Document:

Offer Letter

 Exhibit 10.2 
  

			
	Peyton J. Marshall, Ph.D.	 	August 15, 2005
	23 Beaver Pond Road	 	 
	Lincoln, MA 01773	 	 

  
 Dear
Peyton, 
  
 On behalf of V.I. Technologies, Inc. (“Vitex” or “the
Company”), I am very pleased to extend an offer of employment to you. The following summarizes the terms of your anticipated employment with Vitex. Of course, not all of the terms and requirements of your employment can be set forth in this
letter, and I encourage you to contact me or Stephen Andre in Human Resources with any questions you may have. 
  
 1. Position: Your initial position will be as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer reporting to the CEO. As a Vitex employee, we expect that you will perform any and all duties and
responsibilities normally associated with your position in a satisfactory manner and to the best of your abilities at all times. Your responsibilities will include Finance and Administration/Facilities, Investor Relations/Public Relations, and
Information Technology. 
  
 2. Starting Date/Nature of Relationship: Your
employment with Vitex will begin on August 17, 2005. No provision of this letter shall be construed to create an express or implied employment contract, or a promise of employment for any specific period of time. Your employment at Vitex is
at-will employment, which may be terminated by you or Vitex at any time for any reason with or without advance notice. 
  
 3. Compensation/Benefits: Your initial Base Pay shall be annualized at $240,000 minus customary deductions for federal and state taxes and the like, and shall be
paid in accordance with the Company’s usual payroll practices. Assuming you are still employed by Vitex at the time of payment, you will also be eligible to receive an Annual Cash Bonus targeted at 35% of your annual Base Pay, at the end of
each calendar year that you are employed by the Company. The award and amount (which may be less than or greater than the target amount) of any Annual Cash Bonus shall be determined at the sole discretion of Vitex, based on the achievement of
mutually agreed upon performance goals (both individual and Company) and your continued employment with the Company. Any Annual Cash Bonus will be paid within sixty (60) days following the end of the year to which it relates. Any annual Cash
Bonus for 2005 will be pro-rated based on your start date. 

 In connection with your employment, and subject to approval of the Vitex Board of Directors, you will be granted an
initial option to purchase 545,000 shares of common stock (“Initial Option Grant”) in Vitex at fair market value at the time of grant, pursuant to the terms of a formal stock option agreement. Neither the formal Stock Option Certificate
nor any applicable Vitex stock plan creates any obligation on the Company’s part to employ you for any particular period of time. The options, which to the extent permitted by law shall be incentive stock options, will become exercisable on a
time-based basis at the rate of 1/48th per month beginning on September 17, 2005 and continuing as set
forth in your stock option certificate. Subject to Section 5 below and the terms of your Stock Option Certificate and the applicable stock option plan, upon termination of employment, you shall have three months to exercise any unexercised,
vested options. 
  
 In addition to your compensation, you may take advantage of
various benefits offered by the Company, including Vitex’s medical, disability and life insurance, dependent care and medical flexible spending plans, 401(k) plan, and paid vacation and holiday time. These benefits, of course, may be modified
or changed from time to time at the sole discretion of the Company. Vitex’s present benefit structure and other important information about the benefits for which you may be eligible are available from Human Resources. Where a particular
benefit is subject to a formal plan (for example, medical insurance or life insurance), eligibility to participate in and receive any particular benefit is governed solely by the applicable plan document. Vacation and holidays are governed by
Company policy. Subject to those policies, you will be eligible to accrue up to 4 weeks of vacation and 10 holidays each year. Should you ever have any questions about Vitex benefits, you should ask the Company for a copy of the applicable plan
document or policy. 
  
 4. Confidentiality/Proof of Employability: Our
offer is contingent on your execution of the attached Employee Non-Disclosure, Non-Competition and Inventions Agreement. This Agreement is necessary to protect the Company’s trade secrets, confidential information and/or goodwill. Also, your
employment is contingent on your provision of all documents required to verify your eligibility to work in the United States. 
  
 5. Termination of Employment/Severance and Other Benefits: As stated, your employment with Vitex is at-will, which means that either you or Vitex may end the
employment relationship at any time, for any reason, with or without notice. Not withstanding the foregoing, if you are terminated as set forth in this section, the Company will provide you with the severance and benefits set forth in this section,
conditioned upon your timely execution of a separation agreement, in a form acceptable to the Company, containing a general release of claims against the Company. 
  
 a. If your employment is terminated by the Company without Cause (as defined in the Addendum, attached hereto) within three
years of the start of your employment or if you resign for Good Reason (as defined in the Addendum) within three years of the start of your employment, then in exchange for a complete release of claims by you, the Company will pay you severance of
six 

 
month’s base pay, paid out over time in accordance with the Company’s then- current payroll practices, and will continue to pay its portion of the
cost to continue your medical and dental coverage for six months following the termination date. In addition, you will have twelve months from the date of your termination to exercise any stock options that are exercisable as of your termination
date, provided that such extension may cause the options to become non-qualified options. 
  
 b. If your employment is terminated by the Company without Cause (as defined in the Addendum, attached hereto) after the third anniversary of your first day of employment with the Company, or if you resign for Good
Reason (as defined in the Addendum) after the third anniversary of your first day of employment with the Company, then in exchange for a complete release of claims by you, the Company will pay you severance of one year’s base pay, paid out over
time in accordance with the Company’s then-current payroll practices, and will continue to pay its portion of the cost to continue your medical and dental coverage for one year following the termination date. In addition, you will have twelve
months from the date of your termination to exercise any stock options that are exercisable as of your termination date, provided that such extension may cause the options to become non-qualified options. 
  
 c. If, within twelve months following a Change of Control (as defined in the
Addendum), your employment is terminated by you for Good Reason (as defined in the Addendum) or by the Company for reasons other than Cause (as defined in the Addendum), then in lieu of 5(a) or 5(b) and in exchange for a complete release of claims
by you, the Company will pay you severance of one year’s base pay, paid out over time in accordance with the Company’s then-current payroll practices, and will continue to pay its portion of the cost to continue your medical and dental
coverage for one year following the termination date. In addition, any outstanding options shall become automatically exercisable at the time of such termination or resignation and shall be reflected in the terms of your Stock Option Certificate.
You will have twelve months from the date of your termination to exercise any exercisable stock options. 
  
 6. Certifications: You hereby agree, represent and warrant that (i) neither your execution of this offer letter nor your becoming an employee of Vitex will cause you to be in violation of any
post-employment restrictive covenants (e.g., non-competition/confidentiality agreements) with any prior employer; (ii) you understand that the Company will not ask for nor accept any confidential information belonging to any such employer; and
(iii) you will honor all such valid agreements. 
  
 7. Miscellaneous:
This letter, together with the attached Addendum, the Employee Non-Disclosure, Non-Competition and Inventions Agreement, and your Incentive Stock Option Certificate, constitutes our entire offer regarding the terms and conditions of your employment
with the Company. It supersedes any prior agreements or other promises or statements (whether oral or written) regarding the offered terms of employment. As we have discussed, the Company intends to adopt, as soon as practicable, indemnification
agreements for all of its officers, at which time you shall be offered such an agreement. 

 The terms of your employment shall be governed by the law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, without giving effect to
conflict of law principles. By accepting this offer of employment, you agree that any action, demand, claim or counterclaim in connection with your employment with Vitex, or any separation of employment (whether voluntary or involuntary) from Vitex,
shall be resolved in a court of competent jurisdiction in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by a judge alone, and you waive and forever renounce your right to a trial before a civil jury. 
  
 You may accept this offer of employment and the terms and conditions hereof by signing the enclosed additional copy of this letter and
returning it to Samuel Ackerman. 
  

	
	 Sincerely,

	
	 /s/ Samuel K. Ackerman

	 Samuel K. Ackerman, M.D.

	 Chairman and CEO

	
	 Agreed and Accepted

	
	 /s/ Peyton J. Marshall

	 Peyton J. Marshall, Ph.D.

	
	 Date: August 17, 2005

	 (Please date after you sign)

 ADDENDUM – Definitions Applicable to Marshall Employment Agreement 
  
 (a) For purposes hereof, “Cause” shall mean willful misconduct by Marshall or
willful failure by Marshall to perform his responsibilities to the Company (including, without limitation, breach by Marshall of any provision of any employment, consulting, advisory, non-disclosure, non-competition or other similar agreement
between Marshall and the Company) that continues for fifteen (15) days after the CEO has given written notice to Marshall specifying in reasonable detail the manner in which Marshall has failed to perform such duties or comply with such
directions. 
  

	(b)	For purposes hereof, “Good Reason” means any of the following: 

  
 i. a material or substantial diminution of Marshall’s responsibilities or the loss of the title of Chief Financial Officer, which the Company or its
successor has failed to remedy within fifteen (15) days following Marshall’s delivery to the Company or its successor of written notice of such diminution of responsibilities or loss of title; 
  
 ii. an alteration of Marshall’s direct reporting structure such that he
no longer reports directly to the CEO of the Company or its successor; 
  
 iii. a reduction in Marshall’s Base Pay following a merger or acquisition; 
  
 iv. any change to Marshall’s duties or the Company’s relocation, if such change would require excessive additional travel or relocation of Marshall’s sole assigned office to a location in excess of
sixty (60) miles from Marshall’s principal residence as existed immediately prior to the date of such change; or 
  
 v. material breach by the Company or its successor of the terms of Marshall’s employment agreement with the Company or its successor (including the
failure to grant equity promised thereunder). 
  
 (c) For purposes hereof, a
“Change of Control” means the occurrence of any of the following events: 
  
 i. a merger or consolidation in which 
  
 1. the Company is a constituent party, or 
  
 2. a
subsidiary of the Company is a constituent party and the Company issues shares of its capital stock pursuant to such merger or consolidation, 
  
 In the case of (1) or (2) above, except any such merger or consolidation involving the Company or a subsidiary in which the holders of capital
stock of the Company immediately prior to such merger or consolidation continue to hold immediately following such merger or consolidation at 

 
least 51%, by voting power and economic interest, of the capital stock of (A) the surviving or resulting entity or (B) if the surviving or
resulting entity is a wholly owned subsidiary of another entity immediately following such merger or consolidation, the parent entity of such surviving or resulting entity; or 
  
 ii. the sale, in a single transaction or series of related transactions, 
  
 1. by the Company of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company
(except where such sale is to a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company) or 
  
 2. by the stockholders of the Company of at least 51%, by voting power and economic interest, of the then-outstanding capital stock of the Company.Indenture

 Exhibit 4.1 
  

PEOPLE’S CHOICE HOME LOAN SECURITIES 
 TRUST SERIES 2005-4, 
  
 Issuer, 

 
 WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL 
 ASSOCIATION, 
  
 Securities Administrator, 
  
 and 
  
 HSBC BANK USA,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, 
  
 Indenture Trustee 

 

  
 INDENTURE 
  
 Dated as of October 26, 2005 
  

  
 MORTGAGE-BACKED NOTES 
  

 TABLE OF CONTENTS 
  

					
	 ARTICLE I        DEFINITIONS
	  	2
			
	 Section 1.01.
	  	Definitions	  	2
	 Section 1.02.
	  	Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act	  	2
	 Section 1.03.
	  	Rules of Construction	  	2
	 Section 1.04.
	  	Calculations of Accrued Note Interest	  	3
		
	 ARTICLE II        ORIGINAL ISSUANCE OF NOTES
	  	4
			
	 Section 2.01.
	  	Form	  	4
	 Section 2.02.
	  	Execution, Authentication and Delivery	  	4
		
	 ARTICLE III        COVENANTS
	  	6
			
	 Section 3.01.
	  	Maintenance of Payment Account	  	6
	 Section 3.02.
	  	Maintenance of Office or Agency	  	6
	 Section 3.03.
	  	Money for Payments To Be Held in Trust; Paying Agent	  	6
	 Section 3.04.
	  	Existence	  	8
	 Section 3.05.
	  	Payment of Principal and Interest	  	8
	 Section 3.06.
	  	Protection of Trust Estate	  	13
	 Section 3.07.
	  	Opinions as to Trust Estate	  	14
	 Section 3.08.
	  	Performance of Obligations	  	14
	 Section 3.09.
	  	Negative Covenants	  	15
	 Section 3.10.
	  	Annual Statement as to Compliance	  	15
	 Section 3.11.
	  	[Reserved]	  	16
	 Section 3.12.
	  	Representations and Warranties Concerning the Mortgage Loans	  	16
	 Section 3.13.
	  	Amendments to Sale and Servicing Agreement	  	16
	 Section 3.14.
	  	Master Servicer and Securities Administrator as Agent and Bailee of the Indenture Trustee	  	16
	 Section 3.15.
	  	Investment Company Act	  	17
	 Section 3.16.
	  	Issuer May Consolidate, etc.	  	17
	 Section 3.17.
	  	Successor or Transferee	  	18
	 Section 3.18.
	  	No Other Business	  	19
	 Section 3.19.
	  	No Borrowing	  	19
	 Section 3.20.
	  	Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities	  	19
	 Section 3.21.
	  	Capital Expenditures	  	19
	 Section 3.22.
	  	Determination of Note Rate	  	19
	 Section 3.23.
	  	Restricted Payments	  	19
	 Section 3.24.
	  	Notice of Events of Default	  	20
	 Section 3.25.
	  	Further Instruments and Acts	  	20
	 Section 3.26.
	  	Certain Representations Regarding the Trust Estate	  	20
	 Section 3.27.
	  	Allocation of Realized Losses	  	21
	 Section 3.28.
	  	Special Derivative Contracts	  	21
		
	 ARTICLE IV        THE NOTES; SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE
	  	23
			
	 Section 4.01.
	  	The Notes	  	23
	 Section 4.02.
	  	Registration of and Limitations on Transfer and Exchange of Notes; Appointment of Note Registrar and Certificate Registrar	  	23

  

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	 Section 4.03.
	  	Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes	  	25
	 Section 4.04.
	  	Persons Deemed Owners	  	26
	 Section 4.05.
	  	Cancellation	  	26
	 Section 4.06.
	  	Book-Entry Notes	  	26
	 Section 4.07.
	  	Notices to Depository	  	27
	 Section 4.08.
	  	Definitive Notes	  	27
	 Section 4.09.
	  	Tax Treatment	  	28
	 Section 4.10.
	  	Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture	  	28
	 Section 4.11.
	  	Application of Trust Money	  	30
	 Section 4.12.
	  	[Reserved]	  	30
	 Section 4.13.
	  	Repayment of Monies Held by Paying Agent	  	30
	 Section 4.14.
	  	Temporary Notes	  	30
	 Section 4.15.
	  	Representation Regarding ERISA	  	31
		
	 ARTICLE V        DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
	  	32
			
	 Section 5.01.
	  	Events of Default	  	32
	 Section 5.02.
	  	Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment	  	32
	 Section 5.03.
	  	Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Indenture Trustee	  	33
	 Section 5.04.
	  	Remedies; Priorities	  	35
	 Section 5.05.
	  	Optional Preservation of the Trust Estate	  	37
	 Section 5.06.
	  	Limitation of Suits	  	37
	 Section 5.07.
	  	Unconditional Rights of Noteholders To Receive Principal and Interest	  	38
	 Section 5.08.
	  	Restoration of Rights and Remedies	  	38
	 Section 5.09.
	  	Rights and Remedies Cumulative	  	38
	 Section 5.10.
	  	Delay or Omission Not a Waiver	  	38
	 Section 5.11.
	  	Control By Noteholders	  	38
	 Section 5.12.
	  	Waiver of Past Defaults	  	39
	 Section 5.13.
	  	Undertaking for Costs	  	39
	 Section 5.14.
	  	Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws	  	40
	 Section 5.15.
	  	Sale of Trust Estate	  	40
	 Section 5.16.
	  	Action on Notes	  	41
	 Section 5.17.
	  	Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations	  	42
		
	 ARTICLE VI        THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE AND SECURITIES
ADMINISTRATOR
	  	43
			
	 Section 6.01.
	  	Duties of Indenture Trustee and Securities Administrator	  	43
	 Section 6.02.
	  	Rights of Indenture Trustee and Securities Administrator	  	44
	 Section 6.03.
	  	Individual Rights of Indenture Trustee	  	47
	 Section 6.04.
	  	Indenture Trustee’s and Securities Administrator’s Disclaimers	  	47
	 Section 6.05.
	  	Notice of Event of Default	  	47
	 Section 6.06.
	  	Reports by Securities Administrator to Holders and Tax Administration	  	47
	 Section 6.07.
	  	Compensation	  	47
	 Section 6.08.
	  	Replacement of Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator	  	49
	 Section 6.09.
	  	Successor Indenture Trustee and Securities Administrator by Merger	  	50
	 Section 6.10.
	  	Appointment of Co-Indenture Trustee or Separate Indenture Trustee	  	50

  

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	 Section 6.11.
	  	Eligibility; Disqualification	  	51
	 Section 6.12.
	  	Preferential Collection of Claims Against Issuer	  	52
	 Section 6.13.
	  	Representations and Warranties	  	52
	 Section 6.14.
	  	Directions to Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator	  	52
	 Section 6.15.
	  	The Agents	  	52
	 Section 6.16.
	  	Other Basic Documents	  	53
		
	 ARTICLE VII        NOTEHOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS
	  	54
			
	 Section 7.01.
	  	Issuer To Furnish Securities Administrator Names and Addresses of Noteholders	  	54
	 Section 7.02.
	  	Preservation of Information; Communications to Noteholders	  	54
	 Section 7.03.
	  	Statements to Noteholders	  	54
		
	 ARTICLE VIII        ACCOUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS AND RELEASES
	  	58
			
	 Section 8.01.
	  	Collection of Money	  	58
	 Section 8.02.
	  	[Reserved]	  	58
	 Section 8.03.
	  	Officer’s Certificate	  	58
	 Section 8.04.
	  	Termination Upon Distribution to Noteholders	  	58
	 Section 8.05.
	  	Release of Trust Estate	  	58
	 Section 8.06.
	  	Surrender of Notes Upon Final Payment	  	59
	 Section 8.07.
	  	Optional Redemption of the Notes	  	59
	 Section 8.08.
	  	Swap Agreement	  	60
	 Section 8.09.
	  	Rights of Swap Provider	  	60
	 Section 8.10.
	  	Corridor Agreement	  	60
		
	 ARTICLE IX        SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
	  	61
			
	 Section 9.01.
	  	Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders	  	61
	 Section 9.02.
	  	Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Noteholders	  	62
	 Section 9.03.
	  	Execution of Supplemental Indentures	  	64
	 Section 9.04.
	  	Effect of Supplemental Indenture	  	64
	 Section 9.05.
	  	Conformity with Trust Indenture Act	  	64
	 Section 9.06.
	  	Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures	  	64
		
	 ARTICLE X        MISCELLANEOUS
	  	65
			
	 Section 10.01.
	  	Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc.	  	65
	 Section 10.02.
	  	Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture Trustee	  	66
	 Section 10.03.
	  	Acts of Noteholders	  	67
	 Section 10.04.
	  	Notices etc., to Indenture Trustee, Securities Administrator, Issuer and Rating Agencies	  	67
	 Section 10.05.
	  	Notices to Noteholders; Waiver	  	68
	 Section 10.06.
	  	Conflict with Trust Indenture Act	  	69
	 Section 10.07.
	  	Effect of Headings	  	69
	 Section 10.08.
	  	Successors and Assigns	  	69
	 Section 10.09.
	  	Separability	  	69
	 Section 10.10.
	  	[Reserved]	  	69
	 Section 10.11.
	  	Legal Holidays	  	69
	 Section 10.12.
	  	GOVERNING LAW	  	69

  

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	 Section 10.13.
	  	Counterparts	  	70
	 Section 10.14.
	  	Recording of Indenture	  	70
	 Section 10.15.
	  	Issuer Obligation	  	70
	 Section 10.16.
	  	No Petition	  	70
	 Section 10.17.
	  	Inspection	  	70
	 Section 10.18.
	  	Limitation of Liability of Owner Trustee	  	71

  
 EXHIBITS

  

					
	 Exhibit A-1
	 	-	    	Form of Class [     ]A[     ] Notes
	 Exhibit A-2
	 	-	    	Form of Class M[     ] Notes
	 Exhibit A-3
	 	-	    	Form of Class N Notes
	 Exhibit B
	 	-	    	Schedule of Notional Amounts of the Swap Agreement
	 Exhibit C-1
	 	-	    	Form of Transferor Certificate for Transfers of Class N Notes
	 Exhibit C-2
	 	-	    	Form of Transferee Certificate for Transfers of Class N Notes

  

 iv 

 RECONCILIATION AND TIE BETWEEN TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 AND 
 INDENTURE PROVISIONS* 
  

			
	 Trust Indenture
 Act
Section

	  	 Indenture Section

	 310(a)(1)
	  	6.11
	 (a)(2)
	  	6.11
	 (a)(3)
	  	6.10
	 (a)(4)
	  	Not Applicable
	 (a)(5)
	  	6.11
	 (b)
	  	6.08, 6.11
	 (c)
	  	Not Applicable
	 311(a)
	  	6.12
	 (b)
	  	6.12
	 (c)
	  	Not Applicable
	 312(a)
	  	7.01, 7.02(a)
	 (b)
	  	7.02(b)
	 (c)
	  	7.02(c)
	 313(a)
	  	Not Applicable
	 (b)
	  	Not Applicable
	 (c)
	  	Not Applicable
	 (d)
	  	Not Applicable
	 314(a)
	  	3.10
	 (b)
	  	3.07
	 (c)(1)
	  	8.05(c), 10.01(a)
	 (c)(2)
	  	8.05(c), 10.01(a)
	 (c)(3)
	  	Not Applicable
	 (d)(1)
	  	8.05(c), 10.01(b)
	 (d)(2)
	  	8.05(c), 10.01(b)
	 (d)(3)
	  	8.05(c), 10.01(b)
	 (e)
	  	10.01(a)
	 315(a)
	  	6.01(b)
	 (b)
	  	6.05
	 (c)
	  	6.01(a)
	 (d)
	  	6.01(c)
	 (d)(1)
	  	6.01(c)
	 (d)(2)
	  	6.01(c)
	 (d)(3)
	  	6.01(c)
	 (e)
	  	5.13
	 316(a)(1)(A)
	  	5.11
	 316(a)(1)(B)
	  	5.12
	 316(a)(2)
	  	Not Applicable
	 316(b)
	  	5.07
	 317(a)(1)
	  	5.04
	 317(a)(2)
	  	5.03(d)
	 317(b)
	  	3.03(a)(i)
	 318(a)
	  	10.07

	*	This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be part of the within indenture. 

  

 v 

 This Indenture, dated as of October 26, 2005, is entered into among People’s Choice Home Loan
Securities Trust Series 2005-4, a Delaware statutory trust, as issuer (the “Issuer”), Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as securities administrator (the “Securities Administrator”), and HSBC Bank USA, National Association,
a national banking association, as indenture trustee (the “Indenture Trustee”). 
  
 WITNESSETH THAT: 
  
 Each
party hereto agrees as follows for the benefit of the other party and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Issuer’s People’s Choice Home Loan Securities Trust Series 2005-4, Mortgage-Backed Notes, Series 2005-4 (the
“Notes”). 
  
 GRANTING CLAUSE 
  
 The Issuer hereby Grants to the Indenture Trustee at the Closing Date, as
trustee for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes and the Swap Provider, all of the Issuer’s right, title and interest in and to, whether now existing or hereafter created by (a) the Mortgage Loans, Substitute Mortgage Loans and the
proceeds thereof and all rights under the Mortgage Loan Documents and all Prepayment Charges due and received with respect thereto after the Cut-Off Date; (b) all funds on deposit from time to time in the Custodial Account, excluding any
investment income from such funds; (c) all funds on deposit from time to time in the Payment Account, excluding any investment income from such funds; (d) any REO Property; (e) 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); (f) all rights under the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, as assigned to the Issuer, to the extent provided in Subsection 2.03(a) of the Sale
and Servicing Agreement; (g) the rights of the Issuer under the Swap Agreement and all payments received under the Swap Agreement; (h) the rights of the Issuer under the Corridor Agreement and all payments received under the Corridor
Agreement; and (i) all present and future claims, demands, causes and choses in action in respect of any or all of the foregoing and all payments on or under, and all proceeds of every kind and nature whatsoever in respect of, any or all of the
foregoing and all payments on or under, and all proceeds of every kind and nature whatsoever in the conversion thereof, voluntary or involuntary, into cash or other liquid property, all cash proceeds, accounts, accounts receivable, notes, drafts,
acceptances, checks, deposit accounts, rights to payment of any and every kind, and other forms of obligations and receivables, instruments and other property that, at any time, constitute all or part of or are included in the proceeds of any of the
foregoing (collectively, the “Trust Estate” or the “Collateral”). 
  
 The foregoing Grant is made in trust to secure the payment of principal of and interest on, and any other amounts owing in respect of, the Notes, equally and ratably without prejudice, priority or distinction and to
secure compliance with the provisions of this Indenture, all as provided in this Indenture. 
  
 The Indenture Trustee, as trustee on behalf of the Holders of the Notes, acknowledges such Grant, accepts the trust under this Indenture in accordance with the provisions hereof, and each of the Indenture Trustee and
the Securities Administrator agree to perform their respective duties as Indenture Trustee and Securities Administrator as required herein. 

 ARTICLE I 
  

DEFINITIONS 
  
 Section 1.01. Definitions. For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided herein or unless the context otherwise
requires, capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Definitions attached hereto as Appendix A, which is incorporated by reference herein. All other capitalized terms used herein shall have
the meanings specified herein. 
  
 Section 1.02. Incorporation
by Reference of Trust Indenture Act. Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the Trust Indenture Act (the “TIA”), the provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture. The following TIA terms used in
this Indenture have the following meanings: 
  
 “Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission. 
  
 “indenture securities” means the Notes. 
  
 “indenture security holder” means a Noteholder. 
  
 “indenture to be qualified” means this Indenture. 
  
 “indenture trustee” or “institutional trustee” means the Indenture Trustee. 
  
 “obligor” on the indenture securities means the Issuer and any other obligor on the indenture securities. 
  
 All other TIA terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA,
defined by reference in the TIA to another statute or defined by Commission rules have the meanings assigned to them by such definitions. 
  
 Section 1.03. Rules of Construction. Unless the context otherwise requires: 
  
 (i) a term has the meaning assigned to it; 
  
 (ii) an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned to it in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles as in effect from time to time; 
  
 (iii) “or” is not exclusive; 
  
 (iv) “including” means “including without limitation”; 
  
 (v) words in the singular include the plural and words in the plural include the singular; and 
  
 (vi) any agreement, instrument or statute defined or
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agreements or instruments) references to all attachments thereto and instruments incorporated therein; references to a Person are also to its permitted
successors and assigns. 
  
 Section 1.04. Calculations of
Accrued Note Interest. Accrued Note Interest on any Offered Note shall be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year and the actual number of days in the related Accrual Period. Accrued Note Interest on any Class N Note shall be calculated on the
basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months. 
  

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 ARTICLE II 
  

ORIGINAL ISSUANCE OF NOTES 
  
 Section 2.01. Form. The Class A Notes, the Class M Notes and the Class N Notes, together with the Securities Administrator’s certificate
of authentication, shall be in substantially the forms set forth in Exhibits A-1, A-2 and A-3 to this Indenture, respectively, with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or
permitted by this Indenture. 
  
 The Notes shall be typewritten,
printed, lithographed or engraved or produced by any combination of these methods (with or without steel engraved borders). 
  
 The terms of the Notes set forth in Exhibits A-1, A-2 and A-3 to this Indenture are part of the terms of this Indenture. 

 
 Section 2.02. Execution, Authentication and Delivery. The Notes
shall be executed on behalf of the Issuer by any of its Authorized Officers. The signature of any such Authorized Officer on the Notes may be manual or facsimile. 
  
 Notes bearing the manual or facsimile signature of individuals who were at any time Authorized Officers of the Issuer shall
bind the Issuer, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Notes or did not hold such offices at the date of such Notes. 
  
