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.
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5/15/2007
Why No One Should Visit "I Am Facing Foreclosure"
With Casey Serin's repeated outages with his "I Am Facing Foreclosure" web drama, frustrated visitors have turned to the so-called Hater Pages for their daily dose.
That small fraction of people who have been able to access the site without encountering a "file not found" error report that Casey's latest post is that problems within his marriage are causing him to consider taking "I Am Facing Foreclosure" down altogether.
Don't believe the hype, people. Casey Serin is blatantly playing his audience, as former Casey Serin mentor Duane LeGate just confirmed. Duane had stepped in to try to teach Casey some real estate fundamentals and structure many months ago. Casey's lack of accountability caused Duane to wish him the best and walk away.
But Duane Legate popped into ExUrbanNation today to post some of Casey Serin's emails to him. Far from shutting down the site, Casey reports to Duane that his "ad revenue" is starting to take off.
Duane had previously offered to help Casey sell the IAFF site, which would have been a huge boon to Casey and Galina Serin's financial woes. As Duane says, it could easily have cut their debt in half.
But Casey balked, telling Duane in an email today that "I'm gonna hold off on selling it. I'm starting to get pretty good interest in the $100/mo text link ads and my other advertising has been going pretty good. So its producing income."
He then goes on to ask Duane for contract work. Well, not ask so much as say, "What do you have?" Personally, I'd be a little more deferential to someone who could offer me work.
And for those who still somehow hold out belief that Galina Serin isn't up to her neck with her husband in his small-time cons, consider the fact that, in the early days, Casey refused to print her name.
These days, he's trolling his readers with post titles such as "Galina Serin: Enough is Enough." She's accepting, if not encouraging, these types of posts. And as Casey Serin's critics have been saying for months, the same sentiment seems to be true of their entire failed real estate venture.
So I revert back to this morning's sentiment: If you're still visiting "I Am Facing Foreclosure," you're contributing to Casey Serin's overtly screwing everyone around him: friends, associates, family, neighbors, and taxpayers at large.
Not to mention his actual readers. I can't imagine anyone wanting to be overtly manipulated by one of the craziest, laziest, and dumbest criminals on the internet.
But maybe that's just me.
In other news, Declan McCullagh of C|net posted a follow-up, answering some interesting questions about his time with Casey Serin. He reveals some interesting, and somewhat shocking things, particularly about Casey Serin's latest scheme, his "shell corporation."
That small fraction of people who have been able to access the site without encountering a "file not found" error report that Casey's latest post is that problems within his marriage are causing him to consider taking "I Am Facing Foreclosure" down altogether.
Don't believe the hype, people. Casey Serin is blatantly playing his audience, as former Casey Serin mentor Duane LeGate just confirmed. Duane had stepped in to try to teach Casey some real estate fundamentals and structure many months ago. Casey's lack of accountability caused Duane to wish him the best and walk away.
But Duane Legate popped into ExUrbanNation today to post some of Casey Serin's emails to him. Far from shutting down the site, Casey reports to Duane that his "ad revenue" is starting to take off.
Duane had previously offered to help Casey sell the IAFF site, which would have been a huge boon to Casey and Galina Serin's financial woes. As Duane says, it could easily have cut their debt in half.
But Casey balked, telling Duane in an email today that "I'm gonna hold off on selling it. I'm starting to get pretty good interest in the $100/mo text link ads and my other advertising has been going pretty good. So its producing income."
He then goes on to ask Duane for contract work. Well, not ask so much as say, "What do you have?" Personally, I'd be a little more deferential to someone who could offer me work.
And for those who still somehow hold out belief that Galina Serin isn't up to her neck with her husband in his small-time cons, consider the fact that, in the early days, Casey refused to print her name.
These days, he's trolling his readers with post titles such as "Galina Serin: Enough is Enough." She's accepting, if not encouraging, these types of posts. And as Casey Serin's critics have been saying for months, the same sentiment seems to be true of their entire failed real estate venture.
So I revert back to this morning's sentiment: If you're still visiting "I Am Facing Foreclosure," you're contributing to Casey Serin's overtly screwing everyone around him: friends, associates, family, neighbors, and taxpayers at large.
Not to mention his actual readers. I can't imagine anyone wanting to be overtly manipulated by one of the craziest, laziest, and dumbest criminals on the internet.
But maybe that's just me.
In other news, Declan McCullagh of C|net posted a follow-up, answering some interesting questions about his time with Casey Serin. He reveals some interesting, and somewhat shocking things, particularly about Casey Serin's latest scheme, his "shell corporation."
Did You Just Hear of Casey Serin?
Casey Serin earned a whole new round of trainwreck-watchers after yesterday's piece on C|net. The compelling title, "Casey Serin: The World's Most Hated Blogger" drew thousands to read Declan McCullagh's well-written and informative piece.
If this is your first exposure to the madcap financial time bomb that is Casey Serin, here are a couple of pieces to round out your knowledge. A Casey Serin Primer gives you a summary of "I Am Facing Foreclosure" to date.
You'll need this, since Casey Serin's misplaced priorities often cause IAFF to go blank while he frolics in fields of daisies and chases shiny objects. To get a better idea of the man behind the trainwreck, this glimpse into the scary mind of Casey Serin gives insight into the amateur con man's points of reference for the past two years.
This one will be helpful, lest you start feeling a natural human empathy for Casey or Galina Serin. This section reveals that Casey Serin may be able to screw up a free lunch, but he's a conniving planner who has been trying to manipulate strangers into giving him things since IAFF first launched in September.
It is worth reiterating a part of McCullagh's story, that Casey Serin deliberately trolls his readers, making IAFF more cheap soap opera than blow-by-blow. For that, you'll find plenty of other blogs, like this one, which point a glaring light to the things that Casey Serin would rather sweep under the rug.
Casey Serin's end-run game is unearned fame and fortune. Think of him as the Paris Hilton (or even better, some knobby-kneed, buck-toothed Hilton cousin) of the internet. While I'm a person who normally wants to view source materials, in this case I'd like to remind readers that each visit to IAFF gets Casey Serin one step closer to his nefarious goals.
And if you have any questions, ask a "Hater," as Casey Serin has taken to calling the learned professionals who have continually proffered free advice and words of wisdom. There are always plenty to be found.
If this is your first exposure to the madcap financial time bomb that is Casey Serin, here are a couple of pieces to round out your knowledge. A Casey Serin Primer gives you a summary of "I Am Facing Foreclosure" to date.
You'll need this, since Casey Serin's misplaced priorities often cause IAFF to go blank while he frolics in fields of daisies and chases shiny objects. To get a better idea of the man behind the trainwreck, this glimpse into the scary mind of Casey Serin gives insight into the amateur con man's points of reference for the past two years.
This one will be helpful, lest you start feeling a natural human empathy for Casey or Galina Serin. This section reveals that Casey Serin may be able to screw up a free lunch, but he's a conniving planner who has been trying to manipulate strangers into giving him things since IAFF first launched in September.
It is worth reiterating a part of McCullagh's story, that Casey Serin deliberately trolls his readers, making IAFF more cheap soap opera than blow-by-blow. For that, you'll find plenty of other blogs, like this one, which point a glaring light to the things that Casey Serin would rather sweep under the rug.
Casey Serin's end-run game is unearned fame and fortune. Think of him as the Paris Hilton (or even better, some knobby-kneed, buck-toothed Hilton cousin) of the internet. While I'm a person who normally wants to view source materials, in this case I'd like to remind readers that each visit to IAFF gets Casey Serin one step closer to his nefarious goals.
And if you have any questions, ask a "Hater," as Casey Serin has taken to calling the learned professionals who have continually proffered free advice and words of wisdom. There are always plenty to be found.
5/14/2007
Timing Isn't Everything...
But it can absolutely break your ass if your timing is off.
Just as Casey Serin misread the marketplace and managed to fraudulently purchase eight properties in four states at the top of their respective markets, so too was his razor-sharp timing with today's none too flattering c|net article.
Casey's free hosting relationship with Heekee has been on the skids for a while now, as the host had asked Sercasey to remove some comments in order to preserve bandwith on the server. Casey could not bring himself to comply (shocking!) and instead pulled a classic Serin move of "better no server than a free server!"
That'll learn 'em, Casey.
As Schnapps pointed out in an earlier email, Heekee told his forums that Casey Serin managed to screw up another free lunch, forcing Heekee to both pull the plug on "I Am Facing Foreclosure" and eat the $180/month hosting bill.
Again, who would do business with this guy? We've seen what he's willing to do to his own family...why would he show any more courtesy or consideration in a business environment?
In another ironic twist of fate, as c|net provided news readers with a wealth of links to read the jackassery of Casey Serin with their own eyes, there was no IAFF to be found. Depending on your browser, some attempts to access IAFF were met with this list of alternatives, which led people straight to some haterz sites.
Ouch. Missed it by that much just again, Casey.
I received another email today asking if Casey Serin is trying to, in effect, do some sort of "suicide by cop." Many folks are incredulous that Casey would submit to such extensive press coverage, knowing that in the grand scheme of things, he might be a small fish but that repeated media exposure regarding his crimes can only lead to an inevitable prison sentence.
Who knows? I've delved as deeply into the mind of Casey Serin as I want to, and personally what I found is a dark, spider-infested place. There may actually be a part of him that has just shut down and so completely refuses to accept any adult responsibility that he'd take a prison stint just for the three hots and a cot.
Or maybe Casey Serin is just a fucking idiot.
Another email, from a friend who has been following Casey for several months, pointed out that the drama is making even some hardened haterz do a 180, asking again if this isn't some elaborate hoax. "After all," the note says, "the drama, the betrayals, it's movie-of-the-week type stuff. I know you can't fake the property and corporate records, but I find that I'm double-checking my own senses today to be sure there's not something I've missed that will reveal this as an elaborate ruse."
Yep. I know the feeling.
Then there was the one guy today who felt like I should explain myself for judging Casey Serin when he's done nothing to me personally. To him I say, you just haven't been paying any attention to the real world. Let's think about how Casey Serin's actions affect others:
First, there are the banks and various unsecured lenders who have eaten shit on Casey Serin's accounts. You're assuming that I don't work for any of them, so my job isn't threatened by the actions of people like Casey. You're also assuming that I don't hold any financial instruments based in those companies, or any accounts that use mortgage securities as an element of the portfolio.
You're assuming that I haven't taken into account that Casey Serin is just one of thousands, if not tens of thousands, of specuvestors who have driven up prices throughout the country. You're assuming this hasn't priced me out of buying a home. Or if I own a home that I haven't seen significant increases in tax bills from these artificially inflated purchases where the Casey Serins of the world pay for a high appraisal in order to juice the false equity out of a house at the closing table.
You're assuming that I don't live on a street with multiple foreclosures, purchased and then abandoned by Casey Serin and his ilk. You're assuming that I don't have children who are playing outside next to Casey Serin's "seen from space" nuclear green mosquito breeding pool. And that living on such a street hasn't demolished the real value of my own property, while causing me to still pay inflated tax bills.
You're assuming that a family emergency or work relocation hasn't necessitated that I sell my home on a block where banks are offloading properties for seventy cents on the dollar and that, because I cannot ride this out, I'm not going to take a huge loss on my own home.
That's a lot of assuming.
So am I harsh in judging Casey and Galina Serin? Hell no. They've stolen money in order to live a work-free life for the past year and a half. And the ripple effect of this hits all of our back yards. Any further questions on that topic can and should be posited to Rob Dawg, who will explain further just how "victimless" Casey and Galina Serin's crimes really are.
Oh, and one personal truth was revealed to me today...I want to work for Uncle Bill in Redmond. I tell you...you Microsoft people sure have a lot of free time to hang out with the Twelve Years crowd. It speaks volumes about those Mac ad error messages I so frequently see ;-)
Just as Casey Serin misread the marketplace and managed to fraudulently purchase eight properties in four states at the top of their respective markets, so too was his razor-sharp timing with today's none too flattering c|net article.
Casey's free hosting relationship with Heekee has been on the skids for a while now, as the host had asked Sercasey to remove some comments in order to preserve bandwith on the server. Casey could not bring himself to comply (shocking!) and instead pulled a classic Serin move of "better no server than a free server!"
That'll learn 'em, Casey.
As Schnapps pointed out in an earlier email, Heekee told his forums that Casey Serin managed to screw up another free lunch, forcing Heekee to both pull the plug on "I Am Facing Foreclosure" and eat the $180/month hosting bill.
Again, who would do business with this guy? We've seen what he's willing to do to his own family...why would he show any more courtesy or consideration in a business environment?
In another ironic twist of fate, as c|net provided news readers with a wealth of links to read the jackassery of Casey Serin with their own eyes, there was no IAFF to be found. Depending on your browser, some attempts to access IAFF were met with this list of alternatives, which led people straight to some haterz sites.
Ouch. Missed it by that much just again, Casey.
I received another email today asking if Casey Serin is trying to, in effect, do some sort of "suicide by cop." Many folks are incredulous that Casey would submit to such extensive press coverage, knowing that in the grand scheme of things, he might be a small fish but that repeated media exposure regarding his crimes can only lead to an inevitable prison sentence.
Who knows? I've delved as deeply into the mind of Casey Serin as I want to, and personally what I found is a dark, spider-infested place. There may actually be a part of him that has just shut down and so completely refuses to accept any adult responsibility that he'd take a prison stint just for the three hots and a cot.
Or maybe Casey Serin is just a fucking idiot.
Another email, from a friend who has been following Casey for several months, pointed out that the drama is making even some hardened haterz do a 180, asking again if this isn't some elaborate hoax. "After all," the note says, "the drama, the betrayals, it's movie-of-the-week type stuff. I know you can't fake the property and corporate records, but I find that I'm double-checking my own senses today to be sure there's not something I've missed that will reveal this as an elaborate ruse."
Yep. I know the feeling.
Then there was the one guy today who felt like I should explain myself for judging Casey Serin when he's done nothing to me personally. To him I say, you just haven't been paying any attention to the real world. Let's think about how Casey Serin's actions affect others:
First, there are the banks and various unsecured lenders who have eaten shit on Casey Serin's accounts. You're assuming that I don't work for any of them, so my job isn't threatened by the actions of people like Casey. You're also assuming that I don't hold any financial instruments based in those companies, or any accounts that use mortgage securities as an element of the portfolio.
You're assuming that I haven't taken into account that Casey Serin is just one of thousands, if not tens of thousands, of specuvestors who have driven up prices throughout the country. You're assuming this hasn't priced me out of buying a home. Or if I own a home that I haven't seen significant increases in tax bills from these artificially inflated purchases where the Casey Serins of the world pay for a high appraisal in order to juice the false equity out of a house at the closing table.
You're assuming that I don't live on a street with multiple foreclosures, purchased and then abandoned by Casey Serin and his ilk. You're assuming that I don't have children who are playing outside next to Casey Serin's "seen from space" nuclear green mosquito breeding pool. And that living on such a street hasn't demolished the real value of my own property, while causing me to still pay inflated tax bills.
