Article: Colorado mortgage brokers voice support for professional regulation by state.

Byline: Margaret Jackson

Oct. 19--Mortgage brokers voiced support Tuesday for a state agency's push to regulate their profession.

Still, some were skeptical about whether regulation would protect consumers from bad loans.

"I think it's a great idea," said Nicole Snow, a mortgage broker in Denver. "There are a lot of people who get into the mortgage industry who don't necessarily belong. One bad apple ruins the whole bunch." Susan Writer, a broker with Mortgage Writer Inc., supports registering mortgage brokers but says the profession shouldn't be regulated by the state's Division of Real Estate, as was proposed.

"Mortgage people are ...

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