Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Debt Load

Monkey on your back. Bubba on your back. Cashcall on your back. This stuff writes itself. And yes, that is a Jetta.

Update: Casey's latest "Plan 9 From outerspace" is to register and enable free commenting. Here's what he says:

So here is my plan. Register yourself using link below and I will let you speak freely without moderation. However, I will trust that you keep it somewhat reasonable. If you get too vulgar or cross the line I will warn you and if you persist I will disable your account.

My reply: Totalitarian countries do much the same with people who wish to comment. No thanks. Better yet, tell your parents that you are instituting new censorship measures because this freedom of speech stuff they brought you into is cramping your sweet deals.

102 comments:

Anonymous said...

FIRST!

Anonymous said...

Murst and Wurst!

Anonymous said...

Dammit!....

Rob Dawg said...

89 seconds. Come on people! I'm not feeling the hate here! Casey could have closed 3 sweet apartment deals in 89 seconds. We must remain alert.

"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt." -- John Philpot Curran: Speech upon the Right of Election, 1790

Anonymous said...

What is it with Jetta owners and "sweet" rims?

Anonymous said...

I see Snowflake's mad IT skillz are at work again. When you try to open up his latest post:


"Page Not Found.

'Perhaps you typed in the wrong address or the page has moved. Use the navigation links or the search bar on the right to find your way."

Anonymous said...

When you click on the thumbnailed pic, it looks like there is a corpse sitting in the driver's seat.

I know, it's a picture from the near future! Casey's painted the Jetta red in a weak attempt to disguise it from repo men, and he's just bought more plywood and supplies from IKEA™. After the car craps out on him, he finally throws in the towel once and for all ;-p

Anonymous said...

Can you believe this assclown?

His latest scam.

"#
32. Casey Serin
April 18th, 2007 at 2:35 pm

Man… there are 180 comments waiting moderation… it’s getting crazy around here again and I don’t have anybody helping me moderate anymore (Nigel used to help for a couple of weeks). I also want to move to real-time commenting somehow and don’t want to deal with recruiting other people to help me unless I have to.

So here is my plan. Register yourself using link below and I will let you speak freely without moderation. However, I will trust that you keep it somewhat reasonable. If you get too vulgar or cross the line I will warn you and if you persist I will disable your account.

Register here for instant comments.

It’s a quick process. Just requires an email address and your password will be emailed to you.

Once I have enough people in the system I will enable instant commenting for everybody who registered. I will need at least 10 people so that we can actually have a conversation going. Otherwise it will be just one person waiting on everybody else. So lets give this a shot. Go ahead and register using the link above and I will enable the feature hopefully tomorrow if there is demand.

Everybody else will still be able to post without registering but you will have to wait for moderation. As you can see sometimes things get backed up for several hours.

Lots of good things are brewing by the way… stay tuned.



First, there is NO WAY I would give this scumbag any valid email or anyway to ping me. Who knows what he would do- sell your email- (again) put viruses in the emails, etc. PLUS, I thought he was trying to SELL free moderation for $10 a month?

What a LOOSER.

Anonymous said...

Well, I just used a "spam-catcher" Yahoo e-mail address that I never check (and specifically use for this purpose). He can send all the viruses and spam he wants, I couldn't care less.

I suggest others register their desired names before others do... I snagged my handle! :-]

lawnmower man said...

Ditto.

Did you try looking at his Dashboard yet? Looks like he does have permissions set correctly, but you can at least see the moderation queue count...

Anonymous said...

two URLS:

dodgeit.com

mailinator.com

Kerriella said...

Benoit, I registered as well. Personally I think this could be a good thing. At least we won't have to wait days for him to finally get around to moderating any more.

R-Boy said...

yo soy DC ECONOMIST

BOO YA!

(well, now casey doesnt have to read comments...)

good things ? hah!

Unknown said...

I did it, I registered on IAFF...now I feel down right NASTY.

ugh.

Oh well it'll where off as much hilarity will ensue...

By the way this is my Casey-only e-mail so lets watch the spam explode.

Schnapps said...

I have a couple hundred gmail invites if anyone needs a new address.

Kerriella said...

R-Boy,

He didn't listen to anything we said before so what does it matter if he doesn't even read them now? I think for the most part we are all in agreement that the reason we even still visit IAFF is to see what each other has to say and to make fun of Casey's newest post.

lawnmower man said...

this freedom of speech stuff they brought you into is cramping your sweet deals

*cough*

The freedom of speech guaranteed by the First Amendment protects citizens from *governmental* censorship: "Congress shall make no law [...] abridging the freedom of speech."

