March 19th, 2007 12:10 am
#10 Foreclosure Website… Soon #1
I Am Facing Foreclosure blog just made it to the first page of Google under the search term “foreclosure”. I’m in #10 position out of 24,200,000 results. That’s pretty good since foreclosure is a very general term and there is a lot of competition. The rising search ranking of this blog has been very amazing to watch.
I’m starting to get more and more people emailing me for help with their own foreclosure situation. I help out with whatever advice or tips I can but it’s starting to become a problem. I don’t have enough time to answer all the emails and I’m letting them sit. I feel bad because I want to help everybody. I know what it’s like to be in financial trouble facing foreclosure so I feel for these people.
What I want to do is to start turning this site into more of a foreclosure help and resource site. Topic will include general foreclosure information, how to stop foreclosure, reasons to avoid foreclosure, local foreclosure laws, detailed explanation of the foreclosure process, etc.
I’ve been blessed with all the inbound links and all the media exposure so I want to use my position to do good things. I will need some help though. It’s too much to do all this on my own. I’m already weeks behind on my email and the volume keeps growing. I’m not getting any compensation right now for answering emails or growing this blog so it’s hard to justify devoting all of my time to it. So I need to learn to delegate and starting thinking about building a business out of this.
I’ve been considering setting up a network of trusted foreclosure and real estate professionals that I can refer people to - mortgage brokers, short sale real estate agents, real estate and bankruptcy attorneys, debt management consultants, etc.. I need to setup a system to automate referrals and track the referral to make sure the person in foreclosure gets timely help and accurate guidance.
I just keep thinking more and more how my facing foreclosure experience and my desire to take the story public is really one big blessing in disguise. I can help people avoid or survive foreclosure, find solutions for their debt, get back on their feet… all while turning this into a self-sustaining business.
I know, I know… you’re thinking “Why don’t you first help yourself”… or “You don’t have the credibility to help people in foreclosure” or “You haven’t even come out of your own foreclosure mess and now you’re going to try helping others??”
Yes, I may not have a ton of credibility in some people’s eyes yet. And you may not agree with some of the choices I’ve made in trying to avoid foreclosure and get out of debt. But I do feel like I learned a lot and I’m not going to wait to start helping others. That would actually be selfish of me. Also the entrepreneur in me is saying that I need to jump on this opportunity and start building toward the future of this foreclosure blog. It would be a waste of time and effort if this blog goes away after my foreclosure story is over.
One way to increase credibility and value might be to start letting other real estate bloggers and foreclosure experts guest blog here from time to time. Also, besides a blog I want to also have maybe a foreclosure help forum, “10 Ways to Avoid Foreclosure” type of e-books, a directory of trusted foreclosure prevention professionals, foreclosure FAQ pages, “How to Stop Foreclosure” and “Foreclosure Law” pages, bankruptcy, debt management, and other related topics.
I see IamFacingForeclosure.com becoming THE #1 foreclosure resource and foreclosure help site on the internet. I see this site helping thousands of people per day in solving their foreclosure and debt problems. To make this happen I see myself receiving ideas / help / connections / support from you and building a successful team.
Thank you!
210 Comments
March 19th, 2007 at 12:17 am
test comment… making sure the new server is working right… looking good.
Sorry for the inconveniences with all these server moves… I have a new tech guy helping me take care of all the server stuff and we’ve upgraded to a semi-dedicated server which should help keep things fast and stable.
The faster server setup will come in handy as this site gets more and more popular.
Now I need to get some sleep.
March 19th, 2007 at 12:30 am
I’m glad you have a new “TECH GUY” to help you out.
You’re the “BOSS”
Casey, according to this
“I’m starting to get more and more people emailing me for help with their own foreclosure situation. I help out with whatever advice or tips I can but it’s starting to become a problem. I don’t have enough time to answer all the emails and I’m letting them sit. I feel bad because I want to help everybody. I know what it’s like to be in financial trouble facing foreclosure so I feel for these people.”
It seems like perhaps you’d like to start your own ‘FORECLOSURE GURU” seminar?
rofl
March 19th, 2007 at 1:40 am
That’s totally wicked man! Er, I mean, SWEET!!
And guess what? You’re also #7 for “CashCall”.
That’s right, #7 for CashCall is Casey Serin!
ASW: cashback
March 19th, 2007 at 1:44 am
Yo, Case, why don’t you manage to stop foreclosure on just one — ONE — of you remaining properties and then maybe we’ll talk about your credentials to counsel other people facing foreclosure.
Anti-spam word - itsallgood.
You bet it is, baby.
March 19th, 2007 at 1:56 am
Casey ,
People want advice about stopping foreclosure?
How about PAY YOUR MORTGAGE?
Fast and simple. No guru needed, no master plan necessary!
It’s sweet and loose
March 19th, 2007 at 2:06 am
: If you want to build a business out of this website, you have to ask the following questions: What product am I… doug: Some of the major foreclosure issues are going to be going away for a simple reason: Banks will be preventing… Boo Freakin Hoo, Casey: Lying out of your a****** again Casey. “I don’t have enough time to answer all the emails…
March 19th, 2007 at 2:11 am
Casey,
You need not worry. You won’t be ‘helping’ for long. Homey D.A.(district attorney) clown and others are going to make sure you are shut down shortly. enjoy your short lived freedom. You are soon to be made quite the example for mortgage fraud.
March 19th, 2007 at 2:13 am
Im gonna visit your site about how to get some help with a foreclosure . Then Im gonn read John Kerry’s site about ‘How to become President of the US’ and then Brittney Spears site about ‘How to be a star and not loose your head’.
anti-spam word: cashback
March 19th, 2007 at 3:09 am
Sounds like a plan. Perhaps you can create a resource site and have a personal blog running off that.
You should really look into other ways to monetize this site. With the amount of traffic you get here, you could really pull in some extra money.
FT
March 19th, 2007 at 3:12 am
SO what you’re saying is, if, perhaps I became a colossal failure in the field of investment banking that perhaps people would want to give me millions of dollars? You’re saying that failure is good…failing forward. Ahem…
Gotcha. Just checking. Hang in there for #1 status. You could be hanging a while. But just so you know, if this does become the #1 site, your haters will make sure a pure bash site is the #2.
March 19th, 2007 at 3:15 am
Are you kidding? Of course you have a lot of credibility in foreclosure. Why, if I ever wanted to foreclose, I’ll just do what you’ve done.
What you don’t have any credibility in, however, is in getting things done above-board.
March 19th, 2007 at 3:27 am
How high do you rate on the word “loser”?
Why would anyone in trouble come to YOU for help?
If it were a choice between taking your advice and eating a bullet, I’d take the bullet.
March 19th, 2007 at 3:33 am
Casey, you won’t be successful at anything if you lie to yourself. If you want to monetize this blog, then you have to understand why people come here.
Do you think that people come here because you offer great insight on how to avoid foreclosure?
Or do you think that people come here because you don’t mind making a public spectacle of yourself?
March 19th, 2007 at 4:14 am
Did you get your own server?