You're assuming that a family emergency or work relocation hasn't necessitated that I sell my home on a block where banks are offloading properties for seventy cents on the dollar and that, because I cannot ride this out, I'm not going to take a huge loss on my own home.
That's a lot of assuming.
So am I harsh in judging Casey and Galina Serin? Hell no. They've stolen money in order to live a work-free life for the past year and a half. And the ripple effect of this hits all of our back yards. Any further questions on that topic can and should be posited to Rob Dawg, who will explain further just how "victimless" Casey and Galina Serin's crimes really are.
Oh, and one personal truth was revealed to me today...I want to work for Uncle Bill in Redmond. I tell you...you Microsoft people sure have a lot of free time to hang out with the Twelve Years crowd. It speaks volumes about those Mac ad error messages I so frequently see ;-)
Put It All On Red
I have mentioned before that, in previous incarnations, I worked on the Hill. But, with Casey Serin revealing his intentions to sell casinos and get a big win of his own, today seems like an apt day to reveal a little-known Aspeth factoid:
A bridge that I traveled between the public and private sectors was just such an endeavor. I worked as a part of a multi-billion dollar multi-national that handled these types of financial transactions.
Passing a casino from one hand to another is an incredibly complex and fragile spiderweb of intricacies. The reason that these types of firms become involved in these transactions is because few entities have pockets deep enough to facilitate such a deal, and their role is further enhanced with a responsibility to keep everything clean.
In truth, there are only a dozen or so individuals in the U.S. who will qualify to take ownership of this type of property. Far from traditional real estate marketing, this type of effort involves a very short list of potential candidates, and conversations are quick, quiet, and to the point.
Since Casey Serin seems so intent on "selling" his vast real estate/financial/foreclosure experience via books and seminars, I'm not going to give him the cow, so to speak.
But suffice to say that money is just the first hurdle that one encounters in this type of transaction. The Gaming Review Boards are not to be fucked with. To even own a smaller mom-and-pop type casino worth under $10 million, the buyer(s) must first undergo an extensive background check, at their own expense, for the Gaming Review Board to search every nook and cranny of that individual's moral and financial background.
Just having someone like Casey Serin sitting at the table would muddy any potential deal. Hell, let's be honest. Just having someone like Casey Serin licking stamps in the mail room would muddy the deal.
In short, Gaming Review is the licensing body that is charged with ensuring that gambling remains profitable to gamblers, at a minimum of (x) percentage of the time. If you've ever had to get a liquor license, imagine if that process came with an automatic, gigantic anal probe. Now multiply that by ten and you've got the Gaming Review Board.
While the potential buyer(s) writes a blank cheque to the Board to investigate him or her or them, it is necessary for everyone at the table to sit down and pore over the financials. Hey Casey, do you have any fucking idea what EBITDA means? What a fucking multiplier is? Because everyone else at the table does, and they're going to knock you on your ass if you hold up the process.
Financials can be thousands of pages long, earmarking expenses and values of everything from the FF&E to labor to insurance to laundry to contracts. And that's before you even get to the tables and slots.
That's all I'm going to say about the process. It's enough information to point out just how laughable Casey Serin's sad little hope and dream of somehow landing a $1.5 billion whale is. I'm not applying an ounce of sarcasm when I say that he's actually got better statistical odds of winning the lottery, twice, or being directly struck by lightening six times.
Casey, get it through your tiny little bird brain...it's just not that simple. Just because a number is written on the wall doesn't mean it's up for grabs. Let's say that on some distant planet, in some parallel universe (am I speaking your language yet?) that you were actually able to facilitate a buyer and seller in this type of situation.
Let me tell you what would happen next. You would be like a small animal who happened across an elephant just as it was struck dead by a boulder. You might see it first and claim it as your own. But you're just a little guy in the food chain. And bigger carnivores like my team and I would swoop in and make it very clear, very quickly, just how rightfully ours that elephant ass is.
It's a good thing that the nice people at C-net helped you inquire about a job at Jamba Juice (hey, wasn't that your schtick with Nigel as well?) because you might be able to squeeze juice out of pet grass, but you're not going to strike it rich at the casino.
A bridge that I traveled between the public and private sectors was just such an endeavor. I worked as a part of a multi-billion dollar multi-national that handled these types of financial transactions.
Passing a casino from one hand to another is an incredibly complex and fragile spiderweb of intricacies. The reason that these types of firms become involved in these transactions is because few entities have pockets deep enough to facilitate such a deal, and their role is further enhanced with a responsibility to keep everything clean.
In truth, there are only a dozen or so individuals in the U.S. who will qualify to take ownership of this type of property. Far from traditional real estate marketing, this type of effort involves a very short list of potential candidates, and conversations are quick, quiet, and to the point.
Since Casey Serin seems so intent on "selling" his vast real estate/financial/foreclosure experience via books and seminars, I'm not going to give him the cow, so to speak.
But suffice to say that money is just the first hurdle that one encounters in this type of transaction. The Gaming Review Boards are not to be fucked with. To even own a smaller mom-and-pop type casino worth under $10 million, the buyer(s) must first undergo an extensive background check, at their own expense, for the Gaming Review Board to search every nook and cranny of that individual's moral and financial background.
Just having someone like Casey Serin sitting at the table would muddy any potential deal. Hell, let's be honest. Just having someone like Casey Serin licking stamps in the mail room would muddy the deal.
In short, Gaming Review is the licensing body that is charged with ensuring that gambling remains profitable to gamblers, at a minimum of (x) percentage of the time. If you've ever had to get a liquor license, imagine if that process came with an automatic, gigantic anal probe. Now multiply that by ten and you've got the Gaming Review Board.
While the potential buyer(s) writes a blank cheque to the Board to investigate him or her or them, it is necessary for everyone at the table to sit down and pore over the financials. Hey Casey, do you have any fucking idea what EBITDA means? What a fucking multiplier is? Because everyone else at the table does, and they're going to knock you on your ass if you hold up the process.
Financials can be thousands of pages long, earmarking expenses and values of everything from the FF&E to labor to insurance to laundry to contracts. And that's before you even get to the tables and slots.
That's all I'm going to say about the process. It's enough information to point out just how laughable Casey Serin's sad little hope and dream of somehow landing a $1.5 billion whale is. I'm not applying an ounce of sarcasm when I say that he's actually got better statistical odds of winning the lottery, twice, or being directly struck by lightening six times.
Casey, get it through your tiny little bird brain...it's just not that simple. Just because a number is written on the wall doesn't mean it's up for grabs. Let's say that on some distant planet, in some parallel universe (am I speaking your language yet?) that you were actually able to facilitate a buyer and seller in this type of situation.
Let me tell you what would happen next. You would be like a small animal who happened across an elephant just as it was struck dead by a boulder. You might see it first and claim it as your own. But you're just a little guy in the food chain. And bigger carnivores like my team and I would swoop in and make it very clear, very quickly, just how rightfully ours that elephant ass is.
It's a good thing that the nice people at C-net helped you inquire about a job at Jamba Juice (hey, wasn't that your schtick with Nigel as well?) because you might be able to squeeze juice out of pet grass, but you're not going to strike it rich at the casino.
Casey Serin Wants to Sell Casinos
First and foremost this morning, I'd like to thank C-net for including my fuck-filled vitriol against Casey and Galina Serin in the article, "Casey Serin, The World's Most Hated Blogger?"
C-net is even kind enough to use quotes from me, with liberal uses of asterisks:
"That frank admission [of Casey Serin's mortgage fraud] has led to calls to "Send Casey Serin To Prison"--a petition to the FBI has appeared--as well as a similar call targeting his wife."
C-net quotes:
"Casey and Galina Serin's story isn't one of 'Young couple tries to make it in the cold, cruel world,'" one critic wrote. "These two are f****g Bonnie and Clyde. What they're doing is bank robbery, without the gun."
COOL! I'm "one critic" !!!!!!!!!
As Cnet further reported this morning, Casey Serin has so many income irons in the fire, all of us haterz should just shut the hell up.
For one thing, Casey Serin has "learned, through his blog, of a $1.5 billion Las Vegas casino for sale. If he can find a buyer, Serin says, he'd get a 1 percent commission ($15 million) for his trouble. "Doesn't that make more sense than a W-2 job?" he said."
Additionally, Casey Serin's expensive $16,000 course at Nouveau Riche University was NOT all for naught, haterz. "Serin said he has found two people to pay $18,000 to Nouveau Riche, and if he finds any more, he'll get a $9,000 commission for each one, as well as additional commissions if the people he recruited then sign up additional customers.
In an e-mail message over the weekend, Serin added: "The 16K gives me two years of quality (real estate investment) education--gives you college credits--access to cash-flow properties around the nation, local community of investors, etc."
And as for Casey Serin whining about what we Haterz say about him on the internets? According to Casey Serin, ""What happens is I feed off of it," he said. "I know the buttons to press to get those guys going. After awhile, you learn what topics you can mention if you want to get extra comments on your post."
Rob Dawg's here, too..."Everyone has an opinion and anyone can speculate," said Rob Dawg, who runs a popular anti-Serin Web site called Exurbannation. "Is he mentally ill? Mentally feeble? Do his bizarre personal habits affect his judgement or vice versa?" Dawg wrote in e-mail on Friday. "On and on. For many of us, however, Casey has become the eye of the storm, not the storm itself."
Fuck you, Casey Serin. I want to bring back the fucking guillotine and the public square. And as for selling that $1.5 billion casino, my little fucktard, let me just say this.... transactions of that magnitude are handled by multi-national banks, not by little shits who can't even hold a debit card.
So if that's what you're holding out for, I pray that Darwinism takes its toll and you fucking starve to death in one of the richest nations on the planet.
"And your little dog, too" screeched the witch.
C-net is even kind enough to use quotes from me, with liberal uses of asterisks:
"That frank admission [of Casey Serin's mortgage fraud] has led to calls to "Send Casey Serin To Prison"--a petition to the FBI has appeared--as well as a similar call targeting his wife."
C-net quotes:
"Casey and Galina Serin's story isn't one of 'Young couple tries to make it in the cold, cruel world,'" one critic wrote. "These two are f****g Bonnie and Clyde. What they're doing is bank robbery, without the gun."
COOL! I'm "one critic" !!!!!!!!!
As Cnet further reported this morning, Casey Serin has so many income irons in the fire, all of us haterz should just shut the hell up.
For one thing, Casey Serin has "learned, through his blog, of a $1.5 billion Las Vegas casino for sale. If he can find a buyer, Serin says, he'd get a 1 percent commission ($15 million) for his trouble. "Doesn't that make more sense than a W-2 job?" he said."
Additionally, Casey Serin's expensive $16,000 course at Nouveau Riche University was NOT all for naught, haterz. "Serin said he has found two people to pay $18,000 to Nouveau Riche, and if he finds any more, he'll get a $9,000 commission for each one, as well as additional commissions if the people he recruited then sign up additional customers.
In an e-mail message over the weekend, Serin added: "The 16K gives me two years of quality (real estate investment) education--gives you college credits--access to cash-flow properties around the nation, local community of investors, etc."
And as for Casey Serin whining about what we Haterz say about him on the internets? According to Casey Serin, ""What happens is I feed off of it," he said. "I know the buttons to press to get those guys going. After awhile, you learn what topics you can mention if you want to get extra comments on your post."
Rob Dawg's here, too..."Everyone has an opinion and anyone can speculate," said Rob Dawg, who runs a popular anti-Serin Web site called Exurbannation. "Is he mentally ill? Mentally feeble? Do his bizarre personal habits affect his judgement or vice versa?" Dawg wrote in e-mail on Friday. "On and on. For many of us, however, Casey has become the eye of the storm, not the storm itself."
Fuck you, Casey Serin. I want to bring back the fucking guillotine and the public square. And as for selling that $1.5 billion casino, my little fucktard, let me just say this.... transactions of that magnitude are handled by multi-national banks, not by little shits who can't even hold a debit card.
So if that's what you're holding out for, I pray that Darwinism takes its toll and you fucking starve to death in one of the richest nations on the planet.
"And your little dog, too" screeched the witch.
5/09/2007
A New Lexicon for Crazy
Casey Serin’s more disturbed side comes out in his catalogue of favorite websites. But other links point out that Casey just might indeed recognize that all is not well in Caseybrain.
He is almost as obsessed with personality, development and psychology as he is with religion and food. He starts with “40 Developmental Assets” that create healthy, caring and responsible adults. Perhaps thinking he falls short in one or more areas, he explores the more cheerful “Everyone Can Build Assets!”
We find Casey Serin ooking to myriad sources for explanations of “personality.” Many of these seem to be hand-picked to reinforce what Casey already believes about himself. After taking a number of such tests, it then becomes necessary for Casey Serin to follow the literature.
There’s obviously a lot of reading on Casey Serin’s agenda, so it seems like a good time to explore speed reading. Or, you know, just bag it all and pursue some “goal-free” living.
In Casey Serin’s “development” folder, we see the usual guru stuff. Casey has also been reading the strangely worded “looking for a new simplicity beyond the complexity” which perhaps explains why his writing is so poor.
There is a link to “Google’s Number One Life Coach” which I hope to mean that Casey Serin was looking for help, rather than looking to actually become a life coach.
Enter the cult of “sungazing,” which requires that, “either at sunrise or sunset (when the intensity of the sun is at its minimum) stand on the earth and stare directly at the sun for 10 seconds. Adding an additional 10 seconds to the total sungazing time each consecutive day. In 6 months your hungers would be under control and understood. Stand there for 10 months you would never need food again.”
Following Casey Serin’s link list, you can heal yourself naturally or head north of the pyramids If that doesn’t work, partake of the “Energetic Matrix Church of Consciousness.” Or try some “thought field therapy.”
Apparently it is possible to change the molecular structure of your food by praying over it. Same goes for water.
Meanwhile, Casey Serin has been researching the radio frequency emissions of his cell phone. And, in a link that I’m absolutely positive reveals far too much about Casey and Galina Serin, here’s one on holistic healing for a yeast infection, courtesy of the Life Force Plan.
Care to engage your inner hippie? Try wilderdom. Feeling paranoid? Just wait ‘til the oilcrash.
Just in case that’s not wacky enough for you, step on over to “Hidden Science, the New World Order, World Wide Electronic Mind Control, Population Reduction and Possible Earth Changes.” This one is really a doozey, because you’ll get to see just how diverse Casey Serin’s interests really are.
While there are so many excellent quotes from this website, I’m going to go with this one from the main page: “In January of 2002, I posted an article to this web site titled Goodbye Chemtrails, Hello Blue Skies which described a simple, homemade invention called a Chembuster. This new invention, inspired by Wilhelm Reich's Cloudbuster, demonstrated that it was possible to disperse and break up chemtrails, allowing for a return of normal blueness to the sky, an invigoration of the air with a clean, fresh smell and the production of rain in those areas where drought is being artificially created by HAARP and other secret weather controlling technologies.”