Trying to swing the First Amendment against Casey is as ridiculous in its own way as Nigel using Niemöller's words against the haters. We may not like it, but Casey has every right to moderate his site however he sees fit.

(Sorry, pet peeve of mine; most people who bleat "but what about free speech" have little idea what it really means. Compare also the Imus fiasco: not a free speech issue. Imus would be protected against the government shutting down his show, but his employers can do what they like.)

Anonymous said...

Thank you, Lawnmower man. I can't stand people who claim "violation of free speech" on every little thing. It applies to government persecution and government persecution ONLY.

I like Casey's plan on the moderation.

Miranda Mayer said...

I'll be very disappointed if anyone 'registers' for the 'privilege' to comment on IAFF.

I think a blanket boycott would teach that little f*cker a lesson. Nothing like tumbleweed and crickets to make him realize how much his popularity relies on his haters.

Miranda Mayer said...

::disgusted::

Anonymous said...

Dawg,

Don't drag the worst movie ever made down to Snowflake's level. Such a classic should never be mentioned in the same sentence with Casey.

Ed Wood will haunt you....

Sprezzatura said...

I'm not inclined to sign up for an account. I rarely post at IAFF and I don't want to give him validation in the form of increassing his registered user count.

Anonymous said...

Can't you just register a fake address such as: godyousuckIhopeyougotojailsoon@en.us?

Oh, and where's my man Nigel? Me an' Ashton was supposed to meet him and hit the hot spots.

You know how we do- Mo' pins, Mo' problems.

Anonymous said...

Don't fret, Steph... Casey's already crowing about 40 users having signed up, but I have a feeling that many of the new users are full of sock-puppet goodness. Who knows if anyone has registered as "Nigel Swaby" yet...? "Galina"? etc. Hint, hint!! heh. Gaysey's going to find this more trouble than it's worth...

As for me, I've only made one or two comments there over the last month. I mainly wanted to snag the handle. Forgive me, for I have sinned ;-)

Anonymous said...

Game said: "I did it, I registered on IAFF...now I feel down right NASTY."

You'll feel worse when C sells your email addy to porn sites and you start getting donkey sex emails.....

Anonymous said...

Stanley, don't donkey have to have sex?

Unknown said...

Stan, that is why it is my Casey-related only e-mail. Then I'll be able to nail him once and for all for selling e-mails.

Besides, I plan on being the first to get it revoked by fliptard after having some fun with it!

Akubi said...

I should have known fliptard sees a chiropractor. Yet another means of frittering away his time and/or money and accomplishing nothing.

Unknown said...

Looks like yet another of Snowflakes hair brained schemes fails to take off. I say 5 to 1 this doesn't happen.

"WordPress software doesn’t let me do that by default - it’s either all or nothing, can’t split. So I’m going to check to see if there is such a plugin out there or worst case I will have to roll up my sleeves and hack the code a little. "

Anonymous said...

Casey says he's going to a chiropractor for free by "bartering tech services" with him. Pure troll bait. Two thoughts:

1) Why is a 24-year-old going to a chiropractor? His back must be in bad shape, probably due to the fact that he's in bed napping 18 hours per day.

2) "Bartering tech services" can be a euphemism for bartering sexual services. Either his own or Galina's depending on which way the good doctor swings. If it's not a euphemism, it's B.S.

Let's hope the actual reason he's going is because a CashCall™ representative mis-aligned his vertebrae this morning. heh.

Rob Dawg said...

Income from bartering is taxable in the year in which you receive the goods or services. Generally, you report this income on Form 1040, Schedule C (PDF), Profit or Loss from Business. If you failed to report bartering income on returns you have already filed, you should correct this by filing an amended return, Form 1040X (PDF), for each year involved. For information on amended returns, refer to Topic 308.

Anonymous said...

I used to DJ and carry vinyl around in a bag similar to the Murse Casey wears. Difference is that mine was a BAG his is a Purse and I rarely wore it over my shoulder. I usually carried it by the handle like a briefcase.

Anyway, wearing that thing over your shoulder does cause posture problems and can lead to alignment issues. Further reason why the guy is a flake and an idiot. The dumb bag is unnecessary at best.

Anonymous said...

i wish i could buy chiro care when i was broke. i couldn't even barter for it... to much pizza to deliver. sheesh. i told him i do yoga but it takes work so probably won't interest him.

Anonymous said...

Wow… I took a nap, came back and there are over 40 users in the system!

This retard is still taking naps? There's no hope for him.

<= this 24 yr old looser never naps. naps = hangover

Anonymous said...

Casey needs to take naps and see a chiropractor because of the stuff he carries around in the murse.

I wounder, when CashCall comes to take his stuff if the murse will go too?

