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.
Monday, March 05, 2007
Vegan Adventure
Yeah right. I'm eatin' the clam chowdah, the chicken noodle soup, the sausage sauce pasta, the bacon on my baked potato. Aka Casey vegan all the way. With coupon and time of day discount we'll be getting roughage and trace elements good for a month. Potasium Permangenate for instance is the purple in purple cabbage. Casey is an amateur in these matters. $7.49 with no late or overdraft fees in exchange for a feedbag full o'goodness and no dishes? Priceless.
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What fraction of IAFF do people belive is true? I'm guessing around 95%, but there seems to be a significant group who believes closer to 0%.
I'd say 50% of IAFF is true. Think of it as brocolli in cheese sauce. Vegetable? Yeah if you choose to look at it that way.
5% of people think all of IAFF is true.
85% of people think the blog is partially true.
10% of people think IAFF is a hoax.
100% of people think Casey is an asshole. :-)
If Casey ate nails, he'd pass corkscrews.
The broad strokes are 100% true.
The spin is 0% accurate.
As for the trollish details, I'd guess around 50% and declining as time goes on.
To me the answer is in Snowflake's reluctance to rent out his properties. I find it very hard to understand why - when completely broke - he would go past 4 weeks rent in advance, 4 weeks bond, 2 weeks letting fee (or whatever it is in the USA). I understand flippers don't rent but he was way past that - I mean he could have taken the first payments on four props alone. To me that means;
1. He doesn't really need the money and hence is lying OR
2. He doesn't actually "own" the prop's or as strawman he was threatened with kneecapping if he did OR
3. The whole thing is truly a setup and letting innocent peeps rent props was not on? (Although Utah check theiving goes against this theory) OR
4. He's too lazy to rent them out?
As I say a mystery... even if he discounted massively the 3 prop's in Ca. he would have had - what - $6000 in his pocket fairly quickly? That's what makes me think - more and more - it's a setup more and more.
Craigslist would have gotten him renters in three days in my experience.
PMSPMS
I just had an inspired idea while dazing out on my commute.
Why don't we all chip in and pay for a strip-o-gram to deliver a dance and pelvic grind to Galina and Yulia while the boy wonder is away?
(we can dress Ratlab up in a banana thong with a hidden camera in the tip)
As far as IAFF not being true Casey's lies are more lies of omission than anything else. There is probably far more to the story than anyone even Homey realizes. BTW I'd lay odds that Homey decided to lay low because we figured him out.
How anyone can let the private details of their sickening financial lives out for the world to know is so mind boggling the ulterior motive behind such a decision has to be a real doozy. Of course it could be colossal immaturity but still the question remains;Why? Speculation is good I suppose but no real answers can be procured until someone plumbs the black hole known as Casey's mind.
Another thing many many people are aware of exactly what Casey has done both criminally and otherwise. Does it shake anyone's faith in the justice system that he has not been arrested or prosecuted yet by any entity for anything? I would think Wells Fargo would have gone after him for the 1K he closed out his acct with after they 'stole' money from him. A lot of things just don't add up logically in my mind.
or we could send nigel over. wearing nothing but a pirate hat and eye patch.
arrrgh, nigel, is that a peg leg, or are you just happy to see casey?
bet that would really "shiver" casey's timbers...
btw - where the frick is Homey. Bet he will drop some dyno-mite stuff when he comes out again.
like who is the mysterious Mr. G?
If Mr. G, Nigel, Brian, and Casey jump in a hot tub, how many dicks will get wet?
Check out Casey's photos on Flickr today - he's all dressed up and ready to play business man.
Once again, the blue shirt (he say's it is different, but looks the same to me).
Really - who takes such stupid photos on a business trip. If I were his "money" partner we'd be on the first plane back home and I'd shower for a week.
He can't be taken seriously.
These "media stories" in the work will probably not be positive.... and if they are, I'll be the first person on the phone to the reporter and their editor asking some very tough questions.
Wonder what G's up to while he's in Utah? Meeting her next husband perhaps?
Thank god, however, they'll return home tomorrow - Casey needs to take out the garbage on Wednesday as part of his rental agreement for the home office!!!
