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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): February 16, 1995
GREEN TREE FINANCIAL CORPORATION
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(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Minnesota 0-11652 41-1263905
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(Stateor other jurisdiction (Commission (IRS employer
of incorporation) file number) identification No.)
1100 Landmark Towers, 345 St. Peter Street, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55102-1639
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(Address of principal executive offices)
Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (612) 293-3400
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Not Applicable
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(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
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Item 1. Changes in Control of Registrant.
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Not applicable.
Item 2. Acquisition or Disposition of Assets.
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Not applicable.
Item 3. Bankruptcy or Receivership.
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Not applicable.
Item 4. Changes in Registrant's Certifying Accountant.
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Not applicable.
Item 5. Other Events.
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Not applicable.
Item 6. Resignations of Registrant's Directors.
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Not applicable.
Item 7. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
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(a) Financial statements of businesses acquired.
Not applicable.
(b) Pro forma financial information.
Not applicable.
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(c) Exhibits.
The following is filed herewith. The exhibit numbers correspond
with Item 601(b) of Regulation S-K.
Exhibit No. Description
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4.1 Pooling and Servicing Agreement between Green Tree
Financial Corporation, as Seller and Servicer, and
First Bank National Association, as Trustee, dated
as of February 1, 1995, relating to Manufactured
Housing Contract Senior/Subordinate Pass-Through
Certificates, Series 1995-1
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant has duly caused this Report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
GREEN TREE FINANCIAL CORPORATION
/s/ Robley D. Evans
By: ____________________________
Robley D. Evans
Vice President and Controller
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INDEX TO EXHIBITS
Exhibit Number Page
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4.1 Pooling and Servicing Agreement between Green Tree 5
Financial Corporation, as Seller and Servicer, and
First Bank National Association, as Trustee, dated
as of February 1, 1995, relating to Manufactured
Housing Contract Senior/Subordinate Pass-Through
Certificates, Series 1995-1
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FINAL
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Manufactured Housing Contract Senior/Subordinate Pass-Through
Certificates, Series 1995-1
POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT
between
GREEN TREE FINANCIAL CORPORATION
as Seller and Servicer
and
FIRST BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
not in its individual capacity but solely as Trustee
Dated as of February 1, 1995
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE I
Definitions
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Section 1.01. General............................................... 1-1
Section 1.02. Specific Terms........................................ 1-1
ARTICLE II
Establishment of Trust; Transfer of Contracts
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Section 2.01. Closing............................................... 2-1
Section 2.02. Conditions to the Closing............................. 2-2
Section 2.03. Acceptance by Trustee................................. 2-4
Section 2.04. REMIC Provisions...................................... 2-4
ARTICLE III
Representations and Warranties
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Section 3.01. Representations and Warranties Regarding the
Company........................................... 3-1
Section 3.02. Representations and Warranties Regarding Each
Contract.......................................... 3-2
Section 3.03. Representations and Warranties Regarding the
Contracts in the Aggregate........................ 3-6
Section 3.04. Representations and Warranties Regarding the
Contract Files.................................... 3-7
Section 3.05. Repurchase of Contracts or Substitution of Contracts
for Breach of Representations and Warranties...... 3-8
Section 3.06. No Repurchase or Substitution Under Certain
Circumstances..................................... 3-11
ARTICLE IV
Perfection of Transfer and Protection of Security Interests
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Section 4.01. Custody of Contracts.................................. 4-1
Section 4.02. Filings............................................... 4-2
Section 4.03. Name Change or Relocation............................. 4-2
Section 4.04. Chief Executive Office................................ 4-2
Section 4.05. Costs and Expenses.................................... 4-3
ARTICLE V
Servicing of Contracts
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Section 5.01. Responsibility for Contract Administration............ 5-1
Section 5.02. Standard of Care...................................... 5-1
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Section 5.03. Records............................................... 5-1
Section 5.04. Inspection; Computer Tape............................. 5-1
Section 5.05. Certificate Account................................... 5-2
Section 5.06. Enforcement........................................... 5-4
Section 5.07. Trustee to Cooperate.................................. 5-5
Section 5.08. Costs and Expenses.................................... 5-6
Section 5.09. Maintenance of Insurance.............................. 5-6
Section 5.10. Repossession.......................................... 5-7
Section 5.11. Commingling of Funds.................................. 5-8
Section 5.12. Retitling; Security Interests......................... 5-8
ARTICLE VI
Reports and Tax Matters
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Section 6.01. Monthly Reports....................................... 6-1
Section 6.02. Certificate of Servicing Officer...................... 6-1
Section 6.03. Other Data............................................ 6-1
Section 6.04. Annual Report of Accountants.......................... 6-1
Section 6.05. Statements to Certificateholders and Class C
Certificateholders................................ 6-2
Section 6.06. Payment of Taxes...................................... 6-8
ARTICLE VII
Service Transfer
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Section 7.01. Event of Termination.................................. 7-1
Section 7.02. Transfer.............................................. 7-2
Section 7.03. Trustee to Act; Appointment of Successor.............. 7-2
Section 7.04. Notification to Certificateholders and Class C
Certificateholders................................ 7-3
Section 7.05. Effect of Transfer.................................... 7-3
Section 7.06. Transfer of Certificate Account....................... 7-4
ARTICLE VIII
Payments
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Section 8.01. Monthly Payments...................................... 8-1
Section 8.02. Permitted Withdrawals from the
Certificate Account............................... 8-2
Section 8.03. Payments.............................................. 8-2
Section 8.04. Limited Guarantee..................................... 8-6
Section 8.05. Company's or Servicer's Repurchase Option............. 8-7
ARTICLE IX
The Certificates and Class C Certificates
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Section 9.01. The Certificates and Class C Certificates............. 9-1
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Section 9.02. Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates
and Class C Certificates.......................... 9-1
Section 9.03. No Charge; Disposition of Void Certificates
or Class C Certificates........................... 9-5
Section 9.04. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Certificates
or Class C Certificates........................... 9-6
Section 9.05. Persons Deemed Owners................................. 9-6
Section 9.06. Access to List of Certificateholders' and Class C
Certificateholders' Names and Addresses........... 9-6
Section 9.07. Authenticating Agents................................. 9-7
ARTICLE X
Indemnities
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Section 10.01. Company's Indemnities................................ 10-1
Section 10.02. Liabilities to Obligors.............................. 10-1
Section 10.03. Tax Indemnification.................................. 10-1
Section 10.04. Servicer's Indemnities............................... 10-2
Section 10.05. Operation of Indemnities............................. 10-2
Section 10.06. REMIC Tax Matters.................................... 10-2
ARTICLE XI
The Trustee
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Section 11.01. Duties of Trustee.................................... 11-1
Section 11.02. Certain Matters Affecting the Trustee................ 11-2
Section 11.03. Trustee Not Liable for Certificates or Contracts..... 11-3
Section 11.04. Rights of Certificateholders to Direct Trustee and to
Waive Event of Termination....................... 11-3
Section 11.05. The Servicer to Pay Trustee's Fees and Expenses...... 11-4
Section 11.06. Eligibility Requirements for Trustee................. 11-5
Section 11.07. Resignation or Removal of Trustee.................... 11-5
Section 11.08. Successor Trustee.................................... 11-6
Section 11.09. Merger or Consolidation of Trustee................... 11-6
Section 11.10. Tax Returns.......................................... 11-7
Section 11.11. Obligor Claims....................................... 11-7
Section 11.12. Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee........ 11-8
Section 11.13. Agents of Trustee.................................... 11-9
ARTICLE XII
Miscellaneous
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Section 12.01. Servicer Not to Assign Duties or Resign.............. 12-1
Section 12.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency...................... 12-1
Section 12.03. Termination.......................................... 12-1
Section 12.04. Acts of Certificateholders and Class C
Certificateholders............................... 12-3
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Section 12.05. Calculations......................................... 12-4
Section 12.06. Assignment or Delegation by Company.................. 12-5
Section 12.07. Amendment............................................ 12-5
Section 12.08. Notices.............................................. 12-7
Section 12.09. Merger and Integration............................... 12-8
Section 12.10. Headings............................................. 12-8
Section 12.11. Governing Law........................................ 12-8
Testimonium ..................................................... 12-9
Exhibit A. Form of Class A Certificate.......................... A-1
Exhibit B. Form of Class M-1 Certificate........................ B-1
Exhibit C. Form of Class B Certificate.......................... C-1
Exhibit D. Form of Assignment................................... D-1
Exhibit E. Form of Certificate of Officer....................... E-1
Exhibit F. Form of Opinion of Counsel for the Company........... F-1
Exhibit G. Form of Trustee's Acknowledgement.................... G-1
Exhibit H. Form of Custodian's Acknowledgment................... H-1
Exhibit I. Form of Certificate of Servicing Officer............. I-1
Exhibit J. Form of Class C Certificate.......................... J-1
Exhibit K. Forms of Certificates Regarding Repurchased or
Substituted Contracts............................ K-1
Exhibit L. Form of Representation Letter........................ L-1
Exhibit M. List of Contracts.................................... M-1
Exhibit N. Form of Monthly Report............................... N-1
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AGREEMENT, dated as of February 1, 1995, between Green Tree Financial
Corporation, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of
Minnesota, as Seller and Servicer (the "Company"), and First Bank National
Association, a national banking association organized and existing under the
laws of the United States, not in its individual capacity but solely as Trustee
(the "Trustee").
WHEREAS, in the regular course of its business, the Company
originates, purchases and services manufactured housing installment sales
contracts and installment loan agreements, which contracts provide for
installment payments by or on behalf of the owner of the manufactured home and
grant security interests in the related manufactured home (or, in certain cases,
mortgages or deeds of trust on the real estate to which such manufactured home
is deemed permanently affixed);
WHEREAS, the Company and the Trustee wish to set forth the terms and
conditions pursuant to which the "Trust," as hereinafter defined, will acquire
the "Contracts," as hereinafter defined, and the Company will manage and service
the Contracts;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual
agreements hereinafter set forth, the Company and the Trustee agree as provided
herein:
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ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
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SECTION 1.01. General.
For the purpose of this Agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided
or unless the context otherwise requires, the terms defined in this Article
include the plural as well as the singular, the words "herein," "hereof" and
"hereunder" and other words of similar import refer to this Agreement as a whole
and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision, and Section
references refer to Sections of the Agreement.
SECTION 1.02. Specific Terms.
"Advance Payment" means any payment by an Obligor in advance of the Due
Period in which it would be due under such Contract and which payment is not a
Principal Prepayment.
"Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person controlling or
controlled by or under common control with such specified Person. For the
purposes of this definition, "control" when used with respect to any specified
Person means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person,
directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by
contract or otherwise; and the terms "controlling" or "controlled" have meanings
correlative to the foregoing.
"Agreement" means this Pooling and Servicing Agreement.
"Amount Available" means, as to any Remittance Date, an amount equal to (a)
the sum of (i) the amount on deposit in the Certificate Account as of the close
of business on the last day of the preceding Due Period, and (ii) any amounts
required to be deposited in the Certificate Account on the Business Day
immediately preceding such Remittance Date pursuant to Section 5.09, reduced by
(b) the sum as of the close of business on the Business Day preceding such
Remittance Date of (A) the Amount Held for Future Distribution and (B) amounts
permitted to be withdrawn by the Trustee from the Certificate Account pursuant
to clauses (b) - (e), inclusive, of Section 8.02.
"Amount Held for Future Distribution" means, as to any Remittance Date, the
total of the amounts held in the Certificate Account on the last day of the
preceding Due Period on account of Advance Payments in respect of such month.
"Applicants" has the meaning assigned in Section 9.06.
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"Appraised Value" means, with respect to any Manufactured Home, the value
of such Manufactured Home as determined by a professional appraiser (who may be
an employee of the Company).
"Assumption Fee" means any assumption or other similar fee paid by the
Obligor on a Contract.
"Authenticating Agent" means any authenticating agent appointed pursuant to
Section 9.07.
"Average Sixty-Day Delinquency Ratio Test" means, to be considered
"satisfied" for any Remittance Date, that the arithmetic average of the Sixty-
Day Delinquency Ratios for such Remittance Date and for the two immediately
preceding Remittance Dates is less than or equal to 4%.
"Average Thirty-Day Delinquency Ratio Test" means, to be considered
"satisfied" for any Remittance Date, that the arithmetic average of the Thirty-
Day Delinquency Ratios for such Remittance Date and for the two immediately
preceding Remittance Dates is less than or equal to 6%.
"Book-Entry Certificate" means any Certificate registered in the name of
the Depository or its nominee ownership of which is reflected on the books of
the Depository or on the books of a person maintaining an account with such
Depository (directly or as an indirect participant in accordance with the rules
of such Depository).
"Business Day" means any day other than (a) a Saturday or a Sunday, or (b)
another day on which banking institutions in the city in which a Person is
taking action hereunder are authorized or obligated by law, executive order or
governmental decree to be closed.
"Certificate" means a Manufactured Housing Contract Senior/Subordinate
Pass-Through Certificate, Class A, Class M-1 or Class B, executed and delivered
by the Trustee substantially in the form of Exhibit A, B or C.
"Certificate Account" means the account established and maintained pursuant
to Section 5.05.
"Certificate Owner" means the person who is the beneficial owner of a Book-
Entry Certificate.
"Certificate Register" means the register maintained pursuant to Section
9.02.
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"Certificate Registrar" or "Registrar" means the registrar appointed
pursuant to Section 9.02.
"Certificateholder" or "Holder" means the person in whose name a
Certificate is registered on the Certificate Register, except that, solely for
the purposes of giving any consent, waiver, request or demand pursuant to this
Agreement, any Certificate registered in the name of the Company or any
Affiliate shall be deemed not to be outstanding and the Percentage Interest
evidenced thereby shall not be taken into account in determining whether the
requisite Percentage Interest necessary to effect any such consent, request,
waiver or demand has been obtained; provided, however, that, solely for the
purpose of determining whether the Trustee is entitled to rely upon any such
consent, waiver, request or demand, only Certificates which the Trustee knows to
be so owned shall be so disregarded.
"Class," "Class A," "Class M-1," "Class B" or "Class C" means pertaining to
each Class of Class A Certificates, Class M-1 Certificates, Class B Certificates
and/or Class C Certificates, as the case may be.
"Class A Certificate" means any one of the Class A-1, Class A-2, Class A-3,
Class A-4, Class A-5 and Class A-6 Certificates executed and delivered by the
Trustee and authenticated by the Certificate Registrar substantially in the form
set forth in Exhibit A and evidencing an interest designated as a "regular
interest" in the Trust for purposes of the REMIC provisions.
"Class A Distribution Amount" means, as to any Remittance Date, the lesser
of (a) the Amount Available for such Remittance Date and (b) the Class A Formula
Distribution Amount for such Remittance Date; provided that after the Sixth
Cross-over Date the Class A Distribution Amount shall be zero.
"Class A Formula Distribution Amount" means, as to any Remittance Date, an
amount equal to the sum of (a) one month's interest (or, with respect to the
first Remittance Date, interest from and including the Closing Date to but
excluding March 15, 1995) at (i) the Class A-1 Remittance Rate on the Class A-1
Principal Balance, (ii) the Class A-2 Remittance Rate on the Class A-2 Principal
Balance, (iii) the Class A-3 Remittance Rate on the Class A-3 Principal Balance,
(iv) the Class A-4 Remittance Rate on the Class A-4 Principal Balance, (v) the
Class A-5 Remittance Rate on the Class A-5 Principal Balance, and (vi) the Class
A-6 Remittance Rate on the Class A-6 Principal Balance, in each case calculated
immediately prior to such Remittance Date, (b) the aggregate Unpaid Class A
Interest Shortfall, if any, (c) the Class A Percentage of the Formula Principal
Distribution Amount and (d) any Unpaid Class A Principal Shortfall; provided,
however, that the aggregate of all amounts distributed for all Remittance Dates
pursuant to clauses (c) and (d) shall not exceed the sum of the Original Class
A-l Principal Balance, the Original Class A-2 Principal Balance, the Original
Class A-3 Principal Balance, the Original Class A-4 Principal Balance, the
Original Class A-5 Principal Balance and the Original Class A-6 Principal
Balance.
"Class A Interest Distribution Amount" means, as to each Class of Class A
Certificates and any Remittance Date, the sum of the amounts specified in clause
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(a)(i), (a)(ii), (a)(iii), (a)(iv), (a)(v) and (a)(vi), as appropriate, of the
definition of the term "Class A Formula Distribution Amount" and the Unpaid
Class A Interest Shortfall, if any, with respect to such Class.
"Class A Interest Shortfall" means, as to each Class of Class A
Certificates and any Remittance Date, the amount, if any, by which the amount
distributed to Holders of such Class of Class A Certificates on such Remittance
Date pursuant to Section 8.03(a)(2) is less than the Class A Interest
Distribution Amount for such Class.
"Class A Percentage" means:
(i) as to any Remittance Date prior to the Class B Cross-over Date,
100%,
(ii) as to any Remittance Date on or after the Class B Cross-Over
Date but on or prior to the Seventh Cross-over Date, and on
which any Class B Principal Distribution Test is not satisfied,
100%,
(iii) as to any Remittance Date on or after the Class B Cross-over
Date but on or prior to the Seventh Cross-over Date, and on
which each Class B Principal Distribution Test is satisfied, a
fraction, expressed as a percentage, the numerator of which is
the sum of the Class A Principal Balance and the Class M-1
Principal Balance as of such Remittance Date, and the
denominator of which is the Pool Scheduled Principal Balance as
of the immediately preceding Remittance Date and
(iv) as to any Remittance Date after the Seventh Cross-over Date,
0%.
"Class A Principal Balance" means, as to any Remittance Date, the sum of
the Class A-1 Principal Balance, the Class A-2 Principal Balance, the Class A-3
Principal Balance, the Class A-4 Principal Balance, the Class A-5 Principal
Balance and the Class A-6 Principal Balance.
"Class A Principal Deficiency Amount" means, as to any Remittance Date,
the amount, if any, by which the Pool Scheduled Principal Balance is less than
the Class A Principal Balance.
"Class A Principal Shortfall" means, as to any Remittance Date, the amount,
if any, by which the amount distributed to Holders of Class A Certificates on
such Remittance Date pursuant to Sections 8.03(a)(3)(iii)-(vi) is less than the
Class A Percentage of the Formula Principal Distribution Amount for such
Remittance Date.
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"Class A-1 Principal Balance" means, as to any Remittance Date, the
Original Class A-1 Principal Balance less all amounts previously distributed to
Holders of Class A-1 Certificates on account of principal.
"Class A-2 Principal Balance" means, as to any Remittance Date, the
Original Class A-2 Principal Balance less all amounts previously distributed to
Holders of Class A-2 Certificates on account of principal.
"Class A-3 Principal Balance" means, as to any Remittance Date, the
Original Class A-3 Principal Balance less all amounts previously distributed to
Holders of Class A-3 Certificates on account of principal.
"Class A-4 Principal Balance" means, as to any Remittance Date, the
Original Class A-4 Principal Balance less all amounts previously distributed to
Holders of Class A-4 Certificates on account of principal.
"Class A-5 Principal Balance" means, as to any Remittance Date, the
Original Class A-5 Principal Balance less all amounts previously distributed to
Holders of Class A-5 Certificates on account of principal.
"Class A-6 Principal Balance" means, as to any Remittance Date, the
Original Class A-6 Principal Balance less all amounts previously distributed to
Holders of Class A-6 Certificates on account of principal.
"Class A-1 Remittance Rate" means 7.25% per annum, computed on the basis of
a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
"Class A-2 Remittance Rate" means 7.80% per annum, computed on the basis of
a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
"Class A-3 Remittance Rate" means 7.95% per annum, computed on the basis of
a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
"Class A-4 Remittance Rate" means 8.20% per annum, computed on the basis of
a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
"Class A-5 Remittance Rate" means a floating rate equal to the Weighted
Average Contract Rate, but in no event greater than 8.40% per annum, in either
case computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
"Class A-6 Remittance Rate" means a floating rate equal to the Weighted
Average Contract Rate, but in no event greater than 8.70% per annum, in either
case computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
"Class B Certificate" means any one of the Class B-1 and Class B-2
Certificates executed and delivered by the Trustee and authenticated by the
Certificate Registrar
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substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit C hereto and evidencing an
interest designated as a "regular interest" in the Trust for purposes of the
REMIC provisions.
"Class B Cross-over Date" means the earlier of:
(i) the Seventh Cross-over Date and
(ii) the first Remittance Date on or after the Remittance Date
occurring in March 2000 on which the fraction, expressed as a
percentage, the numerator of which is the Class B Principal
Balance as of such Remittance Date and the denominator of which
is the Pool Scheduled Principal Balance as of the immediately
preceding Remittance Date, is equal to or greater than 17.5%.
"Class B Percentage" means:
(i) as to any Remittance Date prior to the Class B Cross-over Date,
0%,
(ii) as to any Remittance Date on or after the Class B Cross-Over
Date but on or prior to the Seventh Cross-over Date, and on
which any Class B Principal Distribution Test is not satisfied,
0%,
(iii) as to any Remittance Date on or after the Class B Cross-over
Date but on or prior to the Seventh Cross-over Date, and on
which each Class B Principal Distribution Test is satisfied, the
percentage equal to 100% minus the Class A Percentage for such
Remittance Date and
(iv) as to any Remittance Date after the Seventh Cross-over Date,
100%.
"Class B Principal Balance" means, as to any Remittance Date, the sum of
the Class B-1 Principal Balance and the Class B-2 Principal Balance.
"Class B Principal Balance Test" means, to be considered "satisfied" for
any Remittance Date, that (i) the fraction, expressed as a percentage, the
numerator of which is the Class B Principal Balance as of such Remittance Date
and the denominator of which is the Pool Scheduled Principal Balance as of the
immediately preceding Remittance Date, is equal to or greater than 17.5% and
(ii) the Class B Principal Balance as of such Remittance Date is greater than or
equal to $7,566,796.
"Class B Principal Distribution Test" means, as to any Remittance Date,
each of the Average Sixty-Day Delinquency Ratio Test, the Average Thirty-Day
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Delinquency Ratio Test, the Cumulative Realized Losses Test, the Class B
Principal Balance Test and the Current Realized Losses Test.
"Class B-1 Distribution Amount" means, as to any Remittance Date, the
lesser of (a) the Amount Available less the sum of the Class A Distribution
Amount and the Class M-1 Distribution Amount and (b) the Class B-1 Formula
Distribution Amount for such Remittance Date; provided that after the Eighth
Cross-over Date the Class B-1 Distribution Amount shall be zero.
"Class B-1 Formula Distribution Amount" means, as to any Remittance Date,
an amount equal to the sum of (a) one month's interest (or, with respect to the
first Remittance Date, interest from and including the Closing Date to but
excluding March 15, 1995) at the Class B-1 Remittance Rate on the Class B-1
Principal Balance as calculated immediately prior to such Remittance Date, (b)
any Unpaid Class B-1 Interest Shortfall, (c) the Class B Percentage of the
Formula Principal Distribution Amount, and (d) any Unpaid Class B-1 Principal
Shortfall; provided, however, that on the Seventh Cross-over Date, the balance
of any amounts that would have been distributable on such date pursuant to
clauses (c) and (d) of the term "Class M-1 Formula Distribution Amount"
(assuming a sufficient Amount Available) but for the operation of the proviso to
such term shall instead be included in clause (c) of this definition; provided,
further, that the aggregate of all amounts distributed pursuant to clauses (c)
and (d) of this definition shall not exceed the Original Class B-1 Principal
Balance.
"Class B-1 Interest Shortfall" means, as to any Remittance Date, the
amount, if any, by which the amount distributed to Holders of Class B-1
Certificates on such Remittance Date pursuant to Sections 8.03(a)(5)(i) and (ii)
is less than the sum of the amounts specified in clauses (a) and (b) of the
definition of the term "Class B-1 Formula Distribution Amount."
"Class B-1 Principal Balance" means, as to any Remittance Date, the
original Class B-1 Principal Balance less all amounts previously distributed to
Holders of Class B-1 Certificates on account of principal.
"Class B-1 Principal Shortfall" means, as to any Remittance Date, the
amount, if any, by which the amount distributed to Holders of Class B-1
Certificates on such Remittance Date pursuant to Section 8.03(a)(5)(iv) is less
than the amount described in clause (c) of the definition of the term "Class B-1
Formula Distribution Amount."
"Class B-1 Remittance Rate" means a floating rate equal to the Weighted
Average Contract Rate, but in no event greater than 9.00% per annum, in either
case computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
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"Class B-2 Distribution Amount" means, as to any Remittance Date, the
lesser of (a) the Remaining Amount Available and (b) the Class B-2 Formula
Distribution Amount for such Remittance Date.
"Class B-2 Formula Distribution Amount" means, as to any Remittance Date,
an amount equal to the sum of (a) one month's interest (or, with respect to the
first Remittance Date, interest from and including the Closing Date to but
excluding March 15, 1995) at the Class B-2 Remittance Rate on the Class B-2
Principal Balance as calculated immediately prior to such Remittance Date, (b)
any Unpaid Class B-2 Interest Shortfall, (c) (i) if such Remittance Date is
prior to or on the Eighth Cross-over Date, zero or (ii) if such Remittance Date
is after the Eighth Cross-over Date, the Class B Percentage of the Formula
Principal Distribution Amount, (d) the Class B-2 Principal Liquidation Loss
Amount and (e) any Unpaid Class B-2 Principal Shortfall; provided, however, that
on the Eighth Cross-over Date, the balance of any amounts that would have been
distributable on such date pursuant to clauses (c) and (d) of the term "Class B-
1 Formula Distribution Amount" (assuming a sufficient Remaining Amount
Available) but for the operation of the second proviso to such term shall
instead be included in clause (c) of this definition; provided, further, that
the aggregate of all amounts distributed pursuant to clauses (c), (d) and (e) of
this definition shall not exceed the Original Class B-2 Principal Balance.
"Class B-2 Interest Shortfall" means, as to any Remittance Date, the
amount, if any, by which the amount distributed to Holders of Class B-2
Certificates on such Remittance Date pursuant to Sections 8.03(a)(6)(i) and
(ii), together with any Guarantee Payment, is less than the sum of the amounts
specified in clauses (a) and (b) of the definition of the term "Class B-2
Formula Distribution Amount."
"Class B-2 Principal Balance" means, as to any Remittance Date, the
original Class B-2 Principal Balance less all amounts previously distributed to
Holders of Class B-2 Certificates on account of principal.
"Class B-2 Principal Liquidation Loss Amount" means, as to any Remittance
Date, the amount, if any, by which the sum of the Class A Principal Balance, the
Class M-1 Principal Balance, the Class B-1 Principal Balance and the Class B-2
Principal Balance for such Remittance Date exceeds the Pool Scheduled Principal
Balance for such Remittance Date (after giving effect to all distributions of
principal on the Class A, Class M-1 and Class B-1 Certificates on such
Remittance Date, and all other distributions of principal on the Class B-2
Certificates on such Remittance Date).
"Class B-2 Principal Shortfall" means, as to any Remittance Date, the
amount, if any, by which the amount distributed to Holders of Class B-2
Certificates on such Remittance Date pursuant to Section 8.03(a)(6)(iv),
together with any Guarantee Payment, is less than the sum of the amounts
described in clauses (c) and (d) of the definition of the term "Class B-2
Formula Distribution Amount."
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"Class B-2 Remittance Rate" means a floating rate equal to the Weighted
Average Contract Rate, but in no event greater than 9.20% per annum, in either
case computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
"Class C Certificate" means a certificate for Manufactured Housing Contract
Pass-Through Certificates executed and delivered by the Trustee substantially in
the form of Exhibit I.
"Class C Certificateholder" means the person in whose name a Class C
Certificate is registered on the Certificate Register.
"Class C Distribution Amount" means, as to any Remittance Date, the amount,
if any, distributable pursuant to Section 8.03(a)(10).
"Class M-1 Certificate" means any one of the Class M-1 Certificates
executed and delivered by the Trustee and authenticated by the Certificate
Registrar substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit B and evidencing an
interest designated as a "regular interest" in the Trust for the purposes of the
REMIC provisions.
"Class M-1 Distribution Amount" means, as to any Remittance Date, the
lesser of (a) the Amount Available less the Class A Distribution Amount and (b)
the Class M-1 Formula Distribution Amount for such Remittance Date; provided
that after the Seventh Cross-over Date the Class M-1 Distribution Amount shall
be zero.
"Class M-1 Formula Distribution Amount" means, as to any Remittance Date,
an amount equal to the sum of (a) one month's interest (or, with respect to the
first Remittance Date, interest from and including the Closing Date to but
excluding March 15, 1995) at the Class M-1 Remittance Rate on the Class M-1
Principal Balance calculated immediately prior to such Remittance Date, (b) the
aggregate Unpaid Class M-1 Interest Shortfall, if any, (c) if such Remittance
Date is on or after the Sixth Cross-over Date, but on or prior to the Seventh
Cross-over Date, the Class M-1 Percentage of the Formula Principal Distribution
Amount, and (d) any Unpaid Class M-1 Principal Shortfall; provided, however,
that on the Sixth Cross-over Date, the balance of any amounts that would have
been distributable on such date pursuant to clauses (c) and (d) of the term
"Class A Formula Distribution Amount" (assuming a sufficient Amount Available)
but for the operation of the proviso to such term shall instead be included in
clause (c) of this definition; provided, further, that the aggregate of all
amounts distributed for all Remittance Dates pursuant to clauses (c) and (d)
shall not exceed the Original Class M-1 Principal Balance.
"Class M-1 Interest Distribution Amount" means, as to the Class M-1
Certificates and any Remittance Date, the amount specified in clause (a) of the
definition of the term "Class M-1 Formula Distribution Amount" and the "Unpaid
Class M-1 Interest Shortfall," if any, with respect to such Class.
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"Class M-1 Interest Shortfall" means, as to the Class M-1 Certificates and
any Remittance Date, the amount, if any, by which the amount distributed to
Holders of the Class M-1 Certificates on such Remittance Date pursuant to
Section 8.03(a)(4) is less than the Class M-1 Interest Distribution Amount for
such Class.
"Class M-1 Percentage" means:
(i) as to any Remittance Date prior to the Sixth Cross-over Date,
0%,
(ii) as to any Remittance Date on or after the Class B Cross-Over
Date but on or prior to the Seventh Cross-over Date, and on
which any Class B Principal Distribution Test is not satisfied,
100%,
(iii) as to any Remittance Date on or after the Class B Cross-over
Date, and on or after the Sixth Cross-over Date, but on or prior
to the Seventh Cross-over Date, and on which each Class B
Principal Distribution Test is satisfied, a fraction, expressed
as a percentage, the numerator of which is the sum of the Class
A Principal Balance and the Class M-1 Principal Balance as of
such Remittance Date, and the denominator of which is the Pool
Scheduled Principal Balance as of the immediately preceding
Remittance Date and
(iv) as to any Remittance Date after the Seventh Cross-over Date, 0%.
"Class M-1 Principal Balance" means, as to any Remittance Date, the
Original Class M-1 Principal Balance less all amounts previously distributed to
Holders of Class M-1 Certificates on account of principal.
"Class M-1 Principal Deficiency Amount" means, as to any Remittance Date,
the amount, if any, by which the Pool Scheduled Principal Balance is less than
the Class M-1 Principal Balance.
"Class M-1 Principal Shortfall" means, as to any Remittance Date, the
amount, if any, by which the amount distributed to Holders of Class M-1
Certificates on such Remittance Date pursuant to Sections 8.03(a)(4)(iv) is less
than the Class M-1 Percentage of the Formula Principal Distribution Amount for
such Remittance Date.
"Class M-1 Remittance Rate" means, a floating rate equal to the Weighted
Average Contract Rate, but in no event greater than 9.05% per annum, in either
case computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
"Closing Date" means February 16, 1995.
"Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
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"Computer Tape" means the computer tape generated by the Company which
provides information relating to the Contracts and which was used by the Company
in selecting the Contracts, and includes the master file and the history file.
"Contracts" means the manufactured housing installment sales contracts and
installment loan agreements, including any Land-and-Home Contracts, described in
the List of Contracts and constituting part of the corpus of the Trust, which
Contracts are to be assigned and conveyed by the Company to the Trust, and
includes, without limitation, all related security interests and any and all
rights to receive payments which are due pursuant thereto on or after the Cut-
off Date (or the date of origination, if later), but excluding any rights to
receive payments which are due pursuant thereto prior to the Cut-off Date.
"Contract File" means, as to each Contract, other than a Land-and-Home
Contract, (a) the original copy of the Contract, (b) either (i) the original
title document for the related Manufactured Home or a duplicate certified by the
appropriate governmental authority which issued the original thereof or the
application for such title document or (ii) if the laws of the jurisdiction in
which the related Manufactured Home is located do not provide for the issuance
of title documents for manufactured housing, other evidence of ownership of the
related Manufactured Home which is customarily relied upon in such jurisdiction
as evidence of title to a manufactured housing unit, (c) evidence of one or more
of the following types of perfection of the security interest in the related
Manufactured Home granted by such Contract, as appropriate: (i) notation of
such security interest on the title document, (ii) a financing statement meeting
the requirements of the UCC, with evidence of recording indicated thereon, or
(iii) such other evidence of perfection of a security interest in a manufactured
housing unit as is customarily relied upon in the jurisdiction in which the
related Manufactured Home is located, (d) the assignment of the Contract from
the originator (if other than the Company) to the Company and (e) any extension,
modification or waiver agreement(s).
"Contract Rate" means, with respect to any particular Contract, the rate of
interest specified in that Contract and computed on a precomputed basis with an
actuarial rebate of unearned interest upon prepayment, provided that the rebate
upon prepayment of Contracts originated in California or Oklahoma may be
computed on the simple interest method if so required by applicable law or
regulations.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the office of the Trustee at which at any
particular time its corporate trust business shall be principally administered,
which office at the date of the execution of this Agreement is located at the
address set forth in Section 12.08.