I too will sign up - using an e-mail address dedicated only for the purpose of signing up.

Anonymous said...

The retard is trolling.

Anonymous said...

The $220 didn't accomplish a thing?

Sure it did, it accomplished paying for his debt for a month.

I swear our sweet idea guy is going to file for bankrupcy, and he is just delaying it.

And what the hell was he out of town for a week?

He again fails to answer mail and follow through. Normal successfull business people don't even think about this stuff.

Want to bet he does not have an accountant. He was doing this at the beginning of the year with his accountant. It has got to be the worse accountant or the accountant said good luck kid when he realized what a mess this guy is, and chances of getting paid is ZERO.

Casey is a disaster, who in thier right mind would ever make a business partner of this guy? He has ideas and contacts to do what? More than likely he has other con men and hucksters to take your money. I mean not one has come up with anything for his ad banner. Just a bunch of vultures. They are all sitting there waiting for the fool to have Casey help. Only a fool would actually get advice from this guy who has done one mistake after another. A easy mark!

That last post has me feeling this guy is totally hopeless. He can't get anything done.

And to be an early riser to just have to take naps? Early riser is cool if you have to milk the cows, talk to the east coast for the market opening, or other reasons. But to be an early riser just to tkae naps during the day? Is this guy for real?

I might be as lazy as casey in not getting an account, but I am no fool like Casey. And I did my own taxes and sold a house and made a pretty penney (not dirty like any of Casey's).

TOo lazy to make an account.

Anonymous said...

Look, friends. Why does anyone give a rip about what Casey does? Why is anyone in their right minds going to post on IAFF anymore? Casey doesn't even read the comments carefully, so it's really all about us reading each other's comments. Which we can do here. Or, better yet, at Timeline Guy's blog, which contains his greatest hits of IAFF posting.

Seriously, Casey is in his own world. A kind of solipsistic, "the world is what I say it is, no more and no less", Looking Glass type of world. Not to the extent of the wacko at Virginia Tech--and I do not mean to imply that Casey is violent--but the relative madness is one of degree, not of kind.

Anonymous said...

1) Why is a 24-year-old going to a chiropractor? His back must be in bad shape, probably due to the fact that he's in bed napping 18 hours per day.

There are plenty of ways for a young person to end up with spinal problems. One of the easiset is to spend too much time using computers that are set up with the monitor too low. Unmodifed laptops and PDAs are the worst of the worst, and we all know how much time Snowflake spends on those.

It's also not unheard of for foks who do manual labor in their youth to be injured in a way that they shrug off at the time, but causes problems down the line.

BTDT.

Sprezzatura said...

Other ways you can have a messed-up back at a young age:

-Sports injury
-Car accident

I personally have seen a chiropractor when I screwed my back up skiing and then a few years later when I messed it up again playing baseball.

Anonymous said...

I can't bring myself to register at IAFF, it makes me feel too dirty and not in a good way.

Anonymous said...

Timeline Guy has a blog?

Link please.

Sprezzatura said...

Oh, and this is a hoot:

If anybody can finds a plugin (or makes one) that does what I’m trying to do (see above) I will be sure to give you a reward of some kind (mention on blog? anything else?). That way I will not have to work on it tonight and we can give the registered users open comments sooner.

In other words, Casey's too lazy to try to code up a commenting system himself and is fishing for some sucker willing to do it for him.

That's the power of being the Idea Man!

Anonymous said...

Ogg,

I'm pretty sure he does....let me see if I can scarf up a link

Anonymous said...

In other words, Casey's too lazy to try to code up a commenting system himself and is fishing for some sucker willing to do it for him.

This is the second time that Casey's wanted to do something beyond what Wordpress and off-the-shelf plugins can do, and the second time that he's tried to get somebody else to do it for him. Is it laziness, lack of l337 sk1llz, or both?

Either way, I'd pay money to see Snowflake interview for a PHP programming jobs if one of the interviewers had read his comment.

Anonymous said...

If I sat on a blue ball all day I'd need a chiropractor too.

Sprezzatura said...

If he weren't flooded in comments, I'd leave a comment suggesting that he invest a little of that sweet business cash into paying for some of the work that needs doing on his website. Paying a coder to turn the blog into a business site would be a perfectly appropriate use of his corporation's dollars.

But from Casey's POV, having to spend $ on anything other than juice, "training", or sweet deals is giving in to the haterz and must be avoided at all costs.

Loser.

segfault said...

I'm surprised I don't have back and/or vision problems, due to lack of exercise and sitting at the computer all the time... Kind of like Li'l Dandelion.

