Well, part of the agreement is I keep the blog going because that is my main marketing platform for the book. Since I pulled the plug without telling the publisher the publisher got pretty pissed off. The publisher has already done a good amount of work on the book and has invested money, reputation with the vendors and a significant amount of time. The publisher understands my personal issues but a contract is a contract.
I don’t need any additional legal issues on top of what I’m already facing with the foreclosure consequences and all that. So I worked out a way for me to get this foreclosure blog back online and keep blogging to meet my obligations. I may be able to share more about all this at a later date. Again, I have to be careful what I say because I DO have a non-disclosure agreement signed with the publisher.
On top of that some CRAZY things have been happenin’ lately. I wish I could say more…
180 Comments
June 8th, 2007 at 1:12 am
good one…..but hey, you got to do what you got to do…
June 8th, 2007 at 1:17 am
Casey, I believe you have mastered the art of the “hook”–hinting at the story, but leaving the reader curious about what is really going on. Nice work.
Of course, you also leave us wondering whether this is just marketing, or reality.
Now that you’re blogging again, you can fill in the gaps with why the website disappeared at least, no?
Jon
June 8th, 2007 at 1:55 am
So the guy sues you for damages. Big deal. You have (literally) nothing to lose!
June 8th, 2007 at 1:55 am
In Transnistrian Moldovan Republic peopel wait for your words! Now, is announced in radio, when new blogging of post is here! Please, when your book published be? Maybe, I can Moldovan translate, for you?
Kindest Greetings from Tiraspol, Transnistria
June 8th, 2007 at 1:57 am
one of the main reasons..
June 8th, 2007 at 2:37 am
So let him sue you. You’re broke, so who cares. Stop pretending like you have assets to protect, because you have nothing.
People don’t sue the pauper.
June 8th, 2007 at 2:42 am
First time reader, and I have to say, I’m stunned. Have you done ANYTHING right in your life? You’ve screwed up every single thing I’ve read about on your blog, and screwed it up so spectacularly that you leave me gasping for air.
Get a job! Get a real life! Pay your freaking debts!
June 8th, 2007 at 2:42 am
Coming back was not a good choice, man. The publisher must be an idiot (I have had things published before) because they should have way more than enough to write what they need to write. This is a trainwreck, and I cannot imagine the book doing very well at all since we have all been able to sit right here and read along the whole time.
June 8th, 2007 at 3:14 am
“a contract is a contract” when it is conveniant for you right. certainly a contract is not a contract when it is not convenient thought.
June 8th, 2007 at 3:22 am
What’s the name of the independent publisher?
Thanks for telling us that you’re keeping the blog up under duress. I bet you’ll put way more effort into keeping your posts interesting now. Or will you just get half-assed guest writers and ghost writers to do your blogging for you?
Man, I can’t believe this independent publisher was dumb enough to do business with you.
Haven’t they seen the way pretty much EVERY SINGLE BUSINESS DEAL YOU’VE EVER BEEN INVOLVED IN has turned out?
Remember, once this book gets published, every word in there is in the public domain. Even though your blog is already public, once you take it down, even the haters won’t keep your posts online for more than a year or so, but if you publish a book, everything in there is public FOREVER, so make sure you’re depicting yourself in a way that you will be okay with your kids reading 15 years down the line.
June 8th, 2007 at 3:30 am
You mean you didn’t come back just for us? Now I’m heartbroken. It was just an obligation.
How’s the baby doing? Obviously you are feeding it at 1 am, those middle of the night feedings are a pain.
June 8th, 2007 at 3:40 am
SWEET!!!
Casey is making a comeback and will be bettah than evah.
Hatahs, bow to dah man!!!!
June 8th, 2007 at 3:40 am
What publisher wants an NDA? You would think they would want all the free press they could get. Links back to their website and for you to recommend other books from their catalog.
This is another one of your, “signed it before thinking about it deals” isn’t it? Just like the AZ ladies.
Have you ever thought about Ritalin? Don’t have a knee jerk reaction. It might slow you down enough that you actually think about something before you do it.
But then again, if you start thinking about all of this for to long, you’d need and anti-depressant too.
June 8th, 2007 at 3:59 am
ASW: squeeze
I just knew the closure wouldn’t last!
June 8th, 2007 at 4:02 am
Anybody who believes today’s post, I’ve got not only a bridge, but eight really crappy properties to sell you.
June 8th, 2007 at 4:03 am
This is absolutely worthless. I’ll get my IAFF news from the haterz from now on. No more clicks from me.
June 8th, 2007 at 4:08 am
Casey - how do you know what you can say? Have you consulted a lawyer or just speculating?
Gotta love the wheat grass
June 8th, 2007 at 4:19 am
The publisher understands my personal issues but a contract is a contract.
What? Can this be true? Has Casey finally picked up a basic business skill?
Hallelujah! There’s hope for him yet!
OK, here’s another one to have a go at: what’s two plus two?
(Feel free to use scratch paper and a calculator - this isn’t an IQ test)
June 8th, 2007 at 4:48 am
That is completely laughable!
You are the poster child of “judgment proof”. So what, the publisher sues. They have to get in line will all of your other unsecured creditors.
You are a joke and I can honestly say I see no further reason to read this fiction.
It isn’t even good fiction, but it was entertaining at times.
Good luck, Casey you are really going to need it.
Remember, life is tough and it is tougher when you are stupid.
June 8th, 2007 at 4:53 am
You pretty much sign anything put in front of you. You think you are in control of things, but you have signed all control of everything in your life over to someone else.
Now you get to enjoy being kicked around by contracts you never read, for the profit and pleasure of others, but not your own.
I particularly like the non-disclosure part. “I, Casey Serin, will blog about being screwed by everyone, but if Mr. Publisher screws me, I must continue to blog, but I will not blog about that.” Well done. Your contract negotiation skills become more legendary with every trip and falter of your miserable journey.
June 8th, 2007 at 4:58 am
Trolling.
Lame.
June 8th, 2007 at 4:59 am
Hey Casey,
Can’t wait for your book Casey. I will read it cover to cover.
You’ll be a veritable Mark Twain before the year is out Casey.
I cant wait to see also how the book will end - what will be the come back story Casey ? I know you’re a great success so can you give me a hint.
Oh - and how is your real estate going Casey ? Have you found any sweet deals yet ?
Say Hi to the publisher for me will you. Also - what information will you put in the book that you have not put here,
Loads O Money
June 8th, 2007 at 5:08 am
“I wish I could say more…”
Sounds like there’s not much point in having the blog…..
If you can’t write about what’s going on (and that’s what people are interested in), you’ll lose readers quickly.
What about your current debt status? the utah wrap? the NLL? the Feds, Cashcall, the IRS and your taxes–and tax payments?
June 8th, 2007 at 5:28 am
Casey,
What about that contract you signed? Did you get out of it? You DID sign over the rights to your story.
June 8th, 2007 at 5:28 am
Sounds great. I just cant wait to read the book. When will it be out?
June 8th, 2007 at 5:31 am
Case.. do tell us more about the crazy stuff .. or we will speculate..
June 8th, 2007 at 5:36 am
You have an NDA with the publisher?
Is the publisher PRLINKBIZ or the No Limit Ladies?
June 8th, 2007 at 5:45 am
“The publisher understands my personal issues but a contract is a contract.”
And what, Mr. Serin, does a contract mean? Using your contracts with just about anyone as the yardstick, they are flexible both before and after signing.
