Was too busy making connections and identifying opportunities today and didn’t get a chance to check up on the NM foreclosure or send the short sale packet. Will attempt again tomorrow.
I get bogged down by a lot of these small details sometimes. Dwelling too much on my negative situation and on the debt that I’m in only slows me down and keeps me down longer.
I must be focusing on bigger better things that will help me make a comeback as an investor / entrepreneur. Only 20% of the stuff I do is really going to matter anyway according to the 80/20 rule. I am learning to identify and focus on the 20% with better accuracy and learn to procrastinate the 80%. You call it laziness but I call it efficiency.
My whole situation is really a blessing in disguise. The connections I’m making through the blog have been truly amazing and I’m just beginning to identify all the available opportunities.
The lessons I’m learning are priceless. I hear most successful business people go through an average of 3 bankruptcies / big failures before making it. I’m in the process of getting my big mistake(s) out of the way early in the game.
Thank you all my supporters for all your support and encouragement. I would not be able to go on without it. And thank you all my critics for your constructive feedback which keeps me out of trouble and helps me see things from different angles.
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You were given a miracle by your creator to avoid foreclosure on this property and you didn’t send in the short sale packet? Unless your “meeting” involved getting the money needed to save that property, I think your priorities are misplaced.
Get the freaking shortsale packet in!!!!!!!!!!
Nigel
P.S. - Otherwise I support you.
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quite frankly …if i knew a businessman had been through3 bk
i would touch him with a barge pole ..get real casey ..most gobroke ..but we dont resort to bk …your word is all you are worth and constant bk’s show your word is worthless.instead of following all these theories …just do it …you can think all you like but if it is not followed by action..well say no more
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Why not just post everything here?
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Ho Ho Ho - It’s Santa Flipper Clause
CS “Good things are coming…”
And so is Santa F. Clause
On December 25, I will be visiting many of you, except for Julian unless he puts some chimneys in those trailers.By the way Casey, why did you ask for a loaded 38 for Christmas? I’ll bring it to you if you promise to use it responsibly.
Santa F. Clause
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What is the purpose of this blog Casey ?
If you truly want to “educate” your audience, why not elaborate on the productive things you claim to be doing ? 99% of what you write about is foolish BS that does nothing more than to infuriate your readers.
May I also suggest that you step it up with the moderation of the responses ? I thought you had someone helping you with that ?
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>>I hear most successful business people go through an average of 3 bankruptcies / big failures before making it.
Where did you hear this? Care to share the source? I would trust this stat more if it’s from some reputable school than a fly-by real estate school.
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ok, so is this where Casey got hacked, or are we now going to see the reveal for the viral ad campaign?
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This is just another huge positive speak self fulfilling wishful thinking post
What guru/book/method are you following in making this post today or what drugs are you on Casey, this post is making way less sense than your normal gibberish.
Did you finish “Getting Things Done”?
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Casey,
Suit up, show up, do the next right thing, and see what happens.
I will tell you that you have a ton of impending doom to face but hey if you follow the above advice that I used, you’ll make a turnaround…But I must warn you…it will probably take 10 years.
Frank in SF
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you’d do well as a crystal-stroking hippy, or even a ymca workout achiever. i’m not convinced you’ll succeed as an investor or entrepreneur (i am both). but you are right that focusing on THE RIGHT THINGS is terribly important. you don’t do a good job of this yet, but perhaps you will some day.
p.s. i approached bankrupcy once but please stop romanticizing it. it’s possible for people to fail throughout their entire lives. i believe you might be learning a few things at this point, but you seem to learn slowly and expensively.
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You got the 80/20 rule mixed up.
It’s 20% of whatever you fail to do that will come back to bite your a** . And seeing how much you don’t do…….
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I would take it even further and say only 2% of the stuff you do really matters, so the other 98% can be safely ignored.
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This sounds like a sign-off!
Is the blog done?
Now we have to sign up to a list to hear what’s new from our favorite Entrepreneur, Real Estate Investor, Blogger? (is that the right order?)
HB
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Wow…never underestimate the restorative powers of some good ol’ Jamba Juice with a wheat grass chaser!
Unfortunately anyone who has followed this blog for more than a few weeks knows exactly what is coming next….
The frightening plunge to the depths of despair, then a trip somewhere….then a sudden realization that part of that “important” 20% should include more time spent filing bankruptcy and less time blogging….followed of course by a
another trip to Jamba Juice financed in the most esoteric of ways…and thus the cycle repeats….Sadly many of us observing this cycle and seeking to alert you to the precipitous decline in your affairs are brushed aside, seen as little more than a minor impediment between you and your apparently obvious destiny as a multimillionaire real estate mogul.
Cheers…Last fall we mocked you for spending $40 on Jamba Juice. None of us would have expected you found a way to pay more for a drink. At least you got a picture of the $400,000 Jamba Juice….hope it was worth it!
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You got your 3 failures out of the way early in life! That means it will all go in your favor from here on out.
When do you expect your first million?
SWEET!
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Rationalization. The process of constructing a logical justification for a decision that was originally arrived at through a different mental process.
This post is rationalization. Your first goal was to make money. It ended in failure. So now your goal is simply to learn and make connections.
