Housing Bubble, credit bubble, public planning, land use, zoning and transportation in the exurban environment. Specific criticism of smart growth, neotradtional, forms based, new urbanism and other top down planner schemes to increase urban extent and density. Ventura County, California specific examples.
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Homey's Day Job Revealed
55 comments:
Anonymous
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Several days ago, I commented at IAFF suggesting that Casey change his anti-spam words to stuff like win-win, sweet, looser, etc. He deleted my comment, but then goes ahead and changes the anti-spam words. What the hell? He hasn't let any of at least the last three of my comments through. I haven't been particularly obnoxious. I get the feeling my IP is on some kind of auto-delete list.
One of the best uses of EN is to post the comments here that Casey moderrates out. Some people have jusy gotten into the habit posting both places. It's one of the reasons I put up the occassional "junk post" to give people a place to save their comments that other blogs censor. If it gets to enough people I can pick a blog of the week o flood with comments. Greg Swann anf John Lockwood come to mind a nd of course Nigel.
it really seems like Nigel is losing his patience with Casey. At this point Casey is so far out there all of his supporters are jumping ship. Read Yneone's comments lately?
No I haven't. But assuming that he just posted "fan mail" I'm thinking that the last of his non-detractors are drying up. Everyone except that milliondollarjourney guy who's just posting to get cheap plugs.
Actually, Rob, if you're reading this, where's that subpoena? I got all excited when you threatened me with a legal smackdown after I had the temerity to call you a troll who's only pretending to be a Casey fan for comic effect, but it's been a huge anticlimax so far.
Huh. I just did a quick search on IAFF (haven't sat and read through comments there is a while) and realized yneone is GONE. Wow. Is there some Casey fan site some place where yneone posts to herself all day? I bet yneone was a created identity meant to entice more hate, thus more posting.
"I'm telling you, this guy is a more slippery snake than you all think.
Much, much more slippery.
And the whole blog is designed to try to show that he didn't have an intent to defraud.
That and he wants to rub all your faces in it.
"should I go to jail?"
ha. Go ahead and try to get him there. That's his mantra."
So maybe he's complimenting his slipperiness. Or his ability to get away with it thus far. But it doesn't sound as supportive as before. But he is a Greg Swann type believer that there was no bubble/is no crash. *puts fingers in ears* "lalalalala I can't hear you!!"
At this point this place is the closest thing to a fan site he's got left. I've never seen somebody thrown so many life preservers only to toss them away. Even the title of IAFF is "Getting Saved" not "Saving Myself"
When the luck runs out, When the tank is empty, when the well runs dry, when the good will is completely gone, then and only then will things get batshit crazy in his life.
His moderation has become glacial again. His assistant moderators are as incompetent and lazy as he is.
His content has become generally off-topic - i.e. focused on everything except RE / foreclosure status. - fan mail - 'I haven't failed' - pictures making fun of him (stolen from other sites)
His RE content is boring and delusional - corporate credit - 'great things are coming'
He's become boring, predictable and is just recycling his old material and trolls.
I see him as a slightly retarded kid dressed in dad's clothes, standing in front of a mirror, pretending to be a tycoon.
Very accurate. Walking around in the sunglasses with the expensive cell phone super-glued to his hand. Shuffling papers on his desk. Attempting to project the graceful handling of pressure, when in fact there is no pressure at all. He knows it's over and he's already thinking about what's next (without thinking about how what's already happened will affect it).
Mr. Serin, Rude awakening in Aisle 3. Go grab your mop and bucket.
I believe the moderator that he is using is starting to see the kind of email that Casey has been hiding, the ones that call him on all his misdeeds and show him for the snake that he really is. The moderator is probably realizing that he is dealing with someone who is a criminal, and that he too will proabably called on as a witness or even be found guilty by association. As for yneone, I have 2 guesses about what happened to her 1) They finally stopped her computer priviledges at the 'institution' 2) She is finally taking her meds.
Actually interesting take on the moderator. They have more insight into what's really going on than anyone of us. Plus they deal with this foolish little prick daily. Or rather they were. For about one day. How does Casey know the moderator isn't going to come over here and do a "best of" posts that didn't get through?
@TK My guess is that it is Nigel, and I swear, the undying blind loyalty of that guy, in the old days, if Casey was going to be hanged, they would have to put up a separate noose right next to Casey's ass for Nigel's head which would undoubtedly be there.