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"Counsel for the Company" means Dorsey & Whitney P.L.L.P. or other legal
counsel for the Company.
"Cumulative Realized Losses" means, as to any Remittance Date, the sum of
the Realized Losses for that Remittance Date and each preceding Remittance Date
since the Cut-off Date.
"Cumulative Realized Losses Test" means, to be considered "satisfied" for
any Remittance Date:
(i) if such Remittance Date occurs between March 1, 2000 and
February 28, 2001, that the Cumulative Realized Losses as of
such Remittance Date are less than or equal to 7% of the Cut-off
Date Pool Principal Balance;
(ii) if such Remittance Date occurs between March 1, 2001 and
February 28, 2002, that the Cumulative Realized Losses as of
such Remittance Date are less than or equal to 9% of the Cut-off
Date Pool Principal Balance; and
(iii) if such Remittance Date occurs after March 1, 2002, that the
Cumulative Realized Losses as of such Remittance Date are less
than or equal to 10% of the Cut-off Date Pool Principal Balance.
"Current Realized Loss Ratio" means, as to any Remittance Date, a fraction,
expressed as a percentage, the numerator of which is the aggregate Realized
Losses for such Remittance Date and each of the two immediately preceding
Remittance Dates, multiplied by four, and the denominator of which is the
arithmetic average of the Pool Scheduled Principal Balance as of the third
preceding Remittance Date and the Pool Scheduled Principal Balance as of such
Remittance Date.
"Current Realized Losses Test" means, to be considered "satisfied" for any
Remittance Date, that the Current Realized Loss Ratio for such Remittance Date
is less than or equal to 2.50%.
"Custodian" means at any time an Eligible Institution or a financial
institution organized under the laws of the United States or any State, which is
subject to supervision and examination by Federal or State authorities, as is
acting at such time as Custodian of the Land-and-Home Contract Files pursuant to
Section 4.01.
"Cut-off Date" means February 1, 1995 (or the date of origination, if
later).
"Cut-off Date Pool Principal Balance" means the aggregate of the Cut-off
Date Principal Balances of the Contracts.
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"Cut-off Date Principal Balance" means, as to any Contract (other than a
Staged-Funding Contract), the unpaid principal balance thereof at the Cut-off
Date after giving effect to all installments of principal due prior thereto.
With respect to any Staged-Funding Contract, the Cut-off Date Principal Balance
means the principal amount stated on such Contract.
"Defaulted Contract" means a Contract with respect to which the Servicer
commenced repossession or foreclosure procedures, made a sale of such Contract
to a third party for repossession, foreclosure or other enforcement, or as to
which there was a payment delinquent 180 or more days (excluding any Contract
deemed delinquent solely because the Obligor's required monthly payment was
reduced as a result of bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
"Depository" means the initial Depository, The Depository Trust Company,
the nominee of which is CEDE & CO., as the registered Holder of:
(i) one Certificate evidencing $47,000,000 in initial aggregate
principal balance of the Class A-1 Certificates,
(ii) one Certificate evidencing $61,200,000 in initial aggregate
principal balance of the Class A-2 Certificates,
(iii) one Certificate evidencing $40,000,000 in initial aggregate
principal balance of the Class A-3 Certificates,
(iv) one Certificate evidencing $48,000,000 in initial aggregate
principal balance of the Class A-4 Certificates,
(v) one Certificate evidencing $51,000,000 in initial aggregate
principal balance of the Class A-5 Certificates,
(vi) one Certificate evidencing $59,188,000 in initial aggregate
principal balance of the Class A-6 Certificates,
(vii) one Certificate evidencing $34,082,000 in initial aggregate
principal balance of the Class M-1 Certificates,
(viii) one Certificate evidencing $15,148,000 in initial aggregate
principal balance of the Class B-1 Certificates and
(ix) one Certificate evidencing $22,721,822 in initial aggregate
principal balance of Class B-2 Certificates,
and any permitted successor depository. The Depository shall at all times be a
"clearing corporation" as defined in Section 8-102(3) of the Uniform Commercial
Code of the State of New York.
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"Depository Participant" means a broker, dealer, bank or other financial
institution or other Person for whom from time to time a Depository effects
book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with the Depository.
"Determination Date" means the third Business Day prior to each Remittance
Date during the term of this Agreement.
"Disqualified Organization" has the meaning assigned in Section 9.02(b)(3).
"Due Date" means, as to any Contract, the date of the month on which the
scheduled monthly payment for such Contract is due.
"Due Period" means a calendar month during the term of this Agreement.
"Eighth Cross-over Date" means the Remittance Date on which the Class B-1
Principal Balance (after giving effect to the distributions of principal on the
Class B-1 Certificates on such Remittance Date) is reduced to zero.
"Electronic Ledger" means the electronic master record of conditional sales
contracts of the Company.
"Eligible Institution" means any depository institution (which may be the
Trustee or an Affiliate of the Trustee) organized under the laws of the United
States or any State, the deposits of which are insured to the full extent
permitted by law by the Bank Insurance Fund (currently administered by the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation), which is subject to supervision and
examination by federal or state authorities and whose short-term securities or
unsecured long-term debt has been rated P-1 or higher by Moody's and F-1 or
higher by Fitch (if rated by Fitch) in the case of short-term securities, or in
one of the two highest rating categories by Moody's and Fitch (if rated by
Fitch) in the case of unsecured long-term debt.
"Eligible Investments" has the meaning assigned in Section 5.05(b).
"Eligible Servicer" means the Company or any Person qualified to act as
Servicer of the Contracts under applicable federal and state laws and
regulations, which Person services not less than $100,000,000 in outstanding
principal amount of manufactured housing installment sales contracts and
installment loan agreements and, so long as any FHA/VA Contract is outstanding,
which Person is qualified under FHA/VA Regulations to act as a servicer of all
such FHA/VA Contracts.
"Eligible Substitute Contract" means, as to any Replaced Contract for which
such Eligible Substitute Contract is being substituted pursuant to Section
3.05(b), a Contract that (a) as of the date of its substitution, satisfies all
of the representations and warranties (which, except when expressly stated to be
as of origination, shall be deemed to be determined as of the date of its
substitution rather than as of the Cut-
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off Date or the Closing Date) in Section 3.02 and does not cause any of the
representations and warranties in Section 3.03, after giving effect to such
substitution, to be incorrect, (b) after giving effect to the scheduled payment
due in the month of such substitution, has a Scheduled Principal Balance that is
not greater than the Scheduled Principal Balance of such Replaced Contract, (c)
has a Contract Rate that is at least equal to the Contract Rate of such Replaced
Contract and (d) has a remaining term to scheduled maturity that is not greater
than the remaining term to scheduled maturity of the Replaced Contract.
"ERISA" means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended.
"Errors and Omissions Protection Policy" means the employee errors and
omissions policy maintained by the Servicer or any similar replacement policy
covering errors and omissions by the Servicer's employees, and meeting the
requirements of Section 5.09, all as such policy relates to Contracts comprising
a portion of the corpus of the Trust.
"Event of Termination" has the meaning assigned in Section 7.01.
"FHA/VA Contract" means a Contract that, at its origination, was insured by
the Federal Housing Administration or partially guaranteed by the Veterans
Administration.
"FHA/VA Regulations" means, as to any FHA/VA Contract, the contractual
agreements and regulations of the Federal Housing Administration or the Veterans
Administration, as the case may be, providing or governing the terms of the
insurance for such Contract by the Federal Housing Administration or the partial
guarantee for such Contract by the Veterans Administration, as the case may be.
"Fidelity Bond" means the fidelity bond maintained by the Servicer or any
similar replacement bond, meeting the requirements of Section 5.09, as such bond
relates to Contracts comprising a portion of the corpus of the Trust.
"Fifth Cross-over Date" means the Remittance Date on which the Class A-5
Principal Balance (after giving effect to the distributions of principal on the
Class A-5 Certificates on such Remittance Date) is reduced to zero.
"Final Remittance Date" means the Remittance Date on which the final
distribution in respect of Certificates will be made pursuant to Section 12.03.
"First Cross-over Date" means the Remittance Date on which the Class A-1
Principal Balance (after giving effect to the distributions of principal on the
Class A-1 Certificates on such Remittance Date) is reduced to zero.
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"Fitch" means Fitch Investors Service, L.P., or any successor thereto;
provided that if Fitch no longer has a rating outstanding on the Class A-1
Certificates, nor on the Class A-2 Certificates, nor on the Class A-3
Certificates, nor on the Class A-4 Certificates, nor on the Class A-5
Certificates, nor on the Class A-6 Certificates, nor on the Class M-1
Certificates, nor on the Class B-1 Certificates, nor on the Class B-2
Certificates, then references herein to "Fitch" shall be deemed to refer to the
NRSRO then rating any Class of the Certificates (or, if more than one such NRSRO
is then rating any Class of the Certificates, to such NRSRO as may be designated
by the Servicer), and references herein to ratings by or requirements of Fitch's
shall be deemed to have the equivalent meanings with respect to ratings by or
requirements of such NRSRO.
"Formula Principal Distribution Amount" means, as of any Remittance Date,
the sum of:
(i) all scheduled payments of principal due on each outstanding
Contract during the prior Due Period as specified in the amortization
schedule at the time applicable thereto (after adjustments for previous
Partial Principal Prepayments but before any adjustment to such
amortization schedule by reason of any bankruptcy of an Obligor or similar
proceeding or any moratorium or similar waiver or grace period); plus
(ii) all Partial Principal Prepayments applied and all Principal
Prepayments in Full received during the prior Due Period; plus
(iii) the aggregate Scheduled Principal Balance of all Contracts that
became Liquidated Contracts during the prior Due Period; plus
(iv) the aggregate Scheduled Principal Balance of all Contracts
repurchased during the prior Due Period pursuant to Section 3.05; plus
(v) with respect to the Remittance Date in April 1995, the Unfunded
Contract Shortfall, if any.
"Fourth Cross-over Date" means the Remittance Date on which the Class A-4
Principal Balance (after giving effect to the distributions of principal on the
Class A-4 Certificates on such Remittance Date) is reduced to zero.
"Funding Termination Date" means May 16, 1995.
"Guarantee Fee" means, as to any Remittance Date, the lesser of (a) the
Monthly Excess Cashflow and (b) one-twelfth of the product of 3.00% and the Pool
Scheduled Principal Balance as of such Remittance Date.
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"Guarantee Payment" means, the amount, if any, by which (A) the Class B-2
Formula Distribution Amount for such Remittance Date exceeds (B) the Remaining
Amount Available.
"Hazard Insurance Policy" means, with respect to each Contract, the policy
of fire and extended coverage insurance (and federal flood insurance, if the
Manufactured Home is located in a federally designated special flood area)
required to be maintained for the related Manufactured Home, as provided in
Section 5.09, and which, as provided in said Section 5.09, may be a blanket
mortgage impairment policy maintained by the Servicer in accordance with the
terms and conditions of said Section 5.09.
"Independent" means, when used with respect to any specified Person, Dorsey
& Whitney P.L.L.P. or any Person who (i) is in fact independent of the Company
and the Servicer, (ii) does not have any direct financial interest or any
material indirect financial interest in the Company or the Servicer or in an
Affiliate of either and (iii) is not connected with the Company or the Servicer
as an officer, employee, promoter, underwriter, trustee, partner, director or
person performing similar functions. Whenever it is provided herein that any
Independent Person's opinion or certificate shall be furnished to the Trustee,
such opinion or certificate shall state that the signatory has read this
definition and is Independent within the meaning set forth herein.
"Insurance Proceeds" means proceeds paid by any insurer pursuant to any
insurance policy or contract or any FHA/VA Contract.
"Land-and-Home Contract" means a Contract that is secured by a mortgage or
deed of trust on real estate on which the related Manufactured Home is situated,
and which Manufactured Home is considered or classified as part of the real
estate under the laws of the jurisdiction in which it is located.
"Land-and-Home Contract File" means, as to each Land-and-Home Contract, (a)
the original copy of the Land-and-Home Contract; (b) the related Mortgage with
evidence of recording thereon and any title document for the related
Manufactured Home; (c) the assignment of the Land-and-Home Contract from the
originator (if other than the Company) to the Company; (d) if such Land-and-Home
Contract was originated by the Company, an endorsement of such Land-and-Home
Contract by the Company; and (e) any extension, modification or waiver
agreement(s).
"Land-in-Lieu Contract" means a Contract that is secured by (i) a security
interest in a Manufactured Home and (ii) a mortgage or deed of trust on real
estate on which such Manufactured Home is situated, but such Manufactured Home
is not considered or classified as part of the real estate under the laws of the
jurisdiction in which it is located.
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"Limited Guarantee" means the obligation of the Company to make Guarantee
Payments pursuant to Section 8.04.
"Liquidated Contract" means any defaulted Contract as to which the Servicer
has determined that all amounts which it expects to recover from or on account
of such Contract have been recovered; provided that any defaulted Contract in
respect of which the related Manufactured Home and, in the case of Land-and-Home
Contracts, Mortgaged Property, have been realized upon and disposed of and the
proceeds of such disposition have been received shall be deemed to be a
Liquidated Contract.
"Liquidation Expenses" means out-of-pocket expenses (exclusive of any
overhead expenses) which are incurred by the Servicer in connection with the
liquidation of any defaulted Contract, on or prior to the date on which the
related Manufactured Home and, in the case of Land-and-Home Contracts, Mortgaged
Property, are disposed of, including, without limitation, legal fees and
expenses, and any related and unreimbursed expenditures for property taxes,
property preservation or restoration of the property to marketable condition.
"Liquidation Proceeds" means cash (including Insurance Proceeds) received
in connection with the liquidation of defaulted Contracts, whether through
repossession, foreclosure sale or otherwise, including any rental income
realized from the repossessed Manufactured Home.
"List of Contracts" means the list identifying each Contract constituting
part of the corpus of the Trust, which list (a) identifies each Contract and (b)
sets forth as to each Contract (i) the Cut-off Date Principal Balance, (ii) the
amount of monthly payments due from the Obligor, (iii) the Contract Rate and
(iv) the maturity date, and which is attached to this Agreement as Exhibit M.
"Loan-to-Value Ratio" means, with respect to any Contract, the original
principal amount thereof divided by the Original Value of the Manufactured Home
plus, in the case of a Land-and-Home Contract or a Land-in-Lieu Contract, the
Original Value of the Mortgaged Property other than the Manufactured Home.
"Manufactured Home" means a unit of manufactured housing, including all
accessions thereto, securing the indebtedness of the Obligor under the related
Contract.
"Monthly Excess Cashflow" means, with respect to any Remittance Date, the
amount, if any, by which (i) the Amount Available exceeds (ii) the sum of the
amounts specified in Section 8.03(a)(1)-(6).
"Monthly Report" has the meaning assigned in Section 6.01.
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"Monthly Servicing Fee" means, as of any Remittance Date, one-twelfth of
the product of 0.50% and the Pool Scheduled Principal Balance for such
Remittance Date.
"Moody's" means Moody's Investors Service, Inc., or any successor thereto;
provided that, if Moody's no longer has a rating outstanding on the Class A-1
Certificates, nor on the Class A-2 Certificates, nor on the Class A-3
Certificates, nor on the Class A-4 Certificates, nor on the Class A-5
Certificates, nor on the Class A-6 Certificates, nor on the Class M-1
Certificates, nor on the Class B-1 Certificates, nor on the Class B-2
Certificates, then references herein to "Moody's" shall be deemed to refer to
the NRSRO then rating any Class of the Certificates (or, if more than one such
NRSRO is then rating any Class of the Certificates, to such NRSRO as may be
designated by the Servicer), and references herein to ratings by or requirements
of Moody's shall be deemed to have the equivalent meanings with respect to
ratings by or requirements of such NRSRO.
"Mortgage" means the mortgage creating a first lien on an estate in fee
simple in the real property securing a Land-and-Home Contract.
"Mortgaged Property" means the property subject to the lien of a Mortgage.
"Net Liquidation Loss" means, as to a Liquidated Contract, the amount, if
any, by which (a) the outstanding principal balance of such Liquidated Contract
plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the date on which such Liquidated
Contract became a Liquidated Contract exceeds (b) the Net Liquidation Proceeds
for such Liquidated Contract.
"Net Liquidation Proceeds" means, as to a Liquidated Contract, all
Liquidation Proceeds received on or prior to the last day of the Due Period in
which such Contract became a Liquidated Contract, net of Liquidation Expenses.
"NRSRO" means any nationally recognized statistical rating organization.
"Obligor" means each Person who is indebted under a Contract.
"Officer's Certificate" means a certificate signed by the Chairman of the
Board, President or any Vice President of the Company and delivered to the
Trustee.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who may, except as
expressly provided herein, be salaried counsel for the Company, acceptable to
the Trustee and the Company, provided that any opinion of counsel relating to
the qualification of the Trust as a REMIC or compliance with the REMIC
Provisions must be an opinion of Independent counsel.
"Original Class A-1 Principal Balance" means $47,000,000.
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"Original Class A-2 Principal Balance" means $61,200,000.
"Original Class A-3 Principal Balance" means $40,000,000.
"Original Class A-4 Principal Balance" means $48,000,000.
"Original Class A-5 Principal Balance" means $51,000,000.
"Original Class A-6 Principal Balance" means $59,188,000.
"Original Class M-1 Principal Balance" means $34,082,000.
"Original Class B-1 Principal Balance" means $15,148,000.
"Original Class B-2 Principal Balance" means $22,721,822.
"Original Value" means (a) with respect to any Manufactured Home that was
new at the time the related Contract was originated, the purchase price of such
Manufactured Home, plus taxes, fees and insurance, (b) with respect to any
Manufactured Home that was used at the time the related Contract was originated,
the lesser of the total delivered sales price or the Appraised Value of such
Manufactured Home, plus taxes, fees and insurance and (c) with respect to
Mortgaged Property other than the Manufactured Home, the appraised value
thereof used by the originator of the related Land-and-Home Contract or Land-in-
Lieu Contract to underwrite that Contract.
"Partial Principal Prepayment" means (a) any Principal Prepayment other
than a Principal Prepayment in Full and (b) any cash amount deposited in the
Certificate Account pursuant to the proviso in Section 3.05(a) or pursuant to
Section 3.05(b).
"Paying Agent" has the meaning assigned in Section 8.01(c).
"Percentage Interest" means, as to any Certificate, the percentage interest
evidenced thereby in distributions made on the related Class, such percentage
interest being equal to, in the case of the Class A, Class M-1, and Class B
Certificates, the percentage (carried to eight places) obtained from dividing
the denomination of such Certificate by (a) the aggregate denomination of all
Class A Certificates of the related Class (which equals the Original Class A-1
Principal Balance in the case of a Class A-1 Certificate, the Original Class A-2
Principal Balance in the case of a Class A-2 Certificate, the Original Class A-3
Principal Balance in the case of a Class A-3 Certificate, the Original Class A-4
Principal Balance in the case of a Class A-4 Certificate, the Original Class A-5
Principal Balance in the case of a Class A-5 Certificate or the Original Class
A-6 Principal Balance in the case of a Class A-6 Certificate), (b) the aggregate
denomination of all Class M-1 Certificates (which equals the Original Class M-1
Principal Balance) and (c) the aggregate denomination
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of all Class B Certificates of the related Class (which equals the Original
Class B-1 Principal Balance in the case of a Class B-1 Certificate or the
Original Class B-2 Principal Balance in the case of a Class B-2 Certificate)
and, in the case of the Class C Certificates, being equal to the percentage
specified on the face of such Certificate. The aggregate Percentage Interests
for each Class of Certificates shall equal 100%.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture,
association, joint stock company, trust (including any beneficiary thereof),
unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision
thereof.
"Plan" has the meaning assigned in Section 9.02(b)(2).
"Pool Factor" means, at any time, the percentage derived from a fraction,
the numerator of which is the aggregate Principal Balance of each Class of
Certificates at such time and the denominator of which is the Cut-off Date Pool
Principal Balance.
"Pool Scheduled Principal Balance" means, as of any Remittance Date, the
aggregate Scheduled Principal Balance of all Contracts that were outstanding
during the immediately preceding Due Period.
"Principal Prepayment" means a payment or other recovery of principal on a
Contract (exclusive of Liquidation Proceeds) which is received in advance of its
scheduled due date and applied upon receipt (or, in the case of a Partial
Principal Prepayment, upon the next scheduled payment date on such Contract) to
reduce the outstanding principal amount due on such Contract prior to the date
or dates on which such principal amount is due.
"Principal Prepayment in Full" means any Principal Prepayment of the entire
principal balance of a Contract.
"Qualified Bank" means any depository institution whose unsecured long-term
debt is rated Aa by Moody's and AA by Fitch.
"Realized Losses" means, as to any Remittance Date, the aggregate Net
Liquidation Losses of all Contracts that became Liquidated Contracts during the
immediately preceding Due Period.
"Record Date" means the Business Day immediately preceding the related
Remittance Date.
"Remaining Amount Available" means, as to any Remittance Date, the Amount
Available less the sum of the Class A Distribution Amount, the Class M-1
Distribution Amount and the Class B-1 Distribution Amount.
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"REMIC" means a "real estate mortgage investment conduit" as defined in
Section 860D of the Code.
"REMIC Provisions" means the provisions of the federal income tax law
relating to REMICs, which appear at Sections 860A through 860G of the Code, and
related provisions and any temporary, proposed or final regulations promulgated
thereunder, as the foregoing may be in effect from time to time.
"Remittance Date" means the fifteenth day of each calendar month during the
term of this Agreement, or if such day is not a Business Day, the next
succeeding Business Day, commencing in March 1995.
"Replaced Contract" has the meaning assigned in Section 3.05(b).
"Repurchase Price" means, with respect to a Contract to be repurchased
pursuant to Section 3.05, an amount equal to (a) the remaining principal amount
outstanding on such Contract (or, with respect to an Unfunded Contract being
repurchased pursuant to Section 3.05(c), the Cut-off Date Principal Balance of
such Unfunded Contract), plus (b) interest at the Contract Rate on such Contract
from the end of the Due Period with respect to which the Obligor last made a
payment through the end of the immediately preceding Due Period.
"Responsible Officer" means, with respect to the Trustee, the chairman and
any vice chairman of the board of directors, the president, the chairman and
vice chairman of any executive committee of the board of directors, every vice
president, assistant vice president, the secretary, every assistant secretary,
cashier or any assistant cashier, controller or assistant controller, the
treasurer, every assistant treasurer, every trust officer, assistant trust
officer and every other officer or assistant officer of the Trustee customarily
performing functions similar to those performed by persons who at the time shall
be such officers, respectively, or to whom a corporate trust matter is referred
because of knowledge of, familiarity with, and authority to act with respect to
a particular matter.
"Scheduled Principal Balance" means, as to any Contract and any Remittance
Date or the Cut-off Date, the principal balance of such Contract as of the Due
Date in the Due Period immediately preceding such Remittance Date or as of the
Due Date immediately preceding the Cut-off Date, as the case may be, as
specified in the amortization schedule at the time relating thereto (before any
adjustment to such amortization schedule by reason of any bankruptcy of an
Obligor or similar proceeding or any moratorium or similar waiver or grace
period) after giving effect to any previous Partial Principal Prepayments and to
the payment of principal due on such Due Date and irrespective of any
delinquency in payment by, or extension granted to, the related Obligor.
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"Second Cross-over Date" means the Remittance Date on which the Class A-2
Principal Balance (after giving effect to the distributions of principal on the
Class A-2 Certificates on such Remittance Date) is reduced to zero.
"Servicer" means the Company until any Service Transfer hereunder and
thereafter means the new servicer appointed pursuant to Article VII.
"Service Transfer" has the meaning assigned in Section 7.02.
"Servicing Officer" means any officer of the Servicer involved in, or
responsible for, the administration and servicing of Contracts whose name
appears on a list of servicing officers appearing in an Officer's Certificate
furnished to the Trustee by the Company, as the same may be amended from time to
time.
"Seventh Cross-over Date" means the Remittance Date on which the Class M-1
Principal Balance (after giving effect to the distributions of principal on the
Class M-1 Certificates on such Remittance Date) is reduced to zero.
"Sixth Cross-over Date" means the Remittance Date on which the Class A-6
Principal Balance (after giving effect to the distributions of principal on the
Class A-6 Certificates on such Remittance Date) is reduced to zero.
"Sixty-Day Delinquency Ratio" means, as to any Remittance Date, a fraction,
expressed as a percentage, the numerator of which is the aggregate of the
outstanding balances of all Contracts that were delinquent 60 days or more as of
the end of the prior Due Period (including Contracts in respect of which the
related Manufactured Homes have been repossessed but are still in inventory),
and the denominator of which is the Pool Scheduled Principal Balance as of such
Remittance Date.
"Staged-Funding Contract" means a Contract with respect to which the
Company has agreed to make multiple disbursements (up to the related Cut-off
Date Principal Balance) with respect to the purchase of the related Manufactured
Home and improvement of the related real estate, but not all such disbursements
have been made as of the Closing Date.
"Third Cross-over Date" means the Remittance Date on which the Class A-3
Principal Balance (after giving effect to the distributions of principal on the
Class A-3 Certificates on such Remittance Date) is reduced to zero.
"Thirty-Day Delinquency Ratio" means, as to any Remittance Date, a
fraction, expressed as a percentage, the numerator of which is the aggregate of
the outstanding balances of all Contracts that were delinquent 30 days or more
as of the end of the prior Due Period (including Contracts in respect of which
the related Manufactured Homes have been repossessed but are still in
inventory), and the
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denominator of which is the Pool Scheduled Principal Balance as of such
Remittance Date.
"Trust" means the trust created by this Agreement, the corpus of which
consists of (a) all the rights, benefits, and obligations arising from and in
connection with each Contract and any related Mortgage, (b) all rights under any
Hazard Insurance Policy relating to a Manufactured Home securing a Contract for
the benefit of the creditor of such Contract and proceeds from the Errors and
Omissions Protection Policy and any blanket hazard policy to the extent such
proceeds relate to any Manufactured Home, (c) all rights under any FHA/VA
Regulation pertaining to any FHA/VA Contract, (d) all remittances, deposits and
payments made into the Certificate Account and amounts in the Certificate
Account, (e) all proceeds in any way derived from any of the foregoing items,
(f) all documents contained in the Contract Files or the Land-and-Home Contract
Files, (g) the Limited Guarantee for the benefit of the Class B-2
Certificateholders, and (h) the obligations and related demand note of the
Company delivered pursuant to Section 3.05(c).
"Unfunded Contract" has the meaning specified in Section 3.05(c).
"Unfunded Contract Shortfall" has the meaning specified in Section 3.05(c).
"Unpaid Class A Interest Shortfall" means, as to each Class of Class A
Certificates and any Remittance Date, the amount, if any, of the Class A
Interest Shortfall for the prior Remittance Date, plus accrued interest (to the
extent payment thereof is legally permissible) at the related Remittance Rate on
the amount thereof from such prior Remittance Date to such current Remittance
Date.
"Unpaid Class A Principal Shortfall" means, as to any Remittance Date, the
amount, if any, by which the aggregate of the Class A Principal Shortfalls for
prior Remittance Dates is in excess of the amounts distributed on prior
Remittance Dates to Holders of Class A Certificates pursuant to Section
8.03(a)(3)(ii).
"Unpaid Class B-1 Interest Shortfall" means, as to any Remittance Date, the
amount, if any, of the Class B-1 Interest Shortfall for the prior Remittance
Date, plus accrued interest (to the extent payment thereof is legally
permissible) at the Class B-1 Remittance Rate on the amount thereof from such
prior Remittance Date to such current Remittance Date.
"Unpaid Class B-1 Principal Shortfall" means, as to any Remittance Date,
the amount, if any, by which the aggregate of the Class B-1 Principal Shortfalls
for prior Remittance Dates is in excess of the amounts distributed on prior
Remittance Dates to Holders of Class B-1 Certificates pursuant to Section
8.03(a)(5)(iii).
"Unpaid Class B-2 Interest Shortfall" means, as to any Remittance Date, the
amount, if any, of the Class B-2 Interest Shortfall for the prior Remittance
Date, plus accrued interest (to the extent payment thereof is legally
permissible) at the
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Class B-2 Remittance Rate on the amount thereof from such prior Remittance Date
to such current Remittance Date.
"Unpaid Class B-2 Principal Shortfall" means, as to any Remittance Date,
the amount, if any, by which the aggregate of the Class B-2 Principal Shortfalls
for prior Remittance Dates is in excess of the amounts distributed on prior
Remittance Dates to Holders of Class B-2 Certificates pursuant to Section
8.03(a)(6)(iii), together with any Guarantee Payments allocable to principal.
"Unpaid Class M-1 Interest Shortfall" means, as to any Remittance Date, the
amount, if any, of the Class M-1 Interest Shortfall for the prior Remittance
Date, plus accrued interest (to the extent payment thereof is legally
permissible) at the Class M-1 Remittance Rate on the amount thereof from such
prior Remittance Date to such current Remittance Date.
"Unpaid Class M-1 Principal Shortfall" means, as to any Remittance Date,
the amount, if any, by which the aggregate of the Class M-1 Principal Shortfalls
for prior Remittance Dates is in excess of the amounts distributed on prior
Remittance Dates to Holders of Class M-1 Certificates pursuant to Section
8.03(a)(4)(iii).
"Weighted Average Contract Rate" means, as to any Remittance Date, the
weighted average (determined by Scheduled Principal Balance) of the Contract
Rates of all Contracts that were outstanding during the immediately preceding
Due Period.
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ARTICLE II
ESTABLISHMENT OF TRUST; TRANSFER OF CONTRACTS
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SECTION 2.01. Closing.
a. There is hereby created, by the Company as settlor, a separate
trust which shall be known as Manufactured Housing Contract Senior/Subordinate
Pass-Through Certificate Trust 1995-1. By the execution and delivery of this
Agreement, the Company has agreed that it will elect or will cause an election
to be made to treat the pool of assets comprising the Trust as a REMIC. The
Trust shall be administered pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement for the
benefit of the Certificateholders and the Class C Certificateholders.
b. The Company hereby transfers, assigns, sets over and otherwise
conveys to the Trustee on behalf of the Trust, by execution of an assignment
substantially in the form of Exhibit D hereto, (1) all the right, title and
interest of the Company in and to the Contracts, including, without limitation,
the security interests created thereby and any related Mortgages and all
interest and principal received by the Company on or with respect to the
Contracts (other than the principal and interest due on the Contracts before the
Cut-off Date, or the date of origination, if later), (2) all rights under every
Hazard Insurance Policy relating to a Manufactured Home securing a Contract for
the benefit of the creditor of such Contract, (3) all rights under all FHA/VA
Regulations pertaining to any FHA/VA Contract, (4) the proceeds from the Errors
and Omissions Protection Policy and all rights under any blanket hazard
insurance policy to the extent they relate to the Manufactured Homes, (5) all
documents contained in the Contract Files or the Land-and-Home Contract Files,
(6) all proceeds in any way derived from any of the foregoing, and (7)
$6,735,910.74 paid by the underwriters of the Certificates to the Trust by order
of the Company out of the proceeds from sale of the Certificates pursuant to the
Underwriting Agreement.
c. The Company hereby acknowledges receipt from the Trust of
$6,735,910.74 paid to the Company by order of the Trust, equal to the difference
between the aggregate Cut-off Date Principal Balances of the Staged-Funding
Contracts and the principal balance of the Staged-Funding Contracts as of the
Closing Date. The Company agrees, in consideration for such funds, that it will
use its best efforts (consistent with prudent lending practices) to cause each
Staged-Funding Contract to be fully disbursed on or before the Funding
Termination Date. The additional payment obligations of any Obligor
attributable to any further disbursements on any Staged-Funding Contract made on
or before the Funding Termination Date shall automatically become the property
of the Trust, without further action by the Company or the Trust. The payment
to the Company by the Trust and the transfer of additional obligations to the
Trust pursuant to this Section 2.01(c) shall be a purchase by the Trust of
qualified mortgages pursuant to a fixed price contract within the meaning of
Section 860G(a)(3) of the Code.
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d. Although the parties intend that the conveyance of the Company's
right, title and interest in and to the Contracts pursuant to this Agreement
shall constitute a purchase and sale and not a loan, if such conveyances are
deemed to be a loan, the parties intend that the rights and obligations of the
parties to such loan shall be established pursuant to the terms of this
Agreement. The parties also intend and agree that the Company shall be deemed
to have granted to the Trustee, and the Company does hereby grant to the
Trustee, a perfected first-priority security interest in the items designated in
Section 2.01(b)(1) through 2.01(b)(7) above, and that this Agreement shall
constitute a security agreement under applicable law. If the trust created by
this Agreement terminates prior to the satisfaction of the claims of any Person
under any Certificates, the security interest created hereby shall continue in
full force and effect and the Trustee shall be deemed to be the collateral agent
for the benefit of such Person.
SECTION 2.02. Conditions to the Closing.
On or before the Closing Date, the Company shall deliver or cause to be
delivered the following documents to the Trustee:
a. The List of Contracts, certified by the Chairman of the Board,
President or any Vice President of the Company.
b. A certificate of an officer of the Company substantially in the
form of Exhibit E hereto.
c. An Opinion of Counsel for the Company substantially in the form of
Exhibit F hereto.
d. A Custodian's acknowledgement acknowledging receipt of the Land-
and-Home Contract Files substantially in the form of Exhibit H hereto.
e. A letter from KPMG Peat Marwick or another nationally recognized
accounting firm, stating that such firm has reviewed the Contracts on a
statistical sampling basis and, based on such sampling, concluding that such
Contracts conform in all material respects to the List of Contracts, to a
confidence level of 97.5%, with an error rate generally not in excess of 1.8%,
specifying those Contracts which do not so conform.
f. Copies of resolutions of the board of directors of the Company or
of the executive committee of the board of directors of the Company approving
the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, the creation of the
Trust and the transactions contemplated hereunder, certified in each case by the
secretary or an assistant secretary of the Company.
