Certificate with

respect to principal, (ii) the principal portion of all Realized Losses on the

Mortgage Loans (other than Realized Losses on the Mortgage Loans resulting from

Debt Service Reductions) allocated (as applicable) prior to such Distribution

Date to such Certificate, taking account of its applicable Loss Allocation

Limitation, (iii) in the case of a Senior Mezzanine Certificate, such

Certificate's pro rata share, if any, of the applicable Senior Mezzanine

Certificate Writedown Amount for previous Distribution Dates and (iv) in the

case of a Subordinate Certificate, such Certificate's pro rata share, if any, of

the applicable Subordinate Certificate Writedown Amount for previous

Distribution Dates. With respect to any Class of Certificates (other than the

Interest Only Certificates), the Current Principal Amount thereof will equal the

sum of the Current Principal Amounts of all Certificates in such Class.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, solely for purposes of giving consents,

directions, waivers, approvals, requests and notices, the Class R-I, Class R-II

and Class R-III Certificates after the Distribution Date on which they each

receive the distribution of the last dollar of their respective original

principal amount shall be deemed to have Current Principal Amounts equal to

their respective Current Principal Amounts on the day immediately preceding such

Distribution Date.

 

         Custodial Agreement: An agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, among

the Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and the Custodian, in

substantially the form of Exhibit G hereto.

 

         Custodian: Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, or any successor

custodian appointed pursuant to the provisions hereof and of the Custodial

Agreement.

 

         Cut-off Date:   March 1, 2005.

 

         Cut-off Date Balance:   $817,459,122.

 

         Debt Service Reduction: Any reduction of the Scheduled Payments which a

Mortgagor is obligated to pay with respect to a Mortgage Loan as a result of any

proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code or any other similar state law or other

proceeding.

 

         Deficient Valuation: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, a valuation of

the Mortgaged Property by a court of competent jurisdiction in an amount less

than the then-outstanding indebtedness under such Mortgage Loan secured by such

Mortgage Property, which valuation results from a proceeding initiated under the

Bankruptcy Code or any other similar state law or other proceeding.

 

          Deposit Amount: The amount of $150.00 deposited by the Depositor on the

Closing Date into the Distribution Account.

 

         Depositor: Structured Asset Mortgage Investments II Inc., a Delaware

corporation, or its successors in interest.

 

 

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         Depository: The Depository Trust Company, the nominee of which is Cede

& Co., and any successor thereto.

 

         Depository Agreement: The meaning specified in Subsection 5.01(a)

hereof.

 

         Depository Participant: A broker, dealer, bank or other financial

institution or other Person for whom from time to time the Depository effects

book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with the Depository.

 

         Designated Depository Institution: A depository institution (commercial

bank, federal savings bank, mutual savings bank or savings and loan association)

or trust company (which may include the Trustee), the deposits of which are

fully insured by the FDIC to the extent provided by law.

 

          Determination Date: With respect to any Distribution Date and each

Mortgage Loan, the Determination Date as defined in the related Servicing

Agreement.

 

         Disqualified Organization: Any of the following: (i) the United States,

any State or political subdivision thereof, any possession of the United States,

or any agency or instrumentality of any of the foregoing (other than an

instrumentality which is a corporation if all of its activities are subject to

tax and, except for Freddie Mac or any successor thereto, a majority of its

board of directors is not selected by such governmental unit), (ii) any foreign

government, any international organization, or any agency or instrumentality of

any of the foregoing, (iii) any organization (other than certain farmers'

cooperatives described in Section 521 of the Code) which is exempt from the tax

imposed by Chapter 1 of the Code (including the tax imposed by Section 511 of

the Code on unrelated business taxable income), (iv) rural electric and

telephone cooperatives described in Section 1381(a)(2)(C) of the Code, (v) any

Person with respect to which income on any Residual Certificate is attributable

to a foreign permanent establishment or fixed base, within the meaning of an

applicable income tax treaty, of such Person or any other Person, (vi) any

Person that does not satisfy the requirements of United States Treasury

Department Regulation Section 1.860E-1(c) with respect to a transfer of a

noneconomic residual interest, as defined therein, or (vii) any other Person so

designated by the Trustee and the Certificate Registrar based upon an Opinion of

Counsel that the holding of an ownership interest in a Residual Certificate by

such Person may cause any REMIC contained in the Trust or any Person having an

ownership interest in the Residual Certificate (other than such Person) to incur

a liability for any federal tax imposed under the Code that would not otherwise

be imposed but for the transfer of an ownership interest in a Residual

Certificate to such Person. The terms "United States," "State" and

"international organization" shall have the meanings set forth in Section 7701

of the Code or successor provisions.

 

         Distribution Account: The trust account or accounts created and

maintained pursuant to Section 4.02, which shall be denominated "Wells Fargo

Bank, National Association, as Paying Agent, for the benefit of the registered

holders of Structured Asset Mortgage Investments II Trust 2005-AR1, Mortgage

Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-AR1 - Distribution Account," and which

shall be an Eligible Account.

 

         Distribution Account Deposit Date: The Business Day prior to each

Distribution Date.

 

 

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         Distribution Date: The 19th day of any month, beginning in the month

immediately following the month of the Closing Date, or, if such 19th day is not

a Business Day, the Business Day immediately following.

 

         DTC Custodian: The Securities Administrator, and its successors in

interest as custodian for the Depository.

 

         Due Date: With respect to each Mortgage Loan, the date in each month on

which its Scheduled Payment is due, if such due date is the first day of a

month, and otherwise is deemed to be the first day of the following month or

such other date specified in the related Servicing Agreement. For purposes of

calculating the Net Rates of the Mortgage Loans for the first Distribution Date,

the second preceding Due Date with respect to the first Distribution Date will

be the Cut-off Date.

 

         Due Period: With respect to any Distribution Date and each Mortgage

Loan, the period commencing on the second day of the month immediately preceding

the month in which such Distribution Date occurs and ending at the close of

business on the first day of the month in which such Distribution Date occurs.

 

         Eligible Account: Any of (i) a segregated account maintained with a

federal or state chartered depository institution (A) the short-term obligations

of which are rated A-1+ or better by S&P and P-1 by Moody's at the time of any

deposit therein or (B) insured by the FDIC (to the limits established by such

Corporation), the uninsured deposits in which account are otherwise secured such

that, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel (obtained by the Person requesting

that the account be held pursuant to this clause (i)(B)) delivered to the

Trustee prior to the establishment of such account, the Certificateholders will

have a claim with respect to the funds in such account and a perfected first

priority security interest against any collateral (which shall be limited to

Permitted Investments, each of which shall mature not later than the Business

Day immediately preceding the Distribution Date next following the date of

investment in such collateral, or the Distribution Date (if such Permitted

Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains the Distribution

Account)) securing such funds that is superior to claims of any other depositors

or general creditors of the depository institution with which such account is

maintained, (ii) a segregated trust account or accounts maintained with a

federal or state chartered depository institution or trust company with trust

powers acting in its fiduciary capacity or (iii) a segregated account or

accounts of a depository institution acceptable to the Rating Agencies (as

evidenced in writing by the Rating Agencies that use of any such account as the

Distribution Account will not have an adverse effect on the then-current ratings

assigned to the Classes of the Certificates then rated by the respective Rating

Agencies). Eligible Accounts may bear interest.

 

         EMC:   EMC Mortgage Corporation, or its successor in interest.

 

         EMC AAR: That certain Assignment, Assumption and Recognition Agreement,

made and entered into as of March 31, 2005, among EMC, the Trustee and the

Depositor.

 

         EMC Mortgage Loans: The Mortgage Loans listed on the Mortgage Loan

Schedule as being serviced by the EMC Servicer.

 

 

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         EMC Servicer: EMC, in its capacity as servicer hereunder, and its

successors and assigns.

 

         EMC Servicing Agreement: That certain Servicing Agreement, dated as of

March 31, 2005, by and between EMC and the Depositor, as attached hereto as

Exhibit H-7, as modified pursuant to the EMC AAR.

 

         ERISA:   The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as

amended.

 

         Event of Default:   An event of default described in Section 8.01.

 

         EverHome: EverHome Mortgage Company (formerly known as Alliance

Mortgage Company), and its successor in interest.

 

         EverHome AAR: That certain Assignment, Assumption and Recognition

Agreement, made and entered into as of March 31, 2005, among EMC, the Trustee

and EverHome.

 

         EverHome Subservicing Agreement: That certain Subservicing Agreement,

dated as of August 1, 2002, and attached hereto as Exhibit H-1, between EverHome

as servicer and EMC as owner, as modified pursuant to the EverHome AAR.

 

         Excess Liquidation Proceeds: To the extent that such amount is not

required by law to be paid to the related Mortgagor, the amount, if any, by

which the sum of any Liquidation Proceeds with respect to a Liquidated Mortgage

Loan received in the calendar month in which such Mortgage Loan became a

Liquidated Mortgage Loan exceeds the sum of (i) the Scheduled Principal Balance

of such Liquidated Mortgage Loan plus (ii) accrued interest at the Mortgage

Interest Rate from the Due Date as to which interest was last paid or advanced

(and not reimbursed) to the related Certificateholders up to the Due Date

applicable to the Distribution Date immediately following the calendar month

during which such liquidation occurred plus (iii) related Liquidation Expenses.

 

         Exchange Act:   As defined in Section 3.18.

 

         Fannie Mae: Fannie Mae (also known as Federal National Mortgage

Association) or any successor thereto.

 

         FDIC: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any successor thereto.

 

         Final Certification: The certification substantially in the form of

Exhibit Three to the Custodial Agreement.

 

         First Horizon: First Horizon Home Loan Corporation and its successor in

interest.

 

         First Tennessee: First Tennessee Mortgage Services, Inc. and its

successor in interest.

 

         First Tennessee AAR: That certain Assignment, Assumption and

Recognition Agreement, made and entered into as of March 31, 2005, among EMC,

the Trustee, First Horizon and First Tennessee.

 

 

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         First Tennessee Servicing Agreement: That certain Purchase, Warranties

and Servicing Agreement, dated as of September 1, 2003, by and among First

Horizon, First Tennessee and EMC, as amended, as attached hereto as Exhibit H-5,

as modified pursuant to the First Tennessee AAR.

 

         Fiscal Quarter: December 1 through the last day of February, March 1

through May 31, June 1 through August 31, or September 1 through November 30, as

applicable.

 

         Fractional Undivided Interest: With respect to any Class of

Certificates, the fractional undivided interest evidenced by any Certificate of

such Class the numerator of which is the Current Principal Amount, or Notional

Amount in the case of the Interest Only Certificates, of such Certificate and

the denominator of which is the Current Principal Amount, or Notional Amount in

the case of the Interest Only Certificates, of such Class. With respect to the

Certificates in the aggregate, the fractional undivided interest evidenced by

(i) each Class of Residual Certificates will be deemed to equal 0.25%, (ii) each

Class of Interest Only Certificates will be deemed to equal 1.0% multiplied by a

fraction, the numerator of which is the Notional Amount of such Certificate and

the denominator of which is the aggregate Notional Amount of such respective

Class and (iii) a Certificate of any other Class will be deemed to equal 98.25%

multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the Current Principal Amount

of such Certificate and the denominator of which is the aggregate Current

Principal Amounts of all the Certificates; provided, however, the percentage in

clause (iii) above shall be increased by 1% upon the retirement of each Class of

Interest Only Certificates.

 

         Freddie Mac: Freddie Mac (also known as Federal Home Loan Mortgage

Corporation), or any successor thereto.

 

         Global Certificate: Any Private Certificate registered in the name of

the Depository or its nominee, beneficial interests in which are reflected on

the books of the Depository or on the books of a Person maintaining an account

with such Depository (directly or as an indirect participant in accordance with

the rules of such depository).

 

         GMAC:   GMAC Mortgage Corporation and its successor in interest.

 

         GMAC AAR: That certain Assignment, Assumption and Recognition

Agreement, made and entered into as of March 31, 2005, among EMC, the Trustee

and GMAC.

 

         GMAC Servicing Agreement: That certain Servicing Agreement, dated as of

May 1, 2001, by and between GMAC and EMC, as amended on October 1, 2001 and on

July 31, 2002, as attached hereto as Exhibit H-4, as modified pursuant to the

GMAC AAR.

 

         GreenPoint: GreenPoint Mortgage Funding, Inc., and its successor in

interest.

 

          GreenPoint AAR: That certain Assignment, Assumption and Recognition

Agreement, made and entered into as of March 31, 2005, among EMC, the Trustee

and GreenPoint.

 

         GreenPoint Servicing Agreement: That certain Purchase, Warranties and

Servicing Agreement, dated as of September 1, 2003, by and between GreenPoint

and EMC, as attached hereto as Exhibit H-6, as modified pursuant to the

GreenPoint AAR.

 

 

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         Gross Margin: As to each Mortgage Loan, the fixed percentage set forth

in the related Mortgage Note and indicated on the Mortgage Loan Schedule, which

percentage is added to the related Index on each Interest Adjustment Date to

determine (subject to rounding, the Minimum Lifetime Mortgage Rate, the Maximum

Lifetime Mortgage Rate and the Periodic Rate Cap) the Mortgage Interest Rate

from such Interest Adjustment Date until the next Interest Adjustment Date.

 

         Group I Allocation Fraction: With respect to any Distribution Date, the

fraction equal to (x) the excess of (a) the aggregate Scheduled Principal

Balances of the Group I Mortgage Loans over (b) the Current Principal Amount of

the Class A-1 Certificates over (y) the excess of (a) the aggregate Scheduled

Principal Balances of the Mortgage Loans over (b) the aggregate Current

Principal Amounts of the Senior Certificates (other than the Residual

Certificates and the Interest Only Certificates).

 

         Group II Allocation Fraction: With respect to any Distribution Date,

the fraction equal to (x) the excess of (a) the aggregate Scheduled Principal

Balances of the Group II Mortgage Loans over (b) the Current Principal Amount of

the Class A-2 Certificates over (y) the excess of (a) the aggregate Scheduled

Principal Balances of the Mortgage Loans over (b) the aggregate Current

Principal Amounts of the Senior Certificates (other than the Residual

Certificates and the Interest Only Certificates).

 

         Group I Available Funds or Group II Available Funds: With respect to

any Distribution Date, an amount equal to the aggregate of the following amounts

with respect to the Mortgage Loans in the related Loan Group: (a) all previously

undistributed payments on account of principal collections on the Mortgage Loans

(including the principal portion of Scheduled Payments, Principal Prepayments

and the principal amount of Net Liquidation Proceeds and Subsequent Recoveries

on the Mortgage Loans) and all previously undistributed payments on account of

interest collections on the Mortgage Loans received after the Cut-off Date and

on or prior to the related Determination Date, in each case from the Mortgage

Loans in the related Loan Group, (b) any Monthly Advances and Compensating

Interest Payments by a Servicer or the Master Servicer (or by the Trustee, as

successor master servicer) with respect to such Distribution Date, in each case,

from the Mortgage Loans in the related Loan Group, (c) any other miscellaneous

amounts remitted by the Master Servicer or a Servicer pursuant to the related

Servicing Agreement, and (d) any amount reimbursed by the Master Servicer for

such Distribution Date in connection with losses on certain eligible

investments, except:

 

                  (i) all payments that were due on or before the Cut-off Date

         with respect to the Mortgage Loans;

 

                  (ii) all Principal Prepayments and Liquidation Proceeds

         received after the applicable Prepayment Period;

 

                  (iii) all payments, other than Principal Prepayments, that

         represent early receipt of Scheduled Payments due on a date or dates

         subsequent to the related Due Date;

 

 

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                  (iv) amounts received on particular Mortgage Loans as late

         payments of principal or interest and respecting which, and to the

         extent that, there are any unreimbursed Monthly Advances;

 

                  (v) amounts representing Monthly Advances determined to be

         Nonrecoverable Advances; and

 

                  (vi) any investment earnings on amounts on deposit in the

         Distribution Account and amounts permitted to be withdrawn from the

         Distribution Account, and amounts to pay the Master Servicing Fee and

         the Servicing Fees or to reimburse any Servicer, the Securities

         Administrator, the Trustee, the Custodian or the Master Servicer for

         fees and the related Loan Group's pro rata share of reimbursable

         expenses as are due under the applicable Servicing Agreement, this

          Agreement or the Custodial Agreement and have not been retained by or

         paid to such Servicer, the Trustee, the Custodian or the Master

         Servicer.

 

         Group I Mortgage Loans: The Mortgage Loans identified as such on the

Mortgage Loan Schedule.

 

         Group II Mortgage Loans: The Mortgage Loans identified as such on the

Mortgage Loan Schedule.

 

         Group I Senior Certificates: The Class A-1 Certificates, the Class R-I

Certificates, the Class R-II Certificates and the Class R-III Certificates.

 

         Group II Senior Certificates: The Class A-2 Certificates.

 

         Group I Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Percentage: With respect to

the Group I Mortgage Loans, on any Distribution Date, 100% minus the Group I

Senior Percentage.

 

         Group II Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Percentage: On any

Distribution Date, 100% minus the Group II Senior Percentage.

 

         Group I Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Prepayment Percentage: For the

Senior Mezzanine Certificates and Subordinate Certificates and with respect to

Loan Group I, on any Distribution Date, 100% minus the Group I Senior Prepayment

Percentage, except that on any Distribution Date after the Current Principal

Amount of the Class A-1 Certificates has been reduced to zero, the Group I

Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Prepayment Percentage for the Senior Mezzanine

Certificates and the Subordinate Certificates with respect to Loan Group I will

equal 100%.

 

         Group II Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Prepayment Percentage: For

the Senior Mezzanine Certificates and the Subordinate Certificates and with

respect to Loan Group II, on any Distribution Date, 100% minus the Group II

Senior Prepayment Percentage, except that on any Distribution Date after the

Current Principal Amount of the Group II Senior Certificates has been reduced to

zero, the Group II Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Prepayment Percentage for

the Senior Mezzanine Certificates and Subordinate Certificates with respect to

Loan Group II will equal 100%.

 

 

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         Group I Senior Optimal Principal Amount and Group II Senior Optimal

Principal Amount: With respect to each Distribution Date and the Group I Senior

Certificates (other than the Residual Certificates) and the Group II Senior

Certificates, respectively, an amount equal to the sum, without duplication, of

the following (but in no event greater than the Current Principal Amount of the

Group I Senior Certificates (other than the Residual Certificates) and the Group

II Senior Certificates, as applicable, immediately prior to such Distribution

Date):

 

                           (1) the applicable Senior Percentage of all scheduled

                  payments of principal allocated to the Scheduled Principal

                  Balance due on each Outstanding Mortgage Loan in the related

                  Loan Group on the related Due Date as specified in the

                  amortization schedule at the time applicable thereto (after

                  adjustments for previous Principal Prepayments but before any

                  adjustment to such amortization schedule by reason of any

                  bankruptcy or similar proceeding or any moratorium or similar

                  waiver or grace period);

 

                            (2) the applicable Senior Prepayment Percentage of

                  the Scheduled Principal Balance of each Mortgage Loan in the

                  related Loan Group which was the subject of a Principal

                  Prepayment in full received by the Master Servicer during the

                  related Prepayment Period;

 

                           (3) the applicable Senior Prepayment Percentage of

                  all Principal Prepayments in part received by the Master

                   Servicer during the related Prepayment Period with respect to

                  each Mortgage Loan in the related Loan Group;

 

                           (4) the lesser of (a) the applicable Senior

                  Prepayment Percentage of the sum of (i) all Net Liquidation

                  Proceeds allocable to principal received in respect of each

                  Mortgage Loan in the related Loan Group which became a

                  Liquidated Mortgage Loan during the related Prepayment Period

                  (other than Mortgage Loans described in the immediately

                  following clause (ii)) and all Subsequent Recoveries received

                  in respect of each Liquidated Mortgage Loan in the related

                   Loan Group during the related Due Period and (ii) the

                  Scheduled Principal Balance of each such Mortgage Loan in the

                  related Loan Group purchased by an insurer from the Trustee

                  during the related Prepayment Period pursuant to the related

                  Primary Mortgage Insurance Policy, if any, or otherwise; and

                  (b) the applicable Senior Percentage of the sum of (i) the

                  Scheduled Principal Balance of each Mortgage Loan in the

                  related Loan Group which became a Liquidated Mortgage Loan

                  during the related Prepayment Period (other than the Mortgage

                  Loans described in the immediately following clause (ii)) and

                   all Subsequent Recoveries received in respect of each

                  Liquidated Mortgage Loan in the related Loan Group during the

                  related Due Period and (ii) the Scheduled Principal Balance of

                  each such Mortgage Loan in the related Loan Group that was

                  purchased by an insurer from the Trustee during the related

                  Prepayment Period pursuant to the related Primary Mortgage

                  Insurance Policy, if any or otherwise; and

 

 

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                           (5) the applicable Senior Prepayment Percentage of

                  the sum of (a) the Scheduled Principal Balance of each

                  Mortgage Loan in the related Loan Group which was repurchased

                  by the Seller in connection with such Distribution Date and

                  (b) the excess, if any, of the Scheduled Principal Balance of

                  a Mortgage Loan in the related Loan Group that has been

                  replaced by the Seller with a Substitute Mortgage Loan

                  pursuant to the Agreement or the Mortgage Loan Purchase

                  Agreement in connection with such Distribution Date over the

                  Scheduled Principal Balance of such Substitute Mortgage Loan.