Casey talked the poor guy or gal into "helping" him moderate the site. But once they started, they found out they were the only "helper", and that "help me" means "do it for me". The moderator either didn't realize how much time it takes to moderate what is probably over 200 comments/day, or thought they wouldn't be doing it alone, and they are trying to distance themselves now.
I commented a while back that if he wanted help moderating, he should pick at least four people who could be objective, make up some basic rules about what can or can't be posted, and then take his hands off and let it go. He of course deleted it. Moderating that site is too much for one person with a life.
I forget, maybe Nov he accidentially turned off moderation for one post and let the comments run for a couple hours. It was horrifying. Scatological death treats, words I don't even use, vile filthy disgusting. Anatomically improbable contortions, gender bending propositions, you name it. Wish I had saved it.
If people ask Casey a question enough times, he eventually answers. I've been posting under the name "Alexis" begging him to explain what he does all day. He has at the very least acknowleged the question, although I'm still trying to get details out of him.
I think we need to band together and get him to explain how he got an appraisal for $50k over the market price on Larchmont. See post #54. Let's all reiterate that and see if we can get him to answer.
Is Galina pronounced more like "Irene" or "whiney"?
I've had the idea that it's the latter, that yneone is Galina.
"Case" pulls her into this Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous fantasy, takes her to Hawaii, has her help with the business, then graciously starts doing all the "work" himself so she can go back to school.
He's keeping something from her. Not just a little, a lot! They're not communicating well. She starts reading his blog.
She begins to be afraid that the haters might be right. Then with a sick feeling in her stomach, she knows they are. He lied to the banks, he's been lying to her. He signed the PRLink deal because Erin used her female powers of persuasion.
"Work" means blogging.
She begins writing, carefully at first; she doesn't want to let him know she knows.
But then, as the fights became more frequent, daily, until communication has almost completely broken down, she no longer cares whether he knows. She's been to see the divorce lawyer and her exit is planned; it's just a question of when. Bitter, hurt, she pokes at him the way the rest of the world does, in the comments on his blog.
More confused than ever. So Case, you borrow money to pay off the debt, then your in the hole for the loan plus any interest? What are the terms of this agreement? Smells fishy to me. It almost sounds like a stall tactic. You’ll get out of the current situation only to deal with the new one. Just doesnt sound right.
I think you are right DSW, now that I think about it, it would seem to be Galina. Also, note how she used the word fishy (who the feck uses that anymore) didn't Galina herself use that? "I don't want any fishy business"
I'm leaving out her special note since it is obviously crypted from a decoder ring, I'm thinking lil orphan annie.
Unfortunately, Casey doesn't even realize that despite all the deedings etc that he had Galina do so that she could get her name off the hook, he doesn't seem to realize that California is a community state, and that she is still responsible for all debt, no matter what the hell he does to protect her. Legally, the lenders credit cards etc can still go after her if they wish to, even if he did sign a post nup.
My god - I just looked at pictures of Larchmont on his flikr account. What a dump! What did he do with the cash back? He couldn't have spent more than a few hundred on this place:
Jade, nobody knows what happened to the money. I do know that Casey is clearly Gen Y have it all now raised on the Tube. They watch Design on a Dime and Sell that House and House Flippers on HGTV and think it takes a half hour or a weekend or seven days for those things to happen. They get a soy milk from the kitchen and when they come back the new carpet is already installed.
The pictures of the Larmont property show just how pathetic Casey really is. If he spent one or two days working hard to clean the property he could vastly improve his chances of selling. Neither of those properties look all that bad, they just need to be cleaned. That's too much work for him though. His mind skips to "I need to outsource this to my wonderful team of professional remodlers." What a fraking chump. These pictures show his complete disconnect with reality. No one in his or her right mind would even think of making an offer on these properties in this condition.
@king friday: "I predict the san andreas will eurpt. 8.0 mag earthquake."
For the sake of those of us who actually live near the fault in question, I really hope you're wrong.
Besides, if you'll look at this map, you'll notice that the San Andreas fault is too far away from Sacto or Modesto to serve the purpose. Something on the San Joaquin fault, though.....
@ Jade You're not typical. The generations have been getting more and more wussified since the 1940's. None of us has ever had to deal with real hardship and we make things even easier on our kids. Then the cycle repeats. At the rate we're going, the kids of Generation Xers and Yers won't be able to dress themselves until they're 30. I know 35 year old people who still run home to Mommy and Daddy when things go wrong. I would kill myself first.