I remain curious as to how he paid rent for March and what he's doing to generate an income for himself.
And, let us remember he has that $22K note due on May 22 - just seven short weeks away. Wonder who holds the note because I don't see Casey coming up with the money. Unless he does something "shady" of course.
I like the stripper idea.
It would also be pretty cool if everyone ordered pizzas and taxis for Casey when he gets home.
I almost feel sorry for him:
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=411799895&size=l
This trip is Casey's last hurrah. I think he knows this.
A little light reading for our Christian Casey(TM). Warning: explicit Lego scenes on some pages. Not for the faint hearted...
http://www.thebricktestament.com/the_teachings_of_jesus/on_giving/lk06_34.html
http://www.thebricktestament.com/the_parables_of_jesus/parable_of_the_tortured_debtor/mt18_25.html
http://www.thebricktestament.com/the_teachings_of_jesus/on_wealth/lk18_25a.html
Yep - getting sorry...
His eyes are not happy.
That bed's only had one person in it.
Cheap room - my room in Jakarta has a better view right now.
PMSPMS
Conspiracy Theory / Fantasy Scenario:
Casey's alleged business partner, a.k.a. "Mr. G", is none other than Homey Da Clown doing some nice undercover work.
@ Anonymous 7:16, assuming his whole saga is true, it is disturbing that Casey hasn't been taken into custody yet. It makes you wonder exactly what fraudulent actions someone has to take to arouse the FBI from their slumber.
Anyone catch the description under the hotel room picture? I quote:
"Different day, different blue shirt (no stripes), vest, matching tie, organic wax in my hair..."
First, I compared the picture to the previous day's pictures -- it looks like the exact same shirt, down to the shade of color. Second, organic wax in his hair?? What the hell?? Third, he looks stoned. Fourth, try looking at the reflection in the hotel TV. I can't say definitively, but is that a second un-made bed in the background? Did Casey and Nigel have a sleep-over? :: shudder ::
- Benoit
Apologies for all the consecutive posts... but if you enlarge the picture of Casey holding the globe, can anyone see if someone took that photo, or if he had the camera on a tripod?
I see what looks like a flash in the reflection on the globe, but it may just be the sun outside. There's also a clear reflection of a person in the globe that doesn't look like Casey (too far away). hmm... either way, he may be holding the world in his hand, but soon enough, the weight of the world is going to be crushing him.
The wax is organic, except for the pesticides and chemicals that are added to it.
Did you see Marcaroni Grill has a new vegan veal dish? Mmmmm.
@Benoit
You are a sick, sick person. I'm going to have nightmares now.
Then again, why would they need two beds?
Yuck. Didn't need that picture.
Nigel is a smarmy tool. I was reading his responses and he NEVER is honest. He posts sarcastic, know it all crap to anybody who questions his intentions.
Anybody notice how he stopped cracking wise last night when cornered on his possible involvement in the Utah wrap? Anybody notice how he tries to shut down debate? If his site was so popular why not more hits? Why not more posts? Because everybody sees what a creep he is.
A few things I noticed
1) Casey is wearing the same pants he wore in his Christmas pic, you know, the one with the present and pics of his and Galina's freakin feet
2) In the hotel pic, see that black bag on the ground on Casey's left? I think that is his suitcase for the entire trip.
3) Let's go to the globe pic. See the same black bag on it's side in front of the plant to the right by the glass door? Does that look like something you would take good care of? Can't be his freakin computer the way it was tossed there, nah, I think that's in his murse. This looks like a completely staged photo where they kind of ran into a nice looking place and took a quick photo in a rush...there is no one else around and why would the black bag be tossed like that?
4) That was a cheap hotel like someone said..either that or this night was on Nigel's tab.
frankly does anyone really give a shit anymore? the guy is running out of houses, and the cast of characters shows desperation..I mean c'mon, freakin' Nigel? The guy has as much charisma as Casey's blue shirt.
Doo dah doo dah doo...
Vacuuming the house, about to steam clean some of the carpet... check EN... okay... Steph has volunteered me as a strip-o-gram!!!
Steph, your idea would normally excite me, but I wouldn't want accidental little babushkas running around in 9 months. You know I'd have to be massive intoxicated to pull this off and I'd wake up the next morning between a G & Y sandwich. On second thought, I should bring you, T, Rob, Benoit, Ogg, and Homey as bouncers.