 

         Group I Senior Percentage: Initially, 91.50%. On any Distribution Date,

the lesser of (i) 100% and (ii) the percentage (carried to six places rounded

up) obtained by dividing the Current Principal Amount of the Group I Senior

Certificates (other than the Residual Certificates) immediately preceding such

Distribution Date by the sum of (i) the aggregate Scheduled Principal Balance of

the Group I Mortgage Loans as of the beginning of the related Due Period.

 

         Group II Senior Percentage: Initially, 91.50%. On any Distribution

Date, the lesser of (i) 100% and (ii) the percentage (carried to six places

rounded up) obtained by dividing the Current Principal Amount of the Group II

Senior Certificates immediately preceding such Distribution Date by the sum of

(i) the aggregate Scheduled Principal Balance of the Group II Mortgage Loans as

of the beginning of the related Due Period.

 

         Group I Senior Prepayment Percentage: The Senior Prepayment Percentage

for Group I Senior Certificates (other than the Residual Certificates) on any

Distribution Date occurring during the periods set forth below will be as

follows:

<TABLE>

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Period (dates inclusive)                                       Group I Senior Prepayment Percentage

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<S>                                                            <C>

April 19, 2005 - March 19, 2015                               100%

 

April 19, 2015 - March 19, 2016                               Group   I   Senior   Percentage   plus   70% of the   Group   I

                                                             Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Percentage

 

April 19, 2016 - March 19, 2017                               Group   I   Senior   Percentage   plus   60% of the   Group   I

                                                             Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Percentage

 

April 19, 2017 - March 19, 2018                               Group   I   Senior   Percentage   plus   40% of the   Group   I

                                                             Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Percentage

 

April 19, 2018 - March 19, 2019                                Group   I   Senior   Percentage   plus   20% of the   Group   I

 

                                                             Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Percentage

April 19, 2019 and thereafter                                 Group I Senior Percentage

 

</TABLE>

 

         In addition, no reduction of the Group I Senior Prepayment Percentage

shall occur on any Distribution Date unless, as of the last day of the month

preceding such Distribution Date, (A) the aggregate Scheduled Principal Balances

of the Mortgage Loans delinquent 60 days or more (including for this purpose any

such Mortgage Loans in foreclosure and Mortgage Loans with

 

 

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respect to which the related Mortgaged Property has been acquired by the Trust),

averaged over the last six months, as a percentage of the sum of the aggregate

Current Principal Amounts of the Senior Mezzanine Certificates and the

Subordinate Certificates, does not exceed 50%; and (B) cumulative Realized

Losses on the Mortgage Loans do not exceed (a) 30% of the Original Senior

Mezzanine and Subordinate Principal Balance if such Distribution Date occurs

between and including April 2015 and March 2016, (b) 35% of the Original Senior

Mezzanine and Subordinate Principal Balance if such Distribution Date occurs

between and including April 2016 and March 2017, (c) 40% of the Original Senior

Mezzanine and Subordinate Principal Balance if such Distribution Date occurs

between and including April 2017 and March 2018, (d) 45% of the Original Senior

Mezzanine and Subordinate Principal Balance if such Distribution Date occurs

between and including April 2018 and March 2019, and (e) 50% of the Original

Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Principal Balance if such Distribution Date

occurs during or after April 2019.

 

         In addition, if on any Distribution Date after the Distribution Date

occurring in March 2008 the current weighted average Senior Mezzanine and

Subordinate Percentages are equal to or greater than two times the initial

weighted average Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Percentages and (a) the

aggregate Scheduled Principal Balances of the Mortgage Loans delinquent 60 days

or more (including for this purpose any such Mortgage Loans in foreclosure and

such Mortgage Loans with respect to which the related Mortgaged Property has

been acquired by the Trust), averaged over the last six months, as a percentage

of the sum of the aggregate Current Principal Amounts of the Senior Mezzanine

Certificates and Subordinate Certificates, does not exceed 50% and (b)(i) on or

prior to the Distribution Date in March 2008, cumulative Realized Losses on the

Mortgage Loans as of the end of the related Prepayment Period do not exceed 20%

of the Original Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Principal Balance and (ii)

after the Distribution Date in March 2008, cumulative Realized Losses on the

Mortgage Loans as of the end of the related Prepayment Period do not exceed 30%

of the Original Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Principal Balance, then, in

each case, the Group I Senior Prepayment Percentage for such Distribution Date

will equal the Group I Senior Percentage; provided, however, if on a

Distribution Date prior to the Distribution Date in March 2008 the current

weighted average Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Percentages is equal to or

greater than two times the initial weighted average Senior Mezzanine and

Subordinate Percentages for the Group I Senior Certificates (other than the

Residual Certificates) and the above delinquency and loss tests are met, then

the Group I Senior Prepayment Percentage for such Distribution Date will equal

the Group I Senior Percentage plus 50% of the Group I Senior Mezzanine and

Subordinate Percentage.

 

         Notwithstanding the foregoing, if on any Distribution Date, the

percentage, the numerator of which is the Current Principal Amount of the Group

I Senior Certificates (other than the Residual Certificates) immediately

preceding such Distribution Date, and the denominator of which is the sum of the

Scheduled Principal Balance of the Group I Mortgage Loans as of the beginning of

the related Due Period, exceeds such percentage as of the Cut-off Date, then the

Senior Prepayment Percentage with respect to the Group I Senior Certificates

(other than the Residual Certificates) for such Distribution Date will equal

100%.

 

 

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         Group II Senior Prepayment Percentage: The Senior Prepayment Percentage

for the Group II Senior Certificates on any Distribution Date occurring during

the periods set forth below will be as follows:

 

<TABLE>

<CAPTION>

 

Period (dates inclusive)                                      Group II Senior Prepayment Percentage

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

<S>                                                            <C>

April 19, 2005 - March 19, 2015                               100%

 

April 19, 2015 - March 19, 2016                               Group II   Senior   Percentage   plus   70% of the   Group II

                                                             Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Percentage

 

April 19, 2016 - March 19, 2017                               Group II   Senior   Percentage   plus   60% of the   Group II

                                                              Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Percentage

 

April 19, 2017 - March 19, 2018                               Group II   Senior   Percentage   plus   40% of the   Group II

                                                              Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Percentage

 

April 19, 2018 - March 19, 2019                               Group II   Senior   Percentage   plus   20% of the   Group II

 

                                                             Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Percentage

April 19, 2019 and thereafter                                 Group II Senior Percentage

 

</TABLE>

 

         In addition, no reduction of the Group II Senior Prepayment Percentage

shall occur on any Distribution Date unless, as of the last day of the month

preceding such Distribution Date, (A) the aggregate Scheduled Principal Balances

of the Mortgage Loans delinquent 60 days or more (including for this purpose any

such Mortgage Loans in foreclosure and Mortgage Loans with respect to which the

related Mortgaged Property has been acquired by the Trust), averaged over the

last six months, as a percentage of the sum of the aggregate Current Principal

Amounts of the Senior Mezzanine Certificates and Subordinate Certificates, does

not exceed 50%; and (B) cumulative Realized Losses on the Mortgage Loans do not

exceed (a) 30% of the Original Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Principal

Balance if such Distribution Date occurs between and including April 2015 and

March 2016, (b) 35% of the Original Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Principal

Balance if such Distribution Date occurs between and including April 2016 and

March 2017, (c) 40% of the Original Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Principal

Balance if such Distribution Date occurs between and including April 2017 and

March 2018, (d) 45% of the Original Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Principal

Balance if such Distribution Date occurs between and including April 2018 and

March 2019, and (e) 50% of the Original Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate

Principal Balance if such Distribution Date occurs during or after April 2019.

 

         In addition, if on any Distribution Date after the Distribution Date

occurring in March 2008 the current weighted average Senior Mezzanine and

Subordinate Percentages is equal to or greater than two times the initial

weighted average Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Percentages, and (a) the

aggregate Scheduled Principal Balances of the Mortgage Loans delinquent 60 days

or more (including for this purpose any such Mortgage Loans in foreclosure and

such Mortgage Loans with respect to which the related Mortgaged Property has

been

 

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acquired by the Trust), averaged over the last six months, as a percentage of

the sum of the aggregate Current Principal Amounts of the Senior Mezzanine

Certificates and Subordinate Certificates, does not exceed 50% and (b)(i) on or

prior to the Distribution Date in March 2008, cumulative Realized Losses on the

Mortgage Loans as of the end of the related Prepayment Period do not exceed 20%

of the Original Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Principal Balance and (ii)

after the Distribution Date in March 2008, cumulative Realized Losses on the

Mortgage Loans as of the end of the related Prepayment Period do not exceed 30%

of the Original Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Principal Balance, then, in

each case, the Group II Senior Prepayment Percentage for such Distribution Date

will equal the Group II Senior Percentage; provided, however, if on a

Distribution Date prior to the Distribution Date in March 2008 the current

weighted average Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Percentages is equal to or

greater than two times the initial weighted average Senior Mezzanine and

Subordinate Percentage, for the Group II Senior Certificates and the above

delinquency and loss tests are met, then the Group II Senior Prepayment

Percentage for such Distribution Date will equal the Group II Senior Percentage

plus 50% of the Group II Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Percentage.

 

         Notwithstanding the foregoing, if on any Distribution Date, the

percentage, the numerator of which is the Current Principal Amount of the Group

II Senior Certificates immediately preceding such Distribution Date, and the

denominator of which is the Scheduled Principal Balance of the Group II Mortgage

Loans as of the beginning of the related Due Period, exceeds such percentage as

of the Cut-off Date, then the Senior Prepayment Percentage with respect to the

Group II Senior Certificates for such Distribution Date will equal 100%.

 

         HomeBanc:   HomeBanc Mortgage Corporation and its successor in interest.

 

         Holder: The Person in whose name a Certificate is registered in the

Certificate Register, except that, subject to Subsections 11.02(b) and 11.05(e),

solely for the purpose of giving any consent pursuant to this Agreement, any

Certificate registered in the name of the Depositor, the Master Servicer or the

Trustee or any Affiliate thereof shall be deemed not to be outstanding and the

Fractional Undivided Interest evidenced thereby shall not be taken into account

in determining whether the requisite percentage of Fractional Undivided

Interests necessary to effect any such consent has been obtained.

 

         Huntington:   The Huntington National Bank, and its successor in

interest.

 

         Indemnified Persons: The Trustee, the Master Servicer, the Custodian

and the Securities Administrator and their respective officers, directors,

agents and employees and, with respect to the Trustee, any separate co-trustee

and its officers, directors, agents and employees.

 

         Independent: When used with respect to any specified Person, this term

means that such Person (a) is in fact independent of the Depositor or the Master

Servicer and of any Affiliate of the Depositor or the Master Servicer, (b) does

not have any direct financial interest or any material indirect financial

interest in the Depositor or the Master Servicer or any Affiliate of the

Depositor or the Master Servicer and (c) is not connected with the Depositor or

the Master Servicer or any Affiliate of the Depositor or the Master Servicer as

an officer, employee, promoter, underwriter, trustee, partner, director or

person performing similar functions.

 

 

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         Index: The index, if any, specified in a Mortgage Note by reference to

which the related Mortgage Interest Rate will be adjusted from time to time.

 

         Individual Certificate: Any Private Certificate registered in the name

of the Holder other than the Depository or its nominee.

 

         Initial Certification: The certification substantially in the form of

Exhibit One to the Custodial Agreement.

 

         Institutional Accredited Investor: Any Person meeting the requirements

of Rule 501(a)(l), (2), (3) or (7) of Regulation D under the Securities Act or

any entity all of the equity holders in which come within such paragraphs.

 

         Insurance Policy: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, any standard

hazard insurance policy, flood insurance policy or title insurance policy.

 

         Insurance Proceeds: Amounts paid by the insurer under any Insurance

Policy covering any Mortgage Loan or Mortgaged Property, other than amounts

required to be paid over to the Mortgagor pursuant to law or the related

Mortgage Note or Security Instrument, and other than amounts used to repair or

restore the Mortgaged Property or to reimburse insured expenses, including the

related Servicer's costs and expenses incurred in connection with presenting

claims under the related Insurance Policies.

 

         Interest Accrual Period: With respect to each Distribution Date, for

each Class of Certificates (other than the Residual Certificates and the

Adjustable Rate Certificates), the calendar month preceding the month in which

such Distribution Date occurs. With respect to each Distribution Date and the

Adjustable Rate Certificates, the period commencing on the 19th day of the

preceding calendar month (or in the case of the first Distribution Date, the

Closing Date), to the 18th day of the month of that Distribution Date. The

Residual Certificates shall not bear interest.

 

         Interest Adjustment Date: With respect to a Mortgage Loan, the date, if

any, specified in the related Mortgage Note on which the Mortgage Interest Rate

is subject to adjustment.

 

         Interest Determination Date: With respect to each Distribution Date and

the Adjustable Rate Certificates, the second LIBOR Business Day immediately

preceding the commencement of the related Interest Accrual Period.

 

         Interest Only Certificates:   The Class X-1 and Class X-2 Certificates.

 

         Interest Shortfall: With respect to any Distribution Date and each

Mortgage Loan that during the related Prepayment Period was the subject of a

Principal Prepayment or constitutes a Relief Act Mortgage Loan, an amount

determined as follows:

 

         (a) Partial Principal Prepayments received during the relevant

Prepayment Period: The difference between (i) one month's interest at the

applicable Net Rate on the amount of such prepayment and (ii) the amount of

interest for the calendar month of such prepayment (adjusted to the applicable

Net Rate) received at the time of such prepayment;

 

 

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          (b) Principal Prepayments in full received during the relevant

Prepayment Period: The difference between (i) one month's interest at the

applicable Net Rate on the Scheduled Principal Balance of such Mortgage Loan

immediately prior to such prepayment and (ii) the amount of interest for the

calendar month of such prepayment (adjusted to the applicable Net Rate) received

at the time of such prepayment; and

 

         (c) Relief Act Mortgage Loans: As to any Relief Act Mortgage Loan, the

excess of (i) 30 days' interest (or, in the case of a Principal Prepayment in

full, interest to the date of prepayment) on the Scheduled Principal Balance

thereof (or, in the case of a Principal Prepayment in part, on the amount so

prepaid) at the related Net Rate over (ii) 30 days' interest (or, in the case of

a Principal Prepayment in full, interest to the date of prepayment) on such

Scheduled Principal Balance (or, in the case of a Principal Prepayment in part,

on the amount so prepaid) at the Net Rate required to be paid by the Mortgagor

as limited by application of the Relief Act or similar state laws.

 

         Interim Certification: The certification substantially in the form of

Exhibit Two to the Custodial Agreement.

 

         Investment Letter: The letter to be furnished by each Institutional

Accredited Investor which purchases any of the Private Certificates in

connection with such purchase, substantially in the form set forth as Exhibit

F-1 hereto.

 

         Lender-Paid PMI Rate: With respect to any Mortgage Loan covered by a

lender-paid Primary Mortgage Insurance Policy, the premium to be paid by the

applicable Servicer out of interest collections on the related Mortgage Loan, as

stated in the Mortgage Loan Schedule.

 

         LIBOR: With respect to any Distribution Date, the arithmetic mean of

the London interbank offered rate quotations for one-month U.S. dollar deposits,

expressed on a per annum basis, determined in accordance with Section 1.02.

 

         LIBOR Business Day: A day on which banks are open for dealing in

foreign currency and exchange in London, England and New York City.

 

         Liquidated Mortgage Loan: With respect to any Distribution Date, a

defaulted Mortgage Loan that has been liquidated through deed-in-lieu of

foreclosure, foreclosure sale, trustee's sale or other realization as provided

by applicable law governing the real property subject to the related Mortgage

and any security agreements and as to which the related Servicer has certified

(in accordance with Section 3.07) in the related Prepayment Period that it has

received all amounts it expects to receive in connection with such liquidation.

 

         Liquidation Date: With respect to any Liquidated Mortgage Loan, the

date on which the related Servicer has certified that such Mortgage Loan has

become a Liquidated Mortgage Loan.

 

         Liquidation Expenses: With respect to a Mortgage Loan in liquidation,

unreimbursed expenses paid or incurred by or for the account of the related

Servicer or the Master Servicer in connection with the liquidation of such

Mortgage Loan and the related Mortgaged Property, such expenses including (a)

property protection expenses, (b) property sales expenses, (c) foreclosure

 

 

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and sale costs, including court costs and reasonable attorneys' fees, and (d)

similar expenses reasonably paid or incurred in connection with the liquidation

of a Mortgage Loan.

 

         Liquidation Proceeds: Amounts received by the related Servicer in

connection with the liquidation of a defaulted Mortgage Loan, whether through

trustee's sale, foreclosure sale, Insurance Proceeds, condemnation proceeds or

otherwise.

 

         Loan City:   Loancity.com and its successor in interest.

 

         Loan Group:   Loan Group I or Loan Group II, as applicable.

 

         Loan Group I: The group of Mortgage Loans designated as belonging to

Loan Group I on the Mortgage Loan Schedule.

 

         Loan Group II: The group of Mortgage Loans designated as belonging to

Loan Group II on the Mortgage Loan Schedule.

 

         Loan-to-Value Ratio: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, the fraction,

expressed as a percentage, the numerator of which is the principal balance of

the related Mortgage Loan at origination and the denominator of which is the

Original Value of the related Mortgaged Property.

 

         Loss Allocation Limitation:   The meaning specified in Section 6.02(c)

hereof.

 

         Loss Severity Percentage: With respect to any Distribution Date, the

percentage equivalent of a fraction, the numerator of which is the amount of

Realized Losses incurred on a Mortgage Loan and the denominator of which is the

Scheduled Principal Balance of such Mortgage Loan immediately prior to the

liquidation of such Mortgage Loan.

 

         Lost Notes: The original Mortgage Notes that have been lost, as

indicated on the Mortgage Loan Schedule.

 

         Margin: With respect to the Class A-1 Certificates, initially 0.240%

per annum, and starting on the first Distribution Date after the first possible

Optional Termination Date and on each Distribution Date thereafter, 0.480% per

annum. With respect to the Class M Certificates, initially 0.450% per annum, and

starting on the first Distribution Date after the first possible Optional

Termination Date and on each Distribution Date thereafter, 0.675% per annum.

With respect to the Class B-1 Certificates, initially 0.500% per annum, and

starting on the first Distribution Date after the first possible Optional

Termination Date and on each Distribution Date thereafter, 0.750% per annum.

With respect to the Class B-2 Certificates, initially 0.700% per annum, and

starting on the first Distribution Date after the first possible Optional

Termination Date and on each Distribution Date thereafter, 1.050% per annum.

With respect to the Class B-3 Certificates, initially 1.400% per annum, and

starting on the first Distribution Date after the first possible Optional

Termination Date and on each Distribution Date thereafter, 2.100% per annum.

 

         Market Street: Market Street Mortgage Corporation and its successor in

interest.

 

 

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         Master Servicer: As of the Closing Date, Wells Fargo Bank, National

Association and, thereafter, its respective successors in interest who meet the

qualifications of a successor Master Servicer as set forth in this Agreement.