“Again, I have to be careful what I say because I DO have a non-disclosure agreement signed with the publisher.”
And this requires common sense and commitment to hold to, neither of which you have in great abundance. I will set the over-under at 30 days to break this one.
So in one corner you’ve got some vague entity you’ve signed a girly pink/purple contract with that outlines consequences for continuing to blog, and in the other corner you’ve got some vague entity with whom you’ve entered a contract that has consequences for NOT continuing to blog. The grown ups call this a paradox. We usually avoid them by keeping track of what we agree to.
June 8th, 2007 at 6:10 am
Oooh! Drama!
June 8th, 2007 at 6:15 am
Casey- forgive me but I’m trying to pick out your new tagline:
Either
“Some crazy things have been happenin’ lately. I wish I could say more.”
Or
“I’ve got some deals just around the corner. I wish I could say more.”
What do y’all think?
June 8th, 2007 at 6:19 am
I hate to ask the catch-2 question at the top of everyone’s mind:
You have a blog so you can document what is going in the whole foreclosure, financial, and theoretically help people. Your publisher is forcing you to keep the blog open. Then you say you have NEATO things that you can’t mention. So why am I reading this blog if you can’t write anything in it of substance?
June 8th, 2007 at 6:26 am
Lovely.
You’d rather keep your buisness contracts IF they represent a financial gain for you. When they don’t, you go into “lender ignore” mode.
You are willing to ignore “other” contracts, with people who actually CARE for you, because they don’t mean a single penny for you.
Your logic is mindblowing, Casey. Most of us know that there’s a certain order to things… you know, f***** first, business second. To you, it’s more like “dirty money first, screw the rest!”
Damn, I wish someone could send you back to Russia.
June 8th, 2007 at 6:27 am
Casey,
I must say… I am glad you are back!! Keep on going.. Good things will come your way!!
Julie
June 8th, 2007 at 6:30 am
Oh and by the way… To all you haterz… As an advertiser I am not upset that casey shut the blog down.. I was actually happy for him!!
June 8th, 2007 at 6:38 am
You.have.got.to.be.kidding.me.
(1) There’s no way anything you just described is enforceable, unless it was clearly written out that you’re responsible for providing marketing services and that includes specifically maintaining a blog. That’s odd, given that marketing is what PUBLISHERS are supposed to do.
(2) You have NO assets!!!!! People would be crazy to sue you.
(3) You’re either dumb enough to believe them, or you want to believe them.
June 8th, 2007 at 6:55 am
What, the publisher didn’t read your ever changing farewell note?
I call bulls**t
June 8th, 2007 at 6:56 am
ps The only crazy thing in your life is you, and I mean crazy as in “you should be locked up in a mental institution”.
June 8th, 2007 at 7:00 am
Who would ever imagine that the practical business/contractual issues would trip you up, Casey?
June 8th, 2007 at 7:02 am
Casey,
Even without your publisher forcing you to stay open, it doesn’t make sense to shut down your website just when it starts to make money! Why didn’t you monetize from the very beginning? With the exposure that your blog gets, it is easy cash flow.
FT
June 8th, 2007 at 7:15 am
Maybe you should write a graphic novel? You could be like a superhero in a comic book fighting the real estate market. Wheatgrass would be your kryptonite and whenever you defeat an enemy you could say, “Your death is all good”.
June 8th, 2007 at 7:26 am
“a contract is a contract” HAHA!
that’s funny…
welcome back.
June 8th, 2007 at 7:35 am
IF casey went to jail he would survive easily at first, the cons would let him borrow everything he wanted and he would run up a huge bill inside to where people on the outside would not give him money for, then he would have to ‘work’ it off. In there they just force ya to work…
June 8th, 2007 at 7:42 am
Casey ALWAYS alludes to some future information to come and either it’s (i) extremely lame and disappointing or (ii) he never comes forth with the additional information. I used to be hooked on this site mainly due to the comments left by others but all those people are now at exurbannation so there is no need for me to come here. This place is boring and Casey is nothing but a user who has no intention of paying back one “dirty penny”. Just as with Paris Hilton, I don’t care and wish he would simply disappear so he can be free to scam his next victim. I highly suggest everyone just visit exurbannataion and leave Casey to his own devices.
June 8th, 2007 at 7:42 am
That’s odd, given that marketing is what PUBLISHERS are supposed to do.
what you fail to understand is that success breeds success. Without the sweetness of the IAFF website, his story has a lot less value;
i.e. The importance of IAFF is the “celebrity status” and the “cult following” that Casey achives– those are two important reasons that a publisher can rationally market him!
June 8th, 2007 at 7:50 am
Ah! Of course! I thought about one of today’s other replies… where someone asked what you might have in the book that you haven’t already blogged about… and the light went on. How could I have been so foolish?
You aren’t answering questions or providing any interesting new material because of the book! That’s it, right? You’re contractually obligated to not blog about anything new or to answer key questions from now on. Even as you’re also obligated to keep the blog going.
Wow. What a drag that must be.
June 8th, 2007 at 7:51 am
“A contract is a contract is a contract. But only between Ferengi.”
June 8th, 2007 at 8:01 am
Those publishers aren’t being very nice to you, Casey. We’ll boycott the book and teach them a lesson.
Who cares about a book, anyway - we want a friday night talk cast thing.
June 8th, 2007 at 8:09 am
Don’t waste your money on the book, here is the main lesson: DON’T DO ANYTHING THAT CASEY DID.
June 8th, 2007 at 8:10 am
So this has gone from a blog about your looming foreclosures to a blog about a blog to a blog about what you can’t blog about.
Your publisher calls that a platform?!
I say, let ‘em sue you. It doesn’t even sound like you got an advance to give back. Especially if he’s an independent, he doesn’t have a lawyer in-house, so it’s gonna cost him to sue you.
So he’s spent some time and money on the book already. What is he gonna sue you for, a couple thousand dollars? It might as well be a zillion; you’ve got nothing to pay it with.
Believe it or not, Casey, most businesspeople know when to cut their losses.
June 8th, 2007 at 8:31 am
Casey, I’ve written two articles about you but have never before felt the urge to post to your site. But I do want to point out two things:
* Unless there’s an explicit contractual obligation to the contrary, you’re not required to conceal the name of the publisher. I presume it will appear in the final book, if it’s ever published, anyway. Who is it? And why can’t you break the contract if you return their advance? (If they paid one.)
* You are effectively judgement-proof. All the opposing party can do is get in line to collect damages. They won’t be able to get an injunction against you to force you to continue the blog (it amounts to a personal service; look up “specific performance”).
So while it may be entertaining for your readers and fodder for writers, the arguments you give are a bit specious.
-Declan
June 8th, 2007 at 8:36 am
That person who’s name we can’t mention
Had a discourse that led to great tension
OK I’ll shut it down
Casey said with a frown
That his fingers were crossed was not mentioned
June 8th, 2007 at 8:37 am
I get IAFF over an RSS feed reader and therefore never saw the site “down”… just a new post reading “I’m back!” What happened? Can anyone enlighten me?
June 8th, 2007 at 8:37 am
Casey,
I never got my answer.
What happened to the Utah payment?
I have a lot of cellies here that are begging for more info.
Scott
June 8th, 2007 at 8:38 am
To the publisher of the upcoming book (though I am not a “hater” I don’t want to read Casey’s answer to the question below. I want to read the publisher’s answer):
-Why should anyone buy a book based on Casey’s experiences?