Once you’ve read up on your technologies, follow Casey Serin’s reading list over to Illuminati. I find the site, well, curious we’ll say, as the top banner says “alchemists conceal in order to baffle the vulgar. This site exists for the sole purpose of penetrating the veil.” In other words, this site is for slack-jawed morons.
But if you’re like Casey Serin and too stupid to be insulted, I guess you’ll want to read all about things like “Environmentalism: The Religion for an Eco-theocratic Superstate?” or “Plato the Kabbalist.” Maybe you’d like to discuss “The CIA and Mind Control,” “High Frequency Vandalism in the Sky,” or “The Origins of the Overclass,” which discusses the highly secretive alliance between the CIA, millionaire businessmen, Wall Street brokers, national news media and Ivy League scholars.
Holy FUCK! It’s no wonder Casey Serin doesn’t trust education!!!
Just after condensing all of this, I feel like I’ve watched a multi-day “King of the Hill” marathon, in which Dale Gribble was the only character.
He is almost as obsessed with personality, development and psychology as he is with religion and food. He starts with “40 Developmental Assets” that create healthy, caring and responsible adults. Perhaps thinking he falls short in one or more areas, he explores the more cheerful “Everyone Can Build Assets!”
We find Casey Serin ooking to myriad sources for explanations of “personality.” Many of these seem to be hand-picked to reinforce what Casey already believes about himself. After taking a number of such tests, it then becomes necessary for Casey Serin to follow the literature.
There’s obviously a lot of reading on Casey Serin’s agenda, so it seems like a good time to explore speed reading. Or, you know, just bag it all and pursue some “goal-free” living.
In Casey Serin’s “development” folder, we see the usual guru stuff. Casey has also been reading the strangely worded “looking for a new simplicity beyond the complexity” which perhaps explains why his writing is so poor.
There is a link to “Google’s Number One Life Coach” which I hope to mean that Casey Serin was looking for help, rather than looking to actually become a life coach.
Enter the cult of “sungazing,” which requires that, “either at sunrise or sunset (when the intensity of the sun is at its minimum) stand on the earth and stare directly at the sun for 10 seconds. Adding an additional 10 seconds to the total sungazing time each consecutive day. In 6 months your hungers would be under control and understood. Stand there for 10 months you would never need food again.”
Following Casey Serin’s link list, you can heal yourself naturally or head north of the pyramids If that doesn’t work, partake of the “Energetic Matrix Church of Consciousness.” Or try some “thought field therapy.”
Apparently it is possible to change the molecular structure of your food by praying over it. Same goes for water.
Meanwhile, Casey Serin has been researching the radio frequency emissions of his cell phone. And, in a link that I’m absolutely positive reveals far too much about Casey and Galina Serin, here’s one on holistic healing for a yeast infection, courtesy of the Life Force Plan.
Care to engage your inner hippie? Try wilderdom. Feeling paranoid? Just wait ‘til the oilcrash.
Just in case that’s not wacky enough for you, step on over to “Hidden Science, the New World Order, World Wide Electronic Mind Control, Population Reduction and Possible Earth Changes.” This one is really a doozey, because you’ll get to see just how diverse Casey Serin’s interests really are.
While there are so many excellent quotes from this website, I’m going to go with this one from the main page: “In January of 2002, I posted an article to this web site titled Goodbye Chemtrails, Hello Blue Skies which described a simple, homemade invention called a Chembuster. This new invention, inspired by Wilhelm Reich's Cloudbuster, demonstrated that it was possible to disperse and break up chemtrails, allowing for a return of normal blueness to the sky, an invigoration of the air with a clean, fresh smell and the production of rain in those areas where drought is being artificially created by HAARP and other secret weather controlling technologies.”
Once you’ve read up on your technologies, follow Casey Serin’s reading list over to Illuminati. I find the site, well, curious we’ll say, as the top banner says “alchemists conceal in order to baffle the vulgar. This site exists for the sole purpose of penetrating the veil.” In other words, this site is for slack-jawed morons.
But if you’re like Casey Serin and too stupid to be insulted, I guess you’ll want to read all about things like “Environmentalism: The Religion for an Eco-theocratic Superstate?” or “Plato the Kabbalist.” Maybe you’d like to discuss “The CIA and Mind Control,” “High Frequency Vandalism in the Sky,” or “The Origins of the Overclass,” which discusses the highly secretive alliance between the CIA, millionaire businessmen, Wall Street brokers, national news media and Ivy League scholars.
Holy FUCK! It’s no wonder Casey Serin doesn’t trust education!!!
Just after condensing all of this, I feel like I’ve watched a multi-day “King of the Hill” marathon, in which Dale Gribble was the only character.
Back Away From the Train Wreck, Slowly
While Casey Serin has proven to be an endless source of entertainment for millions around the globe, there is a much darker side to him. As I said in the first post in this series, we also find someone who can present as quite disturbing.
That Casey fancies himself a Christian comes as no shock to readers. But the depth of this ranges from the benign to the commercial. There are national organizations as well as worldwide ones. If you like, Casey Serin can even give you a Christian history lesson.
The fundamentalist thinking appears in saved links on “evolution propaganda”. To keep in tune with the word while enjoying himself, Casey Serin seems to enjoy Christian movie reviews . “Welcome to Hollywood Jesus!”
While God goes secular, don’t forget to accessorize. It seems like Casey Serin even found a way to confuse a semi-popular phrase, interpreting it as “juice for Jesus.”
Those mildly amusing topics take a far backseat to some of Casey Serin’s other reading materials. At first glance, I found the folder “contradictions” to be funny. And when one page promised to “preach with sound doctrine and refute those who contradict it,” I chuckled, wondering what that group of self-described hypocrite haters would do if it ever got its hands on one Casey Serin. But then I scrolled down and saw articles such as “A Sermon Denying God’s Responsibility to Save Africans” and my chuckle was replaced with a chill.
The chill grew to a shudder when I found the folder marked “conspiracies.” In here, you will find that there is “a war for your mind” and that “the earth is being turned into a prison planet.” Beware the propaganda
Casey Serin has also been reading up on an “eternal life device”, as well as investigating a “cellular enhancement program.” Considering that Casey thinks he’s going to live for eternity, it makes me wonder what is his hurry for getting rich quick.
Under the innocuous title “dictionary,” there are links to the Skeptic’s Dictionary. At first, I thought Casey Serin must be practicing for that Christian refuting that was so lauded earlier. But the topics of alternative medicine, junk science, new age beliefs and the metaphysical all seem to line up with other belief sets.
These are shown prominently in Casey Serin’s “danger” file. Here we discover “50 Reasons to Oppose Fluoridation” and “What Your Dentist isn’t Telling You About Fluoride.” Again, no stone is left unturned. We find that soy is merely a “so-called” health food, as you will see from “The Whole Soy Story.”
Water is essential, but it must be filtered. Meanwhile, “Don’t Drink Your Milk” and rage against Splenda.
One article claims to treat hypoglycemia by avoiding grains, while others urge resuming the diet of the Paleolithic Age. If all else fails, there is always “the Maker’s Diet.”
With a deep fear of nearly every type of food setting in, Casey Serin takes to labeling various folders with names like “blood” and “clean.”
Something called the “failsafe” food network comes into play, while articles on veganism sit side-by-side with articles on “nomad cows” producing the best beef to eat. Who says fundies can’t enjoy a little play on words?
To round out your knowledge, everything you’ve never wanted to know about bioterrorism to bowel movements can be found here while “safe foods” are discussed here.
I mean, really...am I the only one thinking right now that Casey Serin didn’t just *drink* the kool-aid, but that he was actually the one mixing it?!?!
NEXT: A New Lexicon for “Crazy”
That Casey fancies himself a Christian comes as no shock to readers. But the depth of this ranges from the benign to the commercial. There are national organizations as well as worldwide ones. If you like, Casey Serin can even give you a Christian history lesson.
The fundamentalist thinking appears in saved links on “evolution propaganda”. To keep in tune with the word while enjoying himself, Casey Serin seems to enjoy Christian movie reviews . “Welcome to Hollywood Jesus!”
While God goes secular, don’t forget to accessorize. It seems like Casey Serin even found a way to confuse a semi-popular phrase, interpreting it as “juice for Jesus.”
Those mildly amusing topics take a far backseat to some of Casey Serin’s other reading materials. At first glance, I found the folder “contradictions” to be funny. And when one page promised to “preach with sound doctrine and refute those who contradict it,” I chuckled, wondering what that group of self-described hypocrite haters would do if it ever got its hands on one Casey Serin. But then I scrolled down and saw articles such as “A Sermon Denying God’s Responsibility to Save Africans” and my chuckle was replaced with a chill.
The chill grew to a shudder when I found the folder marked “conspiracies.” In here, you will find that there is “a war for your mind” and that “the earth is being turned into a prison planet.” Beware the propaganda
Casey Serin has also been reading up on an “eternal life device”, as well as investigating a “cellular enhancement program.” Considering that Casey thinks he’s going to live for eternity, it makes me wonder what is his hurry for getting rich quick.
Under the innocuous title “dictionary,” there are links to the Skeptic’s Dictionary. At first, I thought Casey Serin must be practicing for that Christian refuting that was so lauded earlier. But the topics of alternative medicine, junk science, new age beliefs and the metaphysical all seem to line up with other belief sets.
These are shown prominently in Casey Serin’s “danger” file. Here we discover “50 Reasons to Oppose Fluoridation” and “What Your Dentist isn’t Telling You About Fluoride.” Again, no stone is left unturned. We find that soy is merely a “so-called” health food, as you will see from “The Whole Soy Story.”
Water is essential, but it must be filtered. Meanwhile, “Don’t Drink Your Milk” and rage against Splenda.
One article claims to treat hypoglycemia by avoiding grains, while others urge resuming the diet of the Paleolithic Age. If all else fails, there is always “the Maker’s Diet.”
With a deep fear of nearly every type of food setting in, Casey Serin takes to labeling various folders with names like “blood” and “clean.”
Something called the “failsafe” food network comes into play, while articles on veganism sit side-by-side with articles on “nomad cows” producing the best beef to eat. Who says fundies can’t enjoy a little play on words?
To round out your knowledge, everything you’ve never wanted to know about bioterrorism to bowel movements can be found here while “safe foods” are discussed here.
I mean, really...am I the only one thinking right now that Casey Serin didn’t just *drink* the kool-aid, but that he was actually the one mixing it?!?!
NEXT: A New Lexicon for “Crazy”
Too Much Snark for One Post
What *does* a social bookmarking site reveal about a person? In Casey Serin’s case, we learn that, while in the throes of multiple foreclosures, he still likes to go off for a nice massage . There is also mention of checking road conditions for a ski trip.
And possibly in preparation for entertaining the other prison inmates, Casey Serin has been looking into both hip-hop and ballroom dancing. Casey Serin may have been facing foreclosure, but he was looking to swing!
Yes, Casey Serin is funny. “Nap” rightfully gets its own category. Which isn’t to say that it should be confused with its sister folder, “sleep.” Casey is so obsessed with sleep in fact, that he even includes an article about it in his “productivity” folder.
In the same vein, Casey Serin includes a link to Netflix in that same “productivity” file. And yet, for his inability to keep track of important dates (returning short-sale agreements to lenders, two-month forebearance contract to CashCall) Casey has saved a half-dozen different online calendars.
Living in an RV first cropped up in December of 2005. So enamored of the idea was young Casey that he researched purchasing such a vehicle.
Casey Serin also shows an interest in the “extreme sport” of Parkour. This is defined as “a physical art of French origin, the aim of which is to move from point A to point B as efficiently and quickly as possible, using principally the abilities of the human body. It is meant to help one overcome obstacles, which can be anything in the surrounding environment — from branches and rocks to rails and concrete walls.”
Hmmm...sounds like fancy talk for “walking.” I wonder if Casey was asking himself, as I was, what if *you* are the concrete wall in question?
Finally, proving that Casey Serin is inept at even the simplest task, we find that he had to keep an online bookmark in order to successfully complete this labyrinthine task.
And because there are just too many jokes to go along with that one, I’ll leave the snark in your hands...
NEXT: Back Away From the Train Wreck, Slowly
And possibly in preparation for entertaining the other prison inmates, Casey Serin has been looking into both hip-hop and ballroom dancing. Casey Serin may have been facing foreclosure, but he was looking to swing!
Yes, Casey Serin is funny. “Nap” rightfully gets its own category. Which isn’t to say that it should be confused with its sister folder, “sleep.” Casey is so obsessed with sleep in fact, that he even includes an article about it in his “productivity” folder.
In the same vein, Casey Serin includes a link to Netflix in that same “productivity” file. And yet, for his inability to keep track of important dates (returning short-sale agreements to lenders, two-month forebearance contract to CashCall) Casey has saved a half-dozen different online calendars.
Living in an RV first cropped up in December of 2005. So enamored of the idea was young Casey that he researched purchasing such a vehicle.
Casey Serin also shows an interest in the “extreme sport” of Parkour. This is defined as “a physical art of French origin, the aim of which is to move from point A to point B as efficiently and quickly as possible, using principally the abilities of the human body. It is meant to help one overcome obstacles, which can be anything in the surrounding environment — from branches and rocks to rails and concrete walls.”
Hmmm...sounds like fancy talk for “walking.” I wonder if Casey was asking himself, as I was, what if *you* are the concrete wall in question?
Finally, proving that Casey Serin is inept at even the simplest task, we find that he had to keep an online bookmark in order to successfully complete this labyrinthine task.
And because there are just too many jokes to go along with that one, I’ll leave the snark in your hands...
NEXT: Back Away From the Train Wreck, Slowly
All Good Things
After a long flight, and an even longer customs line, I'm back in the States. While I catch up on work and any interesting tidbits in blogosphere that I may have missed, I'm going back to where I left off with Casey Serin's scary ass del.icio.us links. Here are the remaining (read: already written) posts on that...
This is part of a multiple post. Click here to read the first, What Could Social Bookmarking Reveal About Casey Serin?
Casey Serin’s saved “favorites” date back to 2005, and paint a much more macro picture of him than he would like the world to see. One such revelation is that, while his online beg-a-thon wouldn’t occur until March of 2007, Casey Serin was researching “panhandling” five months earlier in October.
True to the early days of his Ponzi schemes, that same link is cross-referenced as a “business idea.” Yes. To Casey Serin, panhandling equates business idea. Sadly, it still makes more sense than the folder labeled “homeless” which began in March of 2006
Casey Serin’s “business ideas” run the gamut, and are all nonsensical at best. There is the hilariously funny idea of content writing and pay-per-post blogging (in a folder appropriately labeled “moneytize.”) We also see that Casey wanted to show off his writing skills, as evidenced in his “media” folder.
Then there is some crazed thing about “naming your baby’s destiny.” From t-shirts to wacky truck toppers, Casey Serin left no virtual stone unturned in the quest for cheap and easy money.
The Million Dollar Homepage is of course rehashed, along with some work-at-home ideas.