 The Securities Administrator shall, upon Issuer Request, authenticate and
deliver the Class 1A1, Class 1A2, Class 1A3, Class 2A1, Class M1, Class M2, Class M3, Class M4, Class M5, Class M6, Class M7, Class M8, Class M9, Class M10 and Class M11 Notes for original issue in an aggregate Initial Note Principal Balance of
$1,107,690,000. The Class 1A1 Notes shall be issued in an aggregate Initial Note Principal Balance of $215,685,000, the Class 1A2 Notes shall be issued in an aggregate Initial Note Principal Balance of $202,284,000, the Class 1A3 Notes shall be
issued in an aggregate Initial Note Principal Balance of $26,648,000, the Class 2A1 Notes shall be issued in an aggregate Initial Note Principal Balance of $433,582,000, the Class M1 Notes shall be issued in an aggregate Initial Note Principal
Balance of $42,035,000, the Class M2 Notes shall be issued in an aggregate Initial Note Principal Balance of $40,331,000, the Class M3 Notes shall be issued in an aggregate Initial Note Principal Balance of $26,130,000, the Class M4 Notes shall be
issued in an aggregate Initial Note Principal Balance of $19,882,000, the Class M5 Notes shall be issued in an aggregate Initial Note Principal Balance of $19,882,000, the Class M6 Notes shall be issued in an aggregate Initial Note Principal Balance
of $18,178,000, the Class M7 Notes shall be issued in an aggregate Initial Note Principal Balance of $17,609,000, the Class M8 Notes shall be issued in an aggregate Initial Note Principal Balance of $13,633,000, the Class M9 Notes shall be issued in
an aggregate Initial Note Principal Balance of $14,201,000, the Class M10 Notes shall be issued in an aggregate Initial Note Principal Balance of $10,793,000, the Class M11 Notes shall be issued in an aggregate Initial Note Principal Balance of
$6,817,000 and the Class N Notes shall be issued in an aggregate Initial Note Principal Balance of $23,750,000. 
  

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 Each of the Notes shall be dated the date of its authentication and shall be issuable as a registered
Note. The Notes shall be issuable in the minimum Initial Note Principal Balances of $100,000 and in integral multiples of $1 in excess thereof. Thereafter, Class A Notes may be registered in minimum Note Principal Balances of $25,000 and
integral multiples of $1 in excess thereof, while Class M Notes and Class N Notes may be registered in minimum Note Principal Balances of $100,000 and in integral multiples of $1 in excess thereof. 
  
 No Note shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or
obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears on such Note a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein executed by the Securities Administrator by the manual signature of one of its authorized signatories, and
such certificate upon any Note shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Note has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. 
  

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 ARTICLE III 
  
 COVENANTS 
  
 Section 3.01. Maintenance of Payment Account. The Securities Administrator shall maintain the Payment Account established pursuant to
Section 4.04 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement in accordance with the requirements of such Section. The Securities Administrator shall make all payments of principal of and interest on the Notes (subject to Section 3.03) as provided in
Section 3.05 herein from monies on deposit in the Payment Account. 
  
 Section 3.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Issuer shall maintain an office or agency where, subject to satisfaction of conditions set forth herein, Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where
notices and demands to or upon the Issuer in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served. The Issuer hereby initially appoints the Securities Administrator to serve as its agent for the foregoing purposes. If at any time the Issuer shall
fail to maintain any such office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Securities Administrator with the address thereof, such surrenders may be made at the Corporate Trust Office and notices and demands may be made or delivered to the Corporate
Trust Office, and the Issuer hereby appoints the Securities Administrator as its agent to receive all such surrenders, notices and demands. 
  
 Section 3.03. Money for Payments To Be Held in Trust; Paying Agent. (a) As provided in Section 3.01, all payments of amounts due and
payable with respect to any Notes that are to be made from amounts withdrawn from the Payment Account pursuant to Section 3.05 shall be made on behalf of the Issuer by the Securities Administrator or by the Paying Agent, based on information
provided by the Securities Administrator to the Paying Agent and no amounts so withdrawn from the Payment Account for payments of Notes shall be paid over to the Issuer except as provided in this Section 3.03. The Securities Administrator shall
calculate the amount to be distributed to each Class and, based on such amounts, the Securities Administrator shall determine the amount to be distributed to each Noteholder. All of the Securities Administrator’s calculations of payments shall
be based solely on information provided to the Securities Administrator by the Master Servicer pursuant to Section 3.01 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. Neither the Securities Administrator nor the Indenture Trustee shall be required to
confirm, verify or recompute any such information but shall be entitled to rely conclusively on such information. The Issuer hereby appoints the Securities Administrator as its initial Paying Agent. 
  
 The Issuer shall cause each Paying Agent, other than the Securities
Administrator, to execute and deliver to the Securities Administrator and the Indenture Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Securities Administrator and the Indenture Trustee (and if the Securities Administrator or
the Indenture Trustee acts as Paying Agent it hereby so agrees), subject to the provisions of this Section 3.03, that such Paying Agent shall: 
  
 (i) hold all sums held by it for the payment of amounts due with respect to the Notes in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled
thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and pay such sums to such Persons as herein provided; 
  

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 (ii) give the Securities Administrator and the Indenture Trustee notice of any default by
the Issuer of which it has actual knowledge in the making of any payment required to be made with respect to the Notes; 
  
 (iii) at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of either the Securities Administrator or the
Indenture Trustee, forthwith pay to the Securities Administrator all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent; 
  
 (iv) immediately resign as Paying Agent and forthwith pay to the Securities Administrator all sums held by it in trust for the payment of
Notes if at any time it ceases to meet the standards, if any, that the Issuer requires the Paying Agent to meet, pursuant to any documentation under which the Issuer appointed such Paying Agent; 
  
 (v) comply with all requirements of the Code with respect to
the withholding from any payments made by it on any Notes of any applicable withholding taxes imposed thereon and with respect to any applicable reporting requirements in connection therewith; and 
  
 (vi) not commence a bankruptcy proceeding against the Issuer
in connection with this Indenture. 
  
 The Issuer may, at any
time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, by Issuer Request, direct any Paying Agent to pay to the Securities Administrator all sums held in trust by such Paying Agent, such sums to
be held by the Securities Administrator upon the same trusts as those upon which the sums were held by such Paying Agent; and upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Securities Administrator such Paying Agent shall be released from all further
liability with respect to such money. 
  
 Subject to applicable
laws with respect to escheat of funds, any money held by the Securities Administrator or any Paying Agent in trust for the payment of any amount due with respect to any Note and remaining unclaimed for one year after such amount has become due and
payable shall be discharged from such trust and be paid to the Issuer; and the Holder of such Note shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Issuer for payment thereof (but only to the extent of the amounts so paid to the
Issuer), and all liability of the Securities Administrator or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Securities Administrator or such Paying Agent, before being required to make
any such repayment, shall at the expense and direction of the Issuer cause to be published once, in an Authorized Newspaper published in the English language, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein that
shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining shall be repaid to the Issuer. The Securities Administrator may also adopt and employ, at the expense and direction of the Issuer,
any other reasonable means of notification of such repayment (including, but not limited to, mailing notice of such repayment to Holders whose Notes have been called but have not been surrendered for redemption or whose right to or interest in
monies due and payable but not claimed is determinable from the records of the Securities Administrator or of any Paying Agent, at the last address of record for each such Holder). 
  

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 Section 3.04. Existence. The Issuer shall keep in full effect its existence, rights and franchises
as a statutory trust under the laws of the State of Delaware (unless it becomes, or any successor Issuer hereunder is or becomes, organized under the laws of any other state or of the United States of America, in which case the Issuer shall keep in
full effect its existence, rights and franchises under the laws of such other jurisdiction) and shall obtain and preserve its qualification to do business in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is or shall be necessary to protect the
validity and enforceability of this Indenture, the Notes, the Mortgage Loans and each other instrument or agreement included in the Trust Estate. 
  
 Section 3.05. Payment of Principal and Interest. (a) On each Payment Date from amounts on deposit in the Payment Account, the Securities
Administrator shall pay to the Persons specified below the Interest Funds for such Payment Date. 
  
 (b) On each Payment Date, the Interest Funds shall be distributed in the following order of priority, in each case to the extent of the Interest Funds
remaining for such Payment Date: 
  
 (i) to pay
the Servicing Fee (which includes the Subservicing Fee) to the extent not retained by or already paid to the Servicer or the Subservicer, respectively; 
  
 (ii) to the Swap Provider, any Net Swap Payment or any Swap Termination Payment (not triggered by a Swap Provider Trigger Event) owed to
the Swap Provider pursuant to the Swap Agreement, provided that such payment may be made on an earlier date if required by the Swap Agreement; 
  
 (iii) concurrently, to the holders of the Class A Notes, pro rata, based on the entitlement of each such Class, the related
Accrued Note Interest for such Classes for such Payment Date, with the Accrued Note Interest for each such Class to be paid first from Interest Funds attributable to the related Loan Group, such that Interest Funds from the two Loan Groups shall
only be combined to make pro rata payments if the Interest Funds from one Loan Group are insufficient pay all Accrued Note Interest on the related Class of Class A Notes; 
  
 (iv) to the holders of the Class M1 Notes, the related Accrued Note Interest for such Class for such Payment
Date; 
  
 (v) to the holders of the Class M2
Notes, the related Accrued Note Interest for such Class for such Payment Date; 
  
 (vi) to the holders of the Class M3 Notes, the related Accrued Note Interest for such Class for such Payment Date; 
  
 (vii) to the holders of the Class M4 Notes, the related
Accrued Note Interest for such Class for such Payment Date; 
  
 (viii) to the holders of the Class M5 Notes, the related Accrued Note Interest for such Class for such Payment Date; 
  

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 (ix) to the holders of the Class M6 Notes, the related Accrued Note Interest for such
Class for such Payment Date; 
  
 (x) to the
holders of the Class M7 Notes, the related Accrued Note Interest for such Class for such Payment Date; 
  
 (xi) to the holders of the Class M8 Notes, the related Accrued Note Interest for such Class for such Payment Date; 
  
 (xii) to the holders of the Class M9 Notes, the related
Accrued Note Interest for such Class for such Payment Date; 
  
 (xiii) to the holders of the Class M10 Notes, the related Accrued Note Interest for such Class for such Payment Date; 
  
 (xiv) to the holders of the Class M11 Notes, the related Accrued Note Interest for such Class for such Payment Date; and 
  
 (xv) any remainder as part of the Net Monthly Excess
Cashflow to be allocated as described under section (e) below. 
  
 (c) On each Payment Date, (x) prior to the Stepdown Date, or (y) on which a Trigger Event is in effect, Principal Funds shall be paid in the following order of priority: 
  
 (i) to the Swap Provider, any Net Swap Payments or any Swap
Termination Payment (not triggered by a Swap Provider Trigger Event) remaining unpaid after all payments made pursuant to section (b) above have been made, on such Payment Date, provided that such payment may be made on an earlier date
if required by the Swap Agreement; 
  
 (ii) the
related Class A Principal Allocation Fraction of the Principal Payment Amount shall be allocated concurrently as follows: 
  
 (A) sequentially, to the Class 1A1, Class 1A2 and Class 1A3 Notes, in that order, until the Note Principal Balance of each such Class is reduced to zero;
provided that if on any Payment Date the Principal Deficiency Amount exceeds the aggregate Note Principal Balance of the Class M Notes, all payments pursuant to this clause will be made concurrently, on a pro rata basis, to the Class
1A1, Class 1A2 and Class 1A3 Notes; 
  
 (B) concurrently, on a
pro rata basis, to the Class 2A1 Notes until the Note Principal Balance of each such Class is reduced to zero, provided, however, that if a Group 2 Sequential Trigger Event is in effect, principal will be allocated to the Class 2A1,
until the Note Principal Balance of such Class is reduced to zero; 
  
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clause (ii) shall be distributed to the Class A Notes of the unrelated group, in the manner and order of priority set forth in clause (ii)(A) or
(B) above, as applicable, until the aggregate Note Principal Balance thereof has been reduced to zero; 
  
 (iii) sequentially, to the Class M1, Class M2, Class M3, Class M4, Class M5, Class M6, Class M7, Class M8, Class M9, Class M10 and Class
M11 Notes, in that order, until the Note Principal Balance of each such Class is reduced to zero; and 
  
 (iv) any remainder as part of the Net Monthly Excess Cashflow to be allocated as described under section (e) below. 
  
 (d) On each Payment Date (x) on or after the Stepdown Date and
(y) on which a Trigger Event is not in effect, Principal Funds shall be paid in the following order of priority: 
  
 (i) to the Swap Provider, any Net Swap Payments or any Swap Termination Payment (not triggered by a Swap Provider Trigger Event) remaining
unpaid after all payments made pursuant to section (b) above have been made, on such Payment Date; provided that such payment may be made on an earlier date if required by the Swap Agreement; 
  
 (ii) the related Class A Principal Allocation Fraction
of the Senior Principal Payment Amount shall be allocated concurrently as follows: 
  
 (A) sequentially, to the Class 1A1, Class 1A2 and Class 1A3 Notes, in that order, until the Note Principal Balances of such Classes are reduced to zero; provided that if on any Payment Date the Principal
Deficiency Amount exceeds the aggregate Note Principal Balance of the Class M Notes, all payments pursuant to this clause will be made concurrently, on a pro rata basis, to the Class 1A1, Class 1A2 and Class 1A3 Notes; 
  
 (B) concurrently on a pro rata basis, to the Class 2A1 Notes, until
the Note Principal Balance of such Class is reduced to zero; 
  
 provided, however, that after the aggregate Note Principal Balance of either the Class 1A Notes or Class 2A Notes has been reduced to zero, amounts otherwise distributable to such retired Notes pursuant to this clause (ii) shall
be distributed to the Class A Notes of the unrelated group, in the manner and order of priority set forth in clauses (ii)(A) and (B) above, as applicable, until the aggregate Note Principal Balance thereof has been reduced to zero;

  
 (iii) to the Class M1 Notes, the Class M1
Principal Payment Amount until the Note Principal Balance thereof has been reduced to zero; 
  
 (iv) to the Class M2 Notes, the Class M2 Principal Payment Amount until the Note Principal Balance thereof has been reduced to zero;

  

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 (v) to the Class M3 Notes, the Class M3 Principal Payment Amount until the Note Principal
Balance thereof has been reduced to zero; 
  
 (vi) to the Class M4 Notes, the Class M4 Principal Payment Amount until the Note Principal Balance thereof has been reduced to zero; 
  
 (vii) to the Class M5 Notes, the Class M5 Principal Payment Amount until the Note Principal Balance thereof has been reduced to zero;

  
 (viii) to the Class M6 Notes, the Class M6
Principal Payment Amount until the Note Principal Balance thereof has been reduced to zero; 
  
 (ix) to the Class M7 Notes, the Class M7 Principal Payment Amount until the Note Principal Balance thereof has been reduced to zero;

  
 (x) to the Class M8 Notes, the Class M8
Principal Payment Amount until the Note Principal Balance thereof has been reduced to zero; 
  
 (xi) to the Class M9 Notes, the Class M9 Principal Payment Amount until the Note Principal Balance thereof has been reduced to zero;

  
 (xii) to the Class M10 Notes, the Class M10
Principal Payment Amount until the Note Principal Balance thereof has been reduced to zero; 
  
 (xiii) to the Class M11 Notes, the Class M11 Principal Payment Amount, until the Note Principal Balance thereof has been reduced to zero;
and 
  
 (xiv) any remainder as part of the Net
Monthly Excess Cashflow to be allocated as described under section (e) below. 
  
 (e) On each Payment Date, any Net Monthly Excess Cashflow (together with Prepayment Charges received in respect of the related Prepayment Period in the case of payments to the Class N Notes pursuant to clause
(viii) below only) shall be paid as follows: 
  
 (i) to pay the Indenture Trustee unreimbursed Extraordinary Expenses in excess of the limitation contained in the definition of “Extraordinary Expenses” set forth in Appendix A to this Indenture, and to pay the Owner Trustee, the
Custodian, the Master Servicer and the Securities Administrator any amounts due or expenses, costs and liabilities incurred by or reimbursable to them pursuant to the Indenture, the Servicing Agreement, the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Trust
Agreement, the Swap Agreement and the Custodial Agreement in excess of the limitations set forth in Section 4.05(a)(x) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement; 
  
 (ii) to the Offered Notes, an amount equal to any Extra Principal Payment Amount, payable as part of the
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 (iii) concurrently, on a pro rata basis, based on the amount of any Basis Risk
Shortfall Carry-Forward Amounts, to the Class A Notes, in an amount equal to any Basis Risk Shortfall Carry-Forward Amount for such Class or Classes; 
  
 (iv) sequentially, to the Class M1, Class M2, Class M3, Class M4, Class M5, Class M6, Class M7, Class M8, Class M9, Class M10 and Class
M11 Notes, in that order, in an amount equal to any Basis Risk Shortfall Carry-Forward Amount for such Class or Classes; 
  
 (v) sequentially, to the Class M1, Class M2, Class M3, Class M4, Class M5, Class M6, Class M7, Class M8, Class M9, Class M10 and Class M11
Notes, in that order, in an amount equal to any Deferred Interest for such Class or Classes; 
  
 (vi) to the Swap Provider, any unpaid Swap Termination Payment triggered by a Swap Provider Trigger Event pursuant to the Swap Agreement;

  
 (vii) any amount payable by the Trust for the
purchase of a substitute Swap Agreement, as provided in the Sale and Servicing Agreement; 
  
 (viii) to the Class N Notes, the Class N Interest Payment Amount for such Payment Date and, thereafter, the Class N Principal Payment
Amount for such Payment Date to reduce the Note Principal Balance for the Class N Notes to zero; and 
  
 (ix) any remaining amounts shall be distributed to the Certificate Paying Agent, as designee of the Issuer, for the benefit of the Holders
of the Owner Trust Certificates. 
  
 Any amounts
received under the Corridor Agreement shall be applied to make payments described in clauses (iii), (iv) and (ix) above, in that order, before the allocation of any Net Monthly Excess Cashflow to pay such amounts. 
  
 (f) [Reserved]. 
  
 (g) [Reserved]. 
  
 (h) [Reserved]. 
  
 (i) Each distribution with respect to a Book-Entry Note shall be paid to the Depository, as Holder thereof, and the Depository shall be responsible for
crediting the amount of such distribution to the accounts of its Depository Participants in accordance with its normal procedures. Each Depository Participant shall be responsible for disbursing such distribution to the Note Owners that it
represents and to each indirect participating brokerage firm (a “brokerage firm” or “indirect participating firm”) for which it acts as agent. Each brokerage firm shall be responsible for disbursing funds to the Note Owners that
it represents. None of the Indenture Trustee, the Note Registrar, the Paying Agent, the Depositor, the Securities Administrator or the Master Servicer shall have any responsibility therefor except as otherwise provided by this Indenture. 

 
 (j) Any installment of interest or principal, if any, payable on any Note
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Holder shall have so requested at least five Business Days prior to the related Record Date, be paid to each Holder of record on the preceding Record Date by
wire transfer to an account specified in writing by such Holder as of the preceding Record Date or in all other cases or if no such instructions have been delivered to the Securities Administrator, by check to such Noteholder mailed to such
Holder’s address as it appears in the Note Register in the amount required to be distributed to such Holder on such Payment Date pursuant to such Holder’s Notes; provided, however, that the Securities Administrator shall not pay to
such Holders any amount required to be withheld from a payment to such Holder by the Code. 
  
 (k) The principal of each Note shall be due and payable in full on the Final Scheduled Payment Date for such Note as provided in the forms of Note set forth in Exhibits A-1 and A-2 to this
Indenture. All principal payments on the Notes shall be made to the Noteholders entitled thereto in accordance with the Percentage Interests represented by such Notes. Upon notice to the Securities Administrator by the Issuer, the Securities
Administrator shall notify the Person in whose name a Note is registered at the close of business on the Record Date preceding the Final Scheduled Payment Date or other final Payment Date (including any final Payment Date resulting from any
redemption pursuant to Section 8.07 hereof). Such notice shall to the extent practicable be mailed no later than five Business Days prior to such Final Scheduled Payment Date or other final Payment Date and shall specify that payment of the
principal amount and any interest due with respect to such Note at the Final Scheduled Payment Date or other final Payment Date shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of such Note and shall specify the place where such Note may be
presented and surrendered for such final payment. No interest shall accrue on the Notes on or after the Final Scheduled Payment Date or any such other final Payment Date. 
  
 Section 3.06. Protection of Trust Estate. (a) The Issuer shall, from time to time, prepare, execute and deliver
all such supplements and amendments hereto and all such financing statements, continuation statements, instruments of further assurance and other instruments and shall take such other action necessary or advisable to: 
  
 (i) maintain or preserve the lien and security interest (and
the priority thereof) of this Indenture or carry out more effectively the purposes hereof; 
  
 (ii) perfect, publish notice of or protect the validity of any Grant made or to be made by this Indenture; 
  
 (iii) cause the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee to enforce
any of the rights to the Mortgage Loans; or 
  
 (iv) preserve and defend title to the Trust Estate and the rights of the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders in the Trust Estate against the claims of all persons and parties. 
  
 (b) Except as otherwise provided in this Indenture, the Indenture Trustee shall not remove or permit the Custodian to remove
any portion of the Trust Estate that consists of money or is evidenced by an instrument, certificate or other writing from the jurisdiction in which it was held at the date of the most recent Opinion of Counsel delivered pursuant to
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the Closing Date pursuant to Section 3.07(a) hereof, or if no Opinion of Counsel has yet been delivered pursuant to Section 3.07(b) hereof, unless
the Indenture Trustee shall have first received an Opinion of Counsel, which shall be at the expense of the Indenture Trustee, to the effect that the lien and security interest created by this Indenture with respect to such property shall continue
to be maintained after giving effect to such action or actions). 
  
 The Issuer hereby designates the Indenture Trustee its agent and attorney-in-fact to sign any financing statement, continuation statement or other instrument required to be signed pursuant to this Section 3.06 upon the Issuer’s
preparation thereof and delivery to the Indenture Trustee with appropriate instructions. 
  
 Section 3.07. Opinions as to Trust Estate. (a) On the Closing Date, the Issuer shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee an Opinion of Counsel either stating that, in the opinion of such
counsel, such actions have been taken with respect to the filing of any financing statements, as are necessary to perfect and make effective the lien and security interest of the Indenture Trustee in the Collateral and reciting the details of such
action or stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, no such actions are necessary to make such lien and security interest effective. 
  
 (b) On or before April 15th in each calendar year, beginning in 2006, the Issuer shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel, at the expense of the Issuer, either stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, such actions have been taken with
respect to the recording, filing, re-recording and refiling of this Indenture, any indentures supplemental hereto and any other requisite documents and with respect to the execution and filing of any financing statements and continuation statements
as are necessary to maintain the Indenture Trustee’s lien and security interest in the Collateral and reciting the details of such actions or stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, no such actions are necessary to maintain such lien and
security interest. Such Opinion of Counsel shall also describe the recording, filing, re-recording and refiling of this Indenture, any indentures supplemental hereto and any other requisite documents and the execution and filing of any financing
statements and continuation statements that shall, in the opinion of such counsel, be required to maintain the lien and security interest in the Collateral until December 31st of the following calendar year. 
  
 Section 3.08. Performance of Obligations. (a) The Issuer shall punctually perform and observe all of its obligations and agreements contained
in this Indenture, the Basic Documents and in the instruments and agreements included in the Trust Estate. 
  
 (b) The Issuer may contract with other Persons to assist it in performing its duties under this Indenture, and any performance of such duties by a Person
identified to the Indenture Trustee in an Officer’s Certificate of the Issuer shall be deemed to be action taken by the Issuer. 
  
 (c) The Issuer shall not take any action or permit any action to be taken by others that would release any Person from any of such Person’s covenants
or obligations under any of the documents relating to the Mortgage Loans or under any instrument included in the Trust Estate, or which would result in the amendment, hypothecation, subordination, termination or discharge of, or impair the validity
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Subservicer is expressly permitted to take under the Sale and Servicing Agreement or the Servicing Agreement. The Indenture Trustee, as pledgee of the
Mortgage Loans, may (but is not obligated to) exercise the rights of the Issuer to direct the actions of the Master Servicer pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement. 
  
 (d) The Issuer may retain an administrator and may enter into contracts with other Persons for the performance of the
Issuer’s obligations hereunder, and performance of such obligations by such Persons shall be deemed to be performance of such obligations by the Issuer. 
  
 Section 3.09. Negative Covenants. So long as any Notes are Outstanding, the Issuer shall not: 
  
 (a) except as expressly permitted by this Indenture, sell, transfer, exchange
or otherwise dispose of the Trust Estate; 
  
 (b) claim any credit
on, or make any deduction from the principal or interest payable in respect of, the Notes (other than amounts properly withheld from such payments under the Code) or assert any claim against any present or former Noteholder by reason of the payment
of the taxes levied or assessed upon any part of the Trust Estate; 
  
 (c) (i) permit the validity or effectiveness of this Indenture to be impaired, or permit the lien of this Indenture to be amended, hypothecated, subordinated, terminated or discharged, or permit any Person to be released from any covenants
or obligations with respect to the Notes under this Indenture except as may be expressly permitted hereby, (ii) permit any lien, charge, excise, claim, security interest, mortgage or other encumbrance (other than the lien of this Indenture) to
be created on or extend to or otherwise arise upon or burden the Trust Estate or any part thereof or any interest therein or the proceeds thereof or (iii) permit the lien of this Indenture not to constitute a valid first-priority security
interest in the Trust Estate; 
  
 (d) waive or impair, or fail to
assert rights under, the Mortgage Loans, or impair or cause to be impaired the Issuer’s interest in the Mortgage Loans, the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement or in any Basic Document, if any such action would materially and adversely affect the
interests of the Noteholders; or 
  
 (e) take any other action or
fail to take any action that would jeopardize the status of the Holder of the Ownership Certificate as a REIT or Qualified REIT Subsidiary under the Code or result in an imposition of tax on the Issuer. 
  
 Section 3.10. Annual Statement as to Compliance. The Issuer shall
deliver to the Indenture Trustee, by March 30th of each year, commencing with the calendar year 2006, an
Officer’s Certificate stating, as to the Authorized Officer signing such Officer’s Certificate, that: 
  
 (a) a review of the activities of the Issuer during the previous calendar year and of its performance under this Indenture has been made under such
Authorized Officer’s supervision; and 
  
 (b) to the best of
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or, if there has been a default in its compliance with any such condition or covenant, specifying each such default known to such Authorized Officer and the
nature and status thereof. 
  
 Section 3.11. [Reserved].

  
 Section 3.12. Representations and Warranties Concerning the
Mortgage Loans. The Indenture Trustee, as pledgee of the Mortgage Loans, has the benefit of the representations and warranties made by the Seller in the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement concerning the Seller and the Mortgage Loans to the same
extent as though such representations and warranties were made directly to the Indenture Trustee. If a Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee has actual knowledge of any breach of any representation or warranty made by the Seller in the
Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, the Indenture Trustee shall promptly notify the Seller of such finding and the Seller’s obligation to cure such defect or repurchase or substitute for the related Mortgage Loan. 
  
 Section 3.13. Amendments to Sale and Servicing Agreement. The Issuer
covenants with the Indenture Trustee that it shall not enter into any amendment or supplement to the Sale and Servicing Agreement except in accordance with Section 7.01 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. 
  
 Section 3.14. Master Servicer and Securities Administrator as Agent and
Bailee of the Indenture Trustee. (a) Solely for purposes of perfection under Section 9-305 of the UCC or other similar applicable law, rule or regulation of the state in which such property is held by the Master Servicer, the Issuer
and the Indenture Trustee hereby acknowledge that the Securities Administrator is acting as bailee of the Indenture Trustee in holding amounts on deposit in the Payment Account, and that the Master Servicer is acting as its bailee in holding any
Mortgage Loan Documents released to the Master Servicer and any other items constituting a part of the Trust Estate that from time to time come into the possession of the Master Servicer. It is intended that, by the Securities Administrator’s
and the Master Servicer’s acceptance of such bailee arrangements, the Indenture Trustee, as a secured party of the Mortgage Loans, shall be deemed to have possession of such Mortgage Loan Documents, such monies and such other items for purposes
of Section 9-305 of the UCC of the state in which such property is held by the Master Servicer or the Securities Administrator. The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable with respect to such documents, monies or items while in possession of the
Master Servicer or the Securities Administrator, and the Master Servicer or the Securities Administrator shall not otherwise be deemed to be the agent of the Indenture Trustee. 
  
 (b) Solely for purposes of perfection under Section 9-305 of the UCC or other similar applicable law, rule or
regulation of the state in which such property is held by the Servicer or the Subservicer, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee hereby acknowledge that the Servicer or Subservicer is acting as bailee of the Indenture Trustee in holding amounts on
deposit in the Custodial Account, as well as its bailee in holding any Mortgage Loan Documents released to the Servicer or the Subservicer, and any other items constituting a part of the Trust Estate that from time to time come into the possession
of the Servicer or the Subservicer. It is intended that, by the Servicer’s and the Subservicer’s acceptance of such bailee arrangements, the Indenture Trustee, as a secured party of the Mortgage Loans, shall be deemed to have possession of
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the UCC of the state in which such property is held by the Servicer or the Subservicer. The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable with respect to such
documents, monies or items while in possession of the Servicer or the Subservicer, and the Servicer or the Subservicer shall not otherwise be deemed to be the agent of the Indenture Trustee. 
  
 Section 3.15. Investment Company Act. The Issuer shall not become an
“investment company” or be under the “control” of an “investment company” as such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (or any successor or amendatory statute), and the rules and
regulations thereunder (taking into account not only the general definition of the term “investment company” but also any available exceptions to such general definition); provided, however, that the Issuer shall be in compliance
with this Section 3.15 if it shall have obtained an order exempting it from regulation as an “investment company” so long as it is in compliance with the conditions imposed in such order. 
  