@PMSPMS
Jakarta rocks... if you don't mind the occasional bombing, which I don't. Good cheap food and drinks.
1. Nigel Swaby Says:
January 24th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
I have a diversified portfolio with my house selling profit. I like the Emigrant Direct online savings account paying 5.05% with no minimum and no time committment like a CD. I earned 15% in my Roth IRA last year. I earned 11% in my company 401k. I own three stocks directly with a 12%, 30% and -12% return in 5 months. The negative one is poised to turn around anytime now. My new house has appreciated 12.8% in 8 months. I like stocks right now, but if you have no stomach for risk, a low fee mutual fund is the way to go. That’s what my Roth IRA has in it BTW.
Hope that helps.
1. HARM Says:
January 25th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Nigel Swaby Says:
January 24th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
…My new house has appreciated 12.8% in 8 months.
Really, “Nigel”, REALLY??…. So this means you’ve actually liquidated (i.e., sold) your house and this is as actual realized gain (not just some B.S. “appraisal” or Zestimate)? And of course, you’ve adjusted that figure for agent/broker commissions and other transaction costs, right?
On a completely unrelated note, my new dick has just lengthened by 12.8% in 8 months. Gotta love medical science! Peace out…
1. Nigel Swaby Says:
January 25th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Harm,
“Nigel Swaby Says:
January 24th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
…My new house has appreciated 12.8% in 8 months.
Really, “Nigel”, REALLY??…. So this means you’ve actually liquidated (i.e., sold) your house and this is as actual realized gain (not just some B.S. “appraisal” or Zestimate)? And of course, you’ve adjusted that figure for agent/broker commissions and other transaction costs, right?”
I spoke to the appraiser that valued it when it was purchased, told her the improvements I’d made and she gave me a number. I haven’t seen anyone discuss tax implications on any of these investment strategies so I thought we were talking about gross.
I couldn’t give you the net because I don’t know when I’m going to sell (whether I’ll use an agent or FSBO, get a discount on title insurance, etc.) or possibly borrow against the equity.
So gross is all I have to go on…
1. Different Sean Says:
January 27th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
Nigel Swaby Says:
I spoke to the appraiser that valued it when it was purchased, told her the improvements I’d made and she gave me a number.
hmm, OK, Nigel, so what did the ‘improvements’ cost you? Wouldn’t it be wise to subtract those costs from the 12.8% ‘appreciation’ also? (Not forgetting all the costs of transfer going in and going out, of course.)
People are increasingly going to have to realise that they can’t continue to make money out of this Ponzi scheme, they are going to have to write off transfer costs as a kind of ‘rental cost’ if they keep flipping properties every few years. Property cannot continue to ratchet up and up by including taxes and transfer costs in the equation, as though every sale has to be a profit-maker for the vendor. Only developers dropping a bungalow to put up 5 stories of apartments can expect to make a sizeable profit going into the future, you can’t do it with a single house on title…
It’s beginning to sound a little like the ‘Flipper Nation’ script again…
Of the following, the sad thing is that Nigel is the one who created and BOUGHT the following press release (SO in other words, he proclaims that he has landed the Real Estate story of the year...actually Nigel, wouldn't the STORY of the year be the fact that you are now sleeping Mr. Looser?)
"Aspiring Web Journalist Lands Real Estate Story of the Year
Casey Serin has become the media poster child for the American housing bubble as it deflates. The one time investor has five properties facing foreclosure in four different States and decided to blog about it at www.iamfacingforeclosure.com. Meanwhile, he has created a large following of critics and supporters and his tale of woe has been publicized nationally by USA Today and NPR. Nigel Swaby, a licensed mortgage broker and industry writer, has picked up the story on his blog www.slcrapestate.blogspot.com and has released a
of his interview with Mr. Sin. (PRWeb Oct 31, 2006) Trackback URI: http://www.prweb.com/zingpr.php/SG9yci1IYWxmLVNpbmctQ291cC1NYWduLVplcm8= "
Here we see that Mr. Moneybags just can't help but blurt about the fact that he now owns a BMW(the really secure don't need to buy a small penis car) bought with cash(the really wealthy don't have to brag about their cash, in fact they would try to hide that tidbit..braggart).