 

         Master Servicer Certification: A written certification covering

servicing of the Mortgage Loans by all Servicers and signed by an officer of the

Master Servicer that complies with (i) the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as

amended from time to time, and (ii) the February 21, 2003 Statement by the Staff

of the Division of Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission

Regarding Compliance by Asset-Backed Issuers with Exchange Act Rules 13a-14 and

15d-14, as in effect from time to time, provided that if after the Closing Date

(a) the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is amended, (b) the Statement referred to in

clause (ii) is modified or superceded by any subsequent statement, rule or

regulation of the Commission or any statement of a division thereof, or (c) any

future releases, rules and regulations are published by the Commission from time

to time pursuant to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which in any such case

affects the form or substance of the required certification and results in the

required certification being, in the reasonable judgment of the Master Servicer,

materially more onerous than the form of the required certification as of the

Closing Date, the Master Servicer Certification shall be as agreed to by the

Master Servicer and the Depositor following a negotiation in good faith to

determine how to comply with any such new requirements.

 

         Master Servicing Compensation: The meaning specified in Section 3.14.

 

          Master Servicing Fee: The meaning specified in Section 3.14.

 

         Master Servicing Fee Rate: For each Mortgage Loan, 0.0025% per annum.

 

         Maximum Lifetime Mortgage Rate: As to each Mortgage Loan, the rate, if

any, set forth in the related Mortgage Note and indicated on the Mortgage Loan

Schedule, that is the maximum level to which a Mortgage Interest Rate can adjust

in accordance with its terms, regardless of changes in the applicable Index.

 

         Metrocities:   Metrocities Mortgage LLC and its successor in interest.

 

         MERS: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., a corporation

organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, and any

successor thereto.

 

         MERS(R) System: The system of recording transfers of Mortgages

electronically maintained by MERS.

 

         MIN: The Mortgage Identification Number for Mortgage Loans registered

with MERS on the MERS(R) System.

 

         Minimum Lifetime Mortgage Rate: As to each Mortgage Loan, the rate, if

any, set forth in the related Mortgage Note and indicated on the Mortgage Loan

Schedule, that is the minimum level to which a Mortgage Interest Rate can adjust

in accordance with its terms, regardless of changes in the applicable Index.

 

 

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         MOM Loan: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, MERS acting as the

mortgagee of such Mortgage Loan, solely as nominee for the originator of such

Mortgage Loan and its successors and assigns, at the origination thereof, or as

nominee for any subsequent assignee of the originator pursuant to an assignment

of mortgage to MERS.

 

         Monthly Advance: An advance of principal or interest required to be

made by a Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement or the Master

Servicer pursuant to Section 6.05.

 

         Monthly Payment: With respect to any Mortgage Loan and any month, the

scheduled payment or payments of principal and interest due during such month on

such Mortgage Loan which either is payable by a Mortgagor in such month under

the related Mortgage Note, or in the case of an REO Property, would otherwise

have been payable under the related Mortgage Note.

 

         Moody's:   Moody's Investors Service, Inc. and its successor in

interest.

 

         Mortgage File: The mortgage documents listed in Section 2.01(b)

pertaining to a particular Mortgage Loan and any additional documents required

to be added to the Mortgage File pursuant to this Agreement or the Mortgage Loan

Purchase Agreement.

 

         Mortgage Interest Rate: The annual rate at which interest accrues from

time to time on any Mortgage Loan pursuant to the related Mortgage Note, which

rate is equal to the "Mortgage Interest Rate" set forth with respect thereto on

the Mortgage Loan Schedule.

 

         Mortgage Loan: A mortgage loan transferred and assigned to the Trustee

pursuant to Section 2.01 or Section 2.04 and held as a part of the Trust Fund,

as identified in the Mortgage Loan Schedule, including a mortgage loan the

property securing which has become an REO Property. Any Mortgage Loan that was

intended by the parties hereto to be transferred to the Trust Fund as indicated

by the Mortgage Loan Schedule which is in fact not so transferred for any reason

including, without limitation, a breach of a representation or warranty with

respect thereto, shall continue to be a Mortgage Loan hereunder until the

Repurchase Price with respect thereto has been paid to the Trust Fund.

 

         Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement: The Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement,

dated as of March 31, 2005, between EMC, as seller, and Structured Asset

Mortgage Investments II Inc., as purchaser, and all amendments thereof and

supplements thereto, attached hereto as Exhibit J.

 

         Mortgage Loan Schedule: The schedule attached hereto as Exhibit B with

respect to the Mortgage Loans, as amended from time to time to reflect the

repurchase or substitution of Mortgage Loans pursuant to this Agreement or the

Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement.

 

         Mortgage Note: The originally executed note or other evidence of the

indebtedness of a Mortgagor under the related Mortgage Loan.

 

         Mortgaged Property: Land and improvements securing the indebtedness of

a Mortgagor under the related Mortgage Loan or, in the case of REO Property,

such REO Property.

 

         Mortgagor:   The obligor on a Mortgage Note.

 

 

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         Net Interest Shortfall: With respect to any Distribution Date, the

Interest Shortfall, if any, for such Distribution Date net of Compensating

Interest Payments made with respect to such Distribution Date.

 

         Net Liquidation Proceeds: As to any Liquidated Mortgage Loan,

Liquidation Proceeds net of (i) Liquidation Expenses which are payable therefrom

to the related Servicer in accordance with the related Servicing Agreement or

this Agreement, (ii) unreimbursed advances by the related Servicer and Monthly

Advances made with respect to such Mortgage Loan and the related Mortgaged

Property, and (iii) any other amounts payable to the related Servicer under the

related Servicing Agreement.

 

         Net Rate: With respect to each Mortgage Loan, the Mortgage Interest

Rate less the related Servicing Fee Rate, the Master Servicing Fee Rate and the

Lender-Paid PMI Rate, if any, attributable thereto, in each case expressed as

per annum rate.

 

         Nonrecoverable Advance: Any advance or Monthly Advance (i) which was

previously made or is proposed to be made by the Master Servicer, the Trustee

(as successor Master Servicer) or the related Servicer and (ii) which, in the

good faith judgment of the Master Servicer, the Trustee or the related Servicer,

as the case may be, will not or, in the case of a proposed advance or Monthly

Advance, would not, be ultimately recoverable by the Master Servicer, the

Trustee (as successor Master Servicer) or the related Servicer from Liquidation

Proceeds, Insurance Proceeds or future payments on the Mortgage Loan for which

such advance or Monthly Advance was made or is proposed to be made.

 

         Notional Amount: The Notional Amount of the Class X-1 Certificates is

equal to the sum of the Notional Amount of Component 1X and the Notional Amount

of Component 2X. On any Distribution Date, the Notional Amount of Component 1X

of the Class X-1 Certificates is equal to the Current Principal Amount of the

Class A-1 Certificates (before taking into account the payment of principal on

such Certificates on such Distribution Date). On any Distribution Date, the

Notional Amount of Component 2X of the Class X-1 Certificates is equal to the

aggregate Current Principal Amounts of the Class M Certificates, the Class B-1

Certificates, the Class B-2 Certificates and the Class B-3 Certificates (in each

case before taking into account the payment of principal on such Certificates on

such Distribution Date). On any Distribution Date, the Notional Amount of the

Class X-2 Certificates is equal to the Current Principal Amount of the Class A-2

Certificates (before taking into account the payment of principal on such

Certificates on such Distribution Date).

 

         Offered Certificate: Any Senior Certificate, any Senior Mezzanine

Certificate or any Offered Subordinate Certificate.

 

         Offered Subordinate Certificates: The Class B-1, Class B-2 and Class

B-3 Certificates.

 

         Officer's Certificate: A certificate signed by the Chairman of the

Board, the Vice Chairman of the Board, the President or a Vice President or

Assistant Vice President or other authorized officer of the Master Servicer or

the Depositor, as applicable, and delivered to the Trustee, as required by this

Agreement.

 

 

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         One-Month LIBOR: A per annum rate equal to the average of interbank

offered rates for one-month U.S. dollar-denominated deposits in the London

market based on quotations of major banks as published in The Wall Street

Journal and most recently available as of the time specified in the related

Mortgage Note.

 

         Opinion of Counsel: A written opinion of counsel who is or are

acceptable to each addressee of such opinion and who, unless required to be

Independent (an "Opinion of Independent Counsel"), may be internal counsel for

EMC, the Master Servicer or the Depositor.

 

         Opteum:   Opteum Financial Services, LLC and its successor in interest.

 

         Optional Termination Date: Any Distribution Date on or after which the

Scheduled Principal Balance (before giving effect to distributions to be made on

such Distribution Date) of the Mortgage Loans is less than or equal to 10% of

the Cut-off Date Balance.

 

         Original Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Principal Balance: The

aggregate Current Principal Amounts of the Senior Mezzanine Certificates and

Subordinate Certificates as of the Closing Date.

 

         Original Value: The lesser of (i) the Appraised Value or (ii) the sales

price of a Mortgaged Property at the time of origination of a Mortgage Loan,

except if either clause (i) or clause (ii) is unavailable, then the other may be

used to determine the Original Value, or if both clauses (i) and (ii) are

unavailable, then Original Value may be determined from other sources reasonably

acceptable to the Depositor.

 

         Outstanding Mortgage Loan: With respect to any Due Date, a Mortgage

Loan with a Scheduled Principal Balance greater than zero which, prior to such

Due Date, was not the subject of a Principal Prepayment in full, did not become

a Liquidated Mortgage Loan and was not purchased or replaced.

 

         Outstanding Principal Balance: As of the time of any determination, the

principal balance of a Mortgage Loan remaining to be paid by the Mortgagor, or,

in the case of an REO Property, the principal balance of the related Mortgage

Loan remaining to be paid by the Mortgagor at the time such property was

acquired by the Trust Fund less any Net Liquidation Proceeds with respect

thereto to the extent applied to principal.

 

         Pass-Through Rate: As to each Class of Certificates (other than the

Residual Certificates) and the REMIC I Regular Interests and the REMIC II

Regular Interests, the rate of interest determined as provided with respect

thereto, in Section 5.01(c). The Residual Certificates shall not bear interest.

Any monthly calculation of interest at a stated rate shall be based upon annual

interest at such rate divided by twelve.

 

         Paul Financial:   Paul Financial, LLC, and its successor in interest.

 

         Paying Agent: The Securities Administrator or any successor paying

agent appointed hereunder.

 

 

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         Periodic Rate Cap: As to each Mortgage Loan, the rate, if any, set

forth in the related Mortgage Note and indicated on the Mortgage Loan Schedule,

that is the maximum adjustment that can be made to the Mortgage Interest Rate on

each Interest Adjustment Date in accordance with its terms, regardless of

changes in the applicable Index.

 

         Permitted Investments: Any one or more of the following obligations or

securities held in the name of the Trustee for the benefit of the

Certificateholders:

 

                   (i) direct obligations of, and obligations the timely payment

of which are fully guaranteed by the United States of America or any agency or

instrumentality of the United States of America the obligations of which are

backed by the full faith and credit of the United States of America;

 

                  (ii) (a) demand or time deposits, federal funds or bankers'

acceptances (which shall each have a maturity of not more than 90 days and, in

the case of bankers' acceptances, shall in no event have an original maturity of

more than 365 days or a remaining maturity of more than 30 days) issued by any

depository institution or trust company incorporated under the laws of the

United States of America or any state thereof (including the Trustee or the

Master Servicer or its Affiliates acting in its commercial banking capacity) and

subject to supervision and examination by federal and/or state banking

authorities, provided that the commercial paper and/or the short-term debt

rating and/or the long-term unsecured debt obligations of such depository

institution or trust company at the time of such investment or contractual

commitment providing for such investment have the Applicable Credit Rating or

better from each Rating Agency and (b) any other demand or time deposit or

certificate of deposit that is fully insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance

Corporation;

 

                  (iii) repurchase obligations with respect to (a) any security

described in clause (i) above or (b) any other security issued or guaranteed by

an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America, the obligations of

which are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States of America,

in either case entered into with a depository institution or trust company

(acting as principal) described in clause (ii)(a) above where the Trustee holds

the security therefor; provided that such repurchase obligations shall have a

remaining maturity of not more than 365 days;

 

                  (iv) securities bearing interest or sold at a discount issued

by any corporation (including the Trustee or the Master Servicer or its

Affiliates) incorporated under the laws of the United States of America or any

state thereof that have the Applicable Credit Rating or better from each Rating

Agency at the time of such investment or contractual commitment providing for

such investment; provided, however, that securities issued by any particular

corporation will not be Permitted Investments to the extent that investments

therein will cause the then outstanding principal amount of securities issued by

such corporation and held as part of the Trust to exceed 10% of the aggregate

Outstanding Principal Balances of all the Mortgage Loans and Permitted

Investments held as part of the Trust;

 

                  (v) commercial paper (including both non-interest-bearing

discount obligations and interest-bearing obligations payable on demand or on a

specified date not more than one year after the date of issuance thereof) having

the Applicable Credit Rating or better

 

 

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from each Rating Agency at the time of such investment; provided, that such

commercial paper shall have a remaining maturity of not more than 365 days;

 

                  (vi) a Reinvestment Agreement issued by any bank, insurance

company or other corporation or entity;

 

                  (vii) any other demand, money market or time deposit,

obligation, security or investment as may be acceptable to each Rating Agency as

evidenced in writing by each Rating Agency to the Trustee; and

 

                  (viii) any money market or common trust fund having the

Applicable Credit Rating or better from each Rating Agency, including any such

fund for which the Trustee or Master Servicer or any affiliate of the Trustee or

Master Servicer acts as a manager or an advisor; provided, however, that no

instrument or security shall be a Permitted Investment if such instrument or

security evidences a right to receive only interest payments with respect to the

obligations underlying such instrument or if such security provides for payment

of both principal and interest with a yield to maturity in excess of 120% of the

yield to maturity at par or if such instrument or security is purchased at a

price greater than par; provided, further, that, if rated, any such obligation

or security shall not have an "r" highlighter affixed to its rating.

 

         Permitted Transferee: Any Person other than a Disqualified Organization

or an "electing large partnership" (as defined by Section 775 of the Code).

 

         Person: Any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture,

association, limited liability company, joint-stock company, trust,

unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision

thereof.

 

          Physical Certificates: The Residual Certificates and the Private

Certificates.

 

         Pinnacle: Pinnacle Financial Corporation and its successor in interest.

 

         Platinum: Platinum Home Mortgage Corp. and its successor in interest.

 

          Plaza: Plaza Home Mortgage, Inc. and its successor in interest.

 

         Prepayment Charge: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, the charges or

premiums, if any, due in connection with a full or partial prepayment of such

Mortgage Loan in accordance with the terms of the related Mortgage Note.

 

         Prepayment Period: As to any Distribution Date and (i) the Mortgage

Loans serviced by each Servicer, other than the EMC Servicer, the prepayment

period specified in the related Servicing Agreement and (ii) the Mortgage Loans

serviced by the EMC Servicer, the calendar month immediately preceding the month

in which such Distribution Date occurs.

 

         Primary Capital: Primary Capital Advisors LC doing business as Primary

Capital Mortgage and its successor in interest.

 

 

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         Primary Mortgage Insurance Policy: Any primary mortgage guaranty

insurance policy issued in connection with a Mortgage Loan which provides

compensation to a Mortgage Note holder in the event of default by the obligor

under such Mortgage Note or the related Security Instrument, if any, or any

replacement policy therefor through the related Interest Accrual Period for such

Class relating to a Distribution Date.

 

         Principal Prepayment: Any payment (whether partial or full) or other

recovery of (or proceeds with respect to) principal on a Mortgage Loan which is

received in advance of its scheduled Due Date to the extent that it is not

accompanied by an amount as to interest representing scheduled interest due on

any date or dates in any month or months subsequent to the month of prepayment,

including Insurance Proceeds and Repurchase Proceeds, but excluding the

principal portion of Net Liquidation Proceeds received at the time a Mortgage

Loan becomes a Liquidated Mortgage Loan.

 

         Private Certificates: Any Class B-4, Class B-5 or Class B-6

Certificate.

 

         Prospectus: The Prospectus, dated December 20, 2004, relating to the

offering of the Offered Certificates.

 

          Prospectus Supplement: The Prospectus Supplement, dated March 29, 2005,

relating to the offering of the Offered Certificates.

 

         Protected Account: An account or accounts established and maintained

for the benefit of Certificateholders by each Servicer with respect to the

related Mortgage Loans and with respect to REO Property serviced by such

Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement, and which is an Eligible

Account.

 

         QIB: A Qualified Institutional Buyer as defined in Rule 144A

promulgated under the Securities Act.

 

         Qualified Insurer: Any insurance company duly qualified as such under

the laws of the state or states in which the related Mortgaged Property or

Mortgaged Properties is or are located, duly authorized and licensed in such

state or states to transact the type of insurance business in which it is

engaged and approved as an insurer by the Master Servicer, so long as its

claims-paying ability is acceptable to the Rating Agencies for pass-through

certificates having the same rating as the Certificates rated by the Rating

Agencies as of the Closing Date.

 

         Rating Agencies: Each of S&P and Moody's. If any such organization or

its successor is no longer in existence, "Rating Agency" shall be a nationally

recognized statistical rating organization, or other comparable Person,

designated by the Depositor, notice of which designation shall be given to the

Trustee. References herein to a given rating category of a Rating Agency shall

mean such rating category without giving effect to any modifiers.

 

         Realized Loss: With respect to (i) a Mortgage Loan, a Bankruptcy Loss,

and (ii) a Liquidated Mortgage Loan, an amount (not less than zero nor greater

than the Scheduled Principal Balance of such Mortgage Loan) equal to (x) the

Outstanding Principal Balance of such Liquidated Mortgage Loan plus accrued and

unpaid interest thereon at the Mortgage Interest Rate through the last day of

the month of such liquidation, less (y) the Net Liquidation Proceeds

 

 

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with respect to such Liquidated Mortgage Loan and the related Mortgaged Property

that are allocated to principal. In addition, to the extent the Paying Agent

receives from the related Servicer Subsequent Recoveries with respect to any

Mortgage Loan, the amount of the Realized Loss with respect to that Mortgage

Loan will be reduced to the extent such recoveries are applied to reduce the

Current Principal Amount of any Class or Classes of Certificates (other than the

Residual Certificates) on any Distribution Date. As to any Mortgage Loan which

has become the subject of a Deficient Valuation, if the principal amount due

under the related Mortgage Note has been reduced, then "Realized Loss" is the

difference between the principal balance of such Mortgage Loan outstanding

immediately prior to such Deficient Valuation and the principal balance of such

Mortgage Loan as reduced by the Deficient Valuation.

 

         Record Date: With respect to each Distribution Date and each Class of

Certificates (other than the Residual Certificates and the Adjustable Rate

Certificates), the close of business on the last Business Day of the month next

preceding the month in which the related Distribution Date occurs. With respect

to each Distribution Date and the Adjustable Rate Certificates, the 18th day of

the month of such Distribution Date. With respect to the Residual Certificates,

the Closing Date.

 

         Reinvestment Agreements: One or more reinvestment agreements,

acceptable to the Rating Agencies, from a bank, insurance company or other

corporation or entity (including the Trustee).

 

         Relief Act:   The Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act or similar state law.

 

         Relief Act Mortgage Loan: Any Mortgage Loan as to which the Scheduled

Payment thereof has been reduced due to the application of the Relief Act or

similar state laws.

 

         REMIC: A real estate mortgage investment conduit, as defined in the

Code.

 

         REMIC I: That group of assets contained in the Trust Fund designated as

a REMIC consisting of (i) the Mortgage Loans, (ii) the Protected Accounts, (iii)

any REO Property relating to the Mortgage Loans, (iv) the rights with respect to

the Servicing Agreements, (v) the rights with respect to the Assignment

Agreements, (vi) such funds or assets as from time to time are deposited in the

Distribution Account and belonging to the Trust Fund (exclusive of the Carryover

Shortfall Reserve Fund) and (vii) any proceeds of the foregoing.

 

         REMIC I Interests: The REMIC I Regular Interests and the Class R-I

Certificates.

 

         REMIC I Regular Interests: The REMIC I Regular Interests, with such

terms as described in Section 5.01(c).

 

         REMIC I Subordinated Balance Ratio: The ratio among the Uncertificated

Principal Balances of each of the REMIC I Regular Interests ending with the

designation "A", equal to the ratio between, with respect to each such REMIC I

Regular Interest, the excess of (x) the aggregate Scheduled Principal Balance of

the Mortgage Loans in the related Loan Group over (y) the Current Principal

Amount of the Senior Certificates (other than the Residual Certificates and the

Interest Only Certificates) in the related Loan Group.

 

 

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         REMIC II: That group of assets contained in the Trust Fund designated

as a REMIC consisting of the REMIC I Regular Interests.

 

         REMIC II Interests: The REMIC II Regular Interests and the Class R-II

Certificates.