Of course, there are also some affiliate programs thrown in the mix as well. And of course, two of their sites are listed in the annals of Rip-Off Report.
Also in October, the infamous “Save Karyn” shows up under “business idea”, “panhandling” and “book deal.” Yep, we all suspected that Casey Serin was shopping for the exposure, but there proof and the pudding.
Speaking of proof, Casey Serin’s motivation folder has obviously done him a world of good. To be similarly motivated, just click here.
In this one, I can’t actually tell if Casey Serin was researching internet trolls, or if he thought this was a real job. Considering that this was also saved, I’m leaning toward the latter.
And for those who still hold out hope that Casey Serin is not a con artist, I’m going to have to refer you to Dante and his famed disclaimer “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” For in Casey Serin’s “communication” folder, we find a link to the curiously titled “Reading People for Profit.”
NEXT: Too Much Snark for One Post
This is part of a multiple post. Click here to read the first, What Could Social Bookmarking Reveal About Casey Serin?
Casey Serin’s saved “favorites” date back to 2005, and paint a much more macro picture of him than he would like the world to see. One such revelation is that, while his online beg-a-thon wouldn’t occur until March of 2007, Casey Serin was researching “panhandling” five months earlier in October.
True to the early days of his Ponzi schemes, that same link is cross-referenced as a “business idea.” Yes. To Casey Serin, panhandling equates business idea. Sadly, it still makes more sense than the folder labeled “homeless” which began in March of 2006
Casey Serin’s “business ideas” run the gamut, and are all nonsensical at best. There is the hilariously funny idea of content writing and pay-per-post blogging (in a folder appropriately labeled “moneytize.”) We also see that Casey wanted to show off his writing skills, as evidenced in his “media” folder.
Then there is some crazed thing about “naming your baby’s destiny.” From t-shirts to wacky truck toppers, Casey Serin left no virtual stone unturned in the quest for cheap and easy money.
The Million Dollar Homepage is of course rehashed, along with some work-at-home ideas.
Of course, there are also some affiliate programs thrown in the mix as well. And of course, two of their sites are listed in the annals of Rip-Off Report.
Also in October, the infamous “Save Karyn” shows up under “business idea”, “panhandling” and “book deal.” Yep, we all suspected that Casey Serin was shopping for the exposure, but there proof and the pudding.
Speaking of proof, Casey Serin’s motivation folder has obviously done him a world of good. To be similarly motivated, just click here.
In this one, I can’t actually tell if Casey Serin was researching internet trolls, or if he thought this was a real job. Considering that this was also saved, I’m leaning toward the latter.
And for those who still hold out hope that Casey Serin is not a con artist, I’m going to have to refer you to Dante and his famed disclaimer “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” For in Casey Serin’s “communication” folder, we find a link to the curiously titled “Reading People for Profit.”
NEXT: Too Much Snark for One Post
4/28/2007
Casey Serin and the Case of the Disappearing Money
No doubt, Casey Serin's readers want to flog him.
A repeated source of disgust in these pages, Casey Serin had the gall to hold an online beg-a-thon just a few weeks ago.
Yesterday, his report that his car has been broken into and that sister-in-law Yulia Suprun is threatening to kick the Serins out of her house if they don't cough up two months' back rent has raised even more red flags.
Casey Serin had told his audience the night of the beg-a-thon that, while he and Galina were to be paid for the rigorous task of burning CDs, that money was designated to Yulia to cover two months of unpaid rent.
What followed in Casey Serin's posts over the next couple of weeks included information that he and wife Galina Serin had celebrated their anniversary, disappeared from town for a week on a trip, and traveled to IKEA for an emergency meeting where they purchased new office furniture.
These comments alone should have had readers in a lather. After all, how does an indigent, unemployed couple finance these endeavors?
Sprezzatura points outs that Casey's latest report that Yulia is still owed rent monies is met with the response that "For those wondering, the beg-a-thon money and CD job money WAS gonna go for rent but somehow disappeared for some other needed expenses."
Money just disappears from Casey and Galina Serin's lives. Certainly, there is no accounting for the tens of thousands of dollars that Casey Serin received in his shady cash back at close real estate deals.
There is no accounting for how Casey and Galina Serin racked up nearly $200,000 in credit card and loan debt over the course of 2006.
There is no accounting for the "missing Utah payment."
The lack of financial accountability here is staggering. Law enforcement, the IRS, and the Serins multiple creditors will have a lot of unraveling before anyone really knows where any of this money is.
Some speculate that it's in a coffee can in the backyard. Others think it's in an offshore account. Certainly, for the amount of shady advice and guru training that he's gotten over the years, and the pricey consultations with accountants and attorneys, this is certainly possible.
Personally, I think the money has been pissed away on cheap junk, travel, and supporting a lifestyle that Casey and Galina Serin couldn't possibly afford otherwise. I've said before that I wonder if Casey and Galina Serin ever intended to repay their debt...if the foreclosures weren't merely a planned precursor to a bankruptcy filing, where the white trash duo simply retained the tens of thousands of cash-back dollars in lieu of any sort of work.
Until then....
A repeated source of disgust in these pages, Casey Serin had the gall to hold an online beg-a-thon just a few weeks ago.
Yesterday, his report that his car has been broken into and that sister-in-law Yulia Suprun is threatening to kick the Serins out of her house if they don't cough up two months' back rent has raised even more red flags.
Casey Serin had told his audience the night of the beg-a-thon that, while he and Galina were to be paid for the rigorous task of burning CDs, that money was designated to Yulia to cover two months of unpaid rent.
What followed in Casey Serin's posts over the next couple of weeks included information that he and wife Galina Serin had celebrated their anniversary, disappeared from town for a week on a trip, and traveled to IKEA for an emergency meeting where they purchased new office furniture.
These comments alone should have had readers in a lather. After all, how does an indigent, unemployed couple finance these endeavors?
Sprezzatura points outs that Casey's latest report that Yulia is still owed rent monies is met with the response that "For those wondering, the beg-a-thon money and CD job money WAS gonna go for rent but somehow disappeared for some other needed expenses."
Money just disappears from Casey and Galina Serin's lives. Certainly, there is no accounting for the tens of thousands of dollars that Casey Serin received in his shady cash back at close real estate deals.
There is no accounting for how Casey and Galina Serin racked up nearly $200,000 in credit card and loan debt over the course of 2006.
There is no accounting for the "missing Utah payment."
The lack of financial accountability here is staggering. Law enforcement, the IRS, and the Serins multiple creditors will have a lot of unraveling before anyone really knows where any of this money is.
Some speculate that it's in a coffee can in the backyard. Others think it's in an offshore account. Certainly, for the amount of shady advice and guru training that he's gotten over the years, and the pricey consultations with accountants and attorneys, this is certainly possible.
Personally, I think the money has been pissed away on cheap junk, travel, and supporting a lifestyle that Casey and Galina Serin couldn't possibly afford otherwise. I've said before that I wonder if Casey and Galina Serin ever intended to repay their debt...if the foreclosures weren't merely a planned precursor to a bankruptcy filing, where the white trash duo simply retained the tens of thousands of cash-back dollars in lieu of any sort of work.
Until then....
4/25/2007
A Casey Serin Primer, April 2007
APRIL, 2007
Not 48 hours after begging his haterz and dancing like a little monkey for $220 to keep the CashCall wolves at bay, Casey Serin shows his appreciation by posting “I bought 1.3 million shares of GSPG on Friday via my corporation. Why not?” His idea of an April Fool’s joke shows just how thankful he is for the intervention that prevented CashCall from showing up at Yulia’s house to repossess his tech toys and Yulia’s furniture.
The Friday night beg-a-thon was not without its consequences, though. Salt Lake City mortgage lender Nigel Swaby, who had been just hours away from creating a business partnership with Casey and the IAFF blog backed out.
According to Casey Serin, Nigel Swaby was to partner with him to turn IAFF into some sort of foreclosure avoidance site. Nigel Swaby had previously taken the curious route of defending Casey Serin and his multiple felonies. But the circus atmosphere of the beg-a-thon proved that, while Nigel Swaby would defend Casey Serin’s crimes, he couldn’t stomach Casey taking money from the Haterz. Perhaps Nigel Swaby wanted Casey indebted to him and him alone?
Nigel Swaby’s own bizarre “don’t hate Casey” blog shifts its tone as well. While Nigel Swaby had billed it as a point of defense for Casey, where Casey’s supposed myriad supporters could have a forum (goodness...I couldn’t even type that without laughing), Nigel Swaby himself starts taking cracks at Casey. Nigel Swaby also tries to backtrack from his creepy hater ‘outings’ and tries to play nice with the ExUrb community.
As Nigel Swaby has shown in the past, he’s no master of predicting outcomes. The so-called haterz despise him even more for his smarmy attempts to garner their support. Nigel Swaby reveals himself to be an “any port in a storm” kind of guy, as his queer “don’t hate Casey” blog becomes an “alternate (sic) take” on Casey Serin.
Casey Serin comes back to tell us that he and wifey Galina are celebrating their third wedding anniversary. No doubt a part of their celebration was paid for by the haterz donations from the previous week’s beg-a-thon, which flipped even ardent supporters into critics. Casey points out that he and Galina Serin have taken a three-year roller coaster ride, together. I posit that they ain’t seen nuthin yet.
While he had been ignoring the critical pieces written about him in The Economist and the Scotsman Guide, Casey Serin’s inner attention-whore wins out, and he can’t help pointing out that two more press pieces had been written about him.
There is some cursory attention paid to keeping lines of communication open with his many, many lenders. But, typical Casey Serin, this fades out pretty quickly. In a saga that resembles an episode of Flipper Nation, Casey Serin drones on about “Will I Stop the Last Foreclosure Via Short Sale?”
To anyone with any functioning brain cells left, the answer is a resounding “No.” At this stage of the game, Casey Serin has lost four homes to foreclosure, largely due to inattention and lack of follow-through. Besides, what’s to be gained from a short-sale at this point?
These posts make the reader wonder, does Casey Serin post these types of things because he really believes this, or is this just a distraction to keep readers off of his personal life?
Casey Serin shifts into happy talk, noting that he’s going to be on the Suze Orman show. He wants his readers to comment on the advice that Suze Orman has given him, leaving out the information that the show was taped in January, and that he hasn’t followed a lick of her advice.
But readers are more frustrated with Suze Orman than Casey Serin. After all, we know Casey’s a lazy fuck with a complete lack of organization, skills, intellect, or follow-through. But Suze Orman bills herself as a tough-talking, real world financial advisor. People tuned in to the show to see if she would produce yet another fluff piece, or if she would reel in shock at horror at Casey Serin’s antics.
Proving that the staff of the Suze Orman show hasn’t really done their research on Casey Serin’s repeated criminality, the show falls short with yet another surface-level interview, this one peppered with disgustingly syrupy-sweet references to Casey Serin as “boyfriend.”
As if readers weren’t already inflamed enough, Casey Serin announces that he has indeed formed a new corporation. Knowing Casey Serin’s penchant for taking shortcuts, readers speculate that the new shell corp will serve one of the following purposes: shuffle his existing debt, provide him new lines of credit, work to acquire even more real estate.
But this is far from Casey Serin’s first registered enterprise. Simple searches turn up even more Casey Serin companies, and from there, readers find that Casey Serin is the registered agent forHammar Investments, Inc. and is using the old 3636 Auburn Blvd. address. If you remember, this is the property that traces back to Secure Tomorrow Asset Protection.
So yet another finger points toward Casey Serin--con artist, fraud, felon, “speculator”--and a senior citizen financial planning firm. Wonder who Casey Serin is promising 24% returns to these days?
Ironically, Casey’s next blog post points readers to Wired Magazine, and their cover story on business transparency, “Get Naked and Rule the World.” Delusional as always, Casey Serin actually compares himself to the trendy industry leaders discussed within the article. This in and of itself answers Casey’s question, “Why do you hate?”
Casey Serin then decides that “It’s time to write a foreclosure book!” Readers laugh openly, asking him what he could possibly contribute to the foreclosure resource world. The next day he takes a step back and says, basically, I see your point about how this book won’t have a point without a comeback. By the third day, he’s ditched the book idea, saying “I’m being too impulsive again!”
As I read this comment, I imagine Casey doing a modern-day version of “Of Mice and Men,” with Casey looking down at his housing/life bunny, muttering “Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!”
But Casey Serin is buoyed with yet another media appearance, this time on Nightline. While at first glance, the story seems like another fluff piece, Vicki Mabrey looks at Casey like he’s just dropped in from Mars as he dodges questions and offers his pat half-assed answers. As a fun aside, Alex’s website is shown in a lengthy screenshot during the segment.
Casey Serin’s next nugget of wisdom brings up yet another lazy “passive income” stream of consciousness. He wants to impress upon his readers the vast extent of his knowledge and history of success in wholesaling properties and assigning contracts. As he defines how a buyer can tie up a property under contract while he searches for a better offer, Casey Serin notes “Now that’s a TRUE no-money-down technique. (Well maybe $100 for an earnest money deposit or something, but what’s $100 nowadays?)”
Well, guy, considering you’re the same fucktard who hosted an online beg-a-thon for $220 bucks just two weeks previously, I don’t think you’re in any position to say such things.
Casey Serin’s “vast” experience in wholesaling comes from the fact that he has done this before...exactly once. He found a major POS property in North Carolina. Long, rambling story short, the woman wanted $10K, Casey got her down to $4k and sold the contract for $500. Scarily, Casey Serin notes, “As I formulate my comeback plan I may have to do some wholesaling but at a much bigger level. Wholesaling apartment complexes, commercial deals, luxury homes, mortgages/paper, etc.”
Casey goes back to whining about his critics, which he still insists on calling “haters.” (Hey Casey, remember the money that some soft-hearted “haters” gave you to keep CashCall away from Yulia’s door?)
He then remarks that he and Galina had some “urgent business” to attend to, namely, a shopping trip to IKEA. But all of the cymbal-banging to get CashCall and grocery money out of the haterz was all for naught. True to form, our lazy Casey Serin fucked up a free lunch yet again:
“Well, CashCall then sent me a contract that I was supposed to sign and return within 48 hours or the deal is off. I didn’t remember hearing anything about the 48 hour time frame. I did get the contract but I delayed sending it because we went out of town that Sunday for a week. After I come back I kind of forgot about the contract. Then I get a call from CashCall a couple of days again and they want their money. I was surprised so I told them I have a deal....They check the notes and they said the deal is off since I never returned the paperwork...It’s probably mostly my fault because I should have read that contract right away to see if there are any timeframes. My weakness in the area of logistics is getting me in trouble again.”
Since Tax Day is right around the corner, Casey Serin has his accountant file an extension. He’s convinced that he has less of a chance being audited if he files near the end of the year. As readers hold their sides laughing, Casey takes a turn for the introspective and petulant.
On the scary side, Casey Serin says “I’m very curious to see exactly where all the money went that we borrowed. Interesting, Casey…we’re all very curious about that. The petulant side comes out with “Also I can show everybody how little we spent on “frivolous” stuff, dining out, etc. That should silence the critics.” Yeah, Casey, that’ll learn ‘em.