¿Que? ¡Sí! was in a car accident a while back, but I suspect his "need" for a chiropractor is more of a perceived luxury like Jamba Juice or Macaroni Grille. "Hey, I can do some tech work for a chiropractor and get treated for free... All the rich people have chiropractors... Sweet!" He needs to barter with a shrink.

Anonymous said...

@ Sprez:

..."training"...

Ooh! I have it! I'll put together Ogg the Caveman's PHP Investment Boot Camp for Sweet Deal-making Idea People. Over the weekend we'll learn how to get free web hosting, install Adsense fraud protection, make sweet win-win outsourcing deals on Rent-a-coder, and even walk through the process of developing a Wordpress comment moderation plugin.

Cost: only $15k. Major credit cards accepted. Remember, you have to spend borrowed money to make passive income.

Anonymous said...

I believe the phrase last time was "maybe I can trick someone into writing one for me."

If anyone doesn't want to register for an IAFF username, I have several that I can spare.

Akubi said...

OT, but does anyone have any info about the source of the U.C. Hastings threat
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/18/BAGT4PB3H66.DTL?

Sprezzatura said...

Ogg -- I think you have a winner there!

Lou Minatti said...

IIRC, the story behind that picture is this was a stoner couple and the Home Depot/Lowes/Builder's Square (remember them?) loaders warned the husband that the car couldn't take the weight. He insisted they do it anyway. The woman was passed out and was unharmed.

Anonymous said...

Could it be the trampoline? or the faux b-boying? I do not think those things are good for your joints.

The tech-work could be building the chiro a JuicePlus™ blog...

Anonymous said...

I'm 26 and I have a bad back, and I see a chiropractor. It happens.

Anonymous said...

Damn, I didn't even notice the woman. Also didn't notice the car is running.

Here's a vintage IAFF comment to brighten your day. It's prlinkbiz from back before she and Casey met in Phoenix.

"42. prlinkbiz
October 24th, 2006 at 7:05 pm

Ignore the noise. People make mistakes and learn from them- that’s how life goes. You haters are going to eat your words."

Oh, the delicious irony.

lawnmower man said...

@Ogg: TimelineGuy. Although it's not his blog; just a greatest-hits collection someone's cut-n-pasted from IAFF.

Is it laziness, lack of l337 sk1llz, or both?

Either would be enough; both is insurmountable.

Do we have any WordPress/PHP hackers in the house? He's offering "anything else": we could get his blue ball...

Anonymous said...

lawnmower,

That's the bookmark I was trying to locate....same one I've seen. I thought it was Timeline.

Thanks, I was wondering if I imagined reading it....

Anonymous said...

There is very little scientific evidence to suggest that chiropractors are any different from the rest of the crack-actors in KC’s life.
BTW, I cannot stand it when people associate acupuncture with chiropract-shit. Huge difference. I’ve survived a serious 3-car-pile-up-auto-accident involving C4-C6 issues for over 10 years, long-term computer usage and retained 20-20 vision – thanks to acupuncture, occasionally good medicine and not being another lazy-ass SOB.

Anonymous said...

GSPG is down to .0023 per share. wasn't it at .0034 when Snowflake alledgedly purchased?

I'd love to know if he has already lost 1/3 of his borrowed money investment on this one.

Akubi said...

Chiropractors are like optometrists and scientologists; once you start seeing them you’ll never stop, because that’s the whole point of their supposed expertise.

Anonymous said...

Rob Dawg,

Can we send you a birthday card on October 25th to thank you for hosting this blog?

Anonymous said...

What happens when you create an IAFF account?

Casey gets an email address to sell.
Casey's "work load" is reduced.

Why would anyone want to create an account?

Also, creation of instant posting accounts mixed with delayed accounts makes reading comments difficult.

If there are 5 posts on a thread, and posts 1, 3, and 5 are instant posting accounts, then you will see 3 posts until the other 2 are moderated. These posts will be numbered 1, 2 and 3 until other posts are moderated.

After posts 2 and 4 are moderated, they will appear as posts 2 and 4.

If you pick up reading where you "left off", you will see the second new post, and re-read number 3.

With the volume that IAFF gets, it's going to be a mess for anyone trying to follow along.

Rob Dawg said...

Jade,
Nope. By then EN will be shell or back a 100 visitor a day exurban policy site. You'd have to thank me for hosting the new blog.

Anonymous said...

Rob Dawg,

I'll bet your wife Theresa will be happy when things slow down here.

Anonymous said...

"Why is a 24-year-old going to a chiropractor"

It can happen. I spent my youth bailing hay in the summers, cutting/splitting wood in the fall and all kinds of other farm work between that. After leaving the farm I worked 12-16 hour days on a tent crew. By 28 I had a ruptured disc and degenerative disc disease.