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g. Officially certified recent evidence of due incorporation and good
standing of the Company under the laws of the State of Minnesota.
h. Evidence of filing with the Secretary of State of Minnesota of a UCC-1
financing statement, executed by the Company as debtor, naming the Trustee as
secured party and listing the Contracts as Collateral.
i. An executed copy of the Assignment substantially in the form of Exhibit
D hereto.
j. An Officer's Certificate listing the Servicer's Servicing Officers.
k. Evidence of continued coverage of the Company under the Errors and
Omissions Protection Policy.
l. Evidence of deposit in the Certificate Account of all funds received
with respect to the Contracts from the Cut-off Date to the Closing Date, other
than amounts due before the Cut-off Date, together with an Officer's Certificate
to the effect that such amount is correct.
m. An Officer's Certificate confirming that the Company's internal audit
department has reviewed the original or a copy of each Contract and each
Contract File or Land-and-Home Contract File, as applicable, that each Contract
and Contract File or Land-and-Home Contract File, as applicable, conforms in all
material respects with the List of Contracts and that each Contract File or
Land-and-Home Contract File, as applicable, is complete in all material respects
and that each Manufactured Home securing a Contract is covered by a Hazard
Insurance Policy as required by Section 3.02(f).
n. Letter from Moody's confirming that the Class A-1 Certificates, Class
A-2 Certificates, Class A-3 Certificates, Class A-4 Certificates, Class A-5
Certificates and Class A-6 Certificates have been assigned ratings of Aaa by
Moody's, and a letter from Fitch confirming that the Class A-1 Certificates,
Class A-2 Certificates, Class A-3 Certificates, Class A-4 Certificates, Class
A-5 Certificates and Class A-6 Certificates have been assigned a rating of AAA
by Fitch.
o. Letter from Moody's confirming that the Class M-1 Certificates
have been assigned a rating of Aa3 by Moody's, and a letter from Fitch
confirming that the Class M-1 Certificates have been assigned a rating of AA by
Fitch.
p. Letter from Moody's confirming that the Class B-1 Certificates and
Class B-2 Certificates have been assigned a rating of Baa1 by Moody's, and a
letter from Fitch confirming that the Class B-1 Certificates have been
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assigned a rating of BBB+ and the Class B-2 Certificates have been assigned
a rating of A- by Fitch.
q. The demand note described in Section 3.05(c)(v).
r. Any other documents or certificates that the Trustee may
reasonably request.
SECTION 2.03. Acceptance by Trustee.
a. On the Closing Date, if the conditions set forth in Section 2.02 have
been satisfied, the Trustee shall deliver a certificate to the Company
substantially in the form of Exhibit G hereto acknowledging conveyance of the
Contracts, Contract Files and Land-and-Home Contract Files to the Trustee and
declaring that the Trustee, directly or through a custodian, will hold all
Contracts that have been delivered in trust, upon the trusts herein set forth,
for the use and benefit of all Certificateholders and Class C Certificateholders
and shall issue to or upon the order of the Company Certificates and Class C
Certificates representing ownership of a beneficial interest in 100% of the
Trust.
b. If, in its review of the Land-and-Home Contract Files as described in
Exhibit G, the Trustee or its Custodian discovers a breach of the
representations or warranties set forth in Sections 2.02(m), 3.02, 3.03 or 3.04,
the Company shall cure such breach or repurchase or replace such Contract
pursuant to Section 3.05.
SECTION 2.04. REMIC Provisions.
a. The Company, as Servicer, and the Class C Certificateholders, by
acceptance thereof, each agrees that, in accordance with the requirements of
Section 860D(b)(1) of the Code, the federal tax return of the Trust for its
first taxable year shall provide that the Trust (other than the obligation and
related demand note of the Company pursuant to Section 3.05(c)) elects to be
treated as a REMIC for such taxable year and all subsequent taxable years. In
furtherance of the foregoing, the Trustee (at the direction of the Company) and
the Company shall take, or refrain from taking, all such action as is necessary
to maintain the status of the Trust (other than the obligation and related
demand note of the Company pursuant to Section 3.05(c)) as a REMIC under the
REMIC provisions of the Code, including, but not limited to, the taking of such
action as is necessary to cure any inadvertent termination of REMIC status.
b. The Certificates are being issued in nine classes and are hereby
designated by the Company as constituting the "regular interests" in the Trust
for purposes of Section 860G(a)(1) of the Code. The following terms of the
Certificates are irrevocably established as of the Closing Date: the Class A-1
Remittance Rate is 7.25%, the Class A-2 Remittance Rate is 7.80%, the Class A-3
Remittance Rate is 7.95%, the Class A-4 Remittance Rate is 8.20%, the Class A-5
Remittance Rate is a
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floating rate equal to the Weighted Average Contract Rate (subject to a maximum
rate of 8.40%), the Class A-6 Remittance Rate is a floating rate equal to the
Weighted Average Contract Rate (subject to a maximum rate of 8.70%), the Class
M-1 Remittance Rate is a floating rate equal to the Weighted Average Contract
Rate (subject to a maximum rate of 9.05%), the Class B-1 Remittance Rate is a
floating rate equal to the Weighted Average Contract Rate (subject to a maximum
rate of 9.00%), the Class B-2 Remittance Rate is a floating rate equal to the
Weighted Average Contract Rate (subject to a maximum rate of 9.20%), the initial
aggregate principal balance of the Class A-1 Certificates is $47,000,000, the
initial aggregate principal balance of the Class A-2 Certificates is
$61,200,000, the initial aggregate principal balance of the Class A-3
Certificates is $40,000,000, the initial aggregate principal balance of the
Class A-4 Certificates is $48,000,000, the initial aggregate principal balance
of the Class A-5 Certificates is $51,000,000, the initial aggregate principal
balance of the Class A-6 Certificates is $59,188,000, the initial aggregate
principal balance of the Class M-1 Certificates is $34,082,000, the initial
aggregate principal balance of the Class B-1 Certificates is $15,148,000, the
initial aggregate principal balance of the Class B-2 Certificates is $22,721,822
and the latest possible maturity date of the Class A, Class M-1 and Class B
Certificates is in June 2025 (calculated using a prepayment assumption of 0% and
assuming no defaults or delinquencies on the Contracts). The Class C
Certificates are being issued in a single class and are hereby designated by the
Company as constituting the sole class of "residual interests" in the Trust for
purposes of Section 860G(a)(2) of the Code.
c. The Closing Date, which is the day on which the Trust will issue
all of its regular and residual interests, is hereby designated as the "startup
day" of the REMIC constituted by the Trust within the meaning of Section
860G(a)(9) of the Code.
d. After the Closing Date, neither the Trustee, the Company nor any
Servicer shall (i) accept any contribution of assets to the Trust, (ii) dispose
of any portion of the Trust other than as provided in Sections 3.05, 3.06 and
8.05, (iii) engage in any "prohibited transaction," as defined in Sections
860F(a)(2) and (5) of the Code, except as may be contemplated by Section
3.05(c), (iv) accept any contribution after the Closing Date that is subject to
the tax imposed by Section 860G(d) of the Code or (v) engage in any activity or
enter into any agreement that would result in the receipt by the Trust of any
"net income from foreclosure property" as defined in Section 860G(c)(2) of the
Code, unless, prior to any such action set forth in clauses (i), (ii), (iii),
(iv) or (v) the Trustee shall have received an unqualified Opinion of Counsel,
which opinion shall not be an expense of the Trust, stating that such action
will not, directly or indirectly, (A) adversely affect the status of the Trust
as a REMIC or the status of the Certificates as "regular interests" therein or
of the Class C Certificates as the sole class of "residual interests" therein,
(B) affect the distributions payable hereunder to the Certificateholders or the
Class C Certificateholders or (C) result in the imposition of any lien, charge
or encumbrance upon the Trust.
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e. Upon the acquisition of any real property (including interests in real
property), or any personal property incident thereto, in connection with the
default of a Contract, the Servicer and the Trustee (at the direction of the
Servicer) shall take, or cause to be taken, such action as is necessary to sell
or otherwise dispose of such property within such period as is then required by
the Code in order for such property to qualify as "foreclosure property" within
the meaning of Section 860G(a)(8) of the Code, unless the Servicer and the
Trustee receive an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the holding by the
Trust of such property subsequent to the period then permitted by the Code will
not result in the imposition of any taxes on "prohibited transactions" of the
Trust, as defined in Section 860F of the Code, or cause the Trust to fail to
qualify as a REMIC at any time that the Certificates or Class C Certificates are
outstanding. The Servicer shall manage, conserve, protect and operate such real
property, or any personal property incident thereto, so that such property will
not fail to qualify as "foreclosure property," as defined in Section 860G(a)(8)
of the Code, and that the management, conservation, protection and operation of
such property will not result in the receipt by the Trust of any "income from
nonpermitted assets," within the meaning of Section 860F(a)(2)(B) of the Code.
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ARTICLE III
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
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The Company makes the following representations and warranties, effective
as of the Closing Date, on which the Trustee will rely in accepting the
Contracts in trust and issuing the Certificates on behalf of the Trust. The
repurchase or substitution obligation of the Company set forth in Section 3.05
constitutes the sole remedy available to the Trust, Certificateholders or Class
C Certificateholders for a breach of a representation or warranty of the Company
set forth in Section 2.02(m), 3.02, 3.03 or 3.04 of this Agreement.
SECTION 3.01. Representations and Warranties Regarding the Company.
The Company represents and warrants to the Trustee, the Certificateholders
and the Class C Certificateholders that:
a. Organization and Good Standing. The Company is a corporation duly
organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the
jurisdiction of its organization and has the corporate power to own its
assets and to transact the business in which it is currently engaged. The
Company is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation and is in
good standing in each jurisdiction in which the character of the business
transacted by it or properties owned or leased by it requires such
qualification and in which the failure so to qualify would have a material
adverse effect on the business, properties, assets, or condition (financial
or other) of the Company.
b. Authorization; Binding Obligations. The Company has the power and
authority to make, execute, deliver and perform this Agreement and all of
the transactions contemplated under this Agreement, and to create the Trust
and cause it to make, execute, deliver and perform its obligations under
this Agreement and has taken all necessary corporate action to authorize
the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and to cause the
Trust to be created. When executed and delivered, this Agreement will
constitute the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company
enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement of such
terms may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting
the enforcement of creditors' rights generally and by the availability of
equitable remedies.
c. No Consent Required. The Company is not required to obtain the
consent of any other party or any consent, license, approval or
authorization from, or registration or declaration with, any governmental
authority, bureau or agency in connection with the execution, delivery,
performance, validity or enforceability of this Agreement.
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d. No Violations. The execution, delivery and performance of this
Agreement by the Company will not violate any provision of any existing law
or regulation or any order or decree of any court or the Articles of
Incorporation or Bylaws of the Company, or constitute a material breach of
any mortgage, indenture, contract or other agreement to which the Company
is a party or by which the Company may be bound.
e. Litigation. No litigation or administrative proceeding of or
before any court, tribunal or governmental body is currently pending, or to
the knowledge of the Company threatened, against the Company or any of its
properties or with respect to this Agreement, the Certificates or Class C
Certificates which, if adversely determined, would in the opinion of the
Company have a material adverse effect on the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement.
f. Licensing. The Company is duly registered as a finance company
in each state in which Contracts were originated, to the extent such
registration is required by applicable law.
SECTION 3.02. Representations and Warranties Regarding Each Contract.
The Company represents and warrants to the Trustee, the Certificateholders
and the Class C Certificateholders as to each Contract:
a. List of Contracts. The information set forth in the List of
Contracts is true and correct as of its date.
b. Payments. As of the Cut-off Date, the most recent scheduled
payment was made by or on behalf of the Obligor (without any advance from
the Company or any Person acting at the request of the Company) or was not
delinquent for more than 59 days.
c. No Waivers. The terms of the Contract have not been waived,
altered or modified in any respect, except by instruments or documents
identified in the Contract File or Land-and-Home Contract File, as
applicable.
d. Binding Obligation. The Contract is the legal, valid and binding
obligation of the Obligor thereunder and is enforceable in accordance with
its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by laws affecting
the enforcement of creditors' rights generally.
e. No Defenses. The Contract is not subject to any right of
rescission, setoff, counterclaim or defense, including the defense of
usury, and the operation of any of the terms of the Contract or the
exercise of any right thereunder will not render the Contract unenforceable
in whole or in part or subject to any right of rescission, setoff,
counterclaim or defense, including
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the defense of usury, and no such right of rescission, setoff, counterclaim or
defense has been asserted with respect thereto.
f. Insurance Coverage. The Manufactured Home securing the Contract is
covered by a Hazard Insurance Policy in the amount required by Section 5.09.
Each Manufactured Home which was, at the time of origination of the related
Contract, located within a federally designated special flood hazard area is
covered by insurance coverage at least equal to that required by Section 5.09 or
such lesser coverage as may be available under the federal flood insurance
program. All premiums due as of the Closing Date on such insurance have been
paid in full.
g. Origination. The Contract was originated by a manufactured housing
dealer or the Company in the regular course of its business and, if originated
by a manufactured housing dealer, was purchased by the Company in the regular
course of its business.
h. Lawful Assignment. The Contract was not originated in and is not
subject to the laws of any jurisdiction whose laws would make the transfer of
the Contract pursuant to this Agreement or pursuant to transfers of
Certificates, or the ownership of the Contract by the Trust, unlawful or render
the Contract unenforceable.
i. Compliance with Law. At the date of origination of the Contract, all
requirements of any federal and state laws, rules and regulations applicable to
the Contract, including, without limitation, usury, truth in lending and equal
credit opportunity laws, have been complied with, and the Company shall for at
least the period of this Agreement, maintain in its possession, available for
the Trustee's inspection, and shall deliver to the Trustee upon demand, evidence
of compliance with all such requirements. Such compliance is not affected by
the Trust's ownership of the Contract.
j. Contract in Force. The Contract has not been satisfied or
subordinated in whole or in part or rescinded, and the Manufactured Home
securing the Contract has not been released from the lien of the Contract in
whole or in part.
k. Valid Security Interest. Each Contract (other than the Land-and-Home
Contracts) creates a valid and enforceable perfected first priority security
interest in favor of the Company in the Manufactured Home covered thereby as
security for payment of the Cut-off Date Principal Balance of such Contract.
The Company has assigned all of its right, title and interest in such Contract,
including the security interest in the Manufactured Home covered thereby, to the
Trustee. The Trustee has and will have a valid and perfected and enforceable
first priority security interest in such Contract and Manufactured Home.
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Each Mortgage is a valid first lien in favor of the Company on real
property securing the amount owed by the Obligor under the related Land-and-Home
Contract subject only to (a) the lien of current real property taxes and
assessments, (b) covenants, conditions and restrictions, rights of way,
easements and other matters of public record as of the date of recording of such
Mortgage, such exceptions appearing of record being acceptable to mortgage
lending institutions generally in the area wherein the property subject to the
Mortgage is located or specifically reflected in the appraisal obtained in
connection with the origination of the related Land-and-Home Contract obtained
by the Company and (c) other matters to which like properties are commonly
subject which do not materially interfere with the benefits of the security
intended to be provided by such Mortgage. The Company has assigned all of its
right, title and interest in such Land-and-Home Contract and related Mortgage,
including the security interest in the Manufactured Home covered thereby, to the
Trustee. The Trustee has and will have a valid and perfected and enforceable
first priority security interest in such Land-and-Home Contract.
l. Capacity of Parties. The signature(s) of the Obligor(s) on the
Contract are genuine and all parties to the Contract had full legal capacity to
execute the Contract.
m. Good Title. In the case of a Contract purchased from a manufactured
housing dealer, the Company purchased the Contract for fair value and took
possession thereof in the ordinary course of its business, without knowledge
that the Contract was subject to a security interest. The Company has not sold,
assigned or pledged the Contract to any person and prior to the transfer of the
Contract by the Company to the Trustee, the Company had good and marketable
title thereto free and clear of any encumbrance, equity, loan, pledge, charge,
claim or security interest and was the sole owner thereof with full right to
transfer the Contract to the Trustee.
n. No Defaults. As of the Cut-off Date (or the date of origination, if
later), there was no default, breach, violation or event permitting acceleration
existing under the Contract and no event which, with notice and the expiration
of any grace or cure period, would constitute such a default, breach, violation
or event permitting acceleration under such Contract (except payment
delinquencies permitted by clause (b) above). The Company has not waived any
such default, breach, violation or event permitting acceleration except payment
delinquencies permitted by clause (b) above. As of the Closing Date, the
related Manufactured Home is, to the best of the Company's knowledge, free of
damage and in good repair. No Manufactured Home has suffered hurricane or
earthquake damage that is not covered by a Hazard Insurance Policy.
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o. No Liens. As of the Closing Date there are, to the best of the
Company's knowledge, no liens or claims which have been filed for work, labor or
materials affecting the Manufactured Home or any related Mortgaged Property
securing the Contract which are or may be liens prior to, or equal or coordinate
with, the lien of the Contract.
p. Equal Installments. Each Contract has a fixed Contract Rate and
provides for level monthly payments which fully amortize the loan over its term.
q. Enforceability. The Contract contains customary and enforceable
provisions so as to render the rights and remedies of the holder thereof
adequate for the realization against the collateral of the benefits of the
security provided thereby.
r. One Original. There is only one original executed Contract, which
Contract has been delivered to the Trustee or its custodian on or before the
Closing Date. Each Contract (other than the Land-and-Home Contracts) has been
stamped to reflect the assignment of such Contract to the Trustee.
s. Loan-to-Value Ratio. At the time of their origination all but 934
Contracts had Loan-to-Value Ratios not greater than 95%; if the related
Manufactured Home was new at the time such Contract was originated, the original
principal balance of such Contract did not exceed 130% of the manufacturer's
invoice price, plus 100% of the taxes and license fees, 100% of the freight
charges, 100% of the dealer's cost of additional dealer-installed equipment (not
to exceed 20% of the original principal balance of such Contract in all states
except California; not to exceed 70% of the manufacturer's invoice price in
California if required to meet park requirements) and up to $1,500 of set-up
costs per module.
t. Primary Resident. At the time of origination of the Contract the
Obligor was the primary resident of the related Manufactured Home.
u. Not Real Estate. With respect to each Contract other than a Land-and-
Home Contract, the related Manufactured Home is not considered or classified as
part of the real estate on which it is located under the laws of the
jurisdiction in which it is located.
v. Notation of Security Interest. With respect to each Contract other
than a Land-and-Home Contract, if the related Manufactured Home is located in a
state in which notation of a security interest on the title document is required
or permitted to perfect such security interest, the title document shows, or if
a new or replacement title document with respect to such Manufactured Home is
being applied for such title document will be issued within 180 days and will
show, the Company as the holder of a first
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priority security interest in such Manufactured Home; if the related
Manufactured Home is located in a state in which the filing of a financing
statement under the UCC is required to perfect a security interest in
manufactured housing, such filings or recordings have been duly made and
show the Company as secured party. If the related Manufactured Home
secures a Land-and-Home Contract, such Manufactured Home is subject to a
Mortgage properly filed in the appropriate public recording office or such
Mortgage will be properly filed in the appropriate public recording office
within 180 days, naming the Company as mortgagee. In either case, the
Trustee has the same rights as the secured party of record would have (if
such secured party were still the owner of the Contract) against all
Persons (including the Company and any trustee in bankruptcy of the
Company) claiming an interest in such Manufactured Home.
w. Secondary Mortgage Market Enhancement Act. The related
Manufactured Home is a "manufactured home" within the meaning of 42 United
States Code, Section 5402(6). Each manufactured housing dealer from whom
the Company purchased such Contract, if any, was then approved by the
Company in accordance with the requirements of the Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development set forth in 24 CFR (S) 201.27. At the origination of
each Contract, the Company was approved for insurance by the Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development pursuant to Section 2 of the National Housing
Act.
x. Qualified Mortgage. The Contract represents a "qualified
mortgage" within the meaning of Section 860G(a)(3) of the Code. The
Company represents and warrants that, either as of the date of origination
or the Closing Date, the fair market value of the property securing each
Contract was not less than 80% of the "adjusted issue price" (within the
meaning of the REMIC Provisions) of such Contract.
SECTION 3.03. Representations and Warranties Regarding the Contracts in
the Aggregate.
The Company represents and warrants to the Trustee and the
Certificateholders that:
a. Amounts. The aggregate principal amounts payable by Obligors
under the Contracts as of the Cut-off Date (assuming all Staged-Funding
Contracts were fully disbursed) equal the Cut-off Date Pool Principal
Balance.
b. Characteristics. The Contracts have the following
characteristics as of the Cut-off Date (or the date of origination, if
later): (i) the Obligors on not more than 10% of the Contracts by Cut-off
Date Pool Principal Balance are located in any one state (except for
Contracts with Obligors located in North Carolina), the Obligors on not
more than 5% of the Contracts by remaining
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principal balance are located in an area with the same zip code and the
Obligors on not more than 1% of the Contracts by remaining principal
balance are located in California in an area with the same zip code; (ii)
no Contract has a remaining maturity of fewer than 12 months or more than
360 months; (iii) the final scheduled payment date on the Contract with the
latest maturity is in May 2025; (iv) approximately 84% of the Cut-off Date
Pool Principal Balance is attributable to loans for purchases of new
Manufactured Homes and approximately 16% is attributable to loans for
purchases of used Manufactured Homes; and (v) no Contract was originated
before January 1984.
c. Staged-Funding Contracts. Approximately $21,325,788.49 of the
Contracts, by Cut-off Date Principal Balance, are Staged-Funding Contracts
that had not been fully disbursed by the Cut-off Date. Approximately
$14,589,877.75 of such amount had been disbursed by the Closing Date, and
approximately $6,735,910.74 remained to be disbursed on or before the
Funding Termination Date.
d. Computer Tape. The Computer Tape made available by the Company
was complete and accurate as of its date and includes a description of the
same Contracts that are described in the List of Contracts.
e. Marking Records. By the Closing Date, the Company has caused the
portions of the Electronic Ledger relating to the Contracts to be clearly
and unambiguously marked to indicate that such Contracts constitute part of
the Trust and are owned by the Trust in accordance with the terms of the
trust created hereunder.
f. No Adverse Selection. Except for the effect of the
representations and warranties made in Sections 3.02 and 3.03 hereof, no
adverse selection procedures have been employed in selecting the Contracts.
SECTION 3.04. Representations and Warranties Regarding the Contract Files.
The Company represents and warrants to the Trustee and the
Certificateholders that:
a. Possession. Immediately prior to the Closing Date, the Company
will have possession of each original Contract and the related Contract
File or Land-and-Home Contract File and there are and there will be no
custodial agreements in effect materially and adversely affecting the
rights of the Company to make, or cause to be made, any delivery required
hereunder.
b. Bulk Transfer Laws. The transfer, assignment and conveyance of
the Contracts and the Contract Files and Land-and-Home Contract Files by
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the Company pursuant to this Agreement is not subject to the bulk transfer
or any similar statutory provisions in effect in any applicable
jurisdiction.
SECTION 3.05. Repurchase of Contracts or Substitution of Contracts for
Breach of Representations and Warranties.
a. The Company shall repurchase a Contract, at its Repurchase Price, not
later than the last day of the Due Period prior to the Due Period that is 90
days after the day on which the Company, the Servicer or the Trustee first
discovers or should have discovered a breach of a representation or warranty of
the Company set forth in Sections 2.02(m), 3.02, 3.03 or 3.04 of this Agreement
that materially adversely affects the Trust's or the Certificateholders'
interest in such Contract and which breach has not been cured; provided,
however, that (i) in the event that a party other than the Company first becomes
aware of such breach, such discovering party shall notify the Company in writing
within five Business Days of the date of such discovery and (ii) with respect to
any Contract incorrectly described on the List of Contracts with respect to
unpaid principal balance, which the Company would otherwise be required to
repurchase pursuant to this Section, the Company may, in lieu of repurchasing
such Contract, deposit in the Certificate Account no later than the first
Determination Date that is 90 or more days from the date of such discovery cash
in an amount sufficient to cure such deficiency or discrepancy. Any such cash
so deposited shall be distributed to Certificateholders and Class C
Certificateholders on the immediately following Remittance Date as a collection
of principal or interest on such Contract, according to the nature of the
deficiency or discrepancy. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
Agreement, the obligation of the Company under this Section shall not terminate
upon a Service Transfer pursuant to Article VII. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
the Company shall repurchase any Contract, at such Contract's Repurchase Price,
if the Company has failed to deliver the related Contract File to the Trustee
within 30 days of the Closing Date.
b. On or prior to the date that is the second anniversary of the Closing
Date, the Company, at its election, may substitute an Eligible Substitute
Contract for a Contract that it is obligated to repurchase pursuant to Section
3.05(a) (such Contract being referred to as the "Replaced Contract") upon
satisfaction of the following conditions:
(i) the Company shall have conveyed to the Trustee the Contract to be
substituted for the Replaced Contract and the Contract File related to such
Contract and the Company shall have marked the Electronic Ledger indicating
that such Contract constitutes part of the Trust;
(ii) the Contract to be substituted for the Replaced Contract is an
Eligible Substitute Contract and the Company delivers an Officers'
Certificate, substantially in the form of Exhibit K-2 hereto, to the
Trustee certifying that such Contract is an Eligible Substitute Contract;
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(iii) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee evidence of
filing of a UCC-1 financing statement executed by the Company as debtor,
naming the Trustee as secured party and filed in Minnesota, listing such
Contract as collateral;
(iv) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of
Counsel (a) to the effect that the substitution of such Contract for such
Replaced Contract will not cause the Trust to fail to qualify as a REMIC at
any time under then applicable REMIC Provisions or cause any "prohibited
transaction" that will result in the imposition of a tax under such REMIC
Provisions and (b) to the effect of paragraph 9 of Exhibit F hereto; and
(v) if the Scheduled Principal Balance of such Replaced Contract is
greater than the Scheduled Principal Balance of the Contract being
substituted, the Company shall have deposited in the Certificate Account
the amount of such excess and shall have included in the Officers'
Certificate required by clause (ii) above a certification that such deposit
has been made.
Upon satisfaction of such conditions, the Trustee shall add such Contract to,
and delete such Replaced Contract from, the List of Contracts. Such
substitution shall be effected prior to the first Determination Date that occurs
more than 90 days after the Company becomes aware, or should have become aware,
or receives written notice from the Trustee, of the breach referred to in
Section 3.05(a). Promptly after any substitution of a Contract, the Company
shall give written notice of such substitution to Moody's and Fitch.
c. (i) On or before the Funding Termination Date, the Company shall
deliver an Officer's Certificate to the Trustee, stating that each Staged-
Funding Contract was fully disbursed in accordance with the terms of such
Contract on or before the Funding Termination Date, or specifying any Staged-
Funding Contracts which were not fully disbursed by the Funding Termination Date
(each Staged-Funding Contract that was not so fully disbursed being hereinafter
referred to as an "Unfunded Contract"), and the Cut-off Date Principal Balance
of each Unfunded Contract.
(ii) On or before the Funding Termination Date, the Company shall
either repurchase any Unfunded Contract in accordance with Section 3.05(a), or
shall substitute an Eligible Substitute Contract for such Unfunded Contract in
accordance with Section 3.05(b). With respect to the repurchase of an Unfunded
Contract pursuant to this Section 3.05(c), an amount of the Repurchase Price
equal to the Unfunded Contract Shortfall attributable to such Unfunded Contract
shall be treated as a refund to the Trust of the purchase price paid by the
Trust for additional obligations of the Obligor on such Contract under Section
2.01(c), and the remainder of the Repurchase Price shall be treated as paid to
the Trust for such Unfunded Contract.
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(iii) If the Company shall have failed to repurchase an Unfunded
Contract or to substitute an Eligible Substitute Contract therefor in accordance
with subsection (ii) above, then the disbursed principal balance of such
Unfunded Contract as owned by the Trust shall not be increased after the Funding
Termination Date, notwithstanding any further disbursements that may be made to
the related Obligor by the Company after the Funding Termination Date. The
Servicer shall thereafter allocate principal and interest collected on the
Contract between the Trust and the Company on a pro rata basis in accordance
with the disbursed principal balance as of the Funding Termination Date, with
the result that payments of interest and principal collected with respect to
such disbursed principal balance as of the Funding Termination Date shall be
collected to the Trust. The aggregate differential between the Cut-off Date
Principal Balance of all such Unfunded Contracts as specified in the List of
Contracts and the disbursed principal balance of such Unfunded Contracts as of
the Funding Termination Date (the "Unfunded Contract Shortfall") shall be added
to the Formula Principal Distribution Amount with respect to the Remittance Date
in May 1995.
(iv) On the Business Day prior to each Remittance Date until and
including the Remittance Date in May 1995, the Company shall pay any Class A
Interest Shortfall, Class M-1 Interest Shortfall or Class B-1 Interest Shortfall
occurring on such Remittance Date, if and to the extent such shortfall is caused
by the difference between (A) the interest that would have been payable on all
Staged-Funding Contracts in the related Due Period had such Contracts been fully
disbursed on the Closing Date and (B) the interest actually payable on such
Contracts in the related Due Period according to the terms of such Contracts.
(v) To further evidence its obligation to repurchase Unfunded
Contracts pursuant to subsection (ii) above and to deposit any Class A Interest
Shortfall, Class M-1 Interest Shortfall and Class B-1 Interest Shortfall
pursuant to subsection (iv) above, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee, on
the Closing Date, a demand note in an amount no less than the aggregate Cut-off
Date Principal Balances of the Staged-Funding Contracts. After the Funding
Termination Date or such earlier date on which the Company either has fully
disbursed or repurchased each Staged-Funding Contract as required herein, the
Trustee shall return such demand note to the Company for cancellation and/or
destruction.
d. Upon receipt by the Trust by deposit in the Certificate Account of the
Repurchase Price under subsection (a) or (c) above, or the delivery of an
Eligible Substitute Contract pursuant to subsection (b) or (c) above, and upon
receipt of a certificate of a Servicing Officer in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit K-1 or K-2, the Trustee shall convey and assign to the Company all of
the Certificateholders' and Class C Certificateholders' right, title and
interest in the repurchased Contract or Replaced Contract without recourse,
representation or warranty, except as to the absence of liens, charges or
encumbrances created by or arising as a result of actions of the Trustee.
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e. The Company shall defend and indemnify the Trustee, the
Certificateholders and the Class C Certificateholders against all costs,
expenses, losses, damages, claims and liabilities, including reasonable fees and
expenses of counsel, arising out of any claims which may be asserted against or
incurred by any of them as a result of any third-party action arising out of any
breach of any such representation and warranty.
SECTION 3.06. No Repurchase or Substitution Under Certain Circumstances.
Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, no
repurchase or substitution pursuant to Section 3.05 (other than a repurchase or
substitution pursuant to Section 3.05(c)) shall be made unless the Company
obtains for the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel addressed to the Trustee that any
such repurchase or substitution would not, under the REMIC Provisions, (i) cause
the Trust to fail to qualify as a REMIC while any regular interest in the REMIC
is outstanding, (ii) result in a tax on prohibited transactions within the
meaning of Section 860F(a)(2) of the Code or (iii) constitute a contribution
after the startup day subject to tax under Section 860G(d) of the Code. The
Servicer shall attempt to obtain such Opinion of Counsel. In the case of a
repurchase or deposit pursuant to Section 3.05(a) or 3.05(c), the Company shall,
notwithstanding the absence of such opinion as to the imposition of any tax as
the result of such purchase or deposit, repurchase such Contract or make such
deposit and shall guarantee the payment of such tax by paying to the Trustee the
amount of such tax not later than five Business Days before such tax shall be
due and payable to the extent that amounts previously paid over to and then held
by the Trustee pursuant to Section 6.06 hereof are insufficient to pay such tax
and all other taxes chargeable under Section 6.06. Pursuant to Section 6.06,
the Servicer is hereby directed to withhold, and shall withhold and pay over to
the Trustee, an amount sufficient to pay such tax and any other taxes imposed on
"prohibited transactions" under Section 860F(a)(1) of the Code or imposed on
"contributions after start up date" under Section 860G(d) of the Code from
amounts otherwise distributable to Class C Certificateholders. The Servicer
shall give notice to the Trustee at the time of such repurchase of the amounts
due from the Company pursuant to the guarantee of the Company described above
and notice as to who should receive such payment.
The Trustee shall have no obligation to pay any such amounts pursuant to
this Section other than from moneys provided to it by the Company or from moneys
held in the funds and accounts created under this Agreement. The Trustee shall
be deemed conclusively to have complied with this Section if it follows the
directions of the Company.
In the event any tax that is guaranteed by the Company pursuant to this
Section 3.06 is refunded to the Trust or otherwise is determined not to be
payable, the Company shall be repaid the amount of such refund or that portion
of any guarantee payment made by the Company that is not applied to the payment
of such tax.