First, he took unreasonable investment risks in too short a time without much thought as to the consequences. He didn’t even consider some of the good advice Kiyosaki and others give- not to buy too much at once, to spread out investments, and to prepare escape plans.
Second, Casey did not succeed in forestalling most of his foreclosures. (We all know this one…)
Third, Casey provides enough information on this web site for free to keep interested readers coming back for more.
Fourth, if Casey ever charged “for admission” to this web site or people had to pay for a book to read more about his experiences, most would not. Those that do may find that it discusses more of the same that Casey has already provided here on this blog and would find that it was not worth it (so perhaps the publisher might make some money initially, maybe…).
To Publisher: I don’t see any financial reason why a book based on Casey’s experience would sell, except perhaps initially, until readers realize it provides nothing new.
So, I say again- Why should anyone buy a book based on Casey’s experiences? Further, how would any such book inform readers better than this web site already does? What useful information would it provide?
June 8th, 2007 at 8:42 am
What the F were they going to sue you for? Your murse?
June 8th, 2007 at 8:47 am
Casey,
You’re boring now.
The End
(yet another reader lost to crappy blog entries)
June 8th, 2007 at 8:59 am
What is anybody going to sue for? The remains of V-dubs?
You are lawsuit-proof at this point, except for those that could be brought against you in criminal or tax courts.
-btc
June 8th, 2007 at 9:12 am
I thought the FEDS got of their dead asses and served a warrant on you. i should have known better.
Maybe it’s time to get into the lottery scam.. You know, bilk the elderly by telling them they won 1.25 million and all they need to do to collect is pay the taxes. In advance of course.
A hater and PROUD OF IT.
June 8th, 2007 at 9:23 am
Casey:
Can’t wait until tomorrow when you Blog about more stuff that you can’t mention or cant talk about…
June 8th, 2007 at 9:24 am
When is the time frame for the book/story to be released? Any ideas?
June 8th, 2007 at 9:26 am
Will this make you additional money as in a flat fee or % or ?
Are you able to give some kinda details on the payout from the publisher and how it works?
Will this be in “more details to come?”
June 8th, 2007 at 9:27 am
Is this blogs intention to ultimately provide foreclosure help advice?
June 8th, 2007 at 9:37 am
Lyonsack.
June 8th, 2007 at 9:47 am
As a published author, i am calling bullsh*t on this Casey and if you have the blue balls to post this comment it will be astounding. I can tell you, promoting and marketing are the publishers job..that’s why they get paid, dear murse puppet.
Secondly, why would they want you to keep a blog when the only subject matter is throwing out comments about what you can’t say?
Thirdly, and most obvious to me…why would you need to sell a book if your blog has all the information free? The subject of your book, and feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, is the mistakes you’ve made and the debt you’ve accrued in real estate, n’est pas? Ok, that’s pretty much been documented here. Why would I shell out 24.95 or whatever for something I can read for free. Also, a story such as yours needs a beginning, (you have), conflict ( plenty of that) and resolution.. an element I am not sure exists as of right now….
I think based on the moderate success and interest of your blog, you got greedy and thought to ‘monetize’ your story further..but sadly, Casey, the method you’ve chosen is flawed. Most of the people and traffic here are haters™…why would they buy a book to help support a person that infuriates them?
I really question your mental health when you are seemingly compelled to make poor choices like this. Please tell me you are at least not using one of those self publishing/pay to publish companies…a legit publisher takes money from the commission of sales never from the author…
asw:fixnflip…yet to see some fix
June 8th, 2007 at 9:47 am
Actually, the deal just needs to be for 2 million dollars.
I guarantee that there is a publisher somewhere with 2 million dollars who can take this whole mess, turn it into a happy ending, and leave all the haterz with stunned looks on their faces.
That two million dollars pays all the debts…..
And in some sort of karmic circle, Casey walks away, an almost reborn man.
Even though Casey appears to have no assets, he has one very valuable asset: (in)famy.
How many talentless hacks with similar (in)famy walk around with a couple million dollar score, once in their lives?
(The answer is - a lot)
[in the interest of disclosure - I am not a publisher]
BTW - if Casey reads this and that’s not happening, good luck, it still might….
June 8th, 2007 at 9:49 am
are you having a talkshoe chat tonite?
June 8th, 2007 at 10:13 am
So when is this BIG BOOK ABOUT NOTHING due to come out? NEVER?
June 8th, 2007 at 10:21 am
“The publisher threatened to sue me for breaking our contract.”
That never stopped you before. Don’t even bother defending yourself. Just take the judgement and roll it in with all your other bad debt when you file for bankruptcy.
June 8th, 2007 at 10:24 am
Hi Guys,
Little late™ this morning. I’ve been riveted to TV waiting for what happens to Paris (she is “one of who I can speak”™). Poor girl. I have great empathy for her. It is to™ bad that she doesn’t have the network of highly trained professionals™ like I do to rely upon. I can really understand what she has going on in her life right now. She is a prime example of not paying attention to what she signed™.
Anyway, “those of which I cannot speak”™ said that because of “activities of which I cannot speak”™ I HAVE TO continue the blog. You asked for the publisher’s name, and after cnsulting with “those of which I cannot speak”™, I found away™ to disclose it. My publisher is:
Scholastic
I am required in my “activities of which I cannot speak”™ to keep this blog up and interesting™. I am sure I can do it, but all of asudden™ it seems like work. Pior to this I was “activities of which I cannot speak”™ because it seemed like fun. Now with a financial gun too™ my head it is pure drudgery. I want to keep it organic, mineral free and low-carb™, but “activities of which I cannot speak”™ is hard. Really hard.
Maybe that’s why I have such a feeling of connection with poor Paris. I’ll talk to “those of which I cannot speak”™ about is and see. As some of you have already surmised, the book is about 80% done and should be almost 30 pages (including pictures, or course) when complete. Since I have the responsibility to make my edits before Scholastic does their final edit, I fully intend™ to be done with my part by Thanksgiving. I am thinking about maybe partnering with some of my longtime moderators here to see if they might guest edit some of the more lengthy passages.
Any thoughts?
June 8th, 2007 at 10:28 am
Now how stupid can people be?
Its not a question of Casey being judgment proof… THEY are paying HIM for the book.
Like a big tub of money that would come in handy. If he doesnt meet the terms of the book contract (like being the number one baiter of bitter retards on the Internet), then they will withhold payment.
That will cost him money.
Do all you renters understand now?
June 8th, 2007 at 10:32 am
Knowing you, you probably already broke your NDA.
June 8th, 2007 at 10:46 am
Wow, can’t believe you’re back!
Hope you got a cash advance- I don’t mean CashCall.
I think you should make the book more comedic. After all if you are writing this book as a ‘real estate investment book’, is that like:
Crime Prevention by Charlie Manson
Meeting the Opposite Sex by Mr. Rogers
Boating Safety by the Exxon Valdeez Admiral
Military Intelligence by Gomer Pyle
Think about it. A comedy would be good.
Bruce Collins
June 8th, 2007 at 11:04 am
“a contract is a contract”…
Casey, it seems to me that you are forgetting the contract that you have that says that you have to take down the blog. How is this contract more important than the previous one?
I don’t even believe that you have this contract, because then all the posts of the previous few days don’t make any sense. If it is true and you had written about it, then a few readers would have spotted out the conflicts between contracts.
You seem to avoid telling us anything that is going on right now, so that when you will later contradict yourself, you may pull out an event that for all we know never happened.