 Section 3.16. Issuer May Consolidate, etc. (a) The Issuer shall
not consolidate or merge with or into any other Person, unless: 
  
 (i) the Person (if other than the Issuer) formed by or surviving such consolidation or merger shall be a Person organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America or any state, a part thereof or the
District of Columbia and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Indenture Trustee, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of and
interest on all Notes and all other amounts payable to the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator, the payment to the Certificate Paying Agent of all amounts due to the Certificateholders, and the performance or observance of every
agreement and covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Issuer to be performed or observed, all as provided herein; 
  
 (ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing; 
  
 (iii) each of the Rating Agencies shall have notified the
Issuer that such transaction shall not cause the rating of the Notes to be reduced, suspended or withdrawn or to be considered by such Rating Agency to be below investment grade; 
  
 (iv) the Issuer shall have received an Opinion of Counsel (and shall have delivered a copy thereof to the
Indenture Trustee) to the effect that such transaction shall not (A) result in a “significant modification” of the Notes under Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3 or adversely affect the status of the Notes as indebtedness for
federal income tax purposes and (B) cause the Trust to be subject to an entity-level tax for federal income tax purposes; 
  
 (v) any action that is necessary to maintain the lien and security interest created by this Indenture shall have been taken; and

  
 (vi) the Issuer shall have delivered to the
Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such consolidation or merger and such supplemental indenture comply with this Article III and that all conditions precedent herein provided for or relating
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required by the Exchange Act) and that such supplemental indenture is enforceable against the Issuer. 
  
 (b) The Issuer shall not convey or transfer any of its properties or assets,
including those included in the Trust Estate, to any Person, unless: 
  
 (i) the Person that acquires by conveyance or transfer the properties and assets of the Issuer, the conveyance or transfer of which is hereby restricted, shall (A) be a United States citizen or a Person organized
and existing under the laws of the United States of America or any state thereof, (B) expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Indenture Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, the due
and punctual payment of the principal of and interest on all Notes and the performance or observance of every agreement and covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Issuer to be performed or observed, all as provided herein, (C) expressly
agree by means of such supplemental indenture that all right, title and interest so conveyed or transferred shall be subject and subordinate to the rights of the Holders of the Notes, (D) unless otherwise provided in such supplemental
indenture, expressly agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee against and from any loss, liability or expense arising under or related to this Indenture and the Notes and (E) expressly agree by means of
such supplemental indenture that such Person (or if a group of Persons, then one specified Person) shall make all filings with the Commission (and any other appropriate Person) required by the Exchange Act in connection with the Notes; 

 
 (ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction,
no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing; 
  
 (iii) each of the Rating Agencies shall have notified the Issuer that such transaction shall not cause the ratings of the Notes to be reduced, suspended or withdrawn; 
  
 (iv) the Issuer shall have received an Opinion of Counsel
(and shall have delivered a copy thereof to the Indenture Trustee) to the effect that such transaction shall not (A) result in a “significant modification” of the Notes under Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3, or adversely
affect the status of the Notes as indebtedness for federal income tax purposes, and (B) cause the Trust to be subject to an entity-level tax for federal income tax purposes; 
  
 (v) any action that is necessary to maintain the lien and security interest created by this Indenture shall
have been taken; and 
  
 (vi) the Issuer shall
have delivered to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such conveyance or transfer and such supplemental indenture comply with this Article III and that all conditions precedent herein
provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with (including any filing required by the Exchange Act). 
  
 Section 3.17. Successor or Transferee. (a) Upon any consolidation or merger of the Issuer in accordance with Section 3.16(a), the Person
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every right and power of, the Issuer under this Indenture with the same effect as if such Person had been named as the Issuer herein. 
  
 (b) Upon a conveyance or transfer of all the assets and properties of the
Issuer pursuant to Section 3.16(b), the Issuer shall be released from every covenant and agreement of this Indenture to be observed or performed on the part of the Issuer with respect to the Notes immediately upon the delivery of written notice
to the Indenture Trustee of such conveyance or transfer. 
  
 Section 3.18. No Other Business. The Issuer shall not engage in any business other than financing, purchasing, owning and selling and managing the Mortgage Loans and the issuance of the Notes and Certificates in the manner
contemplated by this Indenture and the Basic Documents and all activities incidental thereto. 
  
 Section 3.19. No Borrowing. The Issuer shall not issue, incur, assume, guarantee or otherwise become liable, directly or indirectly, for any indebtedness except for the Notes under this Indenture. 

 
 Section 3.20. Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities.
Except as contemplated by this Indenture or the Basic Documents, the Issuer shall not make any loan or advance or credit to, or guarantee (directly or indirectly or by an instrument having the effect of assuring another’s payment or performance
on any obligation or capability of so doing or otherwise), endorse or otherwise become contingently liable, directly or indirectly, in connection with the obligations, stocks or dividends of, or own, purchase, repurchase or acquire (or agree
contingently to do so) any stock, obligations, assets or securities of, or any other interest in, or make any capital contribution to, any other Person. 
  
 Section 3.21. Capital Expenditures. The Issuer shall not make any expenditure (by long-term or operating lease or otherwise) for capital assets
(either realty or personalty). 
  
 Section 3.22. Determination
of Note Rate. On each Interest Determination Date, the Securities Administrator shall determine One-Month LIBOR and the related Note Rate for each Class of Notes for the following Accrual Period. The establishment of One-Month LIBOR on each
Interest Determination Date by the Securities Administrator and the Securities Administrator’s calculation of the rate of interest applicable to each Class of Notes for the related Accrual Period shall (in the absence of manifest error) be
final and binding. 
  
 Section 3.23. Restricted Payments.
The Issuer shall not, directly or indirectly, (a) pay any dividend or make any distribution (by reduction of capital or otherwise), whether in cash, property, securities or a combination thereof, to the Owner Trustee or any owner of a
beneficial interest in the Issuer or otherwise with respect to any ownership or equity interest or security in or of the Issuer, (b) redeem, purchase, retire or otherwise acquire for value any such ownership or equity interest or security or
(c) set aside or otherwise segregate any amounts for any such purpose; provided, however, that the Issuer may make, or cause to be made, distributions and payments to the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, Noteholders, the
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Issuer shall not, directly or indirectly, make payments to or distributions from the Payment Account except in accordance with this Indenture and the Basic
Documents. 
  
 Section 3.24. Notice of Events of Default.
The Issuer shall give the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator and the Rating Agencies prompt written notice of each Event of Default hereunder and under the Trust Agreement. 
  
 Section 3.25. Further Instruments and Acts. Upon request of the Indenture Trustee (it being understood that the
Indenture Trustee is not obligated to make such request), the Issuer shall execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more effectively the purpose of this Indenture.

  
 Section 3.26. Certain Representations Regarding the Trust
Estate. 
  
 (a) With respect to that portion of the
Collateral described in clauses (a) through (h) of the definition of Trust Estate, the Issuer represents to the Indenture Trustee that: 
  
 (i) This Indenture creates a valid and continuing security interest (as defined in the applicable UCC) in the Collateral in favor of the
Indenture Trustee, which security interest is prior to all other liens and is enforceable as such as against creditors of and purchasers from the Issuer. 
  
 (ii) In each case, within the meaning of the applicable UCC: (A) the Collateral described in clauses (a) through
(c) constitute “deposit accounts” or “instruments,” as applicable; (B) the Collateral described in clause (d) constitutes “real property;” (C) the Collateral described in clauses (f) through
(h) constitute “general intangibles.” 
  
 (iii) The Issuer owns and has good and marketable title to the Collateral, free and clear of any lien, claim or encumbrance of any Person. 
  
 (iv) The Issuer has taken all steps necessary to cause the Indenture Trustee to become the account holder of the Collateral. 

 
 (v) Other than the security interest granted to the
Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Indenture, the Issuer has not pledged, assigned, sold, granted a security interest in, or otherwise conveyed any of the Collateral. 
  
 (vi) The Collateral is not in the name of any Person other than the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee. The
Issuer has not consented, with respect to the bank maintaining any Collateral, to compliance with instructions of any Person other than the Indenture Trustee. 
  

(b) With respect to any Collateral in which a security interest may be perfected by filing, the Issuer has not authorized the filing of — and is
not aware of — any financing statements against the Issuer that include a description of collateral covering such Collateral, other than any financing statement relating to the security interest granted to the Indenture Trustee hereunder or
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 (c) The Issuer has caused or shall have caused, within ten days of the date hereof, the filing of all
appropriate financing statements in the proper filing office in the appropriate jurisdictions under applicable law in order to perfect the security interest in all Collateral granted to the Indenture Trustee hereunder in which a security interest
may be perfected by filing. Any financing statement that is filed in connection with this Section 3.26 shall contain a statement that a purchase or security interest in any collateral described therein shall violate the rights of the secured
party named in such financing statement. 
  
 (d) The foregoing
representations may not be waived and shall survive the issuance of the Notes. 
  
 Section 3.27. Allocation of Realized Losses. (a) Prior to each Payment Date, the Master Servicer shall determine, based solely on information provided to it by the Servicer, the total amount of Realized
Losses that occurred during the related Prepayment Period. 
  
 (b)
Any Realized Losses on the Mortgage Loans shall be allocated on any Payment Date (i) first, to Net Monthly Excess Cashflow, through an increased distribution of the Extra Principal Payment Amount for that Payment Date as provided in
Section 3.05 hereof; and (ii) second, in reduction of the Overcollateralized Amount, until reduced to zero. 
  
 Section 3.28. Special Derivative Contracts. 
  
 (a) At the direction of the Seller, the Indenture Trustee shall, on behalf of the Trust Estate, enter into Special Derivative Contracts for the benefit of
the Owner Trust Certificates. Any acquisition of a Special Derivative Contract shall be accompanied by (i) an appropriate amendment to this Indenture, (ii) any Opinion of Counsel required by Section 10.01 and (iii) the consent of
each Holder of an Owner Trust Certificate to the acquisition of such Special Derivative Contract. 
  
 (b) All collections, proceeds and other amounts in respect of the Special Derivative Contracts payable by the Special Derivative Counterparty shall be
distributed to the Owner Trust Certificates on the Payment Date following receipt thereof by the Securities Administrator on behalf of the Indenture Trustee. 
  
 (c) Any Special Derivative Contract that provides for any payment obligation on the part of the Trust Estate must (i) be without recourse to the
assets of the Trust Estate, (ii) contain a non-petition covenant provision from the Special Derivative Counterparty, (iii) limit payment dates thereunder to Payment Dates and (iv) contain a provision limiting any cash payments due to
the Special Derivative Counterparty on any day under such Special Derivative Contract solely to funds available therefor in the Payment Account available to make payments to the Holders of the Owner Trust Certificates on such Payment Date.

  
 (d) Each Special Derivative Contract must (i) provide for
the direct payment of any amounts by the Special Derivative Counterparty thereunder to the Payment Account at least one Business Day prior to the related Payment Date, (ii) contain an assignment of all of the Trust Estate’s rights (but
none of its obligations) under such Special Derivative Contract to the Indenture Trustee on behalf the Owner Trust Certificateholders and shall include an express consent to the Special Derivative Counterparty to such assignment, (iii) provide
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of the occurrence of an Event of Default, such Special Derivative Contract shall terminate upon the direction of a 50.01% or greater Percentage Interest of
the Owner Trust Certificates and (iv) prohibit the Special Derivative Counterparty from “setting-off’ or “netting” other obligations of the Trust Estate and its Affiliates against such Special Derivative Counterparty’s
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 ARTICLE IV 
  

THE NOTES; SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE 
  
 Section 4.01. The Notes. Each Class of Notes shall be registered in the name of a nominee designated by the
Depository. Beneficial Owners shall hold interests in the Notes through the book-entry facilities of the Depository in minimum Initial Note Principal Balances of $25,000 and integral multiples of $1 in excess thereof, with respect to the Class 1A1,
Class 1A2, Class 1A3 and Class 2A1 Notes, and in minimum Initial Note Principal Balances of $100,000 and in integral multiples of $1 in excess thereof, with respect to the Class M Notes. 
  
 The Indenture Trustee and Securities Administrator may, for all purposes (including the making of payments due on the
Notes), deal with the Depository as the authorized representative of the Beneficial Owners with respect to the Notes for the purposes of exercising the rights of Holders of the Notes hereunder. Except as provided in the next succeeding paragraph of
this Section 4.01, the rights of Beneficial Owners with respect to the Notes shall be limited to those established by law and agreements between such Beneficial Owners and the Depository and Depository Participants. Except as provided in
Section 4.08 hereof, Beneficial Owners shall not be entitled to definitive certificates for the Notes as to which they are the Beneficial Owners. Requests and directions from, and votes of, the Depository as Holder of the Notes shall not be
deemed inconsistent if they are made with respect to different Beneficial Owners. The Securities Administrator may establish a reasonable record date in connection with solicitations of consents from or voting by Noteholders and give notice to the
Depository of such record date. Without the consent of the Issuer and the Securities Administrator, no Note may be transferred by the Depository except to a successor Depository that agrees to hold such Note for the account of the Beneficial Owners.

  
 In the event the Depository Trust Company resigns or is
removed as Depository, the Depositor may appoint a successor Depository. If no successor Depository has been appointed within 30 days of the effective date of the Depository’s resignation or removal, each Beneficial Owner shall be entitled to
certificates representing the Notes that it beneficially owns, in the manner prescribed in Section 4.08. 
  
 The Notes shall, on original issue, be executed on behalf of the Issuer by the Owner Trustee, not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee,
authenticated by the Securities Administrator and delivered by the Securities Administrator to or upon the order of the Issuer. 
  
 Section 4.02. Registration of and Limitations on Transfer and Exchange of Notes; Appointment of Note Registrar and Certificate Registrar.

  
 (a) The Issuer shall cause to be kept, at the office of the
Note Registrar (which shall be the office specified in Section 3.02), a Note Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Note Registrar shall provide for the registration of Notes and of transfers and
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 (b) Subject to the restrictions and limitations set forth below, upon surrender for registration or
transfer of any Note at the office specified in Section 3.02, the Issuer shall execute and the Note Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes in authorized Initial
Note Principal Balances evidencing the same Class and aggregate Percentage Interests. 
  
 Subject to the foregoing, at the option of the Noteholders, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of like tenor and in authorized Initial Note Principal Balances evidencing the same Class and aggregate Percentage
Interests upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at the office specified in Section 3.02. Whenever any Notes are so surrendered for exchange, the Issuer shall execute and the Securities Administrator shall authenticate and deliver the
Notes that the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Each Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall (if so required by the Note Registrar) be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form reasonably satisfactory to the Note Registrar duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing with such signature guaranteed by a commercial bank or trust company. Notes delivered upon
any such transfer or exchange shall evidence the same obligations, and shall be entitled to the same rights and privileges, as the Notes surrendered. 
  
 No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Note Registrar shall require payment of a sum sufficient to
cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes. 
  
 The Issuer hereby appoints the Securities Administrator as (a) Certificate Registrar to keep at the office of its designated agent, as specified in
Section 3.02, a Certificate Register pursuant to Section 3.04 of the Trust Agreement in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of
transfers and exchanges thereof pursuant to Section 3.04 of the Trust Agreement and (b) Note Registrar under this Indenture. The Securities Administrator hereby accepts such appointments. 
  
 (c) Any Retained Notes will be subject to same restrictions and consequences
discussed in Section 2.07 and Section 3.04 (with respect to transfers to a REIT or Qualified REIT Subsidiary) of the Trust Agreement that are applicable to the Certificates unless either (a) as of the date such Retained Notes are sold
or otherwise transferred: (i) the owner of the Certificates is (x) a REIT, (y) a Qualified REIT Subsidiary or (z) an entity that is disregarded for United States federal income tax purposes that is wholly owned by a REIT or a
Qualified REIT Subsidiary; (ii) no modifications have been made to the Basic Documents as of the date of such sale or transfer; (iii) the rating of the Retained Notes as of the date of such sale or transfer is not lower than the rating for
such Retained Note as of the Closing Date; and (iv) no adverse changes have been made to (or that would adversely affect the application of) the legal authorities applicable to the Closing Date tax opinions or (b) a “will be
debt” tax opinion is delivered with respect to such Retained Notes from a law firm generally recognized to be qualified to opine concerning the tax aspects of asset securitization. 
  

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 (d) No transfer, sale, pledge or other disposition of any Class N Note or interest therein shall be made
unless that transfer, sale, pledge or other disposition is exempt from the registration and/or qualification requirements of the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is otherwise made in accordance with the Securities Act and
such state securities laws. If a transfer of any Class N Note is to be made without registration under the Securities Act (other than in connection with the initial issuance thereof or a transfer thereof by the Depositor or one of its Affiliates),
then the Note Registrar shall refuse to register such transfer unless it receives (and upon receipt, may conclusively rely upon) a certificate from the Noteholder desiring to effect such transfer substantially in the form attached as Exhibit
C-1 hereto (which, in the case of Book-Entry Notes, the Note Owner will be deemed to have represented such certification) and a certificate from such Noteholder’s prospective transferee substantially in the form attached as Exhibit
C-2 hereto (which, in the case of the Book-Entry Notes, the Note Owner’s prospective transferee will be deemed to have represented such certification). None of the Issuer, the Depositor, the Indenture Trustee or the Note Registrar is
obligated to register or qualify any Notes under the Securities Act or any other securities law or to take any action not otherwise required under this Indenture to permit the transfer of any Note or interest therein without registration or
qualification. Any Noteholder desiring to effect a transfer of Notes or interests therein shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Depositor, the Securities Administrator, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and the Note
Registrar against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with such federal and state laws. 
  
 (e) Notwithstanding the foregoing, neither an Opinion of Counsel nor a certification will be required in connection with the initial transfer of any Class
N Note by the Depositor to an Affiliate of the Depositor or by an Affiliate to another Affiliate (in which case, the Depositor or any Affiliate thereof shall be deemed to have represented that such Affiliate is not a Plan or any Person investing
“plan assets” of any Plan) and the Note Registrar shall be entitled to conclusively rely upon a representation (which, upon the request of the Note Registrar, shall be a written representation) from the Depositor of the status of such
transferee as an Affiliate of the Depositor. 
  
 Section 4.03.
Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes. If (a) any mutilated Note is surrendered to the Securities Administrator or the Securities Administrator receives evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Note and
(b) there is delivered to the Securities Administrator such security or indemnity as may be required by it to hold the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Issuer, the
Note Registrar or the Securities Administrator that such Note has been acquired by a protected investor and provided that the requirements of Section 8-405 of the UCC are met, the Issuer shall execute, and upon its request, the Securities
Administrator shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a replacement Note; provided, however, that if any such destroyed, lost or stolen Note — but not a mutilated
Note — shall have become, or within seven days shall be, due and payable, instead of issuing a replacement Note, the Issuer may pay such destroyed, lost or stolen Note when so due or payable without surrender thereof. If, after the delivery of
such replacement Note or payment of a destroyed, lost or stolen Note pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, a protected investor of the original Note in lieu of which such replacement Note was issued presents for payment such original
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recover such replacement Note (or such payment) from the Person to whom it was delivered or any Person taking such replacement Note from such Person to whom
such replacement Note was delivered or any assignee of such Person, except a protected investor, and shall be entitled to recover upon the security or indemnity provided therefor to the extent of any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred by the
Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator in connection therewith. 
  
 Upon the issuance of any replacement Note under this Section 4.03, the Issuer may require the payment by the Holder of such Note of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be
imposed in relation thereto and any other reasonable expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Securities Administrator) connected therewith. 
  
 Every replacement Note issued pursuant to this Section 4.03 in replacement of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall constitute an
original additional contractual obligation of the Issuer, whether or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and
proportionately with any and all other Notes duly issued hereunder. 
  
 The provisions of this Section 4.03 are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes. 
  
 Section 4.04. Persons Deemed Owners. Prior to due presentment for
registration of transfer of any Note, the Issuer, the Securities Administrator, the Paying Agent and any agent of the Issuer or the Securities Administrator may treat the Person in whose name any Note is registered (as of the day of determination)
as the owner of such Note for the purpose of receiving payments of principal of and interest, if any, on such Note and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Note be overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee, the
Securities Administrator, the Paying Agent or any agent of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator shall be affected by notice to the contrary. 
  
 Section 4.05. Cancellation. All Notes surrendered for payment, registration of transfer, exchange or redemption
shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Securities Administrator, be delivered to the Securities Administrator and shall be promptly cancelled by the Securities Administrator. The Issuer may, at any time, deliver to the Securities
Administrator for cancellation any Notes previously authenticated and delivered hereunder that the Issuer may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Notes so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Securities Administrator. No Notes
shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Notes cancelled as provided in this Section 4.05, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All cancelled Notes may be held or disposed of by the Securities Administrator in
accordance with its standard retention or disposal policy as in effect at the time unless the Issuer shall direct by an Issuer Request that they be destroyed or returned to it; provided, however, that such Issuer Request is timely and the
Notes have not been previously disposed of by the Securities Administrator. 
  
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Depository Trust Company, the initial Depository, by, or on behalf of, the Issuer. The Notes shall initially be registered on the Note Register in the name
of Cede & Co., the nominee of the initial Depository, and no Beneficial Owner shall receive a Definitive Note representing such Beneficial Owner’s interest in such Note, except as provided in Section 4.08. With respect to such
Notes, unless and until definitive, fully registered Notes (the “Definitive Notes”) have been issued to Beneficial Owners pursuant to Section 4.08: 
  
 (a) the provisions of this Section 4.06 shall be in full force and effect; 
  
 (b) the Note Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, the Paying Agent and the
Securities Administrator shall be entitled to deal with the Depository for all purposes of this Indenture (including the payment of principal of and interest on the Notes and the giving of instructions or directions hereunder) as the sole holder of
the Notes and shall have no obligation to the Beneficial Owners of the Notes; 
  
 (c) to the extent that the provisions of this Section 4.06 conflict with any other provisions of this Indenture, the provisions of this Section 4.06 shall control; 
  
 (d) the rights of Beneficial Owners shall be exercised only through the
Depository and shall be limited to those established by law and agreements between such Owners of Notes and the Depository and/or the Depository Participants. Unless and until Definitive Notes are issued pursuant to Section 4.08, the initial
Depository shall make book-entry transfers among the Depository Participants and receive and transmit payments of principal of and interest on the Notes to such Depository Participants; and 
  
 (e) whenever this Indenture requires or permits actions to be taken based
upon instructions or directions of Holders of Notes evidencing a specified percentage of the Note Principal Balances of the Notes, the Depository shall be deemed to represent such percentage with respect to the Notes only to the extent that it has
received instructions to such effect from Beneficial Owners and/or Depository Participants owning or representing, respectively, such required percentage of the beneficial interest in the Notes and has delivered such instructions to the Securities
Administrator and the Indenture Trustee, as required by this Indenture. 
  
 Section 4.07. Notices to Depository. Whenever a notice or other communication to the Note Holders is required under this Indenture, unless and until Definitive Notes shall have been issued to Beneficial Owners pursuant to
Section 4.08, the Indenture Trustee or Securities Administrator, as applicable, shall give all such notices and communications specified herein to be given to Holders of the Notes to the Depository, and shall have no obligation to the
Beneficial Owners. 
  
 Section 4.08. Definitive Notes. If
(a) the Depositor advises the Securities Administrator in writing that the Depository is no longer willing or able to properly discharge its responsibilities with respect to the Book-Entry Notes and the Depositor is unable to locate a qualified
successor within 30 days or (b) the Depositor notifies the Indenture Trustee and the Depository of its intent to terminate the book-entry system through the Depository and, upon receipt of notice of such intent from the Depository, the
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typewritten Notes representing the Book-Entry Notes by the Depository, accompanied by registration instructions, the Issuer shall execute and the Securities
Administrator shall authenticate the Definitive Notes in accordance with the instructions of the Depository. None of the Issuer, the Note Registrar or the Securities Administrator shall be liable for any delay in delivery of such instructions and
may conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in relying on, such instructions. Upon the issuance of Definitive Notes, the Securities Administrator shall recognize the Holders of the Definitive Notes as Noteholders. 
  
 In addition, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, each Note
Owner materially adversely affected thereby may, at its option, request a Definitive Note evidencing such Noteholder’s interest in the related Class of Notes. In order to make such request, such Noteholder shall, subject to the rules and
procedures of the Depository, provide the Depository or the related Depository Participant with instructions for the Securities Administrator to exchange or cause the exchange of the Noteholder’s interest in such Class of Notes for an
equivalent interest in fully registered definitive form. Upon receipt by the Securities Administrator of instructions from the Depository directing the Securities Administrator to effect such exchange (such instructions to contain information
regarding the Class of Notes and the Note Principal Balance being exchanged, the Depository Participant account to be debited with the decrease, the registered holder of and delivery instructions for the Definitive Note, and any other information
reasonably required by the Securities Administrator), (x) the Securities Administrator shall instruct the Depository to reduce the related Depository Participant’s account by the aggregate Note Principal Balance of the Definitive Note,
(y) the Securities Administrator shall execute, authenticate and deliver, in accordance with the registration and delivery instructions provided by the Depository, a Definitive Note evidencing such Noteholder’s interest in such Class of
Notes and (z) the Securities Administrator shall execute and authenticate a new Book-Entry Note reflecting the reduction in the Note Principal Balance of such Class of Notes by the amount of the Definitive Notes. 
  
 Section 4.09. Tax Treatment. The Issuer has entered into this
Indenture, and the Notes shall be issued with the intention that, for federal, state and local income, single-business and franchise tax purposes, the Notes shall qualify as indebtedness. The Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Securities
Administrator (in accordance with Section 6.06 hereof), by entering into this Indenture, and each Noteholder, by its acceptance of its Note (and each Beneficial Owner, by its acceptance of an interest in the applicable Book-Entry Note), agree
to treat the Notes, for federal, state and local income, single-business and franchise tax purposes, as indebtedness (except any Retained Note will not be treated as issued and outstanding for federal income tax purposes). It is intended that the
Issuer shall be a “qualified REIT subsidiary” (within the meaning of Section 856(i) of the Code) for United States federal income tax purposes. 
  

Section 4.10. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. This Indenture shall cease to be of further effect with respect to the Notes except as to
(a) rights of registration of transfer and exchange, (b) substitution of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes, (c) rights of Noteholders to receive payments of principal thereof and interest thereon, (d) Sections 3.03,
3.04, 3.06, 3.09, 3.17, 3.19 and 3.20, (e) the rights, obligations (to the extent applicable to the provisions of the Indenture remaining in effect) and immunities of the Indenture Trustee and Securities Administrator hereunder (including the
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Section 4.11), and (f) the rights of Noteholders as beneficiaries hereof with respect to any property deposited with the Indenture Trustee payable
to all or any of them, and the Indenture Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Issuer, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to the Notes and shall release and deliver, or
cause the Custodian to deliver, the Collateral to or upon the order of the Issuer, when: 
  
 (i) either: 
  
 (A) all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (1) Notes that have been destroyed, lost or stolen and that have been replaced or
paid as provided in Section 4.03 hereof and (2) Notes for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Issuer and thereafter repaid to the Issuer or discharged from such trust, as
provided in Section 3.03) have been delivered to the Securities Administrator for cancellation; or 
  
 (B) all Notes not theretofore delivered to the Securities Administrator for cancellation 
  
 (1) have become due and payable, 
  
 (2) shall become due and payable at the Final Scheduled Payment Date within one year, or 
  
 (3) have been called for early redemption and the Trust has
been terminated pursuant to Section 8.07 hereof, 
  
 and
the Issuer, in the case of (B)(1) or (2) above, has irrevocably deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited with the Securities Administrator, cash or direct obligations of or obligations guaranteed by the United States of America (which
shall mature prior to the date such amounts are payable), in trust for such purpose, in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Notes then outstanding not theretofore delivered to the Securities Administrator for
cancellation when due on the Final Scheduled Payment Date or other final Payment Date and has delivered to the Securities Administrator and the Indenture Trustee a verification report from a nationally recognized accounting firm certifying that the
amounts deposited with the Securities Administrator are sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness of such Notes, or, in the case of (2)c. above, the Issuer shall have complied with all requirements of Section 8.07 hereof,

  
 (ii) the Issuer has paid or caused to be paid
all other sums payable hereunder; and 
  
 (iii)
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stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with and, if the
Opinion of Counsel relates to a deposit made in connection with Section 4.10(i)(B)(2) above, stating that such deposit shall constitute an “in-substance defeasance” within the meaning of Revenue Ruling 85-42, 1985-1 C.B. 36, and in
accordance therewith, the Issuer shall be the owner of the assets deposited in trust for federal income tax purposes. 
  