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ARTICLE IV
PERFECTION OF TRANSFER AND PROTECTION OF SECURITY INTERESTS
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SECTION 4.01. Custody of Contracts.
a. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Section the Trustee
appoints the Servicer to maintain custody of the Contract Files for the benefit
of the Certificateholders and the Trustee. The Trustee or its Custodian shall
maintain custody of the Land-and-Home Contract Files.
b. The Servicer agrees to maintain the related Contract Files at its
office where they are currently maintained, or at such other offices of the
Servicer in the State of Minnesota as shall from time to time be identified to
the Trustee by written notice. The Servicer may temporarily move individual
Contract Files or any portion thereof without notice as necessary to conduct
collection and other servicing activities in accordance with its customary
practices and procedures.
c. As custodian, the Servicer shall have and perform the following
powers and duties:
(i) hold the Contract Files on behalf of the Certificateholders
and the Trustee, maintain accurate records pertaining to each Contract
to enable it to comply with the terms and conditions of this
Agreement, maintain a current inventory thereof, conduct annual
physical inspections of Contract Files held by it under this Agreement
and certify to the Trustee annually that it continues to maintain
possession of such Contract Files;
(ii) implement policies and procedures, in writing and signed by
a Servicing Officer, with respect to persons authorized to have access
to the Contract Files on the Servicer's premises and the receipting
for Contract Files taken from their storage area by an employee of the
Servicer for purposes of servicing or any other purposes; and
(iii) attend to all details in connection with maintaining
custody of the Contract Files on behalf of the Certificateholders and
the Trustee.
d. In performing its duties under this Section, the Servicer agrees
to act with reasonable care, using that degree of skill and care that it
exercises with respect to similar contracts owned and/or serviced by it. The
Servicer shall promptly report to the Trustee any failure by it to hold the
Contract Files as herein provided and shall promptly take appropriate action to
remedy any such failure. In acting as custodian of the Contract Files, the
Servicer agrees further not to assert any beneficial ownership interests in the
Contracts or the Contract Files. The Servicer agrees to indemnify the
Certificateholders and the Trustee for any and all liabilities, obligations,
losses, damages, payments, costs or expenses of any kind whatsoever which may be
imposed on, incurred or asserted against the Certificateholders and the Trustee
as the result of any act or omission by the Servicer relating to the
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maintenance and custody of the Contract Files; provided, however, that the
Servicer will not be liable for any portion of any such amount resulting from
the negligence or willful misconduct of any Certificateholder or the Trustee.
SECTION 4.02. Filings.
On or prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall cause the UCC-1
financing statement referred to in Section 2.02(h) to be filed. The Trustee
shall cause to be filed all necessary continuation statements of the UCC-1
financing statement. From time to time the Servicer shall take and cause to be
taken such actions and execute such documents as are necessary to perfect and
protect the Certificateholders' interests in the Contracts and their proceeds
and the Manufactured Homes against all other persons, including, without
limitation, the filing of financing statements, amendments thereto and
continuation statements, the execution of transfer instruments and the making of
notations on or taking possession of all records or documents of title. The
Servicer will maintain the Trustee's first priority perfected security interest
in each Manufactured Home and a first lien on each Mortgaged Property so long as
the related Contract is property of the Trust.
SECTION 4.03. Name Change or Relocation.
a. During the term of this Agreement, the Company shall not change
its name, identity or structure or relocate its chief executive office without
first giving notice thereof to the Trustee and the Servicer. In addition,
following any such change in the name, identity, structure or location of the
chief executive office of the Company, the Company shall give written notice of
any such change to Moody's and Fitch.
b. If any change in the Company's name, identity or structure or the
relocation of its chief executive office would make any financing or
continuation statement or notice of lien filed under this Agreement seriously
misleading within the meaning of applicable provisions of the UCC or any title
statute or would cause any such financing or continuation statement or notice of
lien to become unperfected (whether immediately or with lapse of time), the
Company, no later than five days after the effective date of such change, shall
file, or cause to be filed, such amendments or financing statements as may be
required to preserve, perfect and protect the Certificateholders' interests in
the Contracts and proceeds thereof and in the Manufactured Homes.
SECTION 4.04. Chief Executive Office.
During the term of this Agreement, the Company will maintain its chief
executive office in one of the States of the United States, except Tennessee.
SECTION 4.05. Costs and Expenses.
The Servicer agrees to pay all reasonable costs and disbursements in
connection with the perfection and the maintenance of perfection, as against all
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third parties, of the Certificateholders' right, title and interest in and to
the Contracts (including, without limitation, the security interests in the
Manufactured Homes granted thereby).
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ARTICLE V
SERVICING OF CONTRACTS
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SECTION 5.01. Responsibility for Contract Administration.
The Servicer will have the sole obligation to manage, administer,
service and make collections on the Contracts and perform or cause to be
performed all contractual and customary undertakings of the holder of the
Contracts to the Obligor. The Trustee, at the request of a Servicing Officer,
shall furnish the Servicer with any powers of attorney or other documents
necessary or appropriate to enable the Servicer to carry out its servicing and
administrative duties hereunder. The Company is hereby appointed the Servicer
until such time as any Service Transfer shall be effected under Article VII.
SECTION 5.02. Standard of Care.
In managing, administering, servicing and making collections on the
Contracts pursuant to this Agreement, the Servicer will exercise that degree of
skill and care consistent with the highest degree of skill and care that the
Servicer exercises with respect to similar contracts serviced by the Servicer;
provided, however, that (i) such degree of skill and care shall be at least as
favorable as the degree of skill and care generally applied by servicers of
manufactured housing installment sales contracts for institutional investors and
(ii) notwithstanding the foregoing, the Servicer shall not release or waive the
right to collect the unpaid balance on any Contract. The Servicer shall comply
with FHA/VA Regulations in servicing any FHA/VA Contracts (and will pay any
required premiums) so that the related insurance of the Federal Housing
Administration or partial guarantee of the Veterans Administration remains in
full force and effect, except for good faith disputes relating to FHA/VA
Regulations that will not cause the termination or reduction of such insurance
or guarantee.
SECTION 5.03. Records.
The Servicer shall, during the period it is servicer hereunder,
maintain such books of account and other records as will enable the Trustee to
determine the status of each Contract.
SECTION 5.04. Inspection; Computer Tape.
a. At all times during the term hereof, the Servicer shall afford the
Trustee and its authorized agents reasonable access during normal business hours
to the Servicer's records, which have not previously been provided to the Trust,
relating to the Contracts and will cause its personnel to assist in any
examination of such records by the Trustee or its authorized agents. The
examination referred to in this Section will be conducted in a manner which does
not unreasonably interfere with the Servicer's normal operations or customer or
employee relations. Without otherwise limiting the scope of the examination the
Trustee may make, the Trustee
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may, using generally accepted audit procedures, verify the status of each
Contract and review the Electronic Ledger and records relating thereto for
conformity to Monthly Reports prepared pursuant to Article VI and compliance
with the standards represented to exist as to each Contract in this Agreement.
b. At all times during the term hereof, the Servicer shall keep
available a copy of the List of Contracts at its principal executive office for
inspection by Certificateholders.
c. On or before the ninth Business Day of each month, the Servicer
will provide to the Trustee a Computer Tape setting forth a list of all the
outstanding Contracts and the outstanding principal balance of each such
Contract as of the end of the next preceding Due Period.
SECTION 5.05. Certificate Account.
a. On or before the Closing Date, the Trustee shall establish the
Certificate Account on behalf of the Trust with an Eligible Institution. The
Certificate Account shall be entitled "[Trustee] as Trustee for the benefit of
holders of Manufactured Housing Contract Pass-Through Certificates, Series 1995-
1 (Green Tree Financial Corporation, Servicer)." The Servicer shall pay into
the Certificate Account as promptly as practicable (not later than the next
Business Day) following receipt thereof all payments from Obligors and Net
Liquidation Proceeds, other than late payment penalty fees, extension fees and
assumption fees, which shall be retained by the Servicer as additional
compensation for servicing the Contracts. All amounts paid into the Certificate
Account under this Agreement shall be held in trust for the Trustee, the
Certificateholders and the Class C Certificateholders until payment of any such
amounts is authorized under this Agreement. Only the Trustee may withdraw funds
from the Certificate Account.
b. If the Servicer so directs, the Eligible Institution maintaining
the Certificate Account shall, in the name of the Trustee in its capacity as
such, invest the amounts in the Certificate Account in Eligible Investments that
mature not later than one Business Day prior to the next succeeding Remittance
Date. Once such funds are invested, such Eligible Institution shall not change
the investment of such funds. All income and gain from such investments shall
be added to the Certificate Account and distributed on such Remittance Date
pursuant to Section 8.03(a). An amount equal to any net loss on such
investments shall be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Class C
Certificateholders out of their own funds immediately as realized. The Company
and the Trustee shall in no way be liable for losses on amounts invested in
accordance with the provisions hereof. Funds in the Certificate Account not so
invested must be insured to the extent permitted by law by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation. "Eligible Investments" are any of the following:
(i) direct obligations of, and obligations fully guaranteed by,
the United States of America, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation,
the Federal National Mortgage Association, or any agency or instrumentality
of
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the United States of America the obligations of which are backed by the full
faith and credit of the United States of America and which are noncallable;
(ii) (A) demand and time deposits in, certificates of deposit of,
bankers' acceptances issued by, or federal funds sold by any depository
institution or trust company (including the Trustee or any Affiliate of the
Trustee, acting in its commercial capacity) incorporated under the laws of
the United States of America or any State thereof and subject to supervision
and examination by federal and/or state authorities, so long as, at the time
of such investment or contractual commitment providing for such investment,
the commercial paper or other short-term debt obligations of such depository
institution or trust company are rated at least P-1 by Moody's and at least
F-1 by Fitch (if rated by Fitch) and (B) any other demand or time deposit or
certificate of deposit which is fully insured by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation;
(iii) shares of an investment company registered under the
Investment Company Act of 1940, whose shares are registered under the
Securities Act of 1933 and have the highest credit rating then available
from Moody's and Fitch (if rated by Fitch) and whose only investments are in
securities described in clauses (i) and (ii) above;
(iv) repurchase obligations with respect to (A) any security
described in clause (i) above or (B) any other security issued or guaranteed
by an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America, in either
case entered into with any institution whose debt is rated by Moody's and
Fitch (if rated by Fitch) in one of its two highest long-term debt rating
categories or whose commercial paper is rated at least P-1 by Moody's and at
least F-1+ by Fitch (if rated by Fitch);
(v) securities bearing interest or sold at a discount issued by
any corporation incorporated under the laws of the United States of America
or any State thereof which have a credit rating of at least Aa from Moody's
and in one of the two highest rating categories from Fitch (if rated by
Fitch) at the time of such investment; provided, however, that securities
issued by any particular corporation will not be Eligible Investments to the
extent that investment therein will cause the then outstanding principal
amount of securities issued by such corporation and held as part of the
corpus of the Trust to exceed 10% of amounts held in the Certificate
Account; and
(vi) commercial paper having a rating of at least P-1 from Moody's
and at least F-1 by Fitch (if rated by Fitch) at the time of such
investment.
The Trustee may trade with itself or an Affiliate in the purchase or
sale of such Eligible Investments.
SECTION 5.06. Enforcement.
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a. The Servicer shall, consistent with customary servicing procedures
and the terms of this Agreement, act with respect to the Contracts in such
manner as will maximize the receipt of principal and interest on such Contracts
and liquidation proceeds with respect to Liquidated Contracts.
b. The Servicer may sue to enforce or collect upon Contracts, in its
own name, if possible, or as agent for the Trust. If the Servicer elects to
commence a legal proceeding to enforce a Contract, the act of commencement shall
be deemed to be an automatic assignment of the Contract to the Servicer for
purposes of collection only. If, however, in any enforcement suit or legal
proceeding it is held that the Servicer may not enforce a Contract on the ground
that it is not a real party in interest or a holder entitled to enforce the
Contract, the Trustee on behalf of the Trust shall, at the Servicer's expense,
take such steps as the Servicer deems necessary to enforce the Contract,
including bringing suit in its name or the names of the Certificateholders and
Class C Certificateholders.
c. The Servicer shall exercise any rights of recourse against third
persons that exist with respect to any Contract in accordance with the
Servicer's usual practice. In exercising recourse rights, the Servicer is
authorized on the Trustee's behalf to reassign the Contract or to resell the
related Manufactured Home to the person against whom recourse exists at the
price set forth in the document creating the recourse.
d. So long as the Company is the Servicer, the Servicer may grant to
the Obligor on any Contract any rebate, refund or adjustment out of the
Certificate Account that the Servicer in good faith believes is required because
of prepayment in full of the Contract. The Servicer will not permit any
rescission or cancellation of any Contract.
e. So long as the Company is the Servicer, the Servicer may,
consistent with its customary servicing procedures and consistent with Section
5.02, grant to the Obligor on any Contract an extension of payments due under
such Contract, provided that Obligors may not be solicited for extensions and no
more than one extension of payments under a Contract may be granted in any
twelve-month period.
f. The Servicer may enforce any due-on-sale clause in a Contract if
such enforcement is called for under its then current servicing policies for
obligations similar to the Contracts, provided that such enforcement is
permitted by applicable law and will not adversely affect any applicable
insurance policy. If an assumption of a Contract is permitted by the Servicer
upon conveyance of the related Manufactured Home, the Servicer shall use its
best efforts to obtain an assumption agreement in connection therewith and add
such assumption agreement to the related Contract File or Land-and-Home Contract
File.
g. Any provision of this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding,
the Servicer shall not agree to the modification or waiver of any provision of a
Contract at a time when such Contract is not in default or such default is not
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foreseeable, if such modification or waiver would be treated as a taxable
exchange under Section 1001 of the Code.
SECTION 5.07. Trustee to Cooperate.
a. Upon payment in full on any Contract, the Servicer will notify the
Trustee and the Company (if the Company is not the Servicer) on the next
succeeding Remittance Date by certification of a Servicing Officer (which
certification shall include a statement to the effect that all amounts received
in connection with such payments which are required to be deposited in the
Certificate Account pursuant to Section 5.05 have been so deposited). The
Servicer is authorized to execute an instrument in satisfaction of such Contract
and to do such other acts and execute such other documents as the Servicer deems
necessary to discharge the Obligor thereunder and eliminate the lien on the
related real estate. The Servicer shall determine when a Contract has been paid
in full; to the extent that insufficient payments are received on a Contract
credited by the Servicer as prepaid or paid in full and satisfied, the shortfall
shall be paid by the Servicer out of its own funds.
b. From time to time as appropriate for servicing and foreclosure in
connection with any Land-and-Home Contract, the Trustee shall, upon written
request of a Servicing Officer and delivery to the Trustee of a receipt signed
by such Servicing Officer, cause the original Land-and-Home Contract and the
related Land-and-Home Contract File to be released to the Servicer and shall
execute such documents as the Servicer shall deem necessary to the prosecution
of any such proceedings. The Trustee shall stamp the face of each such Land-
and-Home Contract to be released to the Servicer with a notation that the Land-
and-Home Contract has been assigned to the Trustee. Upon request of a Servicing
Officer, the Trustee shall perform such other acts as reasonably requested by
the Servicer and otherwise cooperate with the Servicer in enforcement of the
Certificateholders' rights and remedies with respect to Contracts.
c. The Servicer's receipt of a Land-and-Home Contract and/or Land-
and-Home Contract File shall obligate the Servicer to return the original Land-
and-Home Contract and the related Land-and-Home Contract File to the Trustee
when its need by the Servicer has ceased unless the Contract shall be liquidated
or repurchased or replaced as described in Section 3.05.
SECTION 5.08. Costs and Expenses.
All costs and expenses incurred by the Servicer in carrying out its
duties hereunder, including all fees and expenses incurred in connection with
the enforcement of Contracts (including enforcement of defaulted Contracts and
repossessions of Manufactured Homes securing such Contracts) shall be paid by
the Servicer and the Servicer shall not be entitled to reimbursement hereunder,
except that the Servicer shall be reimbursed out of the Liquidation Proceeds of
a Liquidated Contract for Liquidation Expenses incurred by it. The Servicer
shall not incur such liquidation expenses unless it determines in its good faith
business judgment that
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incurring such expenses will increase the Net Liquidation Proceeds on the
related Contract.
SECTION 5.09. Maintenance of Insurance.
a. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this Section
5.09, the Servicer shall cause to be maintained with respect to each Contract
one or more Hazard Insurance Policies which provide, at a minimum, the same
coverage as a standard form fire and extended coverage insurance policy that is
customary for manufactured housing, issued by a company authorized to issue such
policies in the state in which the related Manufactured Home is located and in
an amount which is not less than the maximum insurable value of such
Manufactured Home or the principal balance due from the Obligor on the related
Contract, whichever is less; provided, however, that the amount of coverage
provided by each Hazard Insurance Policy shall be sufficient to avoid the
application of any co-insurance clause contained therein; and provided, further,
that such Hazard Insurance Policies may provide for customary deductible
amounts. When a Manufactured Home's location was, at the time of origination of
the related Contract, within a federally designated special flood hazard area,
the Servicer shall also cause such flood insurance to be maintained, which
coverage shall be at least equal to the minimum amount specified in the
preceding sentence or such lesser amount as may be available under the federal
flood insurance program. Each Hazard Insurance Policy caused to be maintained
by the Servicer shall contain a standard loss payee clause in favor of the
Servicer and its successors and assigns. If any Obligor is in default in the
payment of premiums on its Hazard Insurance Policy or Policies, the Servicer
shall pay such premiums out of its own funds and may separately add such premium
to the Obligor's obligation as provided by the Contract, but shall not add such
premium to the remaining principal balance of the Contract.
b. The Servicer may, in lieu of causing individual Hazard Insurance
Policies to be maintained with respect to each Manufactured Home pursuant to
subsection (a) of this Section 5.09, and shall, to the extent that the related
Contract does not require the Obligor to maintain a Hazard Insurance Policy with
respect to the related Manufactured Home, maintain one or more blanket insurance
policies covering losses on the Obligor's interest in the Contracts resulting
from the absence or insufficiency of individual Hazard Insurance Policies. Any
such blanket policy shall be substantially in the form and in the amount carried
by the Servicer as of the date of this Agreement. The Servicer shall pay the
premium for such policy on the basis described therein and shall deposit into
the Certificate Account from its own funds any deductible amount with respect to
claims under such blanket insurance policy relating to the Contracts. The
Servicer shall not, however, be required to deposit any deductible amount with
respect to claims under individual Hazard Insurance Policies maintained pursuant
to subsection (a) of this Section. If the insurer under such blanket insurance
policy shall cease to be acceptable to the Servicer, the Servicer shall exercise
its best reasonable efforts to obtain from another insurer a replacement policy
comparable to such policy.
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c. With respect to each Manufactured Home that has been repossessed
in connection with a defaulted Contract, the Servicer shall either (i) maintain
one or more Hazard Insurance Policies thereon or (ii) self-insure such
Manufactured Homes and deposit into the Certificate Account from its own funds
any losses caused by damage to such Manufactured Home that would have been
covered by a Hazard Insurance Policy.
d. The Servicer shall keep in force throughout the term of this
Agreement (i) a policy or policies of insurance covering errors and omissions
for failure to maintain insurance as required by this Agreement and (ii) a
fidelity bond. Such policy or policies and such fidelity bond shall be in such
form and amount as is generally customary among Persons which service a
portfolio of manufactured housing installment sales contracts and installment
loan agreements having an aggregate principal amount of $100,000,000 or more and
which are generally regarded as servicers acceptable to institutional investors.
SECTION 5.10. Repossession.
Notwithstanding the standard of care specified in Section 5.02, the
Servicer shall commence procedures for the repossession of any Manufactured Home
or the foreclosure upon any Mortgaged Property or take such other steps that in
the Servicer's reasonable judgment will maximize the receipt of principal and
interest or Net Liquidation Proceeds with respect to the Contract secured by
such Manufactured Home or Mortgaged Property (which may include retitling or
filing a recorded assignment of the Mortgage) subject to the requirements of the
applicable state and federal law, no later than five Business Days after the
time when such Contract becomes a Defaulted Contract; provided that if the
Servicer has actual knowledge that a Mortgaged Property is affected by hazardous
waste, then the Servicer shall not cause the Company to acquire title to such
Mortgaged Property in a foreclosure or similar proceeding. For purposes of the
proviso in the preceding sentence, the Servicer shall not be deemed to have
actual knowledge that a Mortgage Property is affected by hazardous waste unless
it shall have received written notice that hazardous waste is present on such
property and such written notice has been made a part of the Land-and-Home
Contract File with respect to the related Contract. In connection with such
foreclosure or other conversion, the Servicer shall follow such practices and
procedures as it shall deem necessary or advisable and as shall be consistent
with Section 5.02. In the event that title to any Mortgaged Property is
acquired in foreclosure or by deed in lieu of foreclosure, the deed or
certificate of sale shall be issued to the Trustee, as Trustee, or, at its
election, to its nominee on behalf of the Trustee, as Trustee.
SECTION 5.11. Commingling of Funds.
So long as the Company is Servicer, any collections in respect of
Contracts collected by the Company shall, prior to the deposit thereof in the
Certificate Account, be held in bank accounts entitled substantially as follows:
"[name of depository], as agent for First Bank National Association, Trustee,
and Green Tree Financial Corporation, as their interests may appear."
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SECTION 5.12. Retitling; Security Interests.
a. If, at any time, a Service Transfer has occurred and the Company
is no longer the Servicer and the new Servicer is unable to foreclose upon a
Manufactured Home because the title document for such Manufactured Home does not
show such Servicer or the Trustee as the holder of the first priority security
interest in the Manufactured Home, such Servicer shall take all necessary steps
to apply for a replacement title document showing it or the Trustee as the
secured party.
b. In order to facilitate the Servicer's actions, as described in
subsection (a) of this section, the Company will provide the Servicer with any
necessary power of attorney permitting it to retitle the Manufactured Home.
c. If the Servicer is still unable to retitle the Manufactured Home,
the Company will take all actions necessary to act with the Servicer to
foreclose upon the Manufactured Home, including, as appropriate, the filing of
any UCC-1 or UCC-2 financing statements necessary to perfect the security
interest in any Manufactured Home that constitutes a fixture under the laws of
the jurisdiction in which it is located and all actions necessary to perfect the
security interest in any Manufactured Home that is considered or classified as
part of the real estate on which it is located under the laws of the
jurisdiction in which it is located.
d. If the aggregate Cut-off Date Principal Balances of all Land-and-
Home Contracts is less than 10% of the Cut-off Date Pool Principal Balance, then
on the Closing Date the Company shall deliver to the Custodian executed
assignments to the Trustee on behalf of the Trust in recordable form of each
Mortgage securing a Land-and-Home Contract.
If the aggregate Cut-off Date Principal Balances of all Land-and-Home
Contracts equals or exceeds 10% of the Cut-off Date Pool Principal Balance, the
Company shall (i) within 60 days of the Closing Date submit to the appropriate
recording offices the assignments to the Trustee on behalf of the Trust of the
number of Mortgages securing Land-and-Home Contracts needed to reduce the
aggregate Cut-off Date Principal Balances of all Land-and-Home Contracts with
respect to which such assignments are not so recorded to less than 10% of the
Cut-off Date Pool Principal Balance or (ii) deliver an Opinion of Counsel
satisfactory to the Trustee to the effect that the Trustee holds a perfected
first priority lien in the real estate securing the Land-and-Home Contracts.
If at any time during the term of this Agreement the Company does not
have a long-term senior debt rating from Moody's of Baa3 or higher and from
Fitch of BBB- or higher, the Trustee, at the Company's expense, shall file
promptly in the appropriate recording offices the assignments to the Trustee on
behalf of the Trust of each Mortgage securing a Land-and-Home Contract.
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ARTICLE VI
REPORTS AND TAX MATTERS
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SECTION 6.01. Monthly Reports.
No later than 1:00 p.m. on each Determination Date, the Servicer shall
deliver to the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Company (if the Company is not the
Servicer), Moody's and Fitch a "Monthly Report," substantially in the form of
Exhibit N hereto.
SECTION 6.02. Certificate of Servicing Officer.
Each Monthly Report pursuant to Section 6.01 shall be accompanied by a
certificate of a Servicing Officer substantially in the form of Exhibit I,
certifying the accuracy of the Monthly Report and that no Event of Termination
or event that with notice or lapse of time or both would become an Event of
Termination has occurred, or if such event has occurred and is continuing,
specifying the event and its status.
SECTION 6.03. Other Data.
In addition, the Company and (if different from the Company) the
Servicer shall, on request of the Trustee, Moody's, Fitch or a
Certificateholder, furnish the Trustee and/or Moody's and Fitch or a
Certificateholder such underlying data as may be reasonably requested.
SECTION 6.04. Annual Report of Accountants.
On or before March 31 of each year, commencing March 31, 1996, the
Servicer at its expense shall cause a firm of independent public accountants
which is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants to
make available to the Trustee, Moody's and Fitch a report stating that such firm
has examined selected documents and records relating to the servicing of
manufactured housing conditioned sales contracts, including the contracts
covered by this Agreement, in accordance with the Mortgage Bankers Association
of America's Uniform Single Audit Program for Mortgage Bankers, or any successor
uniform program, and that, on the basis of such examination, such servicing has
been conducted in compliance with the minimum servicing standards identified
therein, except for such significant exceptions or errors in records that, in
the opinion of such firm, generally accepted auditing standards requires it to
report.
SECTION 6.05. Statements to Certificateholders and Class C
Certificateholders.
a. The Servicer shall prepare and furnish to the Trustee the
statements specified below relating to the Class A Certificates, Class M-1
Certificates, Class B-1
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Certificates and Class B-2 Certificates on or before the third Business Day next
preceding each Remittance Date.
b. Concurrently with each distribution charged to the Certificate
Account the Trustee, so long as it has received the Monthly Report from the
Servicer, shall forward or cause to be forwarded by mail to each Holder of a
Class A Certificate and (if the Company is not the Servicer) the Company a
statement setting forth the following:
(i) the amount of such distribution to Holders of each Class of
Class A Certificates allocable to interest, separately identifying any
Unpaid Class A Interest Shortfall included in such distribution and any
remaining Unpaid Class A Interest Shortfall after giving effect to such
distribution;
(ii) the amount of such distribution to Holders of each Class of
Class A Certificates allocable to principal, separately identifying the
aggregate amount of any Principal Prepayments included therein, and any
remaining Unpaid Class A Principal Shortfall after giving effect to such
distribution;
(iii) the amount, if any, by which the Class A Formula
Distribution Amount for such Remittance Date exceeds the Class A
Distribution Amount for such Remittance Date;
(iv) the Class A-1 Principal Balance, the Class A-2 Principal
Balance, the Class A-3 Principal Balance, the Class A-4 Principal Balance,
the Class A-5 Principal Balance and the Class A-6 Principal Balance after
giving effect to the distribution of principal on such Remittance Date;
(v) the Pool Scheduled Principal Balance of the Contracts for
such Remittance Date;
(vi) the Class A Percentage for such Remittance Date and the
following Remittance Date;
(vii) the Pool Factor;
(viii) the number and aggregate principal balances of Contracts
delinquent (a) 30-59 days and (b) 60 or more days;
(ix) the number of Manufactured Homes that were repossessed during
the Due Period ending immediately prior to such Remittance Date;
(x) the number of Manufactured Homes that were repossessed but
remain in inventory as of the last day of the Due Period ending immediately
prior to such Remittance Date;
(xi) the Class B Principal Balance Test (as set forth in Exhibit
N hereto);
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(xii) the Class B Principal Distribution Tests (as set forth in
Exhibit N hereto); and
(xiii) the Weighted Average Contract Rate of all outstanding
Contracts.
The Trustee and the Servicer shall inform any Certificateholder,
Lehman Brothers Inc. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated,
inquiring by telephone of the information contained in the most recent Monthly
Report.
In the case of information furnished pursuant to clauses (i) through
(iv) above, the amounts shall be expressed as a dollar amount per Class A
Certificate with a 1% Percentage Interest or per $1,000 denomination of Class A
Certificate.
Within a reasonable period of time after the end of each calendar
year, the Trustee shall furnish or cause to be furnished to each Person who at
any time during the calendar year was the Holder of a Class A Certificate a
statement containing the information with respect to interest accrued and
principal paid on its Certificates during such calendar year. Such obligation
of the Trustee shall be deemed to have been satisfied to the extent that
substantially comparable information shall be provided by the Trustee pursuant
to any requirements of the Code as from time to time in force.
c. On each Remittance Date, the Trustee shall forward or cause to be
forwarded by mail to each Holder of a Class M-1 Certificate a copy of the
Monthly Report forwarded to the Holders of Class A Certificates on such
Remittance Date. The Servicer shall also furnish to the Trustee, which shall
forward such report to the Class M-1 Certificateholders as part of the Monthly
Report, the following information:
(i) the amount of such distribution to Holders of Class M-1
Certificates allocable to interest, separately identifying any Unpaid Class
M-1 Interest Shortfall included in such distribution and any remaining
Unpaid Class M-1 Interest Shortfall after giving effect to such
distribution;
(ii) the amount of such distribution to Holders of Class M-1
Certificates allocable to principal, separately identifying the aggregate
amount of any Principal Prepayments included therein, and any remaining
Unpaid Class M-1 Principal Shortfall after giving effect to such
distribution;
(iii) the amount, if any, by which the Class M-1 Formula
Distribution Amount for such Remittance Date exceeds the Amount Available
less the Class A Distribution Amount for such Remittance Date;
(iv) the Class M-1 Principal Balance after giving effect to the
distribution of principal on such Remittance Date;
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(v) the Class A Percentage for such Remittance Date and the
following Remittance Date;
(vi) the Pool Scheduled Principal Balance for such Remittance
Date;
(vii) the Pool Factor;
(viii) the number and aggregate principal balances of Contracts
delinquent (a) 30-59 days and (b) 60 or more days;
(ix) the number of Manufactured Homes that were repossessed during
the Due Period ending immediately prior to such Remittance Date;
(x) the number of Manufactured Homes that were repossessed but
remain in inventory as of the last day of the Due Period ending immediately
prior to such Remittance Date;
(xi) the Class B Principal Balance Test (as set forth in Exhibit
N hereto);
(xii) the Class B Principal Distribution Tests (as set forth in
Exhibit N hereto); and
(xiii) the Weighted Average Contract Rate of all outstanding
Contracts.
In the case of the information in clauses (i) through (iv) above, the
amounts shall be expressed as a dollar amount per Class M-1 Certificate with a
1% Percentage Interest or per $1,000 denomination of Class M-1 Certificate.
Within a reasonable period of time after the end of each calendar
year, the Servicer shall furnish or cause to be furnished to each Person who at
any time during the calendar year was the Holder of a Class M-1 Certificate a
statement containing the applicable distribution information provided pursuant
to this Section aggregated for such calendar year or applicable portion thereof
during which such Person was the Holder of a Class M-1 Certificate. Such
obligation of the Servicer shall be deemed to have been satisfied to the extent
that substantially comparable information shall be provided by the Servicer
pursuant to any requirements of the Code as from time to time enforced.
d. On each Remittance Date, the Trustee shall forward or cause to be
forwarded by mail to each Holder of a Class B-1 Certificate a copy of the
Monthly Report forwarded to the Holders of Class A and Class M-1 Certificates on
such Remittance Date. The Servicer shall also furnish to the Trustee, which
shall forward such report to the Class B-1 Certificateholders as part of the
Monthly Report, the following information:
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(i) the amount of such distribution to Holders of Class B-1
Certificates allocable to interest, separately identifying any Unpaid Class
B-1 Interest Shortfall included in such distribution and any remaining
Unpaid Class B-1 Interest Shortfall after giving effect to such
distribution;
(ii) the amount of such distribution to Holders of Class B-1
Certificates allocable to principal, separately identifying the aggregate
amount of any Principal Prepayments included therein, and any remaining
Unpaid Class B-1 Principal Shortfall after giving effect to such
distribution;
(iii) the amount, if any, by which the Class B-1 Formula
Distribution Amount for such Remittance Date exceeds the Amount Available
less the Class A Distribution Amount and M-1 Distribution Amount for such
Remittance Date;
(iv) the Class B-1 Principal Balance after giving effect to the
distribution of principal on such Remittance Date;
(v) the Class B Percentage for such Remittance Date and the
following Remittance Date;
(vi) the Pool Scheduled Principal Balance for such Remittance
Date;
(vii) the Pool Factor;
(viii) the number and aggregate principal balances of Contracts
delinquent (a) 30-59 days and (b) 60 or more days;
(ix) the number of Manufactured Homes that were repossessed during
the Due Period ending immediately prior to such Remittance Date;
(x) the number of Manufactured Homes that were repossessed but
remain in inventory as of the last day of the Due Period ending immediately
prior to such Remittance Date;
(xi) the Class B Principal Balance Test (as set forth in Exhibit
N hereto);
(xii) the Class B Principal Distribution Tests (as set forth in
Exhibit N hereto); and
(xiii) the Weighted Average Contract Rate of all outstanding
Contracts.
In the case of the information in clauses (i) through (iv) above, the
amounts shall be expressed as a dollar amount per Class B-1 Certificate with a
1% Percentage Interest or per $1,000 denomination of Class B-1 Certificate.
