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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Phase Eleventeen
Any other suggestions for Casey at this point?
34 comments:
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Aside from a noose???
Seriously - how does he pay for anything? Did his folks give him rent gift certificates for Christmas or does he have some illegally obtained cash stashed away still?
Yes, at this point liquifying everything and hiding it is not legal or ethical, yadda, yadda. We are beyond that at this point in my opinion. I'm no expert but I've got to imagine that most people in Casey's position not only do this but all their creditors assume they do this. If Casey doesn't have a coffee can full of twenties he may not have enough squeeze to eat. He's got to seriously start considering shelters and such for himself to protect his loved ones.
I did a kbb on the sweet ride. Even in fair condition it is listed as worth more than he paid. Now Kelly is usually high but I can easily see the nice CashCall representative accompaning Young Casey to Honest Vito's Used Car Emporium and Pawn Shop where the car yields $2500 to get Casey current on his loan and put $250 in his pocket. Win-win-win.
We need Casey as productive as possible. We also need to consider worst cases. Even in jest the idea that Casey do himself harm isn't a good idea. If anything happened the comments cannot be taken back. And honestly, doesn't everything we are covering get worse? No, better to watch the trainwreck from afar than be caught loosening the rails.
That's assuming he didn't take out a title loan against the VDubs to buy a birfday present.
I would honestly recommend he get a Class A CDL and a HazMat card. A fuel driver in his neck of the woods can expect to make 50-60k/yr.
Assuming he doesn't get any jail time, if he gets probation, he is going to need a "real" job. Probation officers are a little suspicious of anyone claiming to be "self employed", but not having any documentation to back up that statement. If he leaves it up to the PO to find him a gig, he can expect to be a fry cook, or a custodial engineer, or a dirt and hole re-allocation specialist. If he can lock himself into something good now, he can count on something solid later...
Well said Rob. I posted something about this yesterday on 'A Place to Reply'. I really do think Casey may harm himself before he faces any serious fallout from his criminal activities. My concern was not so much for Casey but his family. (Mother,sister,brother)
Yes, of course: his folks, and Galina's folks, are bailing them out. They'll freeload off Yulia until she loses patience with him; he'll move back in with his parents; but when will Galina bail?
I’m making a little bit from Chris still on a project-by-project basis. Also expecting $750 from Duane for the balance of advertising fee.
I wouldn't count that chicken yet; Duane faded away like a stale fart.
The "little bit from Chris" sounds a long way short of the $3K/month he budgeted. Expect a cash crunch shortly: he paid rent late this month and I'll bet he won't pay next month, because I suspect he sees his mobile and internet bills as much higher priority.
And of course I have some S W E E T deals in the works. I’m not kidding.
These guys are on IAFF now. I hope they don't let me down.
Domain Name usdoj.gov ? (United States Government) IP Address 149.101.1.# (US Dept of Justice) ISP US Dept of Justice Location Continent : North America Country : United States (Facts) State : Maryland City : Potomac Lat/Long : 39.023, -77.1993 (Map)
C'mon Lawnmower Man, I have so many sweeeeeeet deals lined up it will make my haters heads spin!
I may be down but I am certainly not out of the game. G is right, I can pull money from my butt anytime I need it. I am God's favorite and you will see my purpose on earth soon enough.
Believe me, it ain't easy to make $5k a month doing gay porn. Especially after expenses (razors for full body shave, enema kits, stool softener, astro lube, etc.)
Oh, there was a sweet deal there all right. But it wasn't for him.
(And maybe that's why he's still doggedly pursuing the corporate-credit fantasy in the face of overwhelming advice of its illegality? Because it's a sunk cost and he can't bear to let it go?)
IIRC, Casey did take out a title loan on Vdubs. Cash Call can't make him pawn the car because he doesn't have the title. He will loose the car in due course, just not to them.
@ bemused guy:
I've made that suggestion myself. Casey is young, attractive at least to certain tastes, ostensibly straight, and not opposed to being publicly humiliated. There's a market for people like that.