Freud didn’t think of rationalization is a particularly productive defense mechanism. In your case, the reason that rationalization will end in failure is obvious. When you fail in learning (and you fail at learning almost continuously) and in making any useful connections (the ones that you have made so far have pretty much tried to rip you off) then you will simply shift your goals again.
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Casey,
I think I found a way to help you save on your electric bill
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“My whole situation is really a blessing in disguise.”
Wow, that is SOME disguise.
Serin, you’re taking trolling to new heights. Notice how your traffic triples when you chum with troll gold like the gem above.
Kudos to you, Sir Trolls-a-lot.
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“You call it laziness but I call it efficiency” - that made me laugh…it wouldnt be laziness if you spent the time actually working on the 20% rather than procrastinating the 80%, half of the time talking about the 20% and the other half of the time blogging about it!
I still cant believe you havent done something massive with all the traffic on this blog. Make it work for you (Everyone else is).
There is a goldmine - “Get the gold”
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You remind me of Hitler in the bunker during the last days of the second World War, rambling on and on about his ‘miracle weapons’ that were going to turn the tide.
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“Was too busy making connections and identifying opportunities today and didn’t get a chance to check up on the NM foreclosure or send the short sale packet.”
LOL
“I hear most successful business people go through an average of 3 bankruptcies / big failures before making it.”
LOL
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The 80/20 rule is not going to work very well for you. We’ve seen your “accuracy” in discerning “sweet deals,” so your accuracy in predicting the important vs. unimportant stuff should be similar.
You’re right, getting a steady job wouldn’t make a dent in your debt, but it would provide you with more cash per month than sporadic consulting jobs, and give you much needed spending money. Your pride and aversion to doing real work prevent you from doing it, though.
It appears from this blog that you are a sociopath. From Wikipedia:
“A psychopath is defined as a person having no concerns for the feelings of others and a complete disregard for any sense of social obligation. They seem egocentric and lack insight of any sense of responsibility or consequence. Their emotions are thought to be superficial and shallow, if they exist at all. They are considered callous, manipulative, and incapable of forming lasting relationships, let alone show any kind of love. It is thought that any emotions which the primary psychopath exhibits are the fruits of watching and mimicking other people’s emotions. They show poor impulse control and a low tolerance for frustration and aggression. They have no empathy, remorse, anxiety or guilt in relation to their behavior. In short, they truly are devoid of conscience. However, they understand that society expects them to behave in a conscientious manner, and therefore they mimic this behaviour when it suits their needs.”The bad news is, this disorder is considered incurable/untreatable. The good news is, sociopaths tend to congregate together (con artists con other con artists). I happen to know a few and can hook you up with a few other sociopaths if you’d like.
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Please let us know how that phone call goes tommorrow. She is waiting to hear from you. You know who I am talking about.
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Re: #15. Its all uphill from here!
Casey has already received his first million–in debt! Yuk, yuk, yuk!
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This blog reminds me very much of stock board internet chat rooms where, I admit, I have squandered all sorts of time.
Although I perceive myself to be an optimist, I am rather skeptical of the capital markets (or at least some corners of them) and have seen, in real time, the obliteration of hopes and dreams (especially during the nasdaq’s fall from grace).Of the many ‘message boards’ I’d read, the ones that seemed most ‘hopeful, despite the odds’ (eg: small biotech/ start-ups) also had very convincing ‘cheerleaders’.
Of course, most of these ‘companies’ left nothing more behind than the broke bagholders that ate up the bs.So, going back to this blog; We all know trees no longer (and never did) grow to the sky. We all know castles in the air come a tumblin’ down. We know 0 minus 8 houses does not equal fortune.
We know what happens when a train comes off its tracks.
Why we remain here is the same reason I continued to read those message boards (and this blog).
We want to be amazed.
That is, to say, the stock shoots to the moon; we are amazed.
The stock tanks; we are amazed.Likewise, Casey ‘gets saved’ we will be amazed.
Casey ends up dumpster diving, we will be amazed.The amazing thing is most of us think we know the outcome.
Yet Casey, his own number one cheerleader, says we’re wrong (Good Things Are Coming…)Ladies and Gentlemen, for your entertainment pleasure, THE AMAZING CASEY:
(I just pulled the legs off a cricket and tried rubbing them together but don’t hear anything…I’m suprised, but not amazed).
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Good to see you staying positive Casey.
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You haven’t answered my question so I’ll ask again:
What is the purpose of this blog Casey ?
If you truly want to “educate” your audience, why not elaborate on the productive things you claim to be doing ? 99% of what you write about is foolish BS that does nothing more than to infuriate your readers.
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Casey, your dream job has opened up.
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My Dearest Casey -
Sorry for the long silence - was caught up in a small contretemps involving a pleasant young co-ed with a provocative but rather feverish imagination. Nothing a small pack of lawyers couldn’t take care of, but it rather took me out of my game for a few weeks. In fact, at one point it looked like poor anon might find himself sharing a cell with one of the analists! (Bubba I’m looking in your direction!) But no, cooler heads and excessive legal fees prevailed - thank God for the faculty association - and here we are.