 

         REMIC II Regular Interests: The REMIC II Regular Interests, with such

terms as described in Section 5.01(c).

 

         REMIC III: That group of assets contained in the Trust Fund designated

as a REMIC consisting of the REMIC II Regular Interests.

 

         REMIC III Interests: The REMIC III Regular Certificates and the Class

R-III Certificates.

 

         REMIC III Regular Certificates: The REMIC III Regular Interests, with

such terms as described in Section 5.01(c).

 

         REMIC Opinion: An Opinion of Independent Counsel, to the effect that

the proposed action described therein would not, under the REMIC Provisions, (i)

cause REMIC I, REMIC II or REMIC III to fail to qualify as a REMIC while any

regular interest in such REMIC is outstanding, (ii) result in a tax on

prohibited transactions with respect to any REMIC or (iii) constitute a taxable

contribution to any REMIC after the Startup Day.

 

         REMIC Provisions: The provisions of the federal income tax law relating

to REMICs, which appear at Sections 860A through 860G of the Code, and related

provisions and regulations promulgated thereunder, as the foregoing may be in

effect from time to time.

 

         REO Property: A Mortgaged Property acquired in the name of the Trustee,

for the benefit of Certificateholders, by foreclosure or deed-in-lieu of

foreclosure in connection with a defaulted Mortgage Loan.

 

         Repurchase Price: With respect to any Mortgage Loan (or any property

acquired with respect thereto) required to be repurchased by the Seller pursuant

to the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement or Article II or Section 3.21 of this

Agreement, an amount equal to the sum of (i) (A) 100% of the Outstanding

Principal Balance of such Mortgage Loan as of the date of repurchase (or if the

related Mortgaged Property was acquired with respect thereto, 100% of the

Outstanding Principal Balance of such Mortgage Loan as of the date of the

acquisition), plus (B) accrued but unpaid interest on the Outstanding Principal

Balance of such Mortgage Loan at the related Mortgage Interest Rate, through and

including the last day of the month of repurchase, and reduced by (C) any

portion of the Master Servicing Compensation, Servicing Fee and Monthly Advances

relating to such Mortgage Loan and advances payable to the purchaser of such

Mortgage Loan, and (ii) any costs and damages incurred by the Trust in

connection with any violation of such Mortgage Loan of any predatory or abusive

lending laws.

 

         Repurchase Proceeds: The Repurchase Price in connection with any

repurchase of a Mortgage Loan by the Seller or any cash deposit in connection

with the substitution of a Mortgage Loan.

 

 

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         Request for Release: A request for release in the form attached hereto

as Exhibit D.

 

         Required Insurance Policy: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, any

insurance policy which is required to be maintained from time to time under this

Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement with respect to such Mortgage Loan.

 

         Residual Certificates:   Any of the Class R Certificates.

 

         Responsible Officer: Any officer assigned to the Corporate Trust Office

(or any successor thereto), including any Vice President, Assistant Vice

President, Trust Officer, any Assistant Secretary, any trust officer or any

other officer of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those

performed by any of the above designated officers and having direct

responsibility for the administration of this Agreement, and any other officer

of the Trustee to whom a matter arising hereunder may be referred.

 

         Rule 144A: Rule 144A promulgated under the Securities Act.

 

         Rule 144A Certificate: The certificate to be furnished by each

purchaser of a Private Certificate (which is also a Physical Certificate) which

is a Qualified Institutional Buyer as defined under Rule 144A promulgated under

the Securities Act, substantially in the form set forth as Exhibit F-2 hereto.

 

         S&P: Standard & Poor's, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.,

and its successors in interest.

 

         Scheduled Payment: With respect to any Mortgage Loan and any Due

Period, the scheduled payment or payments of principal and interest due during

such Due Period on such Mortgage Loan which either is payable by a Mortgagor in

such month under the related Mortgage Note or, in the case of REO Property,

would otherwise have been payable under the related Mortgage Note.

 

         Scheduled Principal:   The principal portion of any Scheduled Payment.

 

         Scheduled Principal Balance: With respect to any Mortgage Loan or

related REO Property on any Distribution Date, the principal balance thereof as

of the Cut-off Date minus the sum of (1) the principal portion of the scheduled

Monthly Payments due from Mortgagors with respect to such Mortgage Loan during

each Due Period ending prior to such Distribution Date, irrespective of any

delinquency in its payment, (2) all Principal Prepayments with respect to such

Mortgage Loan received prior to or during the related Prepayment Period, and all

Net Liquidation Proceeds to the extent applied by the related Servicer as

recoveries of principal in accordance with this Agreement or the related

Servicing Agreement that were received by the related Servicer as of the close

of business on the last day of the Prepayment Period related to such

Distribution Date and (3) any Realized Loss thereon incurred prior to or during

the related Prepayment Period; provided that the Scheduled Principal Balance of

any Liquidated Mortgage Loan is zero.

 

         Securities Act:   The Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

 

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         Securities Administrator: Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, and

its successor in interest, and any successor securities administrator appointed

as herein provided.

 

         Securities Legend: "THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE

REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"),

OR UNDER ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE HOLDER HEREOF, BY PURCHASING THIS

CERTIFICATE, AGREES THAT THIS CERTIFICATE MAY BE REOFFERED, RESOLD, PLEDGED OR

OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND OTHER

APPLICABLE LAWS AND ONLY (1) PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT

("RULE 144A") TO A PERSON THAT THE HOLDER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED

INSTITUTIONAL BUYER WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A (A "QIB"), PURCHASING FOR

ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR A QIB PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QIB, WHOM THE HOLDER

HAS INFORMED, IN EACH CASE, THAT THE REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER TRANSFER

IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, (2) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM

REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (IF AVAILABLE) OR (3)

IN CERTIFICATED FORM TO AN "INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR" WITHIN THE

MEANING THEREOF IN RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) OF REGULATION D UNDER THE

SECURITIES ACT OR ANY ENTITY IN WHICH ALL OF THE EQUITY OWNERS COME WITHIN SUCH

PARAGRAPHS PURCHASING NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT,

SUBJECT TO (A) THE RECEIPT BY THE TRUSTEE AND THE CERTIFICATE REGISTRAR OF A

LETTER SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE FORM PROVIDED IN THE AGREEMENT AND (B) THE RECEIPT

BY THE TRUSTEE AND THE CERTIFICATE REGISTRAR OF SUCH OTHER EVIDENCE ACCEPTABLE

TO THE TRUSTEE AND THE CERTIFICATE REGISTRAR THAT SUCH REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE

OR TRANSFER IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND OTHER APPLICABLE LAWS

OR IN EACH CASE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF THE UNITED

STATES AND ANY OTHER APPLICABLE JURISDICTION. THIS CERTIFICATE MAY NOT BE

ACQUIRED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY BY, OR ON BEHALF OF, AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR

OTHER RETIREMENT ARRANGEMENT WHICH IS SUBJECT TO TITLE I OF THE EMPLOYEE

RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED, OR SECTION 4975 OF THE

INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED [in the case of a Residual Certificate

or a Private Certificate] UNLESS THE OPINION OF COUNSEL REQUIRED BY SECTION 5.07

OF THE POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT IS PROVIDED [in the case of the Class

B-4, Class B-5 and Class B-6 Certificates]:, UNLESS THE TRANSFEREE CERTIFIES OR

REPRESENTS THAT THE PROPOSED TRANSFER AND HOLDING OF A CERTIFICATE AND THE

SERVICING, MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION OF THE TRUST AND ITS ASSETS: (I) WILL NOT

RESULT IN ANY PROHIBITED TRANSACTION WHICH IS NOT COVERED UNDER AN INDIVIDUAL OR

CLASS PROHIBITED TRANSACTION EXEMPTION, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,

PROHIBITED TRANSACTION EXEMPTION ("PTE") 84-14, PTE 91-38, PTE 90-1, PTE 95-60

OR PTE 96-23 AND (II) WILL NOT GIVE RISE TO ANY ADDITIONAL FIDUCIARY DUTIES ON

THE PART OF THE DEPOSITOR, THE SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR, THE MASTER SERVICER,

ANY SERVICER OR THE TRUSTEE, WHICH WILL BE DEEMED REPRESENTED BY AN OWNER OF A

BOOK-

 

 

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ENTRY CERTIFICATE OR A GLOBAL CERTIFICATE AND WILL BE EVIDENCED BY A

REPRESENTATION OR AN OPINION OF COUNSEL TO SUCH EFFECT BY OR ON BEHALF OF AN

INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR."

 

         Security Instrument: A written instrument creating a valid first lien

on a Mortgaged Property securing a Mortgage Note, which may be any applicable

form of mortgage, deed of trust, deed to secure debt or security deed, including

any riders or addenda thereto.

 

         Seller: EMC Mortgage Corporation, as seller under the Mortgage Loan

Purchase Agreement.

 

         Senior Certificates: The Class A-1 Certificates, the Class A-2

Certificates, the Class X-1 Certificates, the Class X-2 Certificates and the

Residual Certificates.

 

         Senior Mezzanine Certificates:   The Class M Certificates.

 

         Senior Mezzanine Certificate Writedown Amount: As to any Distribution

Date on or after which the aggregate Current Principal Amounts of the

Subordinate Certificates have been reduced to zero, the amount by which (a) the

sum of the Current Principal Amounts of all of the Certificates other than the

Residual Certificates and the Interest Only Certificates (after giving effect to

the distribution of principal and the allocation of applicable Realized Losses

on the Mortgage Loans on a pro rata basis in reduction of the Current Principal

Amounts of such Certificates on such Distribution Date) exceeds (b) the

Scheduled Principal Balances of the Mortgage Loans on the Due Date related to

such Distribution Date.

 

         Senior Mezzanine Loss and Delinquency Test: On any Distribution Date,

the Senior Mezzanine Loss and Delinquency Test is satisfied if, as of the last

day of the month preceding such Distribution Date, (A) the aggregate Scheduled

Principal Balances of the Mortgage Loans delinquent 60 days or more (including

for this purpose any such Mortgage Loans in foreclosure and Mortgage Loans with

respect to which the related Mortgaged Property has been acquired by the Trust),

averaged over the last six months, as a percentage of the aggregate Current

Principal Amounts of the Senior Mezzanine Certificates and Subordinate

Certificates, does not exceed 50%; and (B) cumulative Realized Losses on the

Mortgage Loans do not exceed (a) 30% of the Original Senior Mezzanine and

Subordinate Principal Balance if such Distribution Date occurs between and

including April 2015 and March 2016, (b) 35% of the Original Senior Mezzanine

and Subordinate Principal Balance if such Distribution Date occurs between and

including April 2016 and March 2017, (c) 40% of the Original Senior Mezzanine

and Subordinate Principal Balance if such Distribution Date occurs between and

including April 2017 and March 2018, (d) 45% of the Original Senior Mezzanine

and Subordinate Principal Balance if such Distribution Date occurs between and

including April 2018 and March 2019, and (e) 50% of the Original Senior

Mezzanine and Subordinate Principal Balance if such Distribution Date occurs on

or after April 19, 2019.

 

         Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Optimal Principal Amount: With respect

to the Senior Mezzanine Certificates and Subordinate Certificates and as to any

Distribution Date, an amount equal to the sum, without duplication, of the

following for the Group I Mortgage Loans and the Group II Mortgage Loans (but in

no event greater than the aggregate Current Principal

 

 

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Amounts of the Senior Mezzanine Certificates and Subordinate Certificates

immediately prior to such Distribution Date):

 

                   (1) the applicable Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate

          Percentage of the principal portion of all Monthly Payments due on

          each Outstanding Mortgage Loan in the related Loan Group on the

          related Due Date, as specified in the amortization schedule at the

          time applicable thereto (after adjustment for previous Principal

          Prepayments but before any adjustment to such amortization schedule by

          reason of any bankruptcy or similar proceeding or any moratorium or

          similar waiver or grace period);

 

                   (2) the applicable Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate

          Prepayment Percentage of the Scheduled Principal Balance of each

          Mortgage Loan in the related Loan Group that was the subject of a

          Principal Prepayment in full during the related Prepayment Period;

 

                   (3) the applicable Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate

          Prepayment Percentage of all partial prepayments of principal received

          during the applicable Prepayment Period for each Mortgage Loan in the

          related Loan Group;

 

                   (4) the excess, if any, of (A) all Net Liquidation

          Proceeds with respect to the Mortgage Loans allocable to principal

          received during the related Prepayment Period in respect of each

          Liquidated Mortgage Loan in the related Loan Group over (B) the sum of

          the amounts distributable pursuant to clause (4) of the definition of

          Group I Senior Optimal Principal Amount or Group II Senior Optimal

          Principal Amount, as the case may be, on such Distribution Date;

 

                   (5) the applicable Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate

          Prepayment Percentage of the sum of (a) the Scheduled Principal

          Balance of each Mortgage Loan or related REO Property in the related

          Loan Group which was repurchased with respect to such Distribution

          Date and (b) the excess, if any, of the Scheduled Principal Balance of

          a Mortgage Loan that has been replaced with a Substitute Mortgage Loan

          pursuant to Section 2.04 of this Agreement or the Mortgage Loan

          Purchase Agreement, with respect to such Distribution Date over the

          Scheduled Principal Balance of such Substitute Mortgage Loan; and

 

                   (6) on the Distribution Date on which the Current

          Principal Amounts of the related Senior Certificates (other than the

          Residual Certificates and the Interest Only Certificates) have all

          been reduced to zero, 100% of any applicable Senior Optimal Principal

          Amount.

 

                  After the aggregate Current Principal Amounts of the Senior

      Mezzanine Certificates and Subordinate Certificates has been reduced to

      zero, the Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Optimal Principal Amount shall

      be zero.

 

      Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Percentage: The Group I Senior Mezzanine

and Subordinate Percentage or the Group II Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate

Percentage.

 

 

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         Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Prepayment Percentage: The Group I

Senior Mezzanine and Subordinate Prepayment Percentage or the Group II Senior

Mezzanine and Subordinate Prepayment Percentage.

 

         Senior Optimal Principal Amount: The Group I Senior Optimal Principal

Amount or the Group II Senior Optimal Principal Amount.

 

         Senior Percentage: The Group I Senior Percentage or the Group II Senior

Percentage.

 

         Senior Prepayment Percentage: The Group I Senior Prepayment Percentage

or the Group II Senior Prepayment Percentage.

 

         Servicer: With respect to each Mortgage Loan, any of EverHome,

Wachovia, EMC, GreenPoint, GMAC, Bank of America and First Tennessee, as set

forth in the Mortgage Loan Schedule.

 

         Servicer Remittance Date: With respect to each Mortgage Loan, the 18th

day of each month, or if such day is not a Business Day, the preceding Business

Day.

 

         Servicing Agreement(s): The EverHome Subservicing Agreement, the Bank

of America Servicing Agreement, the Wachovia Servicing Agreement, the EMC

Servicing Agreement, the GreenPoint Servicing Agreement, the GMAC Servicing

Agreement and the First Tennessee Servicing Agreement, as applicable.

 

         Servicing Fee: As to any Mortgage Loan and a Distribution Date, an

amount equal to the product of (i) the Scheduled Principal Balance of such

Mortgage Loan as of the Due Date in the month preceding the month in which such

Distribution Date occurs and (ii) the applicable Servicing Fee Rate, or, in the

event of any payment of interest that accompanies a Principal Prepayment in full

during the related Due Period made by the Mortgagor immediately prior to such

prepayment, interest at the Servicing Fee Rate on the Scheduled Principal

Balance of such Mortgage Loan for the period covered by such payment of

interest.

 

         Servicing Fee Rate: As to any Mortgage Loan, a per annum rate

(including, as applicable, any additional servicing fees) as set forth in the

Mortgage Loan Schedule.

 

          Servicing Officer:   As defined in the related Servicing Agreement.

 

         SouthStar: SouthStar Funding LLC and/or HomeStar Mortgage Services, LLC

and/or their respective successors in interest, as the case may be.

 

         Startup Day:   March 31, 2005.

 

         Subordinate Certificates: The Class B-1, Class B-2, Class B-3, Class

B-4, Class B-5 and Class B-6 Certificates.

 

         Subordinate Certificate Writedown Amount: With respect to the

Subordinate Certificates, the amount by which (a) the sum of the Current

Principal Amounts of all of the Certificates other than the Residual

Certificates and the Interest Only Certificates (after giving

 

 

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effect to the distribution of principal collections on the Mortgage Loans and

the allocation of applicable Realized Losses on the Mortgage Loans on a pro rata

basis in reduction of the Current Principal Amounts of such Certificates on such

Distribution Date) exceeds (b) the Scheduled Principal Balances of the Mortgage

Loans on the Due Date related to such Distribution Date.

 

         Subsequent Recoveries: As of any Distribution Date, amounts received

during the related Due Period by the related Servicer specifically related to a

Liquidated Mortgage Loan or disposition of an REO property prior to the related

Prepayment Period that result in a Realized Loss on a Mortgage Loan, after

liquidation or disposition of such Mortgage Loan.

 

         Substitute Mortgage Loan: A mortgage loan tendered to the Trustee

pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement, the Mortgage Loan Purchase

Agreement or Section 2.04 of this Agreement, as applicable, in each case, (i)

which has an Outstanding Principal Balance not greater nor materially less than

the Mortgage Loan for which it is to be substituted; (ii) which has a Mortgage

Interest Rate and Net Rate not less than, and not materially greater than, such

Mortgage Loan; (iii) which has a maturity date not materially earlier or later

than such Mortgage Loan and not later than the latest maturity date of any

Mortgage Loan; (iv) which is of the same property type and occupancy type as

such Mortgage Loan; (v) which has a Loan-to-Value Ratio not greater than the

Loan-to-Value Ratio of such Mortgage Loan; (vi) which (to the extent applicable)

has a Combined Loan-to-Value Ratio not greater than the Combined Loan-to-Value

Ratio of such Mortgage Loan; (vii) which is current in payment of principal and

interest as of the date of substitution; (viii) as to which the payment terms do

not vary in any material respect from the payment terms of the Mortgage Loan for

which it is to be substituted; (ix) which has a Gross Margin, Periodic Rate Cap

and Maximum Lifetime Mortgage Rate no less than those of such Mortgage Loan, has

the same Index and interval between Interest Adjustment Dates as such Mortgage

Loan, and has a Minimum Lifetime Mortgage Rate no lower than that of such

Mortgage Loan; and (x) which is not secured by Mortgaged Property located in (A)

the State of New Jersey, if such Mortgage Loan was originated on or after

November 27, 2003 or (B) the State of New Mexico, if such Mortgage Loan was

originated on or after January 1, 2004.

 

         Tax Administration and Tax Matters Person: The person designated as

"tax matters person" in the manner provided under Treasury regulation ss.

1.860F-4(d) and temporary Treasury regulation ss. 301.6231(a)(7)-1T. The

Securities Administrator or any successor thereto or assignee thereof shall

serve as tax administrator hereunder and as agent for the Tax Matters Person.

The Holder of each Class of Residual Certificates shall be the Tax Matters

Person for the related REMIC, as more particularly set forth in Section 9.12

hereof.

 

         Termination Costs: The costs and expenses related to the termination of

any Servicer, the appointment of a successor servicer or the transfer and

assumption of servicing with respect to the related Servicing Agreement,

including, without limitation, the items set forth in Section 3.03(c).

 

         Trust Fund or Trust: The corpus of the trust created by this Agreement,

consisting of the Mortgage Loans and the other assets described in Section

2.01(a).

 

         Trustee: JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., and its successor in interest, or

any successor trustee appointed as herein provided.

 

 

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         Uncertificated Principal Balance: With respect to any REMIC I Regular

Interest or REMIC II Regular Interest as of any Distribution Date, the initial

principal amount of such Regular Interest, reduced by (i) all amounts

distributed on previous Distribution Dates on such Regular Interest with respect

to principal, (ii) the principal portion of all Realized Losses on the Mortgage

Loans allocated prior to such Distribution Date to such Regular Interest, taking

account of the Loss Allocation Limitation and (iii) in the case of a REMIC II

Regular Interest for which the Corresponding Certificate is a Senior Mezzanine

Certificate or a Subordinate Certificate, such Regular Interest's pro rata

share, if any, of the applicable Senior Mezzanine Certificate Writedown Amount

or Subordinate Certificate Writedown Amount allocated to such Corresponding

Certificate for previous Distribution Dates.