We're living in a convenience bubble that may or may not have recently popped. I think it's becoming clear that the good times are over, and that we'll never have it as easy as our parents did. Yet we grew up pampered relative to previous generations and are thus as a generation poorly prepared to handle the challenge.
As a Gen X-er I agree wholeheartedly with your comments. However, the problem is that there are still enough people pulling the cart so to speak while others like Casey are sitting back and enjoying the ride. Some are enjoying the ride through circumstance and others like Casey want to enjoy the ride without effort all the while dreaming of "sweet deals".
I'm gen X too, and yeah, we need to lose the freeloaders. Hopefully, tightened lending standards will take care of the Caseys.
I'm a little more worried about the fate of the cart pullers though. In the current corporate environment where it's deemed ok to outsource every job they can overseas, cut benefits, shift to contract labor, and cut jobs every time they need to inflate their stock price, what are we all going to do when we get old? You can't hitch yourself to a company anymore, it's every man for himself. It seems like if you don't start investing in your 20's, you're doomed.
Ok, I guess I'm being kind of gloom and doom today. I'll turn the pessimism down a notch (to 11).
Here's my plan to financial freedom: no kids. I'll invest the money that would otherwise be going down their little Playstation-addicted gullets. (I may reconsider this position if they ever invent babies that don't crap themselves.) That way, I can retire wealthy, bitter, and lonely and lurk in chatrooms occasionally having breakdowns and threatening to "fuck you all dead."
Ba-dum-dum. A little Tim MBA humor there for added flava.
I don't believe there is a moderator helping him, any more than I believe he has any intentions of paying off any of his debt with honest money. I think it's yet another excuse for his lack of moderation - on one had he acts like we're this happy smiley audience that can't wait for his next nuggest of genius, on the other he treats his audience like shit, attacking them and ignoring them for sometimes days.
As for the future...I'm glad I'm single with no kids. Most of the time, I feel that the future in not one to want to raise kids in, if this housing bubble bursts anywhere even close to worst case scenario, it's going to be very ugly for a very long time.
I set out a couple years ago to get financially stable, get out of debt, and stopped aquiring "stuff", because I was getting mired down in bills, debt, and crap I did'nt want or need, and realized how much money i wasted on it all. Now I'm stripped down, can walk away from any luxuries like cable or internet access, and can go anywhere. Hopefully it'll be okay, but I have my doubts, with the growth of Islam and the hatred the extremists teach, the incompetancy of the US government and their inability to protect us, and their encouragment of illegal aliens to come here and leech off us, and the insane ricky lending the banks did for housing, drunk on profits and bonuses.
I've never been a pessimist or scare-monger, if you knew me you'd be shocked I was writing this, but this is deep, secret in my head stuff that I only feel safe talking about anonymously. I just think the next 10-20 years for the globe are going to be bloody and pure hell for those trying to survive it. The things I see scare the hell out of me...like Isreal asking for permission to bomb Iran. How does Iran respond to that? They (the Iranian leadership) are batshit nuts. They could unleash suicide bombers HERE if Isreal takes away their nuclear toys.
It's hard to even remember L'il Casey and his theiving ways when you look at what's going down on the world stage. Fanatical Islamists are everywhere in every country. The middle class and their wealth in this country are being bled dry and killed off by a small few. There's already unrest in the major cities, and if the welfare pipe is cut off ANY, even a percentage, because of a depression, there will be rioting and looting in the rich neighborhoods.
It might be time to start looking at land in Alaska, or far Canada, far, far away from major cities. No need to leave this continent, it will get ugly everywhere else, too - and it's harder to own guns elsewhere, too. That might be what decides your fate, if the forces that are building are unleashed.
I'm NOT a tin-foil hat type. I'm not. But I don't like what I'm seeing.
Anonymous 3:10 PM, My sentiments exactly. Jade, it might be interesting to collect all of Yneone's special notes and string them together into a nonsensical poem of sorts. Cased! I also don’t understand why having a job is such a bad thing. If one likes what one does and has tolerable coworkers, it can actually be somewhat enjoyable. Plus there is the added benefit of providing a certain degree of structure to one’s life.
Yneone is Casey. Think about it...the term FISHY being used by Casey and I bet he paraphrased her comments using his terminology.