He's left himself very little with respect to options. Any respectable job is pretty much out the window now because of all the negative notoriety he's received. Add to that no real work history, no education and credit in the toilet. The only thing he will be able to get is funky pseudo temp-like jobs. Besides he's not getting a job because it will never allow him the opportunity to pay back the dirty pennies. Isn't it convenient the way he can justify not getting a job.
Next, he can wait for the big score and leech off friends, relatives and the system. But as time passes and the all the doors once available to borrow money slam shut, people will tire of him and his game. It's already happening and the walls are starting to close in.
So he'll do what all scam artists do...he'll keep on scamming. In his warped mind there is nothing else to do. He'll find ways to justify and interpret things to the way he sees them, not as they really exist. He's already done this countless times. He'll work on the edge of what is legal and eventually do what is illegal. That's what he calls "failing forward".
I don't think he has much happiness coming in his life, and those close to him are going to get sucked into his self-destructive vortex. I wouldn't touch this guy with a barge pole if I was a friend, relative or potential business associate. Like a drowning man he's going to be grabbing at anything soon, and he'll pull you under with him.
I think that Casey's biggest concern at this point is avoiding homelessness. Forget the houses, forget the unsecured debt, forget paying back even one dirty penny. He needs a Plan B for putting a roof over his head.
One Cash Call starts seriously harrassing him and those around him, his sister-in-law is very likely to give him the boot. It's one thing to freeload off of somebody, but quite another to put them in jeopardy while doing so. Once Casey's creditors start hurting the people around him, he will be cut off.
He won't even be able to live in VDubs for long, because the title loan company will reposess it at some point. He needs income to fund an apartment (probably a very cheap one at this point, given the kind of garnishments that are coming his way) and food. There are still plenty of landlords that will rent without a credit check, but precious few that will do so if the tenant is "self-employed". Also, he'll need some cash up front to get in.
If I were him, my biggest priority would be staying off the street. Step 1 is to get a job or three.
I should have said that Casey's biggest concern should be avoiding homelessness. Honestly, I'd be surprised if the possibility has even entered his tousled little head.
"I wouldn't touch this guy with a barge pole if I was a friend, relative or potential business associate. Like a drowning man he's going to be grabbing at anything soon, and he'll pull you under with him."
Excellent analogy.
If Casey had taken the advice that I and countless people gave him last September (close the blog before attracting the attention of the FBI, get a few jobs, declare BK, etc), he might have weathered things without having to worry about serving time. Had he made a sincere effort to work as much as humanly possible to pay down his debts, he could have perhaps convinced a prosecutor/jury/judge whatever that he was just a stupid kid with really bad luck. He and Galina would have been screwed financially (at least for a few years), but he could have set himself up for a comeback in his early 30s.
But instead, he spent the past six months painting a target on his back and doing next-to-nothing constructive to mitigate his (and his lender's) losses. By the end of next week, he will likely have lost another 3 houses to foreclosure (Larchmont, NM, and Modesto) and its only a matter of time with Burdett. Lord help those who are taking care of Utah, because his other lenders will be tripping over themselves to get liens established on it to cover his other deficiencies. One way or another, that property will enter foreclosure by the end of March.
He's screwed. And its looking more and more like it will be a matter of another month or two (maybe even a few weeks) before the criminal charge phase of his little saga begins.
Take it one step further. Lets say he does find someplace so he has a roof over his head. The type of place he is likely to find isn't going to be in the best of neighborhoods.
Can you imagine SerCasey struttin' his stuff in the bad part of town with no car. His laptop slung at his side, bright red jacket, shades and goat hereder hat. Prison might be preferable to what he's go to look forward to on the outside.
He's got beat my a$$ written all him. As for G, it ain't going to be pretty for her either. Oh no, he has much more to worry about that just a roof over his head.
Off topic a bit but I had a comment. I have several rentals in Florida. I've done all of them with 20% down and took the hit on the interest rate by doing "non owner occ" financing. I was a hater from day one becauase ass clown flat out lied. Early on in my career, I did consider just lying and figured that the only way they would come after me was if I defaulted. But in the end, I did the right thing. 100% of the time.
So my only suggestion for Casey the Retard is to keep blogging. At least I get to laugh looking at some of the pictures and reading some comments.