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Within a reasonable period of time after the end of each calendar
year, the Servicer shall furnish or cause to be furnished to each Person who at
any time during the calendar year was the Holder of a Class B-1 Certificate a
statement containing the applicable distribution information provided pursuant
to this Section aggregated for such calendar year or applicable portion thereof
during which such Person was the Holder of a Class B-1 Certificate. Such
obligation of the Servicer shall be deemed to have been satisfied to the extent
that substantially comparable information shall be provided by the Servicer
pursuant to any requirements of the Code as from time to time enforced.
e. On each Remittance Date, the Trustee shall forward or cause to be
forwarded by mail to each Holder of a Class B-2 Certificate a copy of the
Monthly Report forwarded to the Holders of Class A, Class M-1 and Class B-1
Certificates on such Remittance Date. The Servicer shall also furnish to the
Trustee, which shall forward such report to the Class B-2 Certificateholders as
part of the Monthly Report, the following information:
(i) the amount of such distribution to Holders of Class B-2
Certificates allocable to interest, separately identifying any Unpaid Class
B-2 Interest Shortfall included in such distribution and any remaining
Unpaid Class B-2 Interest Shortfall after giving effect to such
distribution;
(ii) the amount of such distribution to Holders of Class B-2
Certificates allocable to principal, separately identifying the aggregate
amount of any Principal Prepayments included therein, and any Unpaid Class
B-2 Principal Shortfall after giving effect to such distribution;
(iii) the amount, if any, by which the Class B-2 Formula
Distribution Amount for such Remittance Date exceeds the Remaining Amount
Available for such Remittance Date;
(iv) the Class B-2 Principal Balance after giving effect to the
distribution of principal on such Remittance Date;
(v) the Class B Percentage for such Remittance Date and the
following Remittance Date;
(vi) the Pool Scheduled Principal Balance for such Remittance
Date and the following Remittance Date;
(vii) the Pool Factor;
(viii) the Class B-2 Principal Liquidation Loss Amount, if any,
for such Remittance Date;
(ix) the Guarantee Payment, if any, for such Remittance Date;
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(x) the number and aggregate principal balances of Contracts
delinquent (a) 30-59 days and (b) 60 days or more;
(xi) the number of Manufactured Homes that were repossessed during
the Due Period ending immediately prior to such Remittance Date;
(xii) the number of Manufactured Homes that were repossessed but
remain in inventory as of the last day of the Due Period ending immediately
prior to such Remittance Date;
(xiii) the Class B Principal Balance Test (as set forth in
Exhibit N hereto);
(xiv) the Class B Principal Distribution Tests (as set forth in
Exhibit N hereto); and
(xv) the Weighted Average Contract Rate of all outstanding
Contracts.
In the case of the information in clauses (i) through (iv) above, the
amounts shall be expressed as a dollar amount per Class B-2 Certificate with a
1% Percentage Interest or per $1,000 denomination of Class B-2 Certificate.
Within a reasonable period of time after the end of each calendar
year, the Servicer shall furnish or cause to be furnished to each Person who at
any time during the calendar year was the Holder of a Class B-2 Certificate a
statement containing the applicable distribution information provided pursuant
to this Section aggregated for such calendar year or applicable portion thereof
during which such Person was the Holder of a Class B-2 Certificate. Such
obligation of the Servicer shall be deemed to have been satisfied to the extent
that substantially comparable information shall be provided by the Servicer
pursuant to any requirements of the Code as from time to time enforced.
f. Copies of all reports provided to the Trustee for the
Certificateholders shall also be provided to Moody's, Fitch and to the Class C
Certificateholders.
SECTION 6.06. Payment of Taxes.
The Servicer shall be responsible for and agrees to prepare, make and
file all federal, state, local or other tax returns, information statements and
other returns and documents of every kind and nature whatsoever required to be
made or filed by or on behalf of the Trust pursuant to the Code and other
applicable tax laws and regulations. Each such return, statement and document
shall, to the extent required by the Code or other applicable law and at the
request of the Servicer, be signed on behalf of the Trust by the Trustee. The
Trustee shall have no responsibility whatsoever for the accuracy or completeness
of any such return, statement or document. The Servicer agrees to indemnify the
Trustee and hold it harmless for, from, against and in respect to any and all
liability, loss, damage and expense which
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may be incurred by the Trustee based upon or as a result of the Trustee's
execution of any and all such tax returns, statements and documents. The
Servicer, if and for so long as it is a Class C Certificateholder, shall be
designated the "tax matters person" on behalf of the Trust in the same manner as
a partnership may designate a "tax matters partner," as such term is defined in
Section 6231(a)(7) of the Code. To the extent permitted by the REMIC
Provisions, any subsequent holder of the Class C Certificate, by acceptance
thereof, irrevocably designates and appoints the Servicer as its agent to
perform the responsibilities of the "tax matters person" on behalf of the Trust
if, and during such time as, the Servicer is not the holder of the Class C
Certificate. The Servicer may, at its expense, retain such outside assistance
as it deems necessary in the performance of its obligations under this
paragraph.
Each of the Holders of the Certificates or the Class C Certificate, by
acceptance thereof, agrees to file tax returns consistent with and in accordance
with any elections, decisions or other reports made or filed with regard to
federal, state or local taxes on behalf of the Trust. The Company, as agent for
the tax matters person, shall represent the Trust in connection with all
examinations of the Trust's affairs by tax authorities, including resulting
administrative and judicial proceedings. Each of the holders of the
Certificates and Class C Certificates, by acceptance thereof, agrees to
cooperate with the Company in such matters and to do or refrain from doing any
or all things reasonably required by the Company to conduct such proceedings,
provided that no such action shall be required by the Company of any
Certificateholder that would entail unnecessary or unreasonable expenses for
such Certificateholder in the performance of such action.
The Class C Certificateholders shall pay, on behalf of the Trust, any
foreign, federal, state or local income, property, excise, sales, receipts or
any other similar or related taxes or charges which may be imposed upon the
Trust as a REMIC or otherwise and shall, to the extent provided in Section
10.06, be entitled to be reimbursed out of the Certificate Account or, if such
tax or charge results from a failure by the Trustee, the Company or any Servicer
to comply with the provisions of Section 2.04 or 3.06, the Trustee, the Company
or such Servicer, as the case may be, shall indemnify the Class C
Certificateholders for the payment of any such tax or charge. The Trustee shall
be entitled to withhold from amounts otherwise distributable to the Class C
Certificateholders any taxes or charges payable by the Class C
Certificateholders hereunder.
In the event the Class C Certificate is transferred to a "disqualified
organization," within the meaning of Section 860E(e)(5) of the Code, pursuant to
Section 860D(a)(6)(B) of the Code the Company shall provide to the Internal
Revenue Service and the persons specified in Sections 860(E)(e)(3) and (6) of
the Code all information necessary for the application of Section 860E(e) and
any other applicable provision of the Code with respect to the transfer of the
Class C Certificate to such a disqualified organization including, without
limitation, a computation showing the present value of the total anticipated
excess inclusions with respect to such Class C Certificate for periods after the
transfer as defined in the REMIC Provisions. In addition, to the extent
required by the REMIC Provisions, the Company shall, upon the written request of
persons designated in
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Section 860E(e)(3) of the Code, furnish to such requesting party and the
Internal Revenue Service information sufficient to compute the present value of
anticipated excess inclusions within 60 days of the receipt of such written
request.
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ARTICLE VII
SERVICE TRANSFER
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SECTION 7.01. Event of Termination.
"Event of Termination" means the occurrence of any of the following:
a. Any failure by the Servicer to make any deposit into an account
required to be made hereunder and the continuance of such failure for a period
of five Business Days after the Servicer has become aware, or should have become
aware, that such deposit was required;
b. Failure on the Servicer's part to observe or perform in any
material respect any covenant or agreement in this Agreement (other than a
covenant or agreement which is elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt
with) which continues unremedied for 30 days after the date on which written
notice of such failure, requiring the same to be remedied, shall have been given
to the Servicer by the Trustee or to the Servicer and the Trustee by Holders of
Class A Certificates, Class M-1 Certificates and Class B Certificates
evidencing, as to any such Class, Percentage Interests aggregating not less than
25%;
c. Any assignment by the Servicer of its duties hereunder except as
specifically permitted hereunder, or any attempt to make such an assignment;
d. A court or other governmental authority having jurisdiction in the
premises shall have entered a decree or order for relief in respect of the
Servicer in an involuntary case under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or
other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or appointing a receiver,
liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator (or similar official) of
the Servicer, as the case may be, or for any substantial liquidation of its
affairs, and such order remains undischarged and unstayed for at least 60 days;
e. The Servicer shall have commenced a voluntary case under any
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in
effect, or shall have consented to the entry of an order for relief in an
involuntary case under any such law, or shall have consented to the appointment
of or taking possession by a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian
or sequestrator (or other similar official) of the Servicer or for any
substantial part of its property, or shall have made any general assignment for
the benefit of its creditors, or shall have failed to, or admitted in writing
its inability to, pay its debts as they become due, or shall have taken any
corporate action in furtherance of the foregoing; or
f. The failure of the Servicer to be an Eligible Servicer.
SECTION 7.02. Transfer.
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a. If an Event of Termination has occurred and is continuing, either
the Trustee or Certificateholders with aggregate Percentage Interests
representing 25% or more of the Trust, by notice in writing to the Servicer (and
to the Trustee if given by the Certificateholders) may terminate all (but not
less than all) of the Servicer's management, administrative, servicing and
collection functions (such termination being herein called a "Service
Transfer"). On receipt of such notice (or, if later, on a date designated
therein), or upon resignation of the Servicer in accordance with Section 12.01,
all authority and power of the Servicer under this Agreement, whether with
respect to the Contracts, the Contract Files, the Land-and-Home Contract Files
or otherwise (except with respect to the Certificate Account, the transfer of
which shall be governed by Section 7.06), shall pass to and be vested in the
Trustee pursuant to and under this Section 7.02; and, without limitation, the
Trustee is authorized and empowered to execute and deliver on behalf of the
Servicer, as attorney-in-fact or otherwise, any and all documents and other
instruments (including, without limitation, documents required to make the
Trustee or a successor servicer the sole lienholder or legal title holder of
record of each Manufactured Home) and to do any and all acts or things necessary
or appropriate to effect the purposes of such notice of termination. Each of
the Company and the Servicer agrees to cooperate with the Trustee in effecting
the termination of the responsibilities and rights of the Servicer hereunder,
including, without limitation, the transfer to the Trustee for administration by
it of all cash amounts which shall at the time be held by the Servicer for
deposit, or have been deposited by the Servicer, in the Certificate Account, or
for its own account in connection with its services hereafter or thereafter
received with respect to the Contracts and the execution of any documents
required to make the Trustee or a successor servicer the sole lienholder or
legal title holder of record in respect of each Manufactured Home. The Servicer
shall be entitled to receive any other amounts which are payable to the Servicer
under the Agreement, at the time of the termination of its activities as
Servicer. The Servicer shall transfer to the new servicer (i) the Servicer's
records relating to the Contracts in such electronic form as the new servicer
may reasonably request and (ii) any Contracts, Contract Files and Land-and-Home
Contract Files in the Servicer's possession.
SECTION 7.03. Trustee to Act; Appointment of Successor.
On and after the time the Servicer receives a notice of termination
pursuant to Section 7.02 or the resignation of the Servicer in accordance with
Section 12.01, the Trustee shall be the successor in all respects to the
Servicer in its capacity as servicer under this Agreement and the transactions
set forth or provided for herein and shall be subject to all the
responsibilities, duties and liabilities relating thereto placed on the Servicer
by the terms and provisions hereof and the Servicer shall be relieved of such
responsibilities, duties and liabilities arising after such Service Transfer;
provided, however, that (i) the Trustee will not assume any obligations of the
Company pursuant to Section 3.05 and (ii) the Trustee shall not be liable for
any acts or omissions of the Servicer occurring prior to such Service Transfer
or for any breach by the Servicer of any of its obligations contained herein or
in any related document or agreement. As compensation therefor, the Trustee
shall be entitled to
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receive reasonable compensation out of the Monthly Servicing Fee.
Notwithstanding the above, the Trustee may, if it shall be unwilling so to act,
or shall, if it is legally unable so to act, appoint, or petition a court of
competent jurisdiction to appoint, an Eligible Servicer as the successor to the
Servicer hereunder in the assumption of all or any part of the responsibilities,
duties or liabilities of the Servicer hereunder. Pending appointment of a
successor to the Servicer hereunder, unless the Trustee is prohibited by law
from so acting, the Trustee shall act in such capacity as hereinabove provided.
In connection with such appointment and assumption, the Trustee may make such
arrangements for the compensation of such successor out of payments on Contracts
as it and such successor shall agree; provided, however, that no such monthly
compensation shall, without the written consent of 100% of the
Certificateholders, exceed the Monthly Servicing Fee. The Trustee and such
successor shall take such action, consistent with this Agreement, as shall be
necessary to effectuate any such succession.
SECTION 7.04. Notification to Certificateholders and Class C
Certificateholders.
a. Promptly following the occurrence of any Event of Termination, the
Servicer shall give written notice thereof to the Trustee, Moody's, Fitch, the
Certificateholders and the Class C Certificateholders at their respective
addresses appearing on the Certificate Register.
b. Within ten days following any termination or appointment of a
successor to the Servicer pursuant to this Article VII, the Trustee shall give
written notice thereof to Moody's, Fitch, the Certificateholders and the Class C
Certificateholders at their respective addresses appearing on the Certificate
Register.
c. The Trustee shall give written notice to Moody's and Fitch at
least 30 days prior to the date upon which any Eligible Servicer (other than the
Trustee) is to assume the responsibilities of Servicer pursuant to Section 7.03,
naming such successor Servicer.
SECTION 7.05. Effect of Transfer.
a. After the Service Transfer, the Trustee or new Servicer may notify
Obligors to make payments directly to the new Servicer that are due under the
Contracts after the effective date of the Service Transfer.
b. After the Service Transfer, the replaced Servicer shall have no
further obligations with respect to the management, administration, servicing or
collection of the Contracts and the new Servicer shall have all of such
obligations, except that the replaced Servicer will transmit or cause to be
transmitted directly to the new Servicer for its own account, promptly on
receipt and in the same form in which received, any amounts (properly endorsed
where required for the new Servicer to collect them) received as payments upon
or otherwise in connection with the Contracts.
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c. A Service Transfer shall not affect the rights and duties of the
parties hereunder (including but not limited to the indemnities of the Servicer
and the Company pursuant to Article X and Sections 3.05, 11.06 and 11.11(f))
other than those relating to the management, administration, servicing or
collection of the Contracts.
SECTION 7.06. Transfer of Certificate Account.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 7.02, if the Certificate
Account shall be maintained with the Servicer and an Event of Termination shall
occur and be continuing, the Servicer shall, after five days' written notice
from the Trustee, or in any event within ten days after the occurrence of the
Event of Termination, establish a new account or accounts in trust for the
Certificateholders and Class C Certificateholders conforming with the
requirements of this Agreement at the trust department of the Trustee or with an
Eligible Institution other than the Servicer and promptly transfer all funds in
the Certificate Account to such new account, which shall thereafter be deemed
the Certificate Account for the purposes hereof.
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ARTICLE VIII
PAYMENTS
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SECTION 8.01. Monthly Payments.
a. Subject to the terms of this Article VIII, each Holder of a
Certificate as of a Record Date shall be paid on the next succeeding Remittance
Date by check mailed to such Certificateholder at the address for such
Certificateholder appearing on the Certificate Register (or, if such
Certificateholder holds a Class of Class A Certificates, Class M-1 Certificates
or a Class of Class B Certificates with an aggregate Percentage Interest of at
least 5% or a Class C Certificateholder holds Class C Certificates with an
aggregate Percentage Interest of at least 20% and so requests, by wire transfer
pursuant to instructions delivered to the Trustee at least ten days prior to
such Remittance Date), the sum equal to such Certificateholder's Percentage
Interest of the Class A Distribution Amount, the Class M-1 Distribution Amount,
the Class B-1 Distribution Amount, the Class B-2 Distribution Amount or the
Class C Distribution Amount, as applicable. Final payment of any Certificate or
Class C Certificate shall be made only upon presentation of such Certificate or
Class C Certificate at the office or agency of the Paying Agent.
b. Each distribution with respect to a Book-Entry Certificate shall
be paid to the Depository, which shall credit 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 Certificate 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 Certificate Owners that it represents.
All such credits and disbursements with respect to a Book-Entry Certificate are
to be made by the Depository and the Depository Participants in accordance with
the provisions of the Book Entry Certificates. Neither the Trustee, the
Certificate Registrar, the Seller nor the Servicer shall have any responsibility
therefor except as otherwise provided by applicable law. To the extent
applicable and not contrary to the rules of the Depository, the Trustee shall
comply with the provisions of the forms of the Class A, Class M-1 and Class B
Certificates as set forth in Exhibits A, B and C hereto.
c. The Trustee shall appoint an Eligible Institution to be the paying
agent (the "Paying Agent") and cause it to make the payments to the
Certificateholders required hereunder. The Trustee initially appoints its
corporate trust operations department, with an office at 180 East Fifth Street,
St. Paul, Minnesota 55101, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration,
Structured Finance, Second Floor, as such Paying Agent. The Trustee shall
require the Paying Agent (if other than the Trustee) to agree in writing that
all amounts held by the Paying Agent for payment hereunder will be held in trust
for the benefit of the Certificateholders and that it will notify the Trustee of
any failure by the Servicer to make funds available to the Paying Agent for the
payment of amounts due on the Certificates.
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SECTION 8.02. Permitted Withdrawals from the Certificate Account.
The Trustee may, from time to time as provided herein, make
withdrawals from the Certificate Account of amounts deposited in said account
pursuant to Section 5.05 that are attributable to the Contracts for the
following purposes:
a. to make payments to Certificateholders in the amounts and in the
manner provided for in Section 8.03;
b. to pay to the Company with respect to each Contract or property
acquired in respect thereof that has been repurchased or replaced pursuant to
Section 3.05, all amounts received thereon and not required to be distributed to
Certificateholders as of the date on which the related Scheduled Principal
Balance or Repurchase Price is determined;
c. to reimburse the Servicer out of Liquidation Proceeds for
Liquidation Expenses incurred by it, to the extent such reimbursement is
permitted pursuant to Section 5.08;
d. to withdraw any amount deposited in the Certificate Account that
was not required to be deposited therein; or
e. to make any rebates or adjustments deemed necessary by the Servicer
pursuant to Section 5.06(d).
Since, in connection with withdrawals pursuant to clause (b), the
Company's entitlement thereto is limited to collections or other recoveries on
the related Contract, the Servicer shall keep and maintain separate accounting,
on a Contract by Contract basis, for the purpose of justifying any withdrawal
from the Certificate Account pursuant to such clause.
SECTION 8.03. Payments.
a. On each Remittance Date the Trustee shall withdraw the Amount
Available (as determined on the immediately preceding Determination Date) from
the Certificate Account and apply such funds to make payment in the following
order of priority:
1. if the Company is not the Servicer, to pay the Monthly
Servicing Fee and any other compensation owed to the Servicer pursuant to
Section 7.02;
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2. to pay the Class A Interest Distribution Amount as follows:
(i) the amount in clause (a)(i) of the definition of Class
A Formula Distribution Amount to the Class A-1 Certificateholders;
the amount in clause (a)(ii) of the definition of Class A Formula
Distribution Amount to the Class A-2 Certificateholders; the
amount in clause (a)(iii) of the definition of Class A Formula
Distribution Amount to the Class A-3 Certificateholders; the
amount in clause (a)(iv) of the definition of Class A Formula
Distribution Amount to the Class A-4 Certificateholders; the
amount in clause (a)(v) of the definition of Class A Formula
Distribution Amount to the Class A-5 Certificateholders; and the
amount in clause (a)(vi) of the definition of Class A Formula
Distribution amount to the Class A-6 Certificateholders, or, if
the Amount Available is less than the sum of the amounts specified
in this clause (i), pro rata to each Class of Class A Certificates
based on the amount of interest payable pursuant to this clause
(i);
(ii) the aggregate Unpaid Class A Interest Shortfall pro
rata to each Class of Class A Certificates based on the Unpaid
Class A Interest Shortfall of each such Class;
3. after payment of the amounts specified in clauses (1) and (2)
above, as follows:
(i) if there is a Class A Principal Deficiency Amount as
of such Remittance Date, the remaining Amount Available, pro rata
to each Class of Class A Certificates based on the Principal
Balance of each Class (but in no event shall such amount exceed
the Principal Balance of any such Class);
(ii) the Unpaid Class A Principal Shortfall, or, if the
remaining Amount Available is less than such amount, such
remaining Amount Available, pro rata to each Class of Class A
Certificates based on the Principal Balance of each such Class
(but in no event shall such amount exceed the Principal Balance of
any such Class);
(iii) if such Remittance Date is on or prior to the First
Cross-over Date, the Class A Percentage of the Formula Principal
Distribution Amount to the Class A-1 Certificateholders, but in no
event more than the Class A-1 Principal Balance;
(iv) if such Remittance Date is on or after the First
Cross-over Date but not after the Second Cross-over Date, the
Class A Percentage of the Formula Principal Distribution Amount to
the Class A-2 Certificateholders (reduced, if such Remittance Date
is on the First Cross-over Date, by the amount of the Class A
Percentage of the
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Formula Principal Distribution Amount actually distributed to the
Class A-1 Certificateholders on such date), but in no event more
than the Class A-2 Principal Balance;
(v) if such Remittance Date is on or after the Second
Cross-over Date but not after the Third Cross-over Date, the Class
A Percentage of the Formula Principal Distribution Amount to the
Class A-3 Certificateholders (reduced, if such Remittance Date is
on the Second Cross-over Date, by the amount of the Class A
Percentage of the Formula Principal Distribution Amount actually
distributed to the Class A-1 and Class A-2 Certificateholders on
such date), but in no event more than the Class A-3 Principal
Balance;
(vi) if such Remittance Date is on or after the Third
Cross-over Date but not after the Fourth Cross-over Date, the
Class A Percentage of the Formula Principal Distribution Amount to
the Class A-4 Certificateholders (reduced, if such Remittance Date
is on the Third Cross-over Date, by the amount of the Class A
Percentage of the Formula Principal Distribution Amount actually
distributed to the Class A-1, Class A-2 and Class A-3
Certificateholders on such date), but in no event more than the
Class A-4 Principal Balance;
(vii) if such Remittance Date is on or after the Fourth
Cross-over Date but not after the Fifth Cross-over Date, the Class
A Percentage of the Formula Principal Distribution Amount to the
Class A-5 Certificateholders (reduced, if such Remittance Date is
on the Fourth Cross-over Date, by the amount of the Class A
Percentage of the Formula Principal Distribution Amount actually
distributed to the Class A-1, Class A-2, Class A-3 and Class A-4
Certificateholders on such date), but in no event more than the
Class A-5 Principal Balance;
(viii) if such Remittance Date is on or after the Fifth
Cross-over Date but not after the Sixth Cross-over Date, the Class
A Percentage of the Formula Principal Distribution Amount to the
Class A-6 Certificateholders (reduced, if such Remittance Date is
on the Fifth Cross-over Date, by the amount of the Class A
Percentage of the Formula Principal Distribution Amount actually
distributed to the Class A-1, Class A-2, Class A-3, Class A-4 and
Class A-5 Certificateholders on such date), but in no event more
than the Class A-6 Principal Balance;
4. after payment of the amounts specified in clauses (1) - (3)
above, to the Class M-1 Certificateholders as follows:
(i) the amount in clause (a) of the definition of Class
M-1 Formula Distribution Amount;
(ii) any Unpaid Class M-1 Interest Shortfall;
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(iii) any Unpaid Class M-1 Principal Shortfall;
(iv) if such Remittance Date is on or after the Sixth
Cross-over Date, but not after the Seventh Cross-over Date, the
Class A Percentage of the Formula Principal Distribution Amount to
the Class M-1 Certificateholders (reduced, if such Remittance Date
is on the Sixth Cross-over Date, by the amount of the Class A
Percentage of the Formula Principal Distribution Amount actually
distributed to the Class A Certificateholders on such date), but
in no event more than the Class M-1 Principal Balance;
5. after payment of the amounts specified in clauses (1) - (4)
above, to the Class B-1 Certificateholders as follows:
(i) the amount in clause (a) of the definition of Class
B-1 Formula Distribution Amount;
(ii) any Unpaid Class B-1 Interest Shortfall;
(iii) any Unpaid Class B-1 Principal Shortfall;
(iv) if such Remittance Date is on or prior to the Eighth
Cross-over Date, the Class B Percentage of the Formula Principal
Distribution Amount to the Class B-1 Certificateholders (plus, if
such Remittance Date is on the Seventh Cross-over Date, the amount
by which the Class A Percentage of the Formula Principal
Distribution Amount exceeded the sum of the Class A Principal
Balance plus the Class M-1 Principal Balance on such date), but in
no event more than the Class B-1 Principal Balance;
6. after payment of the amounts specified in clauses (1) - (5)
above, to the Class B-2 Certificateholders as follows:
(i) the amount in clause (a) of the definition of Class
B-2 Formula Distribution Amount;
(ii) any Unpaid Class B-2 Interest Shortfall;
(iii) any Unpaid Class B-2 Principal Shortfall;
(iv) if such Remittance Date is on or after the Eighth
Cross-over Date, the Class B Percentage of the Formula Principal
Distribution Amount to the Class B-2 Certificateholders (reduced,
if such Remittance Date is on the Eighth Cross-over Date, by the
amount of the Class B Percentage of the Formula Principal
Distribution Amount actually distributed to the Class B-1
Certificateholders on such date, and increased, if such Remittance
Date is on the Seventh Cross-over
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Date, by the amount, if any, by which the Formula
Principal Distribution Amount exceeds the sum of the Class
A Principal Balance, the Class M-1 Principal Balance and
the Class B-1 Principal Balance on such date);
7. if the Company is the Servicer, to pay the Monthly Servicing
Fee and any other compensation owed to the Servicer pursuant to Section
7.02;
8. to reimburse the Class C Certificateholders for expenses
incurred by and reimbursable to them pursuant to Section 10.06;
9. to pay the Guarantee Fee to the Company; and
10. any remaining funds shall be paid to the Class C
Certificateholders.
b. If the Trustee shall not have received the applicable Monthly
Report by any Remittance Date, the Trustee shall distribute all funds then in
the Certificate Account to Certificateholders in accordance with Section
8.03(a), to the extent of such funds, on such Remittance Date.
SECTION 8.04. Limited Guarantee.
a. No later than the third Business Day prior to each Remittance
Date, the Servicer (if other than the Company) shall notify the Company of the
amount of the Guarantee Payment (if any) for such Remittance Date. Not later
than the Business Day preceding each Remittance Date, the Company shall deposit
the Guarantee Payment, if any, for such Remittance Date into the Certificate
Account.
b. The obligations of the Company under this Section shall not
terminate upon or otherwise be affected by a Service Transfer pursuant to
Article VII of this Agreement.
c. The obligation of the Company to provide the Limited Guarantee
under this Agreement shall terminate on the Final Remittance Date.
d. The obligation of the Company to make the Guarantee Payments
described in subsection (a) above shall be unconditional and irrevocable. The
Company acknowledges that its obligation to make the Guarantee Payments
described in subsection (a) above shall be deemed a guarantee by the Company of
indebtedness of the Trust for money borrowed from the Class B-2
Certificateholders.
e. If the Company fails to make a Guarantee Payment in whole or in
part, the Company shall promptly notify the Trustee, and the Trustee shall
promptly notify Moody's and Fitch.
f. The Class C Certificateholders may at any time, but are not
obligated to, supplement the Company's Limited Guarantee by depositing assets in
a "qualified
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reserve fund," within the meaning of (S) 860G(a)(7) of the Code in accordance
with (S) 860G(d)(2)(D) of the Code.
SECTION 8.05. Company's or Servicer's Repurchase Option.
a. Subject to the conditions in subsection (b) below, the Company or
the Servicer may repurchase all of the Contracts and all property acquired in
respect of any Contract remaining in the Trust at a price equal to the greater
of:
A. the sum of (x) 100% of the principal balance of each Contract
(other than any Contract as to which title to the underlying property has
been acquired and whose fair market value is included pursuant to clause (y)
below), plus (y) the fair market value of such acquired property (as
determined by the Company as of the close of business on the third Business
Day next preceding the date upon which notice of any such termination is
furnished to Certificateholders pursuant to Section 12.04) or
B. the aggregate fair market value (as determined by the Company
as of the close of business on such third Business Day) of all of the assets
of the Trus t,
plus, in either case, any Unpaid Class A Interest Shortfall, any Unpaid Class M-
1 Interest Shortfall, any Unpaid Class B-1 Interest Shortfall and any Unpaid
Class B-2 Interest Shortfall as well as one month's interest at the applicable
Contract Rate on the Scheduled Principal Balance of each Contract (including any
Contract as to which the related Manufactured Home has been repossessed).
b. The purchase by the Company or the Servicer of all of the Contracts
pursuant to Section 8.05(a) above shall be at the option of the Company, but
shall be conditioned upon (1) the Pool Scheduled Principal Balance, at the time
of any such purchase, aggregating less than 10% of the Cut-off Date Pool
Principal Balance, (2) such purchase constituting a plan of complete liquidation
in accordance with Section 860F of the Code, (3) the Company or the Servicer
having provided the Trustee and the Depository (if any) with at least 30 days'
written notice and (4) the Company or the Servicer (as applicable) shall have
delivered to the Trustee an unqualified Opinion of Counsel stating that payment
of the purchase price to the Certificateholders will not constitute a voidable
preference or fraudulent transfer under the United States Bankruptcy Code. If
such option is exercised, the Company or the Servicer, as applicable, shall
provide to the Trustee the certification required by Section 12.03, which
certificate shall constitute a plan of complete liquidation within the meaning
of Section 860F of the Code, and the Trustee shall promptly sign such
certification and release to the Company or the Servicer, as applicable, the
Contract Files and Land-and-Home Contract Files pertaining to the Contracts
being repurchased.
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ARTICLE IX
THE CERTIFICATES AND CLASS C CERTIFICATES
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SECTION 9.01. The Certificates and Class C Certificates.
The Class A, the Class M-1, the Class B and the Class C Certificates shall
be substantially in the forms set forth in Exhibits A, B, C and J, respectively,
and shall, on original issue, be executed by the Trustee on behalf of the Trust
to or upon the order of the Company. The Class A, the Class M-1 and the Class B
Certificates shall be evidenced by (i) one or more Class A-1 Certificates
representing $47,000,000 initial aggregate principal balance, (ii) one or more
Class A-2 Certificates representing $61,200,000 initial aggregate principal
balance, (iii) one or more Class A-3 Certificates representing $40,000,000
initial aggregate principal balance, (iv) one or more Class A-4 Certificates
representing $48,000,000 initial aggregate principal balance, (v) one or more
Class A-5 Certificates representing $51,000,000 initial aggregate principal
balance, (vi) one or more Class A-6 Certificates representing $59,188,000
initial aggregate principal balance, (vii) one or more Class M-1 Certificates
representing $34,082,000 initial aggregate principal balance, (viii) one or more
Class B-1 Certificates representing $15,148,000 initial aggregate principal
balance, and (ix) one or more Class B-2 Certificates representing $22,721,822
initial aggregate principal balance, beneficial ownership of such Classes of
Certificates to be held through Book-Entry Certificates in minimum dollar
denominations of $1,000 and integral dollar multiples of $1,000 in excess
thereof, except for one Class B-2 Certificate with a denomination representing
the remainder of the Original Class B-2 Principal Balance. The Class C
Certificates shall be issuable in Percentage Interests and shall be evidenced by
a single Class C Certificate issued on the Closing Date to Green Tree Finance
Corp.--Two.
The Certificates and the Class C Certificates shall be executed by manual
signature on behalf of the Trustee by a duly authorized Responsible Officer or
authorized signatory. Certificates or Class C Certificates bearing the
signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the
Trustee shall bind the Trustee, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of
them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the execution and delivery of
such Certificate or did not hold such offices at the date of such Certificates.
No Certificate or Class C Certificates shall be entitled to any benefit under
this Agreement, or be valid for any purpose, unless such Certificate has been
executed by manual signature in accordance with this Section, and such signature
upon any Certificate shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that
such Certificate has been duly executed and delivered hereunder. All
Certificates and Class C Certificates shall be dated the date of their
execution, except for those Certificates and Class C Certificates executed on
the Closing Date, which shall be dated the Closing Date.
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SECTION 9.02. Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates and
Class C Certificates.
a. The Trustee shall keep at the office or agency to be maintained in
accordance with Section 12.02 a "Certificate Register" in which the Trustee
shall provide for the registration of Certificates and Class C Certificates and
of transfers and exchanges of Certificates and Class C Certificates as herein
provided. The Trustee initially appoints itself to be the "Certificate
Registrar" and transfer agent for the purpose of registering Certificates and
Class C Certificates and transfers and exchanges of Certificates and Class C
Certificates as provided herein. The Trustee will give prompt written notice to
Certificateholders, Class C Certificateholders and the Servicer of any change in
the Certificate Registrar.
b. (1) Subject to clauses (2) and (3) below, no transfer of a Class C
Certificate shall be made by the Company or any other Person unless such
transfer is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act
of 1933 (the "Act"), as amended, and any applicable state securities laws
or is made in accordance with the Act and laws. In the event that any such
transfer is to be made, (A) the Company may require a written Opinion of
Counsel acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to the Company
that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption, describing the
applicable exemption and the basis therefor, from the Act and laws or is
being made pursuant to the Act and laws, which Opinion of Counsel shall not
be an expense of the Trustee or the Company, and (B) the Trustee shall
require the transferee to execute an investment letter substantially in the
form of Exhibit K attached hereto, which investment letter shall not be an
expense of the Trustee or the Company. The Certificateholder or Class C
Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer shall, and does hereby
agree to, indemnify the Trustee, the Company and the Certificate 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.
(2) No transfer of a Class M-1 Certificate, a Class B Certificate or
a Class C Certificate or any interest therein shall be made to any employee
benefit plan, trust or account that is subject to ERISA, or that is
described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code (each, a "Plan"), unless the
prospective transferee of a Certificate or interest therein provides the
Servicer and the Trustee with a certification of facts and, at its own
expense, an Opinion of Counsel which establish to the satisfaction of the
Servicer and the Trustee that such transfer will not result in a violation
of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or cause the Servicer,
the Company or the Trustee to be deemed a fiduciary of such Plan or result
in the imposition of an excise tax under Section 4975 of the Code.
