Hugh Miller Stated Quotations

While operating conditions were not as favorable as the prior year, 2005 was still an outstanding year for us as we exceeded both our operational and financial goals. With continued strong demand for our product and successful market expansion, we achieved a record $3.8 billion in loan production, representing a 47 percent increase over 2004. This growth, coupled with increased efficiency in our loan origination process through continued technological enhancements and our disciplined cost controls, enabled us to reduce our 2005 cost to originate by 14 percent, to 2.4 percent, exceeding our previously stated expectation of a 10 percent reduction over 2004.

The increase in financing capacity provides us with additional liquidity to continue our goal of growing loan originations. We remain confident in our previously stated loan origination guidance, and expect to achieve at least 25 percent growth in our 2005 loan origination volume over our 2004 level $2.6 billion,