March 19th, 2007 at 4:16 am
SWEET! Another GURU!
Kind of like having the former head of FEMA (Mr Brown. . . what was his first name, Charlie?) give seminars on how to deal with disasters in New Orleans.
What advice are you giving? I think I have a few ideas that you might be throwing out at your new followers;
1. Go to CASHCALL and get a loan.
2. Don’t open your mail. . .
3. Buy a blue ball and sit on it. . .
4. Start a blog. . .
SWEET!!!! Oh and don’t be a Dick. . . (by the way, what the hell is wrong with that?)
Dick
March 19th, 2007 at 4:22 am
You have officially hit celebrity status sir. Oprah should put you on her show. You could tell your story to the nation there and give some advice to people on how to avoid the situation you got yourself in.
March 19th, 2007 at 4:26 am
Casey, use the fact that you’re #10 - leverage that somehow to make money. There are people that can do this for you — and you can get out of this mess you’re in. If you can’t or won’t do this - then bankruptcy is all that’s left. Not jumping on this and capitalizing will indicate your failure. If you feel you are overwhelmed and just can’t get started doing it, then go back and read some of the literature about keeping motivated. It’s time to stand up! Remember the concept of absolute value from mathematics? No matter the value - positive or negative – value is value. Use it or lose it— you have what passes for fame in the USA and it’ll only come around once like you have it now. The door is right in front of you! Make that call…
March 19th, 2007 at 4:30 am
“Also, besides a blog I want to also have maybe a foreclosure help forum, “10 Ways to Avoid Foreclosure” type of e-books, a directory of trusted foreclosure prevention professionals, foreclosure FAQ pages, “How to Stop Foreclosure” and “Foreclosure Law” pages, bankruptcy, debt management, and other related topics.”
I’m HOPING that your only contribution to this supposed new and improved website will be the actual website traffic itself, and not any sort of advice to anyone. Unless the advice you will be giving is not to do what you’ve done. Additionally, I hope you plan to put a strong team in charge of this new venture so all can run smoothly while you are paying your debt to society.
March 19th, 2007 at 4:31 am
I guess that was the idea with this blog from the beginning:
First gain popularity and than turn it into a buisness venture…
Anyways, good job on promoting your web site - I think you might be able to sell it to some (foreclosure.com) lender/FK resource for a hefty $$$.
March 19th, 2007 at 4:42 am
“I’m starting to get more and more people emailing me for help with their own foreclosure situation. I help out with whatever advice or tips I can but it’s starting to become a problem.”
You are in no position, as you have not learned from your mistakes.
March 19th, 2007 at 4:42 am
With your vast knowledge and connections in the mortgage and foreclosure arena why cant you stop just ONE of your houses from beig foreclosed on?? You are such a self important little turd that it stopped being funny months ago. What advice could possibly come from your sad little mouth? “Drink juice”? Sorry pal, the Florida orange growers have been saying that for decades, so even thats not an original thought. It will actually be funny to see you do the perp walk, if only because of the look of disbelief that will be plastered on your mug.
March 19th, 2007 at 4:44 am
This post contains 666 words, no counting the title, but that isn’t the important statistic. ‘Foreclosure’ appears 28 times, not counting the blog title itself. And you want to be the #1 ranked search response? I call Google W**** , not to mention narcissistic psychopath.
March 19th, 2007 at 4:47 am
Casey,
The reason why you’re so high up there in searches is mainly due to the haters linking your name to foreclosure in their attempt to boost their stature. If you think its bad now, you’ll be facing JohnTReed on a whole new level.
In addition, this is a bit pie in the sky. You cannot move onto a new project when you haven’t taken care of your previous business. You have foreclosures on your record, cashcall is calling you, and the lenders will come after you for your missed payments, the CC companies will come after you, and bankruptcy is pretty much not an option, so any work you do do, will go to your creditors.
That, and the IRS will pay a big visit on April 15, 2008
Have you opened up all your mail? Called your creditors? DO YOU KNOW WHAT RESPONSIBILITY MEANS?
March 19th, 2007 at 4:48 am
Whyd you never link to this story on you Casey?
http://www.fool.com/personal-f.....pban100102
March 19th, 2007 at 4:51 am
Why don’t you put up some ads if you’re so high-trafficked? Seriously, it wouldn’t get you the 2.2 M, but it would at least help you somewhat.
March 19th, 2007 at 5:08 am
So you’re planning to offer guru seminars in how to fail successfully? If I may, I’d like to suggest “Failing Forward©” as the title.
I can see the infomercial now….
March 19th, 2007 at 5:20 am
Help me! I am 8 months behind on my house payment and have probably already been foreclosed upon. The bank keeps sending me this pretty paper with their logo on it for me to make paper airplanes.
Anyway, I need your help NOW! You have been through this before!!
Can you help me check my mail in a timely fashion?
No? ok, well can you help me sort my bills in order of when they need to be paid?
Uh, thats out too?
Can you show my how to use my credit wisely?
Crap, maybe you can show me how to increase the value of my home through sweat equity?
Another no.. Can you at least show me how to mow my grass so I dont get fined by the HOA?
You dont know what an HOA is? Well, okay I’ll have a number 2 with a diet coke. Wait, you cant even flip burgers? Your foreclosure knowledge is the greatest! This is better than the Carleton Sheets program I ordered!
By the way here is the $2495.99 for your 15 minute seminar on how to look busy in the face of ultimate disaster.
On a serious note, What could you possibly be teaching these people? How not to show up at the court house steps when you havent been to your property in 6 months?
Floating along through Foreclosure, by Casey Serin, Cr. Ook, Head of Financial Turmoil, Broke U.
March 19th, 2007 at 5:28 am
Congrats, Casey. You and your little blog haver officially JUMPED THE SHARK.
You are a liar. You do not feel compelled to “help” people…you just see an opportunity to make money by referring people on. It’s called a kickback.
ANSWER THIS QUESTION: What fee are you charging to become a member of this “trusted resource” network? Do these gurus pay any fee or compensation to you? What revenue is exchanged between parties when a referral is passed on?
I find it unfathomable that you are $200+k in debt on credit cards & persoanl loans and a few million in debt on foreclosures and you worry about returning emails and updating a blog.
Just get a job.
Your 15 minutes of fame are just about up…
March 19th, 2007 at 5:45 am
Casey, did you know that you can make a fortune on foreclosures? Just scan the public records and mail postcards, and visit the hapless souls to get them to sign on the dotted line. It is a scam — I mean service — that is as old as the $15,000 seminar. (But the other guy charges $32, 000 — so, its all good!) Start mailing out the postcards, and hanging up the signs on phone poles. And remember, if you happen to be down a few ten thousands, it is something that you did wrong — you could never be the victim of a swindle. Repeat after me — it is all my fault.
March 19th, 2007 at 5:48 am
“I see this site helping thousands of people per day in solving their foreclosure and debt problems.”
Really.
Just when do you see this change occurring? Because up until now, it’s all about you and helping you.