(3) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, (A)
neither the Class C Certificate, nor any interest therein, shall be
transferred, sold or otherwise disposed of to a "disqualified
organization," within the meaning of Section 860E(e)(5) of the Code (a
"Disqualified
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Organization"), including, but not limited to, (i) the United States, a state or
political subdivision thereof, a foreign government, an international
organization or an agency or instrumentality of any of the foregoing, (ii) an
organization (other than a cooperative described in Section 521 of the Code)
which is exempt from the taxes imposed by Chapter 1 of the Code and not subject
to the tax imposed on unrelated business income by Section 511 of the Code, or
(iii) a cooperative described in Section 1381(a)(2)(C) of the Code, and (B)
prior to any registration of any transfer, sale or other disposition of the
Class C Certificate, the proposed transferee shall deliver to the Trustee, under
penalties of perjury, an affidavit that such transferee is not a Disqualified
Organization, with respect to which the Trustee shall have no actual knowledge
that such affidavit is false, and the transferor and the proposed transferee
shall each deliver for the Trustee an affidavit with respect to any other
information reasonably required by the Trustee pursuant to the REMIC Provisions,
including, without limitation, information regarding the transfer of noneconomic
residual interests and transfers of any residual interest to or by a foreign
person; provided, however, that, upon the delivery to the Trustee of an Opinion
of Counsel, in form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee and rendered by
Independent counsel, to the effect that the beneficial ownership of the Class C
Certificate by any Disqualified Organization will not result in the imposition
of federal income tax upon the Trust or any Certificateholder or any other
person or otherwise adversely affect the status of the Trust as a REMIC, the
foregoing prohibition on transfers, sales and other dispositions, as well as the
foregoing requirement to deliver a certificate prior to any registration
thereof, shall, with respect to such Disqualified Organization, terminate.
Notwithstanding any transfer, sale or other disposition of the Class C
Certificate, or any interest therein, to a Disqualified Organization or the
registration thereof in the Certificate Register, such transfer, sale or other
disposition and any registration thereof, unless accompanied by the Opinion of
Counsel described in the preceding sentence, shall be deemed to be void and of
no legal force or effect whatsoever and such Disqualified Organization shall be
deemed to not be the Class C Certificateholder for any purpose hereunder,
including, but not limited to, the receipt of distributions on the Class C
Certificate, and shall be deemed to have no interest whatsoever in the Class C
Certificate. Each Class C Certificateholder, by his acceptance thereof, shall
be deemed for all purposes to have consented to the provisions of this Section
9.02(b)(3).
(4) Any transfer, sale or other disposition not in compliance with the
provisions of this Section 9.02(b) shall be deemed to be void and of no legal
force or effect whatsoever and such transferee shall be deemed to not be the
Certificateholder or Class C Certificateholder for any purpose hereunder,
including, but not limited to, the receipt of distributions on the Certificate
or Class C Certificate, and shall be deemed to have no interest whatsoever in
the Certificate or Class C Certificate.
(5) The Trustee shall give notice to Moody's and Fitch promptly following
any transfer, sale or other disposition of a Class C Certificate.
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c. At the option of a Certificateholder or Class C Certificateholder,
Certificates and Class C Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates or
Class C Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original
denomination, upon surrender of such Certificates or Class C Certificates to be
exchanged at such office. Whenever any Certificates or Class C Certificates are
so surrendered for exchange, the Trustee shall execute and deliver the
Certificates or Class C Certificates which the Certificateholder making the
exchange is entitled to receive. Every Certificate or Class C Certificates
presented or surrendered for transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed by, or
shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to
the Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the holder thereof or
his or her attorney duly authorized in writing.
d. Except as provided in paragraph (e) below the Book-Entry Certificates
shall at all times remain registered in the name of the Depository or its
nominee and at all times: (i) registration of the Class A, Class M-1 and Class
B Certificates may not be transferred by the Trustee except to another
Depository; (ii) the Depository shall maintain book-entry records with respect
to the Certificate Owners and with respect to ownership and transfers of such
Class A, Class M-1 and Class B Certificates; (iii) ownership and transfers of
registration of the Class A, Class M-1 and Class B Certificates on the books of
the Depository shall be governed by applicable rules established by the
Depository; (iv) the Depository may collect its usual and customary fees,
charges and expenses from its Depository Participants; (v) the Trustee shall
deal with the Depository, Depository Participants and indirect participating
firms as representatives of the Certificate Owners of the Class A, Class M-1 and
Class B Certificates for purposes of exercising the rights of Holders under this
Agreement, and requests and directions for and votes of such representatives
shall not be deemed to be inconsistent if they are made with respect to
different Certificate Owners; and (vi) the Trustee may rely and shall be fully
protected in relying upon information furnished by the Depository with respect
to its Depository Participants and furnished by the Depository Participants with
respect to indirect participating firms and persons shown on the books of such
indirect participating firms as direct or indirect Certificate Owners.
All transfers by Certificate Owners of Book-Entry Certificates shall be
made in accordance with the procedures established by the Depository Participant
or brokerage firm representing such Certificate Owner. Each Depository
Participant shall only transfer Book-Entry Certificates of Certificate Owners it
represents or of brokerage firms for which it acts as agent in accordance with
the Depository's normal procedures.
e. If (x)(i) the Company or the Depository advises the Trustee in writing
that the Depository is no longer willing or able properly to discharge its
responsibilities as Depository and (ii) the Trustee or the Company is unable to
locate a qualified successor or (y) the Company at its sole option advises the
Trustee in writing that it elects to terminate the book-entry system through the
Depository, the Trustee shall notify all Certificate Owners, through the
Depository, of the occurrence of any such event and of the availability of
definitive, fully registered Class A
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Certificates, Class M-1 Certificates or Class B Certificates (the "Definitive
Certificates") to Certificate Owners requesting the same. Upon surrender to the
Trustee of the Class A Certificates, Class M-1 Certificates or Class B
Certificates by the Depository, accompanied by registration instructions from
the Depository for registration, the Trustee shall issue the Definitive
Certificates. Neither the Company nor the Trustee 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
Certificates all references herein to obligations imposed upon or to be
performed by the Depository shall be deemed to be imposed upon and performed by
the Trustee, to the extent applicable with respect to such Definitive
Certificates and the Trustee shall recognize the Holders of the Definitive
Certificates as Certificateholders hereunder.
f. On or prior to the Closing Date, there shall be delivered to the
Depository one Class A-1 Certificate, one Class A-2 Certificate, one Class A-3
Certificate, one Class A-4 Certificate, one Class A-5 Certificate, one Class A-6
Certificate, one Class M-1 Certificate, one Class B-1 Certificate and one Class
B-2 Certificate, each in registered form registered in the name of the
Depository's nominee, Cede & Co., the total face amount of which represents 100%
of the Original Class A-1 Principal Balance, the Original Class A-2 Principal
Balance, the Original Class A-3 Principal Balance, the Original Class A-4
Principal Balance, the Original Class A-5 Principal Balance, the Original Class
A-6 Principal Balance, the Original Class M-1 Principal Balance, the Original
Class B-1 Principal Balance and the Original Class B-2 Principal Balance,
respectively. If, however, the aggregate principal amount of a Class of Class A
Certificates, or the Class of M-1 Certificates or a Class of Class B
Certificates exceeds $150,000,000, one Class A Certificate and/or one Class M-1
Certificate and/or one Class B Certificate will be issued with respect to each
$150,000,000 of principal amount and an additional Certificate of such Class or
Classes will be issued with respect to any remaining principal amount. Each
such Class A, Class M-1 or Class B Certificate registered in the name of the
Depositary's nominee shall bear the following legend:
"Unless this Certificate is presented by an authorized representative of
The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation ("DTC") to the Trustee or
its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any certificate
issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other name as
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."
SECTION 9.03. No Charge; Disposition of Void Certificates or Class C
Certificates.
No service charge shall be made to a Certificateholder or Class C
Certificateholder for any transfer or exchange of Certificates or Class C
Certificates, but the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any
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tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any
transfer or exchange of Certificates or Class C Certificates. All Certificates
or Class C Certificates surrendered for transfer and exchange shall be disposed
of in a manner approved by the Trustee.
SECTION 9.04. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Certificates or Class C
Certificates.
If (a) any mutilated Certificate or Class C Certificate is surrendered to
the Certificate Registrar, or the Certificate Registrar receives evidence to its
satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Certificate or Class C
Certificate, and (b) there is delivered to the Certificate Registrar and the
Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by each to save it
harmless, then in the absence of notice to the Certificate Registrar or the
Trustee that such Certificate or Class C Certificate has been acquired by a bona
fide purchaser, the Trustee shall execute and deliver, in exchange for or in
lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate or Class C
Certificate, a new Certificate or Class C Certificate of like tenor and original
denomination. Upon the issuance of any new Certificate or Class C Certificate
under this Section 9.04, the Trustee may require the payment of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation
thereto and any other expenses connected therewith. Any duplicate Certificate
or Class C Certificate issued pursuant to this Section 9.04 shall constitute
complete and indefeasible evidence of ownership of the Percentage Interest, as
if originally issued, whether or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen
Certificate or Class C Certificate shall be found at any time.
SECTION 9.05. Persons Deemed Owners.
Prior to due presentation of a Certificate or Class C Certificate for
registration of transfer, the Servicer, the Company, the Trustee, the Paying
Agent and the Certificate Registrar may treat the person in whose name any
Certificate or Class C Certificate is registered as the owner of such
Certificate or Class C Certificate for the purpose of receiving remittances
pursuant to Section 8.01 and for all other purposes whatsoever, and none of the
Servicer, the Company, the Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Paying Agent
or any agent of the Servicer, the Company, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the
Certificate Registrar shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
SECTION 9.06. Access to List of Certificateholders' and Class C
Certificateholders' Names and Addresses.
The Certificate Registrar will furnish to the Trustee and the Servicer,
within five days after receipt by the Certificate Registrar of a request
therefor from the Trustee in writing, a list, in such form as the Trustee may
reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Certificateholders and
Class C Certificateholders as of the most recent Record Date. If Holders of
Certificates evidencing, as to any Class, Percentage Interests representing 25%
or more (hereinafter referred to as "Applicants") apply in writing to the
Trustee, and such application states that the
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Applicants desire to communicate with other Certificateholders or Class C
Certificateholders with respect to their rights under this Agreement or under
the Certificates or Class C Certificates and is accompanied by a copy of the
communication which such Applicants propose to transmit, then the Trustee shall,
within five Business Days after the receipt of such application, afford such
Applicants access during normal business hours to the most recent list of
Certificateholders or Class C Certificateholders held by the Trustee. If such
list is as of a date more than 90 days prior to the date of receipt of such
Applicants' request, the Trustee shall promptly request from the Certificate
Registrar a current list as provided above, and shall afford such Applicants
access to such list promptly upon receipt. Every Certificateholder or Class C
Certificateholder, by receiving and holding a Certificate or Class C
Certificates, agrees with the Certificate Registrar and the Trustee that none of
the Company, the Certificate Registrar or the Trustee shall be held accountable
by reason of the disclosure of any such information as to the names and
addresses of the Certificateholders or Class C Certificateholders hereunder,
regardless of the source from which such information was derived.
SECTION 9.07. Authenticating Agents.
The Trustee may appoint one or more Authenticating Agents with power to act
on its behalf and subject to its direction in the execution and delivery of the
Certificates or Class C Certificates. For all purposes of this Agreement, the
execution and delivery of Certificates or Class C Certificates by the
Authenticating Agent pursuant to this Section shall be deemed to be the
execution and delivery of Certificates or Class C Certificates "by the Trustee."
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ARTICLE X
INDEMNITIES
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SECTION 10.01. Company's Indemnities.
The Company will defend and indemnify the Trust, the Trustee (including the
Custodian, the Paying Agent and any other agents of the Trustee) and the
Certificateholders and the Class C Certificateholders against any and all costs,
expenses, losses, damages, claims and liabilities, including reasonable fees and
expenses of counsel and expenses of litigation of any third-party claims (i)
arising out of or resulting from the origination of any Contract (including but
not limited to truth in lending requirements) or the servicing of such Contract
prior to its transfer to the Trust (but only to the extent such cost, expense,
loss, damage, claim or liability is not provided for by the Company's repurchase
of such Contract pursuant to Section 3.05) or (ii) arising out of or resulting
from the use or ownership of any Manufactured Homes by the Company or the
Servicer or any Affiliate of either. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this Agreement, the obligation of the Company under this Section shall not
terminate upon a Service Transfer pursuant to Article VII, except that the
obligation of the Company under this Section shall not relate to the actions of
any subsequent Servicer after a Service Transfer.
SECTION 10.02. Liabilities to Obligors.
No obligation or liability to any Obligor under any of the Contracts is
intended to be assumed by the Trust, the Certificateholders or the Class C
Certificateholders under or as a result of this Agreement and the transactions
contemplated hereby and, to the maximum extent permitted and valid under
mandatory provisions of law, the Trust, the Certificateholders and the Class C
Certificateholders expressly disclaim such assumption.
SECTION 10.03. Tax Indemnification.
The Company agrees to pay, and to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the
Trust, the Trustee (including the Custodian, the Paying Agent and any other
agents of the Trustee), the Certificateholders and the Class C
Certificateholders from, any taxes which may at any time be asserted with
respect to, and as of the date of, the transfer of the Contracts to the Trust,
including, without limitation, any sales, gross receipts, general corporation,
personal property, privilege or license taxes (but not including any federal,
state or other taxes arising out of the creation of the Trust and the issuance
of the Certificates and the Class C Certificates), any tax imposed on the Trust
as a result of the Company's repurchase of any Contract pursuant to Section
3.05(c), and costs, expenses and reasonable counsel fees in defending against
the same, whether arising by reason of the acts to be performed by the Company,
the Servicer or the Trustee under this Agreement or imposed against the Trust, a
Certificateholder, a Class C Certificateholder or otherwise.
SECTION 10.04. Servicer's Indemnities.
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The Servicer shall defend and indemnify the Trust, the Trustee (including
the Custodian, the Paying Agent and any other agents of the Trustee), the
Certificateholders and the Class C Certificateholders against any and all costs,
expenses, losses, damages, claims and liabilities, including reasonable fees and
expenses of counsel and expenses of litigation, in respect of any action taken
or omitted to be taken by the Servicer with respect to any Contract. This
indemnity shall survive any Service Transfer (but the original Servicer's
obligations under this Section 10.04 shall not relate to any actions of any
subsequent Servicer after a Service Transfer) and any payment of the amount
owing under, or any repurchase by the Company of, any such Contract.
SECTION 10.05. Operation of Indemnities.
Indemnification under this Article shall include, without limitation,
reasonable fees and expenses of counsel and expenses of litigation. If the
Company or the Servicer has made any indemnity payments to the Trustee pursuant
to this Article and the Trustee thereafter collects any of such amounts from
others, the Trust will repay such amounts collected to the Company or the
Servicer, as the case may be, without interest.
SECTION 10.06. REMIC Tax Matters.
If Class C Certificateholders, pursuant to Section 6.06, pay any taxes or
charges imposed upon the Trust as a REMIC or otherwise, such taxes or charges,
except to the extent set forth in the following proviso, shall be expenses and
costs of the Trust and the Class C Certificateholders shall be entitled to be
reimbursed therefor out of the Certificate Account as provided in Section 8.03;
provided, however, that any such taxes or charges shall not be expenses or costs
of the Trust, nor will the Class C Certificateholders be entitled to
reimbursement therefor out of the Certificate Account, if and to the extent that
such taxes or charges resulted from a failure by the Company, the Trustee or any
Servicer to comply with the provisions of Section 2.04.
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ARTICLE XI
THE TRUSTEE
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SECTION 11.01. Duties of Trustee.
The Trustee, prior to the occurrence of an Event of Termination and
after the curing of all Events of Termination which may have occurred,
undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set
forth in this Agreement. If an Event of Termination has occurred (which has not
been cured), the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in
it by this Agreement, and use the same degree of care and skill in their
exercise, as a prudent man would exercise or use under the circumstances in the
conduct of his own affairs.
The Trustee, upon receipt of all resolutions, certificates,
statements, opinions, reports, documents, orders or other instruments furnished
to the Trustee which are specifically required to be furnished pursuant to any
provision of this Agreement, shall examine them to determine whether they
conform as to form to the requirements of this Agreement.
Subject to Section 11.03, no provision of this Agreement shall be
construed to relieve the Trustee from liability for its own negligent action,
its own negligent failure to act or its own misconduct; provided, however, that:
a. Prior to the occurrence of an Event of Termination, and after the
curing of all such Events of Termination which may have occurred, the duties and
obligations of the Trustee shall be determined solely by the express provisions
of this Agreement, the Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of
such duties and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Agreement, no
implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Agreement against the
Trustee and, in the absence of bad faith on the part of the Trustee, the Trustee
may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of
the opinions expressed therein, upon any certificates or opinions furnished to
the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Agreement;
b. The Trustee shall not be liable for an error of judgment made in
good faith by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, unless it shall be proved
that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
c. The Trustee shall not be personally liable with respect to any
action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance
with the direction of the Certificateholders with aggregate Percentage Interests
representing 25% or more of the Trust relating to the time, method and place of
conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising
any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Agreement; and
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d. The Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of any event
referred to in Section 7.01 unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee at the
Corporate Trust Office obtains actual knowledge of such event or the Trustee
receives written notice of such event from the Servicer or the Holders of
Certificates evidencing, as to any Class, Percentage Interests representing 25%
or more.
None of the provisions contained in this Agreement shall in any event
require the Trustee to perform, or be responsible for the manner of performance
of, any of the obligations of the Company or the Servicer under this Agreement,
except during such time, if any, as the Trustee shall be the successor to, and
be vested with the rights, duties, powers and privileges of, the Servicer in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement. The Trustee shall not 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 adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not
reasonably assured to it.
SECTION 11.02. Certain Matters Affecting the Trustee.
Except as otherwise provided in Section 11.01:
a. The Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting upon any resolution, Officer's Certificate, certificate
of a Servicing Officer, certificate of auditors or any other certificate,
statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order,
appraisal, bond or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to
have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
b. The Trustee may consult with counsel and any opinion of any
counsel for the Company or the Servicer shall be full and complete authorization
and protection in respect of any action taken or suffered or omitted by it
hereunder in good faith and in accordance with such Opinion of Counsel;
c. The Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the
rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement, or to institute, conduct or
defend any litigation hereunder or in relation hereto, at the request, order or
direction of any of the Certificateholders, pursuant to the provisions of this
Agreement, unless such Certificateholders shall have offered to the Trustee
reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities
which may be incurred therein or thereby; provided, however, that nothing
contained herein shall relieve the Trustee of the obligations, upon the
occurrence of an Event of Termination (which has not been cured), to exercise
such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Agreement, and to use the
same degree of care and skill in their exercise as a prudent man would exercise
or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs;
d. Prior to the occurrence of an Event of Termination and after the
curing of all Events of Termination which may have occurred, the Trustee shall
not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any
resolution,
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certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent,
order, approval, bond or other paper or document, unless requested in writing so
to do by Holders of Certificates evidencing, as to any Class, Percentage
Interests representing 25% or more; provided, however, that if the payment
within a reasonable time to the Trustee of the costs, expenses or liabilities
likely to be incurred by it in the making of such investigation is, in the
opinion of the Trustee, not reasonably assured to the Trustee by the security
afforded to it by the terms of this Agreement, the Trustee may require
reasonable indemnity against such cost, expense or liability as a condition to
so proceeding. The reasonable expense of every such examination shall be paid
by the Servicer or, if paid by the Trustee, shall be reimbursed by the Servicer
upon demand; and
e. The Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or
perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or
attorneys or a custodian and shall not be liable for any acts or omissions of
such agents, attorneys or custodians if appointed by it with due care hereunder.
SECTION 11.03. Trustee Not Liable for Certificates or Contracts.
The Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness of the
recitals contained herein, in the Certificates or in the Class C Certificates
(other than the Trustee's execution thereof). The Trustee makes no
representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Agreement, of the
Certificates or of the Class C Certificates (other than its execution thereof)
or of any Contract, Contract File, Land-and-Home Contract File or related
document. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by
the Servicer or the Company of funds paid to the Company in consideration of
conveyance of the Contracts to the Trust by the Company or deposited into or
withdrawn from the Certificate Account by the Servicer.
SECTION 11.04. Rights of Certificateholders to Direct Trustee and to
Waive Event of Termination.
Holders of each Class of Class A Certificates, Holders of Class M-1
Certificates and Holders of each Class of Class B Certificates evidencing, as to
each such Class, Percentage Interests representing 25% or more shall have the
right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any
remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on
the Trustee; provided, however, that, subject to Section 11.01, the Trustee
shall have the right to decline to follow any such direction if the Trustee
being advised by counsel determines that the action so directed may not lawfully
be taken, or if the Trustee in good faith shall, by a Responsible Officer or
Officers of the Trustee, determine that the proceedings so directed would be
illegal or involve it in personal liability or be unduly prejudicial to the
rights of Certificateholders not parties to such direction; and provided further
that nothing in this Agreement shall impair the right of the Trustee to take any
action deemed proper by the Trustee and which is not inconsistent with such
direction by the Certificateholders; and provided further that the Trustee shall
instead follow the directions of Holders of each Class of Class A Certificates,
Holders
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of Class M-1 Certificates and Holders of each Class of Class B Certificates
evidencing, as to each such Class, Percentage Interests aggregating 51% or more
whenever it receives conflicting directions from each Class of Class A
Certificateholders, Class M-1 Certificateholders and each Class of Class B
Certificateholders. Holders of each Class of Class A Certificates, Holders of
Class M-1 Certificates and Holders of each Class of Class B Certificates
evidencing, as to each such Class, Percentage Interests representing 51% or more
may on behalf of Certificateholders waive any past Event of Termination
hereunder and its consequences, except a default in respect of a covenant or
provision hereof which under Section 12.07 cannot be modified or amended without
the consent of all Certificateholders, and upon any such waiver, such Event of
Termination shall cease to exist and shall be deemed to have been cured for
every purpose of this Agreement; but no such waiver shall extend to any
subsequent or other Event of Termination or impair any right consequent thereon.
Following the Seventh Cross-over Date, if all distributions payable to the Class
A Certificateholders and the Class M-1 Certificateholders have either been made
or provided for in accordance with this Agreement, then the Holders of Class B
Certificates may exercise the rights given to the Class A Certificateholders and
the Class M-1 Certificateholders under this Section.
SECTION 11.05. The Servicer to Pay Trustee's Fees and Expenses.
The Servicer agrees:
a. to pay to the Trustee reasonable compensation for all services
rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any
provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express
trust);
b. except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the
Trustee, to the extent requested by the Trustee, for all reasonable
expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in
accordance with any provision of this Agreement (including the reasonable
compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel),
except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to
its negligence or bad faith; and
c. to indemnify the Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any
loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on its
part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration
of this trust and its duties hereunder, including the costs and expenses of
defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the
exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.
All such payments by the Servicer shall be made from its own funds.
The covenants in this Section 11.05 shall be for the benefit of the Trustee in
its capacities as Trustee, Paying Agent and Certificate Registrar hereunder, and
shall survive the termination of this Agreement.
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SECTION 11.06. Eligibility Requirements for Trustee.
The Trustee hereunder shall at all times be a financial institution
organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America or
any State, authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers and a
Title I approved lender pursuant to FHA Regulations, and shall have a combined
capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 or shall be a member of a bank
holding system the aggregate combined capital and surplus of which is
$50,000,000, provided that the Trustee's separate capital and surplus shall at
all times be at least the amount required by Section 310(a)(2) of the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939, as amended. If such Person publishes reports of
condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of a
supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section 11.06,
the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its
combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition
so published. In addition, the Trustee shall at all times have a long-term
deposit rating from Moody's of at least Baa3 or as shall be otherwise acceptable
to Moody's and a long-term deposit rating from Fitch (if rated by Fitch) of at
least BBB- or as shall be otherwise acceptable to Fitch. In case at any time
the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this
Section 11.06, the Trustee shall resign immediately in the manner and with the
effect specified in Section 11.07.
SECTION 11.07. Resignation or Removal of Trustee.
The Trustee may at any time resign and be discharged from the trusts
hereby created by giving written notice thereof to the Servicer and the Company.
A copy of any such notice shall be sent to Moody's and Fitch. Upon receiving
such notice of resignation, the Company shall promptly appoint a successor
Trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, one copy of which instrument shall
be delivered to each of the Servicer and the Company and one copy to the
successor Trustee. If no successor Trustee shall have been so appointed and
shall have accepted appointment within 30 days after the giving of such notice
of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.
If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance
with the provisions of Section 11.06 and shall fail to resign after written
request therefor by the Company, or if at any time the Trustee shall be legally
unable to act, or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver of
the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed, or any public officer shall
take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the
purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation, then the Company may
remove the Trustee. If the Company shall have removed the Trustee under the
authority of the immediately preceding sentence, the Company shall promptly
appoint a successor Trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, one copy of
which instrument shall be delivered to the Trustee so removed and one copy to
the successor Trustee.
Any resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a
successor Trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section 11.07 shall
not become
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effective until acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee as provided
in Section 11.08.
SECTION 11.08. Successor Trustee.
Any successor Trustee appointed as provided in Section 11.07 shall
execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Servicer, the Company and to its
predecessor Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment hereunder, and
thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor Trustee shall become
effective and such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or
conveyance, shall become fully vested with all the rights, powers, duties and
obligations of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally
named as Trustee. The predecessor Trustee shall deliver or cause to be
delivered to the successor Trustee the Contracts, Contract Files and Land-and-
Home Contract Files and any related documents and statements held by it
hereunder; and, if the Land-and-Home Contract Files are then held by a custodian
pursuant to a custodial agreement, the predecessor Trustee and the custodian
shall amend such custodial agreement to make the successor Trustee the successor
to the predecessor Trustee thereunder; and the Servicer, the Company and the
predecessor Trustee shall execute and deliver such instruments and do such other
things as may reasonably be required for fully and certainly vesting and
confirming in the successor Trustee all such rights, powers, duties and
obligations.
No successor Trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this
Section 11.08 unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall
be eligible under the provisions of Section 11.06.
Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor Trustee as provided in
this Section 11.08, the Servicer shall cause notice of the succession of such
Trustee hereunder to be mailed to each Certificateholder and Class C
Certificateholder at their addresses as shown in the Certificate Register. If
the Servicer fails to mail such notice within ten days after acceptance of
appointment by the successor Trustee, the successor Trustee shall cause such
notice to be mailed at the expense of the Servicer.
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SECTION 11.09. Merger or Consolidation of Trustee.
Any Person into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with
which it may be consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any Person
succeeding to the corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the
successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such Person shall be eligible under
the provisions of Section 11.06, without the execution or filing of any paper or
any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything herein to the
contrary notwithstanding. The Trustee shall promptly notify Moody's and Fitch
in the event it is a party to any merger, conversion or consolidation.
SECTION 11.10. Tax Returns.
Upon the Servicer's request, the Trustee will furnish the Servicer
with all such information as the Servicer may reasonably require in connection
with preparing all tax returns of the Trust and the Trustee shall execute such
returns.
SECTION 11.11. Obligor Claims.
In connection with any offset defenses, or affirmative claims for
recovery, asserted in legal actions brought by Obligors under one or more
Contracts based upon provisions therein complying with, or upon other rights or
remedies arising from, any legal requirements applicable to the Contracts,
including, without limitation, the Federal Trade Commission's Trade Regulation
Rule Concerning Preservation of Consumers' Claims and Defenses (16 C.F.R.
(S) 433) as amended from time to time:
a. The Trustee is not, and shall not be deemed to be, either in
any individual capacity, as trustee hereunder or otherwise, a creditor, or a
joint venturer with or an Affiliate of, or acting in concert or cooperation
with, any seller of home improvements, in the arrangement, origination or
making of Contracts. The Trustee is the holder of the Contracts only as
trustee on behalf of the Certificateholders and Class C Certificateholders,
and not as a principal or in any individual or personal capacity;
b. The Trustee shall not be personally liable for or obligated to
pay Obligors any affirmative claims asserted thereby, or responsible to
Certificateholders or Class C Certificateholders for any offset defense
amounts applied against Contract payments, pursuant to such legal actions;
c. The Trustee will pay, solely from available Trust monies,
affirmative claims for recovery by Obligors only pursuant to final judicial
orders or judgments, or judicially approved settlement agreements, resulting
from such legal actions;
d. The Trustee will comply with judicial orders and judgments
which require its actions or cooperation in connection with Obligors' legal
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actions to recover affirmative claims against Certificateholders and Class C
Certificateholders.
e. The Trustee will cooperate with and assist Certificateholders
and Class C Certificateholders in their defense of legal actions by Obligors
to recover affirmative claims if such cooperation and assistance is not
contrary to the interests of the Trustee as a party to such legal actions
and if the Trustee is satisfactorily indemnified for all liability, costs
and expenses arising therefrom; and
f. The Company hereby agrees to indemnify, hold harmless and
defend the Trustee, Certificateholders and Class C Certificateholders from
and against any and all liability, loss, costs and expenses of the Trustee,
Certificateholders and Class C Certificateholders resulting from any
affirmative claims for recovery asserted or collected by Obligors under the
Contracts. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the
obligation of the Company under this Section 11.11(f) shall not terminate
upon a Service Transfer pursuant to Article VII.
SECTION 11.12. Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee.
The Company shall have the power from time to time to appoint one or
more persons or corporations to act either as co-trustees jointly with the
Trustee, or as separate trustees, or as custodians, for the purpose of
conforming to any legal requirement, restriction or condition (i) with respect
to the holding of the Contracts, the Contract Files and the Land-and-Home
Contract Files or (ii) with respect to the enforcement of a Contract in any
state in which a Manufactured Home is located or in any state in which any
portion of the Trust is located. The separate trustees, co-trustees, or
custodians so appointed shall be trustees or custodians for the benefit of all
Certificateholders and shall, subject to the provisions of the following
paragraph, have such powers, rights and remedies as shall be specified in the
instrument of appointment; provided, however, that no such appointment shall, or
shall be deemed to, constitute the appointee an agent of the Trustee.
Every separate trustee, co-trustee and custodian shall, to the extent
permitted by law, be appointed and act subject to the following provisions and
conditions:
(A) all powers, duties, obligations and rights conferred upon the
Trustee in respect of the receipt, custody and payment of monies shall be
exercised solely by the Trustee;
(B) all other rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or
imposed upon the Trustee, to the extent also imposed upon such separate
trustees, co-trustees or custodians, shall be conferred or imposed upon and
exercised or performed by the Trustee and such separate trustee, co-trustee,
or custodian jointly, except to the extent that under any law of any
jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts are to be performed, the
Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform such act or acts, in
which event such
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rights, powers, duties and obligations (including holding of the Trust or
any portion thereof in any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised and
performed by such separate trustee, co-trustee, or custodian;
(C) no separate trustee, co-trustee or custodian hereunder shall
be personally liable by reason of any act or omission of any other separate
trustee, co-trustee or custodian hereunder; and
(D) the Company may at any time accept the resignation of or
remove any separate trustee, co-trustee or custodian, so appointed by it.
If any separate trustee, co-trustee or custodian 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 Trustee, to
the extent permitted by law, without the appointment of a new or successor
trustee or custodian. The reasonable fees and expenses of any such separate
trustee, co-trustee or custodian shall be treated as additional fees and
expenses of the Trustee subject to Section 11.05 and payable by the Servicer if
and only to the extent the Servicer shall have consented in writing to his or
its appointment, which consent shall not be unnecessarily withheld.
SECTION 11.13. Agents of Trustee.
To the extent not prohibited by law and not inconsistent with the
terms of this Agreement (including, without limitation, Section 11.12), the
Trustee may, with the prior consent of the Company, appoint one or more agents
to carry out ministerial matters on behalf of the Trustee under this Agreement.
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ARTICLE XII
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 12.01. Servicer Not to Assign Duties or Resign.
The Servicer may not sell or assign its rights and duties as Servicer
hereunder, provided that the Servicer may pledge or assign the right to receive
all or any portion of the Monthly Servicing Fee payable to it. The Servicer
shall not resign from the obligations and duties hereby imposed on it except
upon determination that the performance of its duties hereunder is no longer
permissible under applicable law or is in material conflict by reason of
applicable law with any other activities carried on by it. Any such
determination permitting the resignation of the Servicer shall be evidenced by
an Opinion of Counsel for the Servicer to such effect addressed and delivered to
the Trustee. No such resignation shall become effective until the Trustee or a
successor servicer shall have assumed the responsibilities and obligations of
the Servicer in accordance with Sections 7.02 and 7.03.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, any person into which the Servicer may
be merged or consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which the Servicer shall be a party, or any
Person succeeding to the business of the Servicer, shall be the successor of the
Servicer hereunder, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further
act on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything herein to the contrary
notwithstanding; provided, however, that the successor or surviving Person to
the Servicer shall satisfy the criteria set forth in the definition of an
Eligible Servicer. The Servicer shall promptly notify Moody's and Fitch of any
such merger to which it is a party.
SECTION 12.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
The Trustee will maintain in Minneapolis or St. Paul, Minnesota, an
office or agency where Certificates or Class C Certificates may be surrendered
for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or
upon the Trustee in respect of the Certificates, the Class C Certificates and
this Agreement may be served. On the date hereof the Trustee's office for such
purposes is located at 180 East Fifth Street, Attention: Corporate Trust
Administration, Structured Finance, Second Floor, St. Paul, Minnesota 55101.
The Trustee will give prompt written notice to Certificateholders and Class C
Certificateholders of any change in the location of the Certificate Register or
any such office or agency.
