A must read for every homeowner across the country - don't lose your dream ABOUT THE AUTHOR - My name is Geoffrey G. Hawthorne. I owned Hawthorne Associates Auditing Business for over twenty years and I am still an active member of various accounting associations. I decided to go into the mortgage business as a mortgage executive with a local savings bank for over four years in the nineteen eighties. Having liked the business, I decided to open my own, Hawthorne Associates, licensed with the NYS Banking Department in August, 1989. As a mortgage broker, having both an accounting and mortgage background, I can safely say that I have never had a complaint from a client