And what have you achieved in the meantime? As far as I can see, a kind of consolidation. It is well known that most organizations grow in a “quantum” manner - they reach a certain state, hang about there for a while, and then somehow make a great leap up to the next level. That’s where you are, right now. You have the same steady stream of semi-disbelieving fans, the same ritual denunciations of your habits towards procrastination, magical thinking, and all the rest, and soon I think you will have acquired a solid enough viewing base you’ll be able to make the jump up (or down, depending on how you look at things) the entertainment ladder. Kudos! dear chum, kudos! The fans who keyed on the blue-shirt-to-red-sweater-switcheroo motif not only revealed a keen eye for your sartorial gestures, they revealed a knowledge of the ur-texts (look it up) of your entire blog. And for every one who writes, there must be a couple of thousand slapping their foreheads and saying “Wheat grass shot? The man must have the cleanest colon in Christendom!”
You are on the verge. Don’t mess it up!
Yours, in relief,
Anon.
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Is it 80% of your time that you spend doing 20% of your work? Or 20% of your time doing 80% of your work? Or is it 100% of your time doing 20% of the 80% of your 20% that is really, really, really important_ like, you know, mailing in the shortsale documents like you told the banker you would. Now they won’t get them until Monday. I bet the auction will happen tomorrow if it hasn’t happened already. Success was within reach and you stretched out and …napped. Sweet.
Good things are coming. Stay positive. Attract success. Get things done. Stay in reality. You can do it.
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Hope your sponsors are paying you something so you have some income you’re not talking about …
… but it is entertaining.
Kindof like watching an episode of the 3 Stooges … except this is the 1 Stooge.
LOL
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I hear most successful business people go through an average of 3 bankruptcies / big failures before making it.
I think you are mis-remembering some of what has been written in the press about serial entrepreneurs during the last dot-com boom (and again in this one). Yes, it is true that most successful entrepreneurs do have a failure, or even more than one, over the course of their career. What you’re overlooking is that serial entrepreneurs generally start their businesses with either bootstrapped cash (in other words, without taking out loans) or they do so with venture capital (also not a loan). Therefore, when they go bust, it hurts, but it generally doesn’t drive them into bankruptcy.
In fact, the vast majority or people who file for bankruptcy do so not because their business venture failed, but due to either a major catastrophe (such as a hurricane wiping out their town) or due to major illness. Google it, you’ll see.
Less than 1% of Americans file for bankruptcy in the course of their lives. Anyone who tells you that it’s a normal event or that it’s a regular part of business life is either trying to sell you something, or lying to you. Or maybe both.
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Today was the last sponsored day, correct? Anyone else lined up?
Your post of course is total drivel. I’ll say again that virtually anyone offering you an ‘opportunity’ just wants to rip you off, especially since they can plainly see you’re a sucker.
In proper Casey style, you managed to ignore the only thing of value.
I would be curious to hear what could possibly be bigger than losing tens of thousands of dollars on a house due to incompetence and inaction. There’s something to be said for ‘don’t sweat the small stuff,’ but you managed to simultaneously ignore gigantic financial problems while thinking you were l33t for getting a measely $250. Small stuff indeed.
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Let’s say you manage to short-sell the rest of your homes, or a few get short-sold and the rest foreclosed.
Now your credit rating is less than 480. In other words, crap.Lending standards are tightening. Banks aren’t willing to lend to just anyone anymore. You’ll need a high credit score to get the dough. Maybe they read this blog and wised up.
With the tightended standards, how do you expect to do “sweet deals” when no one is willing to lend you money?
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Coyote Investor:
“… mailing in the short sale documents like you told the banker you would. Now they won’t get them until Monday.”
Not Monday. It’s President’s Day.
And that presumes Mr. 20% finds it within himself to get it out on Friday. Doubtful.
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You’re over-trolling again. You have to keep it at least a bit realisitic if you want people to believe your stories.
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Casey says:
“The lessons I’m learning are priceless.”
Priceless you say ?
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The lessons I’m learning are priceless. I hear most successful business people go through an average of 3 bankruptcies / big failures before making it. I’m in the process of getting my big mistake(s) out of the way early in the game.
Time for some goal setting:
With experience at a $500,000 to $700,000 hit on this one, I’ll bet you can hold the next bankruptcy down to say, no more than a quarter million? And for your third bankruptcy, I’m confident you can keep it under six figures.
With that behind you, yes, you’ll be good to go.
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WTF!!! Priceless = Casey doesn’t pay.
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Casey,
All talk and no action! That pretty much sums you up.
You’re no better than a welfare recipient waiting for the next check from the hard working American public!!
And get rid of that greasy 70’s haircut!
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Hey, Kid:
“Was too busy making connections and identifying opportunities today and didn’t get a chance to check up on the NM foreclosure or send the short sale packet.”
Is that what you call sitting at the computer and looking at porno all day long…”making connections”?
Or are you cutting sweeeet deals with Nigerian Investors and offshore “Rich Daddies”?
I really gotta wonder about you, kid.
“I get bogged down by a lot of these small details sometimes.”
A foreclosure auction sale that could leave you holding the bag for a balance of 497k,(as per your property sidebar), minus the one dollar that the mortgage lender bids to win it is a “small thing”, huh, little hobbit?
“Dwelling too much on my negative situation and on the debt that I’m in only slows me down and keeps me down longer.”
Kiddo, you should be dewlling on WHERE and under WHAT circumstances you are going to BE dwelling in a few short months…
“The lessons I’m learning are priceless.”
No, ace, to US they’re priceless.
