Caveat Emptor

Let the buyer beware; let the deadbeat look over his shoulder.

Truly, when you repeatedly evade responsibility, deny accountability, and generally screw people over, it creates a life lived in a constant state of heightened awareness. There must be a sense of always waiting for something to crawl out of the darkness and bite you on the ass.

At least this is the case for I Am Facing Foreclosure's Casey Serin. Today, two of his former allies stepped into the spotlight to talk about some of Casey's less flattering tendencies.

First, Duane LeGate publicly denounces both Casey Serin and the IAFF website as having devolved into a series of shameless hoax stories. Duane confirmed that, far from shutting down his website, Casey Serin had turned down Duane's help to sell the site, saying that he was seeing a positive spike in his ad revenues.

Duane LeGate is pissed as hell. About what, precisely, I'm not sure. But apparently this is just the tip of the iceberg and he's ready to start spilling some dirty details. Duane also revealed a bit of his feelings toward supposed Salt Lake City mortgage lender/Casey Serin's little buddy Nigel Swaby.

As Robert Cote tells us, Duane will be doing a series of insider revelations at ExUrbanNation in the coming days. And believe me, that's going to be far more interesting than reading any of Casey Serin's deluded fantasies and fairy tales.

As all of this is happening, Casey's web host dropped in to ExUrbanNation to also talk about what a bumbling fool Sercasey is. Heekee talked about how he had repeatedly tried to find an equitable compromise to Casey's (free) hosting account, when IAFF started sucking the life out of the Zewg server.

Heekee also denied having anything to do with the repugnant robertcotesux blog, where a still-anonymous blogger has been posting Rob's address, telephone number, and photos of his underage daughter (along with some incredibly disgusting stories to go along with said photos).

But he did confirm that the fate and availability of IAFF is suspect, at best, over the coming week.

This couldn't come at a worse time for Casey Serin, who already missed one traffic spike from Monday's story on C|net. As frequent poster Flailing Forward points out, MSN is putting IAFF on its front page tonight into the early morning hours. Much like Monday's diversions, new crops of potential readers will click a link to read "File Not Found."

Casey Serin's shady life is crumbling, in small but cumulative ways. There's nothing he can count on, not even his blog. Now the people around him, who had previously remained silent and let him go about his merry way, have tired of holding it all back.

What's next? An interview with Casey's sister-in-law Yulia?

For those who have tired of Casey Serin's village idiot routine, it's a comeuppance that soothes, at least somewhat, the anger toward him. After all, he's admitted to egregious financial crimes yet continues to walk free, has not been sued, still has a roof over his head and food in his stomach.

But the betrayals are just the tip of it all. As former supporters turn against him, Casey Serin's sanitized stories and selective rewrites will lose even the possibility of credibility.

And something tells me that the loss of his beloved internet traffic will sting worse than the loss of his eight properties. The properties never paid attention to him, never brought him "sweet media," never made him, in his convoluted mind, famous.