Casey isn't going to be homeless or living in some ghetto apartment in a bad part of town. When he gets booted out of his sister-in-law's place, he'll go right back to his parents house and mooch off of them (sans Galina) just like millions of other slackers his age. The parents might (gasp!) make him get a job as part of the deal, but he'll live there with his little sister and spend his weekends jumping on the trampoline in the backyard and taking naps on the couch.
Galina will stay with her sister or move in with her parents for a while she looks for a new husband to support her. She's still in her 20's, pretty attractive and has no kids -- it shouldn't be too hard. I know a girl a lot like G who was in a similar situation (no fraud, but she and her husband got in over their head on their mortgage/excessive spending). She got a divorce and six months later was engaged to a dude with a better job.
I think that Lil Casey 'IS' going to be facing some criminal charges further down the line. Because sooner or later somebody with some real pull is going to get wind of his shenanigans. That someone is going to get asked a question at a dinner party, a conference, a meeting or even one on one. They are going to be asked what the hell is happening with this guy and does everyone get away with this sort of fraud? That is all it is going to take to get it moving up the food chain.
Casey may be a small ant existing beside a more conspicuous cast of characters. But even an ant can make itself obvious and vulnerable, and when that happens it usually gets squashed.
Under normal circumstances I would tend to agree with you. But Casey has so much sh*t headed his way it will be a royal pain in the @$$ to live with him. Any place he parks his skinny Uzbeki behind it's going to be unbearable for those close to the epicenter.
He may be able to pull it off for 6 months, but no longer. And I'm talking 6 months from when everything really hits the fan. By then the mirage of sweeeet deals will be gone forever. He'll just be a stinky dead flounder laying on the couch napping.
If I were in Casey's shoes, I'd use this as an "opportunity" to try out what has been a "dream" of mine since I was about 15. I say "dream," because I know in reality it would be hard and I would probably fail quickly, but it's got a sort of romantic bent to it. Anywho, my fancy is to go live off the land. Just take a couple weeks worth of supplies to the John Muir Trail or some other real wilderness place in the US (Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, etc.) and just sort of wander off trail and see how long you could stay out there, live off the land, etc.
No Jamba Juices out there, of course, but it would be an intriguing test of your fortitude and a nice break from civilization (and in Casey's case, bill collectors, the nagging sister-in-law, the wife whose vagina has had a CLOSED FOR BUSINESS sign hung on it since September, and so on...)
Scott, thanks for being so nice. I really appreciate your thoughts on my troubles.
Living off the land does not sound so sweet. Where would I take Galina? There ain't no way she will go with me. A man like me needs my little G! She's awesome and sweet.
A day without Jamba Juice is like a day in prison. I can't take a break from civilzation. When we came here from Uzbekistan I swore I'd be a success. I would do whatever it takes to make an honest buck with as little effort as possible. So far my calculations have been wrong but I know things are going to be good for me.
Sweet deals are waiting for me, you guys will see!
34 comments:
Aside from a noose???
Seriously - how does he pay for anything? Did his folks give him rent gift certificates for Christmas or does he have some illegally obtained cash stashed away still?
Is there really any suggestion that anyone hasn't made at least 1000 times on his site?
I personally think he would get a decent job if he could. Any decent h/r department is going to research him and even a crappy one would google him.
Maybe down all the pills in the medicine cabinet?
Yes, at this point liquifying everything and hiding it is not legal or ethical, yadda, yadda. We are beyond that at this point in my opinion. I'm no expert but I've got to imagine that most people in Casey's position not only do this but all their creditors assume they do this. If Casey doesn't have a coffee can full of twenties he may not have enough squeeze to eat. He's got to seriously start considering shelters and such for himself to protect his loved ones.
I did a kbb on the sweet ride. Even in fair condition it is listed as worth more than he paid. Now Kelly is usually high but I can easily see the nice CashCall representative accompaning Young Casey to Honest Vito's Used Car Emporium and Pawn Shop where the car yields $2500 to get Casey current on his loan and put $250 in his pocket. Win-win-win.