 Section 4.11. Application of Trust Money. All monies deposited with the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 4.10 hereof shall be held
in trust and applied by it, to the extent not otherwise applied to reimburse the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator for any amounts due and owing to such parties pursuant to this Indenture or any other amount excluded by definition
from Interest Funds and Principal Funds for such Payment Date, in accordance with the provisions of the Notes and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent or the Issuer, Certificate Paying Agent as designee of the
Issuer, as the Securities Administrator may determine, to the Holders of Securities, of all sums due and to become due thereon for principal and interest or otherwise; but such monies need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent
required herein or by law. 
  
 Section 4.12. [Reserved].

  
 Section 4.13. Repayment of Monies Held by Paying Agent.
In connection with the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to the Notes, all monies then held by any Person other than the Securities Administrator under the provisions of this Indenture with respect to such Notes shall, upon
demand of the Issuer, be paid to the Securities Administrator to be held and applied according to Section 3.05, and thereupon, such Person shall be released from all further liability with respect to such monies. 
  
 Section 4.14. Temporary Notes. Pending the preparation of any
Definitive Notes, the Issuer may execute and, upon its written direction, the Securities Administrator may authenticate and make available for delivery, temporary Notes that are printed, lithographed, typewritten, photocopied or similarly produced,
in any denomination, substantially of the tenor of the Definitive Notes in lieu of which they are issued and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the officers executing such Notes may determine, as
evidenced by their execution of such Notes. 
  
 If temporary Notes
are issued, the Issuer shall cause Definitive Notes to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of the Definitive Notes, the temporary Notes shall be exchangeable for Definitive Notes upon surrender of the temporary Notes at the
Corporate Trust Office of the Securities Administrator, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Notes, the Issuer shall execute, and the Securities Administrator shall authenticate and make
available for delivery, in exchange therefor, Definitive Notes of authorized denominations and of like tenor, class and aggregate principal amount. Until so exchanged, such temporary Notes shall, in all respects, be entitled to the same benefits
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 Section 4.15. Representation Regarding ERISA. 
  
 (a) By acquiring a Note or interest therein, each Holder of such Note or
Beneficial Owner of any such interest shall be deemed to represent that either (a) it is not acquiring the Note with Plan Assets or (b) (i) the acquisition, holding and transfer of such Note shall not give rise to a nonexempt
prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code and (ii) the Notes are rated investment grade or better and such person believes that the Notes are properly treated as indebtedness without substantial
equity features for purposes of the Department of Labor regulation 29 C.F.R. § 2510.3-101, and such Holder agrees to so treat the Notes. Alternatively, regardless of the rating of the Notes, such person may provide the Securities Administrator
and the Owner Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel, which Opinion of Counsel shall not be at the expense of the Issuer, the Depositor, the Seller, any Underwriter, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator, the Master
Servicer, the Servicer, or the Subservicer, which opines that the acquisition, holding and transfer of such Note or interest therein is permissible under applicable law, shall not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under
ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code and shall not subject the Issuer, the Seller, the Depositor, any Underwriter, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator, the Master Servicer, the Servicer or the Subservicer to any
obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Indenture and the other Basic Documents. 
  
 (b) Any Retained Notes will be subject to same restrictions and consequences discussed in Section 3.04 (with respect to ERISA restrictions) of the Trust Agreement that are applicable to the Certificates unless
either (a) as of the date such Retained Notes are sold or otherwise transferred: (i) the owner of the Certificates is (x) a REIT, (y) a Qualified REIT Subsidiary or (z) an entity that is disregarded for United States federal
income tax purposes that is wholly owned by a REIT or a Qualified REIT Subsidiary; (ii) no modifications have been made to the Basic Documents as of the date of such sale or transfer; (iii) the rating of the Retained Notes as of the date
of such sale or transfer is not lower than the rating for such Retained Note as of the Closing Date; and (iv) no adverse changes have been made to (or that would adversely affect the application of) the legal authorities applicable to the
Closing Date tax opinions or (b) a “will be debt” tax opinion with respect to such Retained Notes is delivered from a law firm generally recognized to be qualified to opine concerning the tax aspects of asset securitization.

  

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 ARTICLE V 
  

DEFAULT AND REMEDIES 
  
 Section 5.01. Events of Default. The Issuer shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee, within five days after learning of the occurrence of an Event
of Default, written notice, in the form of an Officer’s Certificate, of any event that, with the giving of notice, the lapse of time or both, would become an Event of Default under clause (iii), (iv) or (v) of the definition of
“Event of Default,” including the status thereof and what action the Issuer is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto. The Indenture Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any Event of Default unless a Responsible
Officer has actual knowledge thereof or unless written notice of such Event of Default is received by a Responsible Officer and such notice references the Notes, the Trust Estate or this Indenture. 
  
 Section 5.02. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment. If
an Event of Default should occur and be continuing, then and in every such case the Indenture Trustee, at the written direction of the Holders of Notes representing not less than a majority of the aggregate Note Principal Balance of the Notes, may
declare the Notes to be immediately due and payable by a notice in writing to the Issuer (and to the Indenture Trustee, if such notice is given by Noteholders), and upon any such declaration, the unpaid Note Principal Balance of the Notes, together
with accrued and unpaid interest thereon through the date of acceleration, shall become immediately due and payable; provided, however, that, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in the case of an Event of Default arising solely
from a failure to make required payments on the Class N Notes, such acceleration may not be declared and the exercise of the remedies described in this Article V shall not be undertaken without the written direction of both (a) the Holders of
Offered Notes representing not less than a majority of the aggregate Note Principal Balance of the Offered Notes and (b) the Holders of Class N Notes representing not less than a majority of the aggregate Note Principal Balance of the Class N
Notes. 
  
 At any time after such declaration of acceleration of
maturity with respect to an Event of Default has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Indenture Trustee as hereinafter in this Article V provided, Holders of the Notes representing not less
than a majority of the aggregate Note Principal Balance of the Notes, by written notice to the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, may, subject to Section 5.12, waive the related Event of Default and rescind and annul such declaration and its
consequences if the Issuer has paid or deposited with the Indenture Trustee or Securities Administrator a sum sufficient to pay: 
  
 (a) all payments of principal of and interest on the Notes and all other amounts that would then be due hereunder or upon the Notes if the Event of
Default giving rise to such acceleration had not occurred; 
  
 (b)
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 (c) all Events of Default, other than the nonpayment of the principal of the Notes that has become due
solely by such acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 5.12. 
  
 No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereto. 
  
 Section 5.03. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Indenture Trustee. 
  
 (a) The Issuer covenants that if (i) default is made in the payment of
any interest on any Note when the same becomes due and payable and such default continues for a period of five days, or (ii) default is made in the payment of the principal of or any installment of the principal of any Note when the same
becomes due and payable, the Issuer shall, upon demand of the Indenture Trustee, acting at the direction of the Holders of a majority of the aggregate Note Principal Balances of the Notes, pay to the Securities Administrator, for the benefit of the
Holders of Notes, the whole amount then due and payable on the Notes for principal and interest, with interest at the applicable Note Rate upon the overdue principal, and in addition thereto such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the
costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Indenture Trustee and its agents and counsel. 
  
 (b) In case the Issuer shall fail forthwith to pay such amounts upon such demand, the Indenture Trustee, as trustee of an
express trust, subject to the provisions of Section 10.16 hereof may institute a Proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute such Proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may enforce the same against the
Issuer or other obligor upon the Notes and collect in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Issuer or other obligor the Notes, wherever situated, the monies adjudged or decreed to be payable. 
  
 (c) If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee,
subject to the provisions of Section 10.16 hereof may, as more particularly provided in Section 5.04 hereof, in its discretion, proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Noteholders, by such appropriate Proceedings,
as directed in writing by Holders of a majority of the aggregate Note Principal Balances of the Notes, to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the
exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy or legal or equitable right vested in the Indenture Trustee by this Indenture or by law. 
  
 (d) In case there shall be pending, relative to the Issuer or any other obligor upon the Notes or any Person having or
claiming an ownership interest in the Trust Estate, Proceedings under Title 11 of the United States Code or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law, or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy
or reorganization, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or taken possession of the Issuer or its property or such other obligor or Person, or in case of any other comparable judicial Proceedings relative to the
Issuer or other obligor upon the Notes, or to the creditors or property of the Issuer or such other obligor, the Indenture Trustee, as directed in writing by Holders of a majority of the aggregate Note Principal Balances of the Notes, 

  

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irrespective of whether the principal of any Notes shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of
whether the Indenture Trustee shall have made any demand pursuant to the provisions of this Section, shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such Proceedings or otherwise: 
  
 (i) to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of principal and interest owing and unpaid in
respect of the Notes and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Indenture Trustee (including any claim for reasonable compensation to the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor
Indenture Trustee, and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and for reimbursement of all expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee, except as a result of
negligence or bad faith) and of the Noteholders allowed in such Proceedings; 
  
 (ii) unless prohibited by applicable law and regulations, to vote on behalf of the Holders of Notes in any election of a trustee, a standby trustee or Person performing similar functions in any such Proceedings;

  
 (iii) to collect and receive any monies or
other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute all amounts received with respect to the claims of the Noteholders and of the Indenture Trustee on their behalf, and 
  
 (iv) to file such proofs of claim and other papers or
documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Indenture Trustee or the Holders of Notes allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Issuer, its creditors and its property; 
  
 and any trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official in any such
Proceeding is hereby authorized by each of such Noteholders to make payments to the Securities Administrator and, in the event that the Indenture Trustee shall consent to the making of payments directly to such Noteholders, to pay to the Indenture
Trustee such amounts as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Indenture Trustee, each predecessor Indenture Trustee and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other expenses and liabilities incurred, and all
advances made, by the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee. 
  
 (e) Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Indenture Trustee to authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt on behalf of any Noteholder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment
or composition affecting the Notes or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Indenture Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Noteholder in any such proceeding except, as aforesaid, to vote for the election of a trustee in
bankruptcy or similar Person. 
  
 (f) All rights of action and of
asserting claims under this Indenture, or under any of the Notes, may be enforced by the Indenture Trustee without the possession of any of the Notes or the production thereof in any trial or other Proceedings relative thereto, and any such action
or proceedings instituted by the Indenture Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment, subject to the payment of the expenses, disbursements and compensation of the Indenture Trustee, each
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and their respective agents and attorneys, shall be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes, subject to Section 5.05 hereof. 
  
 (g) In any Proceedings brought by the Indenture Trustee (and also any
Proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to which the Indenture Trustee shall be a party), the Indenture Trustee shall be held to represent all the Holders of the Notes, and it shall not be necessary to make any
Noteholder a party to any such Proceedings. 
  
 Section 5.04.
Remedies; Priorities. (a) If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and if an acceleration has been declared and not rescinded pursuant to Section 5.02 hereof, the Indenture Trustee subject to the provisions of
Section 10.16 hereof may, and shall, at the written direction of the Holders of a majority of the aggregate Note Principal Balances of the Notes (subject to Section 6.02(k)) do one or more of the following (subject to Section 5.05
hereof): 
  
 (i) institute Proceedings in its own
name and as trustee of an express trust for the collection of all amounts then payable on the Notes or under this Indenture with respect thereto, whether by declaration or otherwise, enforce any judgment obtained and collect from the Issuer and any
other obligor upon such Notes monies adjudged due; 
  
 (ii) institute Proceedings from time to time for the complete or partial foreclosure of this Indenture with respect to the Trust Estate; 
  
 (iii) exercise any remedies of a secured party under the UCC and take any other appropriate action to protect and enforce the rights and
remedies of the Indenture Trustee and the Holders of the Notes; and 
  
 (iv) sell the Trust Estate or any portion thereof or rights or interest therein, at one or more public or private sales called and conducted in any manner permitted by law; 
  
 provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee may not sell or otherwise liquidate the
Trust Estate following an Event of Default, unless (A) the Indenture Trustee obtains the consent of the Holders of 100% of the aggregate Note Principal Balance of the Notes, (B) the proceeds of such sale or liquidation distributable to the
Holders of the Notes are sufficient to discharge in full all amounts then due and unpaid upon such Notes for principal and interest or (C) the Indenture Trustee determines that the Mortgage Loans shall not continue to provide sufficient funds
for the payment of principal of and interest on the applicable Notes as they would have become due if the Notes had not been declared due and payable, and the Indenture Trustee obtains the consent of Holders of 66-2/3% of the aggregate Note
Principal Balance of the Notes. In determining such sufficiency or insufficiency with respect to clause (B) and (C), the Indenture Trustee may, but need not, obtain and rely upon an opinion (obtained at the expense of the Trust) of an
Independent investment banking or accounting firm of national reputation as to the feasibility of such proposed action and as to the sufficiency of the Trust Estate for such purpose. Notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as an “Event of
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 (b) If the Indenture Trustee or Securities Administrator collects any money or property pursuant to this
Article V, the Securities Administrator shall pay out the money or property in the following order: 
  
 FIRST, to the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator for amounts due under Section 6.07 hereof or the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, to the Master Servicer for amounts due under the Sale and Servicing Agreement, to the Servicer, for amounts due under the Servicing Agreement, to the Custodian for amounts due under Section 3.4 of the Custodial Agreement and to the
Swap Provider any Net Swap Payments or Swap Termination Payment (other than a Swap Termination Payment triggered by a Swap Provider Trigger Event) due under the Swap Agreement; 
  
 SECOND, to the Holders of the Offered Notes for amounts due and unpaid on the Offered Notes with respect to
interest (not including any Basis Risk Shortfall Carry-Forward Amounts or Deferred Interest), first, concurrently to the Class 1A Noteholders and Class 2A Noteholders pro rata based on the entitlement of each such Class to payments of
interest, and second, sequentially, to the Class M1 Noteholders, Class M2 Noteholders, Class M3 Noteholders, Class M4 Noteholders, Class M5 Noteholders, Class M6 Noteholders, Class M7 Noteholders, Class M8 Noteholders, Class M9 Noteholders, Class
M10 and Class M11 Noteholders, in that order, according to the amounts due and payable on such Notes for interest; 
  
 THIRD, (a) to the Holders of the Class A Notes, pro rata, until the Note Principal Balance of each Class of the
Class A Notes is reduced to zero, and (b) thereafter, to the Holders of each of the Class M1, Class M2, Class M3, Class M4, Class M5, Class M6, Class M7, Class M8, Class M9, Class M10 and Class M11 Notes, sequentially, in that order, until
the Note Principal Balance of each such Class is reduced to zero; 
  
 FOURTH, to the Holders of the Offered Notes, first, to the Class M1 Noteholders, second, to the Class M2 Noteholders, third, to the Class M3 Noteholders, fourth, to the Class M4 Noteholders, fifth, to the Class M5
Noteholders, sixth, to the Class M6 Noteholders, seventh, to the Class M7 Noteholders, eighth, to the Class M8 Noteholders, ninth, to the Class M9 Noteholders, tenth, to the Class M10 Noteholders, eleventh, to the Class M11 Noteholders, the amount
of any related Deferred Interest not previously paid; 
  
 FIFTH, to the Holders of the Offered Notes for amounts due and unpaid on the Notes with respect to any related Basis Risk Shortfall Carry-Forward Amounts, first, to the Class 1A Noteholders and Class 2A Noteholders, pro rata, based
on the entitlement of each such Class to Basis Risk Shortfall Carry-Forward Amounts, second, to the Class M1 Noteholders, third, to the Class M2 Noteholders, fourth, to the Class M3 Noteholders, fifth, to the Class M4 Noteholders, sixth, to the
Class M5 Noteholders, seventh, to the Class M6 Noteholders, eighth, to the Class M7 Noteholders, ninth, to the Class M8 Noteholders, tenth, to the Class M9 Noteholders, eleventh, to the Class M10 Noteholders, and twelfth, to the Class M11
Noteholders; 
  
 SIXTH, to the Swap Provider, any
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 SEVENTH, to the Holders of the Class N Notes, first, to pay any accrued and unpaid Class
N Interest Payment Amount and second, to pay principal of the Class N Notes until the related Note Principal Balance is reduced to zero; and 
  
 EIGHTH, to the payment of the remainder, if any, to the Certificate Paying Agent on behalf of the Issuer or to any other person legally
entitled thereto. 
  
 The Securities Administrator may fix a
record date and Payment Date for any payment to Noteholders pursuant to this Section 5.04. At least 15 days before such record date, the Securities Administrator shall mail to each Noteholder a notice that states the record date, the Payment
Date and the amount to be paid. 
  
 Section 5.05. Optional
Preservation of the Trust Estate. If the Notes have been declared to be due and payable under Section 5.02 following an Event of Default and such declaration and its consequences have not been rescinded and annulled, the Indenture Trustee
may elect to take and maintain possession of the Trust Estate. It is the desire of the parties hereto and the Noteholders that there be at all times sufficient funds for the payment of principal of and interest on the Notes and other obligations of
the Issuer, and the Indenture Trustee shall take such desire into account when determining whether or not to take and maintain possession of the Trust Estate. In determining whether to take and maintain possession of the Trust Estate, the Indenture
Trustee may, but need not, obtain and rely upon an opinion of an Independent investment banking or accounting firm of national reputation as to the feasibility of such proposed action and as to the sufficiency of the Trust Estate for such purpose.

  
 Section 5.06. Limitation of Suits. No Holder of any
Note shall have any right to institute any Proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless and subject to the provisions of
Section 10.16 hereof: 
  
 (a) such Holder has previously
given written notice to the Indenture Trustee of a continuing Event of Default; 
  
 (b) the Holders of not less than 50.01% of the aggregate Note Principal Balances of the Notes have made a written request to the Indenture Trustee to institute such Proceeding in respect of such Event of Default in
its own name as Indenture Trustee hereunder; 
  
 (c) such Holder
or Holders have offered to the Indenture Trustee indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in complying with such request; 
  
 (d) the Indenture Trustee, for 60 days after its receipt of such notice of request and offer of indemnity, has failed to
institute such Proceedings; and 
  
 (e) no direction inconsistent
with such written request has been given to the Indenture Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority of the Note Principal Balances of such Class of the Notes. 
  

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 It is understood and intended that no one or more Holders of Notes shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue
of, or by availing of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holders of Notes or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other Holders or to enforce any right under this
Indenture, except in the manner herein provided. 
  
 Subject to
the last paragraph of Section 5.11 herein, in the event the Indenture Trustee shall receive conflicting or inconsistent requests and indemnity from two or more groups of Holders of Notes, each representing less than a majority of the Note
Principal Balances of the Notes, the Indenture Trustee shall take such action as requested by the Holders representing the highest amount (in the aggregate) of Note Principal Balances notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture.

  
 Section 5.07. Unconditional Rights of Noteholders To
Receive Principal and Interest. Notwithstanding any other provisions in this Indenture, the Holder of any Note shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and interest on, if any, such Note
on or after the respective due dates thereof expressed in such Note or in this Indenture and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such right shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder. 
  
 Section 5.08. Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the Indenture
Trustee or any Noteholder has instituted any Proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such Proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason or has been determined adversely to the Indenture Trustee or to such
Noteholder, then and in every such case, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders shall, subject to any determination in such Proceeding, be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder, and thereafter, all
rights and remedies of the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders shall continue as though no such Proceeding had been instituted. 
  
 Section 5.09. Rights and Remedies Cumulative. No right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Indenture Trustee or to the Noteholders
is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in
equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy. 
  
 Section 5.10. Delay or Omission Not a Waiver. No delay or omission of
the Indenture Trustee or any Holder of any Note to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and
remedy given by this Article V or by law to the Indenture Trustee or to the Noteholders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Indenture Trustee or by the Noteholders, as the case may be. 
  
 Section 5.11. Control By Noteholders. The Holders of a majority of the
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Notes or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Indenture Trustee (subject to the Indenture Trustee’s right to receive indemnity, as provided
herein); provided that: 
  
 (a) such direction shall not be
in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture; 
  
 (b)
subject to the express terms of Section 5.04 any direction to the Indenture Trustee to sell or liquidate the Trust Estate shall be by Holders of Notes representing not less than 100% of the Note Principal Balances of the Notes; and 

 
 (c) the Indenture Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the
Indenture Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction of the Holders of Notes representing a majority of the Note Principal Balances of the Notes. 
  
 Notwithstanding the rights of Noteholders set forth in this Section 5.11, the Indenture Trustee need not take any action that it deems unduly prejudicial to any
Noteholder or that it determines might subject it to liability. 
  
 Section 5.12. Waiver of Past Defaults. Prior to the declaration of the acceleration of the maturity of the Notes as provided in Section 5.02 hereof, and as provided in and subject to Section 5.02(b) hereof, the Holders of
Notes representing not less than a majority of the aggregate Note Principal Balance of the Notes may waive any past Event of Default and its consequences except an Event of Default (a) with respect to payment of principal of or interest on any
of the Notes or (b) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof that cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Note. In the case of any such waiver, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Holders of the Notes
shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder, respectively, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereto. 
  
 Upon any such waiver, any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed
to have been cured and not to have occurred for every purpose of this Indenture, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereto. 
  
 Section 5.13. Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this Indenture
agree, and each Holder of any Note and each Beneficial Owner of any interest therein by such Holder’s or Beneficial Owner’s acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for
the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Indenture Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Indenture Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay
the costs of such suit and that such court may, in its discretion, assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses
made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section 5.13 shall not apply to (a) any suit instituted by the Indenture Trustee, (b) any suit instituted by any Noteholder, or group of Noteholders, in each case holding in the
aggregate more than 10% of the Note Principal Balances of the Notes or (c) any suit instituted by any Noteholder for the enforcement of the payment of principal of or interest on any Note on or after the respective due dates expressed in such
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 Section 5.14. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws. The Issuer covenants (to the extent that it may
lawfully do so) that it shall not at any time insist upon, or plead or in any manner whatsoever, claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, that may affect the
covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Issuer (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law and covenants that it shall not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any
power herein granted to the Indenture Trustee but shall suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted. 
  
 Section 5.15. Sale of Trust Estate. (a) The power to effect any sale or other disposition (a “Sale”) of any portion of the Trust
Estate pursuant to Section 5.04 hereof is expressly subject to the provisions of Section 5.05 hereof and this Section 5.15. The power to effect any such Sale shall not be exhausted by any one or more Sales as to any portion of the
Trust Estate remaining unsold but shall continue unimpaired until the entire Trust Estate shall have been sold or all amounts payable on the Notes and under this Indenture shall have been paid. The Indenture Trustee may from time to time postpone
any public Sale by public announcement made at the time and place of such Sale. The Indenture Trustee hereby expressly waives its right to any amount fixed by law as compensation for any Sale. 
  
 (b) The Indenture Trustee shall not, in any private Sale, sell the Trust
Estate or any portion thereof, unless 
  
 (i) the
Holders of all Notes consent to or direct the Indenture Trustee to make such Sale, or 
  
 (ii) the proceeds of such Sale would be not less than the entire amount which would be payable to the Noteholders under the Notes, in full
payment thereof in accordance with Section 5.02 hereof, on the Payment Date next succeeding the date of such Sale, or 
  
 (iii) the Indenture Trustee determines that the conditions for retention of the Trust Estate set forth in Section 5.05 hereof cannot
be satisfied (in making any such determination under clauses (ii) or (iii) of this Section 5.15(b), the Indenture Trustee may rely upon an opinion of an Independent investment banking firm obtained and delivered as provided in
Section 5.05 hereof) and the Holders of Notes representing at least 66-2/3% of the Note Principal Balances of the Notes consent to such Sale. 
  
 The purchase by the Indenture Trustee of all or any portion of the Trust Estate at a private Sale shall not be deemed a Sale or other disposition thereof for purposes of
this Section 5.15(b). 
  
 (c) Unless the Holders representing
at least 66-2/3% of the Note Principal Balances of the Notes have otherwise consented or directed the Indenture Trustee, at any public Sale of all or any portion of the Trust Estate at which a minimum bid equal to or greater than the amount
described in paragraph (ii) of subsection (b) of this Section 5.15 has not been established by the Indenture Trustee and no Person bids an amount equal to or greater than such amount, the Indenture Trustee, acting in its capacity as
Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Noteholders, shall bid an amount (which shall include the Indenture Trustee’s right, in its capacity as Indenture Trustee, to credit bid) at least $1.00 more than the highest other bid in order to preserve the
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Estate on behalf of the Noteholders; provided that sufficient funds are in the Trust Estate to make such bid. 
  
 (d) In connection with a Sale of all or any portion of the Trust Estate,

  
 (i) any Holder or Holders of Notes may bid
for and purchase the property offered for sale, and upon compliance with the terms of sale may hold, retain and possess and dispose of such property, without further accountability, and may, in paying the purchase money therefor, deliver any Notes
or claims for interest thereon in lieu of cash up to the amount which shall, upon distribution of the net proceeds of such sale, be payable thereon, and such Notes, in case the amounts so payable thereon shall be less than the amount due thereon,
shall be returned to the Holders thereof after being appropriately stamped to show such partial payment; 
  
 (ii) the Indenture Trustee, may bid for and acquire the property offered for Sale in connection with any Sale thereof and, subject to any
requirements of, and to the extent permitted by, applicable law in connection therewith, may purchase all or any portion of the Trust Estate in a private sale and, in lieu of paying cash therefor, may make settlement for the purchase price by
crediting the gross Sale price against the sum of (A) the amount that would be distributable to the Holders of the Notes and Holders of Certificates as a result of such sale on the Payment Date next succeeding the date of such Sale and
(B) the expenses of the Sale and of any Proceedings in connection therewith which are reimbursable to it, without being required to produce the Notes in order to complete any such Sale or in order for the net Sale price to be credited against
such Notes, and any property so acquired by the Indenture Trustee shall be held and dealt with by it in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture; 
  
 (iii) the Indenture Trustee shall execute and deliver an appropriate instrument of conveyance, prepared by the Issuer and satisfactory to
the Indenture Trustee, transferring its interest in any portion of the Trust Estate in connection with a Sale thereof; 
  
 (iv) the Indenture Trustee is hereby irrevocably appointed the agent and attorney-in-fact of the Issuer to transfer and convey its
interest in any portion of the Trust Estate in connection with a Sale thereof and to take all action necessary to effect such Sale; and 
  
 (v) no purchaser or transferee at such a Sale shall be bound to ascertain the Indenture Trustee’s authority, inquire into the
satisfaction of any conditions precedent or see to the application of any monies. 
  
 Section 5.16. Action on Notes. The Indenture Trustee’s right to seek and recover judgment on the Notes or under this Indenture shall not be affected by the seeking, obtaining or application of any other
relief under or with respect to this Indenture. Neither the lien of this Indenture nor any rights or remedies of the Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders shall be impaired by the recovery of any judgment by the Indenture Trustee against the Issuer
or by the levy of any execution under such judgment upon any portion of the Trust Estate or upon any of the assets of the Issuer. Any money or property collected by the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator shall be applied by the
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 Section 5.17. Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations. (a) Promptly following a
request from the Indenture Trustee to do so, the Issuer, in its capacity as holder of the Mortgage Loans, shall take all such lawful action as the Indenture Trustee may request to cause the Issuer to compel or secure the performance and observance
by the Seller, the Master Servicer, the Servicer and the Subservicer as applicable, of each of their obligations to the Issuer under or in connection with the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Servicing
Agreement and to exercise any and all rights, remedies, powers and privileges lawfully available to the Issuer under or in connection with the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Servicing Agreement, to the
extent and in the manner directed by the Indenture Trustee, as pledgee of the Mortgage Loans, including the transmission of notices of default on the part of the Seller, the Master Servicer, the Servicer and the Subservicer thereunder and the
institution of legal or administrative actions or proceedings to compel or secure performance by the Seller, the Master Servicer, the Servicer and the Subservicer of each of their obligations under the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, the Sale and
Servicing Agreement and the Servicing Agreement. 
  
 (b) The
Indenture Trustee, as pledgee of the Mortgage Loans, may, and at the direction (which direction shall be in writing or by telephone (confirmed in writing promptly thereafter)) of the Holders of a majority of the Note Principal Balances of the Notes
(subject to Section 6.02(k)) shall, exercise all rights, remedies, powers, privileges and claims of the Issuer against the Seller, the Master Servicer, the Servicer or the Subservicer under or in connection with the Mortgage Loan Purchase
Agreement, the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Servicing Agreement, including the right or power to take any action to compel or secure performance or observance by the Seller, the Master Servicer, the Servicer or the Subservicer, as the case
may be, of each of their obligations to the Issuer thereunder and to give any consent, request, notice, direction, approval, extension or waiver under the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Servicing
Agreement, as the case may be, and any right of the Issuer to take such action shall not be suspended. 
  

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 ARTICLE VI 
  

THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE AND SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR 
  
 Section 6.01. Duties of Indenture Trustee and Securities Administrator. (a) If an Event of Default of which the
Indenture Trustee has actual knowledge or has received written notice has occurred and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee shall exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise
as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person’s own affairs. 
  