Casey’s next reality check comes courtesy of the Sacramento County Vector Control, who are quite pissed that Casey Serin’s pool at his final remaining property has become a vibrant green sludge pond that is producing mosquitoes at an alarming rate. He whines that the property is 75 miles away and he doesn’t want to put any money into it, since it’s going into foreclosure anyway.
And this, my friends, is why people hate Casey Serin. Because his neighbors have to live next to that. Everyday, they have to drive past an overgrown front lawn and every night, they have to live with the incessant buzzing of potentially West Nile carrying mozzies. The pool at Casey Serin’s Muncy Drive property is, in fact, so green that it looks like a nuclear disposal site from space. They can’t sell their properties, because who’s going to pay market price for a house on that block, when the bank is offering one for a fraction of the price?
The disgusting condition of the house isn’t the only thing dragging down their property values. While people like Nigel Swaby spew utter crap about foreclosures having virtually no impact on their neighbors’ properties, hedonic price regression models show differently. In fact, each foreclosure up to a half-mile radius of a home will negatively impact from 0.9% to 1.44% of that home’s value.
In much the same fashion that Casey Serin has previously gone into “lender avoidance mode” and “reality avoidance mode,” he now goes into “haterz avoidance mode.” On 4-20, Casey Serin does us all a favor and takes a break from the internet. No doubt he’ll be back soon...the attention whore in him always wins out. And where else is Casey Serin going to find the sweet passive fame and fortune that he so desires?
Casey Serin Primer: September, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: October, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: November, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: December, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: January, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: February, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: March, 2007
Not 48 hours after begging his haterz and dancing like a little monkey for $220 to keep the CashCall wolves at bay, Casey Serin shows his appreciation by posting “I bought 1.3 million shares of GSPG on Friday via my corporation. Why not?” His idea of an April Fool’s joke shows just how thankful he is for the intervention that prevented CashCall from showing up at Yulia’s house to repossess his tech toys and Yulia’s furniture.
The Friday night beg-a-thon was not without its consequences, though. Salt Lake City mortgage lender Nigel Swaby, who had been just hours away from creating a business partnership with Casey and the IAFF blog backed out.
According to Casey Serin, Nigel Swaby was to partner with him to turn IAFF into some sort of foreclosure avoidance site. Nigel Swaby had previously taken the curious route of defending Casey Serin and his multiple felonies. But the circus atmosphere of the beg-a-thon proved that, while Nigel Swaby would defend Casey Serin’s crimes, he couldn’t stomach Casey taking money from the Haterz. Perhaps Nigel Swaby wanted Casey indebted to him and him alone?
Nigel Swaby’s own bizarre “don’t hate Casey” blog shifts its tone as well. While Nigel Swaby had billed it as a point of defense for Casey, where Casey’s supposed myriad supporters could have a forum (goodness...I couldn’t even type that without laughing), Nigel Swaby himself starts taking cracks at Casey. Nigel Swaby also tries to backtrack from his creepy hater ‘outings’ and tries to play nice with the ExUrb community.
As Nigel Swaby has shown in the past, he’s no master of predicting outcomes. The so-called haterz despise him even more for his smarmy attempts to garner their support. Nigel Swaby reveals himself to be an “any port in a storm” kind of guy, as his queer “don’t hate Casey” blog becomes an “alternate (sic) take” on Casey Serin.
Casey Serin comes back to tell us that he and wifey Galina are celebrating their third wedding anniversary. No doubt a part of their celebration was paid for by the haterz donations from the previous week’s beg-a-thon, which flipped even ardent supporters into critics. Casey points out that he and Galina Serin have taken a three-year roller coaster ride, together. I posit that they ain’t seen nuthin yet.
While he had been ignoring the critical pieces written about him in The Economist and the Scotsman Guide, Casey Serin’s inner attention-whore wins out, and he can’t help pointing out that two more press pieces had been written about him.
There is some cursory attention paid to keeping lines of communication open with his many, many lenders. But, typical Casey Serin, this fades out pretty quickly. In a saga that resembles an episode of Flipper Nation, Casey Serin drones on about “Will I Stop the Last Foreclosure Via Short Sale?”
To anyone with any functioning brain cells left, the answer is a resounding “No.” At this stage of the game, Casey Serin has lost four homes to foreclosure, largely due to inattention and lack of follow-through. Besides, what’s to be gained from a short-sale at this point?
These posts make the reader wonder, does Casey Serin post these types of things because he really believes this, or is this just a distraction to keep readers off of his personal life?
Casey Serin shifts into happy talk, noting that he’s going to be on the Suze Orman show. He wants his readers to comment on the advice that Suze Orman has given him, leaving out the information that the show was taped in January, and that he hasn’t followed a lick of her advice.
But readers are more frustrated with Suze Orman than Casey Serin. After all, we know Casey’s a lazy fuck with a complete lack of organization, skills, intellect, or follow-through. But Suze Orman bills herself as a tough-talking, real world financial advisor. People tuned in to the show to see if she would produce yet another fluff piece, or if she would reel in shock at horror at Casey Serin’s antics.
Proving that the staff of the Suze Orman show hasn’t really done their research on Casey Serin’s repeated criminality, the show falls short with yet another surface-level interview, this one peppered with disgustingly syrupy-sweet references to Casey Serin as “boyfriend.”
As if readers weren’t already inflamed enough, Casey Serin announces that he has indeed formed a new corporation. Knowing Casey Serin’s penchant for taking shortcuts, readers speculate that the new shell corp will serve one of the following purposes: shuffle his existing debt, provide him new lines of credit, work to acquire even more real estate.
But this is far from Casey Serin’s first registered enterprise. Simple searches turn up even more Casey Serin companies, and from there, readers find that Casey Serin is the registered agent forHammar Investments, Inc. and is using the old 3636 Auburn Blvd. address. If you remember, this is the property that traces back to Secure Tomorrow Asset Protection.
So yet another finger points toward Casey Serin--con artist, fraud, felon, “speculator”--and a senior citizen financial planning firm. Wonder who Casey Serin is promising 24% returns to these days?
Ironically, Casey’s next blog post points readers to Wired Magazine, and their cover story on business transparency, “Get Naked and Rule the World.” Delusional as always, Casey Serin actually compares himself to the trendy industry leaders discussed within the article. This in and of itself answers Casey’s question, “Why do you hate?”
Casey Serin then decides that “It’s time to write a foreclosure book!” Readers laugh openly, asking him what he could possibly contribute to the foreclosure resource world. The next day he takes a step back and says, basically, I see your point about how this book won’t have a point without a comeback. By the third day, he’s ditched the book idea, saying “I’m being too impulsive again!”
As I read this comment, I imagine Casey doing a modern-day version of “Of Mice and Men,” with Casey looking down at his housing/life bunny, muttering “Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!”
But Casey Serin is buoyed with yet another media appearance, this time on Nightline. While at first glance, the story seems like another fluff piece, Vicki Mabrey looks at Casey like he’s just dropped in from Mars as he dodges questions and offers his pat half-assed answers. As a fun aside, Alex’s website is shown in a lengthy screenshot during the segment.
Casey Serin’s next nugget of wisdom brings up yet another lazy “passive income” stream of consciousness. He wants to impress upon his readers the vast extent of his knowledge and history of success in wholesaling properties and assigning contracts. As he defines how a buyer can tie up a property under contract while he searches for a better offer, Casey Serin notes “Now that’s a TRUE no-money-down technique. (Well maybe $100 for an earnest money deposit or something, but what’s $100 nowadays?)”
Well, guy, considering you’re the same fucktard who hosted an online beg-a-thon for $220 bucks just two weeks previously, I don’t think you’re in any position to say such things.
Casey Serin’s “vast” experience in wholesaling comes from the fact that he has done this before...exactly once. He found a major POS property in North Carolina. Long, rambling story short, the woman wanted $10K, Casey got her down to $4k and sold the contract for $500. Scarily, Casey Serin notes, “As I formulate my comeback plan I may have to do some wholesaling but at a much bigger level. Wholesaling apartment complexes, commercial deals, luxury homes, mortgages/paper, etc.”
Casey goes back to whining about his critics, which he still insists on calling “haters.” (Hey Casey, remember the money that some soft-hearted “haters” gave you to keep CashCall away from Yulia’s door?)
He then remarks that he and Galina had some “urgent business” to attend to, namely, a shopping trip to IKEA. But all of the cymbal-banging to get CashCall and grocery money out of the haterz was all for naught. True to form, our lazy Casey Serin fucked up a free lunch yet again:
“Well, CashCall then sent me a contract that I was supposed to sign and return within 48 hours or the deal is off. I didn’t remember hearing anything about the 48 hour time frame. I did get the contract but I delayed sending it because we went out of town that Sunday for a week. After I come back I kind of forgot about the contract. Then I get a call from CashCall a couple of days again and they want their money. I was surprised so I told them I have a deal....They check the notes and they said the deal is off since I never returned the paperwork...It’s probably mostly my fault because I should have read that contract right away to see if there are any timeframes. My weakness in the area of logistics is getting me in trouble again.”
Since Tax Day is right around the corner, Casey Serin has his accountant file an extension. He’s convinced that he has less of a chance being audited if he files near the end of the year. As readers hold their sides laughing, Casey takes a turn for the introspective and petulant.
On the scary side, Casey Serin says “I’m very curious to see exactly where all the money went that we borrowed. Interesting, Casey…we’re all very curious about that. The petulant side comes out with “Also I can show everybody how little we spent on “frivolous” stuff, dining out, etc. That should silence the critics.” Yeah, Casey, that’ll learn ‘em.
Casey’s next reality check comes courtesy of the Sacramento County Vector Control, who are quite pissed that Casey Serin’s pool at his final remaining property has become a vibrant green sludge pond that is producing mosquitoes at an alarming rate. He whines that the property is 75 miles away and he doesn’t want to put any money into it, since it’s going into foreclosure anyway.
And this, my friends, is why people hate Casey Serin. Because his neighbors have to live next to that. Everyday, they have to drive past an overgrown front lawn and every night, they have to live with the incessant buzzing of potentially West Nile carrying mozzies. The pool at Casey Serin’s Muncy Drive property is, in fact, so green that it looks like a nuclear disposal site from space. They can’t sell their properties, because who’s going to pay market price for a house on that block, when the bank is offering one for a fraction of the price?
The disgusting condition of the house isn’t the only thing dragging down their property values. While people like Nigel Swaby spew utter crap about foreclosures having virtually no impact on their neighbors’ properties, hedonic price regression models show differently. In fact, each foreclosure up to a half-mile radius of a home will negatively impact from 0.9% to 1.44% of that home’s value.
In much the same fashion that Casey Serin has previously gone into “lender avoidance mode” and “reality avoidance mode,” he now goes into “haterz avoidance mode.” On 4-20, Casey Serin does us all a favor and takes a break from the internet. No doubt he’ll be back soon...the attention whore in him always wins out. And where else is Casey Serin going to find the sweet passive fame and fortune that he so desires?
Casey Serin Primer: September, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: October, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: November, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: December, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: January, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: February, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: March, 2007
4/24/2007
A Casey Serin Primer, March 2007
MARCH, 2007
By March, Casey Serin has gotten even more stupid and petulant. He starts off the month, in debt to friends and family for bad loans they’ve made him, he and wifey Galina Serin are crashing at her sister Yulia’s place, and they’re hitting up both of their parents’ houses for dinners.
On top of that, CashCall is calling the references he had to provide, since he shut down the Wells Fargo account that the CashCall loan was being drawn off of. Casey himself has gone into “lender ignore mode,” not taking calls from anyone he should be communicating with. This, of course, does not include the media.
While Casey Serin has a problem accomplishing even the smallest daily tasks, when a reporter asks him to compile his paperwork as a part of story verification, he has no problem snapping to attention.
Casey grabs attention by saying that he’s headed back to Utah with his “new money partner” to investigate more sweet deals. Casey Serin pouts that the Haterz have run off all of his other potential money partners, so will only refer to this one as “G.” (Recent speculation has it that “G” is Nigel Swaby’s boss at Integrity First Financial, Byron Goates
Suffice to say that Casey Serin talking about somehow acquiring even more properties moved him into the category of “deeply hated.” Gone was any notion that Serin was taking an iota of responsibility for his plight. In this one sad act, he showed the world that he will continue to do shady deals of any stripe until he is forcibly removed from society. A new call for a prison sentence echoed around the blogosphere.
Casey Serin did get a chance to hang out with his little buddy, Salt Lake City mortgage lender Nigel Swaby. It’s always nice when an admitted multi-state mortgage felon and a mortgage lender can enjoy a nice meal and wheatgrass shot together as they cruise the city for opportunity.
By the middle of the month, Casey is whinging that the Wikipedia article on him is “highly skewed” and making him look bad. Casey Serin’s critics point out that Casey’s own words and IAFF blog make him look plenty bad. Casey asks for his supporters (who?!?) to contribute to the Wikipedia page.
(Addition: R-boy, frequent poster at ExUrbanNation and one of the folks "outed" by Nigel Swaby really took the helm to tone down the Wiki article, while keeping the relevant crimes, frauds, and schemes in tact. It's an oversight on my part that this wasn't included in the original post.)
In the meantime, the Wikinazi’s capitulate to Casey’s crying, and post a “debate” about whether or not to keep the Wiki entry on Casey Serin.
Casey earns further criticism by saying, in essence, that college is for loosers (in Caseyspeak.) He says that college is a waste of time and designed to brainwash people into becoming “W2 losers.” As opposed to his extensive guru training, which makes him a foreclosed upon loser with a negative cash flow of nearly $2.5 million.
This jackass comment comes just in time for his next “live chat”, which proves to be great fun for the Haterz when a caller called “Nacho” pins Casey to the carpet like a dog who’s made a puddle. It’s well worth your time to read the transcript of the call.
In the live chat, Casey reveals that wife Galina Serin has quit school in order to go to work. Casey’s critics give a collective cheer that, finally, one of them is working. Some Haterz did the math and determined that Galina had been attending college for six years, and had yet to earn even an associate’s degree. As of March, 2007, she had been attending a community college and refusing to work because she felt that her husband should support her financially.
But the fact that Casey Serin also refused to get a job threw a wrench in the works. (For the record, to date, Galina Serin has yet to get a job.)
Casey Serin creates more Haterz when he tells the world that he went cruising by his Sacramento-area properties that he had recently lost to foreclosure. He laments that the locks had been changed, and is surprised that the banks worked so quickly! For someone who “works” at a geologic pace, this is news.
Haterz go crazy when Casey Serin posts pictures of the properties, and note that he couldn’t manage to get his lazy ass over there to maintain them at all, instead letting them fall into a disgusting state of disrepair that his neighbors had to look at and have their property values drop by his negligence and his foreclosure.
Alert readers were further sickened to note that the broken window on a property meant that the bank had to break a window to get in…Casey couldn’t even get it together enough to mail them the keys. It’s behaviors like this that have us asking Did Casey and Galina Serin Ever Intend to Repay Their Dubious Debts?