This blog has definitively jumped the shark. Just look at the number of people that are leaving comments. It is just steadily declining. You could get those numbers back up Casey, but, as with everything else, it just won’t happen.
June 8th, 2007 at 11:05 am
Casey,
Your blog may be the only chance you ever get in your life to make a lot of money.
Why can’t you do something like this guy?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_.....585026.stm
As far as real estate goes, I would not recommend it for you. In fact, I think you would first have to “un-learn” what you learned from the gurus before you can learn to do it right. Plus, while you definitely have a telent for media/entertainment, there is no reason to think you have a talent for RE.
June 8th, 2007 at 11:10 am
WOW! Casey,
After just starting to read some of your blogs, I see people are really unaware of what you were doing. Let’s look at some basic areas of human nature:
1) The Impression of Increase
The desire for increase is inherent in all nature.
Everyone on the planet wants more of something, money, bigger home, nicer car, better health, more happiness, and love. In your quest to achieve the dream of wealth and abundance you made choices, took risks, and felt the thrill of success and pain of negative consequences. Who among the haterz and supporterz has not experienced similar dissappointments when going for a BIG DREAM. A famous coach said “it’s not how many times you get knocked down, it’s if you get back up that counts”
I’ll add to that with, “and how quickly you get up!”
2) The Right to Life
“This means a person’s right to life means the right to have the free and unrestricted use of all the things which may be necessary to his fullest mental, spiritual and physical unfolding - in other words, the right to be rich.” - W. Wattles
Haterz and Supporterz, think about that statement. success in your life is becoming what YOU want to be. You can become what you want to be only by making use of things, and you can have the free use of things only as you become rich enough to buy them. There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a more abundant life. Remember DESIRE comes from the latin form meaning OF THE FATHER. One can say, people would not desire so many different things in life, if a higher power did not put that DESIRE in us to begin with.
3) The Law of Polarity
Everything has its opposite. If something you considered bad happens in your life, there has to be something good about it. If it was only a little bad, when you mentally work your way around it, you can find it will only be a little good.
Realize that every situation JUST IS; you make it negative or positive by virtue of how you choose to think about the situation.
Casey, think about how much you learned NOT TO DO!
Write it down, not for the publisher, for yourself. Internalize it, personalize it and keep going for your DREAMS!
Some would say the American Dream! I see the Haterz and Supporterz on your BLOG as fuel, giving momentum towards a cure for this national foreclosure crisis.
We investors, entrepreneurs, bloggers, marketers, business people, haterz and supporterz can reach higher heights and do more for ourselves, our families, and the nation. Maybe even the world, by going for IT! Whatever IT, is for the individual.
Just add value to other peoples lives, keep that the main goal of your endevour, focus on that with the next deal or contract signing.
As you reach for your success financially, give some back and make ammends for things. Be happy and grateful for all the challenges and obsticles, celebrate the successes, and live your life! DANCE, Casey DANCE!
LF, CDF and your friendz at The Foreclosure Workbook.com
June 8th, 2007 at 11:16 am
You have the stickiness factor needed in online MeMe marketing. I applaud you for that. You have a large audience of people that will purchase your book not for the foreclosure advice, but the intrigue and blood and sweat of your story. You’ve done a great job getting a large following (how many people can say they have a Wiki entry?).
I’m curious like many of your readers to see where this goes. But getting foreclosure advice from you? No thanks.
June 8th, 2007 at 11:25 am
Hey Casey:
Why did you not post my comment from two days ago? I’ve not said anything negative re you or your family. Am I banned from commenting?
Oh, if your publisher wants the blog back, perhaps s/he can pay to have moderators assist you…..
June 8th, 2007 at 11:27 am
Hey Casey,
I gotta say, I’m glad to see your site back up: not so much because I think you deserve it, or I want to see you come out on top, but because it’s important to get information out there about how all of this happened and how others can avoid it in the future.
Real estate is a huge mess right now because people don’t understand how it all works, and to the extent the this blog helps educate them, kudos! I started my own blog not too long ago because of the rampant misunderstanding of foreclosure auctions and get-rich-quick schemes that are so prevelant on the internet. As a believer in free markets and the importance of the free exchange of information in those markets, I commend you for doing what you can to help educate everyone (even if it is somewhat self-serving in the end). Just make sure you stay honest with everybody so they can glean some actual insight from this; the last thing we need is another “i can make you rich” site cluttering up the internet.
June 8th, 2007 at 11:28 am
This is a strange blog indeed, although I do enjoy the discussion.
June 8th, 2007 at 11:40 am
At this point I would not be surprised in the least to find out that Snowflake’s “independent publisher” is none other than the shell corporation he got suckered into setting up so that he could borrow more sweet money.
Pretty much the only person at this point who’d think that the threat of a lawsuit carried any weight whatsoever is Casey himself, so it makes a sick kind of circular logic sense if he was threatening to sue himself, through his shell corporation, in order to force him to keep the blog alive, despite any past agreements or contracts he had signed.
June 8th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
so what did you do with your time off? Update your financial spreadsheet? Take care of the missing Utah payment?
June 8th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Brittany Lindsey Paris all prove it
Being brainless doesn’t hurt the least bit
You need to be shameless
For pop culture fameness
Attention is the fix Case can’t quit
June 8th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
Casey,
I guess my last post hit a little too close to home because it got modded.
Oh well, I am not even upset about it because I am still stewing over the guys that just installed my new bathroom counter tops.
I guess good customer service is just becoming a thing of the past.
June 8th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
casey is back for more negativity!
asw: fixnflip … should really be fixnflop
June 8th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
Regarding comment #80 by TFW Crew
This drivel is making me puke up a little in my mouth.
All it needs is someone humming “I’d like to teach the world to sing” in the background.
Bleah.
Casey, how’s little ones’ nappy doing? Sounds like it just went a bit.
June 8th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Casey, there’s no reason why a publisher wouldn’t want their name revealed UNLESS IT’S A SCAM PUBLISHER!
June 8th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
You are an accidental genius. Or at least that is the persona that you have created. Will the book advance pay your debts or will you go into bankruptcy first so you can keep the cash.
June 8th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
I don’t know if Casey would want to roll a future judgement in with everything else - let’s not forget, such a judgement wouldn’t come until long after Casey either declared bankruptcy, or recovered somehow. If he holds on and scores something from a publisher, by shutting up now and keeping the blog on-line, and actually repays some of his debts, how could the haterz who slam him for irresponsibility spin that as a bad thing? The wheels of justice grind just slowly enough that any legal problems that begin now might not get lumped in with all the ones that are already in motion.
Even though all his business schemes so far seem pretty lame, there seem to be no shortage of people trying to monetize this blog/story. Maybe this one’s for real.
Mind you, if there is no monetary deal of any substance in place, what the he#%, blog away….
We’ll all hear about this, soon enough.
June 8th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
How bad would it hurt, Casey???? How bad would it hurt you if the “haterz” abandoned this blog? There are so few “supporterz” that it would make keeping this thing up very unreasonable… Your “book deal” would almost certainly die (if it is even real) if there wasn’t an audience.
I do not think you understand how bad it can (and probably will) get for you in the future. You seem to have no concept on reality. You are in deep SH*T, my friend, and laying low for now is something is way smarter than your “publisher”.
Is it an online book? This blog wrapped up onto a CD that you will attempt (in vain) to sell?? I agree with many others here… no self respecting publisher would touch this.