For YOU they indeed will have a price…in dollars and sense and quite likely in years and months served under some form of instutionalized correction.“My whole situation is really a blessing in disguise.”
I gotta hand it to ya, chummie.
You’re the first fellow I’ve ever seen or heard of who calmly drinks a Jamba Juice, (with or without wheatgrass), while he’s drowning.
“And thank you all my critics for your constructive feedback which keeps me out of trouble and helps me see things from different angles.”
You’re welcome, bud.
Not that the advice of your critics means a damned thing to you.
If it did, you wouldn’t BE Casey Serin…you’d just be some dumb kid who got rooked by some con-men, but is busting his a** to come clean and start over.
Living in the only house he has left, having rented or shorted all the other properties, and working two jobs to pay off a bruised,(as opposed to flaming kamikazed), credit rating.Keep your sign-up for the Caseygram, bubba, if you don’t want to share the scoop here, then your 15 minutes of fame is now officially over.
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Since reading this blog - you’ve had many “good” things that have turned sour VERY quickly:
Trip to AZ for RK and PR woman….
Job at Rich Dad’s Office
Job with Chris
Google Adsense
Sponsorship with DuaneHave you ever had a job or professional business relationship that lasted longer than 18 months without going sour or downhill?
I don’t think so.l
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Casey,
You seem to fail to grasp one of the most important facts: All large problems are made up of smaller problems. To solve the smaller problems all you have to do is keep track of all of the little details.
When working for someone else, the person who assigns the work gives you something and tries to see if you can accomplish that. If you can, then they assign you something more difficult (more steps, less supervision, more in depth) and see if you can accomplish that. Once they see where your limit is, you are kept there so you can be the most productive without causing problems for the company. So the company starts you on little problems first and if you take do little problems then you are given bigger ones.From what people have seen here, you skipped trying to deal with little problems (and taking the time to build up the skill sets required to deal with those problems) and went right to the deep end. So you are trying to develop the skills required to deal with the deep end, not realizing that you don’t know how to doggie paddle yet.
You keep saying that you want to deal with the ‘big picture’ and not have to deal with the details. If you can’t deal with the details, then you have a problem. As the saying goes “The devil is in the details” Lacking the skills of working on smaller projects you don’t have an eye for what is needed in a larger project.
Try the following: Ask yourself what is needed to renovate a bathroom. Just the bathroom now. What steps would you have to take to gut, repipe, re-eletricfy, close up and install the bathroom? Now what order do you need to do it in, what are the lead times of the various parts? What is your time scale, how many men? These are the details you need to know so you can successfully renovate a bathroom. I’m picking on the bathroom because that and the kitchen are the tough expensive ones. All you have to do is lose an hour here, an hour there because of lost time, materials not arriving on time to change a job from being profitable to being break even.
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hear most successful business people go through an average of 3 bankruptcies / big failures before making it. I’m in the process of getting my big mistake(s) out of the way early in the game.
Dude, can I have some of what you’re smoking?
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wow - i’ve lost all confidence that you’ll turn yourself around.
the only thing you should have been worried about as of yesterday when you hung up the phone with the lender is getting the short sale package to them. you should have driven it to their doorstep. no, instead you put it aside… deal with it later. unreal. you are truly an idiot and I while I used to support you, at this point I would almost feel a bit of satisfaction in seeing you crumble. how can others care about your situation if you don’t give a crap yourself?
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“I hear most successful business people go through an average of 3 bankruptcies / big failures before making it.”
Casey,
You have the incorrect belief that bankruptcy and big failures get one closer to success. That is stupid. Do you know the vast majority of people who have big failures and claim bankruptcy don’t ever make it.The failures I know fail over and over. The successful people I know succeed over and over.
You are quoting a phrase used at guru seminars to convince failures that they will be successful someday if they buy their overpriced materials.
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#30 Coyote Investor–it’s posts like that which make this so hilarious and entertaining.
Truly, the lad is a case study. Today we have swung back, away from cold, harsh reality, back to the warm comfort of complete self-delusion.
All you need to do is look at his own words to see the depths of the denial.
“Bogged down by these small details”–like losing one of your properties, about which you have sweated bullets, to foreclosure.
“My whole situation is really a blessing in disguise.”–Well.
it is certainly well disguised to us. Exactly what is the blessing?
That you have learned hard lessons from your mistakes?
Well, okay–except that on your last post were back to fantsizing about obtaining corporate credit and going into more debt….“Was too busy making connections and identifying opportunities today to check on the foreclosure…”
Again, let’s be specific. What did you do today? Make phone calls? Search the internet? What are the connections and opportunities? Are they a secret?
“You call it laziness, i call it efficiency.”
So now we are efficient. Excellent. Efficient as in–opening mail? Well, no. Going to work? Well, no. Going to look for work? Well, no. Carefully maintaining your well-researched, meticulously chosen investment properties? Well, no.And the tortured misinterpretation of the 80-20 rule!!
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Casey:
re-read post #46 and #47it all boils down to post #46 and #47
wake up and begin your day as though you have had the visitations of Ebeneezer Scrooge. a real change of heart, might change the hearts of those that now have their sites on you. it is now or never.