By the end of the month, Casey Serin’s little buddy Nigel Swaby decides to make a more public persona of himself. He chooses three people who frequently comment on the ExUrbanNation blog and decides to “out” them, posting photos, real names, occupations and employers, in some cases.
Nigel Swaby defends this action, saying that he was taking a stand against what the so-called Haterz had been doing to his dear friend, admitted multi-state mortgage felon Casey Serin. But the people he chose weren’t blogging about Casey Serin, they were commenting on the ExUrb blog. Further, Nigel Swaby failed to see the inappropriateness in a mortgage lender, with access to financial information, poking around in anyone’s personal data.
The next day, Casey Serin loses the New Mexico home to foreclosure, even though the snowstorm had given him ample time to pursue other options with his lenders. Instead, Casey posts “Who Says We Don’t Work?” which shows he and wife Galina Serin performing the high-level task of burning CD’s.
Casey’s blog post about this is the usual combination of funny and sickening. Boasting that they ‘pulled an all-nighter’ to complete the job, he later affirms that he did very little, delegating the work to Galina. He praises her by saying that “she’s very good at following directions.”
Just as Casey is strutting around with his chest out, proving what a big boy he is, he posts that CashCall has delivered an ultimatum. He must pay them $220 by the following day, “or else.” What ensues is an absolute circus, where Casey Serin affirms his role as the blogosphere’s Dancing Monkey.
Although he’s been touting to everyone how well he’s been doing, he reverses himself and says that he and Galina have no money, have not paid rent to Yulia in two months, and the money from their wacky CD burning has to go to Yulia, “or else.” So Casey Serin decides to hold an online beg-a-thon.
Personally, I thought it was disgusting that anyone would give the little fucktard a dime, after more than a year of unemployment and an absolute refusal to do a thing to help himself. But the folks that Casey Serin had been--and still does refer to as “haters” were the very people who saved his ass from CashCall.
This gave Serin a two-month extension from having to deal with them. Unfortunate, I thought, because this was the first real consequence of his actions that Casey Serin would have faced.
As a part of his monkey dance, Casey Serin agreed to be interviewed by the caller who had previously kicked his arse on the previous podcast. Ironically, the interviewer was one of the folks that Salt Lake City mortgage lender Nigel Swaby had “outed.” While she could have taken the low road with the interview, her approach was more motherly, and she really tried to talk some sense into the little fucktard.
Somebody has to have a link to either a transcript or the podcast itself, but damned if I can find it. Anyone?
Casey Serin Primer: September, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: October, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: November, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: December, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: January, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: February, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: March, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: April, 2007
By March, Casey Serin has gotten even more stupid and petulant. He starts off the month, in debt to friends and family for bad loans they’ve made him, he and wifey Galina Serin are crashing at her sister Yulia’s place, and they’re hitting up both of their parents’ houses for dinners.
On top of that, CashCall is calling the references he had to provide, since he shut down the Wells Fargo account that the CashCall loan was being drawn off of. Casey himself has gone into “lender ignore mode,” not taking calls from anyone he should be communicating with. This, of course, does not include the media.
While Casey Serin has a problem accomplishing even the smallest daily tasks, when a reporter asks him to compile his paperwork as a part of story verification, he has no problem snapping to attention.
Casey grabs attention by saying that he’s headed back to Utah with his “new money partner” to investigate more sweet deals. Casey Serin pouts that the Haterz have run off all of his other potential money partners, so will only refer to this one as “G.” (Recent speculation has it that “G” is Nigel Swaby’s boss at Integrity First Financial, Byron Goates
Suffice to say that Casey Serin talking about somehow acquiring even more properties moved him into the category of “deeply hated.” Gone was any notion that Serin was taking an iota of responsibility for his plight. In this one sad act, he showed the world that he will continue to do shady deals of any stripe until he is forcibly removed from society. A new call for a prison sentence echoed around the blogosphere.
Casey Serin did get a chance to hang out with his little buddy, Salt Lake City mortgage lender Nigel Swaby. It’s always nice when an admitted multi-state mortgage felon and a mortgage lender can enjoy a nice meal and wheatgrass shot together as they cruise the city for opportunity.
By the middle of the month, Casey is whinging that the Wikipedia article on him is “highly skewed” and making him look bad. Casey Serin’s critics point out that Casey’s own words and IAFF blog make him look plenty bad. Casey asks for his supporters (who?!?) to contribute to the Wikipedia page.
(Addition: R-boy, frequent poster at ExUrbanNation and one of the folks "outed" by Nigel Swaby really took the helm to tone down the Wiki article, while keeping the relevant crimes, frauds, and schemes in tact. It's an oversight on my part that this wasn't included in the original post.)
In the meantime, the Wikinazi’s capitulate to Casey’s crying, and post a “debate” about whether or not to keep the Wiki entry on Casey Serin.
Casey earns further criticism by saying, in essence, that college is for loosers (in Caseyspeak.) He says that college is a waste of time and designed to brainwash people into becoming “W2 losers.” As opposed to his extensive guru training, which makes him a foreclosed upon loser with a negative cash flow of nearly $2.5 million.
This jackass comment comes just in time for his next “live chat”, which proves to be great fun for the Haterz when a caller called “Nacho” pins Casey to the carpet like a dog who’s made a puddle. It’s well worth your time to read the transcript of the call.
In the live chat, Casey reveals that wife Galina Serin has quit school in order to go to work. Casey’s critics give a collective cheer that, finally, one of them is working. Some Haterz did the math and determined that Galina had been attending college for six years, and had yet to earn even an associate’s degree. As of March, 2007, she had been attending a community college and refusing to work because she felt that her husband should support her financially.
But the fact that Casey Serin also refused to get a job threw a wrench in the works. (For the record, to date, Galina Serin has yet to get a job.)
Casey Serin creates more Haterz when he tells the world that he went cruising by his Sacramento-area properties that he had recently lost to foreclosure. He laments that the locks had been changed, and is surprised that the banks worked so quickly! For someone who “works” at a geologic pace, this is news.
Haterz go crazy when Casey Serin posts pictures of the properties, and note that he couldn’t manage to get his lazy ass over there to maintain them at all, instead letting them fall into a disgusting state of disrepair that his neighbors had to look at and have their property values drop by his negligence and his foreclosure.
Alert readers were further sickened to note that the broken window on a property meant that the bank had to break a window to get in…Casey couldn’t even get it together enough to mail them the keys. It’s behaviors like this that have us asking Did Casey and Galina Serin Ever Intend to Repay Their Dubious Debts?
By the end of the month, Casey Serin’s little buddy Nigel Swaby decides to make a more public persona of himself. He chooses three people who frequently comment on the ExUrbanNation blog and decides to “out” them, posting photos, real names, occupations and employers, in some cases.
Nigel Swaby defends this action, saying that he was taking a stand against what the so-called Haterz had been doing to his dear friend, admitted multi-state mortgage felon Casey Serin. But the people he chose weren’t blogging about Casey Serin, they were commenting on the ExUrb blog. Further, Nigel Swaby failed to see the inappropriateness in a mortgage lender, with access to financial information, poking around in anyone’s personal data.
The next day, Casey Serin loses the New Mexico home to foreclosure, even though the snowstorm had given him ample time to pursue other options with his lenders. Instead, Casey posts “Who Says We Don’t Work?” which shows he and wife Galina Serin performing the high-level task of burning CD’s.
Casey’s blog post about this is the usual combination of funny and sickening. Boasting that they ‘pulled an all-nighter’ to complete the job, he later affirms that he did very little, delegating the work to Galina. He praises her by saying that “she’s very good at following directions.”
Just as Casey is strutting around with his chest out, proving what a big boy he is, he posts that CashCall has delivered an ultimatum. He must pay them $220 by the following day, “or else.” What ensues is an absolute circus, where Casey Serin affirms his role as the blogosphere’s Dancing Monkey.
Although he’s been touting to everyone how well he’s been doing, he reverses himself and says that he and Galina have no money, have not paid rent to Yulia in two months, and the money from their wacky CD burning has to go to Yulia, “or else.” So Casey Serin decides to hold an online beg-a-thon.
Personally, I thought it was disgusting that anyone would give the little fucktard a dime, after more than a year of unemployment and an absolute refusal to do a thing to help himself. But the folks that Casey Serin had been--and still does refer to as “haters” were the very people who saved his ass from CashCall.
This gave Serin a two-month extension from having to deal with them. Unfortunate, I thought, because this was the first real consequence of his actions that Casey Serin would have faced.
As a part of his monkey dance, Casey Serin agreed to be interviewed by the caller who had previously kicked his arse on the previous podcast. Ironically, the interviewer was one of the folks that Salt Lake City mortgage lender Nigel Swaby had “outed.” While she could have taken the low road with the interview, her approach was more motherly, and she really tried to talk some sense into the little fucktard.
Somebody has to have a link to either a transcript or the podcast itself, but damned if I can find it. Anyone?
Casey Serin Primer: September, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: October, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: November, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: December, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: January, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: February, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: March, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: April, 2007
4/23/2007
A Casey Serin Primer, February 2007
FEBRUARY, 2007
It’s a short month, but it doesn’t start well for Casey Serin when Duane LeGate informs Casey that he will no longer be a “sponsor” after Feb 15. Casey whines and blames the haterz, but a couple of months later, will admit that Duane walked out because Casey himself wasn’t living up to his obligations. Namely, Duane wanted him to have constant contact with his creditors, and Casey Serin just wasn’t willing to stay on top of it.
Since nothing is ever really Casey Serin’s fault (the Haterz are mostly to blame) he informs us of the results of a recent personality test he’s taken. He tells the world that the results confirm that he’s an Idea Man, not a details person. So we’re not supposed to get mad that he can’t finish the most basic task…it’s not in his nature!
Casey also admits that, in addition to being in pre-foreclosure on his properties, he has let the insurance lapse instead. This forces the lenders to, first discover this, then take out insurance themselves to protect their investments, further adding to the monies owed to them by one Casey Serin.
Casey Serin hits the media circuit yet again, this time appearing in the Sacramento Bee and New York Magazine. Both do a shite job of really ‘covering’ Casey’s story, proving that research in Old Media is dead and gone. Casey Serin’s critics can’t believe that nearly everyone who goes near the Casey story seem incapable of doing even rudimentary research before phoning in their fluff pieces.
The universe is not without irony, though, and Casey discovers a homeless guy squatting on his Burdett property. Readers point out that, since he hasn’t paid the mortgage in so long, Burdett is far from “his” property.
Since Casey closed his checking account in order to prevent Wells Fargo or other creditors from auto-drafting from his account (like when poor Casey Serin was the victim when “Wells Fargo Stole” $1,000 from him). This means he is now in arrears to the super-scary CashCall.
Casey manages to eke out some money from yet another real estate entity, who want to buy his redemption rights for the New Mexico property. As that property is scheduled for a foreclosure sale, it snows in NM and delays the sale. Casey Serin, being Casey Serin, celebrates by cashing the cheque for redemption rights, buying a Jamba Juice, and a bunch of white trash Valentine’s Day crap for Galina.
Ironically, the snow gave Casey the opportunity to prevent foreclosure. Again, in typical Casey Serin fashion, he pooch screws any possibility of fixing the problem. According to Casey, he “was too busy making connections and identifying opportunities today and didn’t get a chance to check up on the NM foreclosure or send the short sale packet. Will attempt again tomorrow. I get bogged down by a lot of these small details sometimes.”
Yeah...foreclosure avoidance on multiple properties can easily take second place to fucking off.
By now, the haterz are screaming at Casey to get a job, take some responsibility, do anything. Many are starting to call for his head, including but not limited to doing a stint in federal prison.
In the midst of this cacophony, Salt Lake City mortgage lender again jumps into the situation. According to Nigel Swaby, he has run Casey’s scenario past a friend of his who is a super-secret government agent (Go go Gadget arms!)
Nigel Swaby, a mortgage lender of all things, says that Casey Serin’s admitted crimes are, at $2.2 million in fraudulent loans and close to $200,000 in unsecured debt, too small to prosecute. Readers wonder if any banks out there are happy to be doing business with Nigel Swaby. Casey celebrates this supposed ‘win’ with the petulant post “Why Should I Go to Jail for Mortgage Fraud?”
Asswipe.
Casey Serin, assuming the coast is clear for him (you know, because Nigel said so) continues to explore establishing a shell corp. Mind you, Casey claims to have no money at this point, so see if you can read this without your head exploding:
“I met with two corporate attorneys at a highly respected (and very expensive) law firm today. I ran my idea of borrowing money via my corporation and using the capital for future deals, as well as, borrowing from the corporation to refinance/settle my existing debt.”
Then Casey does some kind of jerky white-boy hip-hop dance because, he says, he’s getting foreclosure fan mail.
By the end of the month, the house on Larchmont goes into a full-blown trustee sale. Casey goes to the courthouse in Sacramento, and bizarrely reports on his own foreclosure: “A cold rainy day at the courthouse steps in downtown Sacramento. The gloominess is a perfect setup for the foreclosure auction of my Larchmont house. At the same time there was a nice freshness in the air and I felt a little bit of excitement/anticipation.”
The excitement and anticipation seem like incredibly misplaced emotions. But Casey Serin believes himself to be bulletproof, remember? But all of this foreclosure talk brings up a very interesting point. Perhaps the Housing Panic blog says it best... Casey Serin loses another one to foreclosure. Where's the cash?
Casey Serin Primer: September, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: October, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: November, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: December, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: January, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: February, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: March, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: April, 2007
It’s a short month, but it doesn’t start well for Casey Serin when Duane LeGate informs Casey that he will no longer be a “sponsor” after Feb 15. Casey whines and blames the haterz, but a couple of months later, will admit that Duane walked out because Casey himself wasn’t living up to his obligations. Namely, Duane wanted him to have constant contact with his creditors, and Casey Serin just wasn’t willing to stay on top of it.
Since nothing is ever really Casey Serin’s fault (the Haterz are mostly to blame) he informs us of the results of a recent personality test he’s taken. He tells the world that the results confirm that he’s an Idea Man, not a details person. So we’re not supposed to get mad that he can’t finish the most basic task…it’s not in his nature!
Casey also admits that, in addition to being in pre-foreclosure on his properties, he has let the insurance lapse instead. This forces the lenders to, first discover this, then take out insurance themselves to protect their investments, further adding to the monies owed to them by one Casey Serin.
Casey Serin hits the media circuit yet again, this time appearing in the Sacramento Bee and New York Magazine. Both do a shite job of really ‘covering’ Casey’s story, proving that research in Old Media is dead and gone. Casey Serin’s critics can’t believe that nearly everyone who goes near the Casey story seem incapable of doing even rudimentary research before phoning in their fluff pieces.
The universe is not without irony, though, and Casey discovers a homeless guy squatting on his Burdett property. Readers point out that, since he hasn’t paid the mortgage in so long, Burdett is far from “his” property.