You guys have all said how bipolar Casey is. Why couldn't the yneone be another of his personalities? I don't believe for one second ANYBODY outside of good ol' Nigel Smarmy cares about Casey THAT much.
Actually, the Iranian leadership is a lot saner and more calculating than the propaganda would have you believe. In many ways, Ahmadinejad's comments are similar to blogosphere trolling - he says things to provoke a reaction, and is thrilled when he gets it.
It's also symptomatic of a constant internal power struggle between the politicians and the mullahs, which is why Ahmadinejad needs to be seen to be asserting himself every so often.
But it's crucial to note that for all the sabre-rattling Iran has not taken aggressive military action against a single other state in the entire three decades of the Islamic republic's existence. And I genuinely don't think that it will: there really is no conceivable motive (especially as Iran is overwhelmingly the beneficiary of Bush's Iraq adventure).
They could unleash suicide bombers HERE if Isreal takes away their nuclear toys.
And invite massively disproportionate retaliation in response, if there was even the slightest possibility that such actions could be traced back to the Iranian regime. After all, Bush is quite happy to invade countries with NO documented connection to terrorist acts on US soil.
I missed the "meltdown" that Tim MBA is supposed to have had. What's that about? Did it happen here or at IAFF?
[FYI, I agree that working does provide structure to life. Not everyone needs that structure, but most do. That's why I always took Tim MBA's comments about the joys of holing up in his house for days on end at his computer with more than the proverbial grain of salt.
[That's also why it's really important to have work that you like, that fully engages your mind, that pays well, that you don't have to drive 2 friggin' hours to get to each day, and that doesn't drain the life out of you. Not easy to find, but it's out there.
[If soul-and-life draining work were the only option available, the life of passive income would, no contest, be positively glorious by comparison.
[PS: not a landlord here, so would someone clear something up: "passive income" in the RE context is not really passive, is it? Either you outsource property management and pay a large part of your profits for that, or you get suckered into badgering tenants for their rent checks and fixing toilets at 2 AM. My brother, a reformed landlord, found his life being screwed by whiny voicemails from asshole tenants.
So, "passive income" in the RE club that Casey wanted to join is not quite the same as "passive income" from a bunch of US Treasuries or Microsoft dividends, no? Where you simply have to open the checks each quarter? I mean, shit, even granting that Casey's scheme was not ongoing RE ownership and property management, but "fix n flip", there's still a lot of work to be done there, no?]
55 comments:
Several days ago, I commented at IAFF suggesting that Casey change his anti-spam words to stuff like win-win, sweet, looser, etc. He deleted my comment, but then goes ahead and changes the anti-spam words. What the hell? He hasn't let any of at least the last three of my comments through. I haven't been particularly obnoxious. I get the feeling my IP is on some kind of auto-delete list.
One of the best uses of EN is to post the comments here that Casey moderrates out. Some people have jusy gotten into the habit posting both places. It's one of the reasons I put up the occassional "junk post" to give people a place to save their comments that other blogs censor. If it gets to enough people I can pick a blog of the week o flood with comments. Greg Swann anf John Lockwood come to mind a nd of course Nigel.
it really seems like Nigel is losing his patience with Casey. At this point Casey is so far out there all of his supporters are jumping ship. Read Yneone's comments lately?
No I haven't. But assuming that he just posted "fan mail" I'm thinking that the last of his non-detractors are drying up. Everyone except that milliondollarjourney guy who's just posting to get cheap plugs.
Yeah, but RobBBB's still rooting for him.
Actually, Rob, if you're reading this, where's that subpoena? I got all excited when you threatened me with a legal smackdown after I had the temerity to call you a troll who's only pretending to be a Casey fan for comic effect, but it's been a huge anticlimax so far.
@Jade
Huh. I just did a quick search on IAFF (haven't sat and read through comments there is a while) and realized yneone is GONE. Wow. Is there some Casey fan site some place where yneone posts to herself all day? I bet yneone was a created identity meant to entice more hate, thus more posting.
Miguel,
Rob BBB's last post read:
"I'm telling you, this guy is a more slippery snake than you all think.
Much, much more slippery.
And the whole blog is designed to try to show that he didn't have an intent to defraud.
That and he wants to rub all your faces in it.
"should I go to jail?"
ha. Go ahead and try to get him there. That's his mantra."