Dumbfounded....what good is taking all of Galina's unused (10 month supply) birth control pills going to do?
A moment of reflection if you will.
We need Casey as productive as possible. We also need to consider worst cases. Even in jest the idea that Casey do himself harm isn't a good idea. If anything happened the comments cannot be taken back. And honestly, doesn't everything we are covering get worse? No, better to watch the trainwreck from afar than be caught loosening the rails.
Rob-
That's assuming he didn't take out a title loan against the VDubs to buy a birfday present.
I would honestly recommend he get a Class A CDL and a HazMat card. A fuel driver in his neck of the woods can expect to make 50-60k/yr.
Assuming he doesn't get any jail time, if he gets probation, he is going to need a "real" job. Probation officers are a little suspicious of anyone claiming to be "self employed", but not having any documentation to back up that statement. If he leaves it up to the PO to find him a gig, he can expect to be a fry cook, or a custodial engineer, or a dirt and hole re-allocation specialist. If he can lock himself into something good now, he can count on something solid later...
-jbjbj
Well said Rob. I posted something about this yesterday on 'A Place to Reply'. I really do think Casey may harm himself before he faces any serious fallout from his criminal activities. My concern was not so much for Casey but his family. (Mother,sister,brother)
Casey taking Galina's 10 month supply of birth control?
Hmmm.......I don't know if it would help, but it wouldn't hurt either!
Yes, of course: his folks, and Galina's folks, are bailing them out. They'll freeload off Yulia until she loses patience with him; he'll move back in with his parents; but when will Galina bail?
Casey's income:
I’m making a little bit from Chris still on a project-by-project basis. Also expecting $750 from Duane for the balance of advertising fee.
I wouldn't count that chicken yet; Duane faded away like a stale fart.
The "little bit from Chris" sounds a long way short of the $3K/month he budgeted. Expect a cash crunch shortly: he paid rent late this month and I'll bet he won't pay next month, because I suspect he sees his mobile and internet bills as much higher priority.
And of course I have some S W E E T deals in the works. I’m not kidding.
Mmmm-hm.
Hmmmm, a new set of "headlights" could open up previously unexplored career opportunities.
I think we can safely file any claims of a sweet deal at this point under: "Keeping Up Appearances."
These guys are on IAFF now. I hope they don't let me down.
Domain Name usdoj.gov ? (United States Government)
IP Address 149.101.1.# (US Dept of Justice)
ISP US Dept of Justice
Location Continent : North America
Country : United States (Facts)
State : Maryland
City : Potomac
Lat/Long : 39.023, -77.1993 (Map)
C'mon Lawnmower Man, I have so many sweeeeeeet deals lined up it will make my haters heads spin!
I may be down but I am certainly not out of the game. G is right, I can pull money from my butt anytime I need it. I am God's favorite and you will see my purpose on earth soon enough.
I wouldn't be surprised if some of the brilliant minds on this very site are baiting Casey with "business opportunities."
If Casey were a fish, you could catch him with nothing on your hook. Hell, he'd probably just jump into the boat.
I vote for him doing gay porn. That will help him earn more than $5,000 month passive income. Wait, maybe that's being passive will earn him income.
Believe me, it ain't easy to make $5k a month doing gay porn. Especially after expenses (razors for full body shave, enema kits, stool softener, astro lube, etc.)
Ben Dover
Yes, Casey's very gullible: he probably believes there are sweet deals being offered to him, but doesn't realize that he's the mark.
For example, the whole corporate credit scam-o-rama: boy, they saw him coming. they sucked him in with "free" consulting in exchange for coverage on his blog; they dangled juicy $500 referral fees in front of him; and they hooked him: he paid them for a "4-year" corporation using borrowed money.
Oh, there was a sweet deal there all right. But it wasn't for him.
(And maybe that's why he's still doggedly pursuing the corporate-credit fantasy in the face of overwhelming advice of its illegality? Because it's a sunk cost and he can't bear to let it go?)
IIRC, Casey did take out a title loan on Vdubs. Cash Call can't make him pawn the car because he doesn't have the title. He will loose the car in due course, just not to them.