 

         Underlying Seller: With respect to each Mortgage Loan, GreenPoint,

Wachovia, Opteum, American Residential, GMAC, Primary Capital, HomeBanc, Bank of

America, First Horizon, American Gold, Alliance Mortgage, Huntington, Plaza,

Loan City, EverHome, BancMortgage, Platinum, WinStar, Market Street, Aegis,

Pinnacle, Paul Financial, Metrocities or SouthStar, as indicated on the Mortgage

Loan Schedule.

 

         Uninsured Cause: Any cause of damage to a Mortgaged Property or related

REO Property such that the complete restoration of such Mortgaged Property or

related REO Property is not fully reimbursable by the hazard insurance policies

or flood insurance policies required to be maintained pursuant to the related

Servicing Agreement, without regard to whether or not such policy is maintained.

 

         United States Person: A citizen or individual resident of the United

States, a corporation or partnership (including an entity treated as a

corporation or partnership for federal income tax purposes) created or organized

in, or under the laws of, the United States or any state thereof or the District

of Columbia (except, in the case of a partnership, to the extent provided in

regulations), provided that, for purposes solely of the Class R Certificates, no

partnership or other entity treated as a partnership for United States federal

income tax purposes shall be treated as a United States Person unless all

persons that own an interest in such partnership, either directly or through any

entity that is not a corporation for United States federal income tax purposes,

are United States Persons, or an estate whose income is subject to United States

federal income tax regardless of its source, or a trust if a court within the

United States is able to exercise primary supervision over the administration of

such trust and one or more such United States Persons have the authority to

control all substantial decisions of such trust or if the Trust was in existence

on August 20, 1996 and properly elected to continue to be treated as such a

United States Person.

 

         Wachovia: Wachovia Mortgage Corporation, as successor-in-interest to

SouthTrust Mortgage Corporation, and its successor in interest.

 

         Wachovia AAR: That certain Assignment, Assumption and Recognition

Agreement, made and entered into as of March 31, 2005, among EMC, the Trustee

and Wachovia.

 

         Wachovia Servicing Agreement: That certain Purchase, Warranties and

Servicing Agreement, dated as of November 1, 2002, by and between SouthTrust

Mortgage Corporation

 

 

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(as the predecessor-in-interest of Wachovia) and EMC, as amended, as attached

hereto as Exhibit H-2, as modified pursuant to the Wachovia AAR.

 

         WinStar:   Summit Mortgage Partners, Inc., and its successor in

interest.

 

         Section 1.02. Calculation of LIBOR. LIBOR applicable to the calculation

of the Pass-Through Rate on the Adjustable Rate Certificates for any Interest

Accrual Period will be determined on each Interest Determination Date. On each

Interest Determination Date, LIBOR shall be established by the Securities

Administrator and, as to any Interest Accrual Period, will equal the rate for

one month United States dollar deposits that appears on the Telerate Screen Page

3750 as of 11:00 a.m., London time, on such Interest Determination Date.

"Telerate Screen Page 3750" means the display designated as page 3750 on the

Telerate Service (or such other page as may replace page 3750 on that service

for the purpose of displaying London interbank offered rates of major banks). If

such rate does not appear on such page (or such other page as may replace that

page on that service, or if such service is no longer offered, LIBOR shall be so

established by use of such other service for displaying LIBOR or comparable

rates as may be reasonably selected by the Securities Administrator), the rate

will be the Reference Bank Rate. The "Reference Bank Rate" will be determined on

the basis of the rates at which deposits in U.S. dollars are offered by the

reference banks (which shall be any three major banks that are engaged in

transactions in the London interbank market, selected by the Securities

Administrator) as of 11:00 a.m., London time, on the Interest Determination Date

to prime banks in the London interbank market for a period of one month in

amounts approximately equal to the aggregate Current Principal Amounts of the

Adjustable Rate Certificates, then outstanding. The Securities Administrator

will request the principal London office of each of the reference banks to

provide a quotation of its rate. If at least two such quotations are provided,

the rate will be the arithmetic mean of the quotations rounded up to the nearest

whole multiple of 0.03125%. If on such date fewer than two quotations are

provided as requested, the rate will be the arithmetic mean of the rates quoted

by one or more major banks in New York City, selected by the Securities

Administrator, as of 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such date for loans in

U.S. dollars to leading European banks for a period of one month in amounts

approximately equal to the aggregate Current Principal Amounts of the Adjustable

Rate Certificates, then outstanding. If no such quotations can be obtained, the

rate will be LIBOR for the prior Distribution Date; provided, however, if, under

the priorities described above, LIBOR for a Distribution Date would be based on

LIBOR for the previous Distribution Date for the third consecutive Distribution

Date, the Securities Administrator shall select an alternative comparable index

(over which the Securities Administrator has no control), used for determining

one-month Eurodollar lending rates that is calculated and published (or

otherwise made available) by an independent party. The establishment of LIBOR by

the Securities Administrator on any Interest Determination Date and the

Securities Administrator's subsequent calculation of the Pass-Through Rate

applicable to the Adjustable Rate Certificates for the relevant Interest Accrual

Period, in the absence of manifest error, will be final and binding. Promptly

following each Interest Determination Date, the Securities Administrator shall

supply the Master Servicer with the results of its determination of LIBOR on

such date.

 

 

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                                   ARTICLE II

                           Conveyance of Mortgage Loans;

                        Original Issuance of Certificates

 

         Section 2.01. Conveyance of Mortgage Loans to Trustee. (a) The

Depositor, concurrently with the execution and delivery of this Agreement,

sells, transfers and assigns to the Trust without recourse all its right, title

and interest in and to (i) the Mortgage Loans identified in the Mortgage Loan

Schedule, including all interest and principal due with respect to the Mortgage

Loans after the Cut-off Date, but excluding any payments of principal and

interest due on or prior to the Cut-off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans,

(ii) such assets as shall from time to time be credited or are required by the

terms of this Agreement to be credited to the Distribution Account, (iii) such

assets relating to the Mortgage Loans as from time to time may be held by the

related Servicer in Protected Accounts and the Paying Agent in the Distribution

Account for the benefit of the Paying Agent on behalf of the Certificateholders,

(iv) any REO Property, (v) the Required Insurance Policies and any amounts paid

or payable by the insurer under any Insurance Policy (to the extent the

mortgagee has a claim thereto), (vi) the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement to the

extent provided in Subsection 2.03(a), (vii) the rights with respect to the

Servicing Agreements as assigned to the Trustee on behalf of the

Certificateholders by the Assignment Agreements, and (viii) any proceeds of the

foregoing. Although it is the intent of the parties to this Agreement that the

conveyance of the Depositor's right, title and interest in and to the Mortgage

Loans and other assets in the Trust Fund pursuant to this Agreement shall

constitute a purchase and sale and not a loan, in the event that such conveyance

is deemed to be a loan, it is the intent of the parties to this Agreement that

the Depositor shall be deemed to have granted to the Trustee a first priority

perfected security interest in all of the Depositor's right, title and interest

in, to and under the Mortgage Loans and other assets in the Trust Fund, and that

this Agreement shall constitute a security agreement under applicable law.

 

         (b) In connection with the above sale, transfer and assignment, the

Depositor hereby deposits with the Trustee, or the Custodian, as its agent, as

described in the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, with respect to each Mortgage

Loan, (i) the original Mortgage Note, including any riders thereto, endorsed

without recourse (A) to the order of the Trustee, or (B) in the case of a

Mortgage Loan registered on the MERS(R) System, in blank, and in each case

showing an unbroken chain of endorsements from the original payee thereof to the

Person endorsing it to the Trustee, or a lost note affidavit with indemnity,

together with a copy of the related Mortgage Note, (ii) the original Security

Instrument (noting the presence of the MIN of the Mortgage Loan and language

indicating that the Mortgage Loan is a MOM Loan if the Mortgage Loan is a MOM

Loan), which shall have been recorded (or if the original is not available, a

copy), with evidence of such recording indicated thereon (or if clause (x) in

the proviso below applies, shall be in recordable form), (iii) unless the

Mortgage Loan is registered on the MERS(R) System, a certified copy of the

assignment (which may be in the form of a blanket assignment if permitted in the

jurisdiction in which the Mortgaged Property is located) to "JPMorgan Chase

Bank, N.A., as Trustee," with evidence of recording with respect to each

Mortgage Loan in the name of the Trustee thereon (or if clause (x) in the

proviso below applies or for Mortgage Loans with respect to which the related

Mortgaged Property is located in a state other than Maryland or an Opinion of

Counsel has been provided as set forth in this Section 2.01(b), shall be in

recordable form), (iv) all intervening assignments of the Security Instrument,

if applicable and only to the extent available to the Depositor with evidence of

recording thereon,

 

 

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(v) the original or a copy of the policy or certificate of primary mortgage

guaranty insurance, to the extent available, if any, (vi) the original policy of

title insurance or mortgagee's certificate of title insurance or commitment or

binder for title insurance and (vii) originals of all assumption and

modification agreements, if applicable and available; provided, however, that in

lieu of the foregoing, the Depositor may deliver the following documents, under

the circumstances set forth below: (x) in lieu of the original Security

Instrument, assignments to the Trustee or intervening assignments thereof which

have been delivered, are being delivered or will, upon receipt of recording

information relating to the Security Instrument required to be included thereon,

be delivered to recording offices for recording and have not been returned to

the Depositor in time to permit their delivery as specified above, the Depositor

may deliver, or cause to be delivered, a true copy thereof with a certification

by the Depositor, the applicable Servicer or the title company issuing the

related commitment for title insurance, on the face of such copy, substantially

as follows: "Certified to be a true and correct copy of the original, which has

been transmitted for recording"; (y) in lieu of the Security Instrument,

assignment to the Trustee or intervening assignments thereof, if the applicable

jurisdiction retains the originals of such documents (as evidenced by a

certification from the Depositor, to such effect) the Depositor may deliver, or

cause to be delivered, photocopies of such documents containing an original

certification by the judicial or other governmental authority of the

jurisdiction where such documents were recorded; and (z) the Depositor shall not

be required to deliver intervening assignments or Mortgage Note endorsements

between the related Underlying Seller and EMC Mortgage Corporation, between EMC

Mortgage Corporation and the Depositor, and between the Depositor and the

Trustee; and provided, further, however, that, in the case of Mortgage Loans

which have been prepaid in full after the Cut-off Date and prior to the Closing

Date, the Depositor, in lieu of delivering the above documents, may deliver to

the Trustee or the Custodian, as its agent, a certification to such effect and

shall deposit all amounts paid in respect of such Mortgage Loans in the

Distribution Account on the Closing Date. The Depositor shall deliver such

original documents (including any original documents as to which certified

copies had previously been delivered) to the Trustee or the Custodian, as its

agent, promptly after they are received. The Depositor shall cause, at its

expense, the assignment of the related Security Instrument to the Trustee to be

recorded not later than 180 days after the Closing Date with respect to the

Mortgage Loans, unless (1) such recordation is not required by the Rating

Agencies, (2) an Opinion of Counsel has been provided to the Trustee (with a

copy to the Custodian) which states that recordation of such Security Instrument

is not required to protect the interests of the Certificateholders in the

related Mortgage Loans or (3) MERS is identified on the related Security

Instrument or on a properly recorded assignment of such Security Instrument as

mortgagee of record solely as nominee for Depositor and its successors and

assigns; provided, however, that each assignment shall be submitted for

recording by the Depositor in the manner described above, at no expense to the

Trust or the Trustee, or the Custodian, as its agent, upon the earliest to occur

of: (i) reasonable direction by the Holders of Certificates evidencing

Fractional Undivided Interests aggregating not less than 25% of the Trust, (ii)

the occurrence of an Event of Default, (iii) the occurrence of a bankruptcy,

insolvency or foreclosure relating to the Depositor, (iv) the rating of The Bear

Stearns Companies Inc. falls below Baa3, (v) the occurrence of a servicing

transfer as described in Section 8.02 hereof, or (vi) with respect to any one

assignment of Mortgage, the occurrence of a bankruptcy, insolvency or

foreclosure relating to the Mortgagor under the related Mortgage.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Depositor

 

 

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fails to pay the cost of recording the assignments, such expense will be paid by

the Trustee and the Trustee shall be reimbursed for such expenses by the Trust

in accordance with Section 9.05.

 

         Section 2.02. Acceptance of Trust Fund by Trustee. (a) The Trustee

acknowledges the sale, transfer and assignment of the Trust Fund to it by the

Depositor and receipt of, subject to further review and the exceptions which may

be noted pursuant to the procedures described below, and declares that it holds,

the documents (or certified copies thereof) delivered to it pursuant to Section

2.01, and declares that it will continue to hold those documents and any

amendments, replacements or supplements thereto and all other assets of the

Trust Fund delivered to it as Trustee in trust for the use and benefit of all

present and future Holders of the Certificates. On the Closing Date, the

Custodian shall acknowledge, with respect to each Mortgage Loan by an Initial

Certification substantially in the form of Exhibit One to the Custodial

Agreement, receipt of the Mortgage File, but without review of such Mortgage

File, except to the extent necessary to confirm that such Mortgage File contains

the related Mortgage Note or a lost note affidavit in lieu thereof. No later

than 90 days after the Closing Date (or, with respect to any Substitute Mortgage

Loan, within five Business Days after the receipt by the Trustee or Custodian

thereof), the Trustee agrees, for the benefit of the Certificateholders, to

review or cause to be reviewed by the Custodian on its behalf (under the

Custodial Agreement), each Mortgage File delivered to it and to execute and

deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to the Depositor and the Trustee

an Interim Certification substantially in the form annexed as Exhibit Two to the

Custodial Agreement. In conducting such review, the Trustee or Custodian will

ascertain whether all required documents have been executed and received, and

based on the Mortgage Loan Schedule, whether those documents relate, determined

on the basis of the Mortgagor name, original principal balance and loan number,

to the Mortgage Loans it has received, as identified in the Mortgage Loan

Schedule. In performing any such review, the Trustee or the Custodian, as its

agent, may conclusively rely on the purported due execution and genuineness of

any such document and on the purported genuineness of any signature thereon. If

the Trustee or the Custodian, as its agent, finds any document constituting part

of the Mortgage File not to have been executed or received, or to be unrelated

to the Mortgage Loans or to appear to be defective on its face, then the Trustee

or the Custodian, as its agent, shall promptly notify the Seller. In accordance

with the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, the Seller shall correct or cure any

such defect within ninety (90) days from the date of notice from the Trustee or

the Custodian, as its agent, of the defect and, if the Seller fails to correct

or cure the defect within such period, and such defect materially and adversely

affects the interests of the Certificateholders in the related Mortgage Loan,

the Trustee or the Custodian, as its agent, shall enforce the Seller's

obligation pursuant to the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, to, within 90 days

from the Trustee's or the Custodian's notification, provide a Substitute

Mortgage Loan (if within two years of the Closing Date) or purchase such

Mortgage Loan at the Repurchase Price; provided that, if such defect would cause

the Mortgage Loan to be other than a "qualified mortgage" as defined in Section

860G(a)(3) of the Code, any such cure or repurchase must occur within 90 days

from the date such breach was discovered; provided, however, that if such defect

relates solely to the inability of the Seller to deliver the original Security

Instrument or intervening assignments thereof, or a certified copy thereof,

because the originals of such documents or a certified copy have not been

returned by the applicable jurisdiction, then the Seller shall not be required

to purchase such Mortgage Loan if the Seller delivers such original documents or

certified copy promptly upon receipt, but in no event later than 360 days after

the Closing Date. The foregoing repurchase obligation shall not apply in the

event that the Seller

 

 

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cannot deliver such original or copy of any document submitted for recording to

the appropriate recording office in the jurisdiction because such document has

not been returned by such office; provided that the Seller shall instead deliver

a recording receipt of such recording office or, if such receipt is not

available, a certificate of the Seller or a Servicing Officer confirming that

such documents have been accepted for recording, and delivery to the Trustee or

the Custodian, as its agent, shall be effected by the Seller within thirty days

of its receipt of the original recorded document.

 

         (b) No later than 180 days after the Closing Date (or, with respect to

any Substitute Mortgage Loan, within five Business Days after the receipt by the

Trustee or the Custodian thereof), the Trustee or the Custodian, as its agent,

will review, for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Mortgage Files

delivered to it and will execute and deliver or cause to be executed and

delivered to the Depositor and the Trustee a Final Certification substantially

in the form annexed as Exhibit Three to the Custodial Agreement. In conducting

such review, the Trustee or the Custodian, as its agent, will ascertain whether

an original of each document required to be recorded has been returned from the

recording office with evidence of recording thereon or a certified copy has been

obtained from the recording office. If the Trustee or the Custodian, as its

agent, finds any document constituting part of the Mortgage File has not been

received, or to be unrelated, determined on the basis of the Mortgagor name,

original principal balance and loan number, to the Mortgage Loans, or to appear

defective on its face, the Trustee or the Custodian, as its agent, shall

promptly notify the Seller (provided, however, that with respect to those

documents described in subsection (b)(iv), (b)(v) and (b)(vii) of Section 2.01,

the Trustee's and the Custodian's obligations shall extend only to the documents

actually delivered to the Trustee or Custodian pursuant to such subsections). In

accordance with the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, the Seller shall correct

or cure any such defect or EMC shall deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of

Counsel to the effect that such defect does not materially or adversely affect

the interests of Certificateholders in such Mortgage Loan within 90 days from

the date of notice from the Trustee of the defect and if the Seller is unable to

cure such defect within such period, and if such defect materially and adversely

affects the interests of the Certificateholders in the related Mortgage Loan,

then the Trustee shall enforce the Seller's obligation under the Mortgage Loan

Purchase Agreement to, within 90 days from the Trustee's or Custodian's

notification, provide a Substitute Mortgage Loan (if within two years of the

Closing Date) or purchase such Mortgage Loan at the Repurchase Price; provided

that, if such defect would cause the Mortgage Loan to be other than a "qualified

mortgage" as defined in Section 860G(a)(3) of the Code, any such cure,

repurchase or substitution must occur within 90 days from the date such breach

was discovered; provided, further, however, that if such defect relates solely

to the inability of the Seller to deliver the original Security Instrument or

intervening assignments thereof, or a certified copy thereof, because the

originals of such documents or a certified copy have not been returned by the

applicable jurisdiction, then the Seller shall not be required to purchase such

Mortgage Loan if the Seller delivers such original documents or certified copy

promptly upon receipt, but in no event later than 360 days after the Closing

Date. The foregoing repurchase obligation shall not apply in the event that the

Seller cannot deliver such original or copy of any document submitted for

recording to the appropriate recording office in the applicable jurisdiction

because such document has not been returned by such office; provided that the

Seller shall instead deliver a recording receipt of such recording office or, if

such receipt is not available, a certificate confirming that such documents have

been

 

 

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accepted for recording, and delivery to the Trustee or the Custodian, as its

agent, shall be effected by the Seller within thirty days of its receipt of the

original recorded document.

 

         (c) In the event that a Mortgage Loan is purchased by the Seller in

accordance with Subsections 2.02(a) or (b) above, the Seller shall remit to the

Paying Agent the applicable Repurchase Price for deposit in the Distribution

Account and the Seller shall provide to the Master Servicer, the Paying Agent

and the Trustee written notification detailing the components of the Repurchase

Price. Upon deposit of the Repurchase Price in the Distribution Account, the

Depositor shall notify the Trustee and the Trustee or the Custodian, as its

agent (upon receipt of a Request for Release in the form of Exhibit D attached

hereto with respect to such Mortgage Loan), shall release to the Seller the

related Mortgage File and the Trustee shall execute and deliver all instruments

of transfer or assignment, without recourse, furnished to it by the Seller as

are necessary to vest in the Seller title to and rights under the related

Mortgage Loan. Such purchase shall be deemed to have occurred on the date on

which the Repurchase Price in available funds is received by the Paying Agent.

The Trustee shall amend the Mortgage Loan Schedule, which was previously

delivered to it by the Depositor in a form agreed to between the Depositor and

the Trustee, to reflect such repurchase and shall promptly notify the Rating

Agencies and the Master Servicer of such amendment. The obligation of the Seller

to repurchase any Mortgage Loan as to which such a defect in a constituent

document exists shall be the sole remedy respecting such defect available to the

Certificateholders or to the Trustee on their behalf.