So maybe he's complimenting his slipperiness. Or his ability to get away with it thus far. But it doesn't sound as supportive as before. But he is a Greg Swann type believer that there was no bubble/is no crash. *puts fingers in ears* "lalalalala I can't hear you!!"
At this point this place is the closest thing to a fan site he's got left. I've never seen somebody thrown so many life preservers only to toss them away. Even the title of IAFF is "Getting Saved" not "Saving Myself"
Dawg,
Maybe it'll snow in Sacramento on Monday morning.
These are the kinds of breaks he gets.
When the luck runs out,
When the tank is empty,
when the well runs dry,
when the good will is completely gone, then and only then will things get batshit crazy in his life.
His moderation has become glacial again. His assistant moderators are as incompetent and lazy as he is.
His content has become generally off-topic - i.e. focused on everything except RE / foreclosure status.
- fan mail
- 'I haven't failed'
- pictures making fun of him (stolen from other sites)
His RE content is boring and delusional
- corporate credit
- 'great things are coming'
He's become boring, predictable and is just recycling his old material and trolls.
I see him as a slightly retarded kid dressed in dad's clothes, standing in front of a mirror, pretending to be a tycoon.
Pretend Tycoon = "Would be real estate mogul"
Very accurate. Walking around in the sunglasses with the expensive cell phone super-glued to his hand. Shuffling papers on his desk. Attempting to project the graceful handling of pressure, when in fact there is no pressure at all. He knows it's over and he's already thinking about what's next (without thinking about how what's already happened will affect it).
Mr. Serin, Rude awakening in Aisle 3. Go grab your mop and bucket.
Just so long as I don't have to be in the same room as Casey when he is "juicing" a deal.
Sounds icky.
I believe the moderator that he is using is starting to see the kind of email that Casey has been hiding, the ones that call him on all his misdeeds and show him for the snake that he really is. The moderator is probably realizing that he is dealing with someone who is a criminal, and that he too will proabably called on as a witness or even be found guilty by association. As for yneone, I have 2 guesses about what happened to her
1) They finally stopped her computer priviledges at the 'institution'
2) She is finally taking her meds.
Actually interesting take on the moderator. They have more insight into what's really going on than anyone of us. Plus they deal with this foolish little prick daily. Or rather they were. For about one day. How does Casey know the moderator isn't going to come over here and do a "best of" posts that didn't get through?
@TK
My guess is that it is Nigel, and I swear, the undying blind loyalty of that guy, in the old days, if Casey was going to be hanged, they would have to put up a separate noose right next to Casey's ass for Nigel's head which would undoubtedly be there.
My 2 cents on the moderator:
Casey talked the poor guy or gal into "helping" him moderate the site. But once they started, they found out they were the only "helper", and that "help me" means "do it for me". The moderator either didn't realize how much time it takes to moderate what is probably over 200 comments/day, or thought they wouldn't be doing it alone, and they are trying to distance themselves now.
I commented a while back that if he wanted help moderating, he should pick at least four people who could be objective, make up some basic rules about what can or can't be posted, and then take his hands off and let it go. He of course deleted it. Moderating that site is too much for one person with a life.
yneone still posts - the search function on IAFF doesn't work right.
Check out post 157.
http://iamfacingforeclosure.com/163/attorneys-say-corporate-credit-is-ok-need-a-plan/#comments
And what is WITH her special notes?
Special Note: jeptjranimroe
Jade,
It's either:
1. She's an illuminati.
2. She watched the Da Vinci Code too many times.
3. She's crazy.
4. She's retarded.
My money is on a combination of 2,3, and 4.
I forget, maybe Nov he accidentially turned off moderation for one post and let the comments run for a couple hours. It was horrifying. Scatological death treats, words I don't even use, vile filthy disgusting. Anatomically improbable contortions, gender bending propositions, you name it. Wish I had saved it.
If people ask Casey a question enough times, he eventually answers. I've been posting under the name "Alexis" begging him to explain what he does all day. He has at the very least acknowleged the question, although I'm still trying to get details out of him.
I think we need to band together and get him to explain how he got an appraisal for $50k over the market price on Larchmont. See post #54. Let's all reiterate that and see if we can get him to answer.
Yeah I think it's pretty telling that you have Mod/off and things stay generally normal (as long as Tim from Monterey Bay isn't drinking).
Is Galina pronounced more like "Irene" or "whiney"?
I've had the idea that it's the latter, that yneone is Galina.