 (b) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default of which the Indenture Trustee has actual knowledge or has received written notice, in the case
of the Indenture Trustee and, at any time, in the case of the Securities Administrator: 
  
 (i) the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator undertake to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set
forth in this Indenture and the other Basic Documents to which it is a party, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture and the other Basic Documents against the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator; and

  
 (ii) in the absence of bad faith on its part,
the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator may each conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to each of the Indenture Trustee and
the Securities Administrator and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; however, the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator shall each examine the certificates and opinions to determine whether or not they conform on their
face to the requirements of this Indenture. 
  
 (c) The Indenture
Trustee and the Securities Administrator may not be relieved from liability for each of its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that: 
  
 (i) this paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph
(b) of this Section 6.01; 
  
 (ii)
neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer unless it is proved that the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, was
negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and 
  
 (iii) neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall be liable with respect to any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a direction received by it from Noteholders or from the Issuer, which
they are entitled to give under the Basic Documents. 
  
 (d) The
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 (e) Money held in trust by the Indenture Trustee need not be segregated from other trust funds except to
the extent required by law or the terms of this Indenture, the Sale and Servicing Agreement or the Trust Agreement. 
  
 (f) No provision of this Indenture shall require the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur
financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds to believe that repayment of such funds or indemnity satisfactory to it against such risk or
liability is not reasonably assured to it. 
  
 (g) Every provision
of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Indenture Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section and to the provisions of the TIA. 
  
 (h) The Indenture Trustee shall act in accordance with Sections 6.03 and 6.04
of the Sale and Servicing Agreement and shall act as successor to the Master Servicer or appoint a successor Master Servicer in accordance with Section 6.02 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. 
  
 (i) In order to comply with its duties under the USA Patriot Act of 2001, the
Indenture Trustee shall obtain and verify certain information and documentation from the other parties to this Indenture including, but not limited to, each such party’s name, address and other identifying information. 
  
 Section 6.02. Rights of Indenture Trustee and Securities
Administrator. Except as provided in Section 6.01: 
  
 (a) Each of the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator may rely on any document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper person. The Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator need
not investigate any fact or matter stated in the document. 
  
 (b)
Before the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator acts or refrains from acting, it may require an Officer’s Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel. Neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall be liable for any
action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on an Officer’s Certificate or Opinion of Counsel. 
  
 (c) Neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith which it
believes to be authorized or within its rights or powers; provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee’s or Securities Administrator’s conduct does not constitute willful misconduct, negligence or bad faith. 
  
 (d) The Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator may each consult
with counsel, and the advice or Opinion of Counsel (which shall not be at the expense of the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator) with respect to legal matters relating to this Indenture and the Notes shall be full and complete
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 (e) For the limited purpose of effecting any action to be undertaken by each of the Indenture Trustee and
the Securities Administrator, but not specifically as a duty of the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator in the Indenture, each of the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder
or perform any duties hereunder, either directly or by or through agents, attorneys, custodians or nominees appointed with due care and shall not be responsible for any willful misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent, attorney, custodian
or nominee so appointed. 
  
 (f) The Indenture Trustee or its
Affiliates are permitted to receive additional compensation that could be deemed to be in the Indenture Trustee’s economic self-interest for (i) serving as investment adviser, administrator, shareholder servicing agent, custodian or
sub-custodian with respect to certain of the Permitted Investments, (ii) using Affiliates to effect transactions in certain Permitted Investments and (iii) effecting transactions in certain Permitted Investments. Such compensation shall
not be considered an amount that is reimbursable or payable to the Indenture Trustee (x) pursuant to Sections 5.04(b) or 6.07 hereunder or (y) out of Interest Funds or Principal Funds. 
  
 (g) Anything in this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, in no event
shall the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator be liable for special, indirect or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including but not limited to lost profits), even if the Indenture Trustee or the Securities
Administrator, respectively, has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action. 
  
 (h) None of the Securities Administrator, the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee shall be responsible for the acts or omissions of the other, it being
understood that this Indenture shall not be construed to render them partners, joint venturers or agents of one another at any time. 
  
 (i) Neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall be required to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur financial
liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if there is reasonable ground for believing that the repayment of such funds or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against such risk
or liability is not reasonably assured to it, and none of the provisions contained in this Indenture shall in any event require the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator to perform, or be responsible for the manner of performance of, any
of the obligations of the Master Servicer under the Sale and Servicing Agreement, except during such time, if any, as the Indenture Trustee shall be the successor to, and be vested with the rights, duties, powers and privileges of, the Master
Servicer in accordance with the terms of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. 
  
 (j) Except for those actions that the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator are required to take hereunder, neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall have any obligation or
liability to take any action or to refrain from taking any action hereunder in the absence of written direction as provided hereunder. 
  
 (k) Neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall be under any obligation to exercise any of the trusts or powers vested in it by
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litigation hereunder or in relation hereto at the request, order or direction of any of the Noteholders pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture, unless
such Noteholders shall have offered to the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, reasonable security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities that may be incurred therein or
thereby. Nothing contained herein shall, however, relieve the Indenture Trustee of the obligation, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default of which a Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee has actual knowledge (which has not been cured or
waived), to exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and to use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise as a prudent person would exercise under the circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs.

  
 (l) Neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Securities
Administrator shall be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, approval, bond or other paper or document, unless
requested in writing to do so by Holders of Notes representing not less than 25% of the Note Principal Balance of the Notes and provided that the payment within a reasonable time to the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator, as
applicable, of the costs, expenses or liabilities likely to be incurred by it in the making of such investigation is, in the opinion of the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, reasonably assured to the Indenture Trustee
or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, by the security afforded to it by the terms of this Indenture. The Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator may require indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against such expense or
liability as a condition to taking any such action. The reasonable expense of every such examination shall be paid by the Noteholders requesting the investigation. 
  
 (m) Should the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator deem the nature of any action required on its part to be
unclear, the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator, respectively, may require, prior to such action, that it be provided by the Depositor with reasonable further instructions. 
  
 (n) The right of the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator to perform any discretionary act enumerated in this
Indenture shall not be construed as a duty, and neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall be accountable for other than its negligence or willful misconduct in the performance of any such act. 
  
 (o) Neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall be
required to give any bond or surety with respect to the execution of the trust created hereby or the powers granted hereunder. 
  
 (p) Neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall have any duty to conduct any affirmative investigation as to the occurrence of
any condition requiring the repurchase of any Mortgage Loan by the Seller pursuant to this Indenture or the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, as applicable, or the eligibility of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of this Indenture. 
  
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written notice thereof (making reference to this Indenture or the Notes) is received by the Indenture Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office. 
  
 Section 6.03. Individual Rights of Indenture Trustee. (a) The
Indenture Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Issuer or its Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Indenture Trustee, subject to the
requirements of the Trust Indenture Act. Any Note Registrar, co-registrar or co-paying agent may do the same with like rights. However, the Indenture Trustee must comply with Sections 6.11 and 6.12 hereof. 
  
 (b) The Securities Administrator in its individual or any other capacity may
become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Issuer or its Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Securities Administrator, subject to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act. 
  
 Section 6.04. Indenture Trustee’s and Securities Administrator’s
Disclaimers. Neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall be responsible for and makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy of this Indenture, the Notes or the other Basic Documents, neither shall be
accountable for the Issuer’s use of the proceeds from the Notes, and neither shall be responsible for any statement of the Issuer in the Indenture or in any document issued in connection with the sale of the Notes or in the Notes other than,
with respect to the Securities Administrator only, the Securities Administrator ‘s certificate of authentication. 
  
 Section 6.05. Notice of Event of Default. Subject to Section 5.01, the Indenture Trustee shall promptly mail to each Noteholder, at the
expense of the trust, notice of the Event of Default after a Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee obtains actual knowledge or written notice of such event, unless such Event of Default shall have been waived or cured. Except in the case of
an Event of Default in payment of principal of or interest on any Note, the Indenture Trustee may withhold the notice if and so long as a committee of its Responsible Officers in good faith determines that withholding the notice is in the interests
of Noteholders. 
  
 Section 6.06. Reports by Securities
Administrator to Holders and Tax Administration. The Securities Administrator shall deliver to each Noteholder such information as may be required and such other customary information as the Securities Administrator may determine and/or to be
required by the Internal Revenue Service or by a federal or state law or rules or regulations to enable such holder to prepare its federal and state income tax returns. 
  
 The Securities Administrator shall prepare and file (or cause to be prepared and filed), on behalf of the Owner Trustee, all
tax returns (if any) and information reports, tax elections and such annual or other reports of the Issuer as are necessary for preparation of tax returns and information reports as provided in Section 5.03 of the Trust Agreement, including
without limitation Form 1099. All tax returns and information reports shall be signed by the Owner Trustee as provided in Section 5.03 of the Trust Agreement. 
  
 Section 6.07. Compensation. An annual fee shall be paid to the Indenture Trustee by the Master Servicer pursuant to a
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entitled to recover from the Payment Account pursuant to Section 4.05(a) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses,
disbursements and advances and the expenses of the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator, respectively, in connection with any breach of this Indenture or any claim or legal action (including any pending or threatened claim or legal
action) or otherwise incurred or made by the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator, respectively, in the administration of the trusts hereunder or under any other Basic Document (including the reasonable compensation, expenses and
disbursements of its counsel) except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may arise from its own negligence or intentional misconduct or which is the responsibility of the Noteholders as provided herein. Such compensation and reimbursement
obligation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust. Additionally, each of the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator and any director, officer, employee or agent of the
Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator shall be indemnified by the Trust and held harmless against any loss, liability or expense (including reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses) incurred in the administration of the Basic
Documents (other than its ordinary out-of-pocket expenses incurred hereunder) or in connection with any claim or legal action relating to (a) the Basic Documents or (b) the Notes, other than any loss, liability or expense incurred by
reason of its own negligence or intentional misconduct or that is the responsibility of the Noteholders as provided herein. Notwithstanding the foregoing, each of the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator and any director, officer,
employee or agent of the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator shall also be indemnified by the Trust and held harmless against any loss, liability or expense (including reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses) incurred in the
administration of its duties and responsibilities or the exercise of its rights under the Swap Agreement or in connection with any claim or legal action relating to the Swap Agreement that is the responsibility of the Noteholders as provided herein.
Such indemnity and agreement to hold harmless shall survive the termination of this Agreement or the resignation or removal of the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator, as applicable, hereunder. 
  
 The Issuer’s payment obligations to the Indenture Trustee and Securities
Administrator pursuant to this Section 6.07 shall survive the discharge of this Indenture and the termination or resignation of the Indenture Trustee or Securities Administrator. When the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator incurs
expenses after the occurrence of an Event of Default with respect to the Issuer, the expenses are intended to constitute expenses of administration under Title 11 of the United States Code or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy,
insolvency or similar law. 
  
 The Indenture Trustee agrees to
fully perform its duties under this Indenture notwithstanding any failure on the part of the Issuer to make any payments, reimbursements or indemnifications to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section 6.07 (subject to the second paragraph
of the definition of Extraordinary Expenses). 
  
 The obligations
of the Issuer set forth in this Section 6.07 are non-recourse obligations solely of the Issuer and shall be payable only from the Trust Estate with respect to the Notes (subject to the second paragraph of the definition of Extraordinary
Expenses) and following application of the proceeds of the Trust Estate in accordance with the priority of payments hereof, any outstanding but unpaid obligations of the Issuer shall be extinguished. The Indenture 

  

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Trustee hereby agrees that it has no rights or claims against the Issuer directly and shall only look to the Trust Estate to satisfy the Issuer’s
obligations under this Section 6.07. The Indenture Trustee also hereby agrees not to file or join in filing any petition in bankruptcy or commence any similar proceeding in respect of the Issuer. 
  
 Section 6.08. Replacement of Indenture Trustee and the Securities
Administrator. No resignation or removal of the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator and no appointment of a successor Indenture Trustee or successor Securities Administrator shall become effective until the acceptance of
appointment by the successor Indenture Trustee or successor Securities Administrator pursuant to this Section 6.08. The Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator may resign at any time by so notifying the Issuer. Any resignation or
removal of the Securities Administrator shall result in the automatic removal of the Master Servicer to the extent that Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, is both the Securities Administrator and Master Servicer. Holders of a majority of Note
Principal Balances of the Notes may remove either of the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator by so notifying the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator and may appoint a successor Indenture Trustee or successor Securities
Administrator. The Issuer shall remove the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, if: 
  
 (a) the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator fails to comply with Section 6.11 hereof; 
  
 (b) the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator is adjudged to be
bankrupt or insolvent; 
  
 (c) a receiver or other public officer
takes charge of the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator or its property; or 
  
 (d) the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator otherwise becomes incapable of acting. 
  
 If the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the office of the Indenture Trustee or the
Securities Administrator for any reason (the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator in such event being referred to herein as the retiring Indenture Trustee or the retiring Securities Administrator), the Issuer shall promptly appoint a
successor Indenture Trustee or successor Securities Administrator. 
  
 Each of a successor Indenture Trustee or successor Securities Administrator shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to the retiring Indenture Trustee or the retiring Securities Administrator, as applicable, and to the Issuer.
Thereupon, the resignation or removal of the retiring Indenture Trustee or the retiring Securities Administrator shall become effective, and the successor Indenture Trustee or successor Securities Administrator shall have all the rights, powers and
duties of the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, under this Indenture. The successor Indenture Trustee or successor Securities Administrator shall each mail a notice of its succession to Noteholders. The retiring
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Securities Administrator, as applicable, to the successor Indenture Trustee or successor Securities Administrator. 
  
 If a successor Indenture Trustee or successor Securities Administrator does
not take office within 60 days after the retiring Indenture Trustee or the retiring Securities Administrator, as applicable, resigns or is removed, the retiring Indenture Trustee or the retiring Securities Administrator, the Issuer or the Holders of
a majority of Note Principal Balances of the Notes may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Indenture Trustee or successor Securities Administrator. 
  
 Notwithstanding the replacement of the Indenture Trustee or the Securities
Administrator pursuant to this Section, the Issuer’s obligations under Section 6.07 shall continue for the benefit of the retiring Indenture Trustee or the retiring Securities Administrator. 
  
 Section 6.09. Successor Indenture Trustee and Securities Administrator by
Merger. If the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially all of its corporate trust business or assets to, another corporation or banking association, the
resulting, surviving or transferee corporation, without any further act, shall be the successor Indenture Trustee or successor Securities Administrator, as applicable; provided that such corporation or banking association shall be otherwise
qualified and eligible under Section 6.11 hereof. The Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator shall each provide the Rating Agencies with prior written notice of any such transaction. 
  
 If at the time such successor or successors by merger, conversion or
consolidation to the Securities Administrator shall become a successor to the Securities Administrator hereunder and any of the Notes shall have been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Securities Administrator may adopt the
certificate of authentication of any predecessor trustee and deliver such Notes so authenticated; and if, at that time, any of the Notes shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the Securities Administrator may authenticate such Notes
either in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in the name of the successor to the Securities Administrator; and in all such cases such certificates shall have the full force which it is in the Notes or in this Indenture provided that the
certificate of the Securities Administrator shall have. 
  
 Section 6.10. Appointment of Co-Indenture Trustee or Separate Indenture Trustee. (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, at any time, for the purpose of meeting any legal requirement of any jurisdiction in
which any part of the Trust Estate may at the time be located, the Indenture Trustee shall have the power and may execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one or more Persons to act as a co-trustee or co-trustees, or separate trustee or
separate trustees, of all or any part of the Trust Estate, and to vest in such Person or Persons, in such capacity and for the benefit of the Noteholders, such title to the Trust Estate, or any part hereof, and, subject to the other provisions of
this Section, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts as the Indenture Trustee may consider necessary or desirable. No co-trustee or separate trustee hereunder shall be required to meet the terms of eligibility as a successor trustee
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 (b) Every separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent permitted by law, be appointed and act
subject to the following provisions and conditions: 
  
 (i) all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or imposed upon the Indenture Trustee shall be conferred or imposed upon and exercised or performed by the Indenture Trustee and such separate trustee or co-trustee jointly (it being
understood that such separate trustee or co-trustee is not authorized to act separately without the Indenture Trustee joining in such act), except to the extent that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts are to be
performed the Indenture Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform such act or acts, in which event such rights, powers, duties and obligations (including the holding of title to the Trust Estate or any portion thereof in any such
jurisdiction) shall be exercised and performed singly by such separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely at the direction of the Indenture Trustee; 
  
 (ii) no trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by reason of any act or omission of any other trustee hereunder; and 
  
 (iii) the Indenture Trustee may at any time accept the
resignation of or remove any separate trustee or co-trustee. 
  
 (c) Any notice, request or other writing given to the Indenture Trustee shall be deemed to have been given to each of the then separate trustees and co-trustees, as effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument appointing any
separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Indenture and the conditions of this Article VI. Each separate trustee and co-trustee, upon its acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates or property specified in its
instrument of appointment, either jointly with the Indenture Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the provisions of this Indenture, specifically including every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct of,
affecting the liability of, or affording protection to, the Indenture Trustee. Every such instrument shall be filed with the Indenture Trustee. 
  
 (d) Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time constitute the Indenture Trustee, its agent or attorney-in-fact with full power and authority, to
the extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in respect of this Indenture on its behalf and in its name. If any separate trustee or co-trustee shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of its estates,
properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be exercised by the Indenture Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the appointment of a new or successor trustee. 
  
 Section 6.11. Eligibility; Disqualification. The Indenture Trustee shall at all times satisfy the requirements of TIA
§ 310(a). The Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator shall each have a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 as set forth in its most recent published annual report of condition and it or its parent shall have a
long-term debt rating of Baa3 or better by Moody’s, BBB or better by Standard & Poor’s and BBB by Fitch. The Indenture Trustee shall comply with TIA § 310(b), including the optional provision permitted by the second sentence
of TIA § 310(b)(9); provided, however, that there shall be excluded from the operation of TIA § 310(b)(1) any indenture or indentures under which other securities of the Issuer are outstanding if the requirements for such exclusion
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 Section 6.12. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Issuer. The Indenture Trustee shall comply
with TIA § 311(a), excluding any creditor relationship listed in TIA § 311(b). An Indenture Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to TIA § 311(a) to the extent indicated. 
  
 Section 6.13. Representations and Warranties. The Indenture Trustee
hereby represents that: 
  
 (a) The Indenture Trustee is duly
organized and validly existing as a national banking association in good standing under the laws of the United States with power and authority to own its properties and to conduct its business as such properties are currently owned and such business
is presently conducted; 
  
 (b) The Indenture Trustee has the
power and authority to execute and deliver this Indenture and to carry out its terms; and the execution, delivery and performance of this Indenture have been duly authorized by the Indenture Trustee by all necessary corporate action; 
  
 (c) The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Indenture and
the fulfillment of the terms hereof do not conflict with, result in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time) a default under, the articles of association or bylaws of the Indenture
Trustee or any material agreement or other instrument to which the Indenture Trustee is a party or by which it is bound which would adversely affect its performance under this Indenture; and 
  
 (d) There are no proceedings or investigations pending or, to the Indenture
Trustee’s knowledge, threatened before any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Indenture Trustee: (i) asserting the invalidity of this Indenture (ii) seeking
to prevent the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by this Indenture or (iii) seeking any determination or ruling that might materially and adversely affect the performance by the Indenture Trustee of its obligations under, or
the validity or enforceability of, this Indenture. 
  
 Section
6.14. Directions to Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator. 
  
 (a) The Indenture Trustee is hereby directed (i) to accept the pledge of the Mortgage Loans and hold the assets of the Trust Estate in trust for the Noteholders and (ii) to take all other actions as shall be
required to be taken by it pursuant to the terms of this Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement. 
  
 (b) The Securities Administrator is hereby directed (i) to authenticate and deliver the Notes substantially in the form prescribed by Exhibits
A-1 and A-2 to this Indenture in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and (ii) to take all other actions as shall be required to be taken by the Securities Administrator pursuant to the terms of this Indenture and the Sale
and Servicing Agreement. 
  
 Section 6.15. The Agents. The
provisions of this Indenture relating to the limitations of the Indenture Trustee’s liability and to its rights and protections shall inure also to the Securities Administrator, Paying Agent, Note Registrar and Certificate Registrar.

  

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 Section 6.16. Other Basic Documents. Each of the Indenture Trustee and Securities Administrator is
hereby authorized and directed to execute and deliver the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Servicing Agreement and any other Basic Documents (other than this Indenture) naming it as a party. Neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Securities
Administrator shall be responsible for the sufficiency of the terms of any of the Basic Documents. In entering into and acting under the other Basic Documents, each of the Indenture Trustee and Securities Administrator shall be entitled to all of
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 ARTICLE VII 
  
 NOTEHOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS 
  
 Section 7.01. Issuer To Furnish Securities Administrator Names and Addresses of Noteholders. The Issuer shall furnish
or cause to be furnished to the Securities Administrator (a) not more than five days after each Record Date, a list, in such form as the Securities Administrator may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of Notes as of
such Record Date, (b) at such other times as the Securities Administrator may request in writing, within 30 days after receipt by the Issuer of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 10 days prior to the
time such list is furnished; provided, however, that so long as the Securities Administrator is the Note Registrar, no such list shall be required to be furnished to the Securities Administrator. 
  
 Section 7.02. Preservation of Information; Communications to
Noteholders. (a) The Securities Administrator shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of the Holders of Notes contained in the most recent list furnished to the Securities Administrator as
provided in Section 7.01 hereof and the names and addresses of Holders of Notes received by the Securities Administrator in its capacity as Note Registrar. The Securities Administrator may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in such
Section 7.01 upon receipt of a new list so furnished. 
  
 (b)
Noteholders may communicate pursuant to TIA § 312(b) with other Noteholders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Notes. 
  
 (c) The Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Note Registrar shall have the protection of TIA § 312(c). 
  
 Section 7.03. Statements to Noteholders. (a) With respect to each
Payment Date, the Securities Administrator shall make available to each Noteholder and each Certificateholder, the Swap Provider, the Depositor, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Paying Agent and each Rating Agency, a
statement setting forth the following information as to the Notes, to the extent applicable: 
  
 (i) the Note Principal Balance of each Class of Notes immediately prior to such Payment Date; 
  
 (ii) the Interest Funds (including a separate statement of
the Interest Funds attributable to each Loan Group), Principal Funds and Net Monthly Excess Cashflow payable to each Class of Noteholders for such Payment Date, and the Basis Risk Shortfall Carry-Forward Amount on each Class of Notes for such
Payment Date; 
  
 (iii) the amount of such
distribution to each Class of Notes applied to reduce the Note Principal Balance thereof; 
  
 (iv) the amount of such distribution to Holders of each Class of Notes allocable to interest and the aggregate amount of Accrued Note
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 (v) the Class N Interest Payment Amount and the Class N Principal Payment Amount for such
Payment Date, and the amount of each such item paid to the Class N Notes on such Payment Date; 
  
 (vi) the Note Rates for each Class of Notes with respect to such Payment Date; 
  
 (vii) the Note Principal Balance of each Class of Notes
immediately after such Payment Date; 
  
 (viii)
the amount for distribution to the Certificates; 
  
 (ix) the number and the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans as of the end of the related Due Period; 
  
 (x) the amount of Scheduled Principal and Principal Prepayments, (including but separately identifying the principal amount of Principal
Prepayments, Insurance Proceeds, the purchase price in connection with the purchase of Mortgage Loans, cash deposits in connection with substitutions of Mortgage Loans and Excess Liquidation Proceeds) and the number and principal balance of Mortgage
Loans purchased or substituted for during the relevant period and cumulatively since the Cut-off Date in the aggregate; 
  
 (xi) the aggregate Note Principal Balance of each Class of Notes, after giving effect to the amounts distributed on such Payment Date,
separately identifying any reduction thereof due to Realized Losses other than pursuant to an actual distribution of principal and the aggregate Note Principal Balance of the Notes after giving effect to the distribution of principal on such Payment
Date; 
  
 (xii) information regarding any
Mortgage Loan delinquencies as of the end of the related Prepayment Period, including the aggregate number and aggregate Outstanding Principal Balance of Mortgage Loans (A) delinquent 30 to 59 days on a contractual basis, (B) delinquent 60
to 89 days on a contractual basis, and (C) delinquent 90 or more days on a contractual basis, in each case as of the close of business on the last Business Day of the immediately preceding month; 
  
 (xiii) the amount of payments from the Corridor Contract for
such Payment Date; 
  
 (xiv) the
Overcollateralization Increase Amount, Overcollateralization Target Amount, the Overcollateralization Release Amount and Overcollateralized Amount, if any, in each case as of the related Payment Date; 
  
 (xv) the amount of any Monthly Advances, Compensating
Interest Payments and outstanding unreimbursed advances by the Master Servicer or Servicer; 
  
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 (xvii) with respect to each Mortgage Loan which incurred a Realized Loss during the
related Prepayment Period, (A) the loan number, (B) the Stated Principal Balance of such Mortgage Loan as of the Cut-off Date, (C) the Stated Principal Balance of such Mortgage Loan as of the beginning of the related Due Period,
(D) the Excess Liquidation Proceeds with respect to such Mortgage Loan and (E) the amount of the Realized Loss with respect to such Mortgage Loan; 
  
 (xviii) the number and aggregate Stated Principal Balance of Mortgage Loans repurchased by the Seller pursuant to the Mortgage Loan
Purchase Agreement for the related Payment Date and cumulatively since the Closing Date; 
  
 (xix) the number and aggregate Outstanding Principal Balance of all Mortgage Loans as to which the Mortgaged Property was REO Property as
of the end of the related Due Period; 
  
 (xx)
the book value (the sum of (A) the Outstanding Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loan, (B) accrued interest through the date of foreclosure and (C) foreclosure expenses) of any REO Property; provided that, in the event that
such information is not available to the Securities Administrator on the Payment Date, such information shall be furnished promptly after it becomes available; 
  

(xxi) the Average Loss Severity Percentage; 
  

(xxii) the number of Mortgage Loans in the foreclosure process as of the end of the related Due Period and the aggregate Outstanding
Principal Balance of such Mortgage Loans; 
  
 (xxiii) the amount of any Prepayment Interest Shortfalls less any Compensating Interest paid by the Subservicer, the Servicer or Master Servicer to cover Prepayment Interest Shortfalls for such Payment Date; 
  
 (xxiv) the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of Mortgage
Loans purchased by the Servicer or the Subservicer pursuant to Section 3.21 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement for the related Payment Date and cumulatively since the Closing Date; 
  
 (xxv) the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of defaulted Mortgage Loans sold by the Servicer or the
Subservicer pursuant to Section 3.13 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement or Sections 4.03, 4.17 and 4.18 of the Servicing Agreement for the related Payment Date and cumulatively since the Closing Date; provided that, in the event that
such information is not available to the Securities Administrator on the Payment Date, such information shall be furnished promptly after it becomes available; and 
  
 (xxvi) the amount, if any, required to be paid under the Swap Agreement for such Payment Date. 

 
 In addition, by January 31st of each calendar year following any year during which the Notes are outstanding, the Securities Administrator shall furnish a report to each
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amounts reported pursuant to (iii) and (iv) above with respect to the Notes for such calendar year. 
  
 The Securities Administrator may conclusively rely upon the information
provided by the Master Servicer pursuant to Section 3.01 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement and by the Swap Provider under the Swap Agreement in its preparation of monthly statements to Noteholders. In addition, the Securities Administrator
shall make available statements to Certificateholders on each Payment Date in accordance with Section 5.04 of the Trust Agreement. 
  
 The Securities Administrator may make available each month, to any interested party, the monthly statement to Noteholders via the Securities
Administrator’s website initially located at “www.ctslink.com.” Assistance in using the website can be obtained by calling the Securities Administrator’s customer service desk at (301) 815-6600. Parties that are unable to
use the above distribution option are entitled to have a paper copy mailed to them via first-class mail by calling the Securities Administrator’s customer service desk and indicating such. The Securities Administrator shall have the right to
change the way such reports are distributed in order to make such distribution more convenient and/or more accessible to the parties, and the Securities Administrator shall provide timely and adequate notification to all parties regarding any such
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 ARTICLE VIII 
  
 ACCOUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS AND RELEASES 
  
 Section 8.01. Collection of Money. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, the Securities Administrator may
demand payment or delivery of, and shall receive and collect, directly and without intervention or assistance of any fiscal agent or other intermediary, all money and other property payable to or receivable by the Securities Administrator pursuant
to this Indenture. The Securities Administrator shall apply all such money received by it as provided in this Indenture. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture, if any default occurs in the making of any payment or performance
under any agreement or instrument that is part of the Trust Estate, the Indenture Trustee may take such action as may be appropriate to enforce such payment or performance, including the institution and prosecution of appropriate Proceedings. Any
such action shall be without prejudice to any right to claim a Default or Event of Default under this Indenture and any right to proceed thereafter as provided in Article V. 
  
 Section 8.02. [Reserved]. 
  