June 8th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Keep it very secret. There is one thing a publisher can’t stand, and that is a lot of publicity. You know that they have the price of the paper and ink of the contract sunk into the project already. I am sure that they want to protect their investment of the 90% of the profits which they will recieve. I hope that the printing costs are not too much, because you are probably paying. But hey, its 2007, and welcome to slavery.
June 8th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Tell the publisher we fought a civil war against involuntary servitude, and the publisher has no legal right to force you to do any work for him you want to do. IMO, this just another line.
June 8th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
Hey FlyingMonkeyWarrior do you own a jeep?
June 8th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
@#82 Wishful Thinker - LOL!
I agree with #80 Flip Thy House, but I think that it was planned all along that Casey’s shell corporation was always intended to be an “independent publisher” so that Casey could control everything.
What a slick way to legitimize the blog’s return and create anticipation. Have to keep those future book buyers on the hook and not give away too much of the plot.
So yes, why would Casey blog about everything that he can’t discuss here for free, when we could buy this “book” for, say, $1000 a week on the table?
June 8th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
You do not have to keep the web site up. The debt you have certainly means you can be forgiven for cutting expenses including this web site. Simply put your current debts are actually a higher priority than on going discretionary cash outlays. Invite the publisher to sue you. They can get in line behind the other creditors. And the publisher will not get anything.
Reasons for keeping the web site up.
1) publisher is paying you real cash right now to do so
2) you want this publisher to stay with you
You do know that Cashcall could easily file an injunction to get this website expense of yours shut down if they wanted. You would have to show it is a net positive cash flow to you producing more cash for time than any real job could get you.
June 8th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
New to this blog — how much money do you owe? To who? How are you paying it back?
June 8th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Anti-Spam word: donation. Casey is begging some more… sweet
June 8th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
Ah come on Casey, ol’ boy…I call b.s.
While I may not be a CPA, you are now in my realm of knowledge and experience - publishing, entertainment, et al. Puh-lease with this nonsense.
You restarted the blog because you have nothing else. You need attention like an addict needs his drugs. No REAL publisher, be it a major pub house or an indie, would care if you shut the blog down. In fact, it may be smart, marketing wise due to the fact more people could/would take notice of your book after the blog was long gone. No, not you….more proof that my points in our little discussion a few weeks back keep proving me right and you wrong.
Folks…a REAL publisher doesn’t sign deals and give advance money without some kind of full or a partially completed manuscript. They also like you to have a literary agent/manager/attorney as they do not like to be solicited from people they don’t know. Casey, you aren’t that big for anybody to advance money to on a pitch or even to give you the time of day…sorry we don’t buy it. No publisher I know of would care if you told the world the name or not. THAT is how other publishers know you are spoken for and the world knows you are working with them.
Now if you received money from some guy/gal who wants to take your work and get it published themselves, that might be believable EXCEPT why do they care if you shut the blog down? You did damage to it the minute you shut it down.
Face it kid, you are a child playing in a man’s world.
June 8th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
Wrigleys King
June 8th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
Hey FlyingMonkeyWarrior do you own a jeep?
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No Mr. W King,
Jeep girl is Steph J.
Hi Casey,
From a pod cast caller, IAFF reader, not a poster.
asw: win win LOL
June 8th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
Hi Casey.
Welcome back. I knew you could not resist, or keep your word.
This business with the publisher sounds very interesting. I’m amazed that any book publisher would touch your story with a ten-foot-pole given that the “jury is still out,” so to speak, on your past transgressions as far as paying for your sins.
You signed a contract with a publisher… did you receive an advance? If so, what did you do with those funds? Are you aware of the California’s version of the “Son Of Sam” law which gives victims the right to sue a convicted felon for damages - the specific Cali law extends the the statute of limitations on filing but is inspired by the initial SOS law that sought to prevent criminals from profiting from their crimes/stories. Has your publisher discussed this with you?
I hope you do right the book. I hope you make a lot of money. I hope you pay back “every dirty penny,” plus interest, plus extra for damages.
June 8th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
“but a contract is a contract”
Wow! that must really be some contract.
June 8th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
@ 51. Wishful Thinker
Great, but I made some changes. I didn’t like rhyming “mention” with “mentioned.”
As a result of a big intervention
And discourse that led to great tension
Casey said with a frown.
“OK, I’ll shut it down.”
That his fingers were crossed was not mentioned.
June 8th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
Yawn, you are becoming tedious. Your post is dull as dirt.ZZZZZZZZZ you are loosing me.
June 8th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Nice troll Murse Man :High-Five:
June 8th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
SWEET
June 8th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
So now that you’ve found a way to wiggle out of the $1,000 challenge, do you still have to come up with $1,000 each week? That was today, right? Did you plunk ten Benjamins on the kitchen table? Since giving up the blog isn’t an option, what will be your penance if you didn’t?
June 8th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
nic….sweet troll
June 8th, 2007 at 7:27 pm
Did you have $1000 cash on the kitchen table by the deadline this week? Or is that contract now null and void? How does that logic hold, considering you say “a contract is a contract”?
June 8th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
Can Timeline Guy not just have his own website that those of us with some sense can visit? Getting better Wishful thinker, esp. @#51 with the finger crossing. Cute, clever, I like it. Still though, I need more zing!
What about the others, OG the Caveman??? The Original Trailer Park Boys? I have a dream that one day this website will be overrun with pure sarcasm. Let’s keep that dream alive people. Haterz unite.
June 8th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Hello, Casey!
This is a very funny website.
Your saga should really be published in a book and I am sure that with all the publicity you already have, you will sell quite a few books.
Stefan, Bucharest, Romania
June 8th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
I just ran across this quote by Paris Hilton:
“I’m very sorry and from now on I’m going to pay complete attention to everything. I’m sorry and I did not do it on purpose at all.”
Sounds to me like something Casey would write.
Maybe soon Casey will go to jail for his fraud. They’ll have to keep his sweet wheatgrass-lovin self in a special wing separated from the jail population or else he’d be ripped to shreds in 5 minutes flat. He’d meet Paris and they’d bond over how weird and yucky the real world is and how nobody understands how great they really are.
June 8th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
Casey the one thing I just can’t for the life of me figure out is why you haven’t gotten others to moderate comments for you. Clearly there are plenty of people who would be willing to do it for you. The only worry would be haterz posing as helperz and then not moderating well. But that is an easy problem to solve: just keep an eye on your moderators and if one goes bad kick them out and erase the BS they let through. Time crunch solved.
I think this is something you need to learn: Trust but verify. You seem to bounce between paranoia and trust, never finding that middle ground of trusting people only as far as you can thrown them.
June 8th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
hope things work out for you.
why are ppl so mean to you in the comments? am i missing something?
thanks for the emails about your re-instated blog. you’re a sweet person and i hope things work out for you. i really do
June 8th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
Dude… crazyness… I’m glad I’m not stuck in your shoes right now…
It’s tough enough running my own business: http://www.timhalberg.com and I can’t imagine the struggles that you’re facing on top of that!
I definitely hope to invest in realestate one day… and following your blog, and down the road reading your book I think will be valuable experiences for me to learn from.
June 8th, 2007 at 10:47 pm
You wait! Do you know that a W-2 plus a 1099 equals a W-1110? Casey does, and that is why he is SMARTER THAN YOU!
A contract is a bond of honor; and Casey ALWAYS KEEPS HIS WORD - that is why he has honor.
So, ha-ha, who will have the last laugh? You, or Casey on the beach drinking margaritas watching the sunset?