"Case" pulls her into this Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous fantasy, takes her to Hawaii, has her help with the business, then graciously starts doing all the
"work" himself so she can go back to school.
He's keeping something from her. Not just a little, a lot! They're not communicating well. She starts reading his blog.
She begins to be afraid that the haters might be right. Then with a sick feeling in her stomach, she knows they are. He lied to the banks, he's been lying to her. He signed the PRLink deal because Erin used her female powers of persuasion.
"Work" means blogging.
She begins writing, carefully at first; she doesn't want to let him know she knows.
But then, as the fights became more frequent, daily, until communication has almost completely broken down, she no longer cares whether he knows. She's been to see the divorce lawyer and her exit is planned; it's just a question of when. Bitter, hurt, she pokes at him the way the rest of the world does, in the comments on his blog.
Jade said...
yneone still posts - the search function on IAFF doesn't work right.
Check out post 157.
http://iamfacingforeclosure.com/163/attorneys-say-corporate-credit-is-ok-need-a-plan/#comments
And what is WITH her special notes?
Special notes
I think we just may have unmasked Nigel's super secret agent.
@dsw
Yneone
More confused than ever. So Case, you borrow money to pay off the debt, then your in the hole for the loan plus any interest? What are the terms of this agreement? Smells fishy to me. It almost sounds like a stall tactic. You’ll get out of the current situation only to deal with the new one. Just doesnt sound right.
I think you are right DSW, now that I think about it, it would seem to be Galina. Also, note how she used the word fishy (who the feck uses that anymore) didn't Galina herself use that? "I don't want any fishy business"
I'm leaving out her special note since it is obviously crypted from a decoder ring, I'm thinking lil orphan annie.
If Galina is smart she'll convince Casey to sign a post-nup making him solely responsible for all debts incurred during their marriage.
If not, she's going to be on the hook for half of it all if they divorce.
Teehee.
@Jade
Unfortunately, Casey doesn't even realize that despite all the deedings etc that he had Galina do so that she could get her name off the hook, he doesn't seem to realize that California is a community state, and that she is still responsible for all debt, no matter what the hell he does to protect her. Legally, the lenders credit cards etc can still go after her if they wish to, even if he did sign a post nup.
Oh, and when I try to imagine the dynamic when Casey and Galina fight ...
He can't call her a "hater", that would be too strong. But how about accusing her of being a "whiner?"
@dsw
I'd like to think it is more in the lines of
"Galina, you are acting very non organic "
or even worse
"Galina, the way you are acting, I'd have to say that you are not exactly ripe for juicing, I think you may need more massaging"
eewwww, that brought back some images from a previous post.
Ewww, Galina, your "deals" don't taste as sweet as they used to. Don't the "wheat shots" do it for you anymore?
man, its 1330 and I haven't done a single thing today. I feel like a slug. How does Casey do this every day?
@Jade
He's a professional. Do you remember when he did those videos to answer people's questions?
How about this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKGsog3CN8s
He looks like he's completely depressed and in a rut already. Figures he abandoned that project...
My god - I just looked at pictures of Larchmont on his flikr account. What a dump! What did he do with the cash back? He couldn't have spent more than a few hundred on this place:
http://flickr.com/photos/sercasey/sets/72157594282224078/detail/
Jade, nobody knows what happened to the money. I do know that Casey is clearly Gen Y have it all now raised on the Tube. They watch Design on a Dime and Sell that House and House Flippers on HGTV and think it takes a half hour or a weekend or seven days for those things to happen. They get a soy milk from the kitchen and when they come back the new carpet is already installed.
Rob, dammit, I am getting tired of your Gen Y digs. I am Gen Y and Casey is NOT typical. Or maybe I'm not typical. Whatever.
I don't care if YneOne is 'jumping ship'--she's still a deluded idiot.
An insult to all women of moderate intelligence.
I mean sweep the floor for God's sake! Clean the toilet. Shovel that crap out of the tub!!!
Jade, I -meant- to say "Gen Y Stereotype." Sorry.
and when Casey gets to prison, he will become generation KY.
anyhow, 2 casey auctions on the same day. I predict the san andreas will eurpt. 8.0 mag earthquake.
@Jade
Good to know they're not all like him. I'm a Gen Xer, and oddly, we work.
