Mortgage brokers' bread and butter, reputations take a beating in slump / Industry shedding jobs, laboring to assure ... (San Francisco Chronicle)

Story date: 2008-02-02 09:51:15
Added on: 2008-02-02 22:41:42

Mortgage brokers who haven't fled the industry or been forced out are in survival mode. They're coping with little or no business as the economy slows, accusations that they're to blame for the mortgage meltdown, stricter lending standards and the threat of...


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