June 8th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
Here is the million dollar question. The market is down all over. The foreclosure rate is high. Florida has one the worst markets as far as sales go and Nevada has one of the worst foreclosure rates. Everyone is pointing the finger at everyone else. “Speculators pushed the prices so high that no one can afford the houses anymore.” “Mortgage brokers pushed bad loans.” “People like Casey did the “liar” loans.” If it has been told I have probably herd it or seen it. Here is the realty; no one can say with any certainty what caused this down market. They say it is the worst since the great depression. The mortgage and foreclosure end is a combination of different things, but I mostly point to the greedy lenders themselves. First they pushed legislation to basically abolish chapter 7 bankruptcy. Then they pushed all these sithty loans on people who they knew would get into trouble. Before, one could file for bankruptcy protection and could protect your house you live in by getting it refinanced through a special program of the court and be given a second chance. Not anymore can you do that. Then in comes these adjustable loans. People are fooled to believe that they can afford the payments. What they are not told is the adjustable rate means it always goes up and never goes down. It also means that the first adjustment will be a 50% increase in your interest payments alone. As a result people have been scared off from buying. People who would have considered to buy are now still renting. People who did own either got out and now rent or got foreclosed on and now rent. The one that will make allot of money is the person who can figure out how to get the buyers back. How to get the buyers and sellers together. Last how to make it easier for a buyer to purchase a home without all the new regulatory hassles that have come up and to make it easier for a seller to sell his home without taken a bigger beating on the price. The one who can come up with these solutions will be the one who makes allot of money.
June 8th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
Casey… I understand that you can’t post about the “crazy stuff” but at least please bring back the good old interesting posts about Wheat Grass, Jamba Juice and Blue Balls, holiday plans and other mundane topics. All this talk about contracts and suing are starting to get repetitive and boring.
If you could organise a trip to the zoo, video it and place it on Youtube. I’m sure many people would tune in
People just want more of you.. and they don’t really care what it is about as long as it is novel and/or interesting…
June 8th, 2007 at 11:55 pm
I want to publish a photo.
ok?
June 9th, 2007 at 12:05 am
My publisher was reading through the comments on this blog and decided to write a guest post for me addressing some of these points. I’m glad because the next post should fill in some of the gaps and I won’t have to worry about violating the NDA.
June 9th, 2007 at 12:38 am
Tell the publisher we fought a civil war against involuntary servitude,
How is it “involuntary servitude” if Casey willingly signed a contract agreeing to the various terms and conditions? Did he have a gun to his head at the time?
June 9th, 2007 at 1:28 am
95. Larry P -
As near as anyone can tell, Casey owes between $400K and $500K to the IRS, credit card holders, and a variety of people and banks. The answer to “how is he paying it back?” is simple — he isn’t.
June 9th, 2007 at 1:36 am
good gracious!thanks for this informative information.keep it up,goahead.
June 9th, 2007 at 1:37 am
Casey - please tell us how many comments on the average post you consign to oblivion. It is very clear that many comments do not get published.
June 9th, 2007 at 2:15 am
What is important was your family okay with the decision. I honestly think you should have stayed down once you finally pulled the plug.
June 9th, 2007 at 6:04 am
How does your family feel about all this, Casey? How about that contract you signed, are you obeying all of the rules? Utah payment? How about you answer some old questions??
June 9th, 2007 at 6:19 am
Actually should the blog be changed to “Youarefacingforeclosure.com” or “AreYouFacingForeclosure.com” since Casey has already completed foreclosure?
Actually at this point Casey is facing Success! If we are in a housing bubble then that trend needs a face- and the face is Casey. And of course the Face gets paid, son.
I see a movie a la “The Money Pit” with Jason Mews and Lindsay Lohen.
Thanks to all the Haterz for pumping the trend.
June 9th, 2007 at 6:21 am
“My publisher was reading through the comments on this blog and decided to write a guest post for me addressing some of these points.”
So we’ll know for sure if you’re using a vanity press or a genuine publisher. Cool!
June 9th, 2007 at 6:43 am
I agree with Declan.
You are, once again, feeding us a pile of hot steaming crap.
I am respectfully returning to Exurban Nation for my reading.
You can be “forced” to blog, but we aren’t forced to read. In fact, wouldn’t it be very cool if no one continued to read this blog. Then you’d be writing for no one but you and your *cough* “publisher”.
Bye!
June 9th, 2007 at 6:54 am
Boy Casey now thinks he’s John Grisham
But can’t figure fact from non-fiction
Writing’s hard there’s no doubt
He will soon start to pout
Take bets on a skinny edition
June 9th, 2007 at 7:33 am
In Caseyworld cash is all profit
It all goes right into his pocket
The debts never come due
Creditors won’t ever sue
He’ll never end up on the docket
June 9th, 2007 at 7:49 am
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Casey - you publisher may have asked you to bring the blog back, but s/he have done done you no favor. Prior to bringing IAFF back, you and s/he should have outlined, at minimum, a few of the initial posts.
Sure, that might not be “organic” however, you admitted to pushing our buttons and trolling…. the minimum you could do, since the great rebirth of your baby is to figure out how to breath life into it.
Nothing of interest or substance has been said.
Your post just after midnight is pointless - when is this “guest post” from the publisher going to happen? Today (Saturday), or next week??? And doesn’t s/he need to run by their legal department any statement (post) they make on the blog?
Now - for the more important question - regarding this “book.” Is it of an autobiographical nature (i.e., your story)? If so, how do you plan to keep those near and dear to your heart out of the the pages of the book? They are key to your story - a HUGE percentage of your story infact. Have they too signed NDAs as well as publishing releases for inclusion in the book?
Another important question - why the “editing” and “deleting” of both your posts and reader comments? This seems to me a bit of rewriting of your history and strips the “organic” nature from blog.
June 9th, 2007 at 7:49 am
W2 jobs are dull and they’re boring
But authors sell books and go touring
Seems the idea it can’t miss
Just one problem with this
It’s hard to write when you are snoring
June 9th, 2007 at 7:52 am
CASEY IS A SCARY CAT..
HAAA~~
June 9th, 2007 at 7:58 am
CASEY,
PLEASE BE IN OUR OFFICE IN SACRAMENTO ON MONDAY.
June 9th, 2007 at 8:06 am
Hey Casey -
You say above that you need to “keep the blog going.” Do you mean you are going to just keep the website up, so people can read all o the old posts? Or, do you mean you are going to continue to actively post and let us know how debt repayment, etc., is progressing?
Based on the lack of any real info so far (and no talk cast?!?!?), I’m guessing the former. Can you please clarify?
Is this a monument or an ongoing tell-all?
Rock On!
June 9th, 2007 at 8:19 am
Imagine what a shame it would be
If you’re apartment was owned by KC
The sinks are backed up
And the toilets are stuck
And you have no place where you can pee
June 9th, 2007 at 8:42 am
Did you make your $1K last week?
June 9th, 2007 at 9:14 am
Casey’s blog all about foreclosure
Gets a lot of media exposure
But as Paris found out
Fame doesn’t always work out
Soon locked up inside an enclosure
June 9th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
They are not paying him for the book
He did not get an advance
He is paying the publisher to make the book. It is one of these self-publishers.
June 9th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Where to begin…
The publishing game is all new. Just because you wrote a book, doesn’t mean the hard part is over. Your job is just beginning. You have to have a platform. Every new author does. Quit complaining and write every day. It isn’t that difficult. I work on average 12-14 hours per day and still make entries in my two blogs. Seems like it would keep your mind off creditors and possible jail time.