SECTION 12.03. Termination.
a. This Agreement shall terminate (after distribution of all amounts
due to Certificateholders pursuant to Sections 8.01 and 8.03) on the earlier of
(a) the Remittance Date on which the Pool Scheduled Principal Balance is reduced
to zero and all amounts payable to Certificateholders on such Remittance Date
have been distributed to Certificateholders or (b) the Remittance Date on which
the Company
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or the Servicer repurchases the Contracts pursuant to Section 8.05; provided,
that in no event shall the trust created hereby continue beyond the expiration
of 21 years from the death of the last 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; and provided, further, that the Servicer's and the
Company's representations and warranties and indemnities by the Company and the
Servicer shall survive termination.
b. Notice of any termination, specifying the Final Remittance Date
(which shall be a date that would otherwise be a Remittance Date) upon which all
Certificateholders or Class C Certificateholders may surrender their
Certificates or Class C Certificates to the Company for payment of the final
distribution and cancellation, shall be given promptly by the Trustee (upon
direction by the Company ten days prior to the date such notice is to be mailed)
by letter to Moody's and Fitch, the Certificateholders and the Class C
Certificateholders mailed no later than the fifth Business Day of the month of
the Final Remittance Date specifying (1) the Final Remittance Date upon which
final payment on the Certificates and Class C Certificates will be made upon
presentation and surrender of Certificates and Class C Certificates at the
office or agency of the Company therein designated; (2) the amount of any such
final payment; and (3) that the Record Date otherwise applicable to such
Remittance Date is not applicable, payments being made only upon presentation
and surrender of the Certificates and Class C Certificates at the office or
agency of the Company therein specified. Any notice of purchase of Contracts by
the Company pursuant to Section 8.05 shall constitute the adoption by the
Trustee on behalf of the Certificateholders of a plan of complete liquidation
within the meaning of Section 860F of the Code on the date such notice is given
when signed by the Trustee. Each such notice shall, to the extent required by
the REMIC Provisions or other applicable law, be signed on behalf of the Trust
by the Trustee. The Trustee shall give such notice to the Certificate Registrar
at the time such notice is given to the Certificateholders and Class C
Certificateholders. In the event such notice is given in connection with the
Company's election to purchase the Contracts, the Company shall deposit in the
Certificate Account on the Final Remittance Date in immediately available funds
an amount equal to the above-described purchase price and upon such deposit
Certificateholders and Class C Certificateholders will be entitled to the amount
of such purchase price but not amounts in excess thereof, all as provided
herein. Upon certification to the Trustee by a Servicing Officer, following
such final deposit the Trustee shall promptly release to the Company the
Contract Files for the remaining Contracts, and the Trustee shall execute all
assignments, endorsements and other instruments necessary to effectuate such
transfer.
c. Upon presentation and surrender of the Certificates, the Trustee
shall cause to be distributed from the Certificate Account, in the following
order of priority, to Certificateholders on the final Remittance Date in
proportion to their respective Percentage Interests an amount equal to (i) as to
Class A Certificates, the Class A-1 Principal Balance, the Class A-2 Principal
Balance, the Class A-3 Principal Balance, the Class A-4 Principal Balance, the
Class A-5 Principal Balance, the Class A-6 Principal Balance, together with any
Unpaid Class A Interest Shortfall and one
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month's interest at the Class A-1 Remittance Rate, the Class A-2 Remittance
Rate, the Class A-3 Remittance Rate, the Class A-4 Remittance Rate, the Class
A-5 Remittance Rate and the Class A-6 Remittance Rate on the Class A-l Principal
Balance, the Class A-2 Principal Balance, the Class A-3 Principal Balance, the
Class A-4 Principal Balance, the Class A-5 Principal Balance, and the Class A-6
Principal Balance, respectively, (ii) as to Class M-1 Certificates, the Class
M-1 Principal Balance together with any Unpaid Class M-1 Interest Shortfall and
one month's interest at the Class M-1 Remittance Rate on the Class M-1 Principal
Balance, (iii) as to Class B-1 Certificates, the Class B-1 Principal Balance
together with any Unpaid Class B-1 Interest Shortfall and one month's interest
at the Class B-1 Remittance Rate on the Class B-1 Principal Balance, (iv) as to
Class B-2 Certificates, the Class B-2 Principal Balance together with any Unpaid
Class B-2 Interest Shortfall and one month's interest at the Class B-2
Remittance Rate on the Class B-2 Principal Balance and (v) as to Class C
Certificates, the amount which remains on deposit in the Certificate Account
(other than amounts retained to meet claims) after application pursuant to
clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) above. The distribution on the Final Remittance
Date shall be in lieu of the distribution otherwise required to be made on such
Remittance Date in respect of each Class of Certificates.
d. In the event that all of the Certificateholders and Class C
Certificateholders do not surrender their Certificates and Class C Certificates
for cancellation within three months after the time specified in the above-
mentioned written notice, the Company shall give a second written notice to the
remaining Certificateholders and Class C Certificateholders to surrender their
Certificates and Class C Certificates for cancellation and receive the final
distribution with respect thereto. If within three months after the second
notice all the Certificates and Class C Certificates shall not have been
surrendered for cancellation, the Company shall transfer to itself all amounts
remaining on deposit in the Certificate Account, to hold in trust for
Certificateholders and Class C Certificateholders who have not surrendered their
Certificates and Class C Certificates for cancellation, together with the final
record list of Certificateholders and Class C Certificateholders, and the
Company shall take appropriate steps, or may appoint an agent to take
appropriate steps, to contact the remaining Certificateholders concerning
surrender of their Certificates and Class C Certificates, and the cost thereof
shall be paid out of the funds and other assets which remain in trust hereunder.
e. Each Certificateholder and Class C Certificateholder hereby
irrevocably approves and appoints the Trustee as its attorney-in-fact for the
purposes of adoption of the plan of complete liquidation.
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SECTION 12.04. Acts of Certificateholders and Class C
Certificateholders.
a. Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, whenever
Certificateholder approval, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
other action is required hereunder, such approval, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, waiver or other action shall be deemed to have been given or
taken on behalf of, and shall be binding upon, all Certificateholders if agreed
to by Holders of Certificates of the specified Class or Classes evidencing, as
to each such Class, Percentage Interests aggregating 51% or more.
b. Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action provided by this Agreement to be given or taken by
Certificateholders or Class C Certificateholders may be embodied in and
evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by
such Certificateholders or Class C Certificateholders in person or by agent 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 Trustee and, where required, to the Servicer. Proof of execution of any
such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient
for any purpose of this Agreement and (subject to Section 11.01) conclusive in
favor of the Trustee, the Servicer and the Company if made in the manner
provided in this Section.
c. The fact and date of the execution by any Certificateholder or
Class C Certificateholder of any such instrument or writing may be proved in any
reasonable manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.
d. The ownership of Certificates and Class C Certificates shall be
proved by the Certificate Register.
e. Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other act by a Certificateholder or Class C Certificateholder shall
bind every holder of every Certificate or Class C Certificate issued upon the
registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof, in
respect of anything done, or omitted to be done by the Trustee, the Servicer or
the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made
upon such Security.
f. The Trustee may require such additional proof of any matter
referred to in this Section as it shall deem necessary.
SECTION 12.05. Calculations.
Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, all interest rate and
basis point calculations under this Agreement will be made on the basis of a
360-day year and twelve 30-day months and will be carried out to at least three
decimal places.
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SECTION 12.06. Assignment or Delegation by Company.
Except as specifically authorized hereunder, and except for its
obligations as Servicer which are dealt with under Article V and Article VII,
the Company may not convey and assign or delegate any of its rights or
obligations hereunder absent the prior written consent of Holders of
Certificates of each Class evidencing, as to each such Class, Percentage
Interests aggregating 66 2/3% or more, and any attempt to do so without such
consent shall be void. It is understood that the foregoing does not prohibit
the pledge or assignment by the Company of any right to payment pursuant to
Article VIII.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, any person into which the Company may
be merged or consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which the Company shall be a party, or any Person
succeeding to the business of the Company, shall be the successor of the Company
hereunder, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on
the part of any of the parties hereto, anything herein to the contrary
notwithstanding. The Company shall promptly notify Moody's and Fitch of any such
merger to which it is a party.
SECTION 12.07. Amendment.
a. This Agreement may be amended from time to time by the Company,
the Servicer and the Trustee, without the consent of any of the
Certificateholders or Class C Certificateholders, to correct manifest error, to
cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provisions herein which may be
inconsistent with any other provisions herein, as the case may be, to make such
changes as are necessary to maintain the status of the Trust as a "real estate
mortgage investment conduit" under the REMIC Provisions of the Code or to
otherwise effectuate the benefits of such status to the Trust, the
Certificateholders and the Class C Certificateholders, including, without
limitation, to implement any provision permitted by law that would enable a
REMIC to avoid the imposition of any tax, or to make any other provisions with
respect to matters or questions arising under this Agreement that shall not be
inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement; provided, however, that such
action shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel for the Company,
adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any Certificateholder.
b. This Agreement may also be amended from time to time by the
Servicer, the Company and the Trustee, with the consent of Holders of
Certificates of each Class affected thereby evidencing, as to each such Class,
Percentage Interests aggregating 51% or more, for the purpose of adding any
provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of
this Agreement or of modifying in any manner the rights of the
Certificateholders; provided, however, that no such amendment shall (a) reduce
in any manner the amount of, or delay the timing of, collections of payments on
the Contracts or distributions which are required to be made on any Certificate,
(b) reduce the aforesaid percentage required to consent to any such amendment,
without the consent of the holders of all Certificates then outstanding, (c)
result in the disqualification of the Trust as a REMIC under the Code, (d)
adversely affect the status of the Trust as a REMIC or the status of the
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Certificates as "regular interests" therein or (e) cause any tax (other than any
tax imposed on "net income from foreclosure property" under Section 860G(c)(1)
of the Code that would be imposed without regard to such amendment) to be
imposed on the Trust, including, without limitation, any tax imposed on
"prohibited transactions" under Section 860F(a)(1) of the Code or on
"contributions after the startup date" under Section 860G(d)(1) of the Code.
This Agreement may not be amended without the consent of all Class C
Certificateholders, for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in
any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Agreement which would
modify in any manner the rights of the Class C Certificateholders.
c. This Agreement shall not be amended under this Section without the
consent of 100% of Certificateholders and all Class C Certificateholders if such
amendment would result in the disqualification of the Trust as a REMIC under the
Code.
d. Concurrently with the solicitation of any consent pursuant to this
Section 12.07, the Trustee shall furnish written notification to Moody's and
Fitch of such solicitation. Promptly after the execution of any amendment
pursuant to this Section 12.07, the Trustee shall furnish written notification
of the substance of such amendment to Moody's, Fitch and each Certificateholder
and Class C Certificateholder.
e. It shall not be necessary for the consent of Certificateholders
under this Section 12.07 to approve the particular form of any proposed
amendment, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the
substance thereof. The manner of obtaining such consents and of evidencing the
authorization of the execution thereof by Certificateholders shall be subject to
such reasonable requirements as the Trustee may prescribe.
f. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any
such amendment which affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities
under this Agreement or otherwise.
g. In connection with any amendment pursuant to this Section, the
Trustee shall be entitled to receive an unqualified Opinion of Counsel to the
Servicer to the effect that such amendment is authorized or permitted by the
Agreement.
h. In the absence of the consent described in subsection (d) of this
Section, in connection with any amendment pursuant to this Section, the Trustee
shall have received an unqualified Opinion of Counsel, the expense of which
shall not be an expense of the Trust, stating that any such amendment (i) will
not adversely affect the status of the Trust as a REMIC or the status of the
Certificates as "regular interests" therein, and (ii) will not cause any tax
(other than any tax imposed on "net income from foreclosure property" under
Section 860G(c)(1) of the Code that would be imposed without regard to such
amendment) to be imposed on the Trust, including, without limitation, any tax
imposed on "prohibited transactions" under
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Section 860F(a)(1) of the Code or on "contributions after the startup date"
under Section 860G(d)(1) of the Code.
i. Upon the execution of any amendment or consent pursuant to this
Section 12.07, this Agreement shall be modified in accordance therewith, and
such amendment or consent shall form a part of this Agreement for all purposes,
and every Certificateholder or Class C Certificateholder hereunder shall be
bound thereby.
SECTION 12.08. Notices.
All communications and notices pursuant hereto to the Servicer, the
Company and the Trustee shall be in writing and delivered or mailed to it at the
appropriate following address:
If to the Company or the Servicer:
Green Tree Financial Corporation
1100 Landmark Towers
345 St. Peter Street
St. Paul, Minnesota 55102-1639
Attention: Chief Financial Officer
Telecopier Number: (612) 293-5746
If to the Trustee:
First Bank National Association
Corporate Trust Administration, Structured Finance
180 East Fifth Street, Second Floor
St. Paul, Minnesota 55101
Attention: Mark Hartzell
Telecopier Number: (612) 244-0089
If to Moody's:
Moody's Investors Service, Inc.
ABS Monitoring Department
99 Church Street
New York, New York 10007
If to Fitch:
Fitch Investors Service, L.P.
One State Street Plaza
New York, New York 10004
or at such other address as the party may designate by notice to the other
parties hereto, which notice shall be effective when received.
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All communications and notices pursuant hereto to a Certificateholder
shall be in writing and delivered or mailed at the address shown in the
Certificate Register.
SECTION 12.09. Merger and Integration.
Except as specifically stated otherwise herein, this Agreement sets
forth the entire understanding of the parties relating to the subject matter
hereof, and all prior understandings, written or oral, are superseded by this
Agreement. This Agreement may not be modified, amended, waived or supplemented
except as provided herein.
SECTION 12.10. Headings.
The headings herein are for purposes of reference only and shall not
otherwise affect the meaning or interpretation of any provision hereof.
SECTION 12.11. Governing Law.
This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed and enforced in
accordance with, the laws of the State of Minnesota.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to
be duly executed by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized this
16th day of February, 1995.
GREEN TREE FINANCIAL CORPORATION
By /s/Robley D. Evans
---------------------------------
Robley D. Evans, Vice President
and Controller
FIRST BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
not in its individual capacity but
solely as Trustee
By /s/Kathi Mohammadzadah
-------------------------------
Kathi Mohammadzadah
Trust Officer
By /s/S. Christopherson
---------------------------------
S. Christopherson
Vice President
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EXHIBIT A
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FORM OF CLASS A CERTIFICATE
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SOLELY FOR U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES, THIS CERTIFICATE IS A "REGULAR
INTEREST" IN A "REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE INVESTMENT CONDUIT" AS THOSE TERMS ARE
DEFINED, RESPECTIVELY, IN SECTIONS 860G AND 860D OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE.
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Class A-[1][2][3][4][5][6] No.
(Senior)
Cut-off Date: Remittance Rate: ____%
February 1, 1995 (or the date [Remittance Rate: Floating Rate equal
of origination, if later) to the Weighted Average Contract Rate
(subject to a maximum of ____%)]
First Remittance Date: Denomination: $___________
March 15, 1995
Aggregate Denomination of
All Class A-[1][2][3][4][5][6] Certificates:
Servicer: $___________
Green Tree Financial Corporation
Final Scheduled Remittance Date:
June 15, 2025
(or if such day is not a
Business Day, then the next
succeeding Business Day)
CUSIP: 393505 _____
</TABLE>
MANUFACTURED HOUSING CONTRACT
-----------------------------
SENIOR/SUBORDINATE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES,
---------------------------------------------
SERIES 1995-1, CLASS A-1, A-2, A-3, A-4, A-5, A-6 (SENIOR)
----------------------------------------------------------
THIS CERTIFICATE DOES NOT REPRESENT AN OBLIGATION OF OR AN INTEREST IN
GREEN TREE FINANCIAL CORPORATION OR ANY AFFILIATE THEREOF, EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT
SET FORTH IN THE AGREEMENT.
This certifies that ____________________ is the registered owner of the
undivided Percentage Interest represented by the original principal amount set
forth above in Manufactured Housing Contract Senior/Subordinate Pass-Through
Certificate Trust 1995-1 (the "Trust"), which includes among its assets a pool
of manufactured housing conditional sales contracts and installment loan
agreements
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(including, without limitation, all related security interests and any and all
rights to receive payments which are due pursuant thereto on or after February
1, 1995 (or the date of origination, if later)). The Trust has been created
pursuant to a Pooling and Servicing Agreement (the "Agreement"), dated as of
February 1, 1995, between Green Tree Financial Corporation, as Seller and
Servicer (the "Company"), and First Bank National Association, as Trustee of the
Trust (the "Trustee"). This Certificate is one of the Certificates described in
the Agreement and is issued pursuant and subject to the Agreement. By
acceptance of this Certificate the holder assents to and becomes bound by the
Agreement. To the extent not defined herein, all capitalized terms have the
meanings assigned to such terms in the Agreement.
The Agreement contemplates, subject to its terms, payment on the fifteenth
day (or if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day)
(the "Remittance Date") of each calendar month commencing in March 1995, so long
as the Agreement has not been terminated, by check (or, if such
Certificateholder holds a Class of Class A Certificates with an aggregate
Percentage Interest of at least 5% and so desires, by wire transfer pursuant to
instructions delivered to the Trustee at least 10 days prior to such Remittance
Date) to the registered Certificateholder at the address appearing on the
Certificate Register as of the Business Day immediately preceding such
Remittance Date, in an amount equal to the Certificateholder's Percentage
Interest of the portion of the Class A Distribution Amount to be distributed to
such Class of Class A Certificates. The final scheduled Remittance Date of this
Certificate is June 15, 2025 or the next succeeding Business Day if such June 15
is not a Business Day.
The Certificateholder, by its acceptance of this Certificate, agrees that
it will look solely to the funds in the Certificate Account to the extent
available for distribution to the Certificateholder as provided in the Agreement
for payment hereunder and that the Trustee in its individual capacity is not
personally liable to the Certificateholder for any amounts payable under this
Certificate or the Agreement or, except as expressly provided in the Agreement,
subject to any liability under the Agreement. By acceptance of this
Certificate, the Certificateholder agrees to disclosure of his, her or its name
and address to other Certificateholders under the conditions specified in the
Agreement.
This Certificate does not purport to summarize the Agreement and reference
is made to the Agreement for information with respect to the interests, rights,
benefits, obligations, proceeds and duties evidenced hereby and the rights,
duties and immunities of the Trustee. Copies of the Agreement and all
amendments thereto will be provided to any Certificateholder free of charge upon
a written request to the Trustee.
As provided in the Agreement and subject to the limitations set forth
therein, the transfer of this Certificate is registrable in the Certificate
Register of the Certificate Registrar upon surrender of this Certificate for
registration of transfer at the office or agency maintained by the Trustee in
Minneapolis or St. Paul, Minnesota, accompanied by a written instrument of
transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly
executed by the holder thereof or his or
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her attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new
Certificates evidencing the same aggregate Percentage Interest will be issued to
the designated transferee or transferees.
[Unless this Certificate is presented by an authorized representative of
The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation ("DTC") to the Trustee or
its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any certificate
issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other name as
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 Company, the Servicer, the Trustee, the Paying Agent and the
Certificate Registrar and any agent of the Company, the Servicer, the Trustee,
the Paying Agent or the Certificate Registrar may treat the person in whose name
this Certificate is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and neither
the Company, the Servicer, the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Certificate
Registrar nor any such agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.
A-3
<PAGE>
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Manufactured Housing Contract Senior/Subordinate Pass-
Through Certificate Trust 1995-1 has caused this Certificate to be duly executed
by the manual signature of a duly authorized officer of the Trustee.
Dated: MANUFACTURED HOUSING CONTRACT
SENIOR/SUBORDINATE
PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATE
TRUST 1995-1
By FIRST BANK NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION
By
______________________________
Authorized Signatory
<PAGE>
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers
unto ______________________________ the within Manufactured Housing Contract
Senior/Subordinate Pass-Through Certificate and does hereby irrevocably
constitute and appoint ______________________________ Attorney to transfer the
said certificate on the Certificate Register maintained by the Trustee, with
full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated: By
__________________________________
Signature
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EXHIBIT B
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FORM OF CLASS M-1 CERTIFICATE
-----------------------------
SOLELY FOR U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES, THIS CERTIFICATE IS A "REGULAR
INTEREST" IN A "REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE INVESTMENT CONDUIT" AS THOSE TERMS ARE
DEFINED, RESPECTIVELY, IN SECTIONS 860G AND 860D OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE.
THIS CERTIFICATE IS SUBORDINATED IN RIGHT OF PAYMENT TO THE CLASS A
CERTIFICATES AS DESCRIBED IN THE POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT REFERRED TO
HEREIN.
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Class M-1 No.
(Subordinate)
Cut-off Date: Remittance Rate: ____%
February 1, 1995 (or the date [Remittance Rate: Floating Rate equal
of origination, if later) to the Weighted Average Contract Rate
(subject to a maximum of ____%)]
First Remittance Date: Denomination: $___________
March 15, 1995
Aggregate Denomination of
All Class M-1 Certificates:
Servicer: $___________
Green Tree Financial Corporation
Final Scheduled Remittance Date:
June 15, 2025
(or if such day is not a
Business Day, then the next
succeeding Business Day)
CUSIP: 393505 _____
</TABLE>
MANUFACTURED HOUSING CONTRACT
-----------------------------
SENIOR/SUBORDINATE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES,
---------------------------------------------
SERIES 1995-1, CLASS M-1 (SUBORDINATE)
--------------------------------------
THIS CERTIFICATE DOES NOT REPRESENT AN OBLIGATION OF OR AN INTEREST IN
GREEN TREE FINANCIAL CORPORATION OR ANY AFFILIATE THEREOF, EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT
SET FORTH IN THE AGREEMENT.
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<PAGE>
This certifies that ____________________ is the registered owner of the
undivided Percentage Interest represented by the original principal amount set
forth above in Manufactured Housing Contract Senior/Subordinate Pass-Through
Certificate Trust 1995-1 (the "Trust"), which includes among its assets a pool
of manufactured housing conditional sales contracts and installment loan
agreements (including, without limitation, all related security interests and
any and all rights to receive payments which are due pursuant thereto on or
after February 1, 1995 (or the date of Origination, if later)). The Trust has
been created pursuant to a Pooling and Servicing Agreement (the "Agreement"),
dated as of February 1, 1995, between Green Tree Financial Corporation, as
Seller and Servicer (the "Company"), and First Bank National Association, as
Trustee of the Trust (the "Trustee"). This Certificate is one of the
Certificates described in the Agreement and is issued pursuant and subject to
the Agreement. By acceptance of this Certificate the holder assents to and
becomes bound by the Agreement. To the extent not defined herein, all
capitalized terms have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Agreement.
The Agreement contemplates, subject to its terms, payment on the fifteenth
day (or if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day)
(the "Remittance Date") of each calendar month commencing in March 1995, so long
as the Agreement has not been terminated, by check (or, if such
Certificateholder holds a Class M-1 Certificate with an aggregate Percentage
Interest of at least 5% and so desires, by wire transfer pursuant to
instructions delivered to the Trustee at least 10 days prior to such Remittance
Date) to the registered Certificateholder at the address appearing on the
Certificate Register as of the Business Day immediately preceding such
Remittance Date, in an amount equal to the Certificateholder's Percentage
Interest of the portion of the Class M-1 Distribution Amount to be distributed
to such Class M-1 Certificate. The final scheduled Remittance Date of this
Certificate is June 15, 2025 or the next succeeding Business Day if such June 15
is not a Business Day.
The Certificateholder, by its acceptance of this Certificate, agrees that
it will look solely to the funds in the Certificate Account to the extent
available for distribution to the Certificateholder as provided in the Agreement
for payment hereunder and that the Trustee in its individual capacity is not
personally liable to the Certificateholder for any amounts payable under this
Certificate or the Agreement or, except as expressly provided in the Agreement,
subject to any liability under the Agreement. By acceptance of this
Certificate, the Certificateholder agrees to disclosure of his, her or its name
and address to other Certificateholders under the conditions specified in the
Agreement.
This Certificate does not purport to summarize the Agreement and reference
is made to the Agreement for information with respect to the interests, rights,
benefits, obligations, proceeds and duties evidenced hereby and the rights,
duties and immunities of the Trustee. Copies of the Agreement and all
amendments thereto will be provided to any Certificateholder free of charge upon
a written request to the Trustee.
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<PAGE>
As provided in the Agreement and subject to the limitations set forth
therein, the transfer of this Certificate is registrable in the Certificate
Register of the Certificate Registrar upon surrender of this Certificate for
registration of transfer at the office or agency maintained by the Trustee in
Minneapolis or St. Paul, Minnesota, accompanied by a written instrument of
transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly
executed by the holder thereof or his or her attorney duly authorized in
writing, and thereupon one or more new Certificates evidencing the same
aggregate Percentage Interest will be issued to the designated transferee or
transferees.
[Unless this Certificate is presented by an authorized representative of
The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation ("DTC") to the Trustee or
its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any certificate
issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other name as
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 Company, the Servicer, the Trustee, the Paying Agent and the
Certificate Registrar and any agent of the Company, the Servicer, the Trustee,
the Paying Agent or the Certificate Registrar may treat the person in whose name
this Certificate is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and neither
the Company, the Servicer, the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Certificate
Registrar nor any such agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.
B-3
<PAGE>
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Manufactured Housing Contract Senior/Subordinate Pass-
Through Certificate Trust 1995-1 has caused this Certificate to be duly executed
by the manual signature of a duly authorized officer of the Trustee.
Dated: MANUFACTURED HOUSING CONTRACT
SENIOR/SUBORDINATE
PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATE
TRUST 1995-1
By FIRST BANK NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION
By
________________________________
Authorized Signatory
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers
unto ______________________________ the within Manufactured Housing Contract
Senior/Subordinate Pass-Through Certificate and does hereby irrevocably
constitute and appoint ______________________________ Attorney to transfer the
said certificate on the Certificate Register maintained by the Trustee, with
full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated: By
________________________________
Signature
B-5
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EXHIBIT C
---------
FORM OF CLASS B CERTIFICATE
---------------------------
SOLELY FOR U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES, THIS CERTIFICATE IS A "REGULAR
INTEREST" IN A "REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE INVESTMENT CONDUIT" AS THOSE TERMS ARE
DEFINED, RESPECTIVELY, IN SECTIONS 860G AND 860D OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE.
THIS CERTIFICATE IS SUBORDINATED IN RIGHT OF PAYMENT TO THE CLASS A
CERTIFICATES[,] [AND] THE CLASS M-1 CERTIFICATES [AND THE CLASS B-1
CERTIFICATES] AS DESCRIBED IN THE POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT REFERRED TO
HEREIN.
Class B-[1][2] No.
(Subordinate)
Cut-off Date: Remittance Rate: ____%
February 1, 1995 (or the date [Remittance Rate: Floating Rate equal
of origination, if later) to the Weighted Average Contract Rate
(subject to a maximum of ____%)]
First Remittance Date: Denomination: $___________
March 15, 1995
Aggregate Denomination of
All Class B-[1][2] Certificates:
Servicer: $___________
Green Tree Financial Corporation
Final Scheduled Remittance Date:
June 15, 2025
(or if such day is not a
Business Day, then the next
succeeding Business Day)
CUSIP: 393505 _____
MANUFACTURED HOUSING CONTRACT SENIOR/SUBORDINATE
-------------------------------------------------
PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 1995-1, CLASS B-[1][2] (SUBORDINATE)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
THIS CERTIFICATE DOES NOT REPRESENT AN OBLIGATION OF OR AN INTEREST IN
GREEN TREE FINANCIAL CORPORATION OR ANY AFFILIATE THEREOF, EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT
SET FORTH IN THE AGREEMENT.
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<PAGE>
This certifies that ____________________ is the registered owner of the
undivided Percentage Interest represented by the original principal amount set
forth above in Manufactured Housing Contract Senior/Subordinate Pass-Through
Certificate Trust 1995-1 (the "Trust"), which includes among its assets a pool
of manufactured housing conditional sales contracts and installment loan
agreements (including, without limitation, all related security interests and
any and all rights to receive payments which are due pursuant thereto on or
after February 1, 1995 (or the date of origination, if later)). The Trust has
been created pursuant to a Pooling and Servicing Agreement (the "Agreement"),
dated as of February 1, 1995, between Green Tree Financial Corporation, as
Seller and Servicer (the "Company"), and First Bank National Association, as
Trustee of the Trust (the "Trustee"). This Certificate is one of the
Certificates described in the Agreement and is issued pursuant and subject to
the Agreement. By acceptance of this Certificate the holder assents to and
becomes bound by the Agreement. To the extent not defined herein, all
capitalized terms have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Agreement.
The Agreement contemplates, subject to its terms, payment on the fifteenth
day (or if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day)
(the "Remittance Date") of each calendar month commencing in March 1995, so long
as the Agreement has not been terminated, by check (or, if such
Certificateholder holds a Class of Class B Certificates with an aggregate
Percentage Interest of at least 5% and so desires, by wire transfer pursuant to
instructions delivered to the Trustee at least 10 days prior to such Remittance
Date) to the registered Certificateholder at the address appearing on the
Certificate Register as of the Business Day immediately preceding such
Remittance Date, in an amount equal to the Certificateholder's Percentage
Interest of the Class B-1 Distribution Amount or the Class B-2 Distribution
Amount, as applicable. The final scheduled Remittance Date of this Certificate
is June 15, 2025 or the next succeeding Business Day if such June 15 is not a
Business Day.
The Certificateholder, by its acceptance of this Certificate, agrees that
it will look solely to the funds in the Certificate Account [and, with respect
to the Class B-2 Certificateholders, the Limited Guarantee of the Company,] to
the extent available for distribution to the Certificateholder as provided in
the Agreement for payment hereunder and that the Trustee in its individual
capacity is not personally liable to the Certificateholder for any amounts
payable under this Certificate or the Agreement or, except as expressly provided
in the Agreement, subject to any liability under the Agreement. By acceptance
of this Certificate, the Certificateholder agrees to disclosure of his, her or
its name and address to other Certificateholders under the conditions specified
in the Agreement.
This Certificate does not purport to summarize the Agreement and reference
is made to the Agreement for information with respect to the interests, rights,
benefits, obligations, proceeds and duties evidenced hereby and the rights,
duties and immunities of the Trustee. Copies of the Agreement and all
amendments thereto will be provided to any Certificateholder free of charge upon
a written request to the Trustee.
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As provided in the Agreement and subject to the limitations set forth
therein, the transfer of this Certificate is registrable in the Certificate
Register of the Certificate Registrar upon surrender of this Certificate for
registration of transfer at the office or agency maintained by the Trustee in
Minneapolis or St. Paul, Minnesota, accompanied by a written instrument of
transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly
executed by the holder thereof or his or her attorney duly authorized in
writing, and thereupon one or more new Certificates evidencing the same
aggregate Percentage Interest will be issued to the designated transferee or
transferees.
[Unless this Certificate is presented by an authorized representative of
The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation ("DTC") to the Trustee or
its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any certificate
issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other name as
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 Company, the Servicer, the Trustee, the Paying Agent and the
Certificate Registrar and any agent of the Company, the Servicer, the Trustee,
the Paying Agent or the Certificate Registrar may treat the person in whose name
this Certificate is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and neither
the Company, the Servicer, the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Certificate
Registrar nor any such agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.
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<PAGE>
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Manufactured Housing Contract Senior/ Subordinate Pass-
Through Certificate Trust 1995-1 has caused this Certificate to be duly executed
by the manual signature of a duly authorized officer of the Trustee.
Dated: MANUFACTURED HOUSING CONTRACT
SENIOR/SUBORDINATE
PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATE
TRUST 1995-1
By FIRST BANK NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION
By __________________________
Authorized Officer
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<PAGE>
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers
unto ______________________________ the within Manufactured Housing Contract
Senior/Subordinate Pass-Through Certificate and does hereby irrevocably
constitute and appoint ______________________________ Attorney to transfer the
said certificate on the Certificate Register maintained by the Trustee, with
full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated: By ____________________________
Signature
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EXHIBIT D
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FORM OF ASSIGNMENT
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In accordance with the Pooling and Servicing Agreement (the "Agreement")
dated as of February 1, 1995 between Green Tree Financial Corporation (the
"Company") and First Bank National Association, as Trustee (the "Trustee"), the
Company does hereby transfer, assign, set over and otherwise convey to the
Trustee (i) all right, title and interest in the manufactured housing
conditional sales contracts described in the List of Contracts (collectively,
the "Contracts") and installment loan agreements and the proceeds thereof
(including, without limitation, all security interests created thereby and any
and all rights to receive payments which are due pursuant thereto from and after
February 1, 1995, or the date of origination of such contract or agreement, if
later, but excluding any rights to receive payments which were due pursuant
thereto prior to February 1, 1995) identified in the List of Contracts delivered
pursuant to Section 2.02(a) of the Agreement, which List of Contracts is also
attached as an Exhibit to the Agreement, (ii) all rights under every Hazard
Insurance Policy on a Manufactured Home securing a Contract for the benefit of
the creditor of such Contract and all rights under all blanket hazard insurance
policy and the proceeds from the Errors and Omissions Protection Policy to the
extent they relate to the Manufactured Homes, (iii) all rights under all FHA/VA
Regulations pertaining to any FHA/VA Contract, (iv) all documents contained in
the Contract Files and Land-and-Home Contract Files and (v) all proceeds in any
way derived from any of the foregoing. Capitalized terms used herein but not
defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Agreement.
This Assignment is made pursuant to and upon the representation and
warranties on the part of the undersigned contained in Article III of the
Agreement and no others.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Assignment to be duly
executed this ______ day of February, 1995.