TK
The pictures of the Larmont property show just how pathetic Casey really is. If he spent one or two days working hard to clean the property he could vastly improve his chances of selling. Neither of those properties look all that bad, they just need to be cleaned. That's too much work for him though. His mind skips to "I need to outsource this to my wonderful team of professional remodlers." What a fraking chump. These pictures show his complete disconnect with reality. No one in his or her right mind would even think of making an offer on these properties in this condition.
@king friday: "I predict the san andreas will eurpt. 8.0 mag earthquake."
For the sake of those of us who actually live near the fault in question, I really hope you're wrong.
Besides, if you'll look at this map, you'll notice that the San Andreas fault is too far away from Sacto or Modesto to serve the purpose. Something on the San Joaquin fault, though.....
sprezz,
I am joking. When Casey's NM house went up for auction, there was a freak snowstorm which delayed the auction.
When Muncy house went on the block before, there was a last second postponment as well.
Bottom line, I bet there will be a postponment of one or more homes. Wonder if Homey will be at the auction.
Lord hear our prayer,
Obviously you've been answering Casey Serin's for a while, so do me a solid and give us all the following on Monday,
1. No inclement weather
2. No short Sales
3. No postponements of any kind.
@ Jade
You're not typical. The generations have been getting more and more wussified since the 1940's. None of us has ever had to deal with real hardship and we make things even easier on our kids. Then the cycle repeats. At the rate we're going, the kids of Generation Xers and Yers won't be able to dress themselves until they're 30. I know 35 year old people who still run home to Mommy and Daddy when things go wrong. I would kill myself first.
We're living in a convenience bubble that may or may not have recently popped. I think it's becoming clear that the good times are over, and that we'll never have it as easy as our parents did. Yet we grew up pampered relative to previous generations and are thus as a generation poorly prepared to handle the challenge.
Generation X still totally ROOLZ though, OMG.
@ Gen X rulez
As a Gen X-er I agree wholeheartedly with your comments. However, the problem is that there are still enough people pulling the cart so to speak while others like Casey are sitting back and enjoying the ride. Some are enjoying the ride through circumstance and others like Casey want to enjoy the ride without effort all the while dreaming of "sweet deals".
I'm gen X too, and yeah, we need to lose the freeloaders. Hopefully, tightened lending standards will take care of the Caseys.
I'm a little more worried about the fate of the cart pullers though. In the current corporate environment where it's deemed ok to outsource every job they can overseas, cut benefits, shift to contract labor, and cut jobs every time they need to inflate their stock price, what are we all going to do when we get old? You can't hitch yourself to a company anymore, it's every man for himself. It seems like if you don't start investing in your 20's, you're doomed.
Ok, I guess I'm being kind of gloom and doom today. I'll turn the pessimism down a notch (to 11).
Here's my plan to financial freedom: no kids. I'll invest the money that would otherwise be going down their little Playstation-addicted gullets. (I may reconsider this position if they ever invent babies that don't crap themselves.) That way, I can retire wealthy, bitter, and lonely and lurk in chatrooms occasionally having breakdowns and threatening to "fuck you all dead."
Ba-dum-dum. A little Tim MBA humor there for added flava.
*** crickets ***
Tough crowd.
"A little Tim MBA humor there for added flava."
Yeah, after seeing Tim's meltdown, I was glad that I still have to work for a living - having a job forces one to stay somewhat balanced.
Memo to Casey: living entirely off passive income is not all that it is cracked up to be.
I don't believe there is a moderator helping him, any more than I believe he has any intentions of paying off any of his debt with honest money. I think it's yet another excuse for his lack of moderation - on one had he acts like we're this happy smiley audience that can't wait for his next nuggest of genius, on the other he treats his audience like shit, attacking them and ignoring them for sometimes days.
Depression cycle + Caifornia passive aggression = L'il Casey.
As for the future...I'm glad I'm single with no kids. Most of the time, I feel that the future in not one to want to raise kids in, if this housing bubble bursts anywhere even close to worst case scenario, it's going to be very ugly for a very long time.
I set out a couple years ago to get financially stable, get out of debt, and stopped aquiring "stuff", because I was getting mired down in bills, debt, and crap I did'nt want or need, and realized how much money i wasted on it all. Now I'm stripped down, can walk away from any luxuries like cable or internet access, and can go anywhere. Hopefully it'll be okay, but I have my doubts, with the growth of Islam and the hatred the extremists teach, the incompetancy of the US government and their inability to protect us, and their encouragment of illegal aliens to come here and leech off us, and the insane ricky lending the banks did for housing, drunk on profits and bonuses.