I think the publisher sees the true value in this blog: a social network divided between hard-on-their-luck supporters rooting for the kid that just had some deals go bad and those who are shaking their heads, astounded by the trail of mistakes and lack of responsibility.
Flipping a house requires a war chest to help fund the restoration effort (the proceeds of the first flip goes into the war chest for the next) and construction experience. The sob letter to the bank admits either real stupidity or ignorance by stating that the intent was to buy and fix up the house, but then realize that you have no construction experience. Those who flip houses have both construction and real estate experience.
I, like thousands others, were worth millions on paper during the dot com era, and lost it all in a matter of months. I, like all the others, worked wherever we could for less than half of what we were making so we could put food on the table and make our mortgages and credit card payments. I’m not complaining. We had a good run, made lots of money, and then were brought back to earth and were reminded that hard work and integrity are what make you.
Bankruptcy or not? I can’t imagine how you could get out of this hole. Bankruptcy is not the honorable route, but may be your only option. I can only hope that the posts I have seen reflect weak moments and not a realistic perspective that your situation is one of bad luck and missed opportunities.
June 9th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Casey’s predicament is simply the logical conclusion of the “buy-at-any-price” real-estate religion that has swept ignorant American hordes over the last 5 years.
Banks, Real-estate organizations and all the real-estate boom beneficiaries have crafted and propagated this myth - and most Americans are too ignorant to question the Carleton Sheets, Rich-dad Poor-dad get rich quick on real-estate with no money down bullshit.
People trash Casey, but his situation is simply the logical conclusion of this frothing-at-the-mouth real estate frenzy. There are many others in Casey’s predicament - he’s just the only one to talk about it honestly on a blog….I know a number of people myself who are in a serious financial predicament after buying more than they could affort right near the peak. There are many more foreclosures and huge losses to come. You can only pay a $400k option ARM on a $40k/year salary for so long - usually until the option expires and fiscal reality starts to rear its ugly head.
June 9th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
Casey,
The FBI wants you in their freakin office on Monday!!!! Please let us know what happens!
June 9th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
I call bs Casey is not writing this.
June 9th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
My Dearest Casey -
That should be “many details”, old bean. Publishers get fussy about that sort of thing, make you change your words to conform to their standards of grammar and usage if you can believe it. Come across all General Buzzfuzz-ish on the subject, no mater how bright a fellow is, or how many bowls of the old electric soup he had his face in the night before.
I’ve wrangled with a few of them in my time - vipers to a man, no feel for the creative spirit (in things literary at least, an area of which the average publisher is usually as ignorant as you are regarding simple accounting principles, or the selection of decent second-hand cars.) Naturally your genius is self-love and boundless, lurching enthusiasms of one kind or another, principally in the sphere of lucre, and not tedious old word-smithing, so I suspect they’ll provide some jumped-up sports reporter or other to un-entangle your prose. Or maybe not! I long ago suggested the “loose/lose” confusion would take on meme-like qualities, and well… here we are.
So keep pounding out the entries dear fellow. And don’t let the “haters” (or as I call them, “bystanders”) get all superior regarding so-called “vanity” publishers versus “real” ones. At least in the case of the vanity press you know who you are dealing with (gnothi seaton and all that.) After all, it worked for Proust.
Chin up,
I remain,
anon.
June 9th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
So do you have plans of putting the transcripts of the talkshoe’s up again anytime soon?
June 9th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
@101 mejustme
yr right of course about mention and mentioned. But I loved my first line. Its all good though.
@108 Thanks Christopher—I think.
June 9th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Glad to see you’re back. This web site has far more potential for positive cash flow than any of your dopey real estate deals.
Want to make some big bucks? How about put options on CFC? They are the idiots that lent you money with no money down, no documentation, and wildly inflated appraisals. And believe me, you’re not unique.
June 9th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
wow casey! your writing style changed in #118! clear, concise, non-emotional and to the point! are you using a ghost writer?
June 9th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Sweet!!!!!!!!!!
June 9th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
You know that everything happens for a reason.
If you have the guts to push past the FEAR, you can become a success at whatever you want.
Casey may be the next Rich Dad, Trump, Tony Robbins, Carlton Sheets, or John Paul DeJoria who even slept in his car with his kid and failed alot from a haterz point of view.
Now he’s worth Billions. They all are.
http://www.foreclosureworkbook.com
June 9th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
@ casey,
A Picture of a Real Bird Dog for you.
te he
June 9th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Okay…
Casey so start writing. You really could provide a service to people with what you have experienced.
What advice can you give someone who may be facing foreclosure and will not qualify for chapter 7?
June 9th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
Casey, Good to see you back. I’ve been finding myself surfing hater blogs to see what you were doing. Ouch, what a bunch of losers they are!
But your blog looks good. Looks like you cleaned up the advertising a bit.
Good luck making a little dough. You’ve got what it takes–just don’t try to do it in real estate without a partner. :–) You’re too impulsive.
June 9th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
casey,
have you ever considered reading and contemplating the meaning of the clauses of contracts BEFORE you sign them?
good stuff though, glad your back
June 9th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
so, this blog, does it have content?
June 10th, 2007 at 12:29 am
@ # 98 Flying Monkey Warrior
“Hi Casey,
From a pod cast caller, IAFF reader, not a poster.
asw: win win LOL”
Cut the bullshit Flying Monkey Woman! You are a self professed haterz, so identify yourself as such.
“pod cast caller, IAFF reader…my a** ”
More like: lonely obese woman, no life, drinking coffee all day, dunno where my child’s dead beat dad is, EN loving, Rob Dawgs a** kissing, pitiful b***** !!!
Say it like it is or fly your monkey a** back to EN.
June 10th, 2007 at 1:02 am
So, in less than a month you’ve gone from “Most Hated Blogger” to “Most Boring Blogger”.
Sweet!! Way to fail foward.
June 10th, 2007 at 1:20 am
why are ppl so mean to you in the comments? am i missing something?
In a word, yes.
Stick around, though. You’ll learn soon enough.
June 10th, 2007 at 2:21 am
It sucks that they want to sue you, but I’m glad that you’re back. I learned allot from you and your Blog. Keep it going.
June 10th, 2007 at 6:09 am
@ gridlock # 155
I’ll answer for Casey since he has trouble following through.
NO
June 10th, 2007 at 7:29 am
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Come on Casey - you need to work on your content and share.
Otherwise, I know of a few HATERZ with better stories to tell.
June 10th, 2007 at 9:07 am
My publisher was reading through the comments on this blog and decided to write a guest post
Bring on the Hate. I can just imagine the rotten deal, when somebody who can’t even read decides that he ought to write. An independent publisher (what other kind are there: state controlled?) decides to help Casey publish his book for a small fee — my bet is on 90% of the gross, Casey pays all expenses.
How many times have we seen this same scenario? It is very contrived and tiresome.
You are no longer just hapless. With the tosses and turns that life has been handing you, you seem to be as funny as a victim of head trauma — it may seem odd at first to see a person flailing on the ground, until you discover what is really going on.
Of course, the book will be just a collection of blog post and some selected comments. What else is marketable? Yawn.
June 10th, 2007 at 10:03 am
So, where is this post from your publisher?
June 10th, 2007 at 10:12 am
@161. W-2 girl
You haterz wanna be!