March 19th, 2007 at 5:49 am
Uhm…
That’s like bragging you are the tenth worse investor as ranked by google, soon to be ranked as the *worst*.
This site is a dummies guide on how not to invest in real estate.
Just shut it down and get a job already.
March 19th, 2007 at 5:58 am
Like we all told you before, you are NOT an expert until you have this BEHIND you.
You want to tell people how to stop foreclosure? You can’t even stop your own! How does this make you an expert? Makes a bigger failure in my eyes.
If you think you are going to be some kind of “guru in the making” with this situation, it is going to be awfully difficult because you laid your entire story out on this blog.
Trying to profit off this whole situation is going to look awfully stupid in front of the Judge you will have to face to get out of this mess.
ASW= winwin
March 19th, 2007 at 6:00 am
Advise them to do what you did…NOTHING!
March 19th, 2007 at 6:09 am
I see you doing nothing to actually make this idea work. I see you, once again, failing miserably because you refuse to buckle down and actually do the work yourself.
And a tech guy to handle server issues? I thought you were the tech guy in your last W2 job?
March 19th, 2007 at 6:19 am
About time, you are making this site useful. Yes, the links and affiliates may help. However, have you think through the whole process? Considering how clueless, hopeless, helpless you are yourself, you mind sharing what / how you exactly proposed to set up the affiliates? Here are some points, questions to ponder:
1) how would you fight off the haters? Some haters may launch DOS attack on your affiliates, you might need to make sure the affiliate is willing to take on this risk.
2) have disclaimers on your site. I do not pay much attention to legal detail, but sheesh, even I know I need to put up a disclaimer, term of usage somewhere. I thought you worked as web developer before.
3) how come your copyright year is still 2006? We are in 2007!! Wake up.
4) Again, THINK service first (Kiyosaki’s recommendation, not mine), if you plan to turn this affiliates / network project into something lucrative, write out a plan. This should take no more than 2 hours if your claim to web design, application is legit. BTW, plan includes a schedule. Post that here, it will help you.
5) DO NOT CLAIM to help others. Your lack credibility may get yourself into more trouble. Always direct to the experts / links / affiliates.
6) now do it.
I will admit you have some marketing charm/magic to you. However, you are HORRIBLE at everything else. This mean, don’t claim you are helping others, you aren’t. Instead direct to those who are experts at it. And for God’s sake, don’t vouch for anyone. Just put a note noting “this person helped me in such and such situation. If you feel he may help you out as well, contact …”
Good luck.
March 19th, 2007 at 6:19 am
to anyone seeking advice about foreclosure:
contact an attorney.
casey serin is not an attorney.
thank you
March 19th, 2007 at 6:24 am
Dweeb;
If you are so concerned with helping people and doing good works, join the Peace Corps. In fact, a stint in a foriegn country for a few years might be a wise thing to do for a man in your position, preferably a country without an extraditition treaty with the US. However, I could easily see you living in some mud hut someplace, conning the locals into ’sweet real estate deals’ while extolling the virtues of Juicing. Instead of building a school or clinic, you’d build them cheaply constructed townhomes, complete with granite countertops and stainless steel appliances, then provide financing with No doc/100%/ Neg Am loans. Come on Casey, goforit!
Subkommander Dred
March 19th, 2007 at 6:24 am
Finally, something productive! You may have “success” (ASW) with this.
March 19th, 2007 at 6:26 am
Hopefully you will the first prisoner who actually has a website that would pay off every dirty penny he stole..plus restitution. Good Luck, America will pay to much for mooches and loafs like you in the next coming years!
March 19th, 2007 at 6:26 am
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade?
You’re the symbol of everything that I hate regarding the recent housing boom and bust. At one time, I thought that you were a special case for a return to the days of debtors’ prisons.
But in fairness, you made yourself public. So you’ve become a sieve for everyone else’s frustrations.
I haven’t read every single item in your blog, but I think one way that you can increase your “street cred” (even with the “haters”) is writing an expose on the housing speculator market. If you liken yourself as a victim, then it was the sub-prime lenders, the hucksters’ seminars who got you into this mess.
The best way to avoid foreclosure is to do what I’ve done:
1) Don’t upgrade to a more expensive home when the market booms, even if you can afford it.
2) Don’t buy a home that you can barely afford during the good times. The home you can comfortably pay for, even during the lean times is the one you should live in.
3) If you can prepay without penalty, do this as often as you can. Whether it’s an extra $10 a month to $500 a month, do it. Whatever your mortage rate is, is the equivalent rate of return in the long run.
All of these 3 “tips” have sustainability in mind. One should protect their homes from job loss, cut in pay, rise in interest rates and recessions. The mentality one should take about a mortgage is that you don’t own your home until the mortgage has been paid in full. Until then, you’re basically renting your home from the bank.
March 19th, 2007 at 6:35 am
Seems to me that other people’s problems are the new “shiny things” you are chasing (at your peril, in my opinion). That’s exactly why many of us check in here.
Truly hilarious to me that you think you can help….I’m imagining such sound advi(S)e as….
1) Invest in caller ID, and don’t answer your phone if you don’t recognize the number.
2) Don’t open your mail, especially when it’s certified.
3) Spend your time looking for more “sweet deals.”
4) Ignorance is bliss….
5) Foreclosure really isn’t THAT painful….the guy on the county steps has a cool hat.
6) The echoes of hearing the words “Back to the Bank it goes.” die down after a few days…especially after a few trips to Jamba Juice.
7) Misery loves company….
8) When your credit score is under 400….why worry about another foreclosure (or two..)
9) How to keep your spouse oblivious and let them continue to pursue their dreams, even when you can’t afford it.
10) Advanced skills for mooching off the relatives as an alternative to generating income. Let them be the wage slaves!
Get real!!!! Can you describe just one case where you’ve actually helped someone?
March 19th, 2007 at 6:39 am
You say you have learned a lot and could write an eBook on avoiding foreclosure.
Fine.
Avoid foreclosure on the remaining two properties you own (plus the wrap).
If you can’t do that, you have learned NOTHING.
asw: awesome
March 19th, 2007 at 6:39 am
“Am Facing Foreclosure blog just made it to the first page of Google under the search term “foreclosure”. I’m in #10 position out of 24,200,000 results.”
The very essence of the term “left-handed compliment”. This would be akin to being the top search result for “compulsive masturbation.”
March 19th, 2007 at 7:02 am
I called this move all the way back in September.
March 19th, 2007 at 7:07 am
Casey,
There is great value in offering a service where you and others share their experiences. Some people just need to know they are not alone. That the decisions they are trying to get comfortable with are the right ones.
In other cases there will be services or advice that people can and will pay for in their time of need.
You have made an investment in the site. It has become a bit of a “speaker’s corner” for foreclosure conversations. Earning some income from your efforts is fine. Granted some will try to sabotage such efforts. Is it envy or is it just their nature?
As you are not forcing people to come to this site I say let people choose on their own. If the advice works for them that is great. A silver lining to your cloud.