Since Casey closed his checking account in order to prevent Wells Fargo or other creditors from auto-drafting from his account (like when poor Casey Serin was the victim when “Wells Fargo Stole” $1,000 from him). This means he is now in arrears to the super-scary CashCall.
Casey manages to eke out some money from yet another real estate entity, who want to buy his redemption rights for the New Mexico property. As that property is scheduled for a foreclosure sale, it snows in NM and delays the sale. Casey Serin, being Casey Serin, celebrates by cashing the cheque for redemption rights, buying a Jamba Juice, and a bunch of white trash Valentine’s Day crap for Galina.
Ironically, the snow gave Casey the opportunity to prevent foreclosure. Again, in typical Casey Serin fashion, he pooch screws any possibility of fixing the problem. According to Casey, he “was too busy making connections and identifying opportunities today and didn’t get a chance to check up on the NM foreclosure or send the short sale packet. Will attempt again tomorrow. I get bogged down by a lot of these small details sometimes.”
Yeah...foreclosure avoidance on multiple properties can easily take second place to fucking off.
By now, the haterz are screaming at Casey to get a job, take some responsibility, do anything. Many are starting to call for his head, including but not limited to doing a stint in federal prison.
In the midst of this cacophony, Salt Lake City mortgage lender again jumps into the situation. According to Nigel Swaby, he has run Casey’s scenario past a friend of his who is a super-secret government agent (Go go Gadget arms!)
Nigel Swaby, a mortgage lender of all things, says that Casey Serin’s admitted crimes are, at $2.2 million in fraudulent loans and close to $200,000 in unsecured debt, too small to prosecute. Readers wonder if any banks out there are happy to be doing business with Nigel Swaby. Casey celebrates this supposed ‘win’ with the petulant post “Why Should I Go to Jail for Mortgage Fraud?”
Asswipe.
Casey Serin, assuming the coast is clear for him (you know, because Nigel said so) continues to explore establishing a shell corp. Mind you, Casey claims to have no money at this point, so see if you can read this without your head exploding:
“I met with two corporate attorneys at a highly respected (and very expensive) law firm today. I ran my idea of borrowing money via my corporation and using the capital for future deals, as well as, borrowing from the corporation to refinance/settle my existing debt.”
Then Casey does some kind of jerky white-boy hip-hop dance because, he says, he’s getting foreclosure fan mail.
By the end of the month, the house on Larchmont goes into a full-blown trustee sale. Casey goes to the courthouse in Sacramento, and bizarrely reports on his own foreclosure: “A cold rainy day at the courthouse steps in downtown Sacramento. The gloominess is a perfect setup for the foreclosure auction of my Larchmont house. At the same time there was a nice freshness in the air and I felt a little bit of excitement/anticipation.”
The excitement and anticipation seem like incredibly misplaced emotions. But Casey Serin believes himself to be bulletproof, remember? But all of this foreclosure talk brings up a very interesting point. Perhaps the Housing Panic blog says it best... Casey Serin loses another one to foreclosure. Where's the cash?
Casey Serin Primer: September, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: October, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: November, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: December, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: January, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: February, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: March, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: April, 2007
A Casey Serin Primer, January 2007
JANUARY, 2007
Casey Serin starts the year by reevaluating his 2006 goals.
"Here are the goals that I measured and degree of success:
• Read through the Bible. Progress: 138 of 1189 chapters (12% success)
• Topical Memory System. Progress: 24 of 60 verses (40% success)
• Jog 365 miles. Progress: 48 miles (13% success)
• Drink 365 cups of freshly squeezed juice. Progress: 190 cups (52% success)
• Gain 10 lb of muscle to be 160 lb. Progress: today’s weight is 150 lb (0% success)
• Buy, fix and flip houses then use the profits to buy enough income property to net $3,000/mo passive income. Progress: $0/mo (0% success)
Other goals/intentions:
• Quit my programmer job at Pride Industries with no consumer debt to become a full time real estate investor (strong success, except the debt)
• Keep track of every dollar (very marginal success)
• Start a blog with one post per daily (moderate success)
• Hold to a loosely vegan diet - primarily plants, no dairy, exceptions: fish and occasional organic eggs/meat/honey (moderate success)
• No alcohol, processed sugar or caffeine (marginal success)
• No microwaved foods (strong success)
• A habit of hot/cold shower in the morning (strong success)
• 30 day challenge to build an early riser habit in December (very marginal success)
Of course, readers’ heads nearly exploded knowing that Casey Serin considered himself to be a “strong success” as a “full-time real estate investor.” Hating goes into overload; Serin’s critics must abandon caffeine to balance themselves out."
The property on Larchmont Dr. in Highlands, CA is approved for short-sale, with the condition that Casey sign a $50,000 promissory note to make up the difference. ($50k is becoming a repeated theme.) Casey does so, reluctantly, but many surmise that he will eventually attempt to file for bankruptcy, so what does he have to lose by signing?
Casey posts his financial spreadsheet online. This opens the door to Galina’s complicity. Far from being an ignorant wife in all of this, Galina Serin has over $26,000 in credit card debt, averaging 30.41% interest, spread over 4 Citibank cards, 3 Chase cards, an HSB card, a Macy’s card and something called “SST.”
Readers wonder, since Casey has been running his mouth so much about keeping Galina’s credit clean through the foreclosure process, why are her interest rates so high? Conversely, Casey Serin, who admits his credit was never stellar, shows interest rates from 12-15%. The spreadsheet also shows that Casey Serin is somehow a whopping $148,000 in unsecured debt.
This of course raises the ire of many. After all, Casey has already admitted that he juiced the equity out of his properties by getting sweet cash back at close. Casey is vague with his readers about the exact numbers, but is more frank in an interview with C. Robert Simpson at the Scotsman Guide.
In that article, Simpson reveals a detail no one else had unearthed: “On six of the properties, he received cash back at closing. The largest check he received was for $50,000. The cash was paid to a bogus company, controlled by a third party. It was then funneled back to Serin. In all other escrows, cash was paid to the seller, then back to Serin after closing.”
In the midst of this, Casey Serin continues to infuriate his readers, stating that his goals for 2007 include “no lying (For Sure!) 2) no money down (?) 3) work part-time (?)” He proves to be incompetent at even the most basic tasks, saying that he had to spend an entire evening opening the mail, as he’s let it build up for so long.
Oblivious to the criticism, others are crazy enough to “sponsor” Serin’s site. Casey Serin announces that “House Buyer Network” and “RealEstateInvestors.tv” The person behind these ventures is Duane LeGate, who will quickly realize what a jackass move it is to have your company associated with a multi-state felon and real estate loser like Casey Serin.
Before getting frustrated with Casey and dropping him like a hot piece of poo, Duane does manage to engage in some schoolyard sniping with Serin. PRlinkBiz makes a reappearance when Casey tries to get her to void their contract, and she files a DMCA complaint over his posting the Rich Dad TV segment on his website. Normally passive Casey is feeling gutsier than normal with LeGate behind him, and the two of them trade online barbs with PRlinkBiz and her partner, Joy O’Day.
The mail keeps stacking up, and Casey starts posting the details of the banal minutae that he ‘works’ so hard at everyday. What it really amounts to is nothing more than paper shuffling, as a fraction of one posts shows: “went back up to my office… and sorted hand-written notes, business cards and January receipts for later processing.”
Salt Lake City mortgage lender Nigel Swaby continues to repeatedly and publicly defend Casey Serin. Most people find it curious that a mortgage lender is publicly and vehemently defending someone who has admitted to multiple mortgage frauds. While other so-called real estate professionals quietly slip out the back door after associating with Casey Serin, Nigel Swaby plows ahead.
Rob at ExUrbanNation points out that Nigel Swaby’s comments make it clear that Casey failed to notify his lender of the earlier all-inclusive trust deed on the property at W 10250 N in Highland, UT.
This would be a big no-no, and Rob says what we’re all thinking: “Does everyone have the same bad feeling when a mortgage broker doesn't see anything wrong with wrapping a mortgage and not telling the lienholder? What if he's telling his clients this on wraps he's brokering? What if thousands of brokers are doing the same?”
This raises Nigel Swaby’s hackles, which will become another repeated theme in the Saga of Casey Serin.
Casey Serin Primer: September, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: October, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: November, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: December, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: January, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: February, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: March, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: April, 2007
Casey Serin starts the year by reevaluating his 2006 goals.
"Here are the goals that I measured and degree of success:
• Read through the Bible. Progress: 138 of 1189 chapters (12% success)
• Topical Memory System. Progress: 24 of 60 verses (40% success)
• Jog 365 miles. Progress: 48 miles (13% success)
• Drink 365 cups of freshly squeezed juice. Progress: 190 cups (52% success)
• Gain 10 lb of muscle to be 160 lb. Progress: today’s weight is 150 lb (0% success)
• Buy, fix and flip houses then use the profits to buy enough income property to net $3,000/mo passive income. Progress: $0/mo (0% success)
Other goals/intentions:
• Quit my programmer job at Pride Industries with no consumer debt to become a full time real estate investor (strong success, except the debt)
• Keep track of every dollar (very marginal success)
• Start a blog with one post per daily (moderate success)
• Hold to a loosely vegan diet - primarily plants, no dairy, exceptions: fish and occasional organic eggs/meat/honey (moderate success)
• No alcohol, processed sugar or caffeine (marginal success)
• No microwaved foods (strong success)
• A habit of hot/cold shower in the morning (strong success)
• 30 day challenge to build an early riser habit in December (very marginal success)
Of course, readers’ heads nearly exploded knowing that Casey Serin considered himself to be a “strong success” as a “full-time real estate investor.” Hating goes into overload; Serin’s critics must abandon caffeine to balance themselves out."
The property on Larchmont Dr. in Highlands, CA is approved for short-sale, with the condition that Casey sign a $50,000 promissory note to make up the difference. ($50k is becoming a repeated theme.) Casey does so, reluctantly, but many surmise that he will eventually attempt to file for bankruptcy, so what does he have to lose by signing?
Casey posts his financial spreadsheet online. This opens the door to Galina’s complicity. Far from being an ignorant wife in all of this, Galina Serin has over $26,000 in credit card debt, averaging 30.41% interest, spread over 4 Citibank cards, 3 Chase cards, an HSB card, a Macy’s card and something called “SST.”
Readers wonder, since Casey has been running his mouth so much about keeping Galina’s credit clean through the foreclosure process, why are her interest rates so high? Conversely, Casey Serin, who admits his credit was never stellar, shows interest rates from 12-15%. The spreadsheet also shows that Casey Serin is somehow a whopping $148,000 in unsecured debt.
This of course raises the ire of many. After all, Casey has already admitted that he juiced the equity out of his properties by getting sweet cash back at close. Casey is vague with his readers about the exact numbers, but is more frank in an interview with C. Robert Simpson at the Scotsman Guide.
In that article, Simpson reveals a detail no one else had unearthed: “On six of the properties, he received cash back at closing. The largest check he received was for $50,000. The cash was paid to a bogus company, controlled by a third party. It was then funneled back to Serin. In all other escrows, cash was paid to the seller, then back to Serin after closing.”
In the midst of this, Casey Serin continues to infuriate his readers, stating that his goals for 2007 include “no lying (For Sure!) 2) no money down (?) 3) work part-time (?)” He proves to be incompetent at even the most basic tasks, saying that he had to spend an entire evening opening the mail, as he’s let it build up for so long.
Oblivious to the criticism, others are crazy enough to “sponsor” Serin’s site. Casey Serin announces that “House Buyer Network” and “RealEstateInvestors.tv” The person behind these ventures is Duane LeGate, who will quickly realize what a jackass move it is to have your company associated with a multi-state felon and real estate loser like Casey Serin.
Before getting frustrated with Casey and dropping him like a hot piece of poo, Duane does manage to engage in some schoolyard sniping with Serin. PRlinkBiz makes a reappearance when Casey tries to get her to void their contract, and she files a DMCA complaint over his posting the Rich Dad TV segment on his website. Normally passive Casey is feeling gutsier than normal with LeGate behind him, and the two of them trade online barbs with PRlinkBiz and her partner, Joy O’Day.
The mail keeps stacking up, and Casey starts posting the details of the banal minutae that he ‘works’ so hard at everyday. What it really amounts to is nothing more than paper shuffling, as a fraction of one posts shows: “went back up to my office… and sorted hand-written notes, business cards and January receipts for later processing.”
Salt Lake City mortgage lender Nigel Swaby continues to repeatedly and publicly defend Casey Serin. Most people find it curious that a mortgage lender is publicly and vehemently defending someone who has admitted to multiple mortgage frauds. While other so-called real estate professionals quietly slip out the back door after associating with Casey Serin, Nigel Swaby plows ahead.
Rob at ExUrbanNation points out that Nigel Swaby’s comments make it clear that Casey failed to notify his lender of the earlier all-inclusive trust deed on the property at W 10250 N in Highland, UT.
This would be a big no-no, and Rob says what we’re all thinking: “Does everyone have the same bad feeling when a mortgage broker doesn't see anything wrong with wrapping a mortgage and not telling the lienholder? What if he's telling his clients this on wraps he's brokering? What if thousands of brokers are doing the same?”
This raises Nigel Swaby’s hackles, which will become another repeated theme in the Saga of Casey Serin.
Casey Serin Primer: September, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: October, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: November, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: December, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: January, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: February, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: March, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: April, 2007
A Casey Serin Primer, December 2006
DECEMBER, 2006
Casey Serin starts the month with the idea that he will stop getting up at noon or later everyday and will start actually rising in the a.m. Trust that this will not happen for long. When he does manage to rise early, he treats himself to some well-deserved (in his mind) Jamba Juice and Starbucks, reminding readers that each drink further bounces his checking account and ultimately costs $37.50.
Casey writes that he and Galina Serin have borrowed an additional $4,000 to cover their slothful asses.
Casey does indeed follow-through on one item this month, and holds a podcast with Jerome Mayne, a convicted mortgage felon. I got the feeling that Casey expected Jerome to hold his hand, but Jerome surprised Sercasey and told him, in no uncertain terms, to collect his paperwork and turn himself in to the FBI in Sacramento.
There is continued talk of houses that can best be summed in this manner: “Waaaah! Banks won’t take a major loss because of my fraud!” “Crap! They were going to let me slide with a (fill in the blank: short sale, deed in lieu, etc.) but I didn’t open the mail until a month later and now they’re not willing to live up to their end of the deal!” Ugh.
At this point, Casey Serin goes back to Phoenix, in a trip that he calls “taking care of some deals.” Readers uncover that this actually means he went off for a week of ultra-pricey real estate “education” through Chris Record’s Nouveau Riche University. Readers jump on the fact that Casey Serin has likely dropped five-figures on yet another guryu seminar, only this one additionally reeks of MLM bullshit.