I have to agree with you that buying an expensive car at that time in your life is a horrible move. I found myself in the same situation when I was your age. I had just been promoted to a retail management position. I had a 90 Nissan Sentra that was half-way paid off, lower miles and great on gas. I had the choice of buying a house, or buying a new car. Stupid me, I chose the car.
It was a 94 Pontiac Trans Am. Black. Fast! I had always wanted a BMW, but for some odd reason picked this car. Between the new payment, gas, insurance etc, this car cost more per month than a house. By the time I sold the car, I had put in more than 40k. If I had bought a house, my net worth would be over 200k.
Live and learn I guess. I've invested in real estate and last year bought my first BMW - for cash.
Posted by: Nigel Swaby | November 11, 2006 at 02:13 PM
And flying is already too tiresome.
Nigel sucks big time and as I believe I’ve stated before his blog ain’t worth hitting.
What I have learned from Casey (and keeps me watching the wreck): is how truly fucked up things are with the government, the economy, mass media, yada, yada, yada. How about doing something about it?
Nigel censors his blog. The coward won't even allow criticism he cannot handle.
As far as I'm concerned he's involved in a criminal conspiracy with Casey. He won't answer questions about his previous involvement or present involvement. He is consipring to defraud a television program. That he acts like an ass just makes it easier to fell nothing for him when the sh!tstorm hits.
So, Rob, why encourage hits to Nigel's blog?
I wouldn't touch it with a 3000 foot fondue fork.
I repeat. How about doing something about it?
Nigel is a flash in the pan. Hits or no he just isn't worth anything at this point.
Gotta love the Danish...
What then is worth our focus...?
Let's cut the shit and focus the energy please.
Nigel is clueless and just plain dumb. I know this because I can tell by his writing style and inability to answer a question without some pompous pronouncement.
Eat your words baby or they might eat you.
Me thinks Nigel is making up the story about the accountant special ops guy. I just read his response to an anonymous poster and he makes this ridiculous claim of protecting this person's identity. He makes fun of others while trolling anonymously but can't handle a legit question. Nobody cares about the guy's name, the poster wanted to know how the guy is a special ops guy as well as an accountant.
Who's dense now?
What did I miss about us "figuring out Homey"?
These new pics are disturbing. Anyone else find it remotely insane the the only logical person to be involved in this gay picture taking is ostensibly G- the new business partner?
I'd be getting waaaaaay creeped out by all of this now, contacts notwithstanding. I suspect "G" is some sort of hater with a lot of spare cash playing out and elaborate ruse of some kind.
Frankly if I were Casey, I would have been afraid to make this trip.
But Casey will do anything for a buck. So he'll say "it's all good."
Hope he's using protection.
Gay-sey has posted more pix to his Flickr account. Among the highlights --
He maligns someone with a moose head in a pickup truck as a 'Utah Hick'
Looking to somehow buy a $2,000,000 house
... and best of all, Nigel and Casey toasting wheatgrass shots at Jamba Juice. I shit you not. It's extra funny because of the woman in the background looking at these two weirdos.
I also see that vegan casey had an all you can eat seafood plate including shrimp, crab legs, etc.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sercasey/412346618/in/dateposted/
What a pretentious little fuck. A guy is a "hick" because he's got an elk in the back of his truck.
That's all organic free range food, right there, baby. Plus, I bet the guy actually had cash to pay the taxidermist with.
Shitbird.
Hi, longtime listener, first time caller.
I am not sure if this information was posted previously, but Nigel gets doused in haterade everywhere he goes--check out the San Diego Creative Investors Club website, where he got ragged on for posting the PR Web article without noting he had actually purchased it. He's slimy.
Nigel actually provided some useful information. Casey's new money man is a mortgage broker that needs to unload 9 houses. so Casey gets the money and the bird dogging in one contact.
In the wheatgrass toast shot, Nigel looks like he's got afterglow from a wild night in the sack with Casey and partner G.
They really think they're being smartasses going to all of Casey's favourite places and documenting it--somehow thumbing a finger at all of us haters.