Yes, you will need others to help. Either volunteers or paid support staff. At some level you can not maintain true quality control unless you have ample income and staff so go for the light touch initially.
Get in touch if you want some guest articles or moderation support. I already moderate a few lists for other people so I know the drill.
John Corey
http://johncorey.wordpress.com/ - real estate investing advice
March 19th, 2007 at 7:29 am
I’ll make it real easy for you…(and you don’t even need to pay me!)
10 Tips for avoiding foreclosure:
1) Pay your mortgage
2) Pay your mortgage
3) Pay your mortgage
4) Pay your mortgage
5) Pay your mortgage
6) Pay your mortgage
7) Pay your mortgage
8) Pay your mortgage
9) Pay your mortgage
10) Pay your mortgage
March 19th, 2007 at 7:38 am
I think our boy’s level of detachment from reality has reached new highs (lows?)
March 19th, 2007 at 7:50 am
Lying out of your a****** again Casey.
“I don’t have enough time to answer all the emails and I’m letting them sit. I feel bad because I want to help everybody.”
Yeah, I’m sure you have so much compassion and love in your heart to lie on 8 applications, sit on you azz thinking you are going to get rich, let your houses go to crap and then refuse to pay for your mess, leaving it to the American taxpayers to clean it up for you!
Some Christian you are, I hope you land in jail soon because you truly are a menace to society! Scamming and easy money is in your heart!
March 19th, 2007 at 7:55 am
Some of the major foreclosure issues are going to be going away for a simple reason: Banks will be preventing them from happening in the future (for a while). 0% down loans are rapidly disapearing from the market, along with stated income loans. With those going away, a lot of the mess that is out there will start to dry up in the next couple of years (along with housing prices dropping because people cannot afford the more stringent loan requirements).
March 19th, 2007 at 8:05 am
If you want to build a business out of this website, you have to ask the following questions:
What product am I offering?
How do I stand out from the rest of the pack?
If I am acting as a referrel service, why would people want to go to me instead of direct to the service provider?
What am I going to charge for this service and who pays for it?
March 19th, 2007 at 8:08 am
There are two kinds of blogs out there. One marks the day-to-day travails of the blogger, and can be very enlightening as a step-by-step journey through their situation. For example, someone starting a business details the process of finding retail space, ordering merchandise, getting permits, etc., as they are happening.
The other kind has posts about a topic. For example, a blog might still be on starting a business, but one day they talk about keeping books, the next day it’s hiring help, the next day it’s “Are you cut out to be an entrepreneur?” Often, the blog is little more than links to outside articles the blogger found interesting, and a few of his/her comments on the subject.
There’s no question which is more compelling. Not only is the first more useful as a step-by-step guide, but readers establish more of a connection with the blogger. (In your case, you’re the blogger we love to “hate.”)
It sounds like you’re going from the first kind to the second. I’m not surprised that you want to take the focus off yourself and use the site more as a business. Anyway, you soon won’t have any houses left to lose and therefore you’ll have less to write about. I do think your traffic and notoriety will suffer, though, because most people come for the train wreck.
Are you ever going to answer our many questions? There’s so many loose ends, it’s no wonder people become frustrated here. Like, aside from meeting Nigel, what were you really doing in Utah?
March 19th, 2007 at 8:19 am
Number one rule of Foreclosure avoidance…
#1 Make your payments.
#2, sell if you can’t make payments..
Other than that you’re stupid holding onto a money losing investment.
March 19th, 2007 at 8:24 am
To help your credibility: Design and implement a plan to pay off your unsecured debt. Last I knew it was running in the 200k range.
Last I checked, the daily interest was costing you $150/day (unsecured debt only, no mortgages).
It is kind of hard to be credible when one side of your mouth is saying “I want to help people” and the other side of your mouth is saying “I am avoiding my lenders”
You need to prioritize: Solve your problems first. Everyone else’s problems second. Start filtering your email so mail you know is important gets set aside and not lost in the sea of white noise that is an inbox.
My simplest advice for avoiding foreclosure: Don’t set yourself up for failure from the get-go. If the mortgage is to big for you to afford, then you will be foreclosed on (its just a matter of time).
Set up a budget, include all of your monthly costs in it (car, food, gas, taxes, rent, maintenance, safety margin, etc). From there determine how large a monthly mortgage payment you can afford and go from there. It is relatively simple: If you are spending more then you are earning, you will go broke. If not, then you are saving something at the end of the month.
March 19th, 2007 at 8:31 am
did anyone notice how many times Casey started a paragraph with “I”
March 19th, 2007 at 8:39 am
Wow, I’ve never seen a bigger case of the blind leading the blind. It’s too bad you can’t run for president.
March 19th, 2007 at 8:45 am
You do realize that you need a license to give any kind of financial advice to anyone … right?
RIGHT?
March 19th, 2007 at 8:54 am
It’s pretty obvious that your goal is to make money off of this site and you probably could do alright with it with high rankings.
Is this money going to be used to pay back every dirty penny?
Are you going to get a job if it’s not enough money to pay back your loans and live off of?
March 19th, 2007 at 8:54 am
Casey: Have you started a side business selling blue balls (I was at the gym today and they had a wall of them on a rack)?
How are things going on the Jamba Juice sponsorship (do they know you are #10)?
The guru seminar is a great idea (charge people $1,000 to help them avoid forclosure).
March 19th, 2007 at 8:59 am
Casey,
You should set incremental goals, like “Be #8 result, #6, etc” … it’s going to be tough to beat the likes of Foreclosure.com, and Wikipedia. Take it one step at a time. Although this might be a possible business idea, I have serious doubts that you will execute. It reminds me of your approach to 2007 goals: aim high, and do nothing.
You make it sound like nothing is possible without a crack team of advisers around. You can start by proving that you are serious about your idea by implementing certain parts, and only then ask for help once you have demonstrated that you are committed. Given your track record, however, you will only complain that you don’t have enough time to do anything because you’re always meeting with business partners. Whatever, just prove to us you can do SOMETHING.
Cheers,
Vlad
March 19th, 2007 at 8:59 am
Those who can not do, teach.
March 19th, 2007 at 9:11 am
here are some other google successes from casey listed by search phrase and ranking:
foreclosure idiot #6 Casey Serin
foreclosure moron #3 Casey Serin
foreclosure dimwit…drum roll… #1….CASEY SERIN!!!!!!!