Casey also starts talk of creating corporate shell companies, in order to secure additional lines of credit ($50,000 is still the goal). Alert readers recall Casey Serin’s history of pyramid schemes, and point out that this will be a shady attempt to hide from, or shuffle, his debt. He mentions Corporation Brokers. This is another red flag to readers, who by now know that Serin only specifically touts a product or service when he believes he’s getting some sweet back-door action.
At this stage, Casey Serin also changes his tune on bankruptcy. While he had been floating some ‘good Christian ideals’ about repaying “every dirty penny,” talk now shifts to “Why Should I NOT File Bankruptcy?” Well, my first thought is because you committed fraud in four states, and BK isn’t designed to protect admitted felons. This is where he starts whining about “I never intended to commit fraud” and the like. Seems he’s read enough google law by now to address the topic of “intent.”
Serin stays in Phoenix for an extra day because, according to him, a local pastor wants him to speak about his financial fuck-ups as a part of his sermon on “God’s love in Hard Times.” The God’s love-in does not prepare Casey Serin to come home to the reality that he and Galina are now “$150,000 in unsecured debt.
To make matters worse, Casey’s blog is dropped from the Google AdSense program, where he says he had been pulling down about $2k a month (knowledge I’m sure his myriad creditors would have liked to have known.)
Casey deserves a break, he tells his readers. He’s off to celebrate the birth of Christ with his and Galina’s families (read: eat free food). He tells the blogosphere that, because he is so deserving of this “break” that “Spreadsheets and updates on properties will have to wait.”
He returns from his Christmas break to infuriate his readers with the headline “Wells Fargo Stole $1,000 From Me.” According to Casey’s spreadsheets, he had opened an extensive line of credit through Wells Fargo. Not receiving payments on their generous loans, Wells Fargo daringly deducted payment from Casey Serin’s checking account. The nerve!
In typical Casey Serin fashion, he will later close the account to keep his multiple lenders from touching any of “his” money.
Casey Serin Primer: September, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: October, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: November, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: December, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: January, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: February, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: March, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: April, 2007
Casey Serin starts the month with the idea that he will stop getting up at noon or later everyday and will start actually rising in the a.m. Trust that this will not happen for long. When he does manage to rise early, he treats himself to some well-deserved (in his mind) Jamba Juice and Starbucks, reminding readers that each drink further bounces his checking account and ultimately costs $37.50.
Casey writes that he and Galina Serin have borrowed an additional $4,000 to cover their slothful asses.
Casey does indeed follow-through on one item this month, and holds a podcast with Jerome Mayne, a convicted mortgage felon. I got the feeling that Casey expected Jerome to hold his hand, but Jerome surprised Sercasey and told him, in no uncertain terms, to collect his paperwork and turn himself in to the FBI in Sacramento.
There is continued talk of houses that can best be summed in this manner: “Waaaah! Banks won’t take a major loss because of my fraud!” “Crap! They were going to let me slide with a (fill in the blank: short sale, deed in lieu, etc.) but I didn’t open the mail until a month later and now they’re not willing to live up to their end of the deal!” Ugh.
At this point, Casey Serin goes back to Phoenix, in a trip that he calls “taking care of some deals.” Readers uncover that this actually means he went off for a week of ultra-pricey real estate “education” through Chris Record’s Nouveau Riche University. Readers jump on the fact that Casey Serin has likely dropped five-figures on yet another guryu seminar, only this one additionally reeks of MLM bullshit.
Casey also starts talk of creating corporate shell companies, in order to secure additional lines of credit ($50,000 is still the goal). Alert readers recall Casey Serin’s history of pyramid schemes, and point out that this will be a shady attempt to hide from, or shuffle, his debt. He mentions Corporation Brokers. This is another red flag to readers, who by now know that Serin only specifically touts a product or service when he believes he’s getting some sweet back-door action.
At this stage, Casey Serin also changes his tune on bankruptcy. While he had been floating some ‘good Christian ideals’ about repaying “every dirty penny,” talk now shifts to “Why Should I NOT File Bankruptcy?” Well, my first thought is because you committed fraud in four states, and BK isn’t designed to protect admitted felons. This is where he starts whining about “I never intended to commit fraud” and the like. Seems he’s read enough google law by now to address the topic of “intent.”
Serin stays in Phoenix for an extra day because, according to him, a local pastor wants him to speak about his financial fuck-ups as a part of his sermon on “God’s love in Hard Times.” The God’s love-in does not prepare Casey Serin to come home to the reality that he and Galina are now “$150,000 in unsecured debt.
To make matters worse, Casey’s blog is dropped from the Google AdSense program, where he says he had been pulling down about $2k a month (knowledge I’m sure his myriad creditors would have liked to have known.)
Casey deserves a break, he tells his readers. He’s off to celebrate the birth of Christ with his and Galina’s families (read: eat free food). He tells the blogosphere that, because he is so deserving of this “break” that “Spreadsheets and updates on properties will have to wait.”
He returns from his Christmas break to infuriate his readers with the headline “Wells Fargo Stole $1,000 From Me.” According to Casey’s spreadsheets, he had opened an extensive line of credit through Wells Fargo. Not receiving payments on their generous loans, Wells Fargo daringly deducted payment from Casey Serin’s checking account. The nerve!
In typical Casey Serin fashion, he will later close the account to keep his multiple lenders from touching any of “his” money.
Casey Serin Primer: September, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: October, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: November, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: December, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: January, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: February, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: March, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: April, 2007
A Casey Serin Primer, November 2006
NOVEMBER, 2006
Casey Serin returns from Phoenix, where he appeared on Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad TV and annihilated the rare supporter he had, PRLinkBiz. He appears on a couple of net-radio interviews. Readers, growing increasingly frustrated with Casey Serin and his attitude toward work and money, dig up a pyramid scheme that he ran under his father’s name, Aleskey Serin, when he was a mere 14 years old. This speaks volumes about the man-child and solidifies his critics’ view of Casey Serin, established criminal and con artist.
This view of Casey Serin is exacerbated by the fact that a fellow blogger reveals that Casey has been sending out fraudmails to his email list, asking them to become private investors in his real estate “empire” and promising 24% returns on their investments. One of the recipients of this email was Ramit Sethi, of IWillTeachYouToBeRich, who reveals that he went to high school with Casey Serin, and explains how angry he was to receive such scammail from him.
He spends 18 hours crafting a response to PRLinkBiz, describing his side of the story. What comes out is typical Casey Serin--unable to make decisions, unable to stick to anything. He posts that he has formally asked PRLinkBiz to void the contract that he signed, which he expects her to do out of some bizarre sympathy for his dumb ass.
Casey Serin starts whining about money, saying “Man, I Need A Real Job or Something.” This, of course, will not happen. Instead, he and wife Galina Serin buy a used car, sans inspection…a typical Casey Serin move. When they do have it inspected, the V-dubs will turn out to be yet another Serin white elephant, with some serious work that needs to be done.
To assuage his depression and desperation, Casey Serin makes a couple of videos that he posts on YouTube.
A potential short sale on Larchmont Dr. in North Highlands, CA starts to sour. Casey Serin had purchased the house for $330,000 (100% financing, $264,000 first note, $66,000 second). The broker valuation comes in at $260,000. Casey whines that this lender is “playing hardball” by not taking either the $220,000 offer on the table (which is rapidly decreasing to $180,000 as the buyer gets nervous about the neighborhood) or $150,000 from an all-cash ‘investor.’
His realtor suggests that the bank might take one of the offers, if he signs a promissory note to make up the difference. Casey Serin says, “But, I’m not sure if I want to take on any additional debt.” So much for his moral obligations about repaying “every dirty penny,” which has become both a catchphrase and a haterz drinking game.
Zack, the real estate investor from Land Mark Property Solutions of San Francisco Bay Area is trying to help Casey do a short sale on the Burdett property. Frequent readers are alert to the fact that there’s usually something dodgy going on when Casey Serin plugs anyone by name, so don’t take the news seriously.
Casey announces that he got a job in real estate. This is the Chris Record connection. He offered Casey Serin a job that, according to Casey, “meets my criteria!” Readers know this to mean, basically, sitting on his ass doing nothing. Casey Serin introduces Chris as “a fellow real estate investor here in the Sacramento area. He is a young guy too - in his late 20’s - but is kicking butt in real estate.”
Casey goes into a college classroom to speak about his stellar career in real estate. Why this ever happened is beyond me.
There are repeated and continued half-assed efforts to short-sale Larchmont and Burdett properties. As per his usual, Casey Serin conducts the transactions at arms-length, relying on his realtors to handle the details as he himself still cannot even open the mail in a timely manner.
Casey posts a screenshot of his bank account, which Galina quickly freaks out about. He pulls it down, but not before his readers are able to see that he and his wife repeatedly use their debit cards for Jamba Juice and Starbucks purchases that bounce. This infuriates readers further, who note that, with their added overdraft fees, each drink costs the Serin couple $37.50.
Casey starts playing for sympathy, by going the ‘glass half-full’ route, remarking that he is “thankful for facing foreclosure” and citing scripture. Readers dry-heave in response.
He then trys to explain that he’s not such a dick, after all, because the real reason he won’t rent out his properties to stem the cash flow bleeding is because he finds a moral problem with the fact that the renters might have to move quickly in light of foreclosures. He then reveals his real reason, which is that he’s afraid potential tenants won’t pay their rent. I guess if you’re Casey Serin and you have the approach to money and contracts that he does, that seems like a very real possibility.
There is further crazy talk about somehow borrowing $50k to bring the loans current, which Casey Serin estimates is about $15,000 per house. He is delusional enough to think that, even though no one will buy the houses at this stage, he can somehow pad the sale price to reflect the borrowed monies as well, thus putting the responsibility for the borrowed $50k on potential home buyers.
Casey Serin is a total fruitcake at this point, talking about “I should borrow a little bit of extra money so that I can invest into additional marketing.” It’s actually funny. Another brilliant scheme is to sell raffle tickets to unload the New Mexico property.
November’s media wrap-up includes Casey Serin on CNBC, and he announces that he will hold a podcast with convicted mortgage felon Jerome Mayne, who served a 21-month prison sentence for mortgage fraud and is now the president of Fraudcon, Inc.
Casey Serin Primer: September, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: October, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: November, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: December, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: January, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: February, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: March, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: April, 2007
Casey Serin returns from Phoenix, where he appeared on Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad TV and annihilated the rare supporter he had, PRLinkBiz. He appears on a couple of net-radio interviews. Readers, growing increasingly frustrated with Casey Serin and his attitude toward work and money, dig up a pyramid scheme that he ran under his father’s name, Aleskey Serin, when he was a mere 14 years old. This speaks volumes about the man-child and solidifies his critics’ view of Casey Serin, established criminal and con artist.
This view of Casey Serin is exacerbated by the fact that a fellow blogger reveals that Casey has been sending out fraudmails to his email list, asking them to become private investors in his real estate “empire” and promising 24% returns on their investments. One of the recipients of this email was Ramit Sethi, of IWillTeachYouToBeRich, who reveals that he went to high school with Casey Serin, and explains how angry he was to receive such scammail from him.
He spends 18 hours crafting a response to PRLinkBiz, describing his side of the story. What comes out is typical Casey Serin--unable to make decisions, unable to stick to anything. He posts that he has formally asked PRLinkBiz to void the contract that he signed, which he expects her to do out of some bizarre sympathy for his dumb ass.
Casey Serin starts whining about money, saying “Man, I Need A Real Job or Something.” This, of course, will not happen. Instead, he and wife Galina Serin buy a used car, sans inspection…a typical Casey Serin move. When they do have it inspected, the V-dubs will turn out to be yet another Serin white elephant, with some serious work that needs to be done.
To assuage his depression and desperation, Casey Serin makes a couple of videos that he posts on YouTube.
A potential short sale on Larchmont Dr. in North Highlands, CA starts to sour. Casey Serin had purchased the house for $330,000 (100% financing, $264,000 first note, $66,000 second). The broker valuation comes in at $260,000. Casey whines that this lender is “playing hardball” by not taking either the $220,000 offer on the table (which is rapidly decreasing to $180,000 as the buyer gets nervous about the neighborhood) or $150,000 from an all-cash ‘investor.’
His realtor suggests that the bank might take one of the offers, if he signs a promissory note to make up the difference. Casey Serin says, “But, I’m not sure if I want to take on any additional debt.” So much for his moral obligations about repaying “every dirty penny,” which has become both a catchphrase and a haterz drinking game.
Zack, the real estate investor from Land Mark Property Solutions of San Francisco Bay Area is trying to help Casey do a short sale on the Burdett property. Frequent readers are alert to the fact that there’s usually something dodgy going on when Casey Serin plugs anyone by name, so don’t take the news seriously.
Casey announces that he got a job in real estate. This is the Chris Record connection. He offered Casey Serin a job that, according to Casey, “meets my criteria!” Readers know this to mean, basically, sitting on his ass doing nothing. Casey Serin introduces Chris as “a fellow real estate investor here in the Sacramento area. He is a young guy too - in his late 20’s - but is kicking butt in real estate.”
Casey goes into a college classroom to speak about his stellar career in real estate. Why this ever happened is beyond me.
There are repeated and continued half-assed efforts to short-sale Larchmont and Burdett properties. As per his usual, Casey Serin conducts the transactions at arms-length, relying on his realtors to handle the details as he himself still cannot even open the mail in a timely manner.
Casey posts a screenshot of his bank account, which Galina quickly freaks out about. He pulls it down, but not before his readers are able to see that he and his wife repeatedly use their debit cards for Jamba Juice and Starbucks purchases that bounce. This infuriates readers further, who note that, with their added overdraft fees, each drink costs the Serin couple $37.50.
Casey starts playing for sympathy, by going the ‘glass half-full’ route, remarking that he is “thankful for facing foreclosure” and citing scripture. Readers dry-heave in response.
He then trys to explain that he’s not such a dick, after all, because the real reason he won’t rent out his properties to stem the cash flow bleeding is because he finds a moral problem with the fact that the renters might have to move quickly in light of foreclosures. He then reveals his real reason, which is that he’s afraid potential tenants won’t pay their rent. I guess if you’re Casey Serin and you have the approach to money and contracts that he does, that seems like a very real possibility.
There is further crazy talk about somehow borrowing $50k to bring the loans current, which Casey Serin estimates is about $15,000 per house. He is delusional enough to think that, even though no one will buy the houses at this stage, he can somehow pad the sale price to reflect the borrowed monies as well, thus putting the responsibility for the borrowed $50k on potential home buyers.
Casey Serin is a total fruitcake at this point, talking about “I should borrow a little bit of extra money so that I can invest into additional marketing.” It’s actually funny. Another brilliant scheme is to sell raffle tickets to unload the New Mexico property.
November’s media wrap-up includes Casey Serin on CNBC, and he announces that he will hold a podcast with convicted mortgage felon Jerome Mayne, who served a 21-month prison sentence for mortgage fraud and is now the president of Fraudcon, Inc.
Casey Serin Primer: September, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: October, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: November, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: December, 2006
Casey Serin Primer: January, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: February, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: March, 2007
Casey Serin Primer: April, 2007
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