@ bemused guy:
I've made that suggestion myself. Casey is young, attractive at least to certain tastes, ostensibly straight, and not opposed to being publicly humiliated. There's a market for people like that.
He's left himself very little with respect to options. Any respectable job is pretty much out the window now because of all the negative notoriety he's received. Add to that no real work history, no education and credit in the toilet. The only thing he will be able to get is funky pseudo temp-like jobs. Besides he's not getting a job because it will never allow him the opportunity to pay back the dirty pennies. Isn't it convenient the way he can justify not getting a job.
Next, he can wait for the big score and leech off friends, relatives and the system. But as time passes and the all the doors once available to borrow money slam shut, people will tire of him and his game. It's already happening and the walls are starting to close in.
So he'll do what all scam artists do...he'll keep on scamming. In his warped mind there is nothing else to do. He'll find ways to justify and interpret things to the way he sees them, not as they really exist. He's already done this countless times. He'll work on the edge of what is legal and eventually do what is illegal. That's what he calls "failing forward".
I don't think he has much happiness coming in his life, and those close to him are going to get sucked into his self-destructive vortex. I wouldn't touch this guy with a barge pole if I was a friend, relative or potential business associate. Like a drowning man he's going to be grabbing at anything soon, and he'll pull you under with him.
I think that Casey's biggest concern at this point is avoiding homelessness. Forget the houses, forget the unsecured debt, forget paying back even one dirty penny. He needs a Plan B for putting a roof over his head.
One Cash Call starts seriously harrassing him and those around him, his sister-in-law is very likely to give him the boot. It's one thing to freeload off of somebody, but quite another to put them in jeopardy while doing so. Once Casey's creditors start hurting the people around him, he will be cut off.
He won't even be able to live in VDubs for long, because the title loan company will reposess it at some point. He needs income to fund an apartment (probably a very cheap one at this point, given the kind of garnishments that are coming his way) and food. There are still plenty of landlords that will rent without a credit check, but precious few that will do so if the tenant is "self-employed". Also, he'll need some cash up front to get in.
If I were him, my biggest priority would be staying off the street. Step 1 is to get a job or three.
I should have said that Casey's biggest concern should be avoiding homelessness. Honestly, I'd be surprised if the possibility has even entered his tousled little head.
"I wouldn't touch this guy with a barge pole if I was a friend, relative or potential business associate. Like a drowning man he's going to be grabbing at anything soon, and he'll pull you under with him."
Excellent analogy.
If Casey had taken the advice that I and countless people gave him last September (close the blog before attracting the attention of the FBI, get a few jobs, declare BK, etc), he might have weathered things without having to worry about serving time. Had he made a sincere effort to work as much as humanly possible to pay down his debts, he could have perhaps convinced a prosecutor/jury/judge whatever that he was just a stupid kid with really bad luck. He and Galina would have been screwed financially (at least for a few years), but he could have set himself up for a comeback in his early 30s.
But instead, he spent the past six months painting a target on his back and doing next-to-nothing constructive to mitigate his (and his lender's) losses. By the end of next week, he will likely have lost another 3 houses to foreclosure (Larchmont, NM, and Modesto) and its only a matter of time with Burdett. Lord help those who are taking care of Utah, because his other lenders will be tripping over themselves to get liens established on it to cover his other deficiencies. One way or another, that property will enter foreclosure by the end of March.
He's screwed. And its looking more and more like it will be a matter of another month or two (maybe even a few weeks) before the criminal charge phase of his little saga begins.
-walt526
@OGG
Take it one step further. Lets say he does find someplace so he has a roof over his head. The type of place he is likely to find isn't going to be in the best of neighborhoods.
Can you imagine SerCasey struttin' his stuff in the bad part of town with no car. His laptop slung at his side, bright red jacket, shades and goat hereder hat. Prison might be preferable to what he's go to look forward to on the outside.
He's got beat my a$$ written all him. As for G, it ain't going to be pretty for her either. Oh no, he has much more to worry about that just a roof over his head.