 Section 8.03. Officer’s Certificate. The Indenture Trustee shall receive at least seven Business Days’ notice when requested by the
Issuer to take any action pursuant to Section 8.05(a) hereof, accompanied by copies of any instruments to be executed, and the Indenture Trustee shall, except in the case of a repurchase of a Mortgage Loan pursuant to Sections 2.02 or 3.21 of
the Sale and Servicing Agreement, also require, as a condition to such action, an Officer’s Certificate, in form and substance satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, stating the legal effect of any such action, outlining the steps required to
complete the same, and concluding that all conditions precedent to the taking of such action have been complied with. 
  
 Section 8.04. Termination Upon Distribution to Noteholders. This Indenture and the respective obligations and responsibilities of the Issuer, the
Securities Administrator and the Indenture Trustee created hereby shall terminate upon the distribution to Noteholders, the Certificate Paying Agent on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Securities Administrator and the Indenture Trustee of all
amounts required to be distributed pursuant to Article III; provided, however, that in no event shall the trust created hereby continue beyond the expiration of 21 years from the death of the survivor of the descendants of Joseph P. Kennedy,
the late ambassador of the United States to the Court of St. James, living on the date hereof. 
  
 Section 8.05. Release of Trust Estate. (a) Subject to the payment of its fees, expenses and indemnities, the Indenture Trustee may, and when required by the provisions of this Indenture shall, execute
instruments prepared by the Issuer to release property from the lien of this Indenture, or convey the Indenture Trustee’s interest in the same, in a manner and under circumstances that are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture,
including for the purposes of any repurchase by the Seller of a Mortgage Loan pursuant to Section 2.02 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement or any repurchase by the Servicer of a Mortgage Loan pursuant to Section 3.21 of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement; provided, however, any such conveyance shall be without recourse to the Indenture Trustee and without any obligation on its part to make any representations or warranties with respect to such property released from the
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Article VIII hereunder shall be bound to ascertain the Indenture Trustee’s authority, inquire into the satisfaction of any conditions precedent or see
to the application of any monies. 
  
 (b) The Indenture Trustee
shall, at such time as (i) it is notified by the Securities Administrator that there are no Notes Outstanding and (ii) all sums due to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Indenture have been paid, release any remaining portion of the
Trust Estate that secured the Notes from the lien of this Indenture. 
  
 (c) The Indenture Trustee shall release property from the lien of this Indenture pursuant to this Section 8.05 only upon receipt of a request from the Issuer which, except in the case of a repurchase of a Mortgage Loan pursuant to
Sections 2.02 or 3.21 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, shall also be accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that all applicable requirements have been satisfied and upon receipt of such certificates
required under Section 10.01(b). 
  
 Section 8.06.
Surrender of Notes Upon Final Payment. By acceptance of any Note, the Holder thereof agrees to surrender such Note to the Securities Administrator promptly, prior to such Noteholder’s receipt of the final payment thereon. 
  
 Section 8.07. Optional Redemption of the Notes. (a) The Majority
Certificateholder shall have the option to redeem the Notes (but only with the consent of the Holders of the Class N Notes, for so long as the Class N Notes remain outstanding) in whole, but not in part, on any Payment Date on or after the Payment
Date on which the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans is less than or equal to 10% of the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-off Date. The aggregate redemption price for the Notes shall be
equal to the unpaid Note Principal Balance of the Notes as of the Payment Date on which the proposed redemption shall take place in accordance with the foregoing, together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon at the applicable Note Rate through
such Payment Date (including any Basis Risk Shortfall Carry-Forward Amounts and Deferred Interest), plus an amount sufficient to pay in full all amounts owing to the Indenture Trustee, the Master Servicer and the Securities Administrator pursuant to
any Basic Document (which amounts shall be specified by such Person in writing upon request of the Issuer, the Master Servicer and the Securities Administrator, as applicable) and amounts due and owing to the Swap Provider. 
  
 (b) In order to exercise the foregoing option, the Majority Certificateholder
shall provide written notice of its exercise of such option to the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator, the Owner Trustee, the Swap Provider and the Master Servicer at least 15 days prior to its exercise. Following receipt of the notice,
the Securities Administrator shall provide notice to the Noteholders of the final payment on the Notes. In addition, the Majority Certificateholder shall, not less than one Business Day prior to the proposed Payment Date on which such redemption is
to be made, deposit the aggregate redemption price specified in (a) above with the Securities Administrator, who shall deposit the aggregate redemption price into the Payment Account and shall, on the Payment Date after receipt of the funds,
apply such funds to make final payments of principal and interest on the Notes in accordance with Section 3.05 hereof and payment in full to the Securities Administrator and the Master Servicer, and this Indenture shall be discharged subject to
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or such redemption cannot be completed for any reason, the full amount so deposited by the Majority Certificateholder with the Securities Administrator shall
be immediately returned to the Majority Certificateholder and shall not be used for any other purpose or be deemed to be part of the Trust Estate. 
  
 Section 8.08. Swap Agreement. On each Payment Date for which the Securities Administrator has received a payment under the Swap Agreement, the
Securities Administrator shall pay such amounts pursuant to the priorities provided in Section 3.05. On each Payment Date, the Securities Administrator shall pay in accordance with the monthly report furnished by it with respect to such Payment
Date pursuant to Section 7.03 in the order of priority and to the extent specified in Section 3.05 of this Agreement any payments made by the Swap Provider to the Securities Administrator on behalf of the Trust for such Payment Date with
respect to the Swap Agreement. The Securities Administrator shall pay all Net Swap Payments due to the Swap Provider from funds in the Payment Account on the date when such payments are due to be paid pursuant to the Swap Agreement. 
  
 Section 8.09. Rights of Swap Provider. The Swap Provider shall be
deemed a third-party beneficiary of this Indenture to the same extent as if it were a party hereto and shall have the right to enforce all obligations of the parties to this Indenture to the Swap Provider, which obligations include but are not
limited to the obligation of the Securities Administrator (a) to pay to the Swap Provider, pursuant to the priorities provided in Section 3.05, any Net Swap Payment required pursuant to the Swap Agreement and any Swap Termination Payment
required pursuant to the Swap Agreement, (b) to establish and maintain the Payment Account, to make such deposits thereto, investments therein and payments therefrom as are required pursuant to Section 3.01. For the protection and
enforcement of the provisions of this Section, the Swap Provider shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in equity. 
  
 Section 8.10. Corridor Agreement. On each Payment Date for which the Securities Administrator has received a payment under the Corridor Agreement,
the Securities Administrator shall apply such amounts to make payments pursuant to clauses (iii), (iv) and (viii) of Section 3.05(e), in that order, and in each case prior to the application of any Net Monthly Excess Cashflow pursuant
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 ARTICLE IX 
  

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES 
  
 Section 9.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders. (a) Without the consent of the Holders of any Notes but with prior
notice to the Rating Agency, the Issuer, the Securities Administrator and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an Issuer Request in the case of the Securities Administrator and the Indenture Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter
into one or more indentures supplemental hereto (which shall conform to the provisions of the TIA as in force at the date of the execution thereof), in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator, for any of the
following purposes: 
  
 (i) to correct or amplify
the description of any property at any time subject to the lien of this Indenture, or better to assure, convey and confirm unto the Indenture Trustee any property subject or required to be subjected to the lien of this Indenture, or to subject to
the lien of this Indenture additional property; 
  
 (ii) to evidence the succession, in compliance with the applicable provisions hereof, of another person to the Issuer and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Issuer herein and in the Notes contained; 
  
 (iii) to add to the covenants of the Issuer, for the benefit
of the Holders of the Notes, or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Issuer; 
  
 (iv) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge any property to or with the Indenture Trustee; 
  
 (v) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any
provision herein or in any supplemental indenture that may be inconsistent with any other provision herein or in any supplemental indenture; 
  
 (vi) to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture or in any supplemental indenture;
provided that such action shall not materially and adversely affect the interests of the Holders of the Notes; 
  
 (vii) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of the appointment hereunder by a successor trustee with respect to the Notes and to add
to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Article VI hereof; or 
  
 (viii) to modify, eliminate or add to the provisions of this
Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to effect the qualification of this Indenture under the TIA or under any similar federal statute hereafter enacted and to add to this Indenture such other provisions as may be expressly required by the
TIA; 
  
 provided, however, that no such indenture supplements shall be
entered into unless the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator shall have received an Opinion of Counsel, not at the expense of the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator, as to the enforceability of any 

  

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such indenture supplement against the Issuer and to the effect that (i) such indenture supplement is authorized or permitted hereunder and shall not
materially and adversely affect the Holders of the Notes and (ii) entering into such indenture supplement shall not (a) result in a “significant modification” of the Notes under Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3 or
adversely affect the status of the Notes as indebtedness for federal income tax purposes or (b) cause the Trust to be subject to an entity level tax for federal income tax purposes; and provided further that no indenture supplement shall
be entered into without the prior written consent of the Swap Counterparty if such indenture supplement would materially adversely affect the rights or obligations of the Swap Counterparty under the Swap Agreement or this Indenture. 
  
 The Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator are hereby authorized
to join in the execution of any such supplemental indenture and to make any further appropriate agreements and stipulations that may be therein contained. 
  
 (b) The Issuer, the Securities Administrator and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an Issuer Request in the case of the Securities Administrator
and the Indenture Trustee, may, also without the consent of any of the Holders of the Notes and prior notice to the Rating Agency, enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to, or changing in
any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of, this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of the Notes under this Indenture; provided, however, that such action as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel,
(i) is authorized or permitted by this Indenture, (ii) shall not adversely affect, in any material respect, the interests of any Noteholder and (iii) shall not cause the Issuer to be subject to an entity-level tax for federal income
tax purposes; and provided, however, that no indenture supplement shall be entered into without the prior written consent of the Swap Counterparty if such indenture supplement would materially adversely affect the rights or obligations of the
Swap Counterparty under the Swap Agreement or this Indenture. 
  
 Section 9.02. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Noteholders. The Issuer, the Securities Administrator and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an Issuer Request in the case of the Securities Administrator and the Indenture
Trustee, also may, with prior notice to the Rating Agency and, with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority of the Note Principal Balance of Notes affected thereby, by Act (as defined in Section 10.03 hereof) of such Holders
delivered to the Issuer, the Securities Administrator and the Indenture Trustee, enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to, or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions
of, this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of the Notes under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Note affected thereby:

  
 (a) change the date of payment of any installment of principal
of or interest on any Note, reduce the principal amount thereof or the interest rate thereon, change the provisions of this Indenture relating to the application of collections on, or the proceeds of the sale of, the Trust Estate to payment of
principal of or interest on the Notes, change any place of payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any Note or the interest thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of the provisions of this Indenture
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application of funds available therefor, as provided in Article V, to the payment of any such amount due on the Notes on or after the respective due dates
thereof; 
  
 (b) reduce the percentage of the Note Principal
Balances of the Notes, the consent of the Holders of which is required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of the Holders of which is required for any waiver of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults
hereunder and their consequences provided for in this Indenture; 
  
 (c) modify or alter the provisions of the proviso to the definition of the term “Outstanding” or modify or alter the exception in the definition of the term “Holder”; 
  
 (d) reduce the percentage of the Note Principal Balances of the Notes
required to direct the Indenture Trustee to direct the Issuer to sell or liquidate the Trust Estate pursuant to Section 5.04 hereof; 
  
 (e) modify any provision of this Section 9.02 except to increase any percentage specified herein or to provide that certain additional provisions of
this Indenture or the Basic Documents cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Note affected thereby; 
  
 (f) modify any of the provisions of this Indenture in such manner as to affect the calculation of the amount of any payment of interest or principal due
on any Note on any Payment Date (including the calculation of any of the individual components of such calculation); or 
  
 (g) permit the creation of any lien ranking prior to or on a parity with the lien of this Indenture with respect to any part of the Trust Estate or,
except as otherwise permitted or contemplated herein, terminate the lien of this Indenture on any property at any time subject hereto or deprive the Holder of any Note of the security provided by the lien of this Indenture; 
  
 and provided, further, that such action shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of
Counsel, adversely affect the status of the Notes as indebtedness for federal income tax purposes or cause the Issuer to be subject to an entity-level tax; and provided, further, that no indenture supplement shall be entered into without the
prior written consent of the Swap Counterparty if such indenture supplement would materially adversely affect the rights or obligations of the Swap Counterparty under the Swap Agreement or this Indenture. 
  
 Any such action shall not adversely affect in any material respect the
interest of any Holder (other than a Holder who shall consent to such supplemental indenture) as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel (provided by, and at the expense of, the Person requesting such supplemental indenture) delivered to the Indenture
Trustee and the Securities Administrator. 
  
 It shall not be
necessary for any Act of Noteholders under this Section 9.02 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof. 
  
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shall mail to the Holders of the Notes to which such amendment or supplemental indenture relates a notice setting forth in general terms the substance of
such supplemental indenture. Any failure of the Securities Administrator to mail such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture. 
  
 Section 9.03. Execution of Supplemental Indentures. In executing, or
permitting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article IX or the modification thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator shall be entitled to
receive, and subject to Sections 6.01 and 6.02 hereof, shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel, not at the expense of the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator, stating that the execution of such supplemental
indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator each may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture that affects the Indenture Trustee’s or the
Securities Administrator’s own rights, duties, liabilities or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise. 
  
 Section 9.04. Effect of Supplemental Indenture. Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions hereof, this Indenture
shall be and shall be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance therewith with respect to the Notes affected thereby, and the respective rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties, liabilities and immunities under this Indenture of the
Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator, the Issuer and the Holders of the Notes shall thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such modifications and amendments, and all the terms and conditions
of any such supplemental indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes. 
  
 Section 9.05. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act. Every amendment of this Indenture and every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this
Article IX shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect so long as this Indenture shall then be qualified under the Trust Indenture Act. 
  
 Section 9.06. Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures. Notes authenticated and delivered after the execution of
any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article IX may, and if required by the Securities Administrator shall, bear a notation in form approved by the Securities Administrator as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the
Issuer or the Securities Administrator shall so determine, new Notes so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Securities Administrator and the Issuer, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Issuer and
authenticated and delivered by the Securities Administrator in exchange for Outstanding Notes. 
  

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 ARTICLE X 
  

MISCELLANEOUS 
  
 Section 10.01. Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc. (a) Upon any application or request by the Issuer to the Indenture Trustee or the
Securities Administrator to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Issuer shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator (i) an Officer’s Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if
any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with and (ii) an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, except that,
in the case of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture, no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished provided they are substantially to the
same effect. 
  
 Every certificate or opinion with respect to
compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include: 
  
 (A) a statement that each signatory of such certificate or opinion has read or has caused to be read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto; 
  
 (B) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or
investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based; 
  
 (C) a statement that, in the opinion of each such signatory, such signatory has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable such
signatory to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; 
  
 (D) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such signatory, such condition or covenant has been complied with; and 
  
 (E) if the signatory of such certificate or opinion is required to be
Independent, the statement required by the definition of the term “Independent Certificate”. 
  
 (b) (i) Prior to the deposit of any Collateral or other property or securities with the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator that is to be
made the basis for the release of any property or securities subject to the lien of this Indenture, the Issuer shall, in addition to any obligation imposed in Section 10.01(a) or elsewhere in this Indenture, furnish to the Indenture Trustee and
the Securities Administrator an Officer’s Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of each person signing such certificate as to the fair value (within 90 days prior to such deposit) to the Issuer of the Collateral or other property or
securities to be so deposited and a report from a nationally recognized accounting firm verifying such value. For the avoidance of doubt, this Section 10.01(b) does not apply to the substitution of a Substitute Mortgage Loan for 

  

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any Deleted Mortgage Loan, any repurchase of Mortgage Loans or as otherwise set forth in this Indenture. 
  
 (ii) Whenever the Issuer is required to furnish to the
Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of any signer thereof as to the matters described in clause (b)(i) above, the Issuer shall also deliver to the Indenture Trustee an Independent Certificate from a
nationally recognized accounting firm as to the same matters, if the fair value of the securities to be so deposited and of all other such securities made the basis of any such withdrawal or release since the commencement of the then current fiscal
year of the Issuer, as set forth in the certificates delivered pursuant to clause (i) above and this clause (ii), is 10% or more of the Note Principal Balances of the Notes, but such a certificate need not be furnished with respect to any
securities so deposited, if the fair value thereof as set forth in the related Officer’s Certificate is less than $25,000 or less than one percent of the Note Principal Balances of the Notes. 
  
 (iii) Whenever any property or securities are to be released
from the lien of this Indenture, the Issuer shall also furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of each person signing such certificate as to the fair value (within 90 days prior to such
release) of the property or securities proposed to be released and stating that in the opinion of such person the proposed release shall not impair the security under this Indenture in contravention of the provisions hereof. 
  
 (iv) Whenever the Issuer is required to furnish to the
Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of any signer thereof as to the matters described in clause (iii) above, the Issuer shall also furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Independent Certificate as to
the same matters if the fair value of the property or securities and of all other property or securities released from the lien of this Indenture since the commencement of the then-current calendar year, as set forth in the certificates required by
clause (iii) above and this clause (iv), equals 10% or more of the Note Principal Balances of the Notes, but such certificate need not be furnished in the case of any release of property or securities if the fair value thereof as set forth in
the related Officer’s Certificate is less than $25,000 or less than one percent of the then Note Principal Balances of the Notes. 
  
 Section 10.02. Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture Trustee. In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by
an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give
an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents. 
  
 Any certificate or opinion of an Authorized Officer of the Issuer may be
based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with
respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any such certificate of an Authorized Officer or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or

  

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representations by, an officer or officers of the Seller or the Issuer, stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the
possession of the Seller or the Issuer, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous. 
  
 Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more
applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument. 
  
 Whenever in this Indenture, in connection with any application or certificate or report to the Indenture Trustee, it is
provided that the Issuer shall deliver any document as a condition of the granting of such application, or as evidence of the Issuer’s compliance with any term hereof, it is intended that the truth and accuracy, at the time of the granting of
such application or at the effective date of such certificate or report (as the case may be), of the facts and opinions stated in such document shall in such case be conditions precedent to the right of the Issuer to have such application granted or
to the sufficiency of such certificate or report. The foregoing shall not, however, be construed to affect the Indenture Trustee’s right to rely upon the truth and accuracy of any statement or opinion contained in any such document as provided
in Article VI. 
  
 Section 10.03. Acts of Noteholders.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by Noteholders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor
signed by such Noteholders in person or by agents duly appointed in writing; and except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Indenture Trustee and, where
it is hereby expressly required, to the Issuer. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the Noteholders signing such instrument or instruments.
Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 6.01 hereof) conclusive in favor of the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer, if made
in the manner provided in this Section 10.03 hereof. 
  
 (b)
The fact and date of the execution by any person of any such instrument or writing may be proved in any manner that the Indenture Trustee deems sufficient. 
  
 (c) The ownership of Notes shall be proved by the Note Registrar. 
  

(d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action by the Holder of any Notes shall bind the Holder of every
Note issued upon the registration thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof, in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Indenture Trustee or the Issuer in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is
made upon such Note. 
  
 Section 10.04. Notices etc., to
Indenture Trustee, Securities Administrator, Issuer and Rating Agencies. Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or act of Noteholders or other documents provided or permitted by this Indenture shall be in writing

  

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and if such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or act of Noteholders is to be made upon, given or furnished to or filed with:

  
 (a) the Indenture Trustee, by any Noteholder or by the Issuer,
shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if in writing and made, given, furnished or filed to or with the Indenture Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office. The Indenture Trustee shall promptly transmit any notice received by it from the
Noteholders to the Issuer; 
  
 (b) the Securities Administrator,
by any Noteholder or by the Issuer, shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or with the Securities Administrator at Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, P.O. Box 98, Columbia, Maryland,
21046 (or, in the case of overnight deliveries, 9062 Old Annapolis Road, Columbia, Maryland, 21045) (Attention: Corporate Trust Services – People’s Choice 2005-4), facsimile no.: (410) 715-2380, or such other address as may hereafter
be furnished by the Securities Administrator to the other parties hereto in writing. The Securities Administrator shall promptly transmit any notice received by it from the Noteholders to the Issuer; 
  
 (c) the Issuer, by the Indenture Trustee or by any Noteholder, shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder if in writing and mailed first-class, postage-prepaid, to the Issuer addressed to: People’s Choice Home Loan Securities Trust Series 2005-4, in care of Wilmington Trust Company, Rodney Square North, 1100
North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware, 19890-0001, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration, or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Indenture Trustee by the Issuer. The Issuer shall promptly transmit any notice received
by it from the Noteholders to the Indenture Trustee. 
  
 (d)
Notices required to be given to a Rating Agency by the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator or the Owner Trustee shall be in writing, mailed first-class, postage-prepaid, to, in the case of Standard & Poor’s, the
following address: Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, 55 Water Street, 41st Floor, New York, New
York, 10041, Attention: Asset-Backed Surveillance Department; in the case of Moody’s, the following address: Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., 99 Church Street, New York, New York, 10007; in the case of Fitch, Fitch, Inc., One State Street
Plaza, New York, New York, 10004, Attention: ABS Monitoring Department; or at such other address as shall be designated by written notice to the other parties by the applicable Rating Agency. 
  
 Section 10.05. Notices to Noteholders; Waiver. Where this Indenture
provides for notice to Noteholders of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class, postage-prepaid, to each Noteholder affected by such event, at such
Person’s address as it appears on the Note Register, not later than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any case where notice to Noteholders is given by mail, neither the failure
to mail such notice nor any defect in any notice so mailed to any particular Noteholder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Noteholders, and any notice that is mailed in the manner herein provided shall conclusively be
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 Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by any
Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Noteholders shall be filed with the Indenture Trustee but such filing shall not be a condition
precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such a waiver. 
  
 In case, by reason of the suspension of regular mail service as a result of a strike, work stoppage or similar activity, it shall be impractical to mail notice of any event to Noteholders when such notice is required
to be given pursuant to any provision of this Indenture, then any manner of giving such notice as shall be satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee shall be deemed to be a sufficient giving of such notice. 
  
 Where this Indenture provides for notice to the Rating Agencies, failure to
give such notice shall not affect any other rights or obligations created hereunder and shall not under any circumstance constitute an Event of Default. 
  
 Section 10.06. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act. If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision hereof that is
required to be included in this Indenture by any of the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, such required provision shall control. 
  
 The provisions of TIA §§ 310 through 317 that impose duties on any Person (including the provisions automatically deemed included herein unless
expressly excluded by this Indenture) are a part of and govern this Indenture, whether or not physically contained herein. 
  
 Section 10.07. Effect of Headings. The Article and Section headings herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

  
 Section 10.08. Successors and Assigns. All covenants
and agreements in this Indenture and the Notes by the Issuer shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not. All agreements of the Indenture Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successors, co-trustees and agents. 

 
 Section 10.09. Separability. In case any provision in this
Indenture or in the Notes shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality, and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby. 
  
 Section 10.10. [Reserved]. 
  
 Section 10.11. Legal Holidays. In any case where the date on which any
payment is due shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other provision of the Notes or this Indenture) payment need not be made on such date but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made
on the date on which nominally due, and no interest shall accrue for the period from and after any such nominal date. 
  
 Section 10.12. GOVERNING LAW. THIS INDENTURE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (WITHOUT GIVING
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OTHER THAN SECTION 5-1401 OF THE NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW, WHICH SHALL APPLY HERETO). 
  
 Section 10.13. Counterparts. This Indenture may be executed in any
number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. 
  
 Section 10.14. Recording of Indenture. If this Indenture is subject to recording in any appropriate public recording
offices, such recording is to be effected by the Issuer and at its expense accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel at its expense (which may be counsel to the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any other counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture
Trustee) to the effect that such recording is necessary either for the protection of the Noteholders or any other Person secured hereunder or for the enforcement of any right or remedy granted to the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture.

  
 Section 10.15. Issuer Obligation. No recourse may be
taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Securities Administrator, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee on the Notes or under this Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in connection
herewith or therewith, against (a) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, (b) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (c) any partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director, employee
or agent of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Securities Administrator, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the
Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, except as any such Person may have expressly agreed (it being understood that the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee have no such obligations in their individual capacity) and
except that any such partner, owner or beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable law, for any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any installment or call owing to such entity.
For all purposes of this Indenture, in the performance of any duties or obligations of the Issuer hereunder, the Owner Trustee shall be subject to, and entitled to the benefits of, the terms and provisions of Article VI, VII and VIII of the Trust
Agreement. 
  
 Section 10.16. No Petition. The Indenture
Trustee and the Securities Administrator, by entering into this Indenture, each Noteholder, by accepting a Note, and each Certificateholder, by accepting a Certificate, hereby covenant and agree that they shall not at any time, prior to one year
from the date of termination hereof, institute against the Depositor or the Issuer, or join in any institution against the Depositor or the Issuer of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings, or other
proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, this Indenture or any of the Basic Documents; provided, however, that nothing herein shall prohibit the
Indenture Trustee from filing proofs of claim in any proceeding. 
  
 Section 10.17. Inspection. The Issuer agrees that, at its expense, on reasonable prior notice, it shall permit any representative of the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator, during the Issuer’s normal business
hours, to examine all the books of account, records, reports and other papers of the Issuer, to make copies and extracts therefrom, to cause such books to be audited by Independent certified public accountants and to discuss the Issuer’s
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and accounts with the Issuer’s officers, employees, and Independent certified public accountants, all at such reasonable times and as often as may be
reasonably requested. The Indenture Trustee shall cause its representatives to hold in confidence all such information except to the extent disclosure may be required by law, regulation, judicial process or made to the Indenture Trustee’s
auditors, regulators, attorneys or other governmental authorities and except to the extent that the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator may reasonably determine that such disclosure is consistent with its obligations hereunder.

  
 Section 10.18. Limitation of Liability of Owner
Trustee. It is expressly understood and agreed by the parties that (a) this document is executed and delivered by Wilmington Trust Company, not individually or personally, but solely as Owner Trustee, in the exercise of the powers and
authority conferred and vested in it, pursuant to the Trust Agreement, (b) each of the representations, undertakings and agreements herein made on the part of the Trust is made and intended not as personal representations, undertakings and
agreements by Wilmington Trust Company but is made and intended for the purpose for binding only the Trust, (c) nothing herein contained shall be construed as creating any liability on Wilmington Trust Company, individually or personally, to
perform any covenant either expressed or implied contained herein, all such liability, if any, being expressly waived by the parties hereto and by any person claiming by, through or under the parties hereto, and (d) under no circumstances shall
Wilmington Trust Company be personally liable for the payment of any indebtedness or expenses of the Trust or be liable for the breach or failure of any obligation, representation, warranty or covenant made or undertaken by the Trust under this
Agreement or any other Mortgage Loan Documents; provided, however, that this provision shall in no way limit or restrict the liabilities of Wilmington Trust Company under the Basic Documents to which it is a party. 
  

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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator have caused their
names to be signed hereto by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized, all as of the day and year first above written. 
  

			
	 PEOPLE’S CHOICE HOME LOAN
 SECURITIES TRUST SERIES 2005-4,
 as Issuer

	
	By: Wilmington Trust Company, not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee
		
	 By:
	 	 
	 Name:
	 	 
	 Title:
	 	 
	
	 HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL
 ASSOCIATION, as Indenture Trustee

		
	 By:
	 	 
	 Name:
	 	 
	 Title:
	 	 
	
	 WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL
 ASSOCIATION, as Securities
 Administrator

		
	 By:
	 	 
	 Name:
	 	 
	 Title:
	 	 

			
	STATE OF NEW YORK	 	)
	 	 	) ss:
	COUNTY OF NEW YORK	 	)

  
 On this 26th day of October, 2005, before me personally appeared
                     to me known, who being by me duly sworn, did depose and say, that s/he is an Assistant Vice President of the Indenture
Trustee, one of the corporations described in and which executed the above instrument; and that he signed his name thereto by like order. 
  

	
	Notary Public
	
	 
	 NOTARY PUBLIC

  
 [NOTARIAL SEAL] 

			
	STATE OF DELAWARE	 	)
	 	 	) ss:
	COUNTY OF NEWCASTLE	 	)

  
 On this 26th day of October, 2005, before me personally appeared
                     to me known, who being by me duly sworn, did depose and say, that s/he is a
                                     of the Owner Trustee, one
of the entities described in and which executed the above instrument; and that she signed her name thereto by like order. 
  

	
	Notary Public
	
	 
	 NOTARY PUBLIC

  
 [NOTARIAL SEAL] 

			
	STATE OF MARYLAND	 	)
	 	 	) ss:
	COUNTY OF HOWARD	 	)

  
 On this 26th day of October, 2005, before me, a notary public in and for said State, personally appeared
                    , known to me to be an
                                        
of Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, the entity that executed the within instrument, and also known to me to be the person who executed it on behalf of said entity, and acknowledged to me that such entity executed the within instrument.

  
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my
official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written. 
  