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making connections and identifying opportunities=Pogo Games and TV
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Inspiration is Contagious
Thank you for steadfast support of the ACLU. Every day, I take heart that people like you all across the country are card-carrying ACLU members and today I’d very much like your help.
To meet the enormous challenges and opportunities we face in 2007, we are mounting an ambitious campaign to recruit 3,000 members over the next two weeks.
Because inspiration is contagious, what better way is there to recruit new members than to have loyal supporters — like you — express what it means to be an ACLU member? Millions of people share our love of the Bill of Rights and know in their hearts that safeguarding our fundamental freedoms is a never-ending job. I often wonder why so many of them are not card-carrying members of the ACLU.
So we’re turning to you to help us make the case. Please tell us, in your own words, why you are a card-carrying ACLU member.
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An advertising letter from Robert Kyosaki arrived in my mail today. I had to laugh, then I ripped it in half and tossed it.
Yes, foreclosures are at an all-time high right now, but that doesn’t make your case any better. I’m sure those people bought into their properties legitimately, even if it was with some cash down. You’re not in the same category as these folks who lost jobs and can’t pay their mortgages, or couldn’t afford them cause of tax increases or adjustables that came due. I feel bad for these folks.
You, on the other hand, didn’t enter into the real estate market on legal terms. Therefore, you can’t pacify yourself into thinking it ‘happens to everyone,’ and/or ‘other successful people have filed BK up to 3x’. That’s just hogwash.
By the way, since Duane discontinued sponsorship, why is his logo still on your site? Did you feel bad for him and offer him extra advertising for free??? Hopefully NOT.
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Maybe you should really hype this website for as long as possible then sell the domain to some debt consolidation company specializing in underwater mortgages for
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your in a lot of forclosers, in debt, and a bad credit score 450. and you dont have a job. why odnt you work full time so you can make money? your not going to ever take out a loan for a long time. your going to get sued for fraud. you have alot of credit card debt. you should be bankrupt. your not going to do anything with real estate for atleast 10 years. i really did not know there were really people who pay 30,000$ to go to real estate seminars. that is really sad. your embarassing. those people are glad theres stupid people like you who pay. why do you think they are so eagder to teach everyone? im in california and i bought 2 houses and sold them and made 100,000$ on each one. and i never been to a seminar and never payed any money to learn anything. and i dont have any debt. how r u so dumb? why would u buy 8 houses in 8 months when you cant get the first 1 sold? your suppose to have your own money before you buy so you can hold on to the house if it doesnt sell real fast, then you can keep it for 2 years, and dont have to pay any taxes, and youll get aprechaition each year. some cities in cali are apprecihatin 9-11% each year right now. thats better than the nations average 5%. you should have never bought houses in a different state. unless you buy it with ur own money that cost 50,000- 100,000$ so you can rent it and keep all the rent. your sad. you bought a house with no money for your self to hold on to it if it doesnt sell fast. and if u got a job youd only make 30,000 a years. thats less than the average income in california. you should be making 50,000$ a year. and you;ll never get a loan for a business eathier. i cant wait till they forclose all ur houses, and sue you and have you go bankrupt and try to consolidate your credit cards. cuz i know you wont take out a loan till 10 years. so ull be working full time making 30,000 a year for the next 10 years paying credit card debt every month. and your going to be a renter. and to rent they look at ur credit score, so i dont even know how ur going to rent. theres alot of high school kids making fun of you.
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Okay, this is weird….. why did I just receive in my EMAIL an invitation to one of Rich Dad’s (Robert Kiyosaki) seminars in the State of California? It lists 4 upcoming seminars in Union City, Concord, Santa Clara and Burlingame! Guess what? I LIVE IN KANSAS CITY!!!
Has Rich Dad been getting email addresses from your SiteMeter? What’s going on?? Please tell me you haven’t sold our email addresses to this guy for money.
Please advise.
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Casey,
Maybe you will get lucky and Jamba Juice will pick you up as their poster child. You’ll be like the fat dude from Subway who ate himself thin. Cept your commerical will be that I’m a million in debt, but who cares: I got my Jamba Juice!!
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No, you are being inefficient.
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What have you been doing today? How many jobs have you applied for? The job market is booming, and a programming job in finance is more fun than work. (A trading job is all fun and no work, but those jobs only go to the well-connected.)
Don’t tell me you’re trying to flip another house with an impending bankruptcy chasing you!
Mail in the short-sale packet; don’t bother making “connections” other than to get a job.
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” I am learning to identify and focus on the 20% with better accuracy and learn to procrastinate the 80%. You call it laziness but I call it efficiency.”
Casey,I really don’t care what the gurus tell you, but hard work and dealing with reality is the ONLY way to success. You should have mailed in the short sale packet YESTERDAY. The fact that you didn’t suggests that you’re having trouble facing reality. Everybody else has the same problem, but you can save yourself a lot of work by JUST MAILING IT IN.
You also need to learn the virtues of hard work. That means getting a job. I honestly don’t care where you get one. Preferably, take a job that involves hard manual labor, so you can learn to appreciate just how nice it is to have a desk job paying $40/hour when you land one.
Face reality. Get a job. Grow up.
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You’ll get there Casey, You’ll get there. I only sent you Lessons 1-3 ! If I sent you 4-6 ou would be totally different, That’s why it is being sold through two major media firms ! Congrats to myself, However I still have a fullfillment issue to cover with you ! Stay in touch, remember no one want you to succeed, except the Almighty father ! Give the Glory and the grace to whom desreves it, GOD !