I've never been a pessimist or scare-monger, if you knew me you'd be shocked I was writing this, but this is deep, secret in my head stuff that I only feel safe talking about anonymously. I just think the next 10-20 years for the globe are going to be bloody and pure hell for those trying to survive it. The things I see scare the hell out of me...like Isreal asking for permission to bomb Iran. How does Iran respond to that? They (the Iranian leadership) are batshit nuts. They could unleash suicide bombers HERE if Isreal takes away their nuclear toys.
It's hard to even remember L'il Casey and his theiving ways when you look at what's going down on the world stage. Fanatical Islamists are everywhere in every country. The middle class and their wealth in this country are being bled dry and killed off by a small few. There's already unrest in the major cities, and if the welfare pipe is cut off ANY, even a percentage, because of a depression, there will be rioting and looting in the rich neighborhoods.
It might be time to start looking at land in Alaska, or far Canada, far, far away from major cities. No need to leave this continent, it will get ugly everywhere else, too - and it's harder to own guns elsewhere, too. That might be what decides your fate, if the forces that are building are unleashed.
I'm NOT a tin-foil hat type. I'm not. But I don't like what I'm seeing.
Anonymous 3:10 PM, My sentiments exactly.
Jade, it might be interesting to collect all of Yneone's special notes and string them together into a nonsensical poem of sorts.
Cased! I also don’t understand why having a job is such a bad thing. If one likes what one does and has tolerable coworkers, it can actually be somewhat enjoyable. Plus there is the added benefit of providing a certain degree of structure to one’s life.
Anon @ 3:10
Good post
Yneone is Casey. Think about it...the term FISHY being used by Casey and I bet he paraphrased her comments using his terminology.
You guys have all said how bipolar Casey is. Why couldn't the yneone be another of his personalities? I don't believe for one second ANYBODY outside of good ol' Nigel Smarmy cares about Casey THAT much.
They (the Iranian leadership) are batshit nuts.
Actually, the Iranian leadership is a lot saner and more calculating than the propaganda would have you believe. In many ways, Ahmadinejad's comments are similar to blogosphere trolling - he says things to provoke a reaction, and is thrilled when he gets it.
It's also symptomatic of a constant internal power struggle between the politicians and the mullahs, which is why Ahmadinejad needs to be seen to be asserting himself every so often.
But it's crucial to note that for all the sabre-rattling Iran has not taken aggressive military action against a single other state in the entire three decades of the Islamic republic's existence. And I genuinely don't think that it will: there really is no conceivable motive (especially as Iran is overwhelmingly the beneficiary of Bush's Iraq adventure).
They could unleash suicide bombers HERE if Isreal takes away their nuclear toys.
And invite massively disproportionate retaliation in response, if there was even the slightest possibility that such actions could be traced back to the Iranian regime. After all, Bush is quite happy to invade countries with NO documented connection to terrorist acts on US soil.
So again, what's the motive?
@ Cased! 2:52
I missed the "meltdown" that Tim MBA is supposed to have had. What's that about? Did it happen here or at IAFF?
[FYI, I agree that working does provide structure to life. Not everyone needs that structure, but most do. That's why I always took Tim MBA's comments about the joys of holing up in his house for days on end at his computer with more than the proverbial grain of salt.
[That's also why it's really important to have work that you like, that fully engages your mind, that pays well, that you don't have to drive 2 friggin' hours to get to each day, and that doesn't drain the life out of you. Not easy to find, but it's out there.
[If soul-and-life draining work were the only option available, the life of passive income would, no contest, be positively glorious by comparison.
[PS: not a landlord here, so would someone clear something up: "passive income" in the RE context is not really passive, is it? Either you outsource property management and pay a large part of your profits for that, or you get suckered into badgering tenants for their rent checks and fixing toilets at 2 AM. My brother, a reformed landlord, found his life being screwed by whiny voicemails from asshole tenants.
So, "passive income" in the RE club that Casey wanted to join is not quite the same as "passive income" from a bunch of US Treasuries or Microsoft dividends, no? Where you simply have to open the checks each quarter? I mean, shit, even granting that Casey's scheme was not ongoing RE ownership and property management, but "fix n flip", there's still a lot of work to be done there, no?]
@ Anon re: Tim
See Feb 9th, the "My Salvation" post.
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