	
	
	 
	 Notary Public

  
 [NOTARIAL SEAL] 

 EXHIBIT A-1 
  
 FORM OF CLASS [    ]A[    ] NOTES 
  
 UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST
COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE, OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS
REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR
TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN. 
  
 THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE OR BENEFICIAL OWNER OF ANY INTEREST HEREIN WILL BE DEEMED TO REPRESENT TO ONE OF THE REPRESENTATIONS CONTAINED IN SECTION 4.15 OF THE INDENTURE.

  
 THIS NOTE IS A NON-RECOURSE OBLIGATION OF THE ISSUER, AND IS LIMITED IN RIGHT
OF PAYMENT TO AMOUNTS AVAILABLE FROM THE TRUST AS PROVIDED IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO BELOW. THE ISSUER IS NOT OTHERWISE PERSONALLY LIABLE FOR PAYMENTS ON THIS NOTE. 
  
 PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE OVER TIME AS SET FORTH HEREIN ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS
THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF. 
  

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 PEOPLE’S CHOICE HOME LOAN SECURITIES TRUST SERIES 2005-4 
 MORTGAGE-BACKED NOTES 
 CLASS
[    ]A[    ] 
  

					
	 AGGREGATE NOTE PRINCIPAL
 BALANCE: $[             ]
	  	 	  	 NOTE INTEREST
 RATE: Adjustable
Rate

			
	 INITIAL NOTE PRINCIPAL
 BALANCE OF THIS NOTE: $[            ]
	  	 	  	NOTE NO. [    ]
			
	 PERCENTAGE INTEREST: 100%
	  	 	  	CUSIP NO.[            ]

  
 People’s Choice
Home Loan Securities Trust Series 2005-4 (the “Issuer”), a Delaware statutory trust, for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co. or registered assigns, the principal sum of
($                                    ) in monthly
installments on the twenty-fifth day of each month or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day (each a “Payment Date”), commencing in November 2005 and ending on or before the Payment Date occurring in November
2035 (the “Final Scheduled Payment Date”) and to pay interest on the Note Principal Balance of this Note (this “Note”) outstanding from time to time as provided below. 
  
 This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of the Issuer’s Mortgage-Backed Notes, Series 2005-4 (the
“Notes”), issued under an Indenture dated as of October 26, 2005 (the “Indenture”), among the Issuer, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as securities administrator (the “Securities Administrator”), and HSBC
Bank USA, National Association, as indenture trustee (the “Indenture Trustee,” which term includes any successor Indenture Trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made
for a statement of the respective rights thereunder of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee, and the Holders of the Notes and the terms upon which the Notes are to be authenticated and delivered. All terms used in this Note which are defined in the
Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture. 
  
 Payments of principal and interest on this Note shall be made on each Payment Date to the Noteholder of record as of the related Record Date. The “Note Principal Balance” of a Note as of any date of determination is equal to the
Initial Note Principal Balance thereof, reduced by the aggregate of all amounts previously paid with respect to such Note on account of principal and the aggregate amount of cumulative Realized Losses allocated to such Note on all prior Payment
Dates. 
  
 The principal of, and interest on, this Note are due
and payable as described in the Indenture, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. All payments made by the Issuer with respect to this Note shall be
equal to this Note’s pro rata share of the aggregate payments on all Class [    ]A[    ] Notes as described above, and shall be applied as between interest and principal as provided
in the Indenture. 
  

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 All principal and interest accrued on the Notes, if not previously paid, shall become finally due and
payable at the Final Scheduled Payment Date. 
  
 The Notes are
subject to redemption in whole, but not in part, by the Majority Certificateholder on any Payment Date on or after the Payment Date on which the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans as of the end of the prior Due Period is less
than or equal to 10% of the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-off Date. 
  
 The Issuer shall not be liable upon the indebtedness evidenced by the Notes except to the extent of amounts available from the Trust Estate which
constitutes security for the payment of the Notes. The assets included in the Trust Estate shall be the sole source of payments on the Class [    ]A[    ] Notes, and each Holder hereof, by its
acceptance of this Note, agrees that (i) such Note shall be limited in right of payment to amounts available from the Trust Estate as provided in the Indenture and (ii) such Holder shall have no recourse to the Issuer, the Securities
Administrator, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Servicer or any of their respective affiliates, or to the assets of any of the foregoing entities, except the assets of the Issuer pledged to secure the
Class [    ]A[    ] Notes pursuant to the Indenture and the rights conveyed by the Issuer under the Indenture. 
  
 Any payment of principal or interest payable on this Note which is punctually paid on the applicable Payment Date shall be
paid to the Person in whose name such Note is registered at the close of business on the Record Date for such Payment Date by check mailed to such person’s address as it appears in the Note Register on such Record Date, except for the final
installment of principal and interest payable with respect to such Note, which shall be payable as provided below. Notwithstanding the foregoing, upon written request with appropriate instructions by the Holder of this Note delivered to the
Securities Administrator at least five Business Days prior to the Record Date, any payment of principal or interest, other than the final installment of principal or interest, shall be made by wire transfer to an account in the United States
designated by such Holder. All scheduled reductions in the principal amount of a Note (or one or more predecessor Notes) effected by payments of principal made on any Payment Date shall be binding upon all Holders of this Note and of any note issued
upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof, whether or not such payment is noted on such Note. The final payment of this Note shall be payable upon presentation and surrender thereof on or after the Payment
Date thereof at the office designated by the Securities Administrator or the office or agency of the Issuer maintained by it for such purpose pursuant to Section 3.02 of the Indenture. 
  
 Subject to the foregoing provisions, each Note delivered under the Indenture,
upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Note shall carry the right to unpaid principal and interest that were carried by such other Note. 
  
 If an Event of Default as defined in the Indenture shall occur and be continuing with respect to the Notes, the Notes may
become or be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. If any such acceleration of maturity occurs prior to the payment of the entire unpaid Note Principal Balance of the Notes, the amount payable to the
Holder of this Note shall be equal to the sum of the unpaid Note Principal Balance of the Notes, together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon as described in the Indenture. The Indenture 

  

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provides that, notwithstanding the acceleration of the maturity of the Notes, under certain circumstances specified therein, all amounts collected as
proceeds of the Trust Estate securing the Notes or otherwise shall continue to be applied to payments of principal of and interest on the Notes as if they had not been declared due and payable. 
  
 The Holder of this Note or Beneficial Owner of any interest herein is deemed
to represent that either (1) it is not acquiring the Note with Plan Assets or (2) (A) the acquisition, holding and transfer of a Note shall not give rise to a nonexempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or
Section 4975 of the Code and (B) the Notes are rated investment grade or better and such person believes that the Notes are properly treated as indebtedness without substantial equity features for purposes of the U.S. Department of Labor
(“DOL”) Regulations, and agrees to so treat the Notes. Alternatively, regardless of the rating of the Notes, such person may provide the Securities Administrator and the Owner Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel, which Opinion of Counsel
shall not be at the expense of the Issuer, the Seller, any Underwriter, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator, the Master Servicer, the Servicer, the Subservicer or any successor servicer which opines that the
acquisition, holding and transfer of such Note or interest therein is permissible under applicable law, shall not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code and shall not subject the
Issuer, the Seller, the Depositor, any Underwriter, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator, the Servicer or the Subservicer to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Indenture.

  
 As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Note may be registered on the Note Register of the Issuer. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of, or presentation of a written instrument of transfer for, this Note at the office or agency
designated by the Issuer pursuant to the Indenture, accompanied by proper instruments of assignment in form satisfactory to the Securities Administrator, one or more new Notes of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate Initial Note
Principal Balance, shall be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. 
  
 Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator and any agent of the Issuer, the Securities Administrator or the Indenture
Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner of such Note (i) on the applicable Record Date for the purpose of making payments and interest of such Note, and (ii) on any other date for all other purposes
whatsoever, as the owner hereof, whether or not this Note be overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Securities Administrator, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent of the Issuer, the Securities Administrator or the Indenture Trustee shall be
affected by notice to the contrary. 
  
 The Indenture permits,
with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the Notes under the Indenture at any time by the Issuer and the Holders of a
majority of all Notes at the time outstanding. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of Notes representing specified percentages of the aggregate Note Principal Balance of the Notes on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes,
to waive any past Default under the Indenture and its consequences. Any such waiver by the Holder, at the time of the giving thereof, of this Note (or any one or more predecessor Notes) shall bind the Holder of every Note issued upon the 

  

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registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon such Note. The
Indenture also permits the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator to amend or waive certain terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of the Holders of the Notes issued thereunder. 
  
 Initially, the Notes shall be registered in the name of Cede & Co.
as nominee of DTC, acting in its capacity as the Depository for the Notes. The Notes shall be delivered by the clearing agency in denominations as provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth. The Notes are
exchangeable for a like aggregate Initial Note Principal Balance of Notes of different authorized denominations, as requested by the Holder surrendering same. 
  

Unless the Certificate of Authentication hereon has been executed by the Securities Administrator by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled
to any benefit under the Indenture, or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. 
  
 AS PROVIDED IN THE INDENTURE, THIS NOTE AND THE INDENTURE CREATING THIS NOTE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, AND GOVERNED BY, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPLICABLE TO AGREEMENTS MADE AND TO BE PERFORMED
THEREIN. 
  

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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be duly executed by Wilmington Trust
Company, not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee. 
  
 Dated:
October 26, 2005 
  

			
	 PEOPLE’S CHOICE HOME LOAN SECURITIES
 TRUST SERIES 2005-4

	
	 BY: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in
 its individual capacity but solely in its capacity as
 Owner Trustee

		
	By:	 	 
	 Authorized Signatory

  
 SECURITIES
ADMINISTRATOR’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION 
  
 This is one of the Class
[    ]A[    ] Notes referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture. 
  
 WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as 
 Securities Administrator 
  

			
		
	By:	 	 
	 Authorized Signatory

  

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 ABBREVIATIONS 
  
 The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of the Note, shall be construed as though they were
written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations: 
  

							
				
	 	 	TEN COM	  	—  	  	as tenants in common
				
	 	 	TEN ENT	  	—  	  	as tenants by the entireties
				
	 	 	JT TEN	  	—  	  	as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common
			
	 UNIF GIFT MIN ACT
	  	—  	  	                      Custodian

 
 ______________________________
 (Cust)                                      
   (Minor)
 under Uniform Gifts to Minor Act
  
 ____________________________
                             (State)

  
 Additional
abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list. 
  

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 ASSIGNMENT 
  

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto 
  
 PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF 
 ASSIGNEE: 
 _____________________________________________ 
  
 _____________________________________________ 
  
 _____________________________________________ 
 (Please print or typewrite name and address, including zip code, of assignee) 
  
                                       
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
                    
 the within Note and all rights
thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints                     attorney to transfer said Note on the books kept for
registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the premises. 
  

	
	Dated:
                                       
                                        
                                        
         
	
	Signature Guaranteed by
                                        
                                        
                    

  
 NOTICE: The
signature(s) to this assignment must correspond with the name as it appears upon the face of the within Note in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. Signature(s) must be guaranteed by a commercial bank or by
a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange or another national securities exchange. Notarized or witnessed signatures are not acceptable. 
  

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 EXHIBIT A-2 
  
 FORM OF CLASS M[    ] NOTES 
  
 THIS NOTE IS SUBORDINATED IN RIGHT OF PAYMENT TO THE CLASS A NOTES [AND CLASS M[    ] NOTES] AS DESCRIBED IN THE
INDENTURE. 
  
 UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF
THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE, OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH
OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR
OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN. 
  
 THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE OR BENEFICIAL OWNER OF ANY INTEREST HEREIN WILL BE DEEMED TO REPRESENT TO ONE OF THE REPRESENTATIONS CONTAINED IN SECTION 4.15 OF THE INDENTURE.

  
 THIS NOTE IS A NON-RECOURSE OBLIGATION OF THE ISSUER, AND IS LIMITED IN RIGHT
OF PAYMENT TO AMOUNTS AVAILABLE FROM THE TRUST ESTATE AS PROVIDED IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO BELOW. THE ISSUER IS NOT OTHERWISE PERSONALLY LIABLE FOR PAYMENTS ON THIS NOTE. 
  
 PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE OVER TIME AS SET FORTH HEREIN. ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS
THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF. 
  

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 PEOPLE’S CHOICE HOME LOAN SECURITIES TRUST SERIES 2005-4 
 MORTGAGE-BACKED NOTES 
 CLASS
M[    ] 
  

			
		
	 AGGREGATE NOTE PRINCIPAL
 BALANCE: $[            ]
	  	 NOTE INTEREST
 RATE: Adjustable Rate

		
	 INITIAL NOTE PRINCIPAL
 BALANCE OF THIS NOTE: $[            ]
	  	NOTE NO. [    ]
		
	 PERCENTAGE INTEREST: 100%
	  	CUSIP NO. [    ]

  
 People’s Choice
Home Loan Securities Trust Series 2005-4 (the “Issuer”), a Delaware statutory trust, for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co. or registered assigns, the principal sum of
                                        
     ($                    ) in monthly installments on the twenty-fifth day of each month or, if such day is not a
Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day (each a “Payment Date”), commencing in November 2005 and ending on or before the Payment Date occurring in December 2035 (the “Final Scheduled Payment Date”) and to pay interest on
the Note Principal Balance of this Note (this “Note”) outstanding from time to time as provided below. 
  
 This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of the Issuer’s Mortgage-Backed Notes, Series 2005-4 (the “Notes”), issued under an Indenture
dated as of October 26, 2005 (the “Indenture”), among the Issuer, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as securities administrator (the “Securities Administrator”), and HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as indenture
trustee (the “Indenture Trustee,” which term includes any successor Indenture Trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights
thereunder of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee, and the Holders of the Notes and the terms upon which the Notes are to be authenticated and delivered. All terms used in this Note which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned
to them in the Indenture. 
  
 Payments of principal and interest
on this Note shall be made on each Payment Date to the Noteholder of record as of the related Record Date. The “Note Principal Balance” of a Note as of any date of determination is equal to the Initial Note Principal Balance thereof,
reduced by the aggregate of all amounts previously paid with respect to such Note on account of principal and the aggregate amount of cumulative Realized Losses allocated to such Note on all prior Payment Dates. 
  
 The principal of, and interest on, this Note are due and payable as described
in the Indenture, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. All payments made by the Issuer with respect to this Note shall be equal to this
Note’s pro rata share of the aggregate payments on all Class M[    ] Notes as described above, and shall be applied as between interest and principal as provided in the Indenture. 
  

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 All principal and interest accrued on the Notes, if not previously paid, shall become finally due and
payable at the Final Scheduled Payment Date. 
  
 The Notes are
subject to redemption in whole, but not in part, by the Majority Certificateholder on any Payment Date on or after the Payment Date on which the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans is less than or equal to 10% of aggregate
Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-off Date. 
  
 The Issuer shall not be liable upon the indebtedness evidenced by the Notes except to the extent of amounts available from the Trust Estate which constitutes security for the payment of the Notes. The assets included in the Trust Estate
shall be the sole source of payments on the Class M[    ] Notes, and each Holder hereof, by its acceptance of this Note, agrees that (i) such Note shall be limited in right of payment to amounts available from the
Trust Estate as provided in the Indenture and (ii) such Holder shall have no recourse to the Issuer, the Securities Administrator, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Servicer or any of their
respective affiliates, or to the assets of any of the foregoing entities, except the assets of the Issuer pledged to secure the Class M[    ] Notes pursuant to the Indenture and the rights conveyed by the Issuer under the
Indenture. 
  
 Any payment of principal or interest payable on
this Note which is punctually paid on the applicable Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name such Note is registered at the close of business on the Record Date for such Payment Date by check mailed to such person’s address as it
appears in the Note Register on such Record Date, except for the final installment of principal and interest payable with respect to such Note, which shall be payable as provided below. Notwithstanding the foregoing, upon written request with
appropriate instructions by the Holder of this Note delivered to the Securities Administrator at least five Business Days prior to the Record Date, any payment of principal or interest, other than the final installment of principal or interest,
shall be made by wire transfer to an account in the United States designated by such Holder. All scheduled reductions in the principal amount of a Note (or one or more predecessor Notes) effected by payments of principal made on any Payment Date
shall be binding upon all Holders of this Note and of any note issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof, whether or not such payment is noted on such Note. The final payment of this Note shall be
payable upon presentation and surrender thereof on or after the Payment Date thereof at the office designated by the Securities Administrator or the office or agency of the Issuer maintained by it for such purpose pursuant to Section 3.02 of
the Indenture. 
  
 Subject to the foregoing provisions, each Note
delivered under the Indenture, upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Note shall carry the right to unpaid principal and interest that were carried by such other Note. 
  
 If an Event of Default as defined in the Indenture shall occur and be
continuing with respect to the Notes, the Notes may become or be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. If any such acceleration of maturity occurs prior to the payment of the entire unpaid Note
Principal Balance of the Notes, the amount payable to the Holder of this Note shall be equal to the sum of the unpaid Note Principal Balance of the Notes, together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon as described in the Indenture. The Indenture
provides that, notwithstanding the acceleration of the maturity of the Notes, under certain 

  

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circumstances specified therein, all amounts collected as proceeds of the Trust Estate securing the Notes or otherwise shall continue to be applied to
payments of principal of and interest on the Notes as if they had not been declared due and payable. 
  
 The Holder of this Note or Beneficial Owner of any interest herein is deemed to represent that either (1) it is not acquiring the Note with Plan
Assets or (2) (A) the acquisition, holding and transfer of a Note shall not give rise to a nonexempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code and (B) the Notes are rated investment grade
or better and such person believes that the Notes are properly treated as indebtedness without substantial equity features for purposes of the DOL Regulations, and agrees to so treat the Notes. Alternatively, regardless of the rating of the Notes,
such person may provide the Securities Administrator and the Owner Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel, which Opinion of Counsel shall not be at the expense of the Issuer, the Seller, any Underwriter, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the
Securities Administrator, the Master Servicer, the Servicer or any successor servicer which opines that the acquisition, holding and transfer of such Note or interest therein is permissible under applicable law, shall not constitute or result in a
non-exempt prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code and shall not subject the Issuer, the Seller, the Depositor, any Underwriter, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Master Servicer, the Servicer or any successor
servicer to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Indenture. 
  
 As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Note may be registered on the Note Register of the Issuer. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of, or
presentation of a written instrument of transfer for, this Note at the office or agency designated by the Issuer pursuant to the Indenture, accompanied by proper instruments of assignment in form satisfactory to the Securities Administrator, one or
more new Notes of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate Initial Note Principal Balance, shall be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. 
  
 Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee, the Securities
Administrator and any agent of the Issuer, the Securities Administrator or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner of such Note (i) on the applicable Record Date for the purpose of making
payments and interest of such Note, and (ii) on any other date for all other purposes whatsoever, as the owner hereof, whether or not this Note be overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Securities Administrator, the Indenture Trustee or any such
agent of the Issuer, the Securities Administrator or the Indenture Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary. 
  
 The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Issuer
and the rights of the Holders of the Notes under the Indenture at any time by the Issuer and the Holders of a majority of all Notes at the time outstanding. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of Notes representing
specified percentages of the aggregate Note Principal Balance of the Notes on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, to waive any past Default under the Indenture and its consequences. Any such waiver by the Holder, at the time of the giving
thereof, of this Note (or any one or more predecessor Notes) shall bind the Holder of every Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of 

  

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such consent or waiver is made upon such Note. The Indenture also permits the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator to amend or
waive certain terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of the Holders of the Notes issued thereunder. 
  
 Initially, the Notes shall be registered in the name of Cede & Co. as nominee of DTC, acting in its capacity as the Depository for the Notes. The
Notes shall be delivered by the clearing agency in denominations as provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth. The Notes are exchangeable for a like aggregate Initial Note Principal Balance of Notes of different
authorized denominations, as requested by the Holder surrendering same. 
  
 Unless the Certificate of Authentication hereon has been executed by the Securities Administrator by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture, or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

  
 AS PROVIDED IN THE INDENTURE, THIS NOTE AND THE INDENTURE
CREATING THIS NOTE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, AND GOVERNED BY, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPLICABLE TO AGREEMENTS MADE AND TO BE PERFORMED THEREIN. 
  

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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be duly executed by Wilmington Trust
Company, not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee. 
  
 Dated:
October 26, 2005 
  

			
	 PEOPLE’S CHOICE HOME LOAN SECURITIES
 TRUST SERIES 2005-4

	
	 BY: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its
 individual capacity but solely in its capacity as
 Owner Trustee

		
	 By:
	 	 
	 Authorized Signatory

  
 SECURITIES
ADMINISTRATOR’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION 
  
 This is one of the Class
M[    ] Notes referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture. 
  
 WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Securities Administrator 
  

			
		
	 By:
	 	 
	 Authorized Signatory

  

 A-2-6 

 ABBREVIATIONS 
  
 The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of the Note, shall be construed as though they were
written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations: 
  

							
				
	 	 	TEN COM	  	—  	  	as tenants in common
				
	 	 	TEN ENT	  	—  	  	as tenants by the entireties
				
	 	 	JT TEN	  	—  	  	as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common
			
	 UNIF GIFT MIN ACT
	  	—  	  	 __________ Custodian
  
 __________________________________
 (Cust)                                      
       (Minor)
 under Uniform Gifts to Minor Act
  
 __________________________________
                                        
                 (State)

  
 Additional
abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list. 
  

 A-2-7 

 ASSIGNMENT 
  

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto 
  
 PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE: 
  

					
	 	 	 	 	 
			
	 	 	 	 	 
			
	 	 	 	 	 
	(Please print or typewrite name and address, including zip code, of assignee)
	
	 
	the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints
                                        
attorney to transfer said Note on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the premises.

  

							
	 	 	 	 	 
				
	 Dated: 
	 	 	 	 	 	 

							
		
	Signature Guaranteed by 	 	 

  
 NOTICE: The
signature(s) to this assignment must correspond with the name as it appears upon the face of the within Note in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. Signature(s) must be guaranteed by a commercial bank or by
a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange or another national securities exchange. Notarized or witnessed signatures are not acceptable. 
  

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 EXHIBIT A-3 
  
 GLOBAL CLASS N NOTE 
  
 UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR
REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE, OR PAYMENT AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO
SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST
HEREIN. 
  
 THIS NOTE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAW. THE HOLDER HEREOF, BY PURCHASING THIS NOTE, AGREES THAT THIS NOTE MAY BE REOFFERED, RESOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY (I)(A) PURSUANT TO
RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT TO A PERSON THAT THE HOLDER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER, WHOM THE HOLDER HAS INFORMED THAT THE REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A
OR (B) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 (IF AVAILABLE) AND (II) IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY OTHER APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES. BEFORE ANY INTEREST IN A CERTIFICATED NOTE MAY
BE OFFERED, RESOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED (OTHER THAN BY AN AFFILIATE OF THE ISSUER), THE TRANSFEREE WILL BE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE WITH AN INVESTMENT REPRESENTATION LETTER IN THE FORM ATTACHED TO THE INDENTURE.

  
 THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE OR BENEFICIAL OWNER OF ANY INTEREST HEREIN WILL BE
DEEMED TO REPRESENT TO ONE OF THE REPRESENTATIONS CONTAINED IN SECTION 4.15 OF THE INDENTURE. 
  
 EACH NOTEHOLDER, BY ACCEPTANCE OF THIS NOTE OR, IN THE CASE OF A NOTE OWNER, A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN THIS NOTE, COVENANTS AND AGREES THAT BY ACCEPTING THE BENEFITS OF THE INDENTURE THAT SUCH NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER
WILL NOT AT ANY TIME INSTITUTE AGAINST THE DEPOSITOR OR THE ISSUER, OR JOIN IN ANY INSTITUTION AGAINST THE DEPOSITOR OR THE ISSUER OF, ANY BANKRUPTCY, REORGANIZATION, ARRANGEMENT, INSOLVENCY, RECEIVERSHIP OR LIQUIDATION PROCEEDING OR OTHER
PROCEEDINGS UNDER ANY UNITED STATES FEDERAL OR STATE BANKRUPTCY OR SIMILAR LAW IN CONNECTION WITH ANY OBLIGATIONS RELATING TO THE NOTES OR THE INDENTURE. 
  

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 THIS NOTE REPRESENTS A NON-RECOURSE OBLIGATION OF THE ISSUER AND WILL BE PAID SOLELY FROM THE COLLATERAL SECURING THIS
NOTE. THIS NOTE IS NOT INSURED OR GUARANTEED BY THE ISSUER, THE DEPOSITOR, THE SELLER, THE ORIGINATOR, THE SERVICER, THE MASTER SERVICER, THE SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR, THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE, THE OWNER TRUSTEE OR ANY AFFILIATE OF ANY OF THEM AND IS
NOT INSURED OR GUARANTEED BY ANY GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY OR INSTRUMENTALITY OR BY ANY OTHER PERSON. 
  
 PAYMENTS IN REDUCTION OF THE CLASS PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE MAY BE MADE MONTHLY AS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO HEREIN. ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING NOTE BALANCE HEREOF AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE
AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF. 
  

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 PEOPLE’S CHOICE HOME LOAN SECURITIES TRUST SERIES 2005-4 
 MORTGAGE-BACKED NOTES 
 CLASS N 
  

			
	 AGGREGATE NOTE PRINCIPAL
 BALANCE: $23,750,000
	 	 NOTE INTEREST
 RATE: 5.00%

		
	 INITIAL NOTE PRINCIPAL
 BALANCE OF THIS NOTE: $23,750,000
	 	 NOTE NO. [    ]

		
	 PERCENTAGE INTEREST: 100%
	 	 CUSIP NO.[            ]

  
 People’s Choice
Home Loan Securities Trust Series 2005-4 (the “Issuer”), a Delaware statutory trust, for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE & CO. or registered assigns, the principal sum of Twenty-three Million Seven Hundred
Fifty Thousand Dollars ($23,750,000) payable on each Payment Date pursuant to the Indenture, dated as of October 26, 2005 (as amended and supplemented from time to time, the “Indenture”), among the Issuer, Wells Fargo Bank,
National Association, as securities administrator (the “Securities Administrator”), and HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as indenture trustee (the “Indenture Trustee,” which term includes any successor Indenture
Trustee under the Indenture); provided, however, that the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due and payable on the Payment Date occurring on the Maturity Date or as otherwise specified in the Indenture.
Capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Indenture or the Sale and Servicing Agreement, which agreements also contain rules as to construction that shall be applicable herein. 
  
 On each Payment Date until the principal of this Note is paid or made
available for payment in full, the Issuer will pay interest on this Note at a per annum rate equal to the applicable Note Interest Rate on the principal amount of this Note outstanding on the immediately preceding Payment Date (after giving effect
to all payments of principal made on such preceding Payment Date). 
  
 Payments on this Note will be made on the 25th day of each month or, if such a day is not a Business Day,
on the next succeeding Business Day, commencing in November 2005 (each, a “Payment Date”), to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on the applicable Record Date, in an amount equal to the product
of the Percentage Interest evidenced by this Note and the amount, if any, required to be paid to all the Notes of the class of Notes represented by this Note. All sums distributable on this Note are payable in the coin or currency of the United
States of America, which, at the time of payment, is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts therein. Such principal of and interest on this Note shall be paid in the manner specified on the reverse hereof. Reference is made to the
further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect as though fully set forth on the face of this Note. 
  
 Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Securities Administrator whose name appears below by manual signature, this Note
shall not be entitled to 

  

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any benefit under the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. 
  
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be signed,
manually or in facsimile, by its Authorized Officer, as of the date set forth below. 
  
 Dated: October 26, 2005 
  

			
	PEOPLE’S CHOICE HOME LOAN SECURITIES TRUST SERIES 2005-4
		
	 BY:
	 	WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its individual capacity but solely in its capacity as Owner Trustee
		
	 By:
	 	 
	 Authorized Signatory

  
 SECURITIES
ADMINISTRATOR’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION 
  
 This is one of the Class N
Notes referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture. 
  

			
	WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Securities Administrator
		
	 By:
	 	 
	 Authorized Signatory

  

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 PEOPLE’S CHOICE HOME LOAN SECURITIES TRUST SERIES 2005-4 
 MORTGAGE-BACKED NOTES 
 CLASS N 
  
 This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer, all
issued under the Indenture, to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and obligations thereunder of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders. To the
extent that any provision of this Note contradicts or is inconsistent with the provisions of the Indenture, the provisions of the Indenture shall control and supersede such contradictory or inconsistent provision herein. This Note is subject to all
terms of the Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement. 
  
 Payments to each Noteholder shall be made (i) by check mailed to the Person whose name appears as the Registered Noteholder of this Note on the books of the Note Registrar and Paying Agent as of the close of business on each Record
Date or (ii) upon written request made to the Note Registrar and Paying Agent prior to the related Record Date by the Noteholder of a Note having an initial Class Principal Amount of not less than $2,500,000, by wire transfer in immediately
available funds to an account specified in writing by such Noteholder. The final payment in retirement of this Note shall be made only upon surrender of this Note to the Note Registrar and Paying Agent at the office thereof specified in the notice
to Noteholders of such final payment mailed prior to the Payment Date on which the final payment is expected to be made to the Noteholder thereof. 
  