CONGRATULATIONS CASEY…YOU HAVE SUCCEEDED
March 19th, 2007 at 9:16 am
once i struggled to pay my own mortgage. (my credit report still shows one single incident where i was about 20 days late with a payment.) i know at that time what i really wanted most of all was to seek counsel with someone in even more dire shape than me, and give them some money. or maybe i’d just want to chit-chat with them until the day i “pull the trigger” and pay their sponsor to, what, BuyMyUglyHouse or something.
let me tell you what i did instead: i worked very, very hard, delivering pizza by day and building web software by night. the software interested people who have some cash to spare. now, three years later, even while i have a very profitable day job, these people still pay for my web software.
one of the things you’ll need to achieve is control of criticism. that’s why you’ve been trying to steer critics elsewhere, and shut down the Wiki description. you will continue to find that the harder you press to control criticism, the louder it gets. if you made a concerted effort to suppress criticism on this site, your critics would be more aggressive and creative. google giveth, google taketh away. don’t take this personally. people are entitled to their opinions, and they know it. but certainly you could try. my hunch is: the venture sounds worth about $10/day. your target audience doesn’t have money to spare, you don’t have much to give (sorry), and the barriers to transformation are not small (you have devoted readers, but we aren’t exactly supportive).
it does sound like one of your few profitable assets, but it can’t compare to truly valuable hard work. but you wouldn’t deliver pizza, and you wouldn’t sweat to code truly valuable or useful software. so apparently your options are more limited than mine.
March 19th, 2007 at 9:24 am
Casey,
How can this be a “foreclosure help and resource site” when most people care about AVOIDING foreclosure and you don’t? Honestly, what do you think the average person Googling “foreclosure”, hoping to keep their primary residence after being laid off or getting sick, can learn from you?
March 19th, 2007 at 9:27 am
Tibetan Monk say:
How much will freeloader pay Casey to advise them not to pay debt?
Sound like good business plan.
March 19th, 2007 at 9:27 am
Why should anyone take advice from you? What have you actually DONE either to avoid foreclosure, minimize its impact, or learn from the experience?
You’ve gone to the courthouse steps to watch the auctions. You know what the guy there looks like and that he likes to say, “back to the bank it goes.” Great, I can do that too. On my lunch hour, even, and still be able to work the rest of the day.
Here, lemme give you a pretend scenario. I live in Chicago (this part is true). Last year (this is where the pretend part starts) I took out a $350K mortgage on a condo. I got one of them negam I/O 2/28 thingamabobs and my payment has gone from, oh let’s say $1500/mo to $3500/mo now and $4500K/mo next year. On top of that I have to pay $300/mo in property tax and $500/mo in assessments. I can no longer afford this, because my takehome from my semi-legit W2 job is only $3000/mo (see, housing eats up my whole pay). I can’t refi because I still have negative equity.
I’ve stopped eating out, canceled the cable teevee, don’t patronize overpriced exotic beverage-selling establishments and have let my car insurance lapse (illegal, but Illinois doesn’t really care).
Now Casey, help me. I am facing foreclosure.
March 19th, 2007 at 9:28 am
Done right, this latest little plan could actually generate a little cash. Not much, but a little, which could help with the credit card payments, legal fees, tax payments, speeding tickets, snowboarding trips, etc.
. . . Oh, and speaking of which, where did the cash for that snowboarding trip come from?
March 19th, 2007 at 9:41 am
Hahahahaha. That’s like all the failed novelists who couldn’t hack it who are now teaching “creative writing” classes at the local junior college. The difference here is that at least they have an actual education…
March 19th, 2007 at 9:42 am
Now Casey can offer “advice” that doesnt really say anything at all, and position himself as “the expert guru” on surviving foreclosure.
He’s following the path that Kiyosaki did to get rich - fail at everything you try, then become a guru and sell fake hope to the masses.
March 19th, 2007 at 9:56 am
Great news!
Google: casey looser
You are the first 6 hits!
March 19th, 2007 at 9:59 am
Time for a reality check…No one comes to this site for any actual useful information. It’s a hilarious diversion for all. You are delusional but still somewhat entertaining.
March 19th, 2007 at 10:01 am
“I’m in #10 position out of 24,200,000 results.”
In prison you’ll be the most popular inmate. And you’ll be in #1 position.
asw: “itsallgood” — it certainly will be.
March 19th, 2007 at 10:17 am
You’re in a catch-22 here, Casey. You are correct to believe that you can turn a profit from this website based on your traffic, but you obviously don’t understand why your traffic is so high. People come here for the trainwreck factor, that’s it. Once your last house is gone, what’s there to continue blogging about? No trainwreck equals no traffic.
March 19th, 2007 at 10:28 am
Hi Casey, yes i would like some advice. yeah i quit my job because it doesnt pay very well. so i am going to hold out until i have a sweet paying job. but the thing is i havent been paying my mortgage. Now they are calling all the time. i told them i cant pay until i have a sweet paying job but they are being unreasonable. What should i do?
March 19th, 2007 at 10:34 am
How about adding a section/forum on peoples horror stories with subprime mortage lending and how they got into trouble. It would be educational reading these stories.
Thanks,
Loc
March 19th, 2007 at 10:43 am
Brilliant concept. Sort of reminds me of the speeches of reformed alcoholics and druggies addressing church audiences of the errors of their way. But what do you tell people facing foreclosure who solicit your advice?
1. Looks are everything, so buy scarves and expensive murses to make yourself look successful.
2. If you had more money, you wouldn’t be in the problem you are. So just go out and obtain more credit cards, then let the good times roll and head for pricey restaurants and exclusive shops to make life bearable. Spend today, because tomorrow you will die.
3. Don’t bother making improvements in the properties you won. It probably won’t do any good, so why waste time.
4. Leech from your relatives, pull your sheets over your head, throw the mail away unopened, and wait for impeding doom.
March 19th, 2007 at 10:46 am
These foreclosures are putting banks out of business.
They tooooook our jobs
March 19th, 2007 at 10:51 am
“I see this site helping thousands of people per day in solving their foreclosure and debt problems. ”
Until you have successfully demonstrated that you have avoided even ONE forclosure, anything you have to say on the subject has as much value in helping people facing forclosure as the gas that escapes a cow’s rear end. Actually, less, because the gas that escapes a cow’s rear end can be captured and used as fuel. Your words, on the other hand, cannot.
March 19th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Great idea! Casey can start a licensee program to allow respectable professionals to use a “Member of Trusted Casey Serin Network” badge, for a fee of course. I’m sure respectable professionals will line up for the privilege of being recommended by a crook.
March 19th, 2007 at 11:04 am
Don’t you have to actually stop a foreclosure to advise people on that topic?
I don’t get it.
Perhaps you can tell others what to expect and don’t do what I did, but I am puzzled as to why anyone would come to you for foreclosure advice.
I’ve mentioned 2 times that you should parlay this site into a cash source, which I think can be done, but I don’t think people are going to look at you as some Kevin Mitnick type that is a guru at anything but pretending all is good while reality is chewing you up and spitting you out.
March 19th, 2007 at 11:08 am
Speaking of foreclosure, what’s going on with the remaining houses?
Also, how’s the expenditure ledger for 2006 going? Many of us are dying to see where you spent all that cash-back money and credit card charges last year. Given that it appears to be well over $200k in spending and you apparently have nothing to show for it, it’s very interesting.
Many have asked about the Utah “missing” payment. Why haven’t you responded?
