**Wilshire
                  Credit Corporation****Payments**P.O.
                  Box 30040; Los Angeles, CA 90030-0040or
                  P.O. Box 650314; Dallas, TX 75265-0314Exhibit
                  R
              **Correspondence**P.O.
                  Box 8517; Portland, OR 97207-8517SARBANES-OXLEY
                  CERTIFICATION
              **Phone**(503)
                  952-7947(888)
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                  952-7476March
                  1, 2007
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Merrill
        Lynch Mortgage Investors, Inc.
 250
        Vesey
        Street
 4
        World
        Financial Center, 10th Floor
 New
        York,
        New York 10080
 
 LaSalle
        Bank National Association
 135
        South
        LaSalle Street
 Chicago,
        Illinois 60603
 Attn: Jennifer
        Wilt, Corporate Trust Services—Merrill Lynch Mortgage
 Investors
        Trust, Series
        2006-WMC2
  Re: Merrill
        Lynch Mortgage Investors Trust, Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates,
        Series
        2006-WMC2, Pool 637
  I,
        Ken Frye, Senior Vice President,
        Loan Servicing, certify that:
  1.  I
        have reviewed the report on Form 10-K and all reports on Form 10-D required
        to
        be filed in respect of the period covered by this report on Form 10-K of
        Merrill
        Lynch Mortgage Investors, Inc., Depositor (the “Exchange Act periodic
        reports”);
  2.  Based
        on my knowledge, the Exchange Act periodic reports, taken as a whole, do
        not
        contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material
        fact
        necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under
        which
        such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered
        by
        this report;
  3.  Based
        on my knowledge, all of the distribution, servicing and other information
        required to be provided under Form 10-D for the period covered by this report
        is
        included in the Exchange Act periodic reports;
  4.  I
        am responsible for reviewing the activities performed by the Servicer and
        based
        on my knowledge and the compliance review conducted in preparing the Servicer
        compliance statement required by this report under Item 1123 of Regulation
        AB,
        and except as disclosed in the Exchange Act periodic reports, the Servicer
        has
        fulfilled its obligations under the Servicing Agreement; and
  5.  All
        of the reports on assessment of compliance with servicing criteria for ABS
        and
        their related attestation reports on assessment of compliance with servicing
        criteria for asset-backed securities required to be included in this report
        in
        accordance with Item 1122 of Regulation AB and Exchange Act Rules 13a-18
        and
        15d-18 have been included as an exhibit to this report, except as otherwise
        disclosed in this report. Any material instances of noncompliance described
        in
        such reports have been disclosed in this report on Form 10-K.
  In
        giving the certifications above, I
        have reasonably relied on information provided to me by the Trustee, LaSalle
        Bank National Association, an unaffiliated party.
  Wilshire
        Credit Corporation,
 as
        Servicer
  By:
/s/
        Ken Frye


Name:
      Ken
      Frye


Title:
      Senior Vice President Loan Servicing


(Senior
      Officer in charge of the servicing function
      of the servicer)