I disagree with walt526. Homey and da fedz ain't chasing Casey cause of a few piddling liar loans.
what is the 411 on Res-Com? Mentioning "Res-Com" scares Lil Casey s--tless. And homey keeps bringing it up.
Hint Bob dawg, make it a topic :-)
Off topic a bit but I had a comment. I have several rentals in Florida. I've done all of them with 20% down and took the hit on the interest rate by doing "non owner occ" financing. I was a hater from day one becauase ass clown flat out lied. Early on in my career, I did consider just lying and figured that the only way they would come after me was if I defaulted. But in the end, I did the right thing. 100% of the time.
So my only suggestion for Casey the Retard is to keep blogging. At least I get to laugh looking at some of the pictures and reading some comments.
"what is the 411 on Res-Com? Mentioning "Res-Com" scares Lil Casey s--tless. And homey keeps bringing it up."
some scam place he worked for
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/ripoff187947.htm
Casey isn't going to be homeless or living in some ghetto apartment in a bad part of town. When he gets booted out of his sister-in-law's place, he'll go right back to his parents house and mooch off of them (sans Galina) just like millions of other slackers his age. The parents might (gasp!) make him get a job as part of the deal, but he'll live there with his little sister and spend his weekends jumping on the trampoline in the backyard and taking naps on the couch.
Galina will stay with her sister or move in with her parents for a while she looks for a new husband to support her. She's still in her 20's, pretty attractive and has no kids -- it shouldn't be too hard. I know a girl a lot like G who was in a similar situation (no fraud, but she and her husband got in over their head on their mortgage/excessive spending). She got a divorce and six months later was engaged to a dude with a better job.
I think that Lil Casey 'IS' going to be facing some criminal charges further down the line. Because sooner or later somebody with some real pull is going to get wind of his shenanigans. That someone is going to get asked a question at a dinner party, a conference, a meeting or even one on one. They are going to be asked what the hell is happening with this guy and does everyone get away with this sort of fraud? That is all it is going to take to get it moving up the food chain.
Casey may be a small ant existing beside a more conspicuous cast of characters. But even an ant can make itself obvious and vulnerable, and when that happens it usually gets squashed.
The Hit from the DOJ is me.
I'm on the Civil Rights side. Nothing I can do here, unless Casey tries to rent his homes. Then I could talk to some co-workers.
I am however trying to utilize inter-DOJ channels to talk to the Sacramento FBI office.
@jjs
Under normal circumstances I would tend to agree with you. But Casey has so much sh*t headed his way it will be a royal pain in the @$$ to live with him. Any place he parks his skinny Uzbeki behind it's going to be unbearable for those close to the epicenter.
He may be able to pull it off for 6 months, but no longer. And I'm talking 6 months from when everything really hits the fan. By then the mirage of sweeeet deals will be gone forever. He'll just be a stinky dead flounder laying on the couch napping.
@ KING FRIDAY 13
Here is a link to the Rescom stuff.
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/ripoff218455.htm
If I were in Casey's shoes, I'd use this as an "opportunity" to try out what has been a "dream" of mine since I was about 15. I say "dream," because I know in reality it would be hard and I would probably fail quickly, but it's got a sort of romantic bent to it. Anywho, my fancy is to go live off the land. Just take a couple weeks worth of supplies to the John Muir Trail or some other real wilderness place in the US (Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, etc.) and just sort of wander off trail and see how long you could stay out there, live off the land, etc.
No Jamba Juices out there, of course, but it would be an intriguing test of your fortitude and a nice break from civilization (and in Casey's case, bill collectors, the nagging sister-in-law, the wife whose vagina has had a CLOSED FOR BUSINESS sign hung on it since September, and so on...)
Scott, thanks for being so nice. I really appreciate your thoughts on my troubles.
Living off the land does not sound so sweet. Where would I take Galina? There ain't no way she will go with me. A man like me needs my little G! She's awesome and sweet.
A day without Jamba Juice is like a day in prison. I can't take a break from civilzation. When we came here from Uzbekistan I swore I'd be a success. I would do whatever it takes to make an honest buck with as little effort as possible. So far my calculations have been wrong but I know things are going to be good for me.
Sweet deals are waiting for me, you guys will see!
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