March 19th, 2007 at 11:14 am
Actually, you have a few better Google keyword rankings… This is a quick list that I compiled with the keyword and the ranking:
Dirty Penny #7
Looser’s Foreclosure #5
Sweet Foreclosure #1
Foreclosure Blog #1
Utah Trip #6
Cashcall #7
Jail for Mortgage Fraud #1 & #2
March 19th, 2007 at 11:24 am
For your FAQ section:
Q. How does one avoid foreclosure?
A. By paying your mortgage.
Q. How does one pay their mortgage?
A. With an income.
Q. How does one get an income fast?
A. With a job.
Q. How does one get a job?
A. By looking for a job.
Q. What if I lied about my income, don’t have a job, can’t afford the mortgage, the house is worth 30% less than I owe and I spent the cash back at closing?
A. Look for some sweet deals.
March 19th, 2007 at 11:29 am
Casey,
It’s good to see that you are finally taking Kiyosaki’s advice. Make your money by telling people how to get out of foreclosure, without actually doing it yourself. He did the exact same thing: became a millionaire by writing a book about becoming a millionaire. All you have to do now is make up a fictitious rich dad that just so happens to be one of the smartest and richest men in Hawaii but no one knows his true identity and you will be the man!!
March 19th, 2007 at 11:34 am
I just can’t see how anyone who spends some time on these pages and reads any of the comments would take anything they get from here seriously.
Antispam: Cashback
March 19th, 2007 at 11:37 am
Casey what really makes me mad about you and probably a bunch of other people too:
You put money, greed, and lies in front of people. You could care less who you hurt or rob from to get the cold hard cash to live an extravagent lifestyle. All that with the least amount of work and the least amount of accountability when the s*** hit the fan.
Why do you call yourself Christian when you actually do evil and selfish things in a country that gives you a chance to escape poverty and Communism.
Your just as bad as a con-artist, a pimp, a drug pusher and a thief who steal from their family.
I truly do hope God has his vegence on you..
March 19th, 2007 at 11:57 am
With the number of stupid people who took the loans they knew they couldn’t afford popping up more frequent, those same people will be desparate for any advice - even from you, Casey! Kinda like asking a convict: “What’s it like in jail” for the first timer who is scared as s*** . You will get more traffic and money to pay back every dirty penny you stole. (You still are going to pay every dirty penny back, right Casey?).
I believe it was P.T. Barnum that said that no one ever went broke by underestimating the intelligence of the American people.
March 19th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Now that I’ve failed forward and had two foreclosures in two months, you’re going to start giving people advice on how to avoid foreclosure?
What type of bizarro world do you live in????
Wouldn’t you be better at giving people advice on how to achieve financial ruin?
March 19th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
#10 for foreclosure? Try these out:
“sweet mortgage fraud” - #7
“sweet liar loan” - #6
“sweet cash back scam” - #1 !!
Don’t see you in the top 100 for “prevent foreclosure.”
You’ve got alot of work to do kid, but you’re on the right track. Your web skills are infinitely better than your real estate skills. Do us all a favor and give up real estate dreams for a few years and do your growing up someplace that doesn’t cost us all millions of dollars.
March 19th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
I’ve been blessed with all the inbound links
God had nothing to do with that.
March 19th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
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there, keyword density should take you up the page. GOod luck.
March 19th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
“did anyone notice how many times Casey started a paragraph with “I””
uh, no.
asw=getajob
March 19th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
Just a quote from a precious post.
” I was creative in getting myself into this thing (with good intentions but bad tactics). Now I will have to be ten times as creative and resourceful to:
1) Pay off all my “dirty” debt - lender will not loose a penny on me.
2) Do it 100% legally and above-board.
3) Avoid foreclosure and bankruptcy.”
HA HA HA HA
How did those goals work out, so far you have avoided bankruptcy, but only because taxes weren’t due. What happens when the IRS comes calling?
Oh yeah, post some real content, answer some of the questions.
How did you spend 200k?
What were your cash back amounts on “your” properties?
What is your current credit score that you tried “so hard” to save?
Finally: what makes you think that you are qualified to give advice? (If you ignore all the other questions PLEASE answer that one.)
I personally would not take any advice nor would any other sane person. All you have done is bought houses illegally and then went on a picture taking, self important blog-fest. You have no skills viable to the real estate community, nor do you bring any so called “time” to the table in any future deals, you have no work ethic and feel that you deserve things that many hard working people do even when they have money to pay for it. I am fed up with trolling, lying and self delusion, You are a PARASITE and I can’t wait to see you hauled off to jail.
March 19th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
You may strive for #1, but in my eyes you’ll always be a #2.
Besides, the only other person who has successfully failed more than you is GW Bush.
March 19th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
Ok, here’s my prediction - despite all the advice here (and hopefully, in real life) Our Hero will actually think he can do this and will try.
He’ll whine at us because he can’t get a team of professionals to work with him (after all, who would want to be professionally associated with Our Hero).
Then he’ll whine because this brilliant idea of his isn’t making him $$$ in passive income by September 2007.
Then he’ll say maybe he jumped in over his head, but that it’s all good - he’s failing forward and it’s a learning experience for him.
Then who knows what he’ll whine about, because by then no one will be listening.
Sheeesh! You’d think by now even a retarded monkey (no offense intended to the cognitively delayed or to monkeys) would have figured out that if EVERYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD says it’s a bad idead, maybe you shouldn’
t stake your whole life on it. But not Our Hero! He always knows more/better than anyone else. Things don’t ever work out for him, but it’snot his fault.
March 19th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
ASW juicy
1- Set goal of “I want to be rich the easy way”
2 - Find a scheme
3 - Begin the scheme without fully thinking it through
4 - Realize scheme actually involves some form of work
5 - Avoid doing the work
6 - See scheme begin to fail
7 - Make resolution to actually do work
8 - Fritter away time with unproductive distractions that seem productive since they have to do with mental or physical well being.
9 - Scheme fails, breathe a big sigh of relief as the pressure is lifted from your shoulders
10 - Begin again at step one.
You will repeat this in all aspects of your life.
Casey, you are the underpants gnomes, except that they work hard and you don’t.
Praise God!
March 19th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Casey,
I hear Las Vegas is the next hot spot for flipping houses. Have you had a chance to look into this area yet? Don’t waste your time in Utah. Go to Vegas, man. That’s where the action is.
-FSD
March 19th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Casey these anti spam words are sweet.Mine was loose. Glad to see your at least trying to make a living even if its thru your blog
http://www.icantsellmyhouse.blogspot.com/
March 19th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Type “real estate loser” in Google and an article about Casey is #1. It’ll take a lot of work to get to #1 in “loser” alone, but I have confidence.
I also still think some slick marketing of yourself as a foreclosure guru would be great–you may have some trouble sleeping at night, but after years of having BK clients with credit and foreclosure problems, I know they’d spend some money listening to a snake oil pitch about keeping their house.
March 19th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Just to be clear, Casey, whoever keeps advising you “those who can’t do, teach,”
IS WRONG.
To actually teach something, you have to know how to do it. Preferably by having done it yourself.
How on earth do you plan to offer advice in avoiding foreclosure when you have yet to avoid it yourself? What on earth do you have to offer anyone at all other than the mockery of your readers, NONE of whom actually have any belief that you either will avoid foreclosure or ever had any intent to do so.
