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ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor and the Certificateholders shall monitor the performance of the Servicers under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements, and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause the Servicers duly and punctually to perform all of their respective duties and obligations thereunder. Upon the occurrence of a default of which an Authorized Officer of the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any Purchase and Servicing Agreement to the contrary, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase and Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement). (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, a new Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMC-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicer; provided, however, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree, but in no event shall such compensation of any successor servicer (including the Master Servicer) be in excess of that payable to the Servicer under the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a Servicer, the appointment of a successor servicer or the transfer and assumption of the servicing by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse the Master Servicer for such costs of enforcement, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or for the errors or omissions of such Servicer. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, has succeeded such Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

Appears in 6 contracts

Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (J.P. Morgan Mortgage Trust 2005-A4), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (J.P. Morgan Mortgage Trust 2005-A3), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (J.P. Morgan Mortgage Trust 2005-A7)

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ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer’s and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor Trustee and the Certificateholders shall shall, from and after the Closing Date, monitor the performance of the Servicers and the Servicing Administrator under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements. In performing its obligations hereunder, the Master Servicer shall act in a manner consistent with Accepted Master Servicing Practices. Furthermore, the Master Servicer shall consult with each Servicer and the Servicing Administrator as necessary from time to time to carry out the Master Servicer’s obligations hereunder, shall receive and review all reports, information and other data provided to the Master Servicer by each Servicer and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause enforce the Servicers obligation of each Servicer and the Servicing Administrator duly and punctually to perform all and observe the covenants, duties, obligations and conditions to be performed or observed by such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator under the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall independently and separately monitor each Servicer’s servicing activities and the activities of their respective duties the Servicing Administrator with respect to each related Mortgage Loan in respect of the provisions of the applicable Servicing Agreement, reconcile the reports and obligations thereunderother data provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the previous sentence on a monthly basis based on the Mortgage Loan data provided to the Master Servicer by or on behalf of the Depositor on the Closing Date (upon which data the Master Servicer shall be entitled to rely and with respect to which the Master Servicer shall have no obligation to confirm or verify) and coordinate corrective adjustments to the records of each Servicer and the Master Servicer, and based on such reconciled and corrected information, the Master Servicer shall provide such information to the Securities Administrator as shall be necessary in order for it to prepare the statements specified in Section 4.02, and prepare any other information and statements required to be forwarded by the Master Servicer hereunder. The Master Servicer shall reconcile the results of its Mortgage Loan monitoring with the actual remittances of each Servicer to the Distribution Account pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall, in accordance with each Servicing Agreement, oversee matters relating to the servicing of defaulted Mortgage Loans, including approving certain Mortgage Loan modifications, reviewing environmental reports related to foreclosed Mortgage Properties to determine whether to proceed with a foreclosure, approving certain actions relating to the management of REO Property and approving the release of the original borrower of a Mortgage Loan in connection with Mortgage Loan assumptions. In its review of the activities of any Servicer and the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer may rely upon an Officer’s Certificate of such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator (or similar document signed by an officer of such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator), and such Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s Assessment of Compliance and related Accountant’s Attestation or other accountants’ report provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement, with regard to such Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s compliance with the terms of its Servicing Agreement. Subject to Section 9.08, the Master Servicer shall not be responsible or liable for the day-to-day servicing activities of any Servicer or for any unlawful act or omission, breach, negligence, fraud, willful misconduct or bad faith of any Servicer. Upon the occurrence of an event that, unless cured, would constitute grounds for termination of a default of which an Authorized Officer of Servicer under the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and related Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Depositor thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such event of default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall shall, if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, if the event of default is the failure of a Servicer or the Servicing Administrator to remit any provision payment required to be made under the terms of this Agreement the applicable Servicing Agreement, and such failure continues unremedied for the duration of the applicable grace period, then the Master Servicer shall terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer or any Purchase and the Servicing Agreement Administrator pursuant to the contraryapplicable provisions of the related Servicing Agreement, unless any waiver described under Section 6.16 shall have been obtained; provided that, upon the occurrence of such an event of default by the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation may, at its option, terminate all of the rights and powers of Cenlar FSB pursuant to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase and Cenlar FSB Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement)a waiver has been obtained. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of a Servicer or the Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the related Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator in its capacity as Servicer or Servicing Administrator with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating AgenciesTrustee, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and a successor to the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator; provided that, with respect to the appointment of a successor servicer, in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, such successor servicer shall be a new Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMCXxxxxxx Mac-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicerthat is a member in good standing of MERS; provided, howeverfurther, that no Trustee consent shall be required if the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator is a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date; provided, further, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer or a successor servicing administrator (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer or the terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing AgreementAgreement or into an agreement with such successor servicing administrator in a form mutually agreed upon by the parties thereto. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer or successor servicing administrator as it and such successor servicer shall agree. The Master Servicer in its sole discretion shall have the right to agree to compensation of a successor servicer in excess of that permitted to a Servicer under the Servicing Agreements if such increase is, but in its good faith and judgment, necessary or advisable to engage a successor servicer. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall such compensation the Master Servicer be liable for any Servicing Fee or for any differential between the amount of the Servicing Fee paid to the original servicer and the amount necessary to induce any successor servicer (including to act as successor servicer hereunder. To the Master Servicer) be in excess extent the successor servicer assumes the obligations of that payable to the terminated Servicer under the affected Purchase and applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer may amend such Servicing Agreement to effect such change to the Servicing Fee without the consent of the Certificateholders. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a Servicerany Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, the appointment of a successor servicer or successor servicing administrator or the transfer and assumption of the servicing or the servicing administration by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated ServicerServicer or terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse not received by the Master Servicer within 30 days of the Master Servicer's request for such costs of enforcementreimbursement therefor, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. To the extent the Master Servicer recovers amounts described in (i)-(iii) above subsequent to its reimbursement from the Trust Fund pursuant to (iv) above, then the Master Servicer promptly will reimburse such amounts to the Trust Fund. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing or servicing administration with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or the Servicing Administrator being replaced or for the errors or omissions of such ServicerServicer or the Servicing Administrator . (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of any Servicer or the Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee Trustee, the Securities Administrator and each Rating Agency through the Rating AgenciesRule 17g-5 Information Provider, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as the case may be, has succeeded such the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator . (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

Appears in 4 contracts

Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2012-2), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2012-2), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2012-1)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor and the Certificateholders shall monitor the performance of the Servicers under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements and the Servicing Agreements, and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause enforce the obligations of the Servicers to duly and punctually to perform all of their respective duties and obligations thereunder. Upon the occurrence of a default of which an Authorized Officer of the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer (other than Xxxxx Fargo) pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement Agreement, or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. In the event that the Master Servicer, in its judgment, determines that Xxxxx Fargo should be terminated as a Servicer in accordance with the Xxxxx Fargo Purchase and Servicing Agreement, or that a notice should be sent pursuant to the Xxxxx Fargo Purchase and Servicing Agreement with respect to the occurrence of an event that, unless cured, would constitute grounds for such termination, the Master Servicer shall notify the Depositor and the Trustee thereof in writing. Upon receipt of such written notification from the Master Servicer, the Trustee shall issue such notice of termination to Xxxxx Fargo or take such other action as it deems appropriate. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement to the contrary, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable). The Master Servicer shall not permit a successor Servicer to perform any servicing responsibilities hereunder with respect to the Mortgage Loans unless that Servicer first agrees in writing to deliver an Assessment of Compliance and an Accountant’s Attestation in such manner and at such times that permits that Master Servicer to comply with the provisions hereof. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, the rights and powers of such Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, and the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, unless or until the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, a new Xxxxxx Xxx- Mae- or FHLMC-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicer; provided, however, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer (including the Master ServicerServicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable). With such consent, the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree, but in no event shall such compensation of any successor servicer (including the Master ServicerServicer or the Trustee, as applicable) be in excess of that payable to the Servicer under the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable. The Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a Servicer, the appointment of a successor servicer or the transfer and assumption of the servicing by the Master Servicer) Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse the Master Servicer for such costs of enforcement, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. If the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or for the errors or omissions of such Servicer. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, the Master Servicer or the Trustee, as applicable, or the Trustee, as applicable, shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, has succeeded such Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

Appears in 3 contracts

Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (J.P. Morgan Mortgage Trust 2006-A7), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (J.P. Morgan Mortgage Trust 2006-A4), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (J.P. Morgan Mortgage Trust 2005-A7)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor and the Certificateholders shall monitor the performance of the Servicers under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements and the Servicing Agreements, and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause enforce the obligations of the Servicers to duly and punctually to perform all of their respective duties and obligations thereunder. Upon the occurrence of a default of which an Authorized Officer of the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer (other than Xxxxx Fargo) pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement Agreement, or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. In the event that the Master Servicer, in its judgment, determines that Xxxxx Fargo should be terminated as a Servicer in accordance with the Xxxxx Fargo Purchase and Servicing Agreement, or that a notice should be sent pursuant to the Xxxxx Fargo Purchase and Servicing Agreement with respect to the occurrence of an event that, unless cured, would constitute grounds for such termination, the Master Servicer shall notify the Depositor and the Trustee thereof in writing. Upon receipt of such written notification from the Master Servicer, the Trustee shall issue such notice of termination to Xxxxx Fargo or take such other action as it deems appropriate. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement to the contrary, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, with respect to any Additional Collateral Pledged Assets or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral Pledged Assets and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable). The Master Servicer shall not permit a successor Servicer to perform any servicing responsibilities hereunder with respect to the Mortgage Loans unless that Servicer first agrees in writing to deliver an Assessment of Compliance and an Accountant’s Attestation in such manner and at such times that permits that Master Servicer to comply with the provisions hereof. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, the rights and powers of such Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, and the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, unless or until the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, a new Xxxxxx Xxx- Mae- or FHLMC-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicer; provided, however, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer (including the Master ServicerServicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable). With such consent, the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree, but in no event shall such compensation of any successor servicer (including the Master ServicerServicer or the Trustee, as applicable) be in excess of that payable to the Servicer under the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable. The Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a Servicer, the appointment of a successor servicer or the transfer and assumption of the servicing by the Master ServicerServicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse the Master Servicer or the Trustee, as applicable, for such costs of enforcement, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. If the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or for the errors or omissions of such Servicer. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, the Master Servicer or the Trustee, as applicable, shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, has succeeded such Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (J.P. Morgan Alternative Loan Trust 2006-A2), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (J.P. Morgan Alternative Loan Trust 2006-A2)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer’s and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor Trustee and the Certificateholders shall shall, from and after the Closing Date, monitor the performance of the Servicers and the Servicing Administrator under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements. In performing its obligations hereunder, the Master Servicer shall act in a manner consistent with Accepted Master Servicing Practices. Furthermore, the Master Servicer shall consult with each Servicer and the Servicing Administrator as necessary from time to time to carry out the Master Servicer’s obligations hereunder, shall receive and review all reports, information and other data provided to the Master Servicer by each Servicer and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause enforce the Servicers obligation of each Servicer and the Servicing Administrator duly and punctually to perform all and observe the covenants, duties, obligations and conditions to be performed or observed by such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator under the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall independently and separately monitor each Servicer’s servicing activities and the activities of their respective duties the Servicing Administrator with respect to each related Mortgage Loan in respect of the provisions of the applicable Servicing Agreement, reconcile the reports and obligations thereunderother data provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the previous sentence on a monthly basis based on the Mortgage Loan data provided to the Master Servicer by or on behalf of the Depositor on the Closing Date (upon which data the Master Servicer shall be entitled to rely and with respect to which the Master Servicer shall have no obligation to confirm or verify) and coordinate corrective adjustments to the records of each Servicer and the Master Servicer, and based on such reconciled and corrected information, the Master Servicer shall provide such information to the Securities Administrator as shall be necessary in order for it to prepare the statements specified in Section 4.02, and prepare any other information and statements required to be forwarded by the Master Servicer hereunder. The Master Servicer shall reconcile the results of its Mortgage Loan monitoring with the actual remittances of each Servicer to the Master Servicer Collection Account pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall, in accordance with each Servicing Agreement, oversee matters relating to the servicing of defaulted Mortgage Loans, including approving certain Mortgage Loan modifications, reviewing environmental reports related to foreclosed Mortgage Properties to determine whether to proceed with a foreclosure, approving certain actions relating to the management of REO Property and approving the release of the original borrower of a Mortgage Loan in connection with Mortgage Loan assumptions. In its review of the activities of any Servicer and the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer may rely upon an Officer’s Certificate of such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator (or similar document signed by an officer of such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator), and such Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s Assessment of Compliance and related Accountant’s Attestation or other accountants’ report provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement, with regard to such Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s compliance with the terms of its Servicing Agreement. Subject to Section 9.08, the Master Servicer shall not be responsible or liable for the day-to-day servicing activities of any Servicer or for any unlawful act or omission, breach, negligence, fraud, willful misconduct or bad faith of any Servicer. Upon the occurrence of an event that, unless cured, would constitute grounds for termination of a default of which an Authorized Officer of Servicer under the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and related Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Depositor thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such event of default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall shall, if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, if the event of default is the failure of a Servicer or the Servicing Administrator to remit any provision payment required to be made under the terms of this Agreement the applicable Servicing Agreement, and such failure continues unremedied for the duration of the applicable grace period, then the Master Servicer shall terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer or any Purchase and the Servicing Agreement Administrator pursuant to the contraryapplicable provisions of the related Servicing Agreement, unless any waiver described under Section 6.16 shall have been obtained; provided that, upon the occurrence of such an event of default by the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation may, at its option, terminate all of the rights and powers of Cenlar FSB pursuant to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase and Cenlar FSB Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement)a waiver has been obtained. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of a Servicer or the Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the related Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator in its capacity as Servicer or Servicing Administrator with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating AgenciesTrustee, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and a successor to the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator; provided that, with respect to the appointment of a successor servicer, in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, such successor servicer shall be a new Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMCXxxxxxx Mac-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicerthat is a member in good standing of MERS; provided, howeverfurther, that no Trustee consent shall be required if the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator is a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date; provided, further, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer or a successor servicing administrator (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer or the terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing AgreementAgreement or into an agreement with such successor servicing administrator in a form mutually agreed upon by the parties thereto. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer or successor servicing administrator as it and such successor servicer shall agree. The Master Servicer in its sole discretion shall have the right to agree to compensation of a successor servicer in excess of that permitted to a Servicer under the Servicing Agreements if such increase is, but in its good faith and judgment, necessary or advisable to engage a successor servicer. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall such compensation the Master Servicer be liable for any Servicing Fee or for any differential between the amount of the Servicing Fee paid to the original servicer and the amount necessary to induce any successor servicer (including to act as successor servicer hereunder. To the Master Servicer) be in excess extent the successor servicer assumes the obligations of that payable to the terminated Servicer under the affected Purchase and applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer may amend such Servicing Agreement to effect such change to the Servicing Fee without the consent of the Certificateholders. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a Servicerany Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, the appointment of a successor servicer or successor servicing administrator or the transfer and assumption of the servicing or the servicing administration by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated ServicerServicer or terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse not received by the Master Servicer within 30 days of the Master Servicer’s request for such costs of enforcementreimbursement therefor, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. To the extent the Master Servicer recovers amounts described in (i)-(iii) above subsequent to its reimbursement from the Trust Fund pursuant to (iv) above, then the Master Servicer promptly will reimburse such amounts to the Trust Fund. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing or servicing administration with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or the Servicing Administrator being replaced or for the errors or omissions of such ServicerServicer or the Servicing Administrator. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of any Servicer or the Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee Trustee, the Securities Administrator and each Rating Agency through the Rating AgenciesRule 17g-5 Information Provider, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as the case may be, has succeeded such the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator. (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2012-2), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2012-1)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer's and Master Servicer’s 's Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor and the Certificateholders shall monitor the performance of the Servicers under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements, and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause the Servicers duly and punctually to perform all of their respective duties and obligations thereunder. Upon the occurrence of a default of which an Authorized Officer of the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any Purchase and Servicing Agreement to the contrary, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a (i) the Servicer under its Purchase and Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement)) or (ii) the Servicer under its Servicing Agreement with respect to the servicing or administration of defaulted or delinquent Mortgage Loans and the management and disposition of any REO Properties or for any actions of the Trustee in connection therewith. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s 's rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such the Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, a new Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMC-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicer; provided, however, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations obligation of the terminated Servicer under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree, but in no event shall such compensation of any successor servicer (including the Master Servicer) be in excess of that payable to the Servicer under the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a any Servicer, the appointment of a successor servicer or the transfer and assumption of the servicing by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s 's fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse the Master Servicer for such costs of enforcement, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or for the errors or omissions of such Servicer. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s 's rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, has succeeded such the Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s 's rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Residential Funding Inc), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Residential Funding Inc)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor and the Certificateholders shall monitor the performance of the Servicers under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements and the Servicing Agreements, and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause enforce the obligations of the Servicers to duly and punctually to perform all of their respective duties and obligations thereunder. Upon the occurrence of a default of which an Authorized Officer of the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement Agreement, or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement to the contrary, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable). The Master Servicer shall not permit a successor Servicer to perform any servicing responsibilities hereunder with respect to the Mortgage Loans unless that Servicer first agrees in writing to deliver an Assessment of Compliance and an Accountant’s Attestation in such manner and at such times that permits that Master Servicer to comply with the provisions hereof. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, the rights and powers of such Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, a new Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMC-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicer; provided, however, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree, but in no event shall such compensation of any successor servicer (including the Master Servicer) be in excess of that payable to the Servicer under the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a Servicer, the appointment of a successor servicer or the transfer and assumption of the servicing by the Master Servicer) , at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse the Master Servicer for such costs of enforcement, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or for the errors or omissions of such Servicer. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, has succeeded such Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Bond Securitization LLC), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (J.P. Morgan Mortgage Trust 2006-A5)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor and the Certificateholders shall monitor the performance of the Servicers under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements and the Servicing Agreements, and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause the Servicers duly and punctually to perform all of their respective duties and obligations thereunder. Upon the occurrence of a default of which an Authorized Officer of the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer (other than Xxxxx Fargo) pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement Agreement, or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. In the event that the Master Servicer, in its judgment, determines that Xxxxx Fargo should be terminated as a Servicer in accordance with the Xxxxx Fargo Purchase and Servicing Agreement, or that a notice should be sent pursuant to the Xxxxx Fargo Purchase and Servicing Agreement with respect to the occurrence of an event that, unless cured, would constitute grounds for such termination, the Master Servicer shall notify the Depositor and the Trustee thereof in writing. Upon receipt of such written notification from the Master Servicer, the Trustee shall issue such notice of termination to Xxxxx Fargo or take such other action as it deems appropriate. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement to the contrary, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, with respect to any Additional Collateral Pledged Assets or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral Pledged Assets and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable). The Master Servicer shall not permit a successor Servicer to perform any servicing responsibilities hereunder with respect to the Mortgage Loans unless that Servicer first agrees in writing to deliver an Assessment of Compliance and an Accountant’s Attestation in such manner and at such times that permits that Master Servicer to comply with the provisions hereof. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, the rights and powers of such Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, and the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, unless or until the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, a new Xxxxxx Xxx- Mae- or FHLMC-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicer; provided, however, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer (including the Master ServicerServicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable). With such consent, the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree, but in no event shall such compensation of any successor servicer (including the Master ServicerServicer or the Trustee, as applicable) be in excess of that payable to the Servicer under the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable. The Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a Servicer, the appointment of a successor servicer or the transfer and assumption of the servicing by the Master ServicerServicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse the Master Servicer or the Trustee, as applicable, for such costs of enforcement, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. If the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or for the errors or omissions of such Servicer. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, the Master Servicer or the Trustee, as applicable, shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, has succeeded such Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (J.P. Morgan Mortgage Trust 2006-A1), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (J.P. Morgan Alternative Loan Trust 2006-A1)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer’s and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor Trustee and the Certificateholders shall shall, from and after the Closing Date, monitor the performance of the Servicers and the Servicing Administrator under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements. In performing its obligations hereunder, the Master Servicer shall act in a manner consistent with Accepted Master Servicing Practices. Furthermore, the Master Servicer shall consult with each Servicer and the Servicing Administrator as necessary from time to time to carry out the Master Servicer’s obligations hereunder, shall receive and review all reports, information and other data provided to the Master Servicer by each Servicer and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause enforce the Servicers obligation of each Servicer and the Servicing Administrator duly and punctually to perform all and observe the covenants, duties, obligations and conditions to be performed or observed by such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator under the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall independently and separately monitor each Servicer’s servicing activities and the activities of their respective duties the Servicing Administrator with respect to each related Mortgage Loan in respect of the provisions of the applicable Servicing Agreement, reconcile the reports and obligations thereunderother data provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the previous sentence on a monthly basis based on the Mortgage Loan data provided to the Master Servicer by or on behalf of the Depositor on the Closing Date (upon which data the Master Servicer shall be entitled to rely and with respect to which the Master Servicer shall have no obligation to confirm or verify) and coordinate corrective adjustments to the records of each Servicer and the Master Servicer, and based on such reconciled and corrected information, the Master Servicer shall provide such information to the Securities Administrator as shall be necessary in order for it to prepare the statements specified in Section 4.02, and prepare any other information and statements required to be forwarded by the Master Servicer hereunder. The Master Servicer shall reconcile the results of its Mortgage Loan monitoring with the actual remittances of each Servicer to the Master Servicer Collection Account pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall, in accordance with each Servicing Agreement, oversee matters relating to the servicing of defaulted Mortgage Loans, including approving certain Mortgage Loan modifications, reviewing environmental reports related to foreclosed Mortgage Properties to determine whether to proceed with a foreclosure, approving certain actions relating to the management of REO Property and approving the release of the original borrower of a Mortgage Loan in connection with Mortgage Loan assumptions. The Master Servicer shall not approve any modification of a Mortgage Loan to extend the maturity date of such Mortgage Loan past the Latest Possible Maturity Date of the Certificates. In its review of the activities of any Servicer and the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer may rely upon an Officer’s Certificate of such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator (or similar document signed by an officer of such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator), and such Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s Assessment of Compliance and related Accountant’s Attestation or other accountants’ report provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement, with regard to such Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s compliance with the terms of its Servicing Agreement. Subject to Section 9.08, the Master Servicer shall not be responsible or liable for the day-to-day servicing activities of any Servicer or for any unlawful act or omission, breach, negligence, fraud, willful misconduct or bad faith of any Servicer. Upon the occurrence of an event that, unless cured, would constitute grounds for termination of a default of which an Authorized Officer of Servicer under the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and related Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Depositor thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such event of default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall shall, if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, if the event of default is the failure of a Servicer or the Servicing Administrator to remit any provision payment required to be made under the terms of this Agreement the applicable Servicing Agreement, and such failure continues unremedied for the duration of the applicable grace period, then the Master Servicer shall terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer or any Purchase and the Servicing Agreement Administrator pursuant to the contraryapplicable provisions of the related Servicing Agreement, unless any waiver described under Section 6.16 shall have been obtained; provided that, upon the occurrence of such an event of default by the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation may, at its option, terminate all of the rights and powers of Cenlar FSB pursuant to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase and Cenlar FSB Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement)a waiver has been obtained. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of a Servicer or the Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the related Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator in its capacity as Servicer or Servicing Administrator with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating AgenciesTrustee, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and a successor to the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator; provided that, with respect to the appointment of a successor servicer, in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, such successor servicer shall be a new Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMCXxxxxxx Mac-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicerthat is a member in good standing of MERS; provided, howeverfurther, that no Trustee consent shall be required if the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator is a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date; provided, further, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer or a successor servicing administrator (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer or the terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing AgreementAgreement or into an agreement with such successor servicing administrator in a form mutually agreed upon by the parties thereto. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer or successor servicing administrator as it and such successor servicer shall agree. The Master Servicer in its sole discretion shall have the right to agree to compensation of a successor servicer in excess of that permitted to a Servicer under the Servicing Agreements if such increase is, but in its good faith and judgment, necessary or advisable to engage a successor servicer. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall such compensation the Master Servicer be liable for any Servicing Fee or for any differential between the amount of the Servicing Fee paid to the original servicer and the amount necessary to induce any successor servicer (including to act as successor servicer hereunder. To the Master Servicer) be in excess extent the successor servicer assumes the obligations of that payable to the terminated Servicer under the affected Purchase and applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer may amend such Servicing Agreement to effect such change to the Servicing Fee without the consent of the Certificateholders. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a Servicerany Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, the appointment of a successor servicer or successor servicing administrator or the transfer and assumption of the servicing or the servicing administration by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated ServicerServicer or terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse not received by the Master Servicer within 30 days of the Master Servicer’s request for such costs of enforcementreimbursement therefor, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. To the extent the Master Servicer recovers amounts described in (i)-(iii) above subsequent to its reimbursement from the Trust Fund pursuant to (iv) above, then the Master Servicer promptly will reimburse such amounts to the Trust Fund. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing or servicing administration with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or the Servicing Administrator being replaced or for the errors or omissions of such ServicerServicer or the Servicing Administrator. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of any Servicer or the Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee Trustee, the Securities Administrator and each Rating Agency through the Rating AgenciesRule 17g-5 Information Provider, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as the case may be, has succeeded such the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator. (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2012-3), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2012-5)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer’s and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor Trustee and the Certificateholders shall shall, from and after the Closing Date, monitor the performance of the Servicers and the Servicing Administrator under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements. In performing its obligations hereunder, the Master Servicer shall act in a manner consistent with Accepted Master Servicing Practices. Furthermore, the Master Servicer shall consult with each Servicer and the Servicing Administrator as necessary from time to time to carry out the Master Servicer’s obligations hereunder, shall receive and review all reports, information and other data provided to the Master Servicer by each Servicer and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause enforce the Servicers obligation of each Servicer and the Servicing Administrator duly and punctually to perform all and observe the covenants, duties, obligations and conditions to be performed or observed by such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator under the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall independently and separately monitor each Servicer’s servicing activities and the activities of their respective duties the Servicing Administrator with respect to each related Mortgage Loan in respect of the provisions of the applicable Servicing Agreement, reconcile the reports and obligations thereunderother data provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the previous sentence on a monthly basis based on the Mortgage Loan data provided to the Master Servicer by or on behalf of the Depositor on the Closing Date (upon which data the Master Servicer shall be entitled to rely and with respect to which the Master Servicer shall have no obligation to confirm or verify) and coordinate corrective adjustments to the records of each Servicer and the Master Servicer, and based on such reconciled and corrected information, the Master Servicer shall provide such information to the Securities Administrator as shall be necessary in order for it to prepare the statements specified in Section 4.02, and prepare any other information and statements required to be forwarded by the Master Servicer hereunder. The Master Servicer shall reconcile the results of its Mortgage Loan monitoring with the actual remittances of each Servicer to the DistributionMaster Servicer Collection Account pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall, in accordance with each Servicing Agreement, oversee matters relating to the servicing of defaulted Mortgage Loans, including approving certain Mortgage Loan modifications, reviewing environmental reports related to foreclosed Mortgage Properties to determine whether to proceed with a foreclosure, approving certain actions relating to the management of REO Property and approving the release of the original borrower of a Mortgage Loan in connection with Mortgage Loan assumptions. The Master Servicer shall not approve any modification of a Mortgage Loan to extend the maturity date of such Mortgage Loan past the Latest Possible Maturity Date of the Certificates. In its review of the activities of any Servicer and the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer may rely upon an Officer’s Certificate of such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator (or similar document signed by an officer of such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator), and such Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s Assessment of Compliance and related Accountant’s Attestation or other accountants’ report provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement, with regard to such Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s compliance with the terms of its Servicing Agreement. Subject to Section 9.08, the Master Servicer shall not be responsible or liable for the day-to-dayday-to-day servicing activities of any Servicer or for any unlawful act or omission, breach, negligence, fraud, willful misconduct or bad faith of any Servicer. Upon the occurrence of an event that, unless cured, would constitute grounds for termination of a default of which an Authorized Officer of Servicer under the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and related Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Depositor thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such event of default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall shall, if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, if the event of default is the failure of a Servicer or the Servicing Administrator to remit any provision payment required to be made under the terms of this Agreement the applicable Servicing Agreement, and such failure continues unremedied for the duration of the applicable grace period, then the Master Servicer shall terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer or any Purchase and the Servicing Agreement Administrator pursuant to the contraryapplicable provisions of the related Servicing Agreement, unless any waiver described under Section 6.16 shall have been obtained; provided that, upon the occurrence of such an event of default by the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation may, at its option, terminate all of the rights and powers of Cenlar FSB pursuant to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase and Cenlar FSB Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement)a waiver has been obtained. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of a Servicer or the Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the related Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator in its capacity as Servicer or Servicing Administrator with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating AgenciesTrustee, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and a successor to the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator; provided that, with respect to the appointment of a successor servicer, in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, such successor servicer shall be a new Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMCXxxxxxx Mac-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicerthat is a member in good standing of MERS; provided, howeverfurther, that no Trustee consent shall be required if the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator is a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date; provided, further, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer or a successor servicing administrator (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer or the terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing AgreementAgreement or into an agreement with such successor servicing administrator in a form mutually agreed upon by the parties thereto. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer or successor servicing administrator as it and such successor servicer shall agree. The Master Servicer in its sole discretion shall have the right to agree to compensation of a successor servicer in excess of that permitted to a Servicer under the Servicing Agreements if such increase is, but in its good faith and judgment, necessary or advisable to engage a successor servicer. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall such compensation the Master Servicer be liable for any Servicing Fee or for any differential between the amount of the Servicing Fee paid to the original servicer and the amount necessary to induce any successor servicer (including to act as successor servicer hereunder. To the Master Servicer) be in excess extent the successor servicer assumes the obligations of that payable to the terminated Servicer under the affected Purchase and applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer may amend such Servicing Agreement to effect such change to the Servicing Fee without the consent of the Certificateholders. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a Servicerany Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, the appointment of a successor servicer or successor servicing administrator or the transfer and assumption of the servicing or the servicing administration by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated ServicerServicer or terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse not received by the Master Servicer within 30 days of the Master Servicer’s request for such costs of enforcementreimbursement therefor, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. To the extent the Master Servicer recovers amounts described in (i)-(iii) above subsequent to its reimbursement from the Trust Fund pursuant to (iv) above, then the Master Servicer promptly will reimburse such amounts to the Trust Fund. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing or servicing administration with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or the Servicing Administrator being replaced or for the errors or omissions of such ServicerServicer or the Servicing Administrator. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of any Servicer or the Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee Trustee, the Securities Administrator and each Rating Agency through the Rating AgenciesRule 17g-5 Information Provider, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as the case may be, has succeeded such the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator . (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2013-1), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2012-5)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor and the Certificateholders shall monitor the performance of the Servicers under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements and the Servicing Agreements, and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause enforce the obligations of the Servicers to duly and punctually to perform all of their respective duties and obligations thereunder. Upon the occurrence of a default of which an Authorized Officer of the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement Agreement, or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement to the contrary, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable). The Master Servicer shall not permit a successor Servicer to perform any servicing responsibilities hereunder with respect to the Mortgage Loans unless that Servicer first agrees in writing to deliver an Assessment of Compliance and an Accountant’s Attestation in such manner and at such times that permits that Master Servicer to comply with the provisions hereof. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, the rights and powers of such Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, a new Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMC-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicer; provided, however, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree, but in no event shall such compensation of any successor servicer (including the Master Servicer) be in excess of that payable to the Servicer under the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a Servicer, the appointment of a successor servicer or the transfer and assumption of the servicing by the Master Servicer) Servicer at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse the Master Servicer or the Trustee, as applicable, for such costs of enforcement, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or for the errors or omissions of such Servicer. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, has succeeded such Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (J.P. Morgan Alternative Loan Trust 2007-A2), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (J.P. Morgan Alternative Loan Trust 2007-A2)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer’s and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor Trustee and the Certificateholders shall shall, from and after the Closing Date, monitor the performance of the Servicers and the Servicing Administrator under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements. In performing its obligations hereunder, the Master Servicer shall act in a manner consistent with Accepted Master Servicing Practices. Furthermore, the Master Servicer shall consult with each Servicer and the Servicing Administrator as necessary from time to time to carry out the Master Servicer’s obligations hereunder, shall receive and review all reports, information and other data provided to the Master Servicer by each Servicer and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause enforce the Servicers obligation of each Servicer and the Servicing Administrator duly and punctually to perform all and observe the covenants, duties, obligations and conditions to be performed or observed by such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator under the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall independently and separately monitor each Servicer’s servicing activities and the activities of their respective duties the Servicing Administrator with respect to each related Mortgage Loan in respect of the provisions of the applicable Servicing Agreement, reconcile the reports and obligations thereunderother data provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the previous sentence on a monthly basis based on the Mortgage Loan data provided to the Master Servicer by or on behalf of the Depositor on the Closing Date (upon which data the Master Servicer shall be entitled to rely and with respect to which the Master Servicer shall have no obligation to confirm or verify) and coordinate corrective adjustments to the records of each Servicer and the Master Servicer, and based on such reconciled and corrected information, the Master Servicer shall provide such information to the Securities Administrator as shall be necessary in order for it to prepare the statements specified in Section 4.02, and prepare any other information and statements required to be forwarded by the Master Servicer hereunder. The Master Servicer shall reconcile the results of its Mortgage Loan monitoring with the actual remittances of each Servicer to the DistributionMaster Servicer Collection Account pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall, in accordance with each Servicing Agreement, oversee matters relating to the servicing of defaulted Mortgage Loans, including approving certain Mortgage Loan modifications, reviewing environmental reports related to foreclosed Mortgage Properties to determine whether to proceed with a foreclosure, approving certain actions relating to the management of REO Property and approving the release of the original borrower of a Mortgage Loan in connection with Mortgage Loan assumptions. In its review of the activities of any Servicer and the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer may rely upon an Officer’s Certificate of such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator (or similar document signed by an officer of such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator), and such Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s Assessment of Compliance and related Accountant’s Attestation or other accountants’ report provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement, with regard to such Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s compliance with the terms of its Servicing Agreement. Subject to Section 9.08, the Master Servicer shall not be responsible or liable for the day-to-day servicing activities of any Servicer or for any unlawful act or omission, breach, negligence, fraud, willful misconduct or bad faith of any Servicer. Upon the occurrence of an event that, unless cured, would constitute grounds for termination of a default of which an Authorized Officer of Servicer under the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and related Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Depositor thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such event of default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall shall, if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, if the event of default is the failure of a Servicer or the Servicing Administrator to remit any provision payment required to be made under the terms of this Agreement the applicable Servicing Agreement, and such failure continues unremedied for the duration of the applicable grace period, then the Master Servicer shall terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer or any Purchase and the Servicing Agreement Administrator pursuant to the contraryapplicable provisions of the related Servicing Agreement, unless any waiver described under Section 6.16 shall have been obtained; provided that, upon the occurrence of such an event of default by the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation may, at its option, terminate all of the rights and powers of Cenlar FSB pursuant to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase and Cenlar FSB Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement)a waiver has been obtained. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of a Servicer or the Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the related Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator in its capacity as Servicer or Servicing Administrator with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating AgenciesTrustee, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and a successor to the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator; provided that, with respect to the appointment of a successor servicer, in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, such successor servicer shall be a new Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMCXxxxxxx Mac-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicerthat is a member in good standing of MERS; provided, howeverfurther, that no Trustee consent shall be required if the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator is a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date; provided, further, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer or a successor servicing administrator (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer or the terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing AgreementAgreement or into an agreement with such successor servicing administrator in a form mutually agreed upon by the parties thereto. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer or successor servicing administrator as it and such successor servicer shall agree. The Master Servicer in its sole discretion shall have the right to agree to compensation of a successor servicer in excess of that permitted to a Servicer under the Servicing Agreements if such increase is, but in its good faith and judgment, necessary or advisable to engage a successor servicer. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall such compensation the Master Servicer be liable for any Servicing Fee or for any differential between the amount of the Servicing Fee paid to the original servicer and the amount necessary to induce any successor servicer (including to act as successor servicer hereunder. To the Master Servicer) be in excess extent the successor servicer assumes the obligations of that payable to the terminated Servicer under the affected Purchase and applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer may amend such Servicing Agreement to effect such change to the Servicing Fee without the consent of the Certificateholders. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a Servicerany Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, the appointment of a successor servicer or successor servicing administrator or the transfer and assumption of the servicing or the servicing administration by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated ServicerServicer or terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse not received by the Master Servicer within 30 days of the Master Servicer’s request for such costs of enforcementreimbursement therefor, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. To the extent the Master Servicer recovers amounts described in (i)-(iii) above subsequent to its reimbursement from the Trust Fund pursuant to (iv) above, then the Master Servicer promptly will reimburse such amounts to the Trust Fund. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing or servicing administration with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or the Servicing Administrator being replaced or for the errors or omissions of such ServicerServicer or the Servicing Administrator. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of any Servicer or the Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee Trustee, the Securities Administrator and each Rating Agency through the Rating AgenciesRule 17g-5 Information Provider, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as the case may be, has succeeded such the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator. (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2012-2), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2012-1)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer’s and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor Trustee and the Certificateholders shall shall, from and after the Closing Date, monitor the performance of the Servicers and the Servicing Administrator under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements. In performing its obligations hereunder, the Master Servicer shall act in a manner consistent with Accepted Master Servicing Practices. Furthermore, the Master Servicer shall consult with each Servicer and the Servicing Administrator as necessary from time to time to carry out the Master Servicer’s obligations hereunder, shall receive and review all reports, information and other data provided to the Master Servicer by each Servicer and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause enforce the Servicers obligation of each Servicer and the Servicing Administrator duly and punctually to perform all and observe the covenants, duties, obligations and conditions to be performed or observed by such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator under the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall independently and separately monitor each Servicer’s servicing activities and the activities of their respective duties the Servicing Administrator with respect to each related Mortgage Loan in respect of the provisions of the applicable Servicing Agreement, reconcile the reports and obligations thereunderother data provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the previous sentence on a monthly basis based on the Mortgage Loan data provided to the Master Servicer by or on behalf of the Depositor on the Closing Date (upon which data the Master Servicer shall be entitled to rely and with respect to which the Master Servicer shall have no obligation to confirm or verify) and coordinate corrective adjustments to the records of each Servicer and the Master Servicer, and based on such reconciled and corrected information, the Master Servicer shall provide such information to the Securities Administrator as shall be necessary in order for it to prepare the statements specified in Section 4.02, and prepare any other information and statements required to be forwarded by the Master Servicer hereunder. The Master Servicer shall reconcile the results of its Mortgage Loan monitoring with the actual remittances of each Servicer to the Master Servicer Collection Account pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall, as allowed under each Servicing Agreement, oversee matters relating to the servicing of defaulted Mortgage Loans, including approving certain Mortgage Loan modifications, reviewing environmental reports related to foreclosed Mortgage Properties to determine whether to proceed with a foreclosure, approving certain actions relating to the management of REO Property and approving the release of the original borrower of a Mortgage Loan in connection with Mortgage Loan assumptions. The Master Servicer shall not approve any modification of a Mortgage Loan to extend the maturity date of such Mortgage Loan past the Latest Possible Maturity Date of the Certificates. In its review of the activities of any Servicer and the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer may rely upon an Officer’s Certificate of such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator (or similar document signed by an officer of such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator), and such Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s Assessment of Compliance and related Accountant’s Attestation or other accountants’ report provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement, with regard to such Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s compliance with the terms of its Servicing Agreement. Subject to Section 9.08, the Master Servicer shall not be responsible or liable for the day-to-day servicing activities of any Servicer or for any unlawful act or omission, breach, negligence, fraud, willful misconduct or bad faith of any Servicer. Upon the occurrence of an event that, unless cured, would constitute grounds for termination of a default of which an Authorized Officer of Servicer under the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and related Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Depositor thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such event of default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall shall, if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and such Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, if the event of default is the failure of a Servicer or the Servicing Administrator to remit any provision payment required to be made under the terms of this Agreement the applicable Servicing Agreement, and such failure continues unremedied for the duration of the applicable grace period, then the Master Servicer shall terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer or any Purchase and the Servicing Agreement Administrator pursuant to the contraryapplicable provisions of the related Servicing Agreement, unless any waiver described under Section 6.16 shall have been obtained; provided that, upon the occurrence of such an event of default by the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation may, at its option, terminate all of the rights and powers of Cenlar FSB pursuant to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase and related Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement)a waiver has been obtained. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of a Servicer or the Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the related Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator in its capacity as Servicer or Servicing Administrator with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating AgenciesTrustee, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and a successor to the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator; provided that, with respect to the appointment of a successor servicer, in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, such successor servicer shall be a new Xxxxxx Xxx- Fxxxxx Mxx- or FHLMCFxxxxxx Mac-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicerthat is a member in good standing of MERS; provided, howeverfurther, that no Trustee consent shall be required if the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator is a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date; provided, further, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 daysdays unless additional time is required to properly protect the assets of the Trust Fund) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer or a successor servicing administrator (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer or the terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing AgreementAgreement or into an agreement with such successor servicing administrator in a form mutually agreed upon by the parties thereto. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer or successor servicing administrator as it and such successor servicer shall agree. The Master Servicer in its sole discretion shall have the right to agree to compensation of a successor servicer in excess of that permitted to a Servicer under the related Servicing Agreement if such increase is, but in its good faith and judgment, necessary or advisable to engage a successor servicer. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall such compensation the Master Servicer be liable for any Servicing Fee or for any differential between the amount of the Servicing Fee paid to the original servicer and the amount necessary to induce any successor servicer (including to act as successor servicer hereunder. To the Master Servicer) be in excess extent the successor servicer assumes the obligations of that payable to the terminated Servicer under the affected Purchase and applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer may amend such Servicing Agreement to effect such change to the Servicing Fee without the consent of the Certificateholders. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a Servicerthe Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, the appointment of a successor servicer or successor servicing administrator or the transfer and assumption of the servicing or the servicing administration by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated ServicerServicer or terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse not received by the Master Servicer within 30 days of the Master Servicer's request for such costs of enforcementreimbursement therefor, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. To the extent the Master Servicer recovers amounts described in (i)-(iii) above subsequent to its reimbursement from the Trust Fund pursuant to (iv) above, then the Master Servicer promptly will reimburse such amounts to the Trust Fund. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing or servicing administration with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or the Servicing Administrator being replaced or for the errors or omissions of such ServicerServicer or the Servicing Administrator. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of any Servicer or the Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee Trustee, the Securities Administrator and each Rating Agency through the Rating AgenciesRule 17g-5 Information Provider, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as the case may be, has succeeded the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under such Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator . (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2013-8), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2013-8)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer’s and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor Trustee and the Certificateholders shall shall, from and after the Closing Date, monitor the performance of the Servicers and the Servicing Administrator under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements. In performing its obligations hereunder, the Master Servicer shall act in a manner consistent with Accepted Master Servicing Practices. Furthermore, the Master Servicer shall consult with each Servicer and the Servicing Administrator as necessary from time to time to carry out the Master Servicer’s obligations hereunder, shall receive and review all reports, information and other data provided to the Master Servicer by each Servicer and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause enforce the Servicers obligation of each Servicer and the Servicing Administrator duly and punctually to perform all and observe the covenants, duties, obligations and conditions to be performed or observed by such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator under the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall independently and separately monitor each Servicer’s servicing activities and the activities of their respective duties the Servicing Administrator with respect to each related Mortgage Loan in respect of the provisions of the applicable Servicing Agreement, reconcile the reports and obligations thereunderother data provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the previous sentence on a monthly basis based on the Mortgage Loan data provided to the Master Servicer by or on behalf of the Depositor on the Closing Date (upon which data the Master Servicer shall be entitled to rely and with respect to which the Master Servicer shall have no obligation to confirm or verify) and coordinate corrective adjustments to the records of each Servicer and the Master Servicer, and based on such reconciled and corrected information, the Master Servicer shall provide such information to the Securities Administrator as shall be necessary in order for it to prepare the statements specified in Section 4.02, and prepare any other information and statements required to be forwarded by the Master Servicer hereunder. The Master Servicer shall reconcile the results of its Mortgage Loan monitoring with the actual remittances of each Servicer to the Master Servicer Collection Account pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall, in accordance with each Servicing Agreement, oversee matters relating to the servicing of defaulted Mortgage Loans, including approving certain Mortgage Loan modifications, reviewing environmental reports related to foreclosed Mortgage Properties to determine whether to proceed with a foreclosure, approving certain actions relating to the management of REO Property and approving the release of the original borrower of a Mortgage Loan in connection with Mortgage Loan assumptions. The Master Servicer shall not approve any modification of a Mortgage Loan to extend the maturity date of such Mortgage Loan past the Latest Possible Maturity Date of the Certificates. In its review of the activities of any Servicer and the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer may rely upon an Officer’s Certificate of such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator (or similar document signed by an officer of such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator), and such Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s Assessment of Compliance and related Accountant’s Attestation or other accountants’ report provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement, with regard to such Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s compliance with the terms of its Servicing Agreement. Subject to Section 9.08, the Master Servicer shall not be responsible or liable for the day-to-day servicing activities of any Servicer or for any unlawful act or omission, breach, negligence, fraud, willful misconduct or bad faith of any Servicer. Upon the occurrence of an event that, unless cured, would constitute grounds for termination of a default of which an Authorized Officer of Servicer under the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and related Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Depositor thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such event of default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall shall, if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, if the event of default is the failure of a Servicer or the Servicing Administrator to remit any provision payment required to be made under the terms of this Agreement the applicable Servicing Agreement, and such failure continues unremedied for the duration of the applicable grace period, then the Master Servicer shall terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer or any Purchase and the Servicing Agreement Administrator pursuant to the contraryapplicable provisions of the related Servicing Agreement, unless any waiver described under Section 6.16 shall have been obtained; provided that, upon the occurrence of such an event of default by the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation may, at its option, terminate all of the rights and powers of Cenlar FSB pursuant to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase and Cenlar FSB Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement)a waiver has been obtained. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of a Servicer or the Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the related Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator in its capacity as Servicer or Servicing Administrator with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating AgenciesTrustee, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and a successor to the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator; provided that, with respect to the appointment of a successor servicer, in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, such successor servicer shall be a new Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMCXxxxxxx Mac-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicerthat is a member in good standing of MERS; provided, howeverfurther, that no Trustee consent shall be required if the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator is a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date; provided, further, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer or a successor servicing administrator (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer or the terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing AgreementAgreement or into an agreement with such successor servicing administrator in a form mutually agreed upon by the parties thereto. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer or successor servicing administrator as it and such successor servicer shall agree. The Master Servicer in its sole discretion shall have the right to agree to compensation of a successor servicer in excess of that permitted to a Servicer under the Servicing Agreements if such increase is, but in its good faith and judgment, necessary or advisable to engage a successor servicer. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall such compensation the Master Servicer be liable for any Servicing Fee or for any differential between the amount of the Servicing Fee paid to the original servicer and the amount necessary to induce any successor servicer (including to act as successor servicer hereunder. To the Master Servicer) be in excess extent the successor servicer assumes the obligations of that payable to the terminated Servicer under the affected Purchase and applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer may amend such Servicing Agreement to effect such change to the Servicing Fee without the consent of the Certificateholders. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a Servicerany Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, the appointment of a successor servicer or successor servicing administrator or the transfer and assumption of the servicing or the servicing administration by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated ServicerServicer or terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse not received by the Master Servicer within 30 days of the Master Servicer’s request for such costs of enforcementreimbursement therefor, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. To the extent the Master Servicer recovers amounts described in (i)-(iii) above subsequent to its reimbursement from the Trust Fund pursuant to (iv) above, then the Master Servicer promptly will reimburse such amounts to the Trust Fund. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing or servicing administration with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or the Servicing Administrator being replaced or for the errors or omissions of such ServicerServicer or the Servicing Administrator. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of any Servicer or the Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee Trustee, the Securities Administrator and each Rating Agency through the Rating AgenciesRule 17g-5 Information Provider, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as the case may be, has succeeded such the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator . (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2012-4), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2013-1)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer’s and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor Trustee and the Certificateholders shall shall, from and after the Closing Date, monitor the performance of the Servicers under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements. In performing its obligations hereunder, the Master Servicer shall act in a manner consistent with Accepted Master Servicing Practices. Furthermore, the Master Servicer shall consult with each Servicer as necessary from time to time to carry out the Master Servicer’s obligations hereunder, shall receive and review all reports, information and other data provided to the Master Servicer by each Servicer and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause enforce the Servicers obligation of each Servicer duly and punctually to perform all and observe the covenants, duties, obligations and conditions to be performed or observed by such Servicer under the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall independently and separately monitor each Servicer’s servicing activities with respect to each related Mortgage Loan in respect of their respective duties the provisions of the applicable Servicing Agreement, reconcile the reports and obligations thereunderother data provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the previous sentence on a monthly basis based on the Mortgage Loan data provided to the Master Servicer by or on behalf of the Depositor on the Closing Date (upon which data the Master Servicer shall be entitled to rely and with respect to which the Master Servicer shall have no obligation to confirm or verify) and coordinate corrective adjustments to each Servicer’s and the Master Servicer’s records, and based on such reconciled and corrected information, the Master Servicer shall provide such information to the Securities Administrator as shall be necessary in order for it to prepare the statements specified in Section 4.02, and prepare any other information and statements required to be forwarded by the Master Servicer hereunder. The Master Servicer shall reconcile the results of its Mortgage Loan monitoring with the actual remittances of each Servicer to the Distribution Account pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement. In its review of the activities of any Servicer, the Master Servicer may rely upon an Officer’s Certificate of such Servicer (or similar document signed by an officer of such Servicer), and such Servicer’s Assessment of Compliance and related Accountant’s Attestation or other accountants’ report provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement, with regard to such Servicer’s compliance with the terms of its Servicing Agreement. Subject to Section 9.08, the Master Servicer shall not be responsible or liable for the day-to-day servicing activities of any Servicer or for any unlawful act or omission, breach, negligence, fraud, willful misconduct or bad faith of any Servicer. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement, the Master Servicer shall have no duty to review any loss mitigation decisions of any Servicer (including without limitation the calculation of realized losses and gains and the management and disposition of any REO Properties) or any actions of the Trustee or the Controlling Holder in connection therewith. Upon the occurrence of an event that, unless cured, would constitute grounds for termination of a default of which an Authorized Officer of Servicer under the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and related Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Depositor thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such event of default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall shall, if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, if the event of default is the failure of a Servicer to remit any provision payment required to be made under the terms of this Agreement or any Purchase the applicable Servicing Agreement, and Servicing Agreement to such failure continues unremedied for the contraryduration of the applicable grace period, then the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation to supervise, monitor or oversee terminate all of the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase rights and Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations powers of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the applicable provisions of the such Purchase and related Servicing Agreement), unless any waiver described under Section 6.16 shall have been obtained. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and the related Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such the Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating AgenciesTrustee, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, a new Xxxxxx Xxx- Fxxxxx Mxx- or FHLMCFxxxxxx Mac-approved Person that is a member in good standing of MERS to serve as successor to the Servicer; provided, however, that no Trustee consent shall be required if the successor servicer is a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date; provided, further, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree. The Master Servicer in its sole discretion shall have the right to agree to compensation of a successor servicer in excess of that permitted to a Servicer under the Servicing Agreements if such increase is, but in its good faith and judgment, necessary or advisable to engage a successor servicer. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall such compensation the Master Servicer be liable for any Servicing Fee or for any differential between the amount of the Servicing Fee paid to the original servicer and the amount necessary to induce any successor servicer (including to act as successor servicer hereunder. To the Master Servicer) be in excess extent the successor servicer assumes the obligations of that payable to the terminated Servicer under the affected Purchase and applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer may amend such Servicing Agreement to effect such change to the Servicing Fee without the consent of the Certificateholders. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a any Servicer, the appointment of a successor servicer or the transfer and assumption of the servicing by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse not received by the Master Servicer within 30 days of the Master Servicer's request for such costs of enforcementreimbursement therefor, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. To the extent the Master Servicer recovers amounts described in (i)-(iii) above subsequent to its reimbursement from the Trust Fund pursuant to (iv) above, then the Master Servicer promptly will reimburse such amounts to the Trust Fund. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or for the errors or omissions of such Servicer. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and the applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee Trustee, the Securities Administrator and the Rating AgenciesAgency, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, has succeeded such the Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2011-1), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2011-1)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor and the Certificateholders shall monitor the performance of the Servicers under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements, and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause the Servicers duly and punctually to perform all of their respective duties and obligations thereunder. Upon the occurrence of a default of which an Authorized Officer of the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any Purchase and Servicing Agreement to the contrary, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase and Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement). (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, a new Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMC-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicer; provided, however, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree, but in no event shall such compensation of any successor servicer (including the Master Servicer) be in excess of that payable to the Servicer under the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a Servicer, the appointment of a successor servicer or the transfer and assumption of the servicing by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse the Master Servicer for such costs of enforcement, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or for the errors or omissions of such Servicer. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, has succeeded such Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (J.P. Morgan Mortgage Trust 2005-Alt 1), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (J.P. Morgan Alternative Loan Trust 2005-A2)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer’s and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor Trustee and the Certificateholders shall shall, from and after the Closing Date, monitor the performance of the Servicers under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements. In performing its obligations hereunder, the Master Servicer shall act in a manner consistent with Accepted Master Servicing Practices. Furthermore, the Master Servicer shall consult with each Servicer as necessary from time to time to carry out the Master Servicer’s obligations hereunder, shall receive and review all reports, information and other data provided to the Master Servicer by each Servicer and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause enforce the Servicers obligation of each Servicer duly and punctually to perform all and observe the covenants, duties, obligations and conditions to be performed or observed by such Servicer under the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall independently and separately monitor each Servicer’s servicing activities with respect to each related Mortgage Loan in respect of their respective duties the provisions of the applicable Servicing Agreement, reconcile the reports and obligations thereunderother data provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the previous sentence on a monthly basis based on the Mortgage Loan data provided to the Master Servicer by or on behalf of the Depositor on the Closing Date (upon which data the Master Servicer shall be entitled to rely and with respect to which the Master Servicer shall have no obligation to confirm or verify) and coordinate corrective adjustments to each Servicer’s and the Master Servicer’s records, and based on such reconciled and corrected information, the Master Servicer shall provide such information to the Securities Administrator as shall be necessary in order for it to prepare the statements specified in Section 4.02, and prepare any other information and statements required to be forwarded by the Master Servicer hereunder. The Master Servicer shall reconcile the results of its Mortgage Loan monitoring with the actual remittances of each Servicer to the Distribution Account pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement. In its review of the activities of any Servicer, the Master Servicer may rely upon an Officer’s Certificate of such Servicer (or similar document signed by an officer of such Servicer), and such Servicer’s Assessment of Compliance and related Accountant’s Attestation or other accountants’ report provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement, with regard to such Servicer’s compliance with the terms of its Servicing Agreement. Subject to Section 9.08, the Master Servicer shall not be responsible or liable for the day-to-day servicing activities of any Servicer or for any unlawful act or omission, breach, negligence, fraud, willful misconduct or bad faith of any Servicer. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement, the Master Servicer shall have no duty to review any loss mitigation decisions of any Servicer (including without limitation the calculation of realized losses and gains and the management and disposition of any REO Properties) or any actions of the Trustee or the Controlling Holder in connection therewith. Upon the occurrence of an event that, unless cured, would constitute grounds for termination of a default of which an Authorized Officer of Servicer under the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and related Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Depositor thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such event of default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall shall, if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, if the event of default is the failure of a Servicer to remit any provision payment required to be made under the terms of this Agreement or any Purchase the applicable Servicing Agreement, and Servicing Agreement to such failure continues unremedied for the contraryduration of the applicable grace period, then the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation to supervise, monitor or oversee terminate all of the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase rights and Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations powers of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the applicable provisions of the such Purchase and related Servicing Agreement), unless any waiver described under Section 6.16 shall have been obtained. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and the related Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such the Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating AgenciesTrustee, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, a new Xxxxxx Xxx- Fxxxxx Mxx- or FHLMCFxxxxxx Mac-approved Person that is a member in good standing of MERS to serve as successor to the Servicer; provided, however, that no Trustee consent shall be required if the successor servicer is a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date; provided, further, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree. The Master Servicer in its sole discretion shall have the right to agree to compensation of a successor servicer in excess of that permitted to a Servicer under the Servicing Agreements if such increase is, but in its good faith and judgment, necessary or advisable to engage a successor servicer. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall such compensation the Master Servicer be liable for any Servicing Fee or for any differential between the amount of the Servicing Fee paid to the original servicer and the amount necessary to induce any successor servicer (including to act as successor servicer hereunder. To the Master Servicer) be in excess extent the successor servicer assumes the obligations of that payable to the terminated Servicer under the affected Purchase and applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer may amend such Servicing Agreement to effect such change to the Servicing Fee without the consent of the Certificateholders. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a any Servicer, the appointment of a successor servicer or the transfer and assumption of the servicing by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse not received by the Master Servicer within 30 days of the Master Servicer's request for such costs of enforcementreimbursement therefor, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. To the extent the Master Servicer recovers amounts described in (i)-(iii) above subsequent to its reimbursement from the Trust Fund pursuant to (iv) above, then the Master Servicer promptly will reimburse such amounts to the Trust Fund. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or for the errors or omissions of such Servicer. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and the applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee Trustee, the Securities Administrator and the Rating AgenciesAgency through the Rule 17g-5 Information Provider, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, has succeeded such the Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2011-2), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2011-2)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer’s and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor Trustee and the Certificateholders shall shall, from and after the Closing Date, monitor the performance of the Servicers and the Servicing Administrator under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements. In performing its obligations hereunder, the Master Servicer shall act in a manner consistent with Accepted Master Servicing Practices. Furthermore, the Master Servicer shall consult with each Servicer and the Servicing Administrator as necessary from time to time to carry out the Master Servicer’s obligations hereunder, shall receive and review all reports, information and other data provided to the Master Servicer by each Servicer and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause enforce the Servicers obligation of each Servicer and the Servicing Administrator duly and punctually to perform all and observe the covenants, duties, obligations and conditions to be performed or observed by such Servicer or Servicing Administrator under the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall independently and separately monitor each Servicer’s servicing activities and the activities of their respective duties the Servicing Administrator with respect to each related Mortgage Loan in respect of the provisions of the applicable Servicing Agreement, reconcile the reports and obligations thereunderother data provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the previous sentence on a monthly basis based on the Mortgage Loan data provided to the Master Servicer by or on behalf of the Depositor on the Closing Date (upon which data the Master Servicer shall be entitled to rely and with respect to which the Master Servicer shall have no obligation to confirm or verify) and coordinate corrective adjustments to the records of each Servicer and the Master Servicer, and based on such reconciled and corrected information, the Master Servicer shall provide such information to the Securities Administrator as shall be necessary in order for it to prepare the statements specified in Section 4.02, and prepare any other information and statements required to be forwarded by the Master Servicer hereunder. The Master Servicer shall reconcile the results of its Mortgage Loan monitoring with the actual remittances of each Servicer to the Distribution Account pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall, in accordance with each Servicing Agreement, oversee matters relating to the servicing of defaulted Mortgage Loans, including approving certain Mortgage Loan modifications, reviewing environmental reports related to foreclosed Mortgage Properties to determine whether to proceed with a foreclosure, approving certain actions relating to the management of REO Property and approving the release of the original borrower of a Mortgage Loan in connection with Mortgage Loan assumptions. The Master Servicer shall not approve any modification of a Mortgage Loan to extend the maturity date of such Mortgage Loan past the Latest Possible Maturity Date of the Certificates. In its review of the activities of any Servicer and the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer may rely upon an Officer’s Certificate of such Servicer or Servicing Administrator (or similar document signed by an officer of such Servicer or Servicing Administrator), and such Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s Assessment of Compliance and related Accountant’s Attestation or other accountants’ report provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement, with regard to such Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s compliance with the terms of its Servicing Agreement. Subject to Section 9.08, the Master Servicer shall not be responsible or liable for the day-to-day servicing activities of any Servicer or for any unlawful act or omission, breach, negligence, fraud, willful misconduct or bad faith of any Servicer. Upon the occurrence of an event that, unless cured, would constitute grounds for termination of a default of which an Authorized Officer of Servicer under the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and related Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Depositor thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such event of default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall shall, if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, if the event of default is the failure of a Servicer or the Servicing Administrator to remit any provision payment required to be made under the terms of this Agreement the applicable Servicing Agreement, and such failure continues unremedied for the duration of the applicable grace period, then the Master Servicer shall terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer or any Purchase and the Servicing Agreement Administrator pursuant to the contraryapplicable provisions of the related Servicing Agreement, unless any waiver described under Section 6.16 shall have been obtained; provided that, upon the occurrence of such an event of default by the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation may, at its option, terminate all of the rights and powers of Cenlar FSB pursuant to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase and related Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement)a waiver has been obtained. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of a Servicer or the Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the related Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator in its capacity as Servicer or Servicing Administrator with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating AgenciesTrustee, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and a successor to the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator; provided that, with respect to the appointment of a successor servicer, in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, such successor servicer shall be a new Xxxxxx Xxx- Fxxxxx Mxx- or FHLMCFxxxxxx Mac-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicerthat is a member in good standing of MERS; provided, howeverfurther, that no Trustee consent shall be required if the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator is a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date; provided, further, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer or a successor servicing administrator (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer or the terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing AgreementAgreement or into an agreement with such successor servicing administrator in a form mutually agreed upon by the parties thereto. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer or successor servicing administrator as it and such successor servicer shall agree. The Master Servicer in its sole discretion shall have the right to agree to compensation of a successor servicer in excess of that permitted to a Servicer under the Servicing Agreements if such increase is, but in its good faith and judgment, necessary or advisable to engage a successor servicer. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall such compensation the Master Servicer be liable for any Servicing Fee or for any differential between the amount of the Servicing Fee paid to the original servicer and the amount necessary to induce any successor servicer (including to act as successor servicer hereunder. To the Master Servicer) be in excess extent the successor servicer assumes the obligations of that payable to the terminated Servicer under the affected Purchase and applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer may amend such Servicing Agreement to effect such change to the Servicing Fee without the consent of the Certificateholders. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a Servicerany Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, the appointment of a successor servicer or successor servicing administrator or the transfer and assumption of the servicing or the servicing administration by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated ServicerServicer or terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse not received by the Master Servicer within 30 days of the Master Servicer's request for such costs of enforcementreimbursement therefor, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. To the extent the Master Servicer recovers amounts described in (i)-(iii) above subsequent to its reimbursement from the Trust Fund pursuant to (iv) above, then the Master Servicer promptly will reimburse such amounts to the Trust Fund. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing or servicing administration with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or Servicing Administrator being replaced or for the errors or omissions of such ServicerServicer or the Servicing Administrator. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of any Servicer or Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee Trustee, the Securities Administrator and each Rating Agency through the Rating AgenciesRule 17g-5 Information Provider, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as the case may be, has succeeded such the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator . (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2013-3), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2013-3)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section SECTION 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers; and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor and the Certificateholders shall monitor the performance of the Servicers under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreements, and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause the Servicers each Servicer duly and punctually to perform all of their respective duties and obligations thereunder. Upon the occurrence of a default of which an Authorized Officer of the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a any Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of the Servicer under such Servicer Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related such Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related such Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such the related Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related such Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any Purchase and Servicing Agreement to the contrary, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase and Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement). (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a any Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans serviced by it shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer servicer with respect to such the Mortgage Loans serviced by such Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, a new Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMC-approved Person to serve as successor to the such Servicer; provided, however, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer under such the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected such Purchase and Servicing Agreement. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree, but in no event shall such compensation of any successor servicer (including the Master Servicer) be in excess of that payable to the terminated Servicer under the affected related Purchase and Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a such Servicer, the appointment of a successor servicer or the transfer and assumption of the servicing by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage LoansLoans serviced by such terminated Servicer, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse the Master Servicer for such costs of enforcement, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage LoansLoans serviced by a terminated Servicer, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any such Servicer it replaces or for the errors or omissions of such Servicer. (c) Upon any termination of a any Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, has succeeded such Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s its rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheldwithheld or delayed.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (J.P. Morgan Mortgage Trust 2004-S2)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 8.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer's and Master Servicer’s 's Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Securities Administrator, the Depositor and the Certificateholders Certificateholders, shall monitor the performance of the Servicers under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements, and (except as set forth below) shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause the Servicers to duly and punctually to perform all of their respective duties and obligations thereunder. Upon the occurrence of a default Servicer Event of Default of which an Authorized a Responsible Officer of the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee thereof, Securities Administrator and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking plans to take in respect of such default. So long as any such default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, may (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement in accordance with Section 7.01 hereof or (iv) take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any Purchase and Servicing Agreement to the contraryExcept as set forth in Section 4.06 hereof, the Master Servicer shall have no duty to supervise any Servicer's activities related to the servicing or obligation to supervise, monitor administration of defaulted or oversee delinquent Mortgage Loans or the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase management and Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection disposition of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement)REO Properties. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, a new Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMC-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicer; provided, however, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree, but in no event shall such compensation of any successor servicer (including the Master Servicer) be in excess of that payable to the Servicer under the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement monitoring the Servicers as required hereunder (including the costs associated with (i) termination of a any Servicer, (ii) the appointment of a successor servicer or (iii) the transfer to and assumption of of, the servicing by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall shall, to the extent permitted by the related Servicing Agreement, seek reimbursement therefor initially from the terminated Servicer. In the event the full costs associated with the transition of servicing responsibilities to the Master Servicer are not paid for by the predecessor or successor Servicer (provided such successor Servicer is not the Master Servicer), the Master Servicer may be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect Trust for out of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse pocket costs incurred by the Master Servicer for associated with any such costs transfer of enforcement, servicing duties from a Servicer to the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. Master Servicer or any other successor servicer. (c) If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or for the any errors or omissions of such Servicer. (cd) Upon any termination None of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreementthe Depositor, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, has succeeded such Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither the Depositor Securities Administrator nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s 's rights and obligations under the related Purchase and any Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Master Servicing and Trust Agreement (Gs Mortgage Securities Corp Mor Pasthr Cert Ser 2004-4)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor and the Certificateholders shall monitor the performance of the Servicers under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements and the Servicing Agreements, and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause enforce the obligations of the Servicers to duly and punctually to perform all of their respective duties and obligations thereunder. Upon the occurrence of a default of which an Authorized Officer of the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer (other than Xxxxx Fargo) pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement Agreement, or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. In the event that the Master Servicer, in its judgment, determines that Xxxxx Fargo should be terminated as a Servicer in accordance with the Xxxxx Fargo Purchase and Servicing Agreement, or that a notice should be sent pursuant to the Xxxxx Fargo Purchase and Servicing Agreement with respect to the occurrence of an event that, unless cured, would constitute grounds for such termination, the Master Servicer shall notify the Depositor and the Trustee thereof in writing. Upon receipt of such written notification from the Master Servicer, the Trustee shall issue such notice of termination to Xxxxx Fargo or take such other action as it deems appropriate. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement to the contrary, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable). The Master Servicer shall not permit a successor Servicer to perform any servicing responsibilities hereunder with respect to the Mortgage Loans unless that Servicer first agrees in writing to deliver an Assessment of Compliance and an Accountant’s Attestation in such manner and at such times that permits that Master Servicer to comply with the provisions hereof. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, the rights and powers of such Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, and the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, unless or until the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, a new Xxxxxx Xxx- Mae- or FHLMC-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicer; provided, however, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer (including the Master ServicerServicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable). With such consent, the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree, but in no event shall such compensation of any successor servicer (including the Master ServicerServicer or the Trustee, as applicable) be in excess of that payable to the Servicer under the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable. The Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a Servicer, the appointment of a successor servicer or the transfer and assumption of the servicing by the Master ServicerServicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse the Master Servicer or the Trustee, as applicable, for such costs of enforcement, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. If the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or for the errors or omissions of such Servicer. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, the Master Servicer or the Trustee, as applicable, shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, has succeeded such Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (J.P. Morgan Alternative Loan Trust 2006-A3)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor and the Certificateholders shall monitor the performance of the Servicers under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements and the Servicing Agreements, and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause enforce the obligations of the Servicers to duly and punctually to perform all of their respective duties and obligations thereunder. Upon the occurrence of a default of which an Authorized Officer of the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement Agreement, or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement to the contrary, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable). The Master Servicer shall not permit a successor Servicer to perform any servicing responsibilities hereunder with respect to the Mortgage Loans unless that Servicer first agrees in writing to deliver an Assessment of Compliance and an Accountant’s Attestation in such manner and at such times that permits that Master Servicer to comply with the provisions hereof. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a any Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, the rights and powers of such Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, a new Xxxxxx Xxx- Fxxxxx Mxx- or FHLMC-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicer; provided, however, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree, but in no event shall such compensation of any successor servicer (including the Master Servicer) be in excess of that payable to the Servicer under the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a the Servicer, the appointment of a successor servicer or the transfer and assumption of the servicing by the Master Servicer) Servicer at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse the Master Servicer for such costs of enforcement, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or for the errors or omissions of such Servicer. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, the Master Servicer or the Trustee, as applicable, shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, has succeeded such Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (J.P. Morgan Mortgage Trust 2007-A2)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer's and Master Servicer’s 's Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor and the Certificateholders shall monitor the performance of the Servicers under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements, and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause the Servicers duly and punctually to perform all of their respective duties and obligations thereunder. Upon the occurrence of a default of which an Authorized Officer of the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any Purchase and Servicing Agreement to the contrary, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a (i) the Servicer under its Purchase and Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase 102020 Sequoia 2004-2 Pooling and Servicing Agmt. Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement)) or (ii) the Servicer under its Servicing Agreement with respect to the servicing or administration of defaulted or delinquent Mortgage Loans and the management and disposition of any REO Properties or for any actions of the Trustee in connection therewith. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s 's rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such the Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, a new Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMC-approved Person that is a member in good standing of MERS to serve as successor to the Servicer; provided, however, that no Trustee consent or Rating Agency approval shall be required if the successor servicer is GMAC or a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date; provided, further, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations obligation of the terminated Servicer under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree, but in no event shall such compensation of any successor servicer (including the Master Servicer) be in excess of that payable to the Servicer under the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a any Servicer, the appointment of a successor servicer or the transfer and assumption of the servicing by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s 's fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse the Master Servicer for such costs of enforcement, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or for the errors or omissions of such Servicer. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s 's rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, 102020 Sequoia 2004-2 Pooling and Servicing Agmt. has succeeded such the Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither Unless otherwise specified herein, the provisions of Section 9.01(b) (relating to the Xxxxxx Xxx- and Xxxxxxx Mac- approval and MERS membership of any successor servicer, the form of any servicing agreement to be entered into by such successor servicer and the amount of compensation payable thereunder) and the provisions of Section 9.01(c) (relating to notices to the Trustee and the Rating Agencies) shall apply to any proposed transfer or assignment by the Seller of its rights under any Servicing Agreement or of the servicing thereunder or delegation of its rights or duties thereunder or any portion thereof to any other Person other than GMAC or the initial Servicer under such Servicing Agreement; provided that the Seller shall not be required to provide prior notice to anyone other than the Master Servicer of any transfer of servicing that occurs within three months following the Closing Date to GMAC or to an entity that is a Servicer on the Closing Date. In addition, neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s 's rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement to a successor servicer other than GMAC or a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. The Seller has advised the Depositor, the Trustee and the Master Servicer that it will transfer the servicing of the Mortgage Loans purchased under the Seller's Purchase, Warranties and Interim Servicing Agreement, dated as of January 1, 2004 between GreenPoint and GMAC and currently serviced by GreenPoint to GMAC on or about April 1, 2004 (the "GMAC Servicing Transfer Date") pursuant to a servicing agreement that will contain provisions for scheduled/scheduled servicing of such Mortgage Loans in accordance with customary securitization standards (including express provisions that prohibit GMAC from taking actions with respect to Mortgage Loans it is servicing that could cause an Adverse REMIC Event) and that are consistent with the provisions of this Agreement and providing for a Servicing Fee that is not greater than the Servicing Fee payable to GreenPoint. Not less than 10 Business Days prior to the GMAC Servicing Transfer Date, the Seller shall furnish the Depositor, the Trustee and the Master Servicer with an executed copy of such servicing agreement together with (i) one or more assignment agreements assigning the rights of the Seller thereunder to the Depositor, and from the Depositor to the Trustee, if applicable, and (ii) either (x) Rating Agency approval of such servicing transfer and servicing agreement or (y) a certificate of an authorized officer of the Seller to the effect that the servicing agreement satisfies the requirements of this Agreement. Neither the Trustee nor the Master Servicer shall have any responsibility for determining whether such servicing agreement complies with the provisions of this Agreement, and each of them may, in executing any such assignment agreement rely fully on the Rating Agency approval or Seller certification. In connection with any transfer of servicing (whether to GMAC, another initial Servicer, or otherwise), the Seller shall, at its cost and expense, take such steps, or cause the terminated Servicer to take such steps, as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate and evidence the transfer of the servicing of the Mortgage Loans to such successor servicer, including, but not limited to, the following: (A) to the extent required by the terms of the Mortgage Loans and by applicable federal and state laws and regulations, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to timely mail to each obligor under a Mortgage Loan any required notices or disclosures 102020 Sequoia 2004-2 Pooling and Servicing Agmt. describing the transfer of servicing of the Mortgage Loans to the successor servicer; (B) prior to the effective date of such transfer of servicing, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to transmit to any related insurer notification of such transfer of servicing; (C) on or prior to the effective date of such transfer of servicing, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to deliver to the successor servicer all Mortgage Documents and any related records or materials; (D) on or prior to the effective date of such transfer of servicing, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to transfer to the successor servicer all funds held by the prior Servicer in respect of the Mortgage Loans; (E) on or prior to the effective date of such transfer of servicing, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to, after the effective date of the transfer of servicing to the successor servicer, continue to forward to such successor servicer, within one Business Day of receipt, the amount of any payments or other recoveries received by the prior Servicer, and to notify the successor servicer of the source and proper application of each such payment or recovery; and (F) the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to, after the effective date of transfer of servicing to the successor servicer, continue to cooperate with the successor servicer to facilitate such transfer in such manner and to such extent as the successor servicer may reasonably request. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the prior Servicer shall be obligated to perform the items listed above to the extent provided in the Servicing Agreement.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Residential Funding Inc)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer's and Master Servicer’s 's Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor and the Certificateholders shall monitor the performance of the Servicers under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements, and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause the Servicers duly and punctually to perform all of their respective duties and obligations thereunder. Upon the occurrence of a default of which an Authorized Officer of the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any Purchase and Servicing Agreement to the contrary, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a (i) the Servicer under its Purchase and Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase 107174 Sequoia 2004-4 Pooling and Servicing Agmt. Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement)) or (ii) the Servicer under its Servicing Agreement with respect to the servicing or administration of defaulted or delinquent Mortgage Loans and the management and disposition of any REO Properties or for any actions of the Trustee in connection therewith. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s 's rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such the Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, a new Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMC-approved Person that is a member in good standing of MERS to serve as successor to the Servicer; provided, however, that no Trustee consent or Rating Agency approval shall be required if the successor servicer is GMAC or a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date; provided, further, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations obligation of the terminated Servicer under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree, but in no event shall such compensation of any successor servicer (including the Master Servicer) be in excess of that payable to the Servicer under the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a any Servicer, the appointment of a successor servicer or the transfer and assumption of the servicing by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s 's fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse the Master Servicer for such costs of enforcement, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or for the errors or omissions of such Servicer. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s 's rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, 107174 Sequoia 2004-4 Pooling and Servicing Agmt. has succeeded such the Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither Unless otherwise specified herein, the provisions of Section 9.01(b) (relating to the Xxxxxx Xxx- and Xxxxxxx Mac- approval and MERS membership of any successor servicer, the form of any servicing agreement to be entered into by such successor servicer and the amount of compensation payable thereunder) and the provisions of Section 9.01(c) (relating to notices to the Trustee and the Rating Agencies) shall apply to any proposed transfer or assignment by the Seller of its rights under any Servicing Agreement or of the servicing thereunder or delegation of its rights or duties thereunder or any portion thereof to any other Person other than GMAC or the initial Servicer under such Servicing Agreement; provided that the Seller shall not be required to provide prior notice to anyone other than the Master Servicer of any transfer of servicing that occurs within three months following the Closing Date to GMAC or to an entity that is a Servicer on the Closing Date. In addition, neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s 's rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement to a successor servicer other than GMAC or a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. The Seller has advised the Depositor, the Trustee and the Master Servicer that it will transfer the servicing of the Mortgage Loans purchased under the Seller's Purchase, Warranties and Interim Servicing Agreement, dated as of January 1, 2004 between GreenPoint and GMAC and currently serviced by GreenPoint to GMAC on or about July 1, 2004 (the "GMAC Servicing Transfer Date") pursuant to a servicing agreement that will contain provisions for scheduled/scheduled servicing of such Mortgage Loans in accordance with customary securitization standards (including express provisions that prohibit GMAC from taking actions with respect to Mortgage Loans it is servicing that could cause an Adverse REMIC Event) and that are consistent with the provisions of this Agreement and providing for a Servicing Fee that is not greater than the Servicing Fee payable to GreenPoint. Not less than 10 Business Days prior to the GMAC Servicing Transfer Date, the Seller shall furnish the Depositor, the Trustee and the Master Servicer with an executed copy of such servicing agreement together with (i) one or more assignment agreements assigning the rights of the Seller thereunder to the Depositor, and from the Depositor to the Trustee, if applicable, and (ii) either (x) Rating Agency approval of such servicing transfer and servicing agreement or (y) a certificate of an authorized officer of the Seller to the effect that the servicing agreement satisfies the requirements of this Agreement. Neither the Trustee nor the Master Servicer shall have any responsibility for determining whether such servicing agreement complies with the provisions of this Agreement, and each of them may, in executing any such assignment agreement rely fully on the Rating Agency approval or Seller certification. In connection with any transfer of servicing (whether to GMAC, another initial Servicer, or otherwise), the Seller shall, at its cost and expense, take such steps, or cause the terminated Servicer to take such steps, as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate and evidence the transfer of the servicing of the Mortgage Loans to such successor servicer, including, but not limited to, the following: (A) to the extent required by the terms of the Mortgage Loans and by applicable federal and state laws and regulations, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to timely mail to each obligor under a Mortgage Loan any required notices or disclosures 107174 Sequoia 2004-4 Pooling and Servicing Agmt. describing the transfer of servicing of the Mortgage Loans to the successor servicer; (B) prior to the effective date of such transfer of servicing, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to transmit to any related insurer notification of such transfer of servicing; (C) on or prior to the effective date of such transfer of servicing, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to deliver to the successor servicer all Mortgage Documents and any related records or materials; (D) on or prior to the effective date of such transfer of servicing, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to transfer to the successor servicer all funds held by the prior Servicer in respect of the Mortgage Loans; (E) on or prior to the effective date of such transfer of servicing, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to, after the effective date of the transfer of servicing to the successor servicer, continue to forward to such successor servicer, within one Business Day of receipt, the amount of any payments or other recoveries received by the prior Servicer, and to notify the successor servicer of the source and proper application of each such payment or recovery; and (F) the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to, after the effective date of transfer of servicing to the successor servicer, continue to cooperate with the successor servicer to facilitate such transfer in such manner and to such extent as the successor servicer may reasonably request. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the prior Servicer shall be obligated to perform the items listed above to the extent provided in the Servicing Agreement.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Residential Funding Inc)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer’s and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor Trustee and the Certificateholders shall shall, from and after the Closing Date, monitor the performance of the Servicers and the Servicing Administrator under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements. In performing its obligations hereunder, the Master Servicer shall act in a manner consistent with Accepted Master Servicing Practices. Furthermore, the Master Servicer shall consult with each Servicer and the Servicing Administrator as necessary from time to time to carry out the Master Servicer’s obligations hereunder, shall receive and review all reports, information and other data provided to the Master Servicer by each Servicer and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause enforce the Servicers obligation of each Servicer and the Servicing Administrator duly and punctually to perform all and observe the covenants, duties, obligations and conditions to be performed or observed by such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator under the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall independently and separately monitor each Servicer’s servicing activities and the activities of their respective duties the Servicing Administrator with respect to each related Mortgage Loan in respect of the provisions of the applicable Servicing Agreement, reconcile the reports and obligations thereunderother data provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the previous sentence on a monthly basis based on the Mortgage Loan data provided to the Master Servicer by or on behalf of the Depositor on the Closing Date (upon which data the Master Servicer shall be entitled to rely and with respect to which the Master Servicer shall have no obligation to confirm or verify) and coordinate corrective adjustments to the records of each Servicer and the Master Servicer, and based on such reconciled and corrected information, the Master Servicer shall provide such information to the Securities Administrator as shall be necessary in order for it to prepare the statements specified in Section 4.02, and prepare any other information and statements required to be forwarded by the Master Servicer hereunder. The Master Servicer shall reconcile the results of its Mortgage Loan monitoring with the actual remittances of each Servicer to the DistributionMaster Servicer Collection Account pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall, in accordance with each Servicing Agreement, oversee matters relating to the servicing of defaulted Mortgage Loans, including approving certain Mortgage Loan modifications, reviewing environmental reports related to foreclosed Mortgage Properties to determine whether to proceed with a foreclosure, approving certain actions relating to the management of REO Property and approving the release of the original borrower of a Mortgage Loan in connection with Mortgage Loan assumptions. The Master Servicer shall not approve any modification of a Mortgage Loan to extend the maturity date of such Mortgage Loan past the Latest Possible Maturity Date of the Certificates. In its review of the activities of any Servicer and the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer may rely upon an Officer’s Certificate of such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator (or similar document signed by an officer of such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator), and such Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s Assessment of Compliance and related Accountant’s Attestation or other accountants’ report provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement, with regard to such Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s compliance with the terms of its Servicing Agreement. Subject to Section 9.08, the Master Servicer shall not be responsible or liable for the day-to-dayday-to-day servicing activities of any Servicer or for any unlawful act or omission, breach, negligence, fraud, willful misconduct or bad faith of any Servicer. Upon the occurrence of an event that, unless cured, would constitute grounds for termination of a default of which an Authorized Officer of Servicer under the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and related Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Depositor thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such event of default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall shall, if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and such Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, if the event of default is the failure of a Servicer or the Servicing Administrator to remit any provision payment required to be made under the terms of this Agreement the applicable Servicing Agreement, and such failure continues unremedied for the duration of the applicable grace period, then the Master Servicer shall terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer or any Purchase and the Servicing Agreement Administrator pursuant to the contraryapplicable provisions of the related Servicing Agreement, unless any waiver described under Section 6.16 shall have been obtained; provided that, upon the occurrence of such an event of default by the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation may, at its option, terminate all of the rights and powers of Cenlar FSB pursuant to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase and related Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement)a waiver has been obtained. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of a Servicer or the Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the related Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator in its capacity as Servicer or Servicing Administrator with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating AgenciesTrustee, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and a successor to the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator; provided that, with respect to the appointment of a successor servicer, in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, such successor servicer shall be a new Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMCXxxxxxx Mac-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicerthat is a member in good standing of MERS; provided, howeverfurther, that no Trustee consent shall be required if the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator is a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date; provided, further, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer or a successor servicing administrator (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer or the terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing AgreementAgreement or into an agreement with such successor servicing administrator in a form mutually agreed upon by the parties thereto. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer or successor servicing administrator as it and such successor servicer shall agree. The Master Servicer in its sole discretion shall have the right to agree to compensation of a successor servicer in excess of that permitted to a Servicer under the related Servicing Agreement if such increase is, but in its good faith and judgment, necessary or advisable to engage a successor servicer. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall such compensation the Master Servicer be liable for any Servicing Fee or for any differential between the amount of the Servicing Fee paid to the original servicer and the amount necessary to induce any successor servicer (including to act as successor servicer hereunder. To the Master Servicer) be in excess extent the successor servicer assumes the obligations of that payable to the terminated Servicer under the affected Purchase and applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer may amend such Servicing Agreement to effect such change to the Servicing Fee without the consent of the Certificateholders. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a Servicerthe Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, the appointment of a successor servicer or successor servicing administrator or the transfer and assumption of the servicing or the servicing administration by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated ServicerServicer or terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse not received by the Master Servicer within 30 days of the Master Servicer’s request for such costs of enforcementreimbursement therefor, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. To the extent the Master Servicer recovers amounts described in (i)-(iii) above subsequent to its reimbursement from the Trust Fund pursuant to (iv) above, then the Master Servicer promptly will reimburse such amounts to the Trust Fund. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing or servicing administration with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or the Servicing Administrator being replaced or for the errors or omissions of such ServicerServicer or the Servicing Administrator. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of any Servicer or the Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee Trustee, the Securities Administrator and each Rating Agency through the Rating AgenciesRule 17g-5 Information Provider, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as the case may be, has succeeded the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under such Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator . (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2013-7)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer's and Master Servicer’s 's Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor and the Certificateholders shall shall, from and after the Closing Date, monitor the performance of the Servicers under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements, and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause the Servicers duly and punctually to perform all of their respective duties and obligations thereunder. Upon the occurrence of a default of which an Authorized Officer of the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer, or if such Servicer is [ ], the Trustee, may, and shall if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. In addition, under the Servicing Agreements, the Master Servicer shall be obligated to perform (as agent on behalf of the Depositor) with respect to the Mortgage Loans, certain of the Depositor’s default administration obligations hereunder and under the Servicing Agreements. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any Purchase and Servicing Agreement to the contrary, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a any Servicer under its Purchase and Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement). (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such the Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, a new Xxxxxx Xxx- Fxxxxx Mxx- or FHLMC-approved Person that is a member in good standing of MERS to serve as successor to the Servicer; provided, however, that no Trustee consent or Rating Agency approval shall be required if the successor servicer is a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date; provided, further, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations obligation of the terminated Servicer under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree, but in no event shall such compensation of any successor servicer (including the Master Servicer) be in excess of that payable to the Servicer under the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer, or if such Servicer is [ ], the Trustee, shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a any Servicer, the appointment of a successor servicer or the transfer and assumption of the servicing by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse the Master Servicer for such costs of enforcement, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or for the errors or omissions of such Servicer. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and each Rating Agencies through the Rating AgenciesRule 17g-5 Information Provider, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, has succeeded such the Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither Unless otherwise specified herein, the provisions of Section 9.01(b) (relating to the Fxxxxx Mxx- and Fxxxxxx Mac- approval and MERS membership of any successor servicer, the form of any servicing agreement to be entered into by such successor servicer and the amount of compensation payable thereunder) and the provisions of Section 9.01(c) (relating to notices to the Trustee, the Securities Administrator and the Rating Agencies) shall apply to any proposed transfer or assignment by the Seller of its rights under any Servicing Agreement or of the servicing thereunder or delegation of its rights or duties thereunder or any portion thereof to any other Person other than the initial Servicer under such Servicing Agreement; provided that the Seller shall not be required to provide prior notice to anyone other than the Master Servicer of any transfer of servicing that occurs within four months following the Closing Date to an entity that is a Servicer on the Closing Date. In addition, neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement to a successor servicer other than a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. In connection with any transfer of servicing (whether to another initial Servicer, or otherwise), the Seller shall, at its cost and expense, take such steps, or cause the terminated Servicer to take such steps, as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate and evidence the transfer of the servicing of the Mortgage Loans to such successor servicer, including, but not limited to, the following: (A) to the extent required by the terms of the Mortgage Loans and by applicable federal and state laws and regulations, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to timely mail to each obligor under a Mortgage Loan any required notices or disclosures describing the transfer of servicing of the Mortgage Loans to the successor servicer; (B) prior to the effective date of such transfer of servicing, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to transmit to any related insurer notification of such transfer of servicing; (C) on or prior to the effective date of such transfer of servicing, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to deliver to the successor servicer all Mortgage Documents and any related records or materials; (D) on or prior to the effective date of such transfer of servicing, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to transfer to the successor servicer all funds held by the prior Servicer in respect of the Mortgage Loans; (E) on or prior to the effective date of such transfer of servicing, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to, after the effective date of the transfer of servicing to the successor servicer, continue to forward to such successor servicer, within one Business Day of receipt, the amount of any payments or other recoveries received by the prior Servicer, and to notify the successor servicer of the source and proper application of each such payment or recovery; and (F) the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to, after the effective date of transfer of servicing to the successor servicer, continue to cooperate with the successor servicer to facilitate such transfer in such manner and to such extent as the successor servicer may reasonably request. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the prior Servicer shall be obligated to perform the items listed above to the extent provided in the Servicing Agreement.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Residential Funding Inc)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor and the Certificateholders shall monitor the performance of the Servicers under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements and the Servicing Agreements, and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause enforce the obligations of the Servicers to duly and punctually to perform all of their respective duties and obligations thereunder. Upon the occurrence of a default of which an Authorized Officer of the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer (other than Xxxxx Fargo) pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement Agreement, or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. In the event that the Master Servicer, in its judgment, determines that Xxxxx Fargo should be terminated as a Servicer in accordance with the Xxxxx Fargo Purchase and Servicing Agreement, or that a notice should be sent pursuant to the Xxxxx Fargo Purchase and Servicing Agreement with respect to the occurrence of an event that, unless cured, would constitute grounds for such termination, the Master Servicer shall notify the Depositor and the Trustee thereof in writing. Upon receipt of such written notification from the Master Servicer, the Trustee shall issue such notice of termination to Xxxxx Fargo or take such other action as it deems appropriate. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement to the contrary, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable). The Master Servicer shall not permit a successor Servicer to perform any servicing responsibilities hereunder with respect to the Mortgage Loans unless that Servicer first agrees in writing to deliver an Assessment of Compliance and an Accountant’s Attestation in such manner and at such times that permits that Master Servicer to comply with the provisions hereof. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, the rights and powers of such Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, and the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, unless or until the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, a new Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMC-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicer; provided, however, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer (including the Master ServicerServicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable). With such consent, the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree, but in no event shall such compensation of any successor servicer (including the Master ServicerServicer or the Trustee, as applicable) be in excess of that payable to the Servicer under the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable. The Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a Servicer, the appointment of a successor servicer or the transfer and assumption of the servicing by the Master Servicer) Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse the Master Servicer for such costs of enforcement, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. If the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or for the errors or omissions of such Servicer. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, the Master Servicer or the Trustee, as applicable, or the Trustee, as applicable, shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, has succeeded such Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (J.P. Morgan Mortgage Trust 2006-A6)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 9.01. Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer’s and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the TrusteeTrust Fund, the Depositor and the Certificateholders shall shall, from and after the Closing Date, monitor the performance of the Servicers under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements, and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause the Servicers duly and punctually to perform all of their respective duties and obligations thereunder. Upon the occurrence of a default of which an Authorized Officer of the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Trust Administrator thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such default shall be continuing, the 174197 Sequoia Alternative Loan Trust 2006-1 Pooling and Servicing Agmt. Master Servicer may, and shall if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any Purchase and Servicing Agreement to the contrary, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a (i) any Servicer under its Purchase and Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement)) or (ii) any Servicer under its Servicing Agreement with respect to the servicing or administration of defaulted or delinquent Mortgage Loans and the management and disposition of any REO Properties or for any actions of the Trustee or the Seller in connection therewith. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such the Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, a new Xxxxxx Xxx- Fxxxxx Mxx- or FHLMC-approved Person that is a member in good standing of MERS to serve as successor to the Servicer; provided, however, that no Trustee consent or Rating Agency approval shall be required if the successor servicer is a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date; provided, further, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations obligation of the terminated Servicer under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree, but in no event shall such compensation of any successor servicer (including the Master Servicer) be in excess of that payable to the Servicer under the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a any Servicer, the appointment of a successor servicer or the transfer and assumption of the servicing by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to 174197 Sequoia Alternative Loan Trust 2006-1 Pooling and Servicing Agmt. the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse the Master Servicer for such costs of enforcement, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or for the errors or omissions of such Servicer. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee Trustee, the Trust Administrator and the Rating Agencies, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, has succeeded such the Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither Unless otherwise specified herein, the provisions of Section 9.01(b) (relating to the Fxxxxx Mxx- and Fxxxxxx Mac- approval and MERS membership of any successor servicer, the form of any servicing agreement to be entered into by such successor servicer and the amount of compensation payable thereunder) and the provisions of Section 9.01(c) (relating to notices to the Trustee, the Trust Administrator and the Rating Agencies) shall apply to any proposed transfer or assignment by the Seller of its rights under any Servicing Agreement or of the servicing thereunder or delegation of its rights or duties thereunder or any portion thereof to any other Person other than the initial Servicer under such Servicing Agreement; provided that the Seller shall not be required to provide prior notice to anyone other than the Master Servicer of any transfer of servicing that occurs within four months following the Closing Date to an entity that is a Servicer on the Closing Date. In addition, neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement to a successor servicer other than a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. In connection with any transfer of servicing, the Seller shall, at its cost and expense, take such steps, or cause the terminated Servicer to take such steps, as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate and evidence the transfer of the servicing of the Mortgage Loans to such successor servicer, including, but not limited to, the following: (A) to the extent required by the terms of the Mortgage Loans and by applicable federal and state laws and regulations, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to timely mail to each obligor under a Mortgage Loan any required notices or disclosures describing the transfer of servicing of the Mortgage Loans to the successor servicer; (B) prior to the effective date of such transfer of servicing, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to transmit to any related insurer notification of such transfer of servicing; (C) on or prior to the effective date of such transfer of servicing, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to deliver to the successor servicer all Mortgage Documents and any related records or materials; (D) on or prior to the effective date of such transfer of servicing, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to transfer to the successor servicer all funds held by the prior Servicer in respect of the Mortgage Loans; (E) on or prior to the effective date of such transfer of 174197 Sequoia Alternative Loan Trust 2006-1 Pooling and Servicing Agmt. servicing, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to, after the effective date of the transfer of servicing to the successor servicer, continue to forward to such successor servicer, within one Business Day of receipt, the amount of any payments or other recoveries received by the prior Servicer, and to notify the successor servicer of the source and proper application of each such payment or recovery; and (F) the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to, after the effective date of transfer of servicing to the successor servicer, continue to cooperate with the successor servicer to facilitate such transfer in such manner and to such extent as the successor servicer may reasonably request. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the prior Servicer shall be obligated to perform the items listed above to the extent provided in the Servicing Agreement.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Residential Funding Inc)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ the Servicer’s and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor Trustee and the Certificateholders shall shall, from and after the Closing Date, monitor the performance of the Servicers Servicer and the Servicing Administrator under the Purchase Servicing Agreement. In performing its obligations hereunder, the Master Servicer shall act in a manner consistent with Accepted Master Servicing Practices. Furthermore, the Master Servicer shall consult with the Servicer and the Servicing AgreementsAdministrator as necessary from time to time to carry out the Master Servicer’s obligations hereunder, shall receive and review all reports, information and other data provided to the Master Servicer by the Servicer and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause enforce the Servicers obligation of the Servicer and the Servicing Administrator duly and punctually to perform all and observe the covenants, duties, obligations and conditions to be performed or observed by the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator under the Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall independently and separately monitor the Servicer’s servicing activities and the activities of their respective duties the Servicing Administrator with respect to each related Mortgage Loan in respect of the provisions of the Servicing Agreement, reconcile the reports and obligations thereunderother data provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the previous sentence on a monthly basis based on the Mortgage Loan data provided to the Master Servicer by or on behalf of the Depositor on the Closing Date (upon which data the Master Servicer shall be entitled to rely and with respect to which the Master Servicer shall have no obligation to confirm or verify) and coordinate corrective adjustments to the records of the Servicer and the Master Servicer, and based on such reconciled and corrected information, the Master Servicer shall provide such information to the Securities Administrator as shall be necessary in order for it to prepare the statements specified in Section 4.02, and prepare any other information and statements required to be forwarded by the Master Servicer hereunder. The Master Servicer shall reconcile the results of its Mortgage Loan monitoring with the actual remittances of the Servicer to the Master Servicer Collection Account pursuant to the Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall, in accordance with the Servicing Agreement, oversee matters relating to the servicing of defaulted Mortgage Loans, including approving certain Mortgage Loan modifications, reviewing environmental reports related to foreclosed Mortgage Properties to determine whether to proceed with a foreclosure, approving certain actions relating to the management of REO Property and approving the release of the original borrower of a Mortgage Loan in connection with Mortgage Loan assumptions. The Master Servicer shall not approve any modification of a Mortgage Loan to extend the maturity date of such Mortgage Loan past the Latest Possible Maturity Date of the Certificates. In its review of the activities of the Servicer and the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer may rely upon an Officer’s Certificate of the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator (or similar document signed by an officer of the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator), and the Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s Assessment of Compliance and related Accountant’s Attestation or other accountants’ report provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the Servicing Agreement, with regard to the Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s compliance with the terms of its Servicing Agreement. Subject to Section 9.08, the Master Servicer shall not be responsible or liable for the day-to-day servicing activities of the Servicer or for any unlawful act or omission, breach, negligence, fraud, willful misconduct or bad faith of the Servicer. Upon the occurrence of a default of which an Authorized Officer event that, unless cured, would constitute grounds for termination of the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and the Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Depositor thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such event of default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall shall, if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such the Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such the Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, if the event of default is the failure of the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator to remit any provision payment required to be made under the terms of this Agreement the Servicing Agreement, and such failure continues unremedied for the duration of the applicable grace period, then the Master Servicer shall terminate all of the rights and powers of the Servicer or any Purchase and the Servicing Agreement Administrator pursuant to the contraryapplicable provisions of the Servicing Agreement, unless any waiver described under Section 6.16 shall have been obtained; provided that, upon the occurrence of such an event of default by the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation may, at its option, terminate all of the rights and powers of Cenlar FSB pursuant to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase and Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement)a waiver has been obtained. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator in its capacity as Servicer or Servicing Administrator with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating AgenciesTrustee, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and a successor to the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator; provided that, with respect to the appointment of a successor servicer, in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, such successor servicer shall be a new Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMCXxxxxxx Mac-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicerthat is a member in good standing of MERS; provided, howeverfurther, that no Trustee consent shall be required if the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator is a Person that was the Servicer on the Closing Date; provided, further, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer or a successor servicing administrator (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer or the terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under such Purchase and the Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing AgreementAgreement or into an agreement with such successor servicing administrator in a form mutually agreed upon by the parties thereto. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer or successor servicing administrator as it and such successor servicer shall agree, but . The Master Servicer in no event its sole discretion shall such have the right to agree to compensation of any a successor servicer (including the Master Servicer) be in excess of that payable permitted to the Servicer under the affected Purchase Servicing Agreement if such increase is, in its good faith and judgment, necessary or advisable to engage a successor servicer. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall the Master Servicer be liable for any Servicing Fee or for any differential between the amount of the Servicing Fee paid to the original servicer and the amount necessary to induce any successor servicer to act as successor servicer hereunder. To the extent the successor servicer assumes the obligations of the terminated Servicer under the Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer may amend the Servicing Agreement to effect such change to the Servicing Fee without the consent of the Certificateholders. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a Servicerthe Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, the appointment of a successor servicer or successor servicing administrator or the transfer and assumption of the servicing or the servicing administration by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated ServicerServicer or terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse not received by the Master Servicer within 30 days of the Master Servicer’s request for such costs of enforcementreimbursement therefor, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. To the extent the Master Servicer recovers amounts described in (i)-(iii) above subsequent to its reimbursement from the Trust Fund pursuant to (iv) above, then the Master Servicer promptly will reimburse such amounts to the Trust Fund. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing or servicing administration with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any the Servicer it replaces or the Servicing Administrator being replaced or for the errors or omissions of such Servicerthe Servicer or the Servicing Administrator. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee Trustee, the Securities Administrator and each Rating Agency through the Rating AgenciesRule 17g-5 Information Provider, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as the case may be, has succeeded such the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator . (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2013-6)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer’s and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor Trustee and the Certificateholders shall shall, from and after the Closing Date, monitor the performance of the Servicers and the Servicing Administrator under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements. In performing its obligations hereunder, the Master Servicer shall act in a manner consistent with Accepted Master Servicing Practices. Furthermore, the Master Servicer shall consult with each Servicer and the Servicing Administrator as necessary from time to time to carry out the Master Servicer’s obligations hereunder, shall receive and review all reports, information and other data provided to the Master Servicer by each Servicer and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause enforce the Servicers obligation of each Servicer and the Servicing Administrator duly and punctually to perform all and observe the covenants, duties, obligations and conditions to be performed or observed by such Servicer or Servicing Administrator under the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall independently and separately monitor each Servicer’s servicing activities and the activities of their respective duties the Servicing Administrator with respect to each related Mortgage Loan in respect of the provisions of the applicable Servicing Agreement, reconcile the reports and obligations thereunderother data provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the previous sentence on a monthly basis based on the Mortgage Loan data provided to the Master Servicer by or on behalf of the Depositor on the Closing Date (upon which data the Master Servicer shall be entitled to rely and with respect to which the Master Servicer shall have no obligation to confirm or verify) and coordinate corrective adjustments to the records of each Servicer and the Master Servicer, and based on such reconciled and corrected information, the Master Servicer shall provide such information to the Securities Administrator as shall be necessary in order for it to prepare the statements specified in Section 4.02, and prepare any other information and statements required to be forwarded by the Master Servicer hereunder. The Master Servicer shall reconcile the results of its Mortgage Loan monitoring with the actual remittances of each Servicer to the DistributionMaster Servicer Collection Account pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall, in accordance with each Servicing Agreement, oversee matters relating to the servicing of defaulted Mortgage Loans, including approving certain Mortgage Loan modifications, reviewing environmental reports related to foreclosed Mortgage Properties to determine whether to proceed with a foreclosure, approving certain actions relating to the management of REO Property and approving the release of the original borrower of a Mortgage Loan in connection with Mortgage Loan assumptions. The Master Servicer shall not approve any modification of a Mortgage Loan to extend the maturity date of such Mortgage Loan past the Latest Possible Maturity Date of the Certificates. In its review of the activities of any Servicer and the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer may rely upon an Officer’s Certificate of such Servicer or Servicing Administrator (or similar document signed by an officer of such Servicer or Servicing Administrator), and such Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s Assessment of Compliance and related Accountant’s Attestation or other accountants’ report provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement, with regard to such Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s compliance with the terms of its Servicing Agreement. Subject to Section 9.08, the Master Servicer shall not be responsible or liable for the day-to-dayday-to-day servicing activities of any Servicer or for any unlawful act or omission, breach, negligence, fraud, willful misconduct or bad faith of any Servicer. Upon the occurrence of an event that, unless cured, would constitute grounds for termination of a default of which an Authorized Officer of Servicer under the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and related Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Depositor thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such event of default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall shall, if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, if the event of default is the failure of a Servicer or the Servicing Administrator to remit any provision payment required to be made under the terms of this Agreement the applicable Servicing Agreement, and such failure continues unremedied for the duration of the applicable grace period, then the Master Servicer shall terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer or any Purchase and the Servicing Agreement Administrator pursuant to the contraryapplicable provisions of the related Servicing Agreement, unless any waiver described under Section 6.16 shall have been obtained; provided that, upon the occurrence of such an event of default by the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation may, at its option, terminate all of the rights and powers of Cenlar FSB pursuant to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase and related Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement)a waiver has been obtained. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of a Servicer or the Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the related Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator in its capacity as Servicer or Servicing Administrator with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating AgenciesTrustee, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and a successor to the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator; provided that, with respect to the appointment of a successor servicer, in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, such successor servicer shall be a new Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMCXxxxxxx Mac-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicerthat is a member in good standing of MERS; provided, howeverfurther, that no Trustee consent shall be required if the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator is a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date; provided, further, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer or a successor servicing administrator (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer or the terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing AgreementAgreement or into an agreement with such successor servicing administrator in a form mutually agreed upon by the parties thereto. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer or successor servicing administrator as it and such successor servicer shall agree. The Master Servicer in its sole discretion shall have the right to agree to compensation of a successor servicer in excess of that permitted to a Servicer under the Servicing Agreements if such increase is, but in its good faith and judgment, necessary or advisable to engage a successor servicer. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall such compensation the Master Servicer be liable for any Servicing Fee or for any differential between the amount of the Servicing Fee paid to the original servicer and the amount necessary to induce any successor servicer (including to act as successor servicer hereunder. To the Master Servicer) be in excess extent the successor servicer assumes the obligations of that payable to the terminated Servicer under the affected Purchase and applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer may amend such Servicing Agreement to effect such change to the Servicing Fee without the consent of the Certificateholders. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a Servicerany Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, the appointment of a successor servicer or successor servicing administrator or the transfer and assumption of the servicing or the servicing administration by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated ServicerServicer or terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse not received by the Master Servicer within 30 days of the Master Servicer’s request for such costs of enforcementreimbursement therefor, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. To the extent the Master Servicer recovers amounts described in (i)-(iii) above subsequent to its reimbursement from the Trust Fund pursuant to (iv) above, then the Master Servicer promptly will reimburse such amounts to the Trust Fund. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing or servicing administration with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or Servicing Administrator being replaced or for the errors or omissions of such ServicerServicer or the Servicing Administrator. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of any Servicer or Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee Trustee, the Securities Administrator and each Rating Agency through the Rating AgenciesRule 17g-5 Information Provider, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as the case may be, has succeeded such the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator . (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2013-3)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer’s and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor Trustee and the Certificateholders shall shall, from and after the Closing Date, monitor the performance of the Servicers under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements. In performing its obligations hereunder, the Master Servicer shall act in a manner consistent with Accepted Master Servicing Practices. Furthermore, the Master Servicer shall consult with each Servicer as necessary from time to time to carry out the Master Servicer’s obligations hereunder, shall receive and review all reports, information and other data provided to the Master Servicer by each Servicer and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause enforce the Servicers obligation of each Servicer duly and punctually to perform all and observe the covenants, duties, obligations and conditions to be performed or observed by such Servicer under the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall independently and separately monitor each Servicer’s servicing activities with respect to each related Mortgage Loan in respect of their respective duties the provisions of the applicable Servicing Agreement, reconcile the reports and obligations thereunderother data provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the previous sentence on a monthly basis based on the Mortgage Loan data provided to the Master Servicer by or on behalf of the Depositor on the Closing Date (upon which data the Master Servicer shall be entitled to rely and with respect to which the Master Servicer shall have no obligation to confirm or verify) and coordinate corrective adjustments to each Servicer’s and the Master Servicer’s records, and based on such reconciled and corrected information, the Master Servicer shall provide such information to the Securities Administrator as shall be necessary in order for it to prepare the statements specified in Section 4.02, and prepare any other information and statements required to be forwarded by the Master Servicer hereunder. The Master Servicer shall reconcile the results of its Mortgage Loan monitoring with the actual remittances of each Servicer to the Master Servicer Collection Account pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement. In its review of the activities of any Servicer, the Master Servicer may rely upon an Officer’s Certificate of such Servicer (or similar document signed by an officer of such Servicer), and such Servicer’s Assessment of Compliance and related Accountant’s Attestation or other accountants’ report provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement, with regard to such Servicer’s compliance with the terms of its Servicing Agreement. Subject to Section 9.08, the Master Servicer shall not be responsible or liable for the day-to-day servicing activities of any Servicer or for any unlawful act or omission, breach, negligence, fraud, willful misconduct or bad faith of any Servicer. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement, the Master Servicer shall have no duty to review any loss mitigation decisions of any Servicer (including without limitation the calculation of realized losses and gains and the management and disposition of any REO Properties) or any actions of the Trustee or the Controlling Holder in connection therewith. Upon the occurrence of an event that, unless cured, would constitute grounds for termination of a default of which an Authorized Officer of Servicer under the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and related Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Depositor thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such event of default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall shall, if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, if the event of default is the failure of a Servicer to remit any provision payment required to be made under the terms of this Agreement or any Purchase the applicable Servicing Agreement, and Servicing Agreement to such failure continues unremedied for the contraryduration of the applicable grace period, then the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation to supervise, monitor or oversee terminate all of the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase rights and Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations powers of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the applicable provisions of the such Purchase and related Servicing Agreement), unless any waiver described under Section 6.16 shall have been obtained. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and the related Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such the Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating AgenciesTrustee, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, a new Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMCXxxxxxx Mac-approved Person that is a member in good standing of MERS to serve as successor to the Servicer; provided, however, that no Trustee consent shall be required if the successor servicer is a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date; provided, further, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree. The Master Servicer in its sole discretion shall have the right to agree to compensation of a successor servicer in excess of that permitted to a Servicer under the Servicing Agreements if such increase is, but in its good faith and judgment, necessary or advisable to engage a successor servicer. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall such compensation the Master Servicer be liable for any Servicing Fee or for any differential between the amount of the Servicing Fee paid to the original servicer and the amount necessary to induce any successor servicer (including to act as successor servicer hereunder. To the Master Servicer) be in excess extent the successor servicer assumes the obligations of that payable to the terminated Servicer under the affected Purchase and applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer may amend such Servicing Agreement to effect such change to the Servicing Fee without the consent of the Certificateholders. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a any Servicer, the appointment of a successor servicer or the transfer and assumption of the servicing by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse not received by the Master Servicer within 30 days of the Master Servicer’s request for such costs of enforcementreimbursement therefor, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. To the extent the Master Servicer recovers amounts described in (i)-(iii) above subsequent to its reimbursement from the Trust Fund pursuant to (iv) above, then the Master Servicer promptly will reimburse such amounts to the Trust Fund. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or for the errors or omissions of such Servicer. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and the applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee Trustee, the Securities Administrator and the Rating AgenciesAgency, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, has succeeded such the Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2011-1)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer's and Master Servicer’s 's Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor and the Certificateholders shall shall, from and after the Closing Date, monitor the performance of the Servicers under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements, and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause the Servicers duly and punctually to perform all of their respective duties and obligations thereunder. Upon the occurrence of a default of which an Authorized Officer of the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any Purchase and Servicing Agreement to the contrary, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a (i) the Servicer under its Purchase and Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement)) or (ii) the Servicer under its Servicing Agreement with respect to the servicing or administration of defaulted or delinquent Mortgage Loans and the management and disposition of any REO Properties or for any actions of the Trustee in connection therewith. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s 's rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such the Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, a new Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMC-approved Person that is a member in good standing of MERS to serve as successor to the Servicer; provided, however, that no Trustee consent or Rating Agency approval shall be required if the successor servicer is GMAC or a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date; provided, further, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations obligation of the terminated Servicer under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree, but in no event shall such compensation of any successor servicer (including the Master Servicer) be in excess of that payable to the Servicer under the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a any Servicer, the appointment of a successor servicer or the transfer and assumption of the servicing by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s 's fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse the Master Servicer for such costs of enforcement, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or for the errors or omissions of such Servicer. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s 's rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, has succeeded such the Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither Unless otherwise specified herein, the provisions of Section 9.01(b) (relating to the Xxxxxx Xxx- and Xxxxxxx Mac- approval and MERS membership of any successor servicer, the form of any servicing agreement to be entered into by such successor servicer and the amount of compensation payable thereunder) and the provisions of Section 9.01(c) (relating to notices to the Trustee and the Rating Agencies) shall apply to any proposed transfer or assignment by the Seller of its rights under any Servicing Agreement or of the servicing thereunder or delegation of its rights or duties thereunder or any portion thereof to any other Person other than GMAC or the initial Servicer under such Servicing Agreement; provided that the Seller shall not be required to provide prior notice to anyone other than the Master Servicer of any transfer of servicing that occurs within four months following the Closing Date to GMAC or to an entity that is a Servicer on the Closing Date. In addition, neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s 's rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement to a successor servicer other than GMAC or a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. The Seller has advised the Depositor, the Trustee and the Master Servicer that it will transfer the servicing of the Mortgage Loans purchased under the Seller's Purchase, Warranties and Interim Servicing Agreement, dated as of January 1, 2004 between GreenPoint and GMAC and currently serviced by GreenPoint to GMAC on or about January 1, 2005 (the "GMAC Servicing Transfer Date") pursuant to a servicing agreement that will contain provisions for scheduled/scheduled servicing of such Mortgage Loans in accordance with customary securitization standards (including express provisions that prohibit GMAC from taking actions with respect to Mortgage Loans it is servicing that could cause an Adverse REMIC Event) and that are consistent with the provisions of this Agreement and providing for a Servicing Fee that is not greater than the Servicing Fee payable to GreenPoint. Not less than 10 Business Days prior to the GMAC Servicing Transfer Date, the Seller shall furnish the Depositor, the Trustee and the Master Servicer with an executed copy of such servicing agreement together with (i) one or more assignment agreements assigning the rights of the Seller thereunder to the Depositor, and from the Depositor to the Trustee, if applicable, and (ii) either (x) Rating Agency approval of such servicing transfer and servicing agreement or (y) a certificate of an authorized officer of the Seller to the effect that the servicing agreement satisfies the requirements of this Agreement. Neither the Trustee nor the Master Servicer shall have any responsibility for determining whether such servicing agreement complies with the provisions of this Agreement, and each of them may, in executing any such assignment agreement rely fully on the Rating Agency approval or Seller certification. In connection with any transfer of servicing (whether to GMAC, another initial Servicer, or otherwise), the Seller shall, at its cost and expense, take such steps, or cause the terminated Servicer to take such steps, as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate and evidence the transfer of the servicing of the Mortgage Loans to such successor servicer, including, but not limited to, the following: (A) to the extent required by the terms of the Mortgage Loans and by applicable federal and state laws and regulations, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to timely mail to each obligor under a Mortgage Loan any required notices or disclosures describing the transfer of servicing of the Mortgage Loans to the successor servicer; (B) prior to the effective date of such transfer of servicing, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to transmit to any related insurer notification of such transfer of servicing; (C) on or prior to the effective date of such transfer of servicing, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to deliver to the successor servicer all Mortgage Documents and any related records or materials; (D) on or prior to the effective date of such transfer of servicing, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to transfer to the successor servicer all funds held by the prior Servicer in respect of the Mortgage Loans; (E) on or prior to the effective date of such transfer of servicing, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to, after the effective date of the transfer of servicing to the successor servicer, continue to forward to such successor servicer, within one Business Day of receipt, the amount of any payments or other recoveries received by the prior Servicer, and to notify the successor servicer of the source and proper application of each such payment or recovery; and (F) the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to, after the effective date of transfer of servicing to the successor servicer, continue to cooperate with the successor servicer to facilitate such transfer in such manner and to such extent as the successor servicer may reasonably request. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the prior Servicer shall be obligated to perform the items listed above to the extent provided in the Servicing Agreement.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2004-10)

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ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ the Servicer’s and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor Trustee and the Certificateholders shall shall, from and after the Closing Date, monitor the performance of the Servicers Servicer and the Servicing Administrator under the Purchase Servicing Agreement. In performing its obligations hereunder, the Master Servicer shall act in a manner consistent with Accepted Master Servicing Practices. Furthermore, the Master Servicer shall consult with the Servicer and the Servicing AgreementsAdministrator as necessary from time to time to carry out the Master Servicer’s obligations hereunder, shall receive and review all reports, information and other data provided to the Master Servicer by the Servicer and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause enforce the Servicers obligation of the Servicer and the Servicing Administrator duly and punctually to perform all and observe the covenants, duties, obligations and conditions to be performed or observed by the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator under the Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall independently and separately monitor the Servicer’s servicing activities and the activities of their respective duties the Servicing Administrator with respect to each related Mortgage Loan in respect of the provisions of the Servicing Agreement, reconcile the reports and obligations thereunderother data provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the previous sentence on a monthly basis based on the Mortgage Loan data provided to the Master Servicer by or on behalf of the Depositor on the Closing Date (upon which data the Master Servicer shall be entitled to rely and with respect to which the Master Servicer shall have no obligation to confirm or verify) and coordinate corrective adjustments to the records of the Servicer and the Master Servicer, and based on such reconciled and corrected information, the Master Servicer shall provide such information to the Securities Administrator as shall be necessary in order for it to prepare the statements specified in Section 4.02, and prepare any other information and statements required to be forwarded by the Master Servicer hereunder. The Master Servicer shall reconcile the results of its Mortgage Loan monitoring with the actual remittances of the Servicer to the DistributionMaster Servicer Collection Account pursuant to the Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall, in accordance with the Servicing Agreement, oversee matters relating to the servicing of defaulted Mortgage Loans, including approving certain Mortgage Loan modifications, reviewing environmental reports related to foreclosed Mortgage Properties to determine whether to proceed with a foreclosure, approving certain actions relating to the management of REO Property and approving the release of the original borrower of a Mortgage Loan in connection with Mortgage Loan assumptions. The Master Servicer shall not approve any modification of a Mortgage Loan to extend the maturity date of such Mortgage Loan past the Latest Possible Maturity Date of the Certificates. In its review of the activities of the Servicer and the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer may rely upon an Officer’s Certificate of the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator (or similar document signed by an officer of the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator), and the Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s Assessment of Compliance and related Accountant’s Attestation or other accountants’ report provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the Servicing Agreement, with regard to the Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s compliance with the terms of its Servicing Agreement. Subject to Section 9.08, the Master Servicer shall not be responsible or liable for the day-to-day servicing activities of the Servicer or for any unlawful act or omission, breach, negligence, fraud, willful misconduct or bad faith of the Servicer. Upon the occurrence of a default of which an Authorized Officer event that, unless cured, would constitute grounds for termination of the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and the Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Depositor thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such event of default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall shall, if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such the Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such the Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, if the event of default is the failure of the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator to remit any provision payment required to be made under the terms of this Agreement the Servicing Agreement, and such failure continues unremedied for the duration of the applicable grace period, then the Master Servicer shall terminate all of the rights and powers of the Servicer or any Purchase and the Servicing Agreement Administrator pursuant to the contraryapplicable provisions of the Servicing Agreement, unless any waiver described under Section 6.16 shall have been obtained; provided that, upon the occurrence of such an event of default by the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation may, at its option, terminate all of the rights and powers of Cenlar FSB pursuant to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase and Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement)a waiver has been obtained. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator in its capacity as Servicer or Servicing Administrator with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating AgenciesTrustee, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and a successor to the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator; provided that, with respect to the appointment of a successor servicer, in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, such successor servicer shall be a new Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMCXxxxxxx Mac-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicerthat is a member in good standing of MERS; provided, howeverfurther, that no Trustee consent shall be required if the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator is a Person that was the Servicer on the Closing Date; provided, further, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer or a successor servicing administrator (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer or the terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under such Purchase and the Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing AgreementAgreement or into an agreement with such successor servicing administrator in a form mutually agreed upon by the parties thereto. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer or successor servicing administrator as it and such successor servicer shall agree, but . The Master Servicer in no event its sole discretion shall such have the right to agree to compensation of any a successor servicer (including the Master Servicer) be in excess of that payable permitted to the Servicer under the affected Purchase Servicing Agreement if such increase is, in its good faith and judgment, necessary or advisable to engage a successor servicer. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall the Master Servicer be liable for any Servicing Fee or for any differential between the amount of the Servicing Fee paid to the original servicer and the amount necessary to induce any successor servicer to act as successor servicer hereunder. To the extent the successor servicer assumes the obligations of the terminated Servicer under the Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer may amend the Servicing Agreement to effect such change to the Servicing Fee without the consent of the Certificateholders. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a Servicerthe Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, the appointment of a successor servicer or successor servicing administrator or the transfer and assumption of the servicing or the servicing administration by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated ServicerServicer or terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse not received by the Master Servicer within 30 days of the Master Servicer’s request for such costs of enforcementreimbursement therefor, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. To the extent the Master Servicer recovers amounts described in (i)-(iii) above subsequent to its reimbursement from the Trust Fund pursuant to (iv) above, then the Master Servicer promptly will reimburse such amounts to the Trust Fund. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing or servicing administration with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any the Servicer it replaces or the Servicing Administrator being replaced or for the errors or omissions of such Servicerthe Servicer or the Servicing Administrator. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee Trustee, the Securities Administrator and each Rating Agency through the Rating AgenciesRule 17g-5 Information Provider, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as the case may be, has succeeded such the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator . (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2013-6)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer’s and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor Trustee and the Certificateholders shall shall, from and after the Closing Date, monitor the performance of the Servicers and the Servicing Administrator under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements. In performing its obligations hereunder, the Master Servicer shall act in a manner consistent with Accepted Master Servicing Practices. Furthermore, the Master Servicer shall consult with each Servicer and the Servicing Administrator as necessary from time to time to carry out the Master Servicer’s obligations hereunder, shall receive and review all reports, information and other data provided to the Master Servicer by each Servicer and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause enforce the Servicers obligation of each Servicer and the Servicing Administrator duly and punctually to perform all and observe the covenants, duties, obligations and conditions to be performed or observed by such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator under the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall independently and separately monitor each Servicer’s servicing activities and the activities of their respective duties the Servicing Administrator with respect to each related Mortgage Loan in respect of the provisions of the applicable Servicing Agreement, reconcile the reports and obligations thereunderother data provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the previous sentence on a monthly basis based on the Mortgage Loan data provided to the Master Servicer by or on behalf of the Depositor on the Closing Date (upon which data the Master Servicer shall be entitled to rely and with respect to which the Master Servicer shall have no obligation to confirm or verify) and coordinate corrective adjustments to the records of each Servicer and the Master Servicer, and based on such reconciled and corrected information, the Master Servicer shall provide such information to the Securities Administrator as shall be necessary in order for it to prepare the statements specified in Section 4.02, and prepare any other information and statements required to be forwarded by the Master Servicer hereunder. The Master Servicer shall reconcile the results of its Mortgage Loan monitoring with the actual remittances of each Servicer to the DistributionMaster Servicer Collection Account pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall, in accordance with each Servicing Agreement, oversee matters relating to the servicing of defaulted Mortgage Loans, including approving certain Mortgage Loan modifications, reviewing environmental reports related to foreclosed Mortgage Properties to determine whether to proceed with a foreclosure, approving certain actions relating to the management of REO Property and approving the release of the original borrower of a Mortgage Loan in connection with Mortgage Loan assumptions. The Master Servicer shall not approve any modification of a Mortgage Loan to extend the maturity date of such Mortgage Loan past the Latest Possible Maturity Date of the Certificates. In its review of the activities of any Servicer and the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer may rely upon an Officer’s Certificate of such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator (or similar document signed by an officer of such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator), and such Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s Assessment of Compliance and related Accountant’s Attestation or other accountants’ report provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement, with regard to such Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s compliance with the terms of its Servicing Agreement. Subject to Section 9.08, the Master Servicer shall not be responsible or liable for the day-to-dayday-to-day servicing activities of any Servicer or for any unlawful act or omission, breach, negligence, fraud, willful misconduct or bad faith of any Servicer. Upon the occurrence of an event that, unless cured, would constitute grounds for termination of a default of which an Authorized Officer of Servicer under the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and related Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Depositor thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such event of default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall shall, if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, if the event of default is the failure of a Servicer or the Servicing Administrator to remit any provision payment required to be made under the terms of this Agreement the applicable Servicing Agreement, and such failure continues unremedied for the duration of the applicable grace period, then the Master Servicer shall terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer or any Purchase and the Servicing Agreement Administrator pursuant to the contraryapplicable provisions of the related Servicing Agreement, unless any waiver described under Section 6.16 shall have been obtained; provided that, upon the occurrence of such an event of default by the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation may, at its option, terminate all of the rights and powers of Cenlar FSB pursuant to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase and Cenlar FSB Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement)a waiver has been obtained. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of a Servicer or the Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the related Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator in its capacity as Servicer or Servicing Administrator with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating AgenciesTrustee, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and a successor to the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator; provided that, with respect to the appointment of a successor servicer, in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, such successor servicer shall be a new Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMCXxxxxxx Mac-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicerthat is a member in good standing of MERS; provided, howeverfurther, that no Trustee consent shall be required if the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator is a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date; provided, further, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer or a successor servicing administrator (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer or the terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing AgreementAgreement or into an agreement with such successor servicing administrator in a form mutually agreed upon by the parties thereto. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer or successor servicing administrator as it and such successor servicer shall agree. The Master Servicer in its sole discretion shall have the right to agree to compensation of a successor servicer in excess of that permitted to a Servicer under the Servicing Agreements if such increase is, but in its good faith and judgment, necessary or advisable to engage a successor servicer. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall such compensation the Master Servicer be liable for any Servicing Fee or for any differential between the amount of the Servicing Fee paid to the original servicer and the amount necessary to induce any successor servicer (including to act as successor servicer hereunder. To the Master Servicer) be in excess extent the successor servicer assumes the obligations of that payable to the terminated Servicer under the affected Purchase and applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer may amend such Servicing Agreement to effect such change to the Servicing Fee without the consent of the Certificateholders. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a Servicerany Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, the appointment of a successor servicer or successor servicing administrator or the transfer and assumption of the servicing or the servicing administration by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated ServicerServicer or terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse not received by the Master Servicer within 30 days of the Master Servicer’s request for such costs of enforcementreimbursement therefor, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. To the extent the Master Servicer recovers amounts described in (i)-(iii) above subsequent to its reimbursement from the Trust Fund pursuant to (iv) above, then the Master Servicer promptly will reimburse such amounts to the Trust Fund. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing or servicing administration with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or the Servicing Administrator being replaced or for the errors or omissions of such ServicerServicer or the Servicing Administrator. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of any Servicer or the Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee Trustee, the Securities Administrator and each Rating Agency through the Rating AgenciesRule 17g-5 Information Provider, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as the case may be, has succeeded such the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator. (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2012-4)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer’s and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor and the Certificateholders shall monitor the performance of the Servicers Servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements and the Servicing Agreements, and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause enforce the Servicers obligations of the Servicer to duly and punctually to perform all of their respective duties and obligations thereunder. Upon the occurrence of a default of which an Authorized Officer of the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement Agreement, or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any Purchase and Servicing Agreement to the contrary, the The Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation not permit a successor Servicer to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase and Servicing Agreement perform any servicing responsibilities hereunder with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection Mortgage Loans unless that Servicer first agrees in writing to deliver an Assessment of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund Compliance and an Accountant’s Attestation in respect thereof (unless such manner and until the at such times that permits that Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance comply with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement)hereof. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a the Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, the rights and powers of such Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, a new Xxxxxx Xxx- Fxxxxx Mxx- or FHLMC-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicer; provided, however, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree, but in no event shall such compensation of any successor servicer (including the Master Servicer) be in excess of that payable to the Servicer under the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a the Servicer, the appointment of a successor servicer or the transfer and assumption of the servicing by the Master Servicer) Servicer at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse the Master Servicer for such costs of enforcement, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any the Servicer it replaces or for the errors or omissions of such Servicer. (c) Upon any termination of a the Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, the Master Servicer or the Trustee, as applicable, shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, has succeeded such Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any the Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (J.P. Morgan Mortgage Trust 2007-A1)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer's and Master Servicer’s 's Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor and the Certificateholders shall shall, from and after the Closing Date, monitor the performance of the Servicers under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements, and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause the Servicers duly and punctually to perform all of their respective duties and obligations thereunder. Upon the occurrence of a default of which an Authorized Officer of the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any Purchase and Servicing Agreement to the contrary, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a (i) any Servicer under its Purchase and Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement)) or (ii) any Servicer under its Servicing Agreement with respect to the servicing or administration of defaulted or delinquent Mortgage Loans and the management and disposition of any REO Properties or for any actions of the Trustee or the Seller in connection therewith. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s 's rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such the Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, a new Xxxxxx Xxx- Fannie Mae- or FHLMC-approved Person that is a member in good standinx xx XEXX to serve as successor to the Servicer; provided, however, that no Trustee consent or Rating Agency approval shall be required if the successor servicer is GMAC or a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date; provided, further, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations obligation of the terminated Servicer under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree, but in no event shall such compensation of any successor servicer (including the Master Servicer) be in excess of that payable to the Servicer under the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a any Servicer, the appointment of a successor servicer or the transfer and assumption of the servicing by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s 's fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse the Master Servicer for such costs of enforcement, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or for the errors or omissions of such Servicer. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s 's rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, has succeeded such the Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither Unless otherwise specified herein, the provisions of Section 9.01(b) (relating to the Fannie Mae- and Freddie Mac- approval and MERS membership of any succxxxxx sxxxicer, xxx xxxm of any servicing agreement to be entered into by such successor servicer and the amount of compensation payable thereunder) and the provisions of Section 9.01(c) (relating to notices to the Trustee and the Rating Agencies) shall apply to any proposed transfer or assignment by the Seller of its rights under any Servicing Agreement or of the servicing thereunder or delegation of its rights or duties thereunder or any portion thereof to any other Person other than GMAC or the initial Servicer under such Servicing Agreement; provided that the Seller shall not be required to provide prior notice to anyone other than the Master Servicer of any transfer of servicing that occurs within four months following the Closing Date to GMAC or to an entity that is a Servicer on the Closing Date. In addition, neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s 's rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement to a successor servicer other than GMAC or a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. The Seller has advised the Depositor, the Trustee and the Master Servicer that it will transfer the servicing of the Mortgage Loans purchased under the Seller's Purchase, Warranties and Interim Servicing Agreement, dated as of January 1, 2004 between GreenPoint and GMAC and currently serviced by GreenPoint to GMAC on or about October 1, 2005 (the "GMAC Servicing Transfer Date") pursuant to a servicing agreement that will contain provisions for scheduled/scheduled servicing of such Mortgage Loans in accordance with customary securitization standards (including express provisions that prohibit GMAC from taking actions with respect to Mortgage Loans it is servicing that could cause an Adverse REMIC Event) and that are consistent with the provisions of this Agreement and providing for a Servicing Fee that is not greater than the Servicing Fee payable to GreenPoint. Not less than 10 Business Days prior to the GMAC Servicing Transfer Date, the Seller shall furnish the Depositor, the Trustee and the Master Servicer with an executed copy of such servicing agreement together with (i) one or more assignment agreements assigning the rights of the Seller thereunder to the Depositor, and from the Depositor to the Trustee, if applicable, and (ii) either (x) Rating Agency approval of such servicing transfer and servicing agreement or (y) a certificate of an authorized officer of the Seller to the effect that the servicing agreement satisfies the requirements of this Agreement. Neither the Trustee nor the Master Servicer shall have any responsibility for determining whether such servicing agreement complies with the provisions of this Agreement, and each of them may, in executing any such assignment agreement rely fully on the Rating Agency approval or Seller certification. In connection with any transfer of servicing (whether to GMAC, another initial Servicer, or otherwise), the Seller shall, at its cost and expense, take such steps, or cause the terminated Servicer to take such steps, as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate and evidence the transfer of the servicing of the Mortgage Loans to such successor servicer, including, but not limited to, the following: (A) to the extent required by the terms of the Mortgage Loans and by applicable federal and state laws and regulations, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to timely mail to each obligor under a Mortgage Loan any required notices or disclosures describing the transfer of servicing of the Mortgage Loans to the successor servicer; (B) prior to the effective date of such transfer of servicing, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to transmit to any related insurer notification of such transfer of servicing; (C) on or prior to the effective date of such transfer of servicing, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to deliver to the successor servicer all Mortgage Documents and any related records or materials; (D) on or prior to the effective date of such transfer of servicing, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to transfer to the successor servicer all funds held by the prior Servicer in respect of the Mortgage Loans; (E) on or prior to the effective date of such transfer of servicing, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to, after the effective date of the transfer of servicing to the successor servicer, continue to forward to such successor servicer, within one Business Day of receipt, the amount of any payments or other recoveries received by the prior Servicer, and to notify the successor servicer of the source and proper application of each such payment or recovery; and (F) the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to, after the effective date of transfer of servicing to the successor servicer, continue to cooperate with the successor servicer to facilitate such transfer in such manner and to such extent as the successor servicer may reasonably request. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the prior Servicer shall be obligated to perform the items listed above to the extent provided in the Servicing Agreement.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2005-4)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor and the Certificateholders shall monitor the performance of the Servicers under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements and the Servicing Agreements, and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause the Servicers duly and punctually to perform all of their respective duties and obligations thereunder. Upon the occurrence of a default of which an Authorized Officer of the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer (other than Xxxxx Fargo) pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement Agreement, or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. In the event that the Master Servicer, in its judgment, determines that Xxxxx Fargo should be terminated as a Servicer in accordance with the Xxxxx Fargo Purchase and Servicing Agreement, or that a notice should be sent pursuant to the Xxxxx Fargo Purchase and Servicing Agreement with respect to the occurrence of an event that, unless cured, would constitute grounds for such termination, the Master Servicer shall notify the Depositor and the Trustee thereof in writing. Upon receipt of such written notification from the Master Servicer, the Trustee shall issue such notice of termination to Xxxxx Fargo or take such other action as it deems appropriate. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement to the contrary, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable). The Master Servicer shall not permit a successor Servicer to perform any servicing responsibilities hereunder with respect to the Mortgage Loans unless that Servicer first agrees in writing to deliver an Assessment of Compliance and an Accountant’s Attestation in such manner and at such times that permits that Master Servicer to comply with the provisions hereof. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, the rights and powers of such Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, and the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, unless or until the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, a new Xxxxxx Xxx- Mae- or FHLMC-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicer; provided, however, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer (including the Master ServicerServicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable). With such consent, the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree, but in no event shall such compensation of any successor servicer (including the Master ServicerServicer or the Trustee, as applicable) be in excess of that payable to the Servicer under the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable. The Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a Servicer, the appointment of a successor servicer or the transfer and assumption of the servicing by the Master ServicerServicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse the Master Servicer or the Trustee, as applicable, for such costs of enforcement, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. If the Master Servicer or the Trustee (solely with respect to Xxxxx Fargo), as applicable, assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or for the errors or omissions of such Servicer. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, the Master Servicer or the Trustee, as applicable, shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, has succeeded such Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (J.P. Morgan Mortgage Trust 2006-A2)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer’s and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor and the Certificateholders shall monitor the performance of the Servicers under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements, and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause the Servicers duly and punctually to perform all of their respective duties and obligations thereunder. Upon the occurrence of a default of which an Authorized Officer of the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any Purchase and Servicing Agreement to the contrary, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a (i) the Servicer under its Purchase and Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement)) or (ii) the Servicer under its Servicing Agreement with respect to the servicing or administration of defaulted or delinquent Mortgage Loans and the management and disposition of any REO Properties or for any actions of the Trustee in connection therewith. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such the Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, a new Xxxxxx Xxx- Fxxxxx Mxx- or FHLMC-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicer; provided, however, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to 98795 Sequoia 2004-1 Pooling and Servicing Agmt. a successor servicer (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations obligation of the terminated Servicer under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree, but in no event shall such compensation of any successor servicer (including the Master Servicer) be in excess of that payable to the Servicer under the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a any Servicer, the appointment of a successor servicer or the transfer and assumption of the servicing by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse the Master Servicer for such costs of enforcement, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or for the errors or omissions of such Servicer. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, has succeeded such the Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Residential Funding Inc)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer's and Master Servicer’s 's Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor and the Certificateholders shall monitor the performance of the Servicers under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements, and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause the Servicers duly and punctually to perform all of their respective duties and obligations thereunder. Upon the occurrence of a default of which an Authorized Officer of the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any Purchase and Servicing Agreement to the contrary, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a (i) the Servicer under its Purchase and Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement)) or (ii) the Servicer under its Servicing Agreement with respect to the servicing or administration of defaulted or delinquent Mortgage Loans and the management and disposition of any REO Properties or for any actions of the Trustee in connection therewith. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s 's rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such the Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, a new Xxxxxx Xxx- Fannie Mae- or FHLMC-approved Person to serve as successor to the ServicerSerxxxxx; providedxxxvided, however, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations obligation of the terminated Servicer under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree, but in no event shall such compensation of any successor servicer (including the Master Servicer) be in excess of that payable to the Servicer under the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a any Servicer, the appointment of a successor servicer or the transfer and assumption of the servicing by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s 's fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse the Master Servicer for such costs of enforcement, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or for the errors or omissions of such Servicer. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s 's rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, has succeeded such the Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s 's rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Residential Funding Inc)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor and the Certificateholders shall monitor the performance of the Servicers under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements, and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause the Servicers duly and punctually to perform all of their respective duties and obligations thereunder. Upon the occurrence of a default of which an Authorized Officer of the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any Purchase and Servicing Agreement to the contrary, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase and Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral Pledged Assets or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral Pledged Assets and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement). The Master Servicer shall not permit a successor Servicer to perform any servicing responsibilities hereunder with respect to the Mortgage Loans unless that Servicer first agrees in writing to deliver an Assessment of Compliance and an Accountant’s Attestation in such manner and at such times that permits that successor Servicer to comply with their respective Purchase and Servicing Agreement. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, a new Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMC-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicer; provided, however, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree, but in no event shall such compensation of any successor servicer (including the Master Servicer) be in excess of that payable to the Servicer under the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a Servicer, the appointment of a successor servicer or the transfer and assumption of the servicing by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse the Master Servicer for such costs of enforcement, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or for the errors or omissions of such Servicer. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, has succeeded such Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (J P Morgan Acceptance Corp I)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer’s and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor Trustee and the Certificateholders shall shall, from and after the Closing Date, monitor the performance of the Servicers under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements. In performing its obligations hereunder, the Master Servicer shall act in a manner consistent with Accepted Master Servicing Practices. Furthermore, the Master Servicer shall consult with each Servicer as necessary from time to time to carry out the Master Servicer’s obligations hereunder, shall receive and review all reports, information and other data provided to the Master Servicer by each Servicer and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause enforce the Servicers obligation of each Servicer duly and punctually to perform all and observe the covenants, duties, obligations and conditions to be performed or observed by such Servicer under the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall independently and separately monitor each Servicer’s servicing activities with respect to each related Mortgage Loan in respect of their respective duties the provisions of the applicable Servicing Agreement, reconcile the reports and obligations thereunderother data provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the previous sentence on a monthly basis based on the Mortgage Loan data provided to the Master Servicer by or on behalf of the Depositor on the Closing Date (upon which data the Master Servicer shall be entitled to rely and with respect to which the Master Servicer shall have no obligation to confirm or verify) and coordinate corrective adjustments to each Servicer’s and the Master Servicer’s records, and based on such reconciled and corrected information, the Master Servicer shall provide such information to the Securities Administrator as shall be necessary in order for it to prepare the statements specified in Section 4.02, and prepare any other information and statements required to be forwarded by the Master Servicer hereunder. The Master Servicer shall reconcile the results of its Mortgage Loan monitoring with the actual remittances of each Servicer to the DistributionMaster Servicer Collection Account pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement. In its review of the activities of any Servicer, the Master Servicer may rely upon an Officer’s Certificate of such Servicer (or similar document signed by an officer of such Servicer), and such Servicer’s Assessment of Compliance and related Accountant’s Attestation or other accountants’ report provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement, with regard to such Servicer’s compliance with the terms of its Servicing Agreement. Subject to Section 9.08, the Master Servicer shall not be responsible or liable for the day-to-day servicing activities of any Servicer or for any unlawful act or omission, breach, negligence, fraud, willful misconduct or bad faith of any Servicer. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement, the Master Servicer shall have no duty to review any loss mitigation decisions of any Servicer (including without limitation the calculation of realized losses and gains and the management and disposition of any REO Properties) or any actions of the Trustee or the Controlling Holder in connection therewith. Upon the occurrence of an event that, unless cured, would constitute grounds for termination of a default of which an Authorized Officer of Servicer under the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and related Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Depositor thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such event of default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall shall, if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, if the event of default is the failure of a Servicer to remit any provision payment required to be made under the terms of this Agreement or any Purchase the applicable Servicing Agreement, and Servicing Agreement to such failure continues unremedied for the contraryduration of the applicable grace period, then the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation to supervise, monitor or oversee terminate all of the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase rights and Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations powers of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the applicable provisions of the such Purchase and related Servicing Agreement), unless any waiver described under Section 6.16 shall have been obtained. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and the related Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such the Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating AgenciesTrustee, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, a new Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMCXxxxxxx Mac-approved Person that is a member in good standing of MERS to serve as successor to the Servicer; provided, however, that no Trustee consent shall be required if the successor servicer is a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date; provided, further, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree. The Master Servicer in its sole discretion shall have the right to agree to compensation of a successor servicer in excess of that permitted to a Servicer under the Servicing Agreements if such increase is, but in its good faith and judgment, necessary or advisable to engage a successor servicer. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall such compensation the Master Servicer be liable for any Servicing Fee or for any differential between the amount of the Servicing Fee paid to the original servicer and the amount necessary to induce any successor servicer (including to act as successor servicer hereunder. To the Master Servicer) be in excess extent the successor servicer assumes the obligations of that payable to the terminated Servicer under the affected Purchase and applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer may amend such Servicing Agreement to effect such change to the Servicing Fee without the consent of the Certificateholders. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a any Servicer, the appointment of a successor servicer or the transfer and assumption of the servicing by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse not received by the Master Servicer within 30 days of the Master Servicer’s request for such costs of enforcementreimbursement therefor, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. To the extent the Master Servicer recovers amounts described in (i)-(iii) above subsequent to its reimbursement from the Trust Fund pursuant to (iv) above, then the Master Servicer promptly will reimburse such amounts to the Trust Fund. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or for the errors or omissions of such Servicer. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and the applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee Trustee, the Securities Administrator and the Rating AgenciesAgency through the Rule 17g-5 Information Provider, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, has succeeded such the Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2011-2)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 9.01. Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer’s and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the TrusteeTrust Fund, the Depositor and the Certificateholders shall shall, from and after the Closing Date, monitor the performance of the Servicers under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements, and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause the Servicers duly and punctually to perform all of their respective duties and obligations thereunder. Upon the occurrence of a default of which an Authorized Officer of the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Trust Administrator thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any Purchase and Servicing Agreement to the contrary, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a (i) any Servicer under its Purchase and Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement)) or (ii) any Servicer under its Servicing Agreement with respect to the servicing or administration of defaulted or delinquent Mortgage Loans and the management and disposition of any REO Properties or for any actions of the Trustee or the Seller in connection therewith. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such the Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, a new Xxxxxx Xxx- Fxxxxx Mxx- or FHLMC-approved Person that is a member in good standing of MERS to serve as successor to the Servicer; provided, however, that no Trustee consent or Rating Agency approval shall be required if the successor servicer is a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date; provided, further, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations obligation of the terminated Servicer under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree, but in no event shall such compensation of any successor servicer (including the Master Servicer) be in excess of that payable to the Servicer under the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a any Servicer, the appointment of a successor servicer or the transfer and assumption of the servicing by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse the Master Servicer for such costs of enforcement, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or for the errors or omissions of such Servicer. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee Trustee, the Trust Administrator and the Rating Agencies, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, has succeeded such the Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither Unless otherwise specified herein, the provisions of Section 9.01(b) (relating to the Fxxxxx Mxx- and Fxxxxxx Mac- approval and MERS membership of any successor servicer, the form of any servicing agreement to be entered into by such successor servicer and the amount of compensation payable thereunder) and the provisions of Section 9.01(c) (relating to notices to the Trustee, the Trust Administrator and the Rating Agencies) shall apply to any proposed transfer or assignment by the Seller of its rights under any Servicing Agreement or of the servicing thereunder or delegation of its rights or duties thereunder or any portion thereof to any other Person other than the initial Servicer under such Servicing Agreement; provided that the Seller shall not be required to provide prior notice to anyone other than the Master Servicer of any transfer of servicing that occurs within four months following the Closing Date to an entity that is a Servicer on the Closing Date. In addition, neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement to a successor servicer other than a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. In connection with any transfer of servicing, the Seller shall, at its cost and expense, take such steps, or cause the terminated Servicer to take such steps, as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate and evidence the transfer of the servicing of the Mortgage Loans to such successor servicer, including, but not limited to, the following: (A) to the extent required by the terms of the Mortgage Loans and by applicable federal and state laws and regulations, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to timely mail to each obligor under a Mortgage Loan any required notices or disclosures describing the transfer of servicing of the Mortgage Loans to the successor servicer; (B) prior to the effective date of such transfer of servicing, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to transmit to any related insurer notification of such transfer of servicing; (C) on or prior to the effective date of such transfer of servicing, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to deliver to the successor servicer all Mortgage Documents and any related records or materials; (D) on or prior to the effective date of such transfer of servicing, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to transfer to the successor servicer all funds held by the prior Servicer in respect of the Mortgage Loans; (E) on or prior to the effective date of such transfer of servicing, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to, after the effective date of the transfer of servicing to the successor servicer, continue to forward to such successor servicer, within one Business Day of receipt, the amount of any payments or other recoveries received by the prior Servicer, and to notify the successor servicer of the source and proper application of each such payment or recovery; and (F) the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to, after the effective date of transfer of servicing to the successor servicer, continue to cooperate with the successor servicer to facilitate such transfer in such manner and to such extent as the successor servicer may reasonably request. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the prior Servicer shall be obligated to perform the items listed above to the extent provided in the Servicing Agreement.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Funding Corp)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer's and Master Servicer’s 's Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor and the Certificateholders shall monitor the performance of the Servicers under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements, and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause the Servicers duly and punctually to perform all of their respective duties and obligations thereunder. Upon the occurrence of a default of which an Authorized Officer of the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any Purchase and Servicing Agreement to the contrary, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a (i) the Servicer under its Purchase and Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement)) or (ii) the Servicer under its Servicing Agreement with respect to the servicing or administration of defaulted or delinquent Mortgage Loans and the management and disposition of any REO Properties or for any actions of the Trustee in connection therewith. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s 's rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such the Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, a new 80091 Pooling and Servicing Agreement Sequoia 2003-3 Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMC-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicer; provided, however, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations obligation of the terminated Servicer under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree, but in no event shall such compensation of any successor servicer (including the Master Servicer) be in excess of that payable to the Servicer under the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a any Servicer, the appointment of a successor servicer or the transfer and assumption of the servicing by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s 's fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse the Master Servicer for such costs of enforcement, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or for the errors or omissions of such Servicer. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s 's rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, has succeeded such the Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s 's rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Residential Funding Inc)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer’s and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor Trustee and the Certificateholders shall shall, from and after the Closing Date, monitor the performance of the Servicers under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements. In performing its obligations hereunder, the Master Servicer shall act in a manner consistent with Accepted Master Servicing Practices. Furthermore, the Master Servicer shall consult with each Servicer as necessary from time to time to carry out the Master Servicer’s obligations hereunder, shall receive and review all reports, information and other data provided to the Master Servicer by each Servicer and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause enforce the Servicers obligation of each Servicer duly and punctually to perform all and observe the covenants, duties, obligations and conditions to be performed or observed by such Servicer under the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall independently and separately monitor each Servicer’s servicing activities with respect to each related Mortgage Loan in respect of their respective duties the provisions of the applicable Servicing Agreement, reconcile the reports and obligations thereunderother data provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the previous sentence on a monthly basis based on the Mortgage Loan data provided to the Master Servicer by or on behalf of the Depositor on the Closing Date (upon which data the Master Servicer shall be entitled to rely and with respect to which the Master Servicer shall have no obligation to confirm or verify) and coordinate corrective adjustments to each Servicer’s and the Master Servicer’s records, and based on such reconciled and corrected information, the Master Servicer shall provide such information to the Securities Administrator as shall be necessary in order for it to prepare the statements specified in Section 4.02, and prepare any other information and statements required to be forwarded by the Master Servicer hereunder. The Master Servicer shall reconcile the results of its Mortgage Loan monitoring with the actual remittances of each Servicer to the DistributionMaster Servicer Collection Account pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement. In its review of the activities of any Servicer, the Master Servicer may rely upon an Officer’s Certificate of such Servicer (or similar document signed by an officer of such Servicer), and such Servicer’s Assessment of Compliance and related Accountant’s Attestation or other accountants’ report provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement, with regard to such Servicer’s compliance with the terms of its Servicing Agreement. Subject to Section 9.08, the Master Servicer shall not be responsible or liable for the day-to-day servicing activities of any Servicer or for any unlawful act or omission, breach, negligence, fraud, willful misconduct or bad faith of any Servicer. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement, the Master Servicer shall have no duty to review any loss mitigation decisions of any Servicer (including without limitation the calculation of realized losses and gains and the management and disposition of any REO Properties) or any actions of the Trustee or the Controlling Holder in connection therewith. Upon the occurrence of an event that, unless cured, would constitute grounds for termination of a default of which an Authorized Officer of Servicer under the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and related Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Depositor thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such event of default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall shall, if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, if the event of default is the failure of a Servicer to remit any provision payment required to be made under the terms of this Agreement or any Purchase the applicable Servicing Agreement, and Servicing Agreement to such failure continues unremedied for the contraryduration of the applicable grace period, then the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation to supervise, monitor or oversee terminate all of the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase rights and Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations powers of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the applicable provisions of the such Purchase and related Servicing Agreement), unless any waiver described under Section 6.16 shall have been obtained. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and the related Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such the Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating AgenciesTrustee, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, a new Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMCXxxxxxx Mac-approved Person that is a member in good standing of MERS to serve as successor to the Servicer; provided, however, that no Trustee consent shall be required if the successor servicer is a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date; provided, further, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree. The Master Servicer in its sole discretion shall have the right to agree to compensation of a successor servicer in excess of that permitted to a Servicer under the Servicing Agreements if such increase is, but in its good faith and judgment, necessary or advisable to engage a successor servicer. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall such compensation the Master Servicer be liable for any Servicing Fee or for any differential between the amount of the Servicing Fee paid to the original servicer and the amount necessary to induce any successor servicer (including to act as successor servicer hereunder. To the Master Servicer) be in excess extent the successor servicer assumes the obligations of that payable to the terminated Servicer under the affected Purchase and applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer may amend such Servicing Agreement to effect such change to the Servicing Fee without the consent of the Certificateholders. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a any Servicer, the appointment of a successor servicer or the transfer and assumption of the servicing by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse not received by the Master Servicer within 30 days of the Master Servicer’s request for such costs of enforcementreimbursement therefor, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. To the extent the Master Servicer recovers amounts described in (i)-(iii) above subsequent to its reimbursement from the Trust Fund pursuant to (iv) above, then the Master Servicer promptly will reimburse such amounts to the Trust Fund. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or for the errors or omissions of such Servicer. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and the applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee Trustee, the Securities Administrator and the Rating AgenciesAgency, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, has succeeded such the Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2011-1)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer’s and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor Trustee and the Certificateholders shall shall, from and after the Closing Date, monitor the performance of the Servicers and the Servicing Administrator under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements. In performing its obligations hereunder, the Master Servicer shall act in a manner consistent with Accepted Master Servicing Practices. Furthermore, the Master Servicer shall consult with each Servicer and the Servicing Administrator as necessary from time to time to carry out the Master Servicer’s obligations hereunder, shall receive and review all reports, information and other data provided to the Master Servicer by each Servicer and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause enforce the Servicers obligation of each Servicer and the Servicing Administrator duly and punctually to perform all and observe the covenants, duties, obligations and conditions to be performed or observed by such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator under the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall independently and separately monitor each Servicer’s servicing activities and the activities of their respective duties the Servicing Administrator with respect to each related Mortgage Loan in respect of the provisions of the applicable Servicing Agreement, reconcile the reports and obligations thereunderother data provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the previous sentence on a monthly basis based on the Mortgage Loan data provided to the Master Servicer by or on behalf of the Depositor on the Closing Date (upon which data the Master Servicer shall be entitled to rely and with respect to which the Master Servicer shall have no obligation to confirm or verify) and coordinate corrective adjustments to the records of each Servicer and the Master Servicer, and based on such reconciled and corrected information, the Master Servicer shall provide such information to the Securities Administrator as shall be necessary in order for it to prepare the statements specified in Section 4.02, and prepare any other information and statements required to be forwarded by the Master Servicer hereunder. The Master Servicer shall reconcile the results of its Mortgage Loan monitoring with the actual remittances of each Servicer to the Master Servicer Collection Account pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall, in accordance with each Servicing Agreement, oversee matters relating to the servicing of defaulted Mortgage Loans, including approving certain Mortgage Loan modifications, reviewing environmental reports related to foreclosed Mortgage Properties to determine whether to proceed with a foreclosure, approving certain actions relating to the management of REO Property and approving the release of the original borrower of a Mortgage Loan in connection with Mortgage Loan assumptions. The Master Servicer shall not approve any modification of a Mortgage Loan to extend the maturity date of such Mortgage Loan past the Latest Possible Maturity Date of the Certificates. In its review of the activities of any Servicer and the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer may rely upon an Officer’s Certificate of such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator (or similar document signed by an officer of such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator), and such Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s Assessment of Compliance and related Accountant’s Attestation or other accountants’ report provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement, with regard to such Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s compliance with the terms of its Servicing Agreement. Subject to Section 9.08, the Master Servicer shall not be responsible or liable for the day-to-day servicing activities of any Servicer or for any unlawful act or omission, breach, negligence, fraud, willful misconduct or bad faith of any Servicer. Upon the occurrence of an event that, unless cured, would constitute grounds for termination of a default of which an Authorized Officer of Servicer under the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and related Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Depositor thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such event of default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall shall, if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, if the event of default is the failure of a Servicer or the Servicing Administrator to remit any provision payment required to be made under the terms of this Agreement the applicable Servicing Agreement, and such failure continues unremedied for the duration of the applicable grace period, then the Master Servicer shall terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer or any Purchase and the Servicing Agreement Administrator pursuant to the contraryapplicable provisions of the related Servicing Agreement, unless any waiver described under Section 6.16 shall have been obtained; provided that, upon the occurrence of such an event of default by the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation may, at its option, terminate all of the rights and powers of Cenlar FSB pursuant to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase and related Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement)a waiver has been obtained. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of a Servicer or the Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the related Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator in its capacity as Servicer or Servicing Administrator with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating AgenciesTrustee, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and a successor to the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator; provided that, with respect to the appointment of a successor servicer, in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, such successor servicer shall be a new Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMCXxxxxxx Mac-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicerthat is a member in good standing of MERS; provided, howeverfurther, that no Trustee consent shall be required if the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator is a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date; provided, further, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer or a successor servicing administrator (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer or the terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing AgreementAgreement or into an agreement with such successor servicing administrator in a form mutually agreed upon by the parties thereto. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer or successor servicing administrator as it and such successor servicer shall agree. The Master Servicer in its sole discretion shall have the right to agree to compensation of a successor servicer in excess of that permitted to a Servicer under the Servicing Agreements if such increase is, but in its good faith and judgment, necessary or advisable to engage a successor servicer. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall such compensation the Master Servicer be liable for any Servicing Fee or for any differential between the amount of the Servicing Fee paid to the original servicer and the amount necessary to induce any successor servicer (including to act as successor servicer hereunder. To the Master Servicer) be in excess extent the successor servicer assumes the obligations of that payable to the terminated Servicer under the affected Purchase and applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer may amend such Servicing Agreement to effect such change to the Servicing Fee without the consent of the Certificateholders. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a Servicerany Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, the appointment of a successor servicer or successor servicing administrator or the transfer and assumption of the servicing or the servicing administration by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated ServicerServicer or terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse not received by the Master Servicer within 30 days of the Master Servicer’s request for such costs of enforcementreimbursement therefor, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. To the extent the Master Servicer recovers amounts described in (i)-(iii) above subsequent to its reimbursement from the Trust Fund pursuant to (iv) above, then the Master Servicer promptly will reimburse such amounts to the Trust Fund. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing or servicing administration with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or the Servicing Administrator being replaced or for the errors or omissions of such ServicerServicer or the Servicing Administrator. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of any Servicer or the Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee Trustee, the Securities Administrator and each Rating Agency through the Rating AgenciesRule 17g-5 Information Provider, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as the case may be, has succeeded such the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator . (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2013-4)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer’s and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor Trustee and the Certificateholders shall shall, from and after the Closing Date, monitor the performance of the Servicers and the Servicing Administrator under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements. In performing its obligations hereunder, the Master Servicer shall act in a manner consistent with Accepted Master Servicing Practices. Furthermore, the Master Servicer shall consult with each Servicer and the Servicing Administrator as necessary from time to time to carry out the Master Servicer’s obligations hereunder, shall receive and review all reports, information and other data provided to the Master Servicer by each Servicer and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause enforce the Servicers obligation of each Servicer and the Servicing Administrator duly and punctually to perform all and observe the covenants, duties, obligations and conditions to be performed or observed by such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator under the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall independently and separately monitor each Servicer’s servicing activities and the activities of their respective duties the Servicing Administrator with respect to each related Mortgage Loan in respect of the provisions of the applicable Servicing Agreement, reconcile the reports and obligations thereunderother data provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the previous sentence on a monthly basis based on the Mortgage Loan data provided to the Master Servicer by or on behalf of the Depositor on the Closing Date (upon which data the Master Servicer shall be entitled to rely and with respect to which the Master Servicer shall have no obligation to confirm or verify) and coordinate corrective adjustments to the records of each Servicer and the Master Servicer, and based on such reconciled and corrected information, the Master Servicer shall provide such information to the Securities Administrator as shall be necessary in order for it to prepare the statements specified in Section 4.02, and prepare any other information and statements required to be forwarded by the Master Servicer hereunder. The Master Servicer shall reconcile the results of its Mortgage Loan monitoring with the actual remittances of each Servicer to the Master Servicer Collection Account pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall, in accordance with each Servicing Agreement, oversee matters relating to the servicing of defaulted Mortgage Loans, including approving certain Mortgage Loan modifications, reviewing environmental reports related to foreclosed Mortgage Properties to determine whether to proceed with a foreclosure, approving certain actions relating to the management of REO Property and approving the release of the original borrower of a Mortgage Loan in connection with Mortgage Loan assumptions. The Master Servicer shall not approve any modification of a Mortgage Loan to extend the maturity date of such Mortgage Loan past the Latest Possible Maturity Date of the Certificates. In its review of the activities of any Servicer and the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer may rely upon an Officer’s Certificate of such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator (or similar document signed by an officer of such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator), and such Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s Assessment of Compliance and related Accountant’s Attestation or other accountants’ report provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement, with regard to such Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s compliance with the terms of its Servicing Agreement. Subject to Section 9.08, the Master Servicer shall not be responsible or liable for the day-to-day servicing activities of any Servicer or for any unlawful act or omission, breach, negligence, fraud, willful misconduct or bad faith of any Servicer. Upon the occurrence of an event that, unless cured, would constitute grounds for termination of a default of which an Authorized Officer of Servicer under the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and related Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Depositor thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such event of default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall shall, if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and such Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, if the event of default is the failure of a Servicer or the Servicing Administrator to remit any provision payment required to be made under the terms of this Agreement the applicable Servicing Agreement, and such failure continues unremedied for the duration of the applicable grace period, then the Master Servicer shall terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer or any Purchase and the Servicing Agreement Administrator pursuant to the contraryapplicable provisions of the related Servicing Agreement, unless any waiver described under Section 6.16 shall have been obtained; provided that, upon the occurrence of such an event of default by the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation may, at its option, terminate all of the rights and powers of Cenlar FSB pursuant to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase and related Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement)a waiver has been obtained. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of a Servicer or the Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the related Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator in its capacity as Servicer or Servicing Administrator with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating AgenciesTrustee, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and a successor to the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator; provided that, with respect to the appointment of a successor servicer, in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, such successor servicer shall be a new Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMCXxxxxxx Mac-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicerthat is a member in good standing of MERS; provided, howeverfurther, that no Trustee consent shall be required if the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator is a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date; provided, further, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer or a successor servicing administrator (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer or the terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing AgreementAgreement or into an agreement with such successor servicing administrator in a form mutually agreed upon by the parties thereto. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer or successor servicing administrator as it and such successor servicer shall agree. The Master Servicer in its sole discretion shall have the right to agree to compensation of a successor servicer in excess of that permitted to a Servicer under the related Servicing Agreement if such increase is, but in its good faith and judgment, necessary or advisable to engage a successor servicer. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall such compensation the Master Servicer be liable for any Servicing Fee or for any differential between the amount of the Servicing Fee paid to the original servicer and the amount necessary to induce any successor servicer (including to act as successor servicer hereunder. To the Master Servicer) be in excess extent the successor servicer assumes the obligations of that payable to the terminated Servicer under the affected Purchase and applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer may amend such Servicing Agreement to effect such change to the Servicing Fee without the consent of the Certificateholders. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a Servicerthe Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, the appointment of a successor servicer or successor servicing administrator or the transfer and assumption of the servicing or the servicing administration by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated ServicerServicer or terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse not received by the Master Servicer within 30 days of the Master Servicer’s request for such costs of enforcementreimbursement therefor, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. To the extent the Master Servicer recovers amounts described in (i)-(iii) above subsequent to its reimbursement from the Trust Fund pursuant to (iv) above, then the Master Servicer promptly will reimburse such amounts to the Trust Fund. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing or servicing administration with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or the Servicing Administrator being replaced or for the errors or omissions of such ServicerServicer or the Servicing Administrator. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of any Servicer or the Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee Trustee, the Securities Administrator and each Rating Agency through the Rating AgenciesRule 17g-5 Information Provider, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as the case may be, has succeeded the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under such Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator. (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2013-7)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer's and Master Servicer’s 's Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor and the Certificateholders shall monitor the performance of the Servicers under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements, and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause the Servicers duly and punctually to perform all of their respective duties and obligations thereunder. Upon the occurrence of a default of which an Authorized Officer of the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any Purchase and Servicing Agreement to the contrary, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a (i) the Servicer under its Purchase and Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement)) or (ii) the Servicer under its Servicing Agreement with respect to the servicing or administration of defaulted or delinquent Mortgage Loans and the management and disposition of any REO Properties or for any actions of the Trustee in connection therewith. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s 's rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such the Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans 117941 Sequoia 2004-9 Pooling and Servicing Agmt. under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, a new Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMC-approved Person that is a member in good standing of MERS to serve as successor to the Servicer; provided, however, that no Trustee consent or Rating Agency approval shall be required if the successor servicer is GMAC or a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date; provided, further, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations obligation of the terminated Servicer under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree, but in no event shall such compensation of any successor servicer (including the Master Servicer) be in excess of that payable to the Servicer under the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a any Servicer, the appointment of a successor servicer or the transfer and assumption of the servicing by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s 's fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse the Master Servicer for such costs of enforcement, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or for the errors or omissions of such Servicer. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s 's rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, has succeeded such the Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither Unless otherwise specified herein, the provisions of Section 9.01(b) (relating to the Xxxxxx Xxx- and Xxxxxxx Mac- approval and MERS membership of any successor servicer, the form of any servicing agreement to be entered into by such successor servicer and the amount of compensation payable thereunder) and the provisions of Section 9.01(c) (relating to notices to the Trustee and the Rating Agencies) shall apply to any proposed transfer or assignment by the Seller of its rights under any Servicing Agreement or of the servicing thereunder or delegation of 117941 Sequoia 2004-9 Pooling and Servicing Agmt. its rights or duties thereunder or any portion thereof to any other Person other than GMAC or the initial Servicer under such Servicing Agreement; provided that the Seller shall not be required to provide prior notice to anyone other than the Master Servicer of any transfer of servicing that occurs within four months following the Closing Date to GMAC or to an entity that is a Servicer on the Closing Date. In addition, neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s 's rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement to a successor servicer other than GMAC or a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. The Seller has advised the Depositor, the Trustee and the Master Servicer that it will transfer the servicing of the Mortgage Loans purchased under the Seller's Purchase, Warranties and Interim Servicing Agreement, dated as of January 1, 2004 between GreenPoint and GMAC and currently serviced by GreenPoint to GMAC on or about October 1, 2004 (the "GMAC Servicing Transfer Date") pursuant to a servicing agreement that will contain provisions for scheduled/scheduled servicing of such Mortgage Loans in accordance with customary securitization standards (including express provisions that prohibit GMAC from taking actions with respect to Mortgage Loans it is servicing that could cause an Adverse REMIC Event) and that are consistent with the provisions of this Agreement and providing for a Servicing Fee that is not greater than the Servicing Fee payable to GreenPoint. Not less than 10 Business Days prior to the GMAC Servicing Transfer Date, the Seller shall furnish the Depositor, the Trustee and the Master Servicer with an executed copy of such servicing agreement together with (i) one or more assignment agreements assigning the rights of the Seller thereunder to the Depositor, and from the Depositor to the Trustee, if applicable, and (ii) either (x) Rating Agency approval of such servicing transfer and servicing agreement or (y) a certificate of an authorized officer of the Seller to the effect that the servicing agreement satisfies the requirements of this Agreement. Neither the Trustee nor the Master Servicer shall have any responsibility for determining whether such servicing agreement complies with the provisions of this Agreement, and each of them may, in executing any such assignment agreement rely fully on the Rating Agency approval or Seller certification. In connection with any transfer of servicing (whether to GMAC, another initial Servicer, or otherwise), the Seller shall, at its cost and expense, take such steps, or cause the terminated Servicer to take such steps, as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate and evidence the transfer of the servicing of the Mortgage Loans to such successor servicer, including, but not limited to, the following: (A) to the extent required by the terms of the Mortgage Loans and by applicable federal and state laws and regulations, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to timely mail to each obligor under a Mortgage Loan any required notices or disclosures describing the transfer of servicing of the Mortgage Loans to the successor servicer; (B) prior to the effective date of such transfer of servicing, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to transmit to any related insurer notification of such transfer of servicing; (C) on or prior to the effective date of such transfer of servicing, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to deliver to the successor servicer all Mortgage Documents and any related records or materials; (D) on or prior to the effective date of such transfer of servicing, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to transfer to the successor servicer all funds held by the prior Servicer in respect of the Mortgage 117941 Sequoia 2004-9 Pooling and Servicing Agmt. Loans; (E) on or prior to the effective date of such transfer of servicing, the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to, after the effective date of the transfer of servicing to the successor servicer, continue to forward to such successor servicer, within one Business Day of receipt, the amount of any payments or other recoveries received by the prior Servicer, and to notify the successor servicer of the source and proper application of each such payment or recovery; and (F) the Seller shall cause the prior Servicer to, after the effective date of transfer of servicing to the successor servicer, continue to cooperate with the successor servicer to facilitate such transfer in such manner and to such extent as the successor servicer may reasonably request. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the prior Servicer shall be obligated to perform the items listed above to the extent provided in the Servicing Agreement.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2004-9)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer’s and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor Trustee and the Certificateholders shall shall, from and after the Closing Date, monitor the performance of the Servicers under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements. In performing its obligations hereunder, the Master Servicer shall act in a manner consistent with Accepted Master Servicing Practices. Furthermore, the Master Servicer shall consult with each Servicer as necessary from time to time to carry out the Master Servicer’s obligations hereunder, shall receive and review all reports, information and other data provided to the Master Servicer by each Servicer and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause enforce the Servicers obligation of each Servicer duly and punctually to perform all and observe the covenants, duties, obligations and conditions to be performed or observed by such Servicer under the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall independently and separately monitor each Servicer’s servicing activities with respect to each related Mortgage Loan in respect of their respective duties the provisions of the applicable Servicing Agreement, reconcile the reports and obligations thereunderother data provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the previous sentence on a monthly basis based on the Mortgage Loan data provided to the Master Servicer by or on behalf of the Depositor on the Closing Date (upon which data the Master Servicer shall be entitled to rely and with respect to which the Master Servicer shall have no obligation to confirm or verify) and coordinate corrective adjustments to each Servicer’s and the Master Servicer’s records, and based on such reconciled and corrected information, the Master Servicer shall provide such information to the Securities Administrator as shall be necessary in order for it to prepare the statements specified in Section 4.02, and prepare any other information and statements required to be forwarded by the Master Servicer hereunder. The Master Servicer shall reconcile the results of its Mortgage Loan monitoring with the actual remittances of each Servicer to the Master Servicer Collection Account pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement. In its review of the activities of any Servicer, the Master Servicer may rely upon an Officer’s Certificate of such Servicer (or similar document signed by an officer of such Servicer), and such Servicer’s Assessment of Compliance and related Accountant’s Attestation or other accountants’ report provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement, with regard to such Servicer’s compliance with the terms of its Servicing Agreement. Subject to Section 9.08, the Master Servicer shall not be responsible or liable for the day-to-day servicing activities of any Servicer or for any unlawful act or omission, breach, negligence, fraud, willful misconduct or bad faith of any Servicer. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement, the Master Servicer shall have no duty to review any loss mitigation decisions of any Servicer (including without limitation the calculation of realized losses and gains and the management and disposition of any REO Properties) or any actions of the Trustee or the Controlling Holder in connection therewith. Upon the occurrence of an event that, unless cured, would constitute grounds for termination of a default of which an Authorized Officer of Servicer under the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and related Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Depositor thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such event of default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall shall, if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, if the event of default is the failure of a Servicer to remit any provision payment required to be made under the terms of this Agreement or any Purchase the applicable Servicing Agreement, and Servicing Agreement to such failure continues unremedied for the contraryduration of the applicable grace period, then the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation to supervise, monitor or oversee terminate all of the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase rights and Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations powers of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the applicable provisions of the such Purchase and related Servicing Agreement), unless any waiver described under Section 6.16 shall have been obtained. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and the related Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such the Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating AgenciesTrustee, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, a new Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMCXxxxxxx Mac-approved Person that is a member in good standing of MERS to serve as successor to the Servicer; provided, however, that no Trustee consent shall be required if the successor servicer is a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date; provided, further, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree. The Master Servicer in its sole discretion shall have the right to agree to compensation of a successor servicer in excess of that permitted to a Servicer under the Servicing Agreements if such increase is, but in its good faith and judgment, necessary or advisable to engage a successor servicer. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall such compensation the Master Servicer be liable for any Servicing Fee or for any differential between the amount of the Servicing Fee paid to the original servicer and the amount necessary to induce any successor servicer (including to act as successor servicer hereunder. To the Master Servicer) be in excess extent the successor servicer assumes the obligations of that payable to the terminated Servicer under the affected Purchase and applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer may amend such Servicing Agreement to effect such change to the Servicing Fee without the consent of the Certificateholders. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a any Servicer, the appointment of a successor servicer or the transfer and assumption of the servicing by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse not received by the Master Servicer within 30 days of the Master Servicer’s request for such costs of enforcementreimbursement therefor, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. To the extent the Master Servicer recovers amounts described in (i)-(iii) above subsequent to its reimbursement from the Trust Fund pursuant to (iv) above, then the Master Servicer promptly will reimburse such amounts to the Trust Fund. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or for the errors or omissions of such Servicer. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and the applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee Trustee, the Securities Administrator and the Rating AgenciesAgency through the Rule 17g-5 Information Provider, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, has succeeded such the Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2011-2)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer’s and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor Trustee and the Certificateholders shall shall, from and after the Closing Date, monitor the performance of the Servicers and the Servicing Administrators under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements. In performing its obligations hereunder, the Master Servicer shall act in a manner consistent with Accepted Master Servicing Practices. Furthermore, the Master Servicer shall consult with each Servicer and each Servicing Administrator as necessary from time to time to carry out the Master Servicer’s obligations hereunder, shall receive and review all reports, information and other data provided to the Master Servicer by each Servicer and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause enforce the Servicers obligation of each Servicer and each Servicing Administrator duly and punctually to perform all and observe the covenants, duties, obligations and conditions to be performed or observed by such Servicer or Servicing Administrator under the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall independently and separately monitor each Servicer’s servicing activities and the activities of their respective duties each Servicing Administrator with respect to each related Mortgage Loan in respect of the provisions of the applicable Servicing Agreement, reconcile the reports and obligations thereunderother data provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the previous sentence on a monthly basis based on the Mortgage Loan data provided to the Master Servicer by or on behalf of the Depositor on the Closing Date (upon which data the Master Servicer shall be entitled to rely and with respect to which the Master Servicer shall have no obligation to confirm or verify) and coordinate corrective adjustments to the records of each Servicer and the Master Servicer, and based on such reconciled and corrected information, the Master Servicer shall provide such information to the Securities Administrator as shall be necessary in order for it to prepare the statements specified in Section 4.02, and prepare any other information and statements required to be forwarded by the Master Servicer hereunder. The Master Servicer shall reconcile the results of its Mortgage Loan monitoring with the actual remittances of each Servicer to the DistributionMaster Servicer Collection Account pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall, in accordance with each Servicing Agreement, oversee matters relating to the servicing of defaulted Mortgage Loans, including approving certain Mortgage Loan modifications, reviewing environmental reports related to foreclosed Mortgage Properties to determine whether to proceed with a foreclosure, approving certain actions relating to the management of REO Property and approving the release of the original borrower of a Mortgage Loan in connection with Mortgage Loan assumptions. The Master Servicer shall not approve any modification of a Mortgage Loan to extend the maturity date of such Mortgage Loan past the Latest Possible Maturity Date of the Certificates. In its review of the activities of any Servicer and either Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer may rely upon an Officer’s Certificate of such Servicer or Servicing Administrator (or similar document signed by an officer of such Servicer or Servicing Administrator), and such Servicer’s or such Servicing Administrator’s Assessment of Compliance and related Accountant’s Attestation or other accountants’ report provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement, with regard to such Servicer’s or such Servicing Administrator’s compliance with the terms of its Servicing Agreement. Subject to Section 9.08, the Master Servicer shall not be responsible or liable for the day-to-dayday-to-day servicing activities of any Servicer or for any unlawful act or omission, breach, negligence, fraud, willful misconduct or bad faith of any Servicer. Upon the occurrence of an event that, unless cured, would constitute grounds for termination of a default of which an Authorized Officer of Servicer under the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and related Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Depositor thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such event of default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall shall, if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, if the event of default is the failure of a Servicer or a Servicing Administrator to remit any provision payment required to be made under the terms of this Agreement the applicable Servicing Agreement, and such failure continues unremedied for the duration of the applicable grace period, then the Master Servicer shall terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer or any Purchase and such Servicing Agreement Administrator pursuant to the contraryapplicable provisions of the related Servicing Agreement, unless any waiver described under Section 6.16 shall have been obtained; provided that, upon the occurrence of such an event of default by a Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation may, at its option, terminate all of the rights and powers of Cenlar FSB pursuant to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase and related Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement)a waiver has been obtained. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of a Servicer or a Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the related Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer or such Servicing Administrator in its capacity as Servicer or Servicing Administrator with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating AgenciesTrustee, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and a successor to the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator; provided that, with respect to the appointment of a successor servicer, in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, such successor servicer shall be a new Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMCXxxxxxx Mac-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicerthat is a member in good standing of MERS; provided, howeverfurther, that no Trustee consent shall be required if the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator is a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date; provided, further, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer or a successor servicing administrator (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer or the terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing AgreementAgreement or into an agreement with such successor servicing administrator in a form mutually agreed upon by the parties thereto. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer or successor servicing administrator as it and such successor servicer shall agree. The Master Servicer in its sole discretion shall have the right to agree to compensation of a successor servicer in excess of that permitted to a Servicer under the Servicing Agreements if such increase is, but in its good faith and judgment, necessary or advisable to engage a successor servicer. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall such compensation the Master Servicer be liable for any Servicing Fee or for any differential between the amount of the Servicing Fee paid to the original servicer and the amount necessary to induce any successor servicer (including to act as successor servicer hereunder. To the Master Servicer) be in excess extent the successor servicer assumes the obligations of that payable to the terminated Servicer under the affected Purchase and applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer may amend such Servicing Agreement to effect such change to the Servicing Fee without the consent of the Certificateholders. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of any Servicer or a ServicerServicing Administrator, the appointment of a successor servicer or successor servicing administrator or the transfer and assumption of the servicing or the servicing administration by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated ServicerServicer or terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse not received by the Master Servicer within 30 days of the Master Servicer’s request for such costs of enforcementreimbursement therefor, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. To the extent the Master Servicer recovers amounts described in (i)-(iii) above subsequent to its reimbursement from the Trust Fund pursuant to (iv) above, then the Master Servicer promptly will reimburse such amounts to the Trust Fund. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing or servicing administration with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or Servicing Administrator being replaced or for the errors or omissions of such ServicerServicer or such Servicing Administrator. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of any Servicer or Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee Trustee, the Securities Administrator and each Rating Agency through the Rating AgenciesRule 17g-5 Information Provider, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as the case may be, has succeeded such the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator . (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2013-2)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer’s and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor Trustee and the Certificateholders shall shall, from and after the Closing Date, monitor the performance of the Servicers and the Servicing Administrator under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements. In performing its obligations hereunder, the Master Servicer shall act in a manner consistent with Accepted Master Servicing Practices. Furthermore, the Master Servicer shall consult with each Servicer and the Servicing Administrator as necessary from time to time to carry out the Master Servicer’s obligations hereunder, shall receive and review all reports, information and other data provided to the Master Servicer by each Servicer and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause enforce the Servicers obligation of each Servicer and the Servicing Administrator duly and punctually to perform all and observe the covenants, duties, obligations and conditions to be performed or observed by such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator under the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall independently and separately monitor each Servicer’s servicing activities and the activities of their respective duties the Servicing Administrator with respect to each related Mortgage Loan in respect of the provisions of the applicable Servicing Agreement, reconcile the reports and obligations thereunderother data provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the previous sentence on a monthly basis based on the Mortgage Loan data provided to the Master Servicer by or on behalf of the Depositor on the Closing Date (upon which data the Master Servicer shall be entitled to rely and with respect to which the Master Servicer shall have no obligation to confirm or verify) and coordinate corrective adjustments to the records of each Servicer and the Master Servicer, and based on such reconciled and corrected information, the Master Servicer shall provide such information to the Securities Administrator as shall be necessary in order for it to prepare the statements specified in Section 4.02, and prepare any other information and statements required to be forwarded by the Master Servicer hereunder. The Master Servicer shall reconcile the results of its Mortgage Loan monitoring with the actual remittances of each Servicer to the Master Servicer Collection Account pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall, in accordance with each Servicing Agreement, oversee matters relating to the servicing of defaulted Mortgage Loans, including approving certain Mortgage Loan modifications, reviewing environmental reports related to foreclosed Mortgage Properties to determine whether to proceed with a foreclosure, approving certain actions relating to the management of REO Property and approving the release of the original borrower of a Mortgage Loan in connection with Mortgage Loan assumptions. The Master Servicer shall not approve any modification of a Mortgage Loan to extend the maturity date of such Mortgage Loan past the Latest Possible Maturity Date of the Certificates. In its review of the activities of any Servicer and the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer may rely upon an Officer’s Certificate of such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator (or similar document signed by an officer of such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator), and such Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s Assessment of Compliance and related Accountant’s Attestation or other accountants’ report provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement, with regard to such Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s compliance with the terms of its Servicing Agreement. Subject to Section 9.08, the Master Servicer shall not be responsible or liable for the day-to-day servicing activities of any Servicer or for any unlawful act or omission, breach, negligence, fraud, willful misconduct or bad faith of any Servicer. Upon the occurrence of an event that, unless cured, would constitute grounds for termination of a default of which an Authorized Officer of Servicer under the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and related Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Depositor thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such event of default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall shall, if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, if the event of default is the failure of a Servicer or the Servicing Administrator to remit any provision payment required to be made under the terms of this Agreement the applicable Servicing Agreement, and such failure continues unremedied for the duration of the applicable grace period, then the Master Servicer shall terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer or any Purchase and the Servicing Agreement Administrator pursuant to the contraryapplicable provisions of the related Servicing Agreement, unless any waiver described under Section 6.16 shall have been obtained; provided that, upon the occurrence of such an event of default by the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation may, at its option, terminate all of the rights and powers of Cenlar FSB pursuant to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase and related Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement)a waiver has been obtained. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of a Servicer or the Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the related Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator in its capacity as Servicer or Servicing Administrator with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating AgenciesTrustee, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and a successor to the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator; provided that, with respect to the appointment of a successor servicer, in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, such successor servicer shall be a new Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMCXxxxxxx Mac-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicerthat is a member in good standing of MERS; provided, howeverfurther, that no Trustee consent shall be required if the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator is a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date; provided, further, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer or a successor servicing administrator (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer or the terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing AgreementAgreement or into an agreement with such successor servicing administrator in a form mutually agreed upon by the parties thereto. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer or successor servicing administrator as it and such successor servicer shall agree. The Master Servicer in its sole discretion shall have the right to agree to compensation of a successor servicer in excess of that permitted to a Servicer under the Servicing Agreements if such increase is, but in its good faith and judgment, necessary or advisable to engage a successor servicer. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall such compensation the Master Servicer be liable for any Servicing Fee or for any differential between the amount of the Servicing Fee paid to the original servicer and the amount necessary to induce any successor servicer (including to act as successor servicer hereunder. To the Master Servicer) be in excess extent the successor servicer assumes the obligations of that payable to the terminated Servicer under the affected Purchase and applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer may amend such Servicing Agreement to effect such change to the Servicing Fee without the consent of the Certificateholders. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a Servicerany Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, the appointment of a successor servicer or successor servicing administrator or the transfer and assumption of the servicing or the servicing administration by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated ServicerServicer or terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse not received by the Master Servicer within 30 days of the Master Servicer's request for such costs of enforcementreimbursement therefor, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. To the extent the Master Servicer recovers amounts described in (i)-(iii) above subsequent to its reimbursement from the Trust Fund pursuant to (iv) above, then the Master Servicer promptly will reimburse such amounts to the Trust Fund. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing or servicing administration with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or the Servicing Administrator being replaced or for the errors or omissions of such ServicerServicer or the Servicing Administrator. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of any Servicer or the Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee Trustee, the Securities Administrator and each Rating Agency through the Rating AgenciesRule 17g-5 Information Provider, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as the case may be, has succeeded such the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator . (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2013-4)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. Section 9.01 8.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer’s and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Securities Administrator, the Depositor and the Certificateholders Certificateholders, shall monitor the performance of the Servicers under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements, and (except as set forth below) shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause the Servicers to duly and punctually to perform all of their respective duties and obligations thereunder. Upon the occurrence of a default Servicer Event of Default of which an Authorized a Responsible Officer of the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Securities Administrator and the Trustee thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking plans to take in respect of such default. So long as any such default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, may (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement in accordance with Section 7.01 hereof or (iv) take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunderunder the related Servicing Agreement. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any Purchase and Servicing Agreement to the contraryExcept as set forth in Section 4.06 hereof, the Master Servicer shall have no duty to supervise any Servicer’s activities related to the servicing or obligation to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase and Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection administration of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund Pledged Assets (as such term is defined in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing applicable Sale Agreement), defaulted or delinquent Mortgage Loans or the management and disposition of any REO Properties. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such Servicer with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer in its capacity as Servicer with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, a new Xxxxxx Xxx- or FHLMC-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicer; provided, however, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 days) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicer, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer as it and such successor servicer shall agree, but in no event shall such compensation of any successor servicer (including the Master Servicer) be in excess of that payable to the Servicer under the affected Purchase and Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement monitoring the Servicers as required hereunder (including the costs associated with (i) termination of a any Servicer, (ii) the appointment of a successor servicer or (iii) the transfer to and assumption of the servicing by the Master Servicer (or, if the Servicer is Xxxxx Fargo Bank, N.A., by the Trustee) and shall, to the extent permitted by the related Servicing Agreement, seek reimbursement therefor initially from the terminated Servicer) at its own expense and . In the event the full costs associated with the transition of servicing responsibilities to the Master Servicer are not paid for by the predecessor or successor Servicer (provided such successor Servicer is not the Master Servicer), the Master Servicer or Trustee as successor Master Servicer shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated Servicer, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse Trust for out-of-pocket costs incurred by the Master Servicer for associated with any such costs transfer of enforcement, servicing duties from a Servicer to the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. Master Servicer or any other successor servicer. (c) If the Master Servicer (or Trustee, as applicable) assumes the servicing with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or for the any errors or omissions of such Servicer. (cd) Upon any termination None of a Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to its Purchase and Servicing Agreementthe Depositor, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Rating Agencies, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicer, as the case may be, has succeeded such Servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicer. (d) Neither the Depositor Securities Administrator nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and any Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. (e) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Master Servicer shall deliver to the Depositor a certification in the form of Exhibit K attached hereto specifying the items it will address in its assessment of compliance with the servicing criteria under this Section 8.01. On or before March 15 of each year, commencing in March 2007, the Master Servicer at its own expense, shall furnish, and each such party shall cause any Servicing Function Participant engaged by it to furnish, each at its own expense, to the Securities Administrator and the Depositor, a report on an assessment of compliance with the Relevant Servicing Criteria that contains (i) a statement by such party of its responsibility for assessing compliance with the Servicing Criteria, (ii) a statement that such party used the Servicing Criteria to assess compliance with the Relevant Servicing Criteria, (iii) such party’s assessment of compliance with the Relevant Servicing Criteria as of and for the fiscal year covered by the Form 10-K required to be filed pursuant to Section 3.02(e), including, if there has been any material instance of noncompliance with the Relevant Servicing Criteria, a discussion of each such failure and the nature and status thereof, and (iv) a statement that a registered public accounting firm has issued an attestation report on such party’s assessment of compliance with the Relevant Servicing Criteria as of and for such period. No later than the end of each fiscal year for the Trust for which a 10-K is required to be filed, the Master Servicer shall forward to the Securities Administrator the name of each Servicing Function Participant engaged by it and what Relevant Servicing Criteria will be addressed in the report on assessment of compliance prepared by such Servicing Function Participant. When the Master Servicer (or any Servicing Function Participant engaged by it) submits its assessment to the Securities Administrator, it will also at such time include the assessment (and attestation pursuant to Section 8.01(f) and 11.01(d)) of each Servicing Function Participant engaged by it. Promptly after receipt of each such report on assessment of compliance, (i) the Depositor shall review each such report and, if applicable, consult with the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator and any Servicing Function Participant engaged by such parties as to the nature of any material instance of noncompliance with the Relevant Servicing Criteria by each such party, and (ii) the Securities Administrator shall confirm that the assessments, taken as a whole, address all of the Servicing Criteria and taken individually address the Relevant Servicing Criteria for each party as set forth on Exhibit K and on any similar exhibit set forth in each Servicing Agreement in respect of the applicable Servicer and notify the Depositor of any exceptions. None of such parties shall be required to deliver any such assessments until April 15 in any given year so long as such party has received written confirmation from the Depositor that a Form 10-K is not required to be filed in respect of the Trust for the preceding calendar year. The Master Servicer shall enforce any obligation of a Servicer (and the applicable Servicing Agreement will provide that each Servicer shall enforce any obligations of an Additional Servicer engaged by such Servicer), to the extent set forth in the related Servicing Agreement (or, in the case of an Additional Servicer, such applicable agreement), to deliver to the Master Servicer an annual report on assessment of compliance within the time frame set forth in, and in such form and substance as may be required pursuant to, the related Servicing Agreement (or, in the case of an Additional Servicer, such applicable agreement). The Master Servicer shall include such annual report on assessment of compliance with its own assessment of compliance to be submitted to the Securities Administrator pursuant to this Section 8.01. (f) On or before March 15 of each calendar year, commencing in March 2007, the Master Servicer, at its own expense, shall cause, and shall cause any Servicing Function Participant engaged by it to cause, each at its own expense, a registered public accounting firm (which may also render other services to the Master Servicer or such other Servicing Function Participants, as the case may be) that is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants to furnish a report to the Securities Administrator and the Depositor (and, in the case of any other Servicing Function Participant, the Master Servicer) to the effect that (i) it has obtained a representation regarding certain matters from the management of such party, which includes an assertion that such party has complied with the Relevant Servicing Criteria, and (ii) on the basis of an examination conducted by such firm in accordance with standards for attestation engagements issued or adopted by the PCAOB, it is expressing an opinion as to whether such party’s compliance with the Relevant Servicing Criteria was fairly stated in all material respects, or it cannot express an overall opinion regarding such party’s assessment of compliance with the Relevant Servicing Criteria. In the event that an overall opinion cannot be expressed, such registered public accounting firm shall state in such report why it was unable to express such an opinion. Such report must be available for general use and not contain restricted use language. Promptly after receipt of such report from the Master Servicer or any Servicing Function Participant engaged by the Master Servicer parties, (i) the Depositor shall review the report and, if applicable, consult with such parties as to the nature of any defaults by such parties, in the fulfillment of any of each such party’s obligations hereunder or under any other applicable agreement, and (ii) the Securities Administrator shall confirm that each assessment submitted pursuant to Section 8.01(e) and Section 11.01(c) is coupled with an attestation meeting the requirements of this Section and shall notify the Depositor of any exceptions. Neither the Master Servicer nor any Servicing Function Participant engaged by the Master Servicer shall be required to deliver or cause the delivery of such reports until April 15 in any given year so long as it has received written confirmation from the Depositor that a 10-K is not required to be filed in respect of the Trust for the preceding fiscal year. The Master Servicer shall enforce any obligation of a Servicer (and the applicable Servicing Agreement will provide that each Servicer shall enforce any obligations of an Additional Servicer engaged by such Servicer), to the extent set forth in the related Servicing Agreement (or, in the case of an Additional Servicer, such applicable agreement), to deliver to the Master Servicer an attestation within the time frame set forth in, and in such form and substance as may be required pursuant to, the related Servicing Agreement (or, in the case of an Additional Servicer, such applicable agreement). The Master Servicer shall include such annual report on assessment of compliance with its own assessment of compliance to be submitted to the Securities Administrator pursuant to this Section 8.01. (g) The Master Servicer shall give prior written notice to the Depositor of the appointment of any Subcontractor by it and a written description (in form and substance satisfactory to the Depositor) of the role and function of each Subcontractor utilized by the Master Servicer, specifying (i) the identity of each such Subcontractor and (ii) which elements of the servicing criteria set forth under Item 1122(d) of Regulation AB will be addressed in assessments of compliance provided by each such Subcontractor. (h) The Master Servicer shall notify the Depositor and the Sponsor within five (5) days of its gaining knowledge thereof (i) of any legal proceedings pending against the Master Servicer of the type described in Item 1117 (§ 229.1117) of Regulation AB, (ii) of any merger, consolidation or sale of substantially all of the assets of the Master Servicer and (iii) if the Master Servicer shall become (but only to the extent not previously disclosed) at any time an affiliate of any of the Depositor, any Servicer, any Originator contemplated by Item 1110 (§ 229.1110) of Regulation AB, any significant obligor contemplated by Item 1112 (§ 229.1112) of Regulation AB, any enhancement or support provider contemplated by Items 1114 or 1115 (§§ 229.1114-1115) of Regulation AB or any successor thereto or any other material party to the Trust Fund contemplated by Item 1100(d)(1) (§ 229.1100(d)(1)) of Regulation AB, as applicable.

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Samples: Master Servicing and Trust Agreement (GSR Mortgage Loan Trust 2006-Ar1)

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE MASTER SERVICER. THE ASSET REPRESENTATIONS REVIEWER Section 9.01 Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers’ Servicer’s and Master Servicer’s Obligations. (a) The Master Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, the Depositor Trustee and the Certificateholders shall shall, from and after the Closing Date, monitor the performance of the Servicers and the Servicing Administrator under the Purchase and Servicing Agreements. In performing its obligations hereunder, the Master Servicer shall act in a manner consistent with Accepted Master Servicing Practices. Furthermore, the Master Servicer shall consult with each Servicer and the Servicing Administrator as necessary from time to time to carry out the Master Servicer’s obligations hereunder, shall receive and review all reports, information and other data provided to the Master Servicer by each Servicer and shall use its reasonable good faith efforts to cause enforce the Servicers obligation of each Servicer and the Servicing Administrator duly and punctually to perform all and observe the covenants, duties, obligations and conditions to be performed or observed by such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator under the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall independently and separately monitor each Servicer’s servicing activities and the activities of their respective duties the Servicing Administrator with respect to each related Mortgage Loan in respect of the provisions of the applicable Servicing Agreement, reconcile the reports and obligations thereunderother data provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the previous sentence on a monthly basis based on the Mortgage Loan data provided to the Master Servicer by or on behalf of the Depositor on the Closing Date (upon which data the Master Servicer shall be entitled to rely and with respect to which the Master Servicer shall have no obligation to confirm or verify) and coordinate corrective adjustments to the records of each Servicer and the Master Servicer, and based on such reconciled and corrected information, the Master Servicer shall provide such information to the Securities Administrator as shall be necessary in order for it to prepare the statements specified in Section 4.02, and prepare any other information and statements required to be forwarded by the Master Servicer hereunder. The Master Servicer shall reconcile the results of its Mortgage Loan monitoring with the actual remittances of each Servicer to the Master Servicer Collection Account pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall, as allowed under each Servicing Agreement, oversee matters relating to the servicing of defaulted Mortgage Loans, including approving certain Mortgage Loan modifications, reviewing environmental reports related to foreclosed Mortgage Properties to determine whether to proceed with a foreclosure, approving certain actions relating to the management of REO Property and approving the release of the original borrower of a Mortgage Loan in connection with Mortgage Loan assumptions. The Master Servicer shall not approve any modification of a Mortgage Loan to extend the maturity date of such Mortgage Loan past the Latest Possible Maturity Date of the Certificates except as required by applicable law or a court order. In its review of the activities of any Servicer and the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer may rely upon an Officer’s Certificate of such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator (or similar document signed by an officer of such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator), and such Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s Assessment of Compliance and related Accountant’s Attestation or other accountants’ report provided to the Master Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement, with regard to such Servicer’s or the Servicing Administrator’s compliance with the terms of its Servicing Agreement. Subject to Section 9.08, the Master Servicer shall not be responsible or liable for the day-to-day servicing activities of any Servicer or for any unlawful act or omission, breach, negligence, fraud, willful misconduct or bad faith of any Servicer. Upon the occurrence of an event that, unless cured, would constitute grounds for termination of a default of which an Authorized Officer of Servicer under the Master Servicer has actual knowledge under a Purchase and related Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Depositor thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Master Servicer is taking in respect of such default. So long as any such event of default shall be continuing, the Master Servicer may, and shall shall, if it determines such action to be in the best interests of Certificateholders, (i) terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer pursuant to the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement; (ii) exercise any rights it may have to enforce the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement against such Servicer; and/or and (iii) waive any such default under the related Purchase and such Servicing Agreement or take any other action with respect to such default as is permitted thereunder. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, if the event of default is the failure of a Servicer or the Servicing Administrator to remit any provision payment required to be made under the terms of this Agreement the applicable Servicing Agreement, and such failure continues unremedied for the duration of the applicable grace period, then the Master Servicer shall terminate all of the rights and powers of such Servicer or any Purchase and the Servicing Agreement Administrator pursuant to the contraryapplicable provisions of the related Servicing Agreement, unless any waiver described under Section 6.16 shall have been obtained; provided that, upon the occurrence of such an event of default by the Servicing Administrator, the Master Servicer shall have no duty or obligation may, at its option, terminate all of the rights and powers of [20% Servicer] pursuant to supervise, monitor or oversee the activities of, or to enforce the obligations of, a Servicer under its Purchase and related Servicing Agreement with respect to any Additional Collateral or any Limited Purpose Surety Bond relating thereto, including, without limitation, the collection of any amounts owing to the Trust Fund in respect thereof (unless and until the Master Servicer shall have assumed the obligations of such Servicer as successor servicer under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.01, in which case, as successor servicer, it shall be bound to serve and administer the Additional Collateral and any related Limited Purpose Surety Bond in accordance with the provisions of the such Purchase and Servicing Agreement)a waiver has been obtained. (b) Upon any termination by the Master Servicer of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of a Servicer or the Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the related Servicing Agreement, the rights and powers of such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator with respect to the related Mortgage Loans shall vest in the Master Servicer and the Master Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to such Servicer or the Servicing Administrator in its capacity as Servicer or Servicing Administrator with respect to such Mortgage Loans under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, unless or until the Master Servicer shall have appointed, with the consent of the Trustee and the Rating AgenciesTrustee, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, and a successor to the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator; provided that, with respect to the appointment of a successor servicer, in accordance with the applicable provisions of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, such successor servicer shall be a new Xxxxxx Xxx- Fxxxxx Mxx- or FHLMCFxxxxxx Mac-approved Person to serve as successor to the Servicerthat is a member in good standing of MERS; provided, howeverfurther, that no Trustee consent shall be required if the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator is a Person that was a Servicer on the Closing Date; provided, further, that it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that there will be a period of transition (not to exceed 90 daysdays unless additional time is required to properly protect the assets of the Trust Fund) before the actual servicing functions can be fully transferred to a successor servicer or a successor servicing administrator (including the Master Servicer). With such consent, the Master Servicer may elect to continue to serve as successor servicer under the Purchase and Servicing Agreement. Upon appointment of a successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as authorized under this Section 9.01(b), unless the successor servicer or successor servicing administrator shall have assumed the obligations of the terminated Servicer or the terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under such Purchase and Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and such successor servicer shall enter into a servicing agreement in a form substantially similar to the affected Purchase and Servicing AgreementAgreement or into an agreement with such successor servicing administrator in a form mutually agreed upon by the parties thereto. In connection with any such appointment, the Master Servicer may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor servicer or successor servicing administrator as it and such successor servicer shall agree. The Master Servicer in its sole discretion shall have the right to agree to compensation of a successor servicer in excess of that permitted to a Servicer under the Servicing Agreements if such increase is, but in its good faith and judgment, necessary or advisable to engage a successor servicer. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall such compensation the Master Servicer be liable for any Servicing Fee or for any differential between the amount of the Servicing Fee paid to the original servicer and the amount necessary to induce any successor servicer (including to act as successor servicer hereunder. To the Master Servicer) be in excess extent the successor servicer assumes the obligations of that payable to the terminated Servicer under the affected Purchase and applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer may amend such Servicing Agreement to effect such change to the Servicing Fee without the consent of the Certificateholders. The Master Servicer shall pay the costs of such enforcement (including the termination of a Servicerany Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, the appointment of a successor servicer or successor servicing administrator or the transfer and assumption of the servicing or the servicing administration by the Master Servicer) at its own expense and shall be reimbursed therefor initially (i) by the terminated ServicerServicer or terminated Servicing Administrator, as applicable, (ii) from a general recovery resulting from such enforcement only to the extent, if any, that such recovery exceeds all amounts due in respect of the related Mortgage Loans, (iii) from a specific recovery of costs, expenses or attorney’s fees against the party against whom such enforcement is directed, or (iv) to the extent that such amounts described in (i)-(iii) above are insufficient to reimburse not received by the Master Servicer within 30 days of the Master Servicer's request for such costs of enforcementreimbursement therefor, from the Trust Fund, as provided in Section 9.04. To the extent the Master Servicer recovers amounts described in (i)-(iii) above subsequent to its reimbursement from the Trust Fund pursuant to (iv) above, then the Master Servicer promptly will reimburse such amounts to the Trust Fund. If the Master Servicer assumes the servicing or servicing administration with respect to any of the Mortgage Loans, it will not assume liability for the representations and warranties of any Servicer it replaces or the Servicing Administrator being replaced or for the errors or omissions of such ServicerServicer or the Servicing Administrator. (c) Upon any termination of a Servicer’s the rights and powers of any Servicer or the Servicing Administrator pursuant to its Purchase and the applicable Servicing Agreement, the Master Servicer shall promptly notify the Trustee Trustee, the Securities Administrator and each Rating Agency through the Rating AgenciesRule 17g-5 Information Provider, specifying in such notice that the Master Servicer or any successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator, as the case may be, has succeeded such the Servicer or the Servicing Administrator, as applicable, under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which notice shall also specify the name and address of any such successor servicerservicer or successor servicing administrator. (d) Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall consent to the assignment by any Servicer of such Servicer’s rights and obligations under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Master Servicer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Sequoia Residential Funding Inc)

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