I stopped working so hard and got into investing after that.

Anonymous said...

"Chiropractors are like optometrists and scientologists; once you start seeing them you’ll never stop, because that’s the whole point of their supposed expertise."

I disagree. Once a year or so things get out of whack and a chiro is the only relief I can get. It only takes one visit.

Schnapps said...

Yeah, well, without an optometrist, I wouldn't be able to see properly.

And without a chiro, my dad wouldn't have kept walking and working for years before they got him to a point where he was well enough for back surgery.

Although, I agree with the statement on scientologists.

Anonymous said...

Optometrist: Can't see for shit without them. I do need to go back periodically, but the interval grows as I age. It's maybe every 4 years now versus annually when I was a kid.

Chiropractor: Went maybe half a dozen times in a short period of time, got my back sorted out, haven't needed to go back.

Scientologist: If I ever need my brain scrambled, I'll let you know how that goes.

Anonymous said...

Our buddy Nigel is sounding more like us..... did someone hack his "alternative" blog?

Here's this evening's post:

One would think that after lowering himself to the status of Internet beggar, Casey Serin would follow through on his goal of making a payment to CashCall in order to gain a fairly long term deferment. He wired the money close to when he said he would and posted a photo of the completed transaction.

Then in classic Casey form, he failed to send the agreement back in time, thus resetting his forbearance negotiation back to zero. He'll need to send in another payment to get CashCall to reconsider another forbearance agreement. Sweet deal...for CashCall that is.

This situation reminds me of stories we've seen before like not getting the deed in lieu agreement to the Texas hard money lender, not getting the short sale packet to the New Mexico lender and not resolving the missing Utah payment in a timely manner.

It boils down to accountability. These businesses Casey is working with must be accountable to their customers, their employees, their owners and even their share holders. That means a date is a date, an agreement is an agreement and a payment is a payment. Failure to be accountable has consequences. No, Casey can't just ignore things and hope they go away. Even things you've thought have gone away may just be waiting for a better time to show themselves.

I hope Casey actually learns a lesson this time. Shit, who am I kidding, if losing a house because of a missed deadline isn't lesson enough, I don't know what is.

Good luck Casey. Like the people caught in the sudden spring snowstorm today, you're going to need it.

I wonder if Nigel will become identified by snowflake as a haterz?

Anonymous said...

Well, that's sweet - Nigel still has enough access to IAFF that he can post while the rest of our comments await "moderation".

Anonymous said...

Actually, he doesn't - that's a quote from his own Casey blog, not IAFF.

Mind you, I'm not the least bit surprised to hear that he was moderating IAFF for a bit - remember how even at the height of his "outing" campaign there was barely a mention in the IAFF comments?

And since Casey didn't have any obvious motive for censoring them, that left only two possibilities: there generally weren't any comments on the affair (yeah, right), or they were being censored by the only person who stood to suffer from their publication.

Anonymous said...

Boy oh boy got a good one here. Set up a bogus Yahoo account and mailed Snowflake a couple of weeks back with a fake sob story of how my home was facing foreclosure. After a couple of weeks, the Clown Prince mailed me back with this:



Jeff, [fake name I used]

I would love to help. However, I get tons of requests. To make sure
I give you the timely attention you deserve I must charge a small fee.

The fee is $39 for a 20 minute phone consultation. That also includes unlimited email consulting for a week.

I can't guarantee anything but I will usually answer most questions in that time or refer you to somebody I trust. Additional help is on a case-by-case basis.

Dealing with foreclosure on 6 homes in the last 8 months has
definitely taught me a lot. Also going public with my story gave me
some great contacts for foreclosure prevention. I am glad to help you with my resources.

If you would like to proceed please click the following link to send payment securely via PayPal using a credit card:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=casey%40serin%2eus&item_name=Foreclosure%20consulting%2020%2dmin&amount=39%2e00&no_shipping=0&no_note=1¤cy_code=USD&lc=US&bn=PP%2dBuyNowBF&charset=UTF%2d8


If the above link doesn't work, try: http://tinyurl.com/27rfqn


If you're not happy with my help, I will return your money, no
questions asked.

Once I receive your payment I will ask you some pre-preliminary
questions by email so I can prepare a good answer and maximize our time on the phone. If you prefer, we can skip the phone and talk by email instead. Or both.

Your payment allows me to help more people. Thank you.





Guess this is his "work".

Anonymous said...

"The fee is $39 for a 20 minute phone consultation. That also includes unlimited email consulting for a week."

What a whore/scammer he is. This just gets better and better.....

Anonymous said...