 

         Section 2.03. Assignment of Interest in the Mortgage Loan Purchase

Agreement. (a) The Depositor hereby assigns to the Trustee, on behalf of the

Certificateholders, all of its right, title and interest in the Mortgage Loan

Purchase Agreement, including but not limited to the Depositor's rights and

obligations pursuant to the Servicing Agreements (noting that the Seller has

retained the right in the event of breach of the representations, warranties and

covenants, if any, with respect to the related Mortgage Loans of the related

Servicer under the related Servicing Agreement to enforce the provisions thereof

and to seek all or any available remedies). The obligations of the Seller to

substitute or repurchase, as applicable, a Mortgage Loan shall be the Trustee's

and the Certificateholders' sole remedy for any breach thereof. At the request

of the Trustee, the Depositor shall take such actions as may be necessary to

enforce the above right, title and interest on behalf of the Trustee and the

Certificateholders or shall execute such further documents as the Trustee may

reasonably require in order to enable the Trustee to carry out such enforcement.

 

         (b) If the Depositor, the Securities Administrator or the Trustee

discovers a breach of any of the representations and warranties set forth in the

Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, which breach materially and adversely affects

the value of the interests of Certificateholders or the Trustee in the related

Mortgage Loan, the party discovering the breach shall give prompt written notice

of the breach to the other parties. The Seller, within 90 days of its discovery

or receipt of notice that such breach has occurred (whichever occurs earlier),

shall cure the breach in all material respects or, subject to the Mortgage Loan

Purchase Agreement or Section 2.04 of this Agreement, as applicable, shall

purchase the Mortgage Loan or any property acquired with respect thereto from

the Trustee; provided, however, that if there is a breach of any representation

set forth in the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement or Section 2.04 of this

Agreement, as applicable, and the Mortgage Loan or the related property acquired

with respect

 

 

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thereto has been sold, then the Seller shall pay, in lieu of the Repurchase

Price, any excess of the Repurchase Price over the Net Liquidation Proceeds

received upon such sale. (If the Net Liquidation Proceeds exceed the Repurchase

Price, any excess shall be paid to the Seller, to the extent not required by law

to be paid to the related borrower.) Any such purchase by the Seller shall be

made by providing an amount equal to the Repurchase Price to the Paying Agent

for deposit in the Distribution Account and written notification detailing the

components of such Repurchase Price to the Trustee, the Paying Agent and the

Master Servicer. The Depositor shall notify the Trustee and submit to the

Trustee or the Custodian, as its agent, a Request for Release in the form of

Exhibit D attached hereto, and the Trustee shall release, or the Trustee shall

cause the Custodian to release, to the Seller, the related Mortgage File and the

Trustee shall execute and deliver all instruments of transfer or assignment

furnished to it by the Seller, without recourse, as are necessary to vest in the

Seller title to and rights under the Mortgage Loan or any property acquired with

respect thereto. Such purchase shall be deemed to have occurred on the date on

which the Repurchase Price in available funds is received by the Securities

Administrator. The Trustee shall amend the Mortgage Loan Schedule to reflect

such repurchase and shall promptly notify the Master Servicer and the Rating

Agencies of such amendment. Enforcement of the obligation of the Seller to

purchase (or substitute a Substitute Mortgage Loan for) any Mortgage Loan or any

property acquired with respect thereto (or pay the Repurchase Price as set forth

in the above proviso) as to which a breach has occurred and is continuing shall

constitute the sole remedy respecting such breach available to the

Certificateholders or the Trustee on their behalf.

 

         Section 2.04. Substitution of Mortgage Loans. Notwithstanding anything

to the contrary in this Agreement, in lieu of purchasing a Mortgage Loan

pursuant to the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement or Sections 2.02 or 2.03 of

this Agreement, the Seller may, no later than the date by which such purchase by

the Seller would otherwise be required, tender to the Trustee a Substitute

Mortgage Loan accompanied by a certificate of an authorized officer of the

Seller that such Substitute Mortgage Loan conforms to the requirements set forth

in the definition of "Substitute Mortgage Loan" in the Mortgage Loan Purchase

Agreement or this Agreement, as applicable; provided, however, that substitution

pursuant to the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement or Section 2.04 of this

Agreement, as applicable, in lieu of purchase shall not be permitted after the

termination of the two-year period beginning on the Startup Day; provided,

further, that if the breach of a Mortgage Loan representation or warranty would

cause such Mortgage Loan to be other than a "qualified mortgage" as defined in

Section 860G(a)(3) of the Code, then any such substitution must occur within 90

days from the date the breach was discovered. The Trustee or the Custodian, as

its agent, shall examine the Mortgage File for any Substitute Mortgage Loan in

the manner set forth in Section 2.02(a) and the Trustee or the Custodian, as its

agent, shall notify the Seller in writing, within five Business Days after

receipt, whether or not the documents relating to the Substitute Mortgage Loan

satisfy the requirements of the fourth sentence of Subsection 2.02(a). Within

two Business Days after such notification, the Seller shall provide to the

Paying Agent for deposit in the Distribution Account the amount, if any, by

which the Outstanding Principal Balance as of the next preceding Due Date of the

Mortgage Loan for which substitution is being made, after giving effect to

Scheduled Principal due on such date, exceeds the Outstanding Principal Balance

as of such date of the Substitute Mortgage Loan, after giving effect to

Scheduled Principal due on such date, which amount shall be treated for the

purposes of this Agreement as if it were the payment by the Seller of the

Repurchase Price for the purchase of a Mortgage Loan by the Seller. After such

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the Seller and, if any such excess exists, upon receipt of such deposit, the

Trustee shall accept such Substitute Mortgage Loan which shall thereafter be

deemed to be a Mortgage Loan hereunder. In the event of such a substitution,

accrued interest on the Substitute Mortgage Loan for the month in which the

substitution occurs and any Principal Prepayments made thereon during such month

shall be the property of the Trust Fund and accrued interest for such month on

the Mortgage Loan for which the substitution is made and any Principal

Prepayments made thereon during such month shall be the property of the Seller.

The Scheduled Principal on a Substitute Mortgage Loan due on the Due Date in the

month of substitution shall be the property of the Seller and the Scheduled

Principal on the Mortgage Loan for which the substitution is made due on such

Due Date shall be the property of the Trust Fund. Upon acceptance of the

Substitute Mortgage Loan (and delivery to the Trustee or Custodian of a Request

for Release for such Mortgage Loan), the Trustee (or the Custodian, as its

agent) shall release to the Seller the Mortgage File related to any Mortgage

Loan released pursuant to the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement or Section 2.04

of this Agreement, as applicable, and the Trustee shall execute and deliver all

instruments of transfer or assignment, without recourse, in form as provided to

it as are necessary to vest in the Seller title to and rights under any Mortgage

Loan released pursuant to the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement or Section 2.04

of this Agreement, as applicable. The Seller shall deliver the documents related

to the Substitute Mortgage Loan in accordance with the provisions of the

Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement or Subsections 2.01(b) and 2.02(b) of this

Agreement, as applicable, with the date of acceptance of the Substitute Mortgage

Loan deemed to be the Closing Date for purposes of the time periods set forth in

those Subsections. The representations and warranties set forth in the Mortgage

Loan Purchase Agreement shall be deemed to have been made by the Seller with

respect to each Substitute Mortgage Loan as of the date of acceptance of such

Mortgage Loan by the Trustee. The Securities Administrator shall amend the

Mortgage Loan Schedule to reflect such substitution and shall provide a copy of

such amended Mortgage Loan Schedule to the Master Servicer, the Trustee and the

Rating Agencies.

 

         Section 2.05. Issuance of Certificates. The Trustee acknowledges the

assignment to it of the Mortgage Loans and the other assets comprising the Trust

Fund and, concurrently therewith, has signed, and the Certificate Registrar has

countersigned and delivered to the Depositor, in exchange therefor, Certificates

in such authorized denominations representing such Fractional Undivided

Interests as the Depositor has requested. The Trustee agrees that it will hold

the Mortgage Loans and such other assets as may from time to time be delivered

to it segregated on the books of the Trustee in trust for the benefit of the

Certificateholders.

 

         The Depositor, concurrently with the execution and delivery hereof,

does hereby transfer, assign, set over and otherwise convey in trust to the

Trustee without recourse all the right, title and interest of the Depositor in

and to the REMIC I Regular Interests and the other assets of REMIC II for the

benefit of the holders of the REMIC II Interests. The Trustee acknowledges

receipt of the REMIC I Regular Interests (which are uncertificated) and the

other assets of REMIC II and declares that it holds and will hold the same in

trust for the exclusive use and benefit of the holders of the REMIC II

Certificates.

 

         The Depositor, concurrently with the execution and delivery hereof,

does hereby transfer, assign, set over and otherwise convey in trust to the

Trustee without recourse all the right, title and interest of the Depositor in

and to the REMIC II Regular Interests, and the other assets of

 

 

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REMIC III for the benefit of the holders of the REMIC III Certificates. The

Trustee acknowledges receipt of the REMIC II Regular Interests (which are

uncertificated) and the other assets of REMIC III and declares that it holds and

will hold the same in trust for the exclusive use and benefit of the holders of

the REMIC III Certificates.

 

         Section 2.06. Representations and Warranties Concerning the Depositor.

The Depositor hereby represents and warrants to the Trustee, the Master Servicer

and the Securities Administrator as follows:

 

                  (i) the Depositor (a) is a corporation duly organized, validly

         existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware

         and (b) is qualified and in good standing as a foreign corporation to

         do business in each jurisdiction where such qualification is necessary,

         except where the failure so to qualify would not reasonably be expected

         to have a material adverse effect on the Depositor's business as

         presently conducted or on the Depositor's ability to enter into this

         Agreement and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby;

 

                   (ii) the Depositor has full corporate power to own its

         property, to carry on its business as presently conducted and to enter

         into and perform its obligations under this Agreement;

 

                  (iii) the execution and delivery by the Depositor of this

         Agreement have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action

         on the part of the Depositor; and neither the execution and delivery of

         this Agreement, nor the consummation of the transactions herein

         contemplated, nor compliance with the provisions hereof, will conflict

         with or result in a breach of, or constitute a default under, any of

         the provisions of any law, governmental rule, regulation, judgment,

         decree or order binding on the Depositor or its properties or the

         articles of incorporation or by-laws of the Depositor, except those

         conflicts, breaches or defaults which would not reasonably be expected

         to have a material adverse effect on the Depositor's ability to enter

         into this Agreement and to consummate the transactions contemplated

         hereby;

 

                  (iv) the execution, delivery and performance by the Depositor

         of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated

         hereby do not require the consent or approval of, the giving of notice

         to, the registration with, or the taking of any other action in respect

         of, any state, federal or other governmental authority or agency,

         except those consents, approvals, notices, registrations or other

         actions as have already been obtained, given or made;

 

                  (v) this Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the

         Depositor and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by

         the other parties hereto, constitutes a valid and binding obligation of

         the Depositor enforceable against it in accordance with its terms

         (subject to applicable bankruptcy and insolvency laws and other similar

         laws affecting the enforcement of the rights of creditors generally);

 

                  (vi) there are no actions, suits or proceedings pending or, to

         the knowledge of the Depositor, threatened against the Depositor,

         before or by any court, administrative

 

 

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         agency, arbitrator or governmental body (i) with respect to any of the

         transactions contemplated by this Agreement or (ii) with respect to any

         other matter which in the judgment of the Depositor will be determined

         adversely to the Depositor and will, if determined adversely to the

         Depositor, materially and adversely affect the Depositor's ability to

         enter into this Agreement or perform its obligations under this

         Agreement; and the Depositor is not in default with respect to any

         order of any court, administrative agency, arbitrator or governmental

         body so as to materially and adversely affect the transactions

         contemplated by this Agreement; and

 

                  (vii) immediately prior to the transfer and assignment thereof

         to the Trustee, each Mortgage Note and each Mortgage was not subject to

         an assignment or pledge, and the Depositor had good and marketable

         title to and was the sole owner thereof and had full right to transfer

         and sell the Mortgage Loans to the Trustee free and clear of any

         encumbrance, equity, lien, pledge, charge, claim or security interest.

 

         Section 2.07 Covenants of the Master Servicer and the EMC Servicer.The

Master Servicer covenants to the Depositor, the Securities Administrator and the

Trustee, and the EMC Servicer covenants to the Master Servicer, as follows:

 

                  (i) it shall comply in the performance of its obligations

         under this Agreement;

 

                  (ii) no written information, certificate of an officer,

         statement furnished in writing or written report prepared by the Master

         Servicer or the EMC Servicer, as applicable, pursuant to this Agreement

         and delivered, in the case of the Master Servicer, to the Securities

         Administrator, the Depositor, any affiliate of the Depositor or the

         Trustee, or, in the case of the EMC Servicer, to the Master Servicer,

         will contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a

         material fact necessary to make the information, certificate, statement

         or report not misleading; and

 

                  (iii) it shall (in the case of the Master Servicer, only in

         its capacity as successor servicer pursuant to a Servicing Agreement)

         accurately and fully provide information regarding payment performance

         of the Mortgagors to the nationally recognized credit repositories, to

         the extent such reporting remains customary and prudent in the

         servicing of mortgage loans similar to the Mortgage Loans.

 

         Nothing in this Section shall derogate from the obligation of the

Master Servicer or the EMC Servicer to observe any applicable law prohibiting

disclosure of information regarding the Mortgagors, and the failure of the

Master Servicer or the EMC Servicer to provide access as provided in this

Section as a result of such obligation shall not constitute a breach of this

Section.

 

 

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                                   ARTICLE III

                 Administration and Servicing of Mortgage Loans

 

         Section 3.01. Master Servicer. The Master Servicer shall, from and

after the Closing Date, supervise, monitor and oversee the obligation of the

Servicers to service and administer their respective Mortgage Loans in

accordance with the terms of the related Servicing Agreement and shall have full

power and authority to do any and all things which it may deem necessary or

desirable in connection with such master servicing and administration. In

performing its obligations hereunder, the Master Servicer shall act in a manner

consistent with Accepted Master Servicing Practices. Furthermore, the Master

Servicer shall oversee and consult with each Servicer as necessary from

time-to-time to carry out the Master Servicer's obligations hereunder, shall

receive, review and evaluate all reports, information and other data provided to

the Master Servicer by each Servicer and shall cause each Servicer to perform

and observe the covenants, obligations and conditions to be performed or

observed by such Servicer under the related Servicing Agreement. The Master

Servicer shall independently and separately monitor each Servicer's servicing

activities with respect to each related Mortgage Loan, reconcile the results of

such monitoring with such information provided in the previous sentence on a

monthly basis and coordinate corrective adjustments to the related Servicer's

and Master Servicer's records, and based on such reconciled and corrected

information, the Master Servicer shall provide such information to the

Securities Administrator as shall be necessary in order for it to prepare the

statements specified in Section 6.04, and prepare any other information and

statements required to be forwarded by the Master Servicer hereunder. The Master

Servicer shall reconcile the results of its Mortgage Loan monitoring with the

actual remittances of the related Servicer to the Distribution Account pursuant

to the related Servicing Agreement.

 

         The Trustee shall furnish each Servicer and the Master Servicer with

any powers of attorney, in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit K,

and other documents in form as provided to it necessary or appropriate to enable

such Servicer and the Master Servicer to service and administer the related

Mortgage Loans and REO Property.

 

         The Trustee shall provide access to the records and documentation in

possession of the Trustee regarding the related Mortgage Loans and REO Property

and the servicing thereof to the Certificateholders, the FDIC, and the

supervisory agents and examiners of the FDIC, such access being afforded only

upon reasonable prior written request and during normal business hours at the

office of the Trustee; provided, however, that, unless otherwise required by

law, the Trustee shall not be required to provide access to such records and

documentation if the provision thereof would violate the legal right to privacy

of any Mortgagor. The Trustee shall allow representatives of the above entities

to photocopy any of the records and documentation and shall provide equipment

for that purpose at a charge that covers the Trustee's actual costs.

 

         The Trustee shall execute and deliver to the related Servicer and the

Master Servicer any court pleadings, requests for trustee's sale or other

documents necessary or desirable to (i) the foreclosure or trustee's sale with

respect to a Mortgaged Property; (ii) any legal action brought to obtain

judgment against any Mortgagor on the Mortgage Note or Security Instrument;

(iii) obtain a deficiency judgment against the Mortgagor; or (iv) enforce any

other rights or remedies provided by the Mortgage Note or Security Instrument or

otherwise available at law or equity.

 

 

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         Section 3.02. REMIC-Related Covenants. For as long as each REMIC shall

exist, the Trustee and the Securities Administrator shall act in accordance

herewith to assure continuing treatment of such REMIC as a REMIC, and the

Trustee and the Securities Administrator shall comply with any directions of the

Depositor, the Servicers or the Master Servicer to assure such continuing

treatment. In particular, the Trustee shall not (a) sell or permit the sale of

all or any portion of the Mortgage Loans or of any investment of deposits in an

Account unless such sale is as a result of a repurchase of the Mortgage Loans

pursuant to this Agreement or the Trustee has received a REMIC Opinion, prepared

at the expense of the Trust Fund; and (b) other than with respect to a

substitution pursuant to the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement or Section 2.04 of

this Agreement, as applicable, accept any contribution to any REMIC after the

Startup Day without receipt of a REMIC Opinion. In addition, the Trustee shall

comply with all of the requirements of Treasury Regulation ss. 1.860F-2(a)(2),

including, without limitation, the requirement that each REMIC account for items

of income and ownership of assets in a manner that respects the separate

existence of each REMIC.

 

         Section 3.03. Monitoring of Servicers. (a) The Master Servicer shall be

responsible for reporting to the Trustee and the Depositor the compliance by the

Servicers with their respective duties under the related Servicing Agreement. In

the review of each Servicer's activities, the Master Servicer may rely upon an

officer's certificate of such Servicer (or similar document signed by an officer

of the Servicer) with regard to such Servicer's compliance with the terms of the

related Servicing Agreement. In the event that the Master Servicer, in its

judgment, determines that such Servicer should be terminated in accordance with

the related Servicing Agreement, or that a notice should be sent pursuant to the

related Servicing Agreement with respect to the occurrence of an event that,

unless cured, would constitute grounds for such termination, the Master Servicer

shall notify the Depositor and the Trustee thereof and the Master Servicer shall

issue such notice or take such other action as it deems appropriate.

 

         (b) The Master Servicer, for the benefit of the Trustee and the

Certificateholders, shall enforce the obligations of each Servicer under the

related Servicing Agreement, and shall, in the event that a Servicer fails to

perform its obligations in accordance with the related Servicing Agreement,

subject to the preceding paragraph, terminate the rights and obligations of such

Servicer thereunder and act as servicer of the related Mortgage Loans or cause

the Trustee to enter into a new Servicing Agreement with a successor Servicer

selected by the Master Servicer; provided, however, it is understood and

acknowledged by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition

(not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully

transferred to such successor Servicer. Such enforcement, including, without

limitation, the legal prosecution of claims, termination of the related

Servicing Agreement and the pursuit of other appropriate remedies, shall be in

such form and carried out to such an extent and at such time as the Master

Servicer, in its good faith business judgment, would require were it the owner

of the related Mortgage Loans. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such

enforcement at its own expense, provided that the Master Servicer shall not be

required to prosecute or defend any legal action except to the extent that the

Master Servicer shall have received reasonable indemnity for its costs and

expenses in pursuing such action.

 

         (c) To the extent that the costs and expenses of the Master Servicer

related to any termination of a Servicer, appointment of a successor Servicer or

the transfer and assumption of servicing by the Master Servicer with respect to

the related Servicing Agreement (including,

 

 

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without limitation, (i) all legal costs and expenses and all due diligence costs

and expenses associated with an evaluation of the potential termination of a

Servicer as a result of an event of default by such Servicer and (ii) all costs

and expenses associated with the complete transfer of servicing, including all

servicing files and all servicing data and the completion, correction or

manipulation of such servicing data as may be required by the successor servicer

to correct any errors or insufficiencies in the servicing data or otherwise to

enable the successor servicer to service the Mortgage Loans in accordance with

the related Servicing Agreement) are not fully and timely reimbursed by the

terminated Servicer, the Master Servicer shall be entitled to reimbursement of

such costs and expenses from the Distribution Account.

 

         (d) The Master Servicer shall require each Servicer to comply with the

remittance requirements and other obligations set forth in the related Servicing

Agreement, including any related Assignment Agreement. The Master Servicer shall

enforce the obligation of each Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing

Agreement to provide it with the annual officer's certificate of compliance and

annual independent accountants' servicing reports, as well as back-up

certifications to each Master Servicer Certification pursuant to Section 3.18.

