EXHIBIT 10.68 EXECUTION COPY AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO NOTE PURCHASE AGREEMENT This AMENDMENT NO. 2 (the "Amendment") dated as of August 24, 2004, to the Note Purchase Agreement dated as of August 8, 2003 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified hereby and from time to time hereafter, the "Note Purchase Agreement") by and among Option One Owner Trust 2003-4 (the "Issuer"), Option One Mortgage Corporation (the "Servicer"), Option One Loan Warehouse Corporation (the "Depositor"), Falcon Asset Securitization Corporation ("Falcon"), Jupiter Securitization Corporation ("Jupiter"), Preferred Receivables Funding Corporation ("Prefco" and, together with Falcon and Jupiter, the "Conduit Purchasers"), the financial institutions party thereto (the "Committed Purchasers") and Bank One, NA (Main Office Chicago) (the "Note Agent"). Capitalized terms used herein but not specifically defined herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in the Note Purchase Agreement. PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS: (1) The Issuer, the Servicer, the Depositor, the Conduit Purchasers, the Committed Purchasers and the Note Agent are parties to the Note Purchase Agreement. (2) The Issuer has requested that the Purchasers agree to increase the Maximum Note Principal Balance. (3) In consideration of the mutual agreements contained herein, and for other valuable consideration, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto have agreed to amend the Note Purchase Agreement as set forth herein. NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereto agree as follows: SECTION 1. Amendment. Effective as of the date hereof and subject to the satisfaction of the conditions precedent set forth in Section 2 hereof, the Note Purchase Agreement is hereby amended as follows: (a) The definition of "Maximum Note Principal Balance" set forth in Section 1.01 of the Note Purchase Agreement is hereby restated in its entirety as follows: "Maximum Note Principal Balance" means (i) from August 24, 2004 through October 31, 2004, $1,500,000,000 and (ii) thereafter, $1,000,000,000, in each case, as such amount may be increased or decreased in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (b) Schedule I to the Note Purchase Agreement is hereby replaced with Schedule I attached hereto. SECTION 2. Conditions of Effectiveness. This Amendment shall become effective as of the date hereof when, and only when, the Note Agent shall have received the following: (a) an executed counterpart of this Amendment from each of the parties hereto; (b) a Note payable to the order of Bank One, NA (Main Office Chicago), with a Maximum Note Principal Balance of $1,500,000,000, executed by the Issuer and authenticated by the Indenture Trustee; and (c) confirmation that the Note issued to Bank One, NA on August 8, 2003 with a Maximum Note Principal Balance of $1,000,000,000 has been cancelled by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to the terms of Section 2.07 of the Indenture. SECTION 3. Representations and Warranties. Each of the parties hereto represents and warrants that this Amendment and the Note Purchase Agreement, as amended by this Amendment, constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of such Person enforceable against such Person in accordance with their terms, except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights generally and general equitable principles. SECTION 4. Reference to and the Effect on the Note Purchase Agreement. (a) On and after the effective date of this Amendment, each reference in the Note Purchase Agreement to "this Agreement", "hereunder", "hereof, "herein" or words of like import referring to the Note Purchase Agreement and each reference to the Note Purchase Agreement in any certificate delivered in connection therewith, shall mean and be a reference to the Note Purchase Agreement as amended hereby. (b) Each of the parties hereto hereby agrees that, except as specifically amended above, the Note Purchase Agreement is hereby ratified and confirmed and shall continue to be in full force and effect and enforceable, except as such enforcement may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar laws relating to or limiting creditors' rights generally and general equitable principles. SECTION 5. Costs and Expenses. The Issuer agrees to pay on demand all reasonable costs and expenses of the Note Agent in connection with the preparation, execution and delivery of this Amendment and the other instruments and documents to be delivered in connection herewith, including, without limitation, the reasonable fees and out-of-pocket expenses of counsel for the Note Agent with respect thereto and with respect to advising the Note Agent as to its respective rights and responsibilities hereunder and thereunder. SECTION 6. Execution in Counterparts. This Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute but one and the same agreement. - 2 - SECTION 7. Governing Law. This Amendment shall be construed in accordance with, and governed by the laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to its conflicts of law provisions. - 3 - IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Amendment as of the day and year first above written. OPTION ONE OWNER TRUST 2003-4, as Issuer By: Wilmington Trust Company, not in its individual capacity, but solely as Owner Trustee By: /s/ Mary Kay Pupillo ------------------------------------ Name: Mary Kay Pupillo Title: Assistant Vice President OPTION ONE LOAN WAREHOUSE CORPORATION, as Depositor By: ____________________________________ Name: Title: OPTION ONE MORTGAGE CORPORATION, as Servicer By: ____________________________________ Name: Title: Signature Page to Amendment No. 2 to Note Purchase Agreement IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Amendment as of the day and year first above written. OPTION ONE OWNER TRUST 2003-4, as Issuer By: Wilmington Trust Company, not in its individual capacity, but solely as Owner Trustee By: ____________________________________ Name: Title: OPTION ONE LOAN WAREHOUSE CORPORATION, as Depositor By: /s/ Charles R. Fulton ------------------------------------ Name: Charles R. Fulton Title: Assistant Secretary OPTION ONE MORTGAGE CORPORATION, as Servicer By: /s/ Charles R. Fulton ------------------------------------ Name: Charles R. Fulton Title: Vice President Signature Page to Amendment No. 2 to Note Purchase Agreement FALCON ASSET SECURITIZATION CORPORATION, as a Conduit Purchaser By: /s/ Daniel J. Clarke ----------------------------------------- Name: Daniel J. Clarke, Jr. Title: Managing Director JUPITER SECURITIZATION CORPORATION, as a Conduit Purchaser By: /s/ Daniel J. Clarke ----------------------------------------- Name: Daniel J. Clarke, Jr. Title: Managing Director PREFERRED RECEIVABLES FUNDING CORPORATION, as a Conduit Purchaser By: /s/ Daniel J. Clarke ----------------------------------------- Name: Daniel J. Clarke, Jr. Title: Managing Director BANK ONE, N. A., as a Committed Purchaser and as Note Agent By: /s/ Daniel J. Clarke ----------------------------------------- Name: Daniel J. Clarke, Jr. Title: Managing Director Signature Page to Amendment No. 2 to Note Purchase Agreement SCHEDULE I COMMITMENTS COMMITTED PURCHASER COMMITMENT Bank One, N.A. (i) from August 24, 2004 through October 31, 2004, $1,500,000,000 and (ii) thereafter, $1,000,000,000