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A few days ago I mentioned this blog is like watching a daily trainwreck.
I must stand corrected.
It’s like watching the trains speeding twoard each other at 60 mph, about 50 yards apart when a large jet swoops between them to be part of the action.
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Why did Our Hero not send the short-sale packet to the lender?
Was it because he was too busy looking for “opportunities” (usually spelled s-w-e-e-t d-e-a-l-s here)?
Or was it simply that the man can no longer afford to buy a postage stamp?
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“Was too busy…to send the short sale packet. Will attempt again tomorrow.”
Um, the fact that you have to “attempt” to send mail, rather than just sending mail, worries me.
You’ve heard that many business people go through three bankruptcies before “making it”. The problem is that it’s not a mandatory checklist of things you “get out of the way”. It’s like people who live through a one-in-one-hundred-year flood and think they are safe for the next 99 years. Or people who live through a big earthquake and think they are safe for now. Bankruptcies aren’t just “paying your dues”; it’s what happens when you “attempt” to send mail because you’re too busy “making connections”.
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Casey
Though I am not the type that slows at a car wreck, I cannot miss any episode of this. Sort of reminds me of the clowns who do a video before driving a car packed with C4 into a middle eastern market…
But I think I got a way for you to become rich beyond your wildest dreams.
Think of how the Federal and state governments shake down the tobacco industry..
They use the money to produce ads steering people clear of tobacco products, while the tobacco industry uses other types of media to promote their products to their target markets.
Seeing how you are not the brightest bulb on the tree, let me elaborate..
You need to get a cut of all the money spent between 2am-6am on cable tv by get rich quick products for rebuttal advertisements.
And who would be a better spokesperson against all those get rich quick schemes than you? You are the poster boy of nitwits trying to get rich quick, having surpassed Jethro Bodine of Beverly Hillbillies fame in no time.
Think about getting 2% their ad budgets to run anti seminar advertising campaigns. You spend half on printed media (something where you are not competing with them head on, and they know nitwits like you don’t have the energy to read newspapers) and you pocket the rest as the head of the group.
The trick is you need some legislative help. But you got more liberal bleeding political hacks to back you up in Cal. You bring a name to the problem they can capitalize on for their career gain. They write legislation to protecting the stupid. You keep half the money. A match made in heaven.
So get off you kister and drop a dime to Nancy or some other hacks in Washington. In fact, I bet it is a toll free call.
the biggest hurdle is you need to learn that the road to riches is through hard work and not stupid schemes. they you can talk with sincerity.
Remember, Good things come to those who wait, and wait, and wait an…
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“I am learning to identify and focus on the 20% with better accuracy and learn to procrastinate the 80%. You call it laziness but I call it efficiency.”
Mr Efficiency Expert, the 80/20 rule is that 20% of your tasks will require 80% of your efforts to accomplish. It doesn’t mean that 80% of the tasks are to be avoided. The last thing that you need to learn is procrastination.
3 bankruptcies would take 21 years to clear from your record. Assuming that you start the ball rolling at 20 years old, you wouldn’t even be done with your bankruptcies until your 41 and that’s if you had a single minded focus on going bankrupt.
I’m successful and I’ve never gone bankrupt.
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I hear most successful business people go through an average of 3 bankruptcies / big failures before making it.
Failure is not a pre-requisite for success.
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I am learning to identify and focus on the 20% with better accuracy and learn to procrastinate the 80%. You call it laziness but I call it efficiency.
The thought of you “learning to procrastinate” is truly priceless - Casey, that’s the one skill you really HAVE mastered!
But, as ever, you’ve got it backwards - efficiency isn’t about working out how to put things off, it’s about spending exactly the right amount of time on something according to its importance.
You seem to spend inordinate amounts of time on utter trivia (blogging, reorganizing your office) and no time at all on stuff that not only matters but may be absolutely crucial to whether you have a future career worth anything (getting vital documents sent within the relevant deadline).
Still, it’s your choice. And your funeral.
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Casey, I think the best move for you right now is to be the anti-guru. Tell people how you bought into all their talk, and now you are left 2 million in the hole.
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“Today we have swung back, away from cold, harsh reality, back to the warm comfort of complete self-delusion.”
#48 John Galt.
Kudos. Perfect summation of the ur-texts of this blog (…Anon, I looked it up).
Wow. Just wow.
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Casey,
I think what turns everyone off is your arrogance with this whole situation. John Galt hit it on the head with the Con artist post. You come across as if “sh#t happens” and “oh well” while simultaneously pretending that you actually give a crap about the people that you have affected. You write the story as if the ending has already happened. Get this crap figured out, then write your book about lessons learned. Chronicling these events isn’t helping anyone despite your constant blabbering about how much you are trying to teach people. This is nothing more than self serving rhetoric. If you stand a chance of getting out of this without going to jail, you better spend more time showing the WORLD that you are trying to get this situation worked out. Instead,
1. you DONT do the short sale package.
2. you DONT find out if the auction is really happening.
3. you DONT communicate constantly with your creditors.
4. you DONT find income to take care of the bills that you are up to date with.