 

         (e) If the Master Servicer acts as Servicer, it will not assume

liability for the representations and warranties of the Servicers, if any, that

it replaces.

 

         Section 3.04. Fidelity Bond. The Master Servicer, at its expense, shall

maintain in effect a blanket fidelity bond and an errors and omissions insurance

policy, affording coverage with respect to all directors, officers, employees

and other Persons acting on such Master Servicer's behalf, and covering errors

and omissions in the performance of the Master Servicer's obligations hereunder.

The amount of coverage to be maintained by the Master Servicer with respect to

the blanket fidelity bond policy shall be $50,000,000 per occurrence, and, with

respect to the errors and omissions insurance policy, shall be $20,000,000 per

occurrence.

 

         Section 3.05. Power to Act; Procedures. The Master Servicer shall

master service the Mortgage Loans and shall have full power and authority,

subject to the REMIC Provisions and the provisions of Article X hereof, to do

any and all things that it may deem necessary or desirable in connection with

the master servicing and administration of the Mortgage Loans, including but not

limited to the power and authority (i) to execute and deliver, on behalf of the

Certificateholders and the Trustee, customary consents or waivers and other

instruments and documents, (ii) to consent to transfers of any Mortgaged

Property and assumptions of the Mortgage Notes and related Mortgages, (iii) to

collect any Insurance Proceeds and Liquidation Proceeds, and (iv) to effectuate

foreclosure or other conversion of the ownership of the Mortgaged Property

securing any Mortgage Loan, in each case, in accordance with the provisions of

this Agreement and the related Servicing Agreement, as applicable; provided,

however, that the Master Servicer shall not (and, consistent with its

responsibilities under Section 3.03, shall not permit a Servicer to) knowingly

or intentionally take any action, or fail to take (or fail to cause to be taken)

any action reasonably within its control and the scope of duties more

specifically set forth herein, that, under the REMIC Provisions, if taken or not

taken, as the case may be, would cause any REMIC hereunder to fail to qualify as

a REMIC or result in the imposition of a tax upon the Trust Fund (including but

not limited to the tax on prohibited transactions as defined in Section

860F(a)(2) of the Code and the tax on contributions to a REMIC set forth in

Section 860G(d) of the Code) unless the Master Servicer has received an

 

 

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Opinion of Counsel (but not at the expense of the Master Servicer) to the effect

that the contemplated action will not cause any REMIC hereunder to fail to

qualify as a REMIC or result in the imposition of a tax upon any REMIC

hereunder. The Trustee shall furnish the Master Servicer, upon written request

from a Servicing Officer, with any powers of attorney empowering the Master

Servicer or the related Servicer to execute and deliver instruments of

satisfaction or cancellation, or of partial or full release or discharge, and to

foreclose upon or otherwise liquidate Mortgaged Property, and to appear in,

prosecute or defend any court action relating to the Mortgage Loans or the

Mortgaged Property, in accordance with the related Servicing Agreement and this

Agreement, and the Trustee shall execute and deliver such other documents as the

Master Servicer may request, to enable the Master Servicer to master service and

administer the Mortgage Loans and carry out its duties hereunder, in each case

in accordance with Accepted Master Servicing Practices (and the Trustee shall

have no liability for misuse of any such powers of attorney by the Master

Servicer or a Servicer). If the Master Servicer or the Trustee has been advised

that it is likely that the laws of the state in which action is to be taken

prohibit such action if taken in the name of the Trustee or that the Trustee

would be adversely affected under the "doing business" or tax laws of such state

if such action is taken in its name, then the Master Servicer shall join with

the Trustee in the appointment of a co-trustee pursuant to Section 9.11 hereof.

In the performance of its duties hereunder, the Master Servicer shall be an

independent contractor and shall not, except in those instances where it is

taking action in the name of the Trustee, be deemed to be the agent of the

Trustee.

 

         The Trustee shall execute and deliver to the related Servicer any court

pleadings, requests for trustee's sale or other documents necessary or desirable

or relating to (i) the foreclosure or trustee's sale with respect to a Mortgaged

Property; (ii) any legal action brought to obtain judgment against any Mortgagor

on the related Mortgage Note or related Mortgage; (iii) obtaining a deficiency

judgment against the related Mortgagor; or (iv) enforcing any other rights or

remedies provided by a Mortgage Note or related Mortgage or otherwise available

at law or equity.

 

         Section 3.06. Due-on-Sale Clauses; Assumption Agreements. To the extent

provided in the related Servicing Agreement, to the extent Mortgage Loans

contain enforceable due-on-sale clauses, the Master Servicer shall cause the

related Servicer to enforce such clauses in accordance with the related

Servicing Agreement. If applicable law prohibits the enforcement of a

due-on-sale clause or such clause is otherwise not enforced in accordance with

the related Servicing Agreement, and, as a consequence, a Mortgage Loan is

assumed, the original Mortgagor may be released from liability in accordance

with the related Servicing Agreement.

 

         Section 3.07. Release of Mortgage Files. (a) Upon becoming aware of the

payment in full of any Mortgage Loan, or the receipt by the related Servicer of

a notification that payment in full has been escrowed in a manner customary for

such purposes for payment to Certificateholders on the next Distribution Date,

such Servicer will (and if such Servicer does not, then the Master Servicer

may), if required under the related Servicing Agreement, promptly furnish to the

Custodian, on behalf of the Trustee, two copies of a certification substantially

in the form of Exhibit D hereto signed by a Servicing Officer or in a mutually

agreeable electronic format which will, in lieu of a signature on its face,

originate from a Servicing Officer (which certification shall include a

statement to the effect that all amounts received in connection with such

payment that are required to be deposited in the related Protected Account

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such Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01 or by such Servicer pursuant to the

related Servicing Agreement have been or will be so deposited) and shall request

that the Custodian, on behalf of the Trustee, deliver to such Servicer the

related Mortgage File. Upon receipt of such certification and request, the

Custodian, on behalf of the Trustee, shall promptly release the related Mortgage

File to the related Servicer, and the Trustee and Custodian shall have no

further responsibility with regard to such Mortgage File. Upon any such payment

in full, the related Servicer is authorized to give, as agent for the Trustee,

as the mortgagee under the Mortgage that secured the Mortgage Loan, an

instrument of satisfaction (or assignment of mortgage without recourse)

regarding the Mortgaged Property subject to the Mortgage, which instrument of

satisfaction or assignment, as the case may be, shall be delivered to the Person

or Persons entitled thereto against receipt therefor of such payment, it being

understood and agreed that no expenses incurred in connection with such

instrument of satisfaction or assignment, as the case may be, shall be

chargeable to the related Protected Account.

 

         (b) From time to time and as appropriate for the servicing or

foreclosure of any Mortgage Loan and in accordance with the related Servicing

Agreement, the Trustee shall execute such documents as shall be prepared and

furnished to the Trustee by the related Servicer or the Master Servicer (in form

reasonably acceptable to the Trustee) and as are necessary to the prosecution of

any such proceedings. The Custodian, on behalf of the Trustee, shall, upon the

request of the related Servicer or the Master Servicer, and delivery to the

Custodian, on behalf of the Trustee, of two copies of a Request for Release

signed by a Servicing Officer substantially in the form of Exhibit D (or in a

mutually agreeable electronic format which will, in lieu of a signature on its

face, originate from a Servicing Officer), release the related Mortgage File

held in its possession or control to such Servicer or the Master Servicer, as

applicable. Such trust receipt shall obligate the related Servicer or the Master

Servicer to return the Mortgage File to the Custodian on behalf of the Trustee

when the need therefor by such Servicer or the Master Servicer no longer exists,

unless the Mortgage Loan shall be liquidated, in which case, upon receipt of a

certificate of a Servicing Officer similar to that hereinabove specified, the

Mortgage File shall be released by the Custodian, on behalf of the Trustee, to

the related Servicer or the Master Servicer.

         (c) The Master Servicer hereby covenants that it shall not alter the

codes referenced in Section 4(c) of the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, with

respect to any Mortgage Loan during the term of this Agreement, unless and until

such Mortgage Loan is repurchased in accordance with the terms of this

Agreement.

 

         Section 3.08. Documents, Records and Funds in Possession of Master

Servicer To Be Held for Trustee.

 

         (a) The Master Servicer shall transmit and the Servicers (to the extent

required by the related Servicing Agreement) shall transmit to the Trustee or

Custodian such documents and instruments coming into the possession of the

Master Servicer or the Servicers from time to time as are required by the terms

hereof, or in the case of the Servicers, the related Servicing Agreement, to be

delivered to the Trustee or Custodian. Any funds received by the Master Servicer

or by the related Servicer in respect of any Mortgage Loan or which otherwise

are collected by the Master Servicer or by such Servicer as Liquidation Proceeds

or Insurance Proceeds in respect of any Mortgage Loan shall be held for the

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Certificateholders subject to the Master Servicer's right to retain the Master

Servicing Compensation and other amounts provided in this Agreement, and to the

right of such Servicer to retain its Servicing Fee and other amounts as provided

in the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall, and (to the

extent provided in the related Servicing Agreement) shall cause the Servicers

to, provide access to information and documentation regarding the Mortgage Loans

to the Trustee, the Securities Administrator and their respective agents and

accountants at any time upon reasonable request and during normal business

hours, and to Certificateholders that are savings and loan associations, banks

or insurance companies, the Office of Thrift Supervision, the FDIC and the

supervisory agents and examiners of such Office and Corporation or examiners of

any other federal or state banking or insurance regulatory authority if so

required by applicable regulations of the Office of Thrift Supervision or other

regulatory authority, such access to be afforded without charge but only upon

reasonable request in writing and during normal business hours at the offices of

the Master Servicer designated by it. In fulfilling such a request the Master

Servicer shall not be responsible for determining the sufficiency of such

information.

 

         (b) All Mortgage Files and funds collected or held by, or under the

control of, the Master Servicer in respect of any Mortgage Loans, whether from

the collection of principal and interest payments or from Liquidation Proceeds

or Insurance Proceeds, shall be held by the Master Servicer for and on behalf of

the Trustee and the Certificateholders and shall be and remain the sole and

exclusive property of the Trustee; provided, however, that the Master Servicer

and the Servicers shall be entitled to setoff against, and deduct from, any such

funds any amounts that are properly due and payable to the Master Servicer or

such Servicer under this Agreement or the related Servicing Agreement.

 

         Section 3.09. Standard Hazard Insurance and Flood Insurance Policies.

 

         (a) For each Mortgage Loan, the Master Servicer shall enforce any

obligation of the Servicer under the related Servicing Agreement to maintain or

cause to be maintained standard fire and casualty insurance and, where

applicable, flood insurance, all in accordance with the provisions of the

related Servicing Agreement. It is understood and agreed that such insurance

shall be with insurers meeting the eligibility requirements set forth in the

related Servicing Agreement and that no earthquake or other additional insurance

is to be required of any Mortgagor or to be maintained on property acquired in

respect of a defaulted Mortgage Loan, other than pursuant to such applicable

laws and regulations as shall at any time be in force and as shall require such

additional insurance.

 

         (b) Pursuant to Section 4.01, any amounts collected by a Servicer or

the Master Servicer under any insurance policies (other than amounts to be

applied to the restoration or repair of the property subject to the related

Mortgage or released to the Mortgagor in accordance with the related Servicing

Agreement) shall be deposited into the Distribution Account, subject to

withdrawal pursuant to Section 4.03. Any cost incurred by the Master Servicer or

the related Servicer in maintaining any such insurance (if the Mortgagor

defaults in its obligation to do so) shall be added to the amount owing under

the Mortgage Loan where the terms of the Mortgage Loan so permit; provided,

however, that the addition of any such cost shall not be taken into account for

purposes of calculating the distributions to be made to Certificateholders and

shall be recoverable by the Master Servicer or such Servicer pursuant to

Sections 4.01 and 4.03.

 

 

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         Section 3.10. Presentment of Claims and Collection of Proceeds. The

Master Servicer shall (to the extent provided in the Servicing Agreements) cause

each Servicer to prepare and present on behalf of the Trustee and the

Certificateholders all claims under the Insurance Policies and take such actions

(including the negotiation, settlement, compromise or enforcement of the

insured's claim) as shall be necessary to realize recovery under such policies.

Any proceeds disbursed to the Master Servicer (or disbursed to a Servicer and

remitted to the Master Servicer) in respect of such policies, bonds or contracts

shall be promptly deposited in the Distribution Account upon receipt, except

that any amounts realized that are to be applied to the repair or restoration of

the related Mortgaged Property as a condition precedent to the presentation of

claims on the related Mortgage Loan to the insurer under any applicable

Insurance Policy need not be so deposited (or remitted).

 

         Section 3.11.   Maintenance of the Primary Mortgage Insurance Policies.

 

         (a) The Master Servicer shall not take, or permit a Servicer (to the

extent such action is prohibited under the related Servicing Agreement) to take,

any action that would result in noncoverage under any applicable Primary

Mortgage Insurance Policy of any loss which, but for the actions of such Master

Servicer or Servicer, would have been covered thereunder. The Master Servicer

shall use its best reasonable efforts to cause each Servicer (to the extent

required under the related Servicing Agreement) to keep in force and effect (to

the extent that the Mortgage Loan requires the Mortgagor to maintain such

insurance) primary mortgage insurance applicable to each Mortgage Loan in

accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and the related Servicing

Agreement, as applicable. The Master Servicer shall not, and shall not permit a

Servicer (to the extent required under the related Servicing Agreement) to,

cancel or refuse to renew any such Primary Mortgage Insurance Policy that is in

effect at the date of the initial issuance of the Mortgage Note and is required

to be kept in force hereunder except in accordance with the provisions of this

Agreement and the related Servicing Agreement, as applicable.

 

         (b) The Master Servicer agrees to present, or to cause each Servicer

(to the extent required under the related Servicing Agreement) to present, on

behalf of the Trustee and the Certificateholders, claims to the insurer under

any Primary Mortgage Insurance Policies and, in this regard, to take such

reasonable action as shall be necessary to permit recovery under any Primary

Mortgage Insurance Policies respecting defaulted Mortgage Loans. Any amounts

collected by the Master Servicer or the related Servicer under any Primary

Mortgage Insurance Policies shall be deposited in the Distribution Account,

subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 4.03.

 

         Section 3.12. Trustee to Retain Possession of Certain Insurance

Policies and Documents.

 

         The Trustee (or the Custodian, as directed by the Trustee), shall

retain possession and custody of the originals (to the extent available) of any

Primary Mortgage Insurance Policies, or certificate of insurance, if applicable,

and any certificates of renewal as to the foregoing as may be issued from time

to time as contemplated by this Agreement. Until all amounts distributable in

respect of the Certificates have been distributed in full and the Master

Servicer otherwise has fulfilled its obligations under this Agreement, the

Trustee (or its Custodian, if any, as directed by the Trustee) shall also retain

possession and custody of each Mortgage File in accordance with

 

 

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and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. The Master Servicer

shall promptly deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee (or the

Custodian, as directed by the Trustee), upon the execution or receipt thereof

the originals of any Primary Mortgage Insurance Policies, any certificates of

renewal, and such other documents or instruments that constitute portions of the

Mortgage File that come into the possession of the Master Servicer from time to

time.

 

         Section 3.13. Realization Upon Defaulted Mortgage Loans. The Master

Servicer shall cause each Servicer (to the extent required under the related

Servicing Agreement) to foreclose upon, repossess or otherwise comparably

convert the ownership of Mortgaged Properties securing such of the Mortgage

Loans as come into and continue in default and as to which no satisfactory

arrangements can be made for collection of delinquent payments, all in

accordance with the related Servicing Agreement.

 

         Section 3.14. Compensation for the Servicers and the Master Servicer.

 

         The Master Servicer will be entitled to the sum of (i) the Master

Servicing Fee Rate multiplied by the Scheduled Principal Balance of each related

Mortgage Loan as of the Due Date in the month preceding the month in which the

related Distribution Date occurs (the "Master Servicing Fee") and (ii) all

income and gain realized from any investment of funds in the Distribution

Account with respect to the related Distribution Date (clauses (i) and (ii)

collectively, the "Master Servicing Compensation"). Servicing compensation in

the form of assumption fees, if any, late payment charges, as collected, if any,

or otherwise (but not including any prepayment premium or penalty) shall be

retained by the related Servicer and shall not be deposited in the related

Protected Account. The Master Servicer will be entitled to retain, as additional

compensation, any interest remitted by the related Servicer in connection with a

Principal Prepayment in full or otherwise in excess of amounts required to be

remitted to the Distribution Account. The Master Servicer shall be required to

pay all expenses incurred by it in connection with its activities hereunder and

shall not be entitled to reimbursement therefor except as provided in this

Agreement.

 

         Section 3.15. REO Property.

 

         (a) In the event the Trust Fund acquires ownership of any REO Property

in respect of any related Mortgage Loan, the deed or certificate of sale shall

be issued to the Trustee, or to its nominee, on behalf of the related

Certificateholders. The Master Servicer shall, to the extent provided in the

Servicing Agreements, cause the related Servicer to sell any REO Property as

expeditiously as possible and in accordance with the provisions of this

Agreement and the related Servicing Agreement, as applicable. Pursuant to its

efforts to sell such REO Property, the Master Servicer shall cause the related

Servicer to protect and conserve such REO Property in the manner and to the

extent required by the related Servicing Agreement, in accordance with the REMIC

Provisions and in a manner that does not result in a tax on "net income from

foreclosure property" or cause such REO Property to fail to qualify as

"foreclosure property" within the meaning of Section 860G(a)(8) of the Code.

 

         (b) The Master Servicer shall, to the extent required by the Servicing

Agreements, cause the related Servicer to deposit all funds collected and

received in connection with the operation of any REO Property in the related

Protected Account.

 

 

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         (c) The Master Servicer and the related Servicer, upon the final

disposition of any REO Property, shall be entitled to reimbursement for any

related unreimbursed Monthly Advances and other unreimbursed advances as well as

any unpaid Master Servicing Fee or Servicing Fees from Liquidation Proceeds

received in connection with the final disposition of such REO Property;

provided, that any such unreimbursed Monthly Advances as well as any unpaid

Master Servicing Fee or Servicing Fees may be reimbursed or paid, as the case

may be, prior to final disposition, out of any net rental income or other net

amounts derived from such REO Property.

 

         (d) To the extent provided in the Servicing Agreements, the Liquidation

Proceeds from the final disposition of the REO Property, net of any payment to

the Master Servicer and the related Servicer as provided above, shall be

deposited in the related Protected Account on or prior to the Determination Date

in the month following receipt thereof and be remitted by wire transfer in

immediately available funds to the Master Servicer for deposit into the

Distribution Account on the next succeeding Servicer Remittance Date.

 

         Section 3.16.   Annual Officer's Certificate as to Compliance.

 

         (a) The Master Servicer shall deliver to the Trustee and the Rating

Agencies on or before March 1 of each year, commencing on March 1, 2006, an

Officer's Certificate, certifying that with respect to the year ending December

31 of the prior year: (i) such Servicing Officer has reviewed the activities of

such Master Servicer during the preceding calendar year or portion thereof and

its performance under this Agreement, (ii) to the best of such Servicing

Officer's knowledge, based on such review, such Master Servicer has performed

and fulfilled its duties, responsibilities and obligations under this Agreement

in all material respects throughout such year, or, if there has been a default

in the fulfillment of any such duties, responsibilities or obligations,

specifying each such default known to such Servicing Officer and the nature and

status thereof, and (iii) nothing has come to the attention of such Servicing

Officer to lead such Servicing Officer to believe that a Servicer has failed to

perform any of its duties, responsibilities and obligations under the related

Servicing Agreement in all material respects throughout such year, or, if there

has been a material default in the performance or fulfillment of any such

duties, responsibilities or obligations, specifying each such default known to

such Servicing Officer and the nature and status thereof.

 

         (b) Copies of such statements shall be provided to any

Certificateholder upon request, by the Master Servicer or by the Trustee at the

Master Servicer's expense if the Master Servicer failed to provide such copies

(unless (i) the Master Servicer shall have failed to provide the Trustee with

such statement or (ii) the Trustee shall be unaware of the Master Servicer's

failure to provide such statement).