 As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations set forth therein, the transfer of this Note may be registered by the Note Registrar upon
surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency designated by the Issuer pursuant to the Indenture, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Note Registrar duly
executed by, the Noteholder hereof or such Noteholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar, which requirements
include membership or participation in the Securities Transfer Agent’s Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Note Registrar in addition to, or in
substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and thereupon one or more new Notes of authorized denominations and in the same aggregate principal amount will be issued to the designated transferee
or transferees. No service charge will be charged for any registration of transfer or exchange of this Note, but the transferor may be required to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection
with any such registration of transfer or exchange. 
  
 No
transfer, sale, pledge or other disposition of this Note or interest herein shall be made unless that transfer, sale, pledge or other disposition is exempt from the registration and/or qualification requirements of the Securities Act and any
applicable state securities laws, or is otherwise made in accordance with the Securities Act and such state securities laws. If a transfer of this Note is to be made without registration under the Securities Act (other than in connection with the
initial issuance thereof or a transfer thereof by the Depositor or one of its Affiliates), then the Note Registrar shall refuse to register such transfer unless it receives (and upon receipt, may conclusively rely upon) a certificate from the
Noteholder desiring to effect such transfer 

  

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substantially in the form attached as Exhibit C-1 to the Indenture (which, in the case of Book-Entry Notes, the Note Owner will be deemed to have
represented such certification) and a certificate from such Noteholder’s prospective transferee substantially in the form attached as Exhibit C-2 to the Indenture (which, in the case of the Book-Entry Notes, the Note Owner’s
prospective transferee will be deemed to have represented such certification). None of the Issuer, the Depositor, the Indenture Trustee or the Note Registrar is obligated to register or qualify any Notes under the Securities Act or any other
securities law or to take any action not otherwise required under this Indenture to permit the transfer of any Note or interest therein without registration or qualification. Any Noteholder desiring to effect a transfer of Notes or interests therein
shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Depositor, the Securities Administrator, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and the Note Registrar against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made
in accordance with such federal and state laws. 
  
 The Notes are
subject to optional redemption and a clean-up call in accordance with the Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement. 
  
 Each Noteholder, by acceptance of a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly,
with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Securities Administrator or the Indenture Trustee on the Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in connection therewith, against (i) the
Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator or the Owner Trustee in their respective individual capacities, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or
employee of the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, any Noteholder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Securities Administrator or the Indenture Trustee or of
any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee or the Securities Administrator in its individual capacity, except as any such Person may have expressly agreed and except that any such partner, owner or beneficiary shall be fully
liable, to the extent provided by applicable law, for any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any installment or call owing to such entity. 
  
 Each Noteholder, by acceptance of a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees by accepting the benefits
of the Indenture that such Noteholder will not at any time institute against the Depositor or the Issuer, or join in any institution against the Depositor or the Issuer of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation
proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, the Indenture or the other Operative Agreements. 
  
 Each Noteholder, by acceptance of a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note, consents to and agrees to be bound by the terms
and conditions of the Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement. 
  
 The Issuer has entered into the Indenture and this Note is issued with the intention that, for federal, state and local income and franchise tax purposes, the Notes will be debt. Each Noteholder, by acceptance of a Note or a beneficial
interest in a Note, agrees to treat the Notes for all federal, state and local income tax purposes as debt (except that any Note held by a person 

  

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that, for federal income tax purposes, owns or is treated as owning a 100% Percentage Interest of the Certificate shall not be treated as outstanding
indebtedness). 
  
 Prior to the due presentment for registration
of transfer of this Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee, the Note Registrar, the Paying Agent and any agent of the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note (as of the day of determination or as of such other
date as may be specified in the Indenture) is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee, the Note Registrar, the Paying Agent or any such agent shall be
affected by notice to the contrary. 
  
 The Indenture permits,
with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof by supplemental indenture and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Noteholders under the Indenture at any time by the Depositor, the
Issuer and the Indenture Trustee with the consent of the Noteholders representing not less than 66-2/3% of the then-outstanding Notes by aggregate Class Principal Amount for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or
eliminating any of the provisions of the Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Noteholders. Any such consent or waiver by the Noteholder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Noteholder and upon all future
Noteholders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note. The Indenture also permits the amendment
thereof, in certain limited circumstances, or the waiver of certain terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture, without the consent of Noteholders of the Notes issued thereunder. 
  
 The term “Issuer” as used in this Note includes any successor to the Issuer under the Indenture. 
  
 The Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations as provided
in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations therein set forth. 
  
 THIS NOTE AND THE INDENTURE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS (OTHER THAN SECTION 5-1401 OF THE GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW), AND THE
OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS. 
  
 No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is
absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Note at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency herein prescribed. 
  
 Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, none of the Issuer, in its individual capacity, the
Owner Trustee, in its individual capacity, the Indenture Trustee, in its individual capacity, any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, or any of their respective partners, beneficiaries, agents, officers, directors, 

  

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employees or successors or assigns shall be personally liable for, nor shall recourse be had to any of them for, the payment of principal of or interest on
this Note or performance of, or omission to perform, any of the covenants, obligations or indemnifications contained in the Indenture. The Noteholder of this Note, by its acceptance hereof, agrees that, except as expressly provided in the Basic
Documents, in the case of an Event of Default under the Indenture, the Noteholder shall have no claim against any of the foregoing for any deficiency, loss or claim therefrom; provided, however, that nothing contained herein
shall be taken to prevent recourse to, and enforcement against, the assets of the Issuer for any and all liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in this Note. 
  

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 ASSIGNMENT 
  
 Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number of assignee:
                     
  
 FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto: 
  
 __________________________________________________________________________________________ 
 (name and address of assignee) 
  
 the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints
                                    , attorney, to transfer
said Note on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the premises. 
  

					
			
	Dated: 	 	 	 	 */

		
	 Signature Guaranteed:
	 	 
		
	 	 	 */

  

	*/	NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name of the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Note in every particular, without alteration,
enlargement or any change whatever. Such signature must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in STAMP or such other
“signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Note Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. 

  

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 EXHIBIT B 
  

SCHEDULE OF NOTIONAL AMOUNTS OF THE SWAP AGREEMENT 
  

											
	Period

	  	 Payment
Date

	  	Notional
Amount ($)

	  	Period

	  	 Payment
Date

	  	Notional
Amount ($)

	1	  	November 2005	  	0.00	  	31	  	May 2008	  	258,069,883.06
	2	  	December 2005	  	0.00	  	32	  	June 2008	  	248,125,108.29
	3	  	January 2006	  	0.00	  	33	  	July 2008	  	238,525,846.09
	4	  	February 2006	  	0.00	  	34	  	August 2008	  	229,259,825.15
	5	  	March 2006	  	0.00	  	35	  	September 2008	  	220,315,264.59
	6	  	April 2006	  	0.00	  	36	  	October 2008	  	211,681,222.83
	7	  	May 2006	  	1,022,261,234.21	  	37	  	November 2008	  	203,346,708.24
	8	  	June 2006	  	998,984,786.78	  	38	  	December 2008	  	195,300,623.03
	9	  	July 2006	  	974,035,971.21	  	39	  	January 2009	  	187,536,073.27
	10	  	August 2006	  	944,631,108.98	  	40	  	February 2009	  	180,073,223.42
	11	  	September 2006	  	913,388,547.38	  	41	  	March 2009	  	172,887,035.73
	12	  	October 2006	  	881,920,286.22	  	42	  	April 2009	  	165,946,796.70
	13	  	November 2006	  	851,096,309.95	  	43	  	May 2009	  	159,242,363.28
	14	  	December 2006	  	820,708,080.57	  	44	  	June 2009	  	152,765,688.02
	15	  	January 2007	  	791,240,053.47	  	45	  	July 2009	  	146,509,001.60
	16	  	February 2007	  	763,475,987.04	  	46	  	August 2009	  	140,464,800.86
	17	  	March 2007	  	734,096,109.78	  	47	  	September 2009	  	134,625,839.66
	18	  	April 2007	  	703,803,278.85	  	48	  	October 2009	  	128,985,120.05
	19	  	May 2007	  	661,734,786.46	  	49	  	November 2009	  	123,535,883.73
	20	  	June 2007	  	622,003,120.56	  	50	  	December 2009	  	118,271,603.78
	21	  	July 2007	  	584,691,271.69	  	51	  	January 2010	  	113,185,976.75
	22	  	August 2007	  	549,645,851.32	  	52	  	February 2010	  	108,272,914.94
	23	  	September 2007	  	516,713,898.80	  	53	  	March 2010	  	103,526,539.01
	24	  	October 2007	  	485,837,766.87	  	54	  	April 2010	  	98,941,170.78
	25	  	November 2007	  	359,025,763.52	  	55	  	May 2010	  	94,511,326.36
	26	  	December 2007	  	337,193,380.84	  	56	  	June 2010	  	90,231,709.46

  

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	27	  	January 2008	  	316,670,778.61	  	57	  	July 2010	  	86,097,204.94
	28	  	February 2008	  	297,370,904.22	  	58	  	August 2010	  	82,102,872.57
	29	  	March 2008	  	279,170,659.38	  	59	  	September 2010	  	78,243,986.93
	30	  	April 2008	  	268,374,976.14	  	60	  	October 2010	  	74,507,938.50

  

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 EXHIBIT C-1 
  
 FORM OF TRANSFEROR CERTIFICATE 
 FOR TRANSFERS OF THE NOTES 
  
 [Date] 
  
 Wells
Fargo Bank, N.A. 
 Sixth Street and Marquette Avenue 
 Minneapolis, Minnesota 55479 
 Attention: Corporate Trust Services — People’s Choice Home Loan Securities Trust 2005-4 
  

	 	Re:	PEOPLE’S CHOICE HOME LOAN SECURITIES TRUST SERIES 2005-4 MORTGAGE-BACKED NOTES( the “Notes”) 

  
 Ladies and Gentlemen: 
  
                                       
       (the “Transferor”) intends to sell to
                                        
     (the “Transferee”) Notes having an initial aggregate Note Balance as of October 26, 2005 (the “Closing Date”) of
$                                 (the “Transferred Notes”). The Notes,
including the Transferred Notes, were issued pursuant to the Indenture, dated as of the Closing Date (the “Indenture”), among People’s Choice Home Loan Securities Trust Series 2005-4 (the “Issuer”), HSBC Bank USA, National
Association (the “Indenture Trustee”) and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association. All capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the respective meanings set forth in the Indenture. The Transferor hereby certifies,
represents and warrants to you, as Note Registrar, and for the benefit of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Transferee, that: 
  
 The Transferor is the lawful owner of the Transferred Notes with the full right to transfer such Notes free from any and all claims and encumbrances
whatsoever. 
  
 Neither the Transferor nor anyone acting on its
behalf has (a) offered, transferred, pledged, sold or otherwise disposed of any Note, any interest in any Note or any other similar security to any person in any manner, (b) solicited any offer to buy or accept a transfer, pledge or other
disposition of any Note, any interest in any Note or any other similar security from any person in any manner, (c) otherwise approached or negotiated with respect to any Note, any interest in any Note or any other similar security with any
person in any manner, (d) made any general solicitation by means of general advertising or in any other manner, or (e) taken any other action, which (in the case of any of the acts described in clauses (a) through (e) hereof)
would constitute a distribution of any Note under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or would render the disposition of any Note a violation of Section 5 of the Securities Act or any state securities laws,
or would require registration or qualification of any Note pursuant to the Securities Act or any state securities laws. 
  
 The Transferor and any person acting on behalf of the Transferor in this matter reasonably believe that the Transferee is a “qualified institutional
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defined in Rule 144A (“Rule 144A”) under the Securities Act (a “Qualified Institutional Buyer”) purchasing for its own account
or for the account of a Qualified Institutional Buyer. In determining whether the Transferee is a Qualified Institutional Buyer, the Transferor and any person acting on behalf of the Transferor in this matter have relied upon the following method(s)
of establishing the Transferee’s ownership and discretionary investments of securities (check one or more): 
  
  ̈ (a) The Transferee’s most recent
publicly available financial statements, which statements present the information as of a date within 16 months preceding the date of sale of the Transferred Note in the case of a U.S. purchaser and within 18 months preceding such date of sale
for a foreign purchaser; or 
  
  ̈ (b) The most recent publicly available information appearing in documents filed by the Transferee with the Securities and Exchange Commission or another United States
federal, state, or local governmental agency or self-regulatory organization, or with a foreign governmental agency or self-regulatory organization, which information is as of a date within 16 months preceding the date of sale of the Transferred
Note in the case of a U.S. purchaser and within 18 months preceding such date of sale for a foreign purchaser; or 
  
  ̈ (c) The most recent publicly available
information appearing in a recognized securities manual, which information is as of a date within 16 months preceding the date of sale of the Transferred Note in the case of a U.S. purchaser and within 18 months preceding such date of sale for
a foreign purchaser; or 
  
  ̈ (d) A certification by the chief financial officer, a person fulfilling an equivalent function, or other executive officer of the Transferee, specifying the amount of
securities owned and invested on a discretionary basis by the Transferee as of a specific date on or since the close of the Transferee’s most recent fiscal year, or, in the case of a Transferee that is a member of a “family of investment
companies”, as that term is defined in Rule 144A, a certification by an executive officer of the investment adviser specifying the amount of securities owned by the “family of investment companies” as of a specific date on or
since the close of the Transferee’s most recent fiscal year. 
  
 The Transferor and any person acting on behalf of the Transferor understand that in determining the aggregate amount of securities owned and invested on a discretionary basis by an entity for purposes of establishing whether such entity is
a Qualified Institutional Buyer: 
  
  ̈ (a) the following instruments and interests shall be excluded: securities of issuers that are affiliated with the Transferee; securities that are part
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subscription by the Transferee, if the Transferee is a dealer; securities of issuers that are part of the Transferee’s “family of investment
companies”, if the Transferee is a registered investment company; bank deposit notes and certificates of deposit; loan participations; repurchase agreements; securities owned but subject to a repurchase agreement; and currency, interest rate
and commodity swaps; 
  
  ̈ (b) the aggregate value of the securities shall be the cost of such securities, except where the entity reports its securities holdings in its financial statements on the basis
of their market value, and no current information with respect to the cost of those securities has been published, in which case the securities may be valued at market; 
  
  ̈
(c) securities owned by subsidiaries of the entity that are consolidated with the entity in its financial statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles may be included if the investments of such subsidiaries
are managed under the direction of the entity, except that, unless the entity is a reporting company under Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, securities owned by such subsidiaries may not be included if the
entity itself is a majority-owned subsidiary that would be included in the consolidated financial statements of another enterprise. 
  
 The Transferor or a person acting on its behalf has taken reasonable steps to ensure that the Transferee is aware that the Transferor is relying on the
exemption from the provisions of Section 5 of the Securities Act provided by Rule 144A. 
  
 The Transferor or a person acting on its behalf has furnished, or caused to be furnished, to the Transferee all information regarding (a) the
Transferred Notes and payments thereon, (b) the nature and performance of the Owner Trust Certificates and the Mortgage Loans, (c) the Indenture and the Trust Estate, and (d) any credit enhancement mechanism associated with the
Transferred Notes that the Transferee has requested. 
  

			
	 Very truly yours,

	
	 
	 (Transferor)

		
	 By:
	 	 
	 	 	 Name:

	 	 	 Title:

  

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 EXHIBIT C-2 
  
 FORM OF TRANSFEREE CERTIFICATE 
 FOR TRANSFERS OF THE NOTES 
  
 [Date] 
  
 Wells
Fargo Bank, N.A. 
 Sixth Street and Marquette Avenue 
 Minneapolis, Minnesota 55479 
 Attention: Corporate Trust Services — People’s Choice Home Loan Securities Trust 2005-4 
  

	 	Re:	PEOPLE’S CHOICE HOME LOAN SECURITIES TRUST SERIES 2005-4 MORTGAGE-BACKED NOTES( the “Notes”) 

  
 Ladies and Gentlemen: 
  
                                       
       (the “Transferee”) intends to purchase from
                                        
     (the “Transferor”) Notes having an initial aggregate Note Balance as of October 26, 2005 (the “Closing Date”) of
$                                 (the “Transferred Notes”). The Notes,
including the Transferred Notes, were issued pursuant to the Indenture dated as of the Closing Date (the “Indenture”), among People’s Choice Home Loan Securities Trust Series 2005-4 (the “Issuer”), HSBC Bank USA, National
Association (the “Indenture Trustee”) and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association. All capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the meanings set forth in the Indenture. The Transferee hereby certifies, represents
and warrants to you, as Note Registrar, and for the benefit of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Transferor, that: 
  
 The Transferee is a “qualified institutional buyer” (a “Qualified Institutional Buyer”), as that term is defined in Rule 144A
(“Rule 144A”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and has completed one of the forms of certification to that effect attached hereto as Annex 1 and Annex 2. The Transferee is aware that the
sale to it of the Transferred Notes is being made in reliance on Rule 144A. The Transferee is acquiring the Transferred Notes for its own account or for the account of a Qualified Institutional Buyer and understands that such Transferred Notes
may be resold, pledged or transferred only (i) to a person reasonably believed to be a Qualified Institutional Buyer who purchases for its own account or for the account of a Qualified Institutional Buyer to whom notice is given that the
resale, pledge or transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, or (ii) pursuant to another exemption from registration under the Securities Act. 
  

The Transferee has been furnished with all information regarding (a) the Transferred Notes and payments thereon, (b) the nature and performance of the
Underlying Certificates and the Mortgage Loans, (c) the Indenture, and (d) any credit enhancement mechanism associated with the Transferred Notes, that it has requested. 
  

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 The Transferee represents that either of (a), (b) or (c) is satisfied, as marked below: 
  
  ̈ (a) it is not acquiring the Note with Plan Assets; or 
  
  ̈ (b) (i) the acquisition, holding and transfer of the Note shall not give rise to a nonexempt
prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code and (ii) the Notes are rated investment grade or better and such person believes that the Notes are properly treated as indebtedness without substantial
equity features for purposes of the Department of Labor regulation 29 C.F.R. § 2510.3-101, and such Holder agrees to so treat the Notes. 
  
  ̈ (c) it has provided the Securities
Administrator and the Owner Trustee with an Opinion of Counsel, which Opinion of Counsel shall not be at the expense of the Issuer, the Depositor, the Seller, any Underwriter, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator,
the Master Servicer, the Servicer, or the Subservicer, which opines that the acquisition, holding and transfer of such Note or interest therein is permissible under applicable law, shall not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited
transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code and shall not subject the Issuer, the Seller, the Depositor, any Underwriter, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator, the Master Servicer, the Servicer or the
Subservicer to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Indenture and the other Basic Documents. 
  
 Any Person acquiring or accepting the Note or interest in the Note that is a Book-Entry Note will be deemed to represent that clause (a) or (b) applies by virtue of its acquisition or acceptance of such Note
or interest therein. 
  

			
	 Very truly yours,

	
	 
	 (Transferee)

		
	 By:
	 	 
	 Name:
	 	 
	 Title:
	 	 

  

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 ANNEX 1 TO EXHIBIT C-2 
  
 QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER STATUS UNDER SEC RULE 144A 
  
 [for Transferees other than Registered Investment Companies] 
  
 The undersigned hereby certifies as follows to [name of Transferor] (the
“Transferor”) and [name of Note Registrar], as Note Registrar, with respect to the Notes being transferred (the “Transferred Notes”) as described in the Transferee Certificate to which this certification relates and to which this
certification is an Annex: 
  
 1 As indicated below, the
undersigned is the chief financial officer, a person fulfilling an equivalent function, or other executive officer of the entity purchasing the Transferred Notes (the “Transferee”). 
  
 2 The Transferee is a “qualified institutional buyer” as that term
is defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (“Rule 144A”), because (i) the Transferee owned and/or invested on a discretionary basis
$                     in securities (other than the excluded securities referred to below) as of the end of the Transferee’s most recent
fiscal year (such amount being calculated in accordance with Rule 144A) and (ii) the Transferee satisfies the criteria in the category marked below. 
  

	 	 ̈	Corporation, etc. The Transferee is a corporation (other than a bank, savings and loan association or similar institution), Massachusetts or similar business trust,
partnership, or any organization described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. 

  

	 	 ̈	Bank. The Transferee (a) is a national bank or a banking institution organized under the laws of any State, U.S. territory or the District of Columbia, the business of
which is substantially confined to banking and is supervised by the State or territorial banking commission or similar official or is a foreign bank or equivalent institution, and (b) has an audited net worth of at least $25,000,000 as
demonstrated in its latest annual financial statements, a copy of which is attached hereto, as of a date not more than 16 months preceding the date of sale of the Note in the case of a U.S. bank, and not more than 18 months preceding
such date of sale for a foreign bank or equivalent institution. 

  

	 	 ̈	 Savings and Loan. The Transferee (a) is a savings and loan association, building and loan association, cooperative bank, homestead association or
similar institution, which is supervised and examined by a State or Federal authority having supervision over any such institutions or is a foreign savings and loan association or equivalent institution and (b) has an audited net worth of at
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date not more than 16 months preceding the date of sale of the Note in the case of a U.S. savings and loan association, and not more than 18 months preceding
such date of sale for a foreign savings and loan association or equivalent institution. 

  

	 	 ̈	Broker-dealer. The Transferee is a dealer registered pursuant to Section 15 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. 

  

	 	 ̈	Insurance Company. The Transferee is an insurance company whose primary and predominant business activity is the writing of insurance or the reinsuring of risks underwritten
by insurance companies and which is subject to supervision by the insurance commissioner or a similar official or agency of a State, U.S. territory or the District of Columbia. 

  

	 	 ̈	State or Local Plan. The Transferee is a plan established and maintained by a State, its political subdivisions, or any agency or instrumentality of the State or its
political subdivisions, for the benefit of its employees. 

  

	 	 ̈	ERISA Plan. The Transferee is an employee benefit plan within the meaning of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. 

  

	 	 ̈	Investment Advisor. The Transferee is an investment advisor registered under the investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended. 

  

	 	 ̈	Other. (Please supply a brief description of the entity and a cross-reference to the          paragraph and subparagraph under
subsection (a)(1) of Rule 144A pursuant to which it qualifies. Note that registered investment companies should complete Annex 2 rather than this Annex 1.) 

  

	
	 
	
	 
	
	 
	
	 

  
 The term
“securities” as used herein does not include (i) securities of issuers that are affiliated with the Transferee, (ii) securities that are part of an unsold allotment to or subscription by the Transferee, if the Transferee is a
dealer, (iii) bank deposit notes and certificates of deposit, (iv) loan participations, (v) repurchase agreements, (vi) securities owned but subject to a repurchase agreement and (vii) currency, interest rate and commodity
swaps. For purposes of determining the aggregate amount of securities owned and/or invested on a discretionary basis by the Transferee, the Transferee did not include any of the securities referred to in this paragraph. 
  
 For purposes of determining the aggregate amount of securities owned and/or
invested on a discretionary basis by the Transferee, the Transferee used the cost of such securities to the Transferee, unless the Transferee reports its securities holdings in its financial 

  

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statements on the basis of their market value, and no current information with respect to the cost of those securities has been published, in which case the
securities were valued at market. Further, in determining such aggregate amount, the Transferee may have included securities owned by subsidiaries of the Transferee, but only if such subsidiaries are consolidated with the Transferee in its financial
statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and if the investments of such subsidiaries are managed under the Transferee’s direction. However, such securities were not included if the Transferee is a
majority-owned, consolidated subsidiary of another enterprise and the Transferee is not itself a reporting company under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. 
  
 3. The Transferee acknowledges that it is familiar with Rule 144A and understands that the Transferor and other parties
related to the Transferred Notes are relying and will continue to rely on the statements made herein because one or more sales to the Transferee may be in reliance on Rule 144A. 
  

					
	  ̈
	 	 ̈	  	Will the Transferee be purchasing the Transferred Notes
	 Yes
	 	 No
	  	only for the Transferee’s own account?

  
 If the answer
to the foregoing question is “no”, then in each case where the Transferee is purchasing for an account other than its own, such account belongs to a third party that is itself a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning
of Rule 144A, and the “qualified institutional buyer” status of such third party has been established by the Transferee through one or more of the appropriate methods contemplated by Rule 144A. 
  
 4. The Transferee will notify each of the parties to which this
certification is made of any changes in the information and conclusions herein. Until such notice is given, the Transferee’s purchase of the Transferred Notes will constitute a reaffirmation of this certification as of the date of such
purchase. In addition, if the Transferee is a bank or savings and loan as provided above, the Transferee agrees that it will furnish to such parties any updated annual financial statements that become available on or before the date of such
purchase, promptly after they become available. 
  

	
	
	 
	 Print Name of Transferee

  

			
		
	By:	 	 
	 	 	 Name:

	 	 	 Title:

		
	 	 	 Date:

  

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 ANNEX 2 to EXHIBIT C-2 
  
 QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER STATUS UNDER SEC RULE 144A 
  
 [for Transferees that are Registered Investment Companies] 
  
 The undersigned hereby certifies as follows to [name of Transferor] (the
“Transferor”) and [name of Note Registrar], as Note Registrar, with respect to the Notes being transferred (the “Transferred Notes”) as described in the Transferee Certificate to which this certification relates and to which this
certification is an Annex: 
  
 1. As indicated below, the
undersigned is the chief financial officer, a person fulfilling an equivalent function, or other executive officer of the entity purchasing the Transferred Certificates (the “Transferee”) or, if the Transferee is a “qualified
institutional buyer” as that term is defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (“Rule 144A”), because the Transferee is part of a Family of Investment Companies (as defined below), is an executive
officer of the investment adviser (the “Adviser”). 
  
 2. The Transferee is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A because (i) the Transferee is an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and (ii) as marked
below, the Transferee alone owned and/or invested on a discretionary basis, or the Transferee’s Family of Investment Companies owned, at least $100,000,000 in securities (other than the excluded securities referred to below) as of the end of
the Transferee’s most recent fiscal year. For purposes of determining the amount of securities owned by the Transferee or the Transferee’s Family of Investment Companies, the cost of such securities was used, unless the Transferee or any
member of the Transferee’s Family of Investment Companies, as the case may be, reports its securities holdings in its financial statements on the basis of their market value, and no current information with respect to the cost of those
securities has been published, in which case the securities of such entity were valued at market. 
  
  ̈ The Transferee owned and/or invested on a
discretionary basis $                     in securities (other than the excluded securities referred to below) as of the end of the
Transferee’s most recent fiscal year (such amount being calculated in accordance with Rule 144A). 
  
  ̈ The Transferee is part of a Family of
Investment Companies which owned in the aggregate $                     in securities (other than the excluded securities referred to below)
as of the end of the Transferee’s most recent fiscal year (such amount being calculated in accordance with Rule 144A). 
  
 The term “Family of Investment Companies” as used herein means two or more registered investment companies (or series thereof) that have the
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of the same parent or because one investment adviser is a majority owned subsidiary of the other). 
  
 The term “securities” as used herein does not include
(i) securities of issuers that are affiliated with the Transferee or are part of the Transferee’s Family of Investment Companies, (ii) bank deposit notes and certificates of deposit, (iii) loan participations,
(iv) repurchase agreements, (v) securities owned but subject to a repurchase agreement and (vi) currency, interest rate and commodity swaps. For purposes of determining the aggregate amount of securities owned and/or invested on a
discretionary basis by the Transferee, or owned by the Transferee’s Family of Investment Companies, the securities referred to in this paragraph were excluded. 
  
 3. The Transferee is familiar with Rule 144A and understands that the parties to which this certification is being made
are relying and will continue to rely on the statements made herein because one or more sales to the Transferee will be in reliance on Rule 144A. 
  

					
	  ̈
	 	 ̈	  	Will the Transferee be purchasing the Transferred
	 Yes
	 	 No
	  	Notes only for the Transferee’s own account?

  
 If the answer
to the foregoing question is “no”, then in each case where the Transferee is purchasing for an account other than its own, such account belongs to a third party that is itself a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning
of Rule 144A, and the “qualified institutional buyer” status of such third party has been established by the Transferee through one or more of the appropriate methods contemplated by Rule 144A. 
  
 4. The undersigned will notify the parties to which this certification is
made of any changes in the information and conclusions herein. Until such notice, the Transferee’s purchase of the Transferred Notes will constitute a reaffirmation of this certification by the undersigned as of the date of such purchase.

  

	
	
	 
	 Print Name of Transferee or Adviser

  

			
		
	By:	 	 
	 	 	 Name:

	 	 	 Title:

  

			
	
	 IF AN ADVISER:

	
	 
	 Print Name of Transferee

	
	 Date

  

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