"The fee is $39 for a 20 minute phone consultation. That also includes unlimited email consulting for a week.

I can't guarantee anything but I will usually answer most questions in that time or refer you to somebody I trust. Additional help is on a case-by-case basis."

Casey's going the 'best effort' route I see. Give him $39 and he'll try to get you your answers or maybe pawn you off on someone else. But if he's on vacation, or napping, or gnoshing at the Macaroni Grill...well he has to prioritize.

"Dealing with foreclosure on 6 homes in the last 8 months has
definitely taught me a lot."

I LOLed IRL. True story.

Anonymous said...

And from that I bet he's extrapolated that if he charges $39 for twenty minutes and he works an eight hour day, this means that his annual income must therefore be around $75,000 (allowing for reasonable holiday time) and he's entitled to claim as much.

No matter that only a retarded gibbon would actually stump up the cash in the first place, let alone fail to take him up on his refund offer afterwards.

Anonymous said...

Slightly off-topic for this specific thread, but anyway.......
(sorry if this is old news to some)



UPDATE 1-U.S. March home foreclosures rise 7 pct-RealtyTrac

NEW YORK, April 18 (Reuters) - U.S. home foreclosures rose 7 percent in March from February to 149,150, reflecting the struggle of subprime borrowers to keep their homes, real estate data firm RealtyTrac said on Wednesday.

The figure, which comprises default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions, was 47 percent higher than a year ago, the Irvine, California-based company said.

Nevada posted the highest foreclosure rates of the 50 U.S. states for a third straight month, with Las Vegas posting the second-highest foreclosure rate among cities monitored by RealtyTrac.

Nevada reported 4,738 foreclosure filings, more than triple the number in March 2006. Its foreclosure rate showed 1 filing for every 183 households, more than four times the national rate of 1 per 775 households, according to RealtyTrac.

Default rates in the subprime segment of the U.S. mortgage market have jumped in recent months as the housing industry has slowed and prices have fallen.

At least 20 lenders in the subprime mortgage sector, which serves borrowers with poor credit histories at high interest rates, have gone out of business as a result.

The crisis has triggered broader concerns that the fallout may spread to mainstream lenders and damage the economy.

"While foreclosures are causing a major disruption in the subprime sector of the lending industry and saturating pockets of some local markets, it's important to note that U.S. foreclosure activity overall is not far above historical norms," James Saccacio, RealtyTrac's chief executive officer, said in a statement.

It is unclear whether the surge in foreclosures in the first quarter would continue. Last year, a spike in foreclosures in the first quarter leveled off through the second and third quarters, the company said.

"However, if that pattern does not repeat itself, and foreclosure activity continues to accelerate, we may see more widespread consequences," Saccacio said. ((Reporting by Richard Leong, editing by James Dalgleish; Reuters

Anonymous said...

"Slightly off-topic for this specific thread, but anyway......."

There is no "on-topic" on EN... LOL

Anonymous said...

Wow, now that you think about what he really wants to do ($40 for 20 minutes' work) and actually see it on paper, it really won't work. I'm sure the first thing somebody who's so broke they're facing foreclosure wants to do is waste $40 on the phone with Casey Serin. Does he realzie how f-ing ridiculous that sounds?

BTW, Haven't been to DHC in a few days, not feeling the need to go. This last post simply confirms it - Nigel offers nothing.

As to the Chiropractic thing. I was told to go see this really old guy in my neighborhood in NYC who'd been practicing since the days when people thought Chiropractors were quacks. I'd had this nagging neck/shoulder thing for a couple of years, recurring. I went to see this guy in his office, which happened to be a converted apartment complete with office and waiting room/living room. This guy had hands of steel and nearly tore my head off. But I saw him once, and that was 5 years ago. He told me at the time that modern Chiropractic was all about getting you to have to come back, and that the original intent was to get you sorted out right away. Well he did just that. Oh and he only charged me $20 because he felt there was no reason a guy in his 20's should have to pay for these kinds of problems. So the moral of the story is, choose your chiropractor wisely. I'm sure Snowflake's does the "come back for 80 follow-ups and we'll attach an ultrasound electrode to your back".

Anonymous said...

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Case Number: 06AS05460
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Case Type: PI - Motor Vehicle
Case Title: NATALIYA LESHCHUK, ET AL VS. BRITTANY FRANCESCA ROMEO,ET AL



Select Name Party Type
CHOBAN, VLADIMIR, GUARDIAN AD LITEM Plaintiff
JARAMILLO, AMIEL Attorney for Plaintiff
KINSELLA, PATTY Defendant
LESHCHUK, ALEKSEY, A MINOR Plaintiff
LESHCHUK, NATALIYA Plaintiff
MILLER, R. JAMES Attorney for Defendant
ROMEO, BRITTANY FRANCESCA Defendant
SERIN SERIN, KONSTANTIN, A MINOR Plaintiff
SERIN, LIDIYA, GUARDIAN AD LITEM Plaintiff

Unknown said...