5. you DONT even use the blog to effectively try to solve your situation.Grow up Casey! Fix it or face the consequences. Stop waiting for them to come get you; TURN YOURSELF IN!!
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“The lessons I’m learning are priceless.”
Actually, that is not true.
The lessons you learned have costed exactly $2.2 million dollars.
However, the unintentional comedy that your blog provokes, now THAT is priceless.
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1. Most successful business people never committed fraud. I’d also question the veracity of the statistic re. 3 bankruptcies - sounds like a BS number invented by the get rich quick rah rah junkies
2. I’d be very very suspicious about any of the “opportunities” being presented to you. Ask yourself: why would any business person get you in on any deal? You bring nothing beyond misplaced optimism to the table. You have a track record of failure, you have no capital, you have shown an inability to handle the most basic details (you didn’t send the short sale package in??), you have no legit education (Scamiversities don’t count) or experience, you have no ability to borrow, you have a history of signing documents you haven’t read or considered, you do not seek the counsel of smarter people (legit lawyers, accountants) before committing to contracts, you acti impulsively on major decisions, you have a track record of making investments without knowing the markets or running the numbers, you have a history of trusting the wrong people and being a poor judge of character. I assume they are either as stupid as can be or trying to scam you if they want you in on a deal. Danger, Casey Serin!
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Greetings all, I have never posted, but on behalf of Casey Serin in the future, I feel compelled to do so today.
Casey, you are just like Esau in Genesis 25. You have sold your birthright for a bowl of bean soup. Like Esau, you will not be able to retain it even though you seek for it with tears.
You dont seem to give a crap about Casey Serin a year form now, 5 years from now, or even 10 years from now.
You have screwed yourself for years to come. If these future yous were to get in a single room with the present Casey Serin, they would kick your a$$.Good things are not coming. only pain, frustration, and yes tears!!!
After listening to you for more than 6 months, I have come to the conclusion that something is broken inside of you. The normal judgment that the rest of us have, is seriously malfunctioning in you. The interesting thing is that it still works, only incorrectly. Heres my advice, for every decision you have to make, sit down and think out the situation. Ponder the best action to take while looking at the problem from all angles. Once you have made a decision, write it down so what you have decided is set. Then, take action exactly opposite from your decision. you are monumentally wrong in everything you decide that the exact opposite of what you think you should do will be good to go.
Examples.
CS. I should get a Jamba juice. Action. Do not get a Jamba JuiceCS. I should sell my rights for $250 and blow the money.
Action - Do not sell your rights away.CS. I should blindly go about my business believing everything will be alright even though it is obvious that the four horsemen are on their way.
Action. Admit how foolish everything I have done in my life is and go to the FBI like I have been told to do.
Sorry so harsh, but you are the definition of the “Fool” mentioned so my times in Proverbs.
The Proverbial Fool
Digger
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Casey
I used to think you were a little naive, lazy, and incompetent, which I could deal with - welcome to America. I was even cheering that your shell game would somehow work out.
But now I’m getting a sense of arrogance and self-righteousness. I don’t think you’re trolling, I think you really do have an immense ego. It’s got to be your way of dealing with the house of cards falling down, but it’s quite unappealing and totally out of place.
Please prove me wrong by describing the lessons you’ve learned and a hint (don’t give your secrets away!) of the sweet deals that will come from your blog contacts.
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#25 T.White…I come here because it is like watching a slooooow train wreck. It is purely entertainment. I question whether anyone could be truly this egocentric so I halfway don’t believe he is for real and as some have pointed out possibly the next lonely girl blogger where it is a big scam, he tends to post stuff to irritate. Very little is actually being done to provide educational benefit for any rational person. I do not think Casey has learned anything and if he has I’d love to know what he has learned that has been so beneficial. He is a talker and not a doer. And I if he is for real, he is a narcissict. For now this is funny I check in about once every other day or so and watch the train wreck.
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Priceless = $2.2 million.
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Casey you are on fire!
I didn’t realize how far ahead of the game you really are! If the average successful entrepreneur has 3 BKs then you are due. Double up for gods sake! However you can if there ever was a SWEET deal headed your way it must be now.
I wanted to give some thought to the 80/20 rule and came up with these theories:
80% of your brain work 20% of the time while 20% of the time you do 80% of the work my grandmothers do(both sadly are not with us anymore)
80% of what you blog is guru regurge while 20% is neocaseyisms.
80% of your VW Jetta is a POS while 20% (wheels and stereo) are SWEET!
80% of the time you are delusional while 20% you are daydreaming of Jamba juice with a wheatgrass shot.
80% of the time you are trying to be a scheming Rich Dad type while 20% of the time you get taken by a real con.
80% of the time you like to decorate your nails while 20% you like to shop for fashionable green hats with stolen money.
80% of your mail is un-opened while 20% of it is a gold nugget waiting to be mined.
80% of the contracts you sign you seek no advice on while 20% you ask the blog.
80% of your deals have no hope of saving while 20% do have hope which you are patiently squandering away.
80% of your readers are haters while 20% are here for educational reasons…sure:)
80% of your properties provide housing opportunities for homeless wanna-be landscapers, boat dry docks and addresses for credit card scammers while 20% are just vacant, deteriorating and an eyesore for the neighborhood.
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Good things don’t come to lazy people.