All it really is, is just sad.
Casey gives the entire world a reacharound.
On a side note, it's nice to finally put a face to the smarm.
It's not the thumb they're showing to us haters. They've actually put a finger on each hand up, ala Marshall Mathers.
It has been my experience that the bigger a loser one is the more pompous they conduct themselves before the world. "Meetings with an accountant" are often sitdown sessions at a retail establishment like H&R Block. "Business partners" are people you solicited through classifieds or cardboard ads on a major traffic thoroughfare advertsing "Buy a House No Money Down." "Business lunches" are conducted at Jamba Juice or McDonalds.
Verbal inflation is the key and its' most important effect is to build someone up to be someone they are most decidedly not.
I just noticed something else in the toasting Jamba Juice picture -- namely, the cashier's counter is visible at bottom, with the actual cash machine at lower-left. Meaning they must have forced some poor Jamba Juice employee to photograph them. Both of them are as queer as a $3 bill...
Sorry I'm a little late to post as we've been out looking at some pretty sweet deals.
In that picture yesterday....OMG....I thought Casey was hot....I'd love to be standing behind that dude. Does anyone know if he has a blog or how to contact him?
Nigel
Look at those gorgeous crablegs being defaced by the pile of deep-fried crap. I can't believe he ate that shit. ::gags:: "Waiter... can I have a side of angioplasty please?" No wheatgrass shot in the world is going to clear all that grease out of his bloodstream.
He pretends to be concerned about his health... and then you see pictures like that. Gross.
I also like the picture of the 'Nice Kitchen'--where he notes underneath "That's what sells the house.."
How the hell would *he* know what sells a house?
Our past google-bombing bears fruit.
Does anybody else find granite countertops to be just plain ugly? What's the big deal with them? (Apologies to Ogg, I know how you're fond of stone building materials.)
I don't know about you, but when I flip a house, I only go with the best. Diamond countertops, platinum toilet paper dispensers, etc. Or hell, mirrored countertops for snorting coke from and market to celebrities. Maybe throw in a head-shaving room.
Damn, I should sell seminars.
Depends. My garden shed has granite countertops. The 15 running feet cost about $80 more than Formica and doesn't burn when i leave the soldering iron on. I custom designed my composite countertops a dozen years ago. The fabricator made me sign a waiver because of all wierdness I included. After installation he took pictures and measurements and incorporated them into his future projects. Cost gawd awful thousands to replace the yellow Formica tops but today they still look new and cleanup is easy. Travertine is going into the master bath this week replacing carpet. I can do stone, I cannot do wall to wall carpeting. $140 plus labor. Don't knock pergraniteteel, just their inappropriate use by the flipper crowd.
I noticed the Union Jack toothpick in the dish they posted... We had one of those faux-British restaurants open in my city recently. I tried their fish and chips (yes, fried, both of them)... The fish was good, but the chips appeared to be plain old frozen fries (I know "chips" in Britain are what we call fries, but I was expecting something better than Ore Ida). A dinner companion got crisps with their meal, which appeared to be freshly made.
Anyway, it doesn't add up... Casey's money man is bankrolling this whole trip, and they stay in what appears to be an inexpensive motel (the room looked okay but it was small), but rent a full-size car and eat at Macaroni Grill and Jamba Juice.
Did any of you guys note that Brian hasn't updated his blog since the 24th of Feb? Do you think that Mr. Chucklehead is the mysterious "G?"
If so, this is going to be good.
The thought crossed my mind. Casey is keeping his money man's identity close to his vest, to protect him from the people trying to tell him the truth, er, I mean, the haters. Got to protect him from being harassed by the haters.
Brian appears to be stupid enough to get sucked into Casey's "charm."
Just like Duane, and Amy, and the East Coast Guy...etc....
If it is Brian, Casey will mistakenly out him in one of his dopey photo ops.
He'll be in the background laying pipe while a tripod is taking a pic of Nigel and Casey holding hands or trying to reenact that previous picture.
My money is on either the "money guy" scamming Casey ala the the Prblinkbiz babes or a law enforcment undercover operation.
Far as I know, yo, the mentally defective "Young Manager" is based in Oregon or Washington State and not Utah.