As is par for the course Casey fails to understand where the money really comes from in a situation like this. Charting $2/minute isn't going to work. People are facing foreclosure because they DON'T HAVE any money! Let alone enough to blow forty bucks on a lame conversation with Fliptard.

Casey should be trying to monetize through sponosors, ads & referals (short sale agents & mortgage brokers). Yet again, Snowflake fails to understand how to run a business and ends up playing businessman instead.

Fucktard.

Unknown said...

*charging $2/minute

R-Boy said...

Not to mention, Dave Ramsey will give much better advice, likely give you his Financial Peace Package free.

I was listening yesterday, and a guy who inherited 5 million dollars called him saying "I dont know what to do" Dave not only took him through some very good steps, but gave him the FP package, his workshop, and said he'd cover his recommended CPA referral, IF the guy read the stuff, attended the seminar, and called back with an update.

He also did the same for 2 people in foreclosure. I think Dave Ramsey > Casey Serin

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Anonymous said...

Re:
>>Sacramento Superior Court
Case Number: 06AS05460 <<


Scoop'n'swoop? Is the Serin family an organized criminal body?

I hope I'm getting all the rich Casey goodness here. I've deleted the bookmarks of IAmForcingFluids and all of Sparkling Nigel's blogs. It prevents temptation - and it saves time!

Around here, many chiropractors are also scientologists and/or "multi-level marketers". Given a conversational opening, they will attempt to sell patients, staffers, and passing bystanders a variety of expensive, fraudulent crap. On the whole, they are not what most people would consider above-board, normal people. They're scrub-wearing gypsy predators in strip mall offices with brown vinyl baseboards peeling off the walls. I used to have a job in which I interacted with chiropractors on a daily basis. They have a strong state lobbying pre$ence and they get away with all kinds of stuff under sanction of local law.

Optemetrists have assisted me and my -9+ diopter eyeballs, so I must attest to their occasional genuine utility.

Casey's solicitation of a "consultation fee" as described in the above posts is desperate, despicable, and petty. It's prime Casey! The boy still has it.

Anonymous said...

"Not to mention, Dave Ramsey will give much better advice, likely give you his Financial Peace Package free."

Absolutely, Dave Ramsey went bust in RE years ago ala snowflake (minus the fraud). He is someone Casey should call in and listen to, however he won't since Dave's message will be "get two jobs each, pay your debts". Not what snowflake wants to hear.

Anonymous said...

Alan Smithee is right, regarding optometrists. They're highly trained health professionals, with similar training and place in the medical hierarchy as dentists, more or less. There's a class of cases that they treat, and, if there's something beyond their scope, they kick it up to specialist MDs (ophthalmology for optometrists, ENT for dentists).

Yes, you'll typically go back for repeat visits to optometrists, but that's because your eyes suck and will need looking at over time. Would you complain about dentists being quacks because you have to go back repeatedly for your checkup, and occasionally have a cavity drilled?

Anonymous said...

Been looking through IAFF and found the spreadsheet of his finances. Apparently there is a balloon payment due next month on a $22k loan. Any comments?

R-Boy said...

The guy at Costco was pretty good, I am satisfied and I can see

You know, I listen to Dave Ramsey every day, even though I dont have any debt save the house, and have an insanely high savings rate. He's inspiring, and i can learn so much from the callers, and his suggestions.

And this blog, getrichslowly, and the bogleheads have been a blessing

Anonymous said...

ok so someone on this blog is posting creepy stalkerish comments at Rob using the name I've used for a long time.

Now I need to come up with a new name.

Creepy.

Sorry Rob. It wasn't me (the originaly Jade)

Anonymous said...

Now hold the phone.

Wasn't his whole business model to "help" people in foreclosure by hooking them up with short sale deals, and then take a commission for "bird dogging"?

Wow - he's trying to fleece from both ends! I wonder if this is the "business plan" that Nigel warned him wouldn't work?

Schnapps said...

So $39 for 20 minutes of "consulting"? Or $117 an hour?

HA.

I can see amorality abounds chez Casey. He's trying to pimp his blog as a "resource" from the goodness of his heart, but then goes and charges rates for probably shoddy service, that people could get for free or next to free elsewhere?

Anonymous said...

Doesn't giving financial advice require some form of certification or licensing?

