Chicago Title NCS Chicago: SYFCREC 2021

JOINDER AND, NOW, this day of , 2021, Chicago Title Insurance Company joins in this Agreement for the purposes stated therein that are applicable to Escrow Holder, agreeing to act as Escrow Holder as therein provided. The duties of Escrow Holder under this Agreement are only as specifically provided in the Agreement and the provisions below and are purely ministerial in nature. Escrow Holder shall incur no liability to the parties for the performance of its duties as described herein, except in the event of Escrow Holder’s willful, intentional, grossly negligent or fraudulent acts or omissions. INVESTMENT Deposits made pursuant to these instructions may be invested on behalf of any party or parties hereto: provided, that any direction to escrow trustee for such investment shall be expressed in WRITING and contain the consent of all other parties to this escrow, and also provided that escrow trustee is in receipt of the taxpayer's identification number and investment forms as required. Escrow trustee will, upon request, furnish information concerning its procedures and fee schedules for investment. In the event the escrow trustee is requested to invest deposits hereunder, Chicago Title and Trust Company shall not to be held responsible for any loss of principal or interest which may be incurred as a result of making the investment or redeeming said investment for the purposes of these escrow trust instructions. TRUST ACCOUNT Because Escrow Trustee is not itself a bank, it may commingle the Escrow Deposits with other escrow deposits in a trust account not used for payroll or accounts payable in order to facilitate placing the Escrow Deposits in a segregated interest bearing account and to disburse the Escrow Deposits once they have been removed from said segregated interest bearing account in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. DIRECTION NOT TO INVEST/RIGHT TO COMMINGLE Except as to deposits of funds for which escrow trustee has received express written direction concerning investment or other handling, the parties hereto direct the escrow trustee NOT to invest any funds deposited by the parties under the terms of this escrow and waive any rights which they may have under Section 2-8 of the Corporate Fiduciary Act (205 ILCS 620/2-8) to receive interest on funds deposited hereunder. In the absence of an authorized direction to invest funds, the parties hereto agree that escrow trustee shall be under no duty to invest or reinvest any such funds at any time held by it hereunder; and further, that escrow trustee may commingle such deposits with other deposits or with its own funds in the manner provided for the administration of funds under Section 2-8 of the Corporate Fiduciary Act (205 ILCS 620/2-8) and may use any part or all such funds for its own benefit without obligation to any party 185