Join their club then. Haterz with better stories to tell? Oh that is why most of them get only 3 or 4 comments at the most UNLESS they are saying something about Casey. Go on and check it out lil girl. They have absolutely noting note worthy about non-casy isuues or themselves so THEY are:
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What the eff are you doing here anyway if IAFF is not doing it for ya??? You know you’re hooked on the Casey story tootsie. So stop “fronting”. Make a valid point or get behind your cubicle and wait on the damn book! I know you’ll be first in line
June 10th, 2007 at 10:47 am
Man, I have a CRAZY comment, I wish I could say more.
I may be able to share my comment at a later date; more to come…
June 10th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
wait, let me try to get this straight …
1. casey paid the publisher to get his book published
2. casey signed a contract with the publisher with a term stating that he must keep the blog up … or else …
in other words, casey paid for a contract that limits his own choices …
am i missing something here?! why would anyone pay for such a contract?!
June 10th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Where are the posts from LossMitPro?
June 10th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
More fun!
I like fun.
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June 10th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
A reputable publisher is worried about blog comments and feels the need to respond? W/o a statement clearance from legal dept?
Oh, Casey, please go google whoever it is your ‘contracted’ with. This does not sound like you are dealing with a professional. I could be wrong, but it does not look good for you.
June 10th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
In Transnistrian Moldovan Republic Haterz are in prison the! We their ™ away take, and put in small bagg!
Please, where to buy “cubicle” with number “W-2″ the?
June 10th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
Generally speaking crooks that write about thier felonys do so after thier convictions and incarcerations.
You might want to speak with your attorney about this, it might complicate his defense strategy.
But I’m sure you conferred with your team of professionals before you signed any publishing contracts.
(cough-cough)
June 10th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
@ LossMitPro
I am not a Casey hater or a supporter. I just find the whole story about Casey amusing on both sides. However, when it comes to Duane and you Mark, it is just plain unfortunate how you guys stabbed that poor kid in the back.
How can we think of you as a “reputable” businessman after your behavior of the last few days. Is this what you do to your “clients” when you reach a road block in your business affairs? You are in possession of “sensitive” information regarding Casey that you dangle in front of his crtics, even his worse kind of critics, the type aptly labelled “haterz.” Casey has not made mention of his dealings with you. Quite mature, don’t you think?
I am happy that we know your real name Mark, so that way we can steer clear of you. You may not want my individual business, but when the book is released, the world will really know your true character. Shut up and go away please, you have done enough damage. Or is that your intent. A “dawg” in sheep’s clothing all along me thinx.
A word to the wise in your new found home on EN (the dawg pound for strays like yourself), “when you lay down with dawgs, you wake up with fleas”
June 10th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
I am a newbie to IAFF. I am actually facing foreclosure and found it on google. Then I followed the trails to the haterz. IAFF is interesting and it is a bit helpful too. But, for you “haterz” that are 30, 40, 50 or 60 something, shame on you for spending so much time on watching this 20 some thing guy fall on his face.(EARLY 20 something at that). The major players seem to belong to the blogoshere in general. You mean you have nothing interesting to blog about yourself except the mishaps of this 24 year old. As someone facing forclosure, I look on his sight as WHAT NOT TO DO. He has good intensions, alerting others not to make the same mistakes as he made. He got plenty of advice I see, but are you people RE professionals? Why did you not put your money where your mouth is and fly out there, SHOW him your credentials and help him. I myself will not jump on any ideas I have seen here from comments without first checking them out with a “professional.” Who are you people? The profile on your blogs don’t say much. At least I know who Casey Serin is and how to reach him. Like some other commenter said, if we would all do “tell all” blogs on ourselves, I wonder if we could take the negativity the way this guy has. He is a strong guy, stronger than me that is 40 something.
Casey, young man, you made mistakes, you are a “man” in my eyes for trying to rectify things instead of crawling under a rock. Good luck to you. Thank you for telling your story so candidly, I appreciate your honesty. Don’t mind the middle aged angry people. Alot of it is misplaced agression at sagging breasts, beer guts and balding.
June 10th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Casey’s audience for his book is not the readers of this blog. Believe it or not, even with his reputation as the “world’s most hated blogger”, the number of people actually reading this blog is less than 1% of the number of potential readers of his book. Plus, consider that the non-blogger reading the book will get a sanitized, non-haterz version.
Hey Casey, got a great publisher for you: Lulu.com. Check it out.
June 10th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
However, when it comes to Duane and you Mark, it is just plain unfortunate how you guys stabbed that poor kid in the back.
A couple of tiny quibbles.
1) Casey was the one who first wielded the knife, when he reached formal agreements with both Duane and Mark and then effectively tore them up because the terms didn’t suit him;
2) As a result, Duane and Mark were forced onto the back foot, and had to defend both themselves and their reputation.
I think that’s a somewhat fairer interpretation of events - and that any reasonable jury would acquit both Duane and Mark on self-defense grounds.
June 10th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Help me out here- new to this blog, found it because it was billed as “advice to help others avoid foreclosure.” All I see here is some idiot who lost his shirt (not to mention his shorts) and got foreclosed on more times in one year than I can believe. Can anyone provide some “real” resources for helping people to avoid foeclosure?
Thanks,
Jimmy J.
June 10th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
“@LossMitPro
I think LMP has behaved like a schoolyard bully. He likes to think of himself as a nice person that people like, but his behavior belies this. A few examples:
1. He held himself out as an expert on Casey’s problems, yet when asked to identify himself, he childishly lashed out at others who remain anonymous.
2. He claimed to have insight into people’s characters, yet, despite warnings here, he was blindsided by Casey.
3. He posts meaningless pseudo-legal babble regarding fair use rights (yes, I know it is no longer on IAFF, but Google still knows about it!) and throws around legal threats in other contexts.
4. He claims to have sensitive information that he can use as a lever against Casey to get his posts removed from IAFF. Who would want to use this person to negotiate on their behalf, knowing that the sensitive information revealed could later be used against them?”
THE ABOVE POST IS FROM ANOTHER SITE ABOUT LMP. YEAH HE GOT CASEY’S ARM TWISTED BEHIND HIS BACK BECAUSE HE WEASLED IN AND GOT PERSONAL INFO THAT HE COULD PUT OUT THERE. WHAT A GREASY, SLIMY DUDE YOU ARE MARK. YOU CAN SILENCE CASEY BUT NOT US.
YOU ARE WORSE THAN A HATER. YOU ARE A BACK STABBER JUST LIKE THE OTHER COMMENT SAID!!! WE SAW YOU COMING. CASEY WHY DIDN’T YOU??? THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT WE MEAN CASEY. YOU RUSH INTO THINGS TOOOOOOOOO QUICKLY WITHOUT THINKING. LET LMP BE THE “LAST” LESSON YOU HAVE TO LEARN DUDE! INFACT BE “CLASSIER” THAN HIM. DON’T BRING HIM UP. WE WILL DEAL WITH HIM. WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE MARKY MARK. WE ARE WAITING ON YOU(LOL). EARASED BUT NOT FORGOTTEN A****** !!!
June 10th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Casey,
My blog is now up and running at Pushed to Shove.com.
Your readers and you are welcome to check out my ongoing battle with Rob McKenna, Washington State’s Attorney General, over this foreclosure rescue scam lawsuit nonsense.
A lawsuit, btw, I have no intention of losing.
Joe Kaiser
June 11th, 2007 at 11:32 am
Hey, would love to hear more about the forthcoming book; as long as it doesn’t violate that non-disclosure agreement of course
June 17th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
175. Jimmy J.,
I can help you avoid forclosure. Just follow my 1 step system to “avoid forclosure”:
1. Pay your bills.
June 28th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
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