And, can I get refunded for the number of "uh"s, "Um"s and "err"s Snowflake will surely drop every time he opens his idiotic mouth?

Who wants to take one for the team and make the "donation" and record the call for much merriment and amusement?

Anonymous said...

I've hired Casey to carry around my purse and my little dog while Nigey and I hit the VIP suites all over town. That's Hot!

Anonymous said...

From GSPG's anuual report released on April 16 - only Casey could be this stupid:

Liquidity and Capital Resources

We recognize that our cash resources are limited. Our continued existence and plans for future growth depend on our ability to obtain the capital necessary to operate, through the generation of revenue or the issuance of additional debt or equity. In 2006, we raised an aggregate of $1,700,000 through three financing transactions. Through April 14, 2007, we received $700,000 in additional funding. While this additional funding may meet our immediate working capital needs, if we are not able to generate sufficient revenues and cash flows or obtain additional or alternative funding, we will be unable to continue as a going concern. We have yet to realize an operating profit at our Company. As disclosed in the report of our independent registered public accounting firm in our financial statements included in this Form 10-KSB for the year ended December 31, 2006, our recurring losses and negative cash flow from operations raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.

In connection with our acquisition of the Plum Mining Company, LLC, we issued a promissory note to the seller for $1 million (the balance of the purchase price). At December 31, 2006, the outstanding balance on the Note was $250,000. We are in default on this Note.

Under the terms of our November 2004 subscription agreement, we issued 8% convertible notes in the aggregate principal amount of $11.1 million to an investor group. Under the terms of the notes, our first principal and interest repayment was scheduled for April 1, 2005. We are in default on these notes. The default interest rate is 15%.

In March 2005, we issued a secured convertible note in the aggregate amount of $6,885,184 with a 12% interest rate for the 29,573,803 shares and accrued interest due under the mandatory redemption payment provisions of our November 2004 subscription agreement. Payments on this note were scheduled to begin on April 1, 2005. We are in default on this note, causing the interest rate to increase to the default rate of 18%.

On July 15, 2005, we completed a financing transaction, which provided us with $800,000 in funding. In consideration for the financing, we issued promissory notes with a face value of $1.2 million, reflecting an original issue discount of thirty-three and one-third (33.3%) percent. The term of the notes is two years, with an optional extension of one year at the option of the investor. The annual interest rate on the notes is 15% of the face value and is payable monthly. On September 28, 2005, we completed another financing transaction under the same terms and conditions as the July 2005 financing. The September 2005 financing provided us with $200,000 in funding. We have not made the monthly interest payments on these notes, and thus we are in default. The default interest rate on these notes is 22%.

We are working with the above-referenced note holders to cure the defaults. The above referenced notes have a total value of approximately 11,726,000 at December 31, 2006. While failure to reach a resolution would likely cause us to seek external funding in order to meet our obligations, there can be no assurance that such funding would be available.

Anonymous said...

From GSPG's annual report (above):

We are in default on these notes. The default interest rate is 15%.
...
We are in default on this note, causing the interest rate to increase to the default rate of 18%.


Now you're getting Casey really confused "Hey, so what's the big deal? Isn't this the normal way to run a business? It's how I would do it. In default? Paying default rates? It's all good."

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Anonymous said...

Wow, $40 for foreclosure/real estate advice from Casey. That just might be worth the money. Record the calls and keep the emails.

Anonymous said...

AWWWWW,

Widdle Casey Poo is all hissy about us haterz. Now that he got his Beg-a-Thon $$ it's back to FUCK YOU mode.

"By the way, I’m catching up on comments from last post (over 200 waiting still). Should be released within 30 min or so.

I got a ton of registrations too. However some of the those are trolls and pretenders. You know who you are. You’re screwing it up for everybody else! I now have to put some kind of a system in place to prevent the trolls from registering again and again using different email addresses and creating a big headache for me.

Perhaps I’ll ban the IP address with a slight risk that the address may be used for more than one person and I will be banning good people with the bad.

So for now the comments will continue as usual with moderation and all. As soon as I have a good system for managing user and registrations I will start allowing instant comments.

Even then it will be a trial period. If the haters start causing more headaches I may have to take more drastic steps. Freakin’ haters… I’m getting tired of you! I don’t know how much longer I’m gonna bother with you. My traffic will be just fine without you."


I repeat my call for a boycott of IAFF

Anonymous said...

@ Gameover
The "R" should be repeatedly.

Heh heh, I'm one of the ones who annoyed Casey with the multiple accounts. Good times!

Anonymous said...

...gee I wonder if we can pay Snowflake for foreclosure consulting services with giftcards to Jamba Juic and/or The Macaroni Grill instead of using PayPal?