GREEN TREE FINANCIAL CORPORATION
[Seal] By _____________________________
[Name]
[Title]
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EXHIBIT E
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FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF OFFICER
------------------------------
GREEN TREE FINANCIAL CORPORATION
CERTIFICATE OF OFFICER
The undersigned certifies that he is a [title] of Green Tree Financial
Corporation, a Minnesota corporation (the "Company"), and that as such he is
duly authorized to execute and deliver this certificate on behalf of the Company
in connection with the Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated as of February 1,
1995 (the "Agreement") between the Company and First Bank National Association,
as Trustee (all capitalized terms used herein without definition having the
respective meanings specified in the Agreement), and further certifies that:
(i) attached hereto as Exhibit I is a true and correct copy of the
Articles of Incorporation of the Company, together with all amendments
thereto as in effect on the date hereof;
(ii) attached hereto as Exhibit II is a true and correct copy of the
Bylaws of the Company, as amended, as in effect on the date hereof;
(iii) the representations and warranties of the Company contained in
Sections 3.01 and 3.04 of the Agreement are true and correct on and as of
the date hereof and, to the best of his knowledge, the representations and
warranties of the Company contained in Sections 3.02 and 3.03 of the
Agreement are true and correct on and as of the date hereof;
(iv) no event with respect to the Company has occurred and is
continuing which would constitute an Event of Termination or an event that
with notice or lapse of time or both would become an Event of Termination
under the Agreement; and
(v) each of the agreements and conditions of the Company to be
performed on or before the date hereof pursuant to the Agreement have been
performed in all material respects.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have affixed hereunto my signature this ______ day of
February, 1995.
GREEN TREE FINANCIAL CORPORATION
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[Name]
[Title]
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EXHIBIT F
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FORM OF OPINION OF COUNSEL FOR THE COMPANY
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The opinion of Dorsey & Whitney P.L.L.P. shall be to the effect that
(capitalized terms have the meanings set forth in the Pooling and Servicing
Agreement):
1. The Company is a corporation duly incorporated, validly existing and
in good standing under the laws of the State of Minnesota, with corporate power
to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Pooling and Servicing
Agreement (including the Limited Guarantee contained therein). The Company is
duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation and is in good standing
in each jurisdiction in which the performance of its duties under the Pooling
and Servicing Agreement would require such qualification.
2. The Pooling and Servicing Agreement has been duly authorized by all
requisite corporate action, duly executed and delivered by the Company, and
constitutes the valid and binding obligations of the Company enforceable in
accordance with their terms. The Certificates have been duly authorized by all
requisite corporate action and, when duly and validly executed by the Trustee in
accordance with the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, will be validly issued and
outstanding and entitled to the benefits of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.
3. No consent, approval, authorization or order of any state or federal
court or governmental agency or body is required to be obtained by the Company
for the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Pooling and
Servicing Agreement, except such as may be required under blue sky laws under
any jurisdiction in connection with the offering of the Certificates by
Underwriter pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement.
4. The Pooling and Servicing Agreement is not required to be qualified
under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as now in effect, and the Trust is not
required to be registered as an investment company under the Investment Company
Act of 1940.
5. Neither the transfer of the Contracts to the Trustee acting on behalf
of the Trust, nor the assignment of the Company's security interest in the
related Manufactured Homes, nor the issuance or sale of the Certificates and the
Class C Certificate, nor the execution and delivery of the Pooling and Servicing
Agreement (including the Limited Guarantee contained therein), nor the
consummation of any other of the transactions contemplated in the Pooling and
Servicing Agreement, nor the fulfillment of the terms of the Certificates, the
Class C Certificate or the Pooling and Servicing Agreement by the Company will
conflict with, or result in a breach, violation or acceleration of, or
constitute a default under, any term or provision of the Restated Articles of
Incorporation or Bylaws of the Company or of any indenture or other agreement or
instrument known to us to which the Company is a party or
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by which it is bound, or result in a violation of, or contravene the terms of
any statute, order or regulation, applicable to the Company, of any court,
regulatory body, administrative agency or governmental body having jurisdiction
over it.
6. There are no actions or proceedings pending or, to the best of our
knowledge, actions, proceedings or investigations pending or overtly threatened
against the Company before any court, administrative agency or other tribunal
(A) asserting the invalidity of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the
Certificates, the Class C Certificate, the hazard or flood insurance policies
applicable to any Contracts or the Errors and Omissions Protection Policy, (B)
seeking to prevent the issuance of the Certificates or the Class C Certificate
or the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by the Pooling and
Servicing Agreement, (C) which is likely materially and adversely to affect the
performance by the Company of its obligations under, or the validity or
enforceability of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the Certificates or the
Class C Certificate, or (D) seeking adversely to affect the federal income tax
attributes of the Certificates or the Class C Certificate described in the
Prospectus under the heading "Certain Federal Income Tax Consequences."
7. The transfer of the Contracts to the Trust in accordance with Section
2.01 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement would not be avoidable as a
preferential transfer under Section 547 of the United States Bankruptcy Code (11
U.S.C. (S) 547), as in effect on the date hereof, in the event that the Company
became a debtor under the United States Bankruptcy Code.
8. Pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement the Company has
transferred to the Trustee acting on behalf of the Trust all of the Company's
right, title and interest in the Contracts, free and clear of any and all other
assignments, encumbrances, options, rights, claims, liens or security interests
(except tax or possessory liens) that may affect the right of the Trustee in and
to such Contracts, and has delivered the Land-and-Home Contract Files to the
Trustee or its custodian. No filing or other action, other than the filing of a
financing statement on Form UCC-1 with the Secretary of State of the State of
Minnesota identifying the Contracts as collateral and naming the Company as
debtor and the Trust as secured party, and the filing of continuation statements
as required by Section 4.02 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, is necessary
to perfect as against third parties the assignment of the Contracts by the
Company to the Trust. We have separately provided you with our opinion
concerning whether such assignment could be recharacterized as a pledge rather
than a sale in the event the Company became a debtor under the United States
Bankruptcy Code. However, in the event such assignment were characterized as a
pledge securing a loan from the Certificateholders to the Company, it is our
opinion that the Trustee would be deemed to have a valid and perfected security
interest in the Contracts and the proceeds thereof, which security interest
would be prior to any other security interest that may be perfected under the
Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of Minnesota and over any
"lien creditor" (as defined in Minn. Stat. (S)336.9-301(3)) who becomes such
after the Closing Date, except that a subsequent purchaser of any Contract who
gives new value and takes possession thereof in the ordinary course of his
business would
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have priority over the Trustee's security interest in such Contract, if such
purchaser acts without knowledge that such Contract was subject to a security
interest. We have assumed for the purposes of this opinion that during the term
of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement the Trustee, or its custodian, shall
maintain possession of the Land-and-Home Contract Files for the purpose of
perfecting the assignment to the Trustee of the Land-and-Home Contracts.
9. In reliance upon certain representations and warranties set forth in
the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and assuming that the Company and the
Trustee comply with the requirements of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement,
including the filing of a proper election, as of the date hereof the Trust
created pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement will qualify as a REMIC.
Further, the Certificates will evidence ownership of the "regular interests" and
the Class C Certificate will evidence ownership of the single class of "residual
interest" in such REMIC. For Minnesota income tax purposes, and subject to the
foregoing assumptions, and the provisions of Minnesota law as of the date
hereof, such Trust will not be subject to tax and the income of such Trust will
be taxable to the holders of interests therein, all in accordance with the
provisions of the Code concerning REMICs as amended through December 31, 1993.
Moreover, ownership of a Certificate will not be a factor in determining whether
such owner is subject to Minnesota income taxes. Therefore, if the owner of a
Certificate is not otherwise subject to Minnesota income or franchise taxes in
the State of Minnesota, such owner will not become subject to such Minnesota
taxes solely by virtue of owning a Certificate.
10. The transfer of the Contracts and the proceeds thereof by the Company
to the Trustee on the date hereof pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing
Agreement would not be avoidable as a fraudulent transfer under the Uniform
Fraudulent Transfer Act as in effect in Minnesota on the date hereof (Minn.
Stat. (S)(S) 513.41 through 513.51), nor, should the Company become a debtor
under the United States Bankruptcy Code, as a fraudulent transfer under Section
548 of the United States Bankruptcy Code (11 U.S.C. (S) 548) as in effect on the
date hereof.
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EXHIBIT G
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FORM OF TRUSTEE'S ACKNOWLEDGMENT
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First Bank National Association, a national banking association organized
under the laws of the United States, acting as trustee (the "Trustee") of the
trust created pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated as of
February 1, 1995 between Green Tree Financial Corporation and the Trustee (the
"Agreement") (all capitalized terms used herein without definition having the
respective meanings specified in the Agreement) acknowledges, pursuant to
Section 2.03 of the Agreement, that the Trustee has received (by conveyance in
the form of Exhibit D to the Agreement) the following: (i) all right, title and
interest in the manufactured housing conditional sales contracts and installment
loan agreements (including, without limitation, all mortgages and deeds of trust
and any and all rights to receive payments which are due pursuant thereto on or
after February 1, 1995, or the date of origination of such contract or
agreement, if later, but excluding any rights to receive payments which were due
pursuant thereto prior to February 1, 1995, identified in the List of Contracts
delivered pursuant to Section 2.02 of the Agreement, (ii) all rights under any
hazard, flood or other individual insurance on the property described in a
Contract, (iii) all rights under the Errors and Omissions Protection Policy, as
such policy relates to the Contracts, (iv) all documents contained in the
Contract Files (as defined in Section 1.02 of the Agreement), and (v) all
proceeds and products of the foregoing.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, First Bank National Association, as Trustee, has caused
this acknowledgment to be executed by its duly authorized officer and its
corporate seal affixed hereto as of this ______ day of February, 1995.
FIRST BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
By
_______________________________
[Name]
[Title]
[Seal]
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EXHIBIT H
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FORM OF CUSTODIAN'S ACKNOWLEDGMENT
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____________________, a national banking association (the "Custodian")
acting as Custodian under a Custodial Agreement dated as of February 1, 1995,
between the Custodian and First Bank National Association, as Trustee (the
"Trustee") under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated as of February 1,
1995 between Green Tree Financial Corporation (the "Company"), as Seller and
Servicer, and the Trustee, pursuant to which the Custodian holds on behalf of
the Trustee certain "Land-and-Home Contract Files," as described in the Pooling
and Servicing Agreement, hereby acknowledges receipt of such Land-and-Home
Contract Files. The Custodian further acknowledges that it will, within 90 days
of the Closing Date, conduct a cursory review of the Land-and-Home Contract
Files and confirm to the Trustee and the Company that each Land-and-Home
Contract File included (a) an original copy of the Land-and-Home Contract, (b)
an original or a copy of a mortgage or deed of trust or similar evidence of a
lien on the real estate on which the related Manufactured Home is situated, (c)
the assignment of the Land-and-Home Contract and the mortgage or deed of trust
from the originator (if other than the Company) to the Company and (d) any
extension, modification or waiver agreement(s), except as noted on the document
exception listing to be attached to such confirmation. The Custodian will not
otherwise review the Contracts and Land-and-Home Contract Files for compliance
with the terms of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, ____________________ has caused this acknowledgment to
be executed by its duly authorized officer and its corporate seal affixed hereto
as of this ______ day of February, 1995.
___________________________________,
as Custodian
By
________________________________
By
________________________________
[Seal]
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EXHIBIT I
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FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF SERVICING OFFICER
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GREEN TREE FINANCIAL CORPORATION
The undersigned certifies that he is a [title] of Green Tree Financial
Corporation, a Minnesota corporation (the "Company"), and that as such he is
duly authorized to execute and deliver this certificate on behalf of the Company
pursuant to Section 6.02 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement (the
"Agreement") dated as of February 1, 1995 between the Company and First Bank
National Association, as Trustee (all capitalized terms used herein without
definition having the respective meanings specified in the Agreement), and
further certifies that:
1. The Monthly Report for the period from ____________________ to
___________ attached to this certificate is complete and accurate in accordance
with the requirements of Sections 6.01 and 6.02 of the Agreement; and
2. As of the date hereof, no Event of Termination or event that with
notice or lapse of time or both would become an Event of Termination has
occurred.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have affixed hereunto my signature this __________
day of _____________, 19__.
GREEN TREE FINANCIAL CORPORATION
By
_____________________________
[Name]
[Title]
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EXHIBIT J
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FORM OF CLASS C CERTIFICATE
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THIS CERTIFICATE IS SUBORDINATED IN RIGHT OF PAYMENT TO THE CLASS A
CERTIFICATES, THE CLASS M-1 CERTIFICATES AND THE CLASS B CERTIFICATES AS
DESCRIBED IN THE POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT REFERRED TO HEREIN.
THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE AND MAY
NOT BE RESOLD OR TRANSFERRED UNLESS IT IS REGISTERED PURSUANT TO SUCH ACT AND
LAWS OR IS SOLD OR TRANSFERRED IN TRANSACTIONS WHICH ARE EXEMPT FROM
REGISTRATION UNDER SUCH ACT AND UNDER APPLICABLE STATE LAW AND IS TRANSFERRED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 9.02 OF THE POOLING AND SERVICING
AGREEMENT REFERRED TO HEREIN.
SOLELY FOR U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES, THIS CERTIFICATE IS A
"RESIDUAL INTEREST" IN A "REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE INVESTMENT CONDUIT" AS THOSE
TERMS ARE DEFINED, RESPECTIVELY, IN SECTIONS 860G AND 860D OF THE INTERNAL
REVENUE CODE. THIS CERTIFICATE MAY ONLY BE TRANSFERRED TO A PERMITTED
TRANSFEREE (AS DEFINED IN THE POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT REFERRED TO
HEREIN); ANY SUCH TRANSFER MUST ALSO SATISFY THE OTHER REQUIREMENTS OF SECTION
9.02 OF SUCH POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT.
Class C No.
(Subordinate)
Cut-off Date: Percentage Interest:
February 1, 1995 (or the date
of origination, if later)
First Remittance Date:
March 15, 1995
MANUFACTURED HOUSING CONTRACT SENIOR/SUBORDINATE
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PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 1995-1, CLASS C (RESIDUAL INTEREST)
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Initial Principal Amount of the Trust: $378,339,822.90
This certifies that ___________________________________________________ is
the registered owner of the Residual Interest represented by this Certificate,
and entitled to certain distributions
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out of Manufactured Housing Contract Senior/Subordinate Pass-Through Certificate
Trust 1995-1 (the "Trust"), which includes among its assets a pool of
manufactured housing conditional sales contracts and installment loan agreements
(including, without limitation, all related security interests and any and all
rights to receive payments which are due pursuant thereto on or after February
1, 1995 (or date of origination, if later)) (the "Contracts"). The Trust has
been created pursuant to a Pooling and Servicing Agreement (the "Agreement"),
dated as of February 1, 1995, between Green Tree Financial Corporation, as
Seller and Servicer (the "Company"), and First Bank National Association, as
Trustee of the Trust (the "Trustee"). This Class C Certificate is one of the
Class C Certificates described in the Agreement and is issued pursuant and
subject to the Agreement. By acceptance of this Class C Certificate the holder
assents to and becomes bound by the Agreement. To the extent not defined
herein, all capitalized terms have the meanings assigned to such terms in the
Agreement.
The Agreement contemplates, subject to its terms, payment on the fifteenth
day (or if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day)
(the "Remittance Date") of each calendar month commencing in March 1995, so long
as the Agreement has not been terminated, by check (or, if such Class C
Certificateholder holds Class C Certificates with an aggregate Percentage
Interest of at least 20% and so desires, by wire transfer pursuant to
instructions delivered to the Trustee at least ten days prior to such Remittance
Date) to the registered Class C Certificateholder at the address appearing on
the Certificate Register as of the Business Day immediately preceding such
Remittance Date, in an amount equal to the difference between (A) the Amount
Available, and (B) the sum of (i) the Class A Distribution Amount, (ii) the
Class M-1 Distribution Amount, (iii) the Class B-1 Distribution Amount, (iv) the
Class B-2 Distribution Amount, (v) the Monthly Servicing Fee, (vi) amounts to
reimburse the Class C Certificateholder for expenses incurred by and
reimbursable to it, and (vii) the Guarantee Fee.
The Class C Certificateholder, by its acceptance of this Certificate,
agrees that it will look solely to the funds in the Certificate Account to the
extent available for distribution to the Class C Certificateholder as provided
in the Agreement for payment hereunder and that the Trustee in its individual
capacity is not personally liable to the Class C Certificateholder for any
amounts payable under this Certificate or the Agreement or, except as expressly
provided in the Agreement, subject to any liability under the Agreement. By
acceptance of this Certificate, the Certificateholder agrees to disclosure of
his, her or its name and address to other Certificateholders under the
conditions specified in the Agreement.
This Class C Certificate does not purport to summarize the Agreement and
reference is made to the Agreement for information with respect to the
interests, rights, benefits, obligations, proceeds and duties evidenced hereby
and the rights, duties and immunities of the Trustee. Copies of the Agreement
and all amendments thereto will be provided to any Class C Certificateholder
free of charge upon a written request to the Trustee.
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As provided in the Agreement and subject to the limitations set forth
therein, the transfer of this Class C Certificate is registrable in the
Certificate Register of the Certificate Registrar upon surrender of this Class C
Certificate for registration of transfer at the office or agency maintained by
the Trustee in Minneapolis or St. Paul, Minnesota, accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Certificate
Registrar duly executed by the holder thereof or his or her attorney duly
authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Class C Certificates
evidencing the same aggregate amount of Class C Certificates will be issued to
the designated transferee or transferees.
As provided in the Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set
forth, this Class C Certificate is exchangeable for new Class C Certificates of
authorized denominations evidencing the same aggregate Percentage Interest as
requested by the holder surrendering the same.
The Company, the Servicer, the Trustee, the Paying Agent and the
Certificate Registrar and any agent of the Company, the Servicer, the Trustee,
the Paying Agent or the Certificate Registrar may treat the person in whose name
this Class C Certificate is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and
neither the Company, the Servicer, the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the
Certificate Registrar nor any such agent shall be affected by any notice to the
contrary.
The holder of this Class C Certificate, by acceptance hereof, agrees that,
in accordance with the requirements of Section 860D(b)(1) of the Code, the
federal tax return of the Trust for its first taxable year shall provide that
the Trust elects to be treated as a "real estate mortgage investment conduit" (a
"REMIC") under the Code for such taxable year and all subsequent taxable years.
The Certificates shall be "regular interests" in the REMIC and the Class C
Certificates shall be the "residual interest" in the REMIC. In addition, the
holder of this Class C Certificate, by acceptance hereof, (i) agrees to file tax
returns consistent with and in accordance with any elections, decisions or other
reports made or filed with regard to federal, state or local taxes on behalf of
the Trust, and (ii) agrees to cooperate with the Company in connection with
examinations of the Trust's affairs by tax authorities, including administrative
and judicial proceedings, and (iii) makes the additional agreements,
designations and appointments, and undertakes the responsibilities, set forth in
Section 6.06 of the Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Manufactured Housing Contract Senior/ Subordinate Pass-
Through Certificate Trust 1995-1 has caused this Certificate to be duly executed
by the manual signature of a duly authorized officer of the Trustee.
Dated: MANUFACTURED HOUSING CONTRACT
SENIOR/SUBORDINATE
PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATE
TRUST 1995-1
By FIRST BANK NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION
By ___________________________
Authorized Officer
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers
unto __________________________________________________ the within Manufactured
Housing Contract Senior/Subordinate Pass-Through Certificate, and does hereby
irrevocably constitute and appoint ___________________________________ Attorney
to transfer the said certificate on the Certificate Register maintained by the
Trustee, with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated: By __________________________________
Signature
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EXHIBIT K-1
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FORM OF
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CERTIFICATE REGARDING REPURCHASED CONTRACTS
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GREEN TREE FINANCIAL CORPORATION
CERTIFICATE REGARDING REPURCHASED CONTRACTS
The undersigned certifies that he is a [title] of Green Tree Financial
Corporation, a Minnesota corporation (the "Company"), and that as such he is
duly authorized to execute and deliver this certificate on behalf of the Company
pursuant to Section 3.05 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement (the
"Agreement"), dated as of February 1, 1995 between the Company and First Bank
National Association, as Trustee (all capitalized terms used herein without
definition having the respective meanings specified in the Agreement), and
further certifies that:
1. The Contracts on the attached schedule are to be repurchased by the
Company on the date hereof pursuant to Section 3.05 of the Agreement.
2. Upon deposit of the Repurchase Price for such Contracts, such
Contracts may, pursuant to Section 3.05 of the Agreement, be assigned by the
Trustee to the Company.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have affixed hereunto my signature this ____ day of
__________, 19__.
GREEN TREE FINANCIAL CORPORATION
By ____________________________
[Name]
Title]
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EXHIBIT K-2
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FORM OF
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CERTIFICATE REGARDING SUBSTITUTED CONTRACTS
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GREEN TREE FINANCIAL CORPORATION
CERTIFICATE REGARDING SUBSTITUTED CONTRACTS
The undersigned certify that they are [title] and [title], respectively of
Green Tree Financial Corporation, a corporation organized under the laws of
Minnesota ("the Company"), and that as such they are duly authorized to execute
and deliver this certificate on behalf of the Company pursuant to Section
3.05(b) of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement (the "Agreement"), dated as of
February 1, 1995 between the Company and First Bank National Association, as
Trustee (all capitalized terms used herein without definition having the
respective meanings specified in the Agreement [or Land-and-Home Contract File,
as applicable]), and further certify that:
1. The Contract and Contract File for each such Eligible Substitute
Contract [are being held by the Company, as Servicer] [have been delivered to
_____________________________________, the successor Servicer].
2. The Contracts on the attached schedule are to be substituted on the
date hereof pursuant to Section 3.05(b) of the Agreement and each such Contract
is an Eligible Substitute Contract [description, as to each Contract, as to how
it satisfies the definition of "Eligible Substitute Contract"].
3. The UCC-1 financing statements in respect of the Contracts to be
substituted, in the form required by Section 3.05 (b)(iii) of the Agreement, has
been filed with the appropriate offices.
[4. There has been deposited in the Certificate Account the amounts listed
on the schedule attached hereto as the amount by which the Scheduled Principal
Balance of each Replaced Contract exceeds the Scheduled Principal Balance of
each Contract being substituted therefor.]
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have affixed hereunto our signatures this
__________ day of _________________________, 19____.
GREEN TREE FINANCIAL CORPORATION
By ____________________________
[Name]
[Title]
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EXHIBIT L
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FORM OF REPRESENTATION LETTER
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First Bank National Association
Attn: Corporate Trust Operations
180 East Fifth Street
St. Paul, Minnesota 55101
Green Tree Financial Corporation
1100 Landmark Towers
345 St. Peter Street
St. Paul, Minnesota 55102-1639
RE: Manufactured Housing Contract Senior/Subordinate Pass-Through
Certificates, Series 1995-1, Class C
The undersigned purchaser (the "Purchaser") understands that the purchase
of the above-referenced certificates (the "Certificates") may be made only by
institutions which are "Accredited Investors" under Regulation D, as promulgated
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933 Act"), which includes
banks, savings and loan associations, registered brokers and dealers, insurance
companies, investment companies, and organizations described in Section
501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, corporations, business trusts and
partnerships, not formed for the specific purpose of acquiring the Certificates
offered, with total assets in excess of $5,000,000. The undersigned represents
on behalf of the Purchaser that the Purchaser is an "Accredited Investor" within
the meaning of such definition. The Purchaser is urged to review carefully the
responses, representations and warranties it is making herein.
Representations and Warranties
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The Purchaser makes the following representations and warranties in order
to permit the Trustee, Green Tree Financial Corporation, and [underwriter of the
Class C Certificates] to determine its suitability as a purchaser of
Certificates and to determine that the exemption from registration relied upon
by Green Tree Financial Corporation under Section 4(2) of the 1933 Act is
available to it.
1. The Purchaser understands that the Certificates have not been and will
not be registered under the 1933 Act and may be resold (which resale is not
currently contemplated) only if registered pursuant to the provisions of the
1933 Act or if an exemption from registration is available, that Green Tree
Financial Corporation is not required to register the Certificates and that any
transfer must comply with Section 9.02 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement
relating to the Certificates.
2. The Purchaser will comply with all applicable federal and state
securities laws in connection with any subsequent resale of the Certificates.
3. The Purchaser is a sophisticated institutional investor and has
knowledge and experience in financial and business matters and is capable of
evaluating the merits and risks of its investment in the Certificates and is
able to bear the economic risk of such investment. The Purchaser has reviewed
the Prospectus dated February 9, 1995 and related Prospectus Supplement dated
February 9, 1995, with respect to the Certificates, and has been given such
information concerning the Certificates, the underlying installment sale
contracts and Green Tree Financial Corporation as it has requested.
4. The Purchaser is acquiring the Certificates as principal for its own
account (or for the account of one or more other institutional investors for
which it is acting as duly authorized fiduciary or
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agent) for the purpose of investment and not with a view to or for sale in
connection with any distribution thereof, subject nevertheless to any
requirement of law that the disposition of the Purchaser's property shall at all
times be and remain within its control.
5. The Purchaser does not qualify as (i) an employee benefit plan (a
"Plan") as defined in section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security
Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA"), whether or not it is subject to the
provisions of Title I of ERISA, (ii) a plan described in section 4975(e)(1) of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (also a "Plan"), or (iii) an entity whose
underlying assets are deemed to be assets of a Plan by reason of such Plan's
investment in the entity (as determined under Department of Labor Regulations,
29 C.F.R. (S)2510.3-101 (1990)).
6. The Purchaser understands that such Certificate will bear a legend
substantially as set forth in the form of Certificate included in the Pooling
and Servicing Agreement.
7. The Purchaser, as holder of the Class C Certificate, acknowledges (i)
it may incur tax liabilities in excess of any cash flows generated by the
interest and (ii) it intends to pay the taxes associated with holding the Class
C Certificate as they become due.
8. The Purchaser agrees that it will obtain from any purchaser of the
Certificates from it the same representations, warranties and agreements
contained in the foregoing paragraphs 1 through 7 and in this paragraph 8.
The representations and warranties contained herein shall be binding upon
the heirs, executors, administrators and other successors of the undersigned.
If there is more than one signatory hereto, the obligations, representations,
warranties and agreements of the undersigned are made jointly and severally.
Executed at ____________________________________________________________,
_________________________, this __________ day of ____________________,
__________.
____________________________________________
Purchaser's Name (Print)
By__________________________________________
Signature
Its_________________________________________
____________________________________________
Address of Purchaser
____________________________________________
Purchaser's Taxpayer
Identification Number
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EXHIBIT M
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LIST OF CONTRACTS
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EXHIBIT N
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FORM OF MONTHLY REPORT
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MANUFACTURED HOUSING CONTRACT SENIOR/SUBORDINATE
PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 1995-1
Distribution Date: _________
Class A Certificates
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1. Amount Available
(including Monthly
Servicing Fee)
Interest
2. Aggregate interest ________
(a) Class A-l Interest ________
(b) Class A-2 Interest ________
(c) Class A-3 Interest ________
(d) Class A-4 Interest ________
(e) Class A-5 Remittance Rate (8.40%
unless Weighted Average Contract
Rate is below 8.40%) ________%
(f) Class A-5 Interest ________
(g) Class A-6 Remittance Rate (8.70%
unless Weighted Average Contract
Rate is below 8.70%) ________%
(h) Class A-6 Interest ________
3. Amount applied to:
(a) Unpaid Class A Interest Shortfall ________
4. Remaining:
(a) Unpaid Class A Interest Shortfall ________
Principal
5. Formula Principal Distribution Amount: ________
(a) Scheduled principal ________
(b) Principal Prepayments ________
(c) Liquidated Contracts ________
(d) Repurchases ________
6. Pool Scheduled Principal Balance ________
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7. Unpaid Class A Principal Shortfall
(if any) following prior Remittance Date ________
8. Class A Percentage for such
Remittance Date (Until Class B Cross-over
Date, and on each Remittance Date
thereafter unless each Class B Principal
Distribution Test is satisfied, equals
Class A Principal Balance divided by Pool
Scheduled Principal Balance) ________
9. Class A Percentage for the following
Remittance Date ________
10. Class A principal distribution:
(a) Class A-1 ________
(b) Class A-2 ________
(c) Class A-3 ________
(d) Class A-4 ________
(e) Class A-5 ________
(f) Class A-6 ________
11. (a) Class A-1 Principal Balance ________
(b) Class A-2 Principal Balance ________
(c) Class A-3 Principal Balance ________
(d) Class A-4 Principal Balance ________
(e) Class A-5 Principal Balance ________
(f) Class A-6 Principal Balance ________
12. Unpaid Class A Principal Shortfall
(if any) following current
Remittance Date ________
Class M-1 Certificates
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13. Class M-1 Amount Available
(including Monthly
Servicing Fee) ________
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Interest
14. Aggregate interest ________
(a) Class M-1 Remittance Rate (9.05%
unless Weighted Average Contract
Rate is below 9.05%) ________%
(b) Class M-1 Interest ________
15. Amount applied to:
(a) Unpaid Class M-1 Interest Shortfall ________
16. Remaining:
(a) Unpaid Class M-1 Interest Shortfall ________
Principal
17. Formula Principal Distribution Amount: ________
(a) Scheduled principal ________
(b) Principal Prepayments ________
(c) Liquidated Contracts ________
(d) Repurchases ________
18. Pool Scheduled Principal Balance ________
19. Class M-1 Percentage after prior
Remittance Date ________
20. Class M-1 Percentage for such
Remittance Date ________
21. Class M-1 Percentage for the following
Remittance Date ________
22. Class M-1 principal distribution:
(a) Class M-1 (current) ________
(b) Unpaid Class M-1 Principal Shortfall
(if any) following prior Remittance Date ________
23. Unpaid Class M-1 Principal Shortfall
(if any) following current
Remittance Date ________
Class B Principal Distribution Tests (tests must be satisfied on and after the
Remittance Date occurring in March 2000)
24. Average Sixty-Day Delinquency Ratio Test
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(a) Sixty-Day Delinquency Ratio for
current Remittance Date ________
(b) Average Sixty-Day Delinquency Ratio
(arithmetic average of ratios for this
month and two preceding months;
may not exceed 4%) ________
25. Average Thirty-Day Delinquency Ratio Test
(a) Thirty-Day Delinquency Ratio for
current Remittance Date ________
(b) Average Thirty-Day Delinquency
Ratio (arithmetic average of ratios
for this month and two preceding
months; may not exceed 6%) ________
26. Cumulative Realized Losses Test
(a) Cumulative Realized Losses
for current Remittance Date
(as a percentage of Cut-off Date
Pool Principal Balance; may not
exceed 7% from March 1, 2000
to February 28, 2001, 9% from
March 1, 2001 to February 28, 2002
and 10% thereafter) ________
27. Current Realized Losses Test
(a) Current Realized Losses
for current Remittance Date ________
(b) Current Realized Loss Ratio (total
Realized Losses for most recent
three months, multiplied by 4,
divided by arithmetic
average of Pool Scheduled Principal
Balances for third preceding
Remittance and for current Remittance
Date; may not exceed 2.50%) ________
28. Class B Principal Balance Test
(a) Class B Principal Balance (before
any distributions on current
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Remittance Date) divided by Pool
Scheduled Principal Balance for
prior Remittance Date (must equal
or exceed 17.5%) and the Class B
Principal Balance as of such Remittance
Date is greater than or equal to
$7,566,796 ________
Class B-1 Certificates
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29. Amount Available less the Class A
Distribution Amount and Class M-1
Distribution Amount (including
Monthly Servicing Fee) ________
Interest
30. Class B-1 Remittance Rate (9.00%,
unless Weighted Average Contract Rate
is less than 9.00%) ________
31. Class B-1 Interest ________
32. Current interest ________
33. Amount applied to Unpaid
Class B-1 Interest Shortfall ________
34. Remaining Unpaid Class B-1
Interest Shortfall ________
Principal
35. Unpaid Class B-1 Principal Shortfall
(if any) following prior Remittance Date ________
36. (a) Class B Percentage for such
Remittance Date (until Class B
Cross-over Date, and on each
Remittance Date thereafter unless
each Class B Principal Distribution
Test is satisfied, equals zero.
Thereafter, if each Class B Principal
Distribution Test is satisfied, equals
100% minus Class A Percentage) ________
(b) Class B Percentage for the following
Remittance Date ________
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37. Current Principal (Class B Percentage of
Formula Principal Distribution Amount) ________
38. (a) Class B-1 Principal Shortfall ________
(b) Unpaid Class B-1 Principal Shortfall ________
39. Class B Principal Balance ________
40. Class B-1 Principal Balance ________
Class B-2 Certificates
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41. Remaining Amount Available ________
Interest
42. Class B-2 Remittance Rate
(9.20%, unless Weighted Average
Contract Rate is less than 9.20%) ________%
43. Class B-2 Interest ________
44. Current interest ________
45. Amount applied to Unpaid Class
B-2 Interest Shortfall ________
46. Remaining Unpaid Class B-2
Interest Shortfall ________
Principal
47. Unpaid Class B-2 Principal Shortfall
(if any) following prior Remittance Date ________
48. Class B-2 Principal Liquidation Loss
Amount ________
49. Current principal (zero until Class B-1
paid down; thereafter, Class B Percentage
of Formula Principal Distribution Amount) ________
50. Guarantee Payment ________
51. Class B-2 Principal Balance ________
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Class A, Class M-1, Class B-1 and Class B-2 Certificates
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Aggregate Scheduled Balances of delinquent Contracts as of Determination Date
52. 30 - 59 days _________
53. 60 days or more _________
54. Manufactured Homes repossessed _________
55. Manufactured Homes repossessed
but remaining in inventory _________
56. Weighted Average Contract Rate
of all outstanding Contracts _________
Class C Certificates
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57. Monthly Servicing Fee (deducted from
Certificate Account balance to arrive
at Amount Available if the Company is
not the Servicer; deducted from funds
remaining after payment of Class A
Distribution Amount, Class M-1 Distribution
Amount, Class B-1 Distribution Amount
and Class B-2 Distribution Amount, if
the Company is the Servicer) _________
58. Guarantee Fee _________
59. Class C Residual Payment _________
Repossessed Contracts
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60. Repossessed Contracts _________
61. Repossessed Contracts Remaining in Inventory _________
Please contact the Bondholder Relations Department of First Trust National
Association at (612) 244-0444 with any questions regarding this Statement or
your Distribution.
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