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You will have fewer distractions in prison. Then the 80/ 20 rule will be sentenced to 80 months, with 20 months off for good behavior. Keep your nose clean in there, kid. Those are not the kind of people that you want to rip off. Especially your daddy.
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Hey- its the 16th and Duane’s ad is still on your site. I thought the sponsorship ended yesterday - what gives?
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I think you have a classic case of bi-polor. Really. If this has been mentioned before I apologize, I have only just recently begun reading this blog.
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I noticed the title of this page is
“Good things are coming…”I take the “…” at the end to mean that part of the statment was lefft off.
here are some ideas of what his page should have been titled
Good things are coming…
-apart.
-to an end.
-to everyone but me.
-to a store I wont be able to buy anything from.
-fromthe people on the blog, but I wont listen to them.
-out of my butt because I drank Jamba Juice yesterday.
-my inlaws when I go to jail.
Digger
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a good strong positive attitude is the fuel for the engine that will make you go forward.
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Good Things Are Coming…
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Casey,
You have learned nothing after all this $35K schooling in real estate transactions; I hope you realized that you were ripped off and further behind in your scam that you ever though you would be.
Anyways, enough of the 20% bullsh!t, it’s happening now since you blew the other 80 acting like a dumbazz!
Let the realtor and broker work for you. Get the house sold and do it now. Cut your loses and learn from it.
At this point it’s great to try to understand it all, but the bottom line is to get the deal done. If you worked at any Mortgage company you surely would be shitcanned by now.
You don’t have the skills that many have out there now - you only think you do. Many people learn faster than you, so face it, your not going to be the richest, baddest mofo in realestate.
Infact, your programming skills you display on this site is not that impressive - any 16 yo could do it. Wordpress is about the equilvalent of a Baker using Betty Crocker. It’s pretty damn easy to impress.
Get your butt moving in making the sale!!
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I just found this blog. If nothing else, its making for great reading, and providing valuable lessons too.
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Virtually everybody who is successful has major failures along the way. Usually more than three of them. But not everybody who has major failures can become an entrepreneur. So just because you’re failing doesn’t mean you’re moving forward. You may just be digging yourself in deeper.
Very, very few entrepreneurs actually go through multiple bankruptcies. Almost none go through the kind of bankruptcy that you’re about to encounter.
For example, my brother was involved in a startup business in 2001-2 that didn’t make it. They hit all their milestones, had a decent product and had a couple of customers, but couldn’t attract the funding needed to keep it going, due to an unusually tight funding environment at the time, combined with some nasty and unforseeable slowdowns after 9/11. When they got to the point where they realized they had just a bit more money than needed to pay the bills, they decided to pay everything off, transfer the lease on their small office to another company, then dissolve the company by way of a chapter 7 filing and eventually distribute the few thousand dollars that remained. Since they saw what was going on, they did this in a way that allowed every dirty penny to be paid back, except for the money the founders had invested (THEY lost money, their customers and vendors DID NOT). That’s not the kind of behavior that people in the business world don’t hold against you. It is, to use a bit of VC language “acceptable failure.” All of them have gone on to good things, and two of them now own their own companies.
Had they done what you did — borrowed money and run up their accounts in a desperate hope that they might somehow turn things around — they’d probably have to move out of state and maybe out of the country, because even in as big a place as LA, that kind of information gets around really fast.
Virtually all successful businesspeople encounter failure, either in their own businesses or in businesses or projects they work on. A fairly standard venture capital practice is to ask the entrepreneur to discuss in detail at least three major failures. I’m guessing that this is where the myth of the “three failures rule” comes from.
Mostly what they want to see is that you know how to handle failure without screwing everybody else, and that you learned something valuable along the way. VCs know that half of their investments or more will end up in Federal Bankruptcy Court and definitely prefer a management team that can accept and handle that reality. They will rarely invest in anybody who can’t do a pretty good job of explaining in great detail what they’ve learned from both their successes and their failures. (The dotcom boom was a bizarre exception to that normal practice.) They also like to find people who — like my brother and his partners — know how to maintain some degree of professionalism even through their failures.
Can you do this? In the spirit of your previous poll, why don’t you tell us the top five things you’ve learned from your failures, and the things you will or won’t do in the future. Just five, specific and detailed lessons learned. About a post-length for each of them. That might convince some of us that you’re serious.
-btc
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Teacher,
> The failures I know fail over and over. The successful people I know succeed over and over.
I’d modify that a bit to my experience.
The failures I know fail over and over, but never learn any lessons from their failures. The successful people I know succeed more often than they fail, limit the scope and impact of their failures, and always learn lessons from everything they do.
Warren Buffet has had failures. Donald Trump has had failures. Steven Spielberg has had failures. Michael Jordan has had failures.
You just don’t see any of them make a mistake big enough to destroy them, and you never see them make the same mistake twice.
Unlike our friend Casey.
-btc
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#55… you actually type in your real email address on this site? I’d bet dollars to doughnuts that Casey does sell that information. Has he ever mentioned that he doesn’t?
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It’s been a week since the “good things are coming” post. What good things have come so far?
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Good question.
Casey, I love your blog anti-spam word requriements. Some of the words you use are classical like:
“cashback”
“sweet”
“going-under-radar”
“i-mock-the-fbi”
“you-pay-my-mistakes”Nice choice!
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