I bet if you figured out how to post a poll, you’d find that the vast majority of your readers either think you’re an incompetent buffoon or an actual criminal — neither category inspires trust in those seeking assistance.
You may be getting emails from those in similar circumstances, but the first email you return to them will reveal to them just what a dunderhead you are and how useless any advice you might have would be.
Lets see: How to avoid foreclosure, by Casey Serin
Step 1: Continue to spend money with abandon, long after it has become clear that you’re hopelessly in debt and getting deeper every day.
Step 2: Steadfastly refuse to do anything that might improve the value or saleability of any property you own.
Step 3: Stick head in sand. Refuse to open mail, answer phone calls, or find out timeline for foreclosure proceedings.
Step 4: Stick head deeper in sand. Don’t even consult your “reference materials” from laughable “Real estate Education” courses. Let blog commenters be the ones to let you know your property was just foreclosed upon
Step 5: Stick head up rear end. With debt racking up interest at ridiculous rates, go on vacation!!
Step 6: Go to your own foreclosure auctions looking to make business connections! Suhweet!
Step 7: Refuse to get a job. Post publicly that you consider what you call “A W-2 Job” a sad waste of your oh-so-important time.
Step 8: Continually reveal to anyone who will Google your name that you’re incompetent at what you claim to have done for a living (web design - I know housewives who hack Wordpress and php scripts better than you).
Step 9: Continually reveal to all Googlers your charming work ethic by casually mentioning you couldn’t get around to changing your DNS entry as fast as your webhost did.
Step 10: Sit back and watch the world fall at your feet in adoration, until a wave of supporters comes forth with palm leaves and carries you on their shoulders around the city, showering you with the deeds to Suhweet Apartment Buildings. Live happily ever after, having been declared King of Sacramento and Emperor of Greater California.
March 19th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
Dude… that’s awesome that you want to help others.
Yep, lots of haters are still gonna hate… but really, are they doing anything to help? NOPE…
Good for you! Keep moving forward and get whatever good you can outta all this, and share it with others!
Free knowledge within blogs is AWESOME!
March 19th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
******Casey, please read this******
There is already a group of foreclosure specialists that answer questions and provide help to people. Below is the web-site. This effort is a non-profit group that provides contact information on credit counseling information to those that call.
Please check them out Casey, you could really help a lot of people.
http://www.hpfonline.org/1-888-995-HOPE.htm
If people facing foreclosure are reading this, please call 1-888-995-HOPE for advice on your situation. This is a non-profit group and is a FREE service.
March 19th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
@27. Distressed Homeowner
LMAO
March 19th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
@ 41. JTR
Classic! 5 Stars!
March 19th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Do they allow blogging from Folsom Prison? If so you can get all the inmates to attend your seminar. Nothing better than a captive audience. Hookup with New Century Financial and they’ll be happy to fund all your new friends.
Who cares that you defrauded $2.2 million in loans when you can blog your way to success!
March 19th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Casey,
Finally!!! You figured it out!
Kiyosaki did not make money by doing, but rather by selling his “knowledge”. I have a feeling you can make a lot of money as a guru (the same way that gurus made money off of you).
So, you final parsed the text of Kiyosaki’s “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”. Yes, success does not lie in becoming a real estate mogul, a stellar investor, or by building anything of value. It lies in getting people (like the “old” Casey) to give you money.
Casey, I commend you for finally catching on. It was an expensive lesson. However, if you can sell yourself half as well as Kiyosaki does, it will have been worth it.
March 19th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
I for one don’t want to see Casey go to jail.
Why?
It will cost taxpayers more money.
What is the cheaper alternative?
Deportation back to Uzbekistan.
March 19th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
@ #40:
“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade?”
Only the first rule of three. The other two are:
When life gives you hemlocks, do NOT make hemlockade.
Know the difference between a lemon and a hemlock.
There is no evidence that Serin knows these two, or will or even can ever learn them.
March 19th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Houses cheaper than cars in Detroit:
http://www.reuters.com/article.....7820070319
March 19th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Isn’t that kind of like being the most famous failure?
Uhhh….Congratulations?
March 19th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Hate to bust your bubble but you didnt make the first page of Google under the search term “foreclosure”
March 19th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
I think you may be on to something now. You can act as a facilitator between people seeking advice and the advisors on this blog. Someone will e-mail you a story, situation and/or question. For a fee you post it on this site for comments. You moderate the comments but don’t give advice yourself. There seem to be plenty of people out there that don’t have a clue what they are doing. Maybe it is because they didn’t go to college, or perhaps they were taken in by some get rich quick gurus. But in any case there are lots of folks out there who have fallen for the 100% or more financing of real estate they can’t really afford, either as a sure thing investment or perhaps just for a place to live. These people seem to lack a reliable mentor / advisor such as parents, siblings or friends that can point out the risks and downside (or maybe they just don’t listen).
ASW: equity
March 19th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
“One way to increase credibility and value might be to start letting other real estate bloggers and foreclosure experts guest blog here from time to time.”
Do you think that they might be deterred by the hatred, humiliation, and damage to their reputations that they will inevitably receive as a result of being associated with you?
How’s Duane LeGate?
March 19th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Until Google retooled itself, our Fearless Leader was the top search result for ‘miserable failure.’ Are you looking to take his place? Don’t forget those lovely girls in Arizona that you signed your soul (and more importantly to you) your royalties away to!
March 19th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Casey, I seem to have gone thru the same progression most do with this site. A longtime reader and first time poster, I came to this site with morbid curiosity, began to pull for you, but then devolved into a bit of a hater due to your inability to face up to your situation and shake off the guru-gestalt that landed you here.
That being said, with this you are starting to get on track, utilize your notoriety to become a resource to soon to be record breaking number of people face foreclosure.
BUT, you still need to get a job. Speaking as someone who is about to launch an internet startup, you have to put you pride aside and get some cashflow. Cash isn’t king, cash flow is. Get a crappy job, be a waiter, a programmer, a barista, it sure isn’t going to get you out of this situation-but it will keep food on the table and gas in the tank. I’m about to close my first round of financing and I am still bartending, and will be for the near future.
Do that during the day and set up your foreclosure network in your off time. In all honesty as a real estate investor you don’t have that much to offer, or at least not much more than any of the other huddled masses from the seminar circuit. What you do have is some notoriety and some traffic, build off that. That is real, pie-in-the-sky fantasies are what got you to this point, now start using the reality of your situation to go into a new direction.
March 19th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
Casey and newbie Conversation…
Newbie: Casey, I’m in foreclosure. What can I do?
Casey: Well, for one stop making the payments and don’t even answer the phone when they call.
Newbie: I shouldn’t talk to them.
Casey: No, sometimes it just goes away.
Newbie: But what if they really take it?
Casey: Rip out the sinks and anything of value and then ask them if you can have more time to do a shortsale…
March 19th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Who are you to be giving advice to people going through foreclosure? What gives you the right to give advice when you have no credibility whatsoever. Instead of wasting time answering emails to people that are MOST LIKELY going to loser their house, do something productive like getting a J-O-B.