Makes him an unlikely candidate for the title of "Casey's Latest Sucker".
Sid,
Check his link for his church. It's near Fullerton, CA.
It's on this post.
It never occurs to Casey that the best deals are those that can stand up to sunlight.
For him, if it's not shady, overly complicated, or if it takes work, it just doesn't make sense.
He is so in love with the veneer of what he thinks is the art of the deal--the big cars, the meals, the flashy equipment--that he doesn't really understand, want to know, or care about what it really takes (work) to get things done. He is totally Mr. Short Cut.
If he wasn't armed with a few web skills, a means to blog, and wads from idiot mortgage brokers he lied to, he'd be just one of those mislead losers that show up at Quixtar/Amway/Herbalife/Carleton Sheets/whatever seminars, blows all his money, and goes gentle into that good night. (And trust me, given the health food blather he gives, he had to be connected with Shaklee or Herbalife at one point in his life.)
Instead, we're gifted with a narcissistic, navelgazing blowhard whose world and mental mindset allows him to consider crab legs and hamburgers as "vegan" fare; that can maintain two identites on two blogs and and lie about it in a heartbeat; who uses people with no remorse; who, under that happyyappy slackerboy exterior, is seething with resentment that anyone dare thinks that he is wrong; and the "poster boy" that hasn't realized that shady deals and late night meetings are most often associated with corruption, drug deals and drug use, prostitution, or hot monkey love with someone other than your wife.
Agreed. Still a very oddball allocation of business expenses...
Nice car, shit hotel, horrible meals. "great seafood in Utah". That is funny. Great "previously frozen cooked seafood."
I'm really, REALLY surprised that nobody has mentioned aside from the Jamba, the Vegan Calamari and general F.U. attitude this entire weekend is carrying (and we haven't even read his actual POST yet!) his murse is superglued to his shoulder. He has it on in EVERY picture. And he is certain to use the term SWEET DEALS in almost every picture. Even this ludicrous picture of Nigel and Casey at a TABLE
By the way, Casey is now just hogging Flickr's bandwidth. He can run the show from there, he knows we'll look and read his comments and the whole thing will take on a life of its own over here. He has a knack for this, but I'm not entirely sure it's planned.
@Sid:
Bri Bri has a telephone, e-mail, and access to plane tickets. That's all Casey needs for his "sweet deals."
I wish someone would do the world a favour and just run the three of them over.
Maybe they're planning a backwoods polygamist colony? That would be SWEET!
@ Stephanie J
Sorry if you already mentioned this, but are you a canuck?
@TK
The answer to that is that Casey has no freaking class. He doesn't even have style, let alone substance.
Hence the previously frozen seafood, and the no-tell hotel with the stunning view of a roof on the house next door. Also, note the amount of time wasted on taking pictures and trying to mislead the "haters" rather than doing productive things...like staying home, opening the mail, and finding a job....
I am not saying that "G-Money" could not be Bri-Bri, just that it seems unlikely.
After all, Bri-Bri is strapped for cash, too.
@TK
You have a point about the murse, though--we know that Casey is a master of staging. This could be just an expensive jaunt to drive up blog traffic, (or a cover to rendezvous with his Secret Love, who lusts after blog traffic as well) but man, if he's that crazy, he needs to be in jail.
Back when Casey first casually mentioned the Utah trip and Nigel was like "you're going to Utah and didn't mention it....."
I don't buy it. I think Nigel is the one footing the bill. I think those two butt buddies are closer than they let on.
And Brian was in the Navy so his motto was "never leave your buddies behind." Or is that buddy's behind?
New update at looser's site.
How pissed off must Galina be if Casey went out there without her.
I'm guessing there is serious trouble in paradise.
I'm surprised the locks weren't changed.
The locks were changed on Galina's chastity belt. Someone else has the key now, but it sure as hell ain't Casey Serin ;)
CHASTITY BELT??? LOL ROFL
The comment on the crab legs just kills me:
Had to splurge a little after a full day of business...
He uses "business" as if it were a verb. Damn immigrants! :)
Also, driving around looking at a couple cookie-cutter houses is not a full day of anything, except dodging creditors and responsibility.
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