 

         Section 3.17. Annual Independent Accountant's Servicing Report. If the

Master Servicer has, during the course of any fiscal year, directly serviced any

of the Mortgage Loans, then the Master Servicer at its expense shall cause a

nationally recognized firm of independent certified public accountants to

furnish a statement to the Trustee, the Rating Agencies and the Depositor on or

before March 1 of each year, commencing on March 1, 2006, to the effect that,

with respect to the most recently ended fiscal year, such firm has examined

certain records and documents relating to the Master Servicer's performance of

its servicing obligations under this

 

 

 

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Agreement and pooling and servicing and trust agreements in material respects

similar to this Agreement and to each other and that, on the basis of such

examination conducted substantially in compliance with the Audit Program for

Mortgages Serviced for Freddie Mac or the Uniform Single Attestation Program for

Mortgage Bankers, such firm is of the opinion that the Master Servicer's

activities have been conducted in compliance with this Agreement, or that such

examination has disclosed no material items of noncompliance except for (i) such

exceptions as such firm believes to be immaterial, (ii) such other exceptions as

are set forth in such statement and (iii) such exceptions that the Uniform

Single Attestation Program for Mortgage Bankers or the Audit Program for

Mortgages Serviced by Freddie Mac requires it to report. Copies of such

statements shall be provided by the Master Servicer to any Certificateholder

upon request, or by the Trustee at the expense of the Master Servicer if the

Master Servicer shall fail to provide such copies. If such report discloses

exceptions that are material, the Master Servicer shall advise the Trustee

whether such exceptions have been or are susceptible of cure, and will take

prompt action to do so.

 

         Section 3.18. Reports Filed with Securities and Exchange Commission.

(a) Within 15 days after each Distribution Date, the Securities Administrator

shall, in accordance with industry standards, file with the Commission via the

Electronic Data Gathering and Retrieval System ("EDGAR"), a Form 8-K (or other

comparable form containing the same or comparable information, or other

information mutually agreed upon) with a copy of the statement to the

Certificateholders for such Distribution Date as an exhibit thereto. Prior to

January 30 in any year, the Securities Administrator shall, in accordance with

industry standards and only if instructed by the Depositor, file a Form 15

Suspension Notice with respect to the Trust Fund, if applicable. Prior to (i)

March 15, 2006 and (ii) unless and until a Form 15 Suspension Notice shall have

been filed, prior to March 15 of each year thereafter, the Master Servicer shall

provide the Securities Administrator with a Master Servicer Certification,

together with a copy of the annual independent accountant's servicing report and

annual statement of compliance of each Servicer, in each case, required to be

delivered pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement, and, if applicable, the

annual statement of compliance and the annual independent accountant's servicing

report to be delivered by the Master Servicer pursuant to Sections 3.16 and

3.17. Prior to (i) March 31, 2006, or such earlier filing date as may be

required by the Commission, and (ii) unless and until a Form 15 Suspension

Notice shall have been filed, March 31 of each year thereafter, or such earlier

filing date as may be required by the Commission, the Securities Administrator

shall prepare and file a Form 10-K, in substance conforming to industry

standards, with respect to the Trust. Such Form 10-K shall include the Master

Servicer Certification and other documentation provided by the Master Servicer

pursuant to the second preceding sentence. The Depositor hereby grants to the

Securities Administrator a limited power of attorney to execute and file each

such document on behalf of the Depositor. Such power of attorney shall continue

until either the earlier of (i) receipt by the Securities Administrator from the

Depositor of written termination of such power of attorney and (ii) the

termination of the Trust Fund. The Depositor agrees to promptly furnish to the

Securities Administrator, from time to time upon request, such further

information, reports and financial statements within its control related to this

Agreement and the Mortgage Loans as the Securities Administrator reasonably

deems appropriate to prepare and file all necessary reports with the Commission.

The Securities Administrator shall have no responsibility to file any items

other than those specified in this Section 3.18; provided, however, the

Securities Administrator will cooperate with the Depositor

 

 

 

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in connection with any additional filings with respect to the Trust Fund as the

Depositor deems necessary under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended

(the "Exchange Act").

 

         (b) The Master Servicer shall indemnify and hold harmless the

Depositor, the Trustee and their respective officers, directors and Affiliates

from and against any losses, damages, penalties, fines, forfeitures, reasonable

and necessary legal fees and related costs, judgments and other costs and

expenses arising out of or based upon a breach of the Master Servicer's

obligations under this Section 3.18 or the Master Servicer's negligence, bad

faith or willful misconduct in connection therewith. Fees and expenses incurred

by the Master Servicer in connection with this Section 3.18 shall not be

reimbursable from the Trust Fund.

 

         Section 3.19. EMC. On the Closing Date, EMC will receive from the

Depositor a payment of $5,000.

 

         Section 3.20. UCC. The Depositor shall inform the Trustee in writing of

any Uniform Commercial Code financing statements that were filed on the Closing

Date in connection with the Trust with stamped recorded copies of such financing

statements to be delivered to the Trustee promptly upon receipt by the

Depositor. The Trustee agrees to monitor and notify the Depositor if any

continuation statements for such Uniform Commercial Code financing statements

need to be filed. If directed by the Depositor in writing, the Trustee will file

any such continuation statements solely at the expense of the Depositor. The

Depositor shall file any financing statements or amendments thereto required by

any change in the Uniform Commercial Code.

 

         Section 3.21. Optional Purchase of Defaulted Mortgage Loans. With

respect to any Mortgage Loan which as of the first day of a Fiscal Quarter is

delinquent in payment by 90 days or more or is an REO Property, EMC shall have

the right to purchase such Mortgage Loan from the Trust at a price equal to the

Repurchase Price; provided, however, (i) that such Mortgage Loan is still 90

days or more delinquent or is an REO Property as of the date of such purchase

and (ii) this purchase option, if not theretofore exercised, shall terminate on

the date prior to the last day of the related Fiscal Quarter. This purchase

option, if not exercised, shall not be thereafter reinstated unless the

delinquency is cured and the Mortgage Loan thereafter again becomes 90 days or

more delinquent or becomes an REO Property, in which case the option shall again

become exercisable as of the first day of the related Fiscal Quarter.

 

         In addition, EMC shall, at its option, purchase any Mortgage Loan from

the Trust if the first Due Date for such Mortgage Loan is subsequent to the

Cut-off Date, and the initial Monthly Payment with respect to such Mortgage Loan

is not made within thirty (30) days of such Due Date. Such purchase shall be

made at a price equal to the Repurchase Price.

 

         If at any time EMC remits to the Paying Agent a payment for deposit in

the Distribution Account covering the amount of the Repurchase Price for such a

Mortgage Loan, and EMC provides to the Trustee and the Master Servicer a

certification signed by a Servicing Officer stating that the amount of such

payment has been deposited in the Distribution Account, then the Trustee shall

execute the assignment of such Mortgage Loan at the request of EMC, without

recourse, to EMC which shall succeed to all the Trustee's right, title and

interest in and to such Mortgage Loan, and all security and documents relative

thereto. Such assignment shall be an

 

 

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assignment outright and not for security. EMC will thereupon own such Mortgage

Loan, and all such security and documents, free of any further obligation to the

Trustee or the Certificateholders with respect thereto.

 

 

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                                   ARTICLE IV

                                    Accounts

 

         Section 4.01. Protected Accounts. (a) The Master Servicer shall enforce

the obligation of each respective Servicer to establish and maintain a Protected

Account in accordance with the related Servicing Agreement, with records to be

kept with respect thereto on a Mortgage Loan by Mortgage Loan basis, into which

Protected Account shall be deposited, within 48 hours (or as of such other time

specified in the related Servicing Agreement) of receipt thereof, all

collections of principal and interest on any Mortgage Loan and with respect to

any REO Property received by the related Servicer, including Principal

Prepayments, Insurance Proceeds, Liquidation Proceeds, and advances made from

such Servicer's own funds (less servicing compensation as permitted by the

related Servicing Agreement) and all other amounts to be deposited in the

related Protected Account. Each Servicer is hereby authorized to make

withdrawals from and deposits to the related Protected Account for purposes

required or permitted by this Agreement. To the extent provided in the related

Servicing Agreement, the related Protected Account shall be held in a Designated

Depository Institution and segregated as a trust account on the books of such

institution in the name of the Trustee for the benefit of Certificateholders.

 

         (b) To the extent provided in a Servicing Agreement, amounts on deposit

in the related Protected Account may be invested in Permitted Investments in the

name of the Trustee for the benefit of Certificateholders and, except as

provided in the preceding paragraph, not commingled with any other funds, such

Permitted Investments to mature, or to be subject to redemption or withdrawal,

no later than the date on which such funds are required to be withdrawn for

deposit in the Distribution Account, and shall be held until required for such

deposit. The income earned from Permitted Investments made pursuant to this

Section 4.01 shall be paid to the related Servicers under the related Servicing

Agreement, and the risk of loss of moneys required to be distributed to the

Certificateholders resulting from such investments shall be borne by and be the

risk of the related Servicer. Each Servicer (to the extent provided in the

related Servicing Agreement) shall deposit the amount of any such loss in the

related Protected Account within two Business Days of receipt of notification of

such loss but not later than the second Business Day prior to the Distribution

Date on which the moneys so invested are required to be distributed to the

Certificateholders.

 

         (c) To the extent provided in a Servicing Agreement and subject to this

Article IV, on or before each Servicer Remittance Date, the Master Servicer

shall (if acting as a successor servicer to a Servicer), or shall cause the

related Servicer to, withdraw or shall cause to be withdrawn from the related

Protected Account, and shall immediately deposit or cause to be deposited in the

Distribution Account, amounts representing the following collections and

payments (other than with respect to principal of or interest on the Mortgage

Loans due on or before the Cut-off Date) with respect to each Mortgage Loan

serviced by it:

 

                  (i) Scheduled Payments on the Mortgage Loans received or any

         related portion thereof advanced by the related Servicer pursuant to

         the related Servicing Agreement which were due on or before the related

         Due Date, net of the amount thereof comprising the related Servicing

         Fee or any fees with respect to any lender-paid primary mortgage

         insurance policy;

 

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                  (ii) Full Principal Prepayments and any Liquidation Proceeds

         received by the related Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans in

         the related Prepayment Period (or, in the case of Subsequent

         Recoveries, during the related Due Period), with interest to the date

         of prepayment or liquidation, net of the amount thereof comprising the

         related Servicing Fee;

 

                  (iii) Partial Principal Prepayments received by the related

         Servicer for such Mortgage Loans in the related Prepayment Period;

 

                  (iv) All funds collected and received in connection with the

         operation of any REO Property, and Liquidation Proceeds received upon

         the final disposition of any REO Property (net of any unreimbursed

         Monthly Advances, other advances of the related Servicer or Master

         Servicer with respect thereto, and unpaid Master Servicing Fee and

         related Servicing Fees with respect thereto); and

 

                  (v) Any amount to be used as a Monthly Advance.

 

         (d) Withdrawals may be made from a Protected Account only to make

remittances as provided in Section 4.01(c); to reimburse the Master Servicer or

the related Servicer for Monthly Advances which have been recovered by

subsequent collection from the related Mortgagor; to remove amounts deposited in

error; to remove fees, charges or other such amounts deposited on a temporary

basis; or to clear and terminate the account at the termination of this

Agreement in accordance with Section 10.01. As provided in Section 4.01(c),

certain amounts otherwise due to the related Servicers may be retained by them

and need not be deposited in the Distribution Account.

 

         Section 4.02. Distribution Account. (a) The Paying Agent shall

establish and maintain in the name of the Paying Agent, for the benefit of the

Certificateholders, the Distribution Account as a segregated trust account or

accounts. On the Closing Date, the Depositor shall deposit the Deposit Amount

into the Distribution Account.

 

         (b) All amounts deposited to the Distribution Account shall be held by

the Paying Agent in the name of the Paying Agent in trust for the benefit of the

Certificateholders in accordance with the terms and provisions of this

Agreement.

 

         (c) The Distribution Account shall constitute a trust account of the

Trust Fund segregated on the books of the Paying Agent. The Distribution Account

shall be an Eligible Account. The Distribution Account and the funds deposited

therein shall not be subject to, and shall be protected from, all claims, liens,

and encumbrances of any creditors or depositors of the Trustee, the Paying

Agent, the Securities Administrator or the Master Servicer (whether made

directly, or indirectly through a liquidator or receiver of the Trustee, the

Paying Agent, the Securities Administrator or the Master Servicer). The amount

at any time credited to the Distribution Account shall, if invested, be invested

in the name of the Trustee, in such Permitted Investments selected by the Master

Servicer. All Permitted Investments shall mature or be subject to redemption or

withdrawal on or before, and shall be held until, the next succeeding

Distribution Date if the obligor for such Permitted Investment is the Paying

Agent or, if such obligor is any other Person, the Business Day preceding such

Distribution Date. All investment

 

 

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earnings from Permitted Investments in the Distribution Account from time to

time shall be for the account of the Master Servicer. The Master Servicer shall

be permitted to withdraw or receive distribution of any and all investment

earnings from the Distribution Account on each Distribution Date. If there is

any loss on a Permitted Investment or demand deposit, the Master Servicer shall

promptly remit the amount of the loss to the Paying Agent, who shall deposit

such amount in the Distribution Account. With respect to the Distribution

Account and the funds deposited therein, the Paying Agent shall take such action

as may be necessary to ensure that the Certificateholders shall be entitled to

the priorities afforded to such a trust account (in addition to a claim against

the estate of the Paying Agent) as provided by 12 U.S.C. ss. 92a(e), and

applicable regulations pursuant thereto, if applicable, or any applicable

comparable state statute applicable to state chartered banking corporations.

 

         Section 4.03. Permitted Withdrawals and Transfers from the Distribution

Account. (a) The Paying Agent will, from time to time on demand of the Master

Servicer or the Securities Administrator, make or cause to be made such

withdrawals or transfers from the Distribution Account as the Master Servicer

has designated for such transfer or withdrawal pursuant to the related Servicing

Agreement or this Agreement or as the Securities Administrator has instructed

hereunder for the following purposes:

 

                  (i) to reimburse the Master Servicer or the related Servicer

         for any Monthly Advance of its own funds or any advance of such Master

         Servicer's or Servicer's own funds, the right of the Master Servicer or

         a Servicer to reimbursement pursuant to this subclause (i) being

         limited to amounts received on a particular Mortgage Loan (including,

         for this purpose, the Repurchase Price therefor, Insurance Proceeds and

         Liquidation Proceeds) which represent late payments or recoveries of

         the principal of or interest on such Mortgage Loan respecting which

         such Monthly Advance or advance was made;

 

                  (ii) to reimburse the Master Servicer or the related Servicer

         from Insurance Proceeds or Liquidation Proceeds relating to a

         particular Mortgage Loan for amounts expended by the Master Servicer or

         the related Servicer in good faith in connection with the restoration

         of the related Mortgaged Property which was damaged by an Uninsured

         Cause or in connection with the liquidation of such Mortgage Loan;

 

                  (iii) to reimburse the Master Servicer or the related Servicer

         from Insurance Proceeds relating to a particular Mortgage Loan for

         insured expenses incurred with respect to such Mortgage Loan and to

         reimburse the Master Servicer or the related Servicer from Liquidation

         Proceeds from a particular Mortgage Loan for Liquidation Expenses

         incurred with respect to such Mortgage Loan; provided that the Master

         Servicer shall not be entitled to reimbursement for Liquidation

         Expenses with respect to a Mortgage Loan to the extent that (i) any

         amounts with respect to such Mortgage Loan were paid as Excess

         Liquidation Proceeds pursuant to clause (x) of this Subsection 4.03(a)

         to the Master Servicer, and (ii) such Liquidation Expenses were not

         included in the computation of such Excess Liquidation Proceeds;

 

                  (iv) to pay the Master Servicer or the related Servicer, as

         appropriate, from Liquidation Proceeds or Insurance Proceeds received

         in connection with the liquidation

 

 

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         of any Mortgage Loan, the amount which the Master Servicer or the

         related Servicer would have been entitled to receive under subclause

         (xi) of this Subsection 4.03(a) as servicing compensation on account of

         each defaulted Scheduled Payment on such Mortgage Loan if paid in a

         timely manner by the related Mortgagor;

 

                  (v) to pay the Master Servicer or the related Servicer from

         the Repurchase Price for any Mortgage Loan, the amount which the Master

         Servicer or the related Servicer would have been entitled to receive

         under subclause (xi) of this Subsection 4.03(a) as servicing

         compensation;

 

                  (vi) to reimburse the Master Servicer or the related Servicer

         for advances of funds, and the right to reimbursement pursuant to this

         subclause being limited to amounts received on the related Mortgage

         Loan (including, for this purpose, the Repurchase Price therefor,

         Insurance Proceeds and Liquidation Proceeds) which represent late

         recoveries of the payments for which such advances were made;

 

                  (vii) to reimburse the Master Servicer or the related Servicer

         for any Monthly Advance or advance, after a Realized Loss has been

         allocated with respect to the related Mortgage Loan, if the Monthly

         Advance or advance has not been reimbursed pursuant to clauses (i) and

         (vi);

 

                  (viii) to pay the Master Servicer as set forth in Section

         3.14;

 

                  (ix) to reimburse the Master Servicer for expenses, costs and

         liabilities incurred by and reimbursable to it pursuant to Sections

         3.03, 7.04(c) and 7.04 (d);

 

                  (x) to pay to the Master Servicer, as additional servicing

         compensation, any Excess Liquidation Proceeds to the extent not

         retained by the related Servicer;

 

                   (xi) to reimburse or pay a Servicer any such amounts as are

         due thereto under the related Servicing Agreement and have not been

         retained by or paid to such Servicer, to the extent provided in the

         related Servicing Agreement;

 

                  (xii) to reimburse or pay the Trustee, the Securities

         Administrator or the Custodian for fees, expenses, costs and

         liabilities incurred by and reimbursable or payable to it pursuant to

         this Agreement and not otherwise reimbursable or payable to it;

 

                  (xiii) to remove amounts deposited in error;

 

                  (xiv) to clear and terminate the Distribution Account pursuant

         to Section 10.01;

 

                  (xv) on the first Distribution Date, to withdraw an amount

         equal to the Deposit Amount from the Distribution Account and

         distribute such amount to the holders of the Class R-I, Class R-II and

         Class R-III Certificates, pro rata, until their respective Current

         Principal Amounts have been reduced to zero; and

 

 

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                  (xvi) on the first Distribution Date, to withdraw an amount

         equal to the Class X-1 Payment from the Distribution Account and

         distribute such amount to the holders of the Class X-1 Certificates.

 

         (b) The Master Servicer shall keep and maintain separate accounting, on

a Mortgage Loan by Mortgage Loan basis, for the purpose of accounting for any

reimbursement from the Distribution Account pursuant to subclauses (i) through

(vii), inclusive, and (x).

 

         (c) On each Distribution Date, the Paying Agent shall distribute the

Available Funds to the extent on deposit in the Distribution Account for each

Loan Group to the Holders of the Certificates (other than the Residual

Certificates) in accordance with distribution instructions provided to it by the

Securities Administrator no later than two Business Days prior to such

Distribution Date and determined by the Securities Administrator in accordance

with Section 6.01.

 

         Section 4.04. Distribution of Carryover Shortfall Amount; Carryover

Shortfall Reserve Fund.(a) On the Closing Date, the Paying Agent shall establish

and maintain in its name, in trust for the benefit of Class A-1, Class M, Class

B-1, Class B-2 and Class B-3 Certificates, the Carryover Shortfall Reserve Fund.

The Paying Agent shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit in the Carryover

Shortfall Reserve Fund an amount equal to $5,000 to be remitted on the Closing

Date to the Paying Agent by the Depositor. On each Distribution Date, the Paying

Agent shall transfer from the Distribution Account to the Carryover Shortfall

Reserve Fund the amounts specified pursuant to Section 6.01(a)(A) and (B). On

each Distribution Date, to the extent required, the Paying Agent shall make

withdrawals from the Carryover Shortfall Reserve Fund and use the amounts in the

Carryover Shortfall Reserve Fund to make distributions to the Class A-1, Class

M, Class B-1, Class B-2 and Class B-3 Certificates, in an amount equal to the

amount of any Carryover Shortfall Amount on such Certificate. Any such amounts

transferred shall be treated for federal tax purposes as amounts distributed by

REMIC III to the Class X-1 Certificateholders as transferee thereof. For federal

tax return and information reporting purposes, the rights of the Holders of the

Class A-1, Class M, C


 
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