Your a joke Casey, in fact don’t even get a JOB. Because obviously your incapable of even doing that, do everyone a favor and declare BK. After you do that, buy a one way ticket back to wherever you came from.
March 19th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
I don’t care about helping people in foreclosure. I’m just here for the train wreck. By the way, what blessings *are* you getting from your 10% tithing?
March 19th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
areyoufacingforeclosure.com
March 19th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
One week has passed since the Burdett property was foreclosed. Do you have an update on your last two properties? Will either short-sale get done in time? Do you plan to go to the Modesto courthouse on March 28th if that short-sale does not work out?
March 19th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
again, not interesting
try cash call
March 19th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
“57. Soup Nazi
You do realize that you need a license to give any kind of financial advice to anyone … right?”
Soup Nazi, You are an idiot.
And anyone who takes financial advice from Casey is an idiot.
March 19th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
Ant Fraud Yields Death Sentence
By Ariana Eunjung Cha
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, March 20, 2007; Page D01
YINGKOU, China — To hear Chinese authorities tell it, Wang Zhendong is a danger to society, the worst kind of person, one who took advantage of his fellow citizens’ naivete and trust. Last month, a court here gave him the death penalty for his crimes.
Wang’s misdeed: selling overpriced ant farms to the public.
As China moves fitfully from a planned economy to a free-market system, cracking down on fraud, embezzlement and other financial schemes has become a major priority for the government. Among the cases taken most seriously are ones that harmed common people.
In Wang’s case, for instance, investors shelled out 10,000 yuan, the equivalent of about $1,300, for cardboard boxes full of black ants, purportedly rare ones sometimes used in China to make medicines and wine but actually worth about $25.
Over two years, more than 36,700 residents of 12 towns in China’s northeastern Liaoning province were tricked out of nearly $400 million, resulting in many of them losing their life savings. At least one investor committed suicide.
March 19th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
Hey Casey,
have you been to this website?
[…]
According to the “HATERZ” website, the guy who is making fun of you is the guy who operates zweg.
[…]
You’ll probably not post this up, but why are you being stepped on like this?
Come on dude, grow some balls.
March 19th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
Casey,
Rename your site “howtodrinkgurucoolaidandseefailureassuccess”
March 19th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
Casey,
What is your FICO?
March 19th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
Casey,
Maybe you can put up a Q & A for common foreclosure questions that you are asked… And make it a separate section of your site… For a start just answer the most common questions first.
March 19th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
Good idea Casey,
Regardless of your credibility, the ability of you to network professionals to “Help” people is a good thing. Even if you can’t tell someone how to “avoid foreclosure”, you can tell them what NOT to do if they are ever faced with defaulting on a loan, or foreclosure. I wish you luck in this, but I feel that you would have much more of a position had you stopped foreclosure proceedings on at least one house. Good luck anyhow!
March 19th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
i don’t understand how you can even consider yourself qualified to help other people when you can’t even get yourself out of your own situation.
March 19th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
DUDE, CONGRATULATIONS!!!
You are the NUMBER ONE google hit for the phrase “mortgage fraud juice”, so anyonwe who wants to read the real juice on mortgage fraud will certainly come to your site. SWEET.
March 19th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Dude, I was a supporter for so long until I saw that you went snowboarding this past January. You’ve really angered me.
I’m an entrepreneurial type. I reward myself and I take risks, but I keep the rewards in proportion. If I’m in debt, the debts come first because that’s other people’s money. I can’t believe you went snowboarding, got a ticket for driving above the speed limit, and then had the balls to post that online while having as much debt as you did.
Unless someone else paid for this, I am seriously disgusted with your behavior right now and feel like you should be in jail.
March 19th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
@#57. Soup Nazi
“You do realize that you need a license to give any kind of financial advice to anyone … right?
RIGHT?”
Not our Snowflake. He’s special.
March 19th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
Good God Casey, you better hope to hell this works, otherwise you’ll be carrying a ton of debt.
Where’s that Utah payment again?
March 19th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
57. Soup Nazi
You do realize that you need a license to give any kind of financial advice to anyone … right?
What sort of license do you need to give financial advice?
March 19th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
@ #55. triple T
did anyone notice how many times Casey started a paragraph with “I”
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That doesn’t matter. Casey probably got his boytoy Nigey to write it for him, unless he spent all day proofreading the post.
March 19th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
Dude, I have the sweetest idea!
You said you don’t want a job where you have to work more than 40-hours a week, and you are also worried about your JJ and Chipotle addictions putting you into further debt. Why not get part-time jobs at Chipotle and Jamba Juice! I’m sure they give sweet discounts to their employees. When you aren’t working at those places, you can go birdogging!
March 19th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
This is a decent idea. It’s a shame that you’re so incompetent at everything that you’re going to ensure that you never make any money off this web site.
March 19th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
OOOOooohhhh Casey,
Still interested in 100’s of units of passive income? Check out Detroit
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/200.....troit_dc_1
Last time I spent time in the city in the early 90’s I almost bought a 63 Unit (Marsdon Ave) for $85,000. I think the prices have dropped since then. . .
March 19th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Casey,
You are so fricking lame it’s laughable.
You want your site to become the be all/end all resource for things relating to foreclosure. Because?
You don’t know anything about the foreclosure process in any of the states you owned property? You don’t know how to deal with a lender when you can’t make payments? You do the exact opposite of what any reasonable person would do?
Your blog rose to the near-top not because you had anything to offer, it’s just the results of an algorithm. That same algorithm will quickly send your site to the unplumbed depths as soon as you don’t have repeated media mentions.
Which of the top ten results would link to you? Which of the top twenty would link to you? As the media links age, and decline in significance, so will your Web presence.
The boat is sinking, a temporary spotlight on the boat doesn’t change underlying facts. You know nothing, you can’t provide insight and most people will understand you are just whoring for whatever you can get.
You do know that if your site contains material copyrighted by others, your site will get de-listed by all major search engines, right? DMCA infringements aren’t treated lightly.
So, do you have an incredible concept/knowledge of foreclosure where you can post to enlighten, or are you just looking to make a buck by referring to someone that may/may not know what they are talking about?
Approve this or not, there are other forums.
March 20th, 2007 at 12:10 am
Keep on keeping on Casey. You’re one step closer to #1. Much in the same way the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were #1 in ruptured spleens last season. It’s good to be the king. Who cares if you are the king of forclosures on the night before the angry mob storms the Bastille. Let all the honest fellows who follow the straight and narrow of financial common sense eat cake.
You’re the best!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you down!
chopper
March 20th, 2007 at 1:33 am
Was it like this when you went to college? This market has been just like an old favorite Squeeze song of mine . . . squeeze_ifididntloveyou.mp3 Many more leaving California for the comfy confines of Oregon. Glad to see Casey help others out– Truly Hilarious debacle Sir Buttonwood is back with a goodie The Inverted Yield Curve - Is It Really Different This Time? Builder Confidence Declines in March Where is the