March 31st, 2007 1:23 pm
Money Raised, CashCall Payment Sent!
Huge thanks to the generous readers and all the nice haters for donating enough money last night to allow me to make the CashCall payment and receive a 2 month deferment on payments.
It was a crazy night. I was answering hard questions and doing stuff to get donations. Read the comments to see what I’m talking about.
My PayPal account was going crazy too, upto to almost $1,000 at one point and then back down to $300. There was a payment of $850 but apparently it was fraudulent or sent by mistake. PayPal sent me a complaint email so I reversed the payment right away to avoid any issues. I still don’t know what happened there. I have a feeling somebody was messing with me. There were a few comments about it but I never figured it out.
In total I raised $378.28 (as of 1PM) and there should be more the way. Screen shots of my PayPal account at different times last night:
I woke up late this morning and called CashCall to ask for an extension. They gave me an extra hour till 1PM to get the payment in. I used my PayPal debit card to sent a MoneyGram from WalMart. Here is the payment:
I guess it can’t hurt to ask for donations sometimes… what an awesome community we have here!
83 Comments
March 31st, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Did you enjoy panhandling?
Do you think you can do this every time? this as a 1 shot deal, now straighten yourself out.
There wont be any more bailouts, most of the money you got was from the haters who just wanted some amusement. Be careful when dancing for money, the novelty wears off fast
March 31st, 2007 at 1:35 pm
The blueball sale: I rescheduled the 7:30am meeting last night right before going to bed and I will try to meet with the guy sometime today.
March 31st, 2007 at 1:38 pm
… ok, so what about the 2 PM (Pacific Time) interview with T? Forgot about that? Hopefully she decides to rescind her payment to you.
And what are you going to do the next time CashCall gets antsy? The same donations stunt isn’t going to work the next time unless you up the ante (G in bikini, you wearing homemade prison jumpsuit, etc). PayPal has probably already red-flagged your account for fraud, for having received so many small payments in a short period of time. They’ll think someone hacked into your account and is laundering money; they err on the side of caution in cases like this.
IT’S ALL GOOD!! Moron. :-p
March 31st, 2007 at 1:39 pm
I never got a call about the interview with T. I told Annie to call me around 2:30 so we can discuss her intentions again and setup a time to do it. Is Annie and T the same person?
March 31st, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Here’s some free advice. People are complaining about slow moderation. You need money. Website are valued by registered users.
Use your sweet web design skills and get a registered user database going for this site. Allow free registration, but also offer premiums so registered users who pay $10 for unmoderated postings can post, and perhaps get the first private viewing of post for 5-15 minutes.
Start offering more generic foreclosure postings in addition to your personal story. Your site will then be worth money because you can prove you have registered users, and it’s on a monetizable subject.
asw:leverage
March 31st, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Casey, we never spoke about any phone call. You were to set up the interview for 2pm today on Talkshoe. I’m still willing to do the interview but I don’t have all day so could you get on it?
PS: You’re late. I may deduct some $ because my time is valuable.
March 31st, 2007 at 1:42 pm
you didnt answer Annie’s questions fully Casey, therefore, she isn’t going to pay you. Gotta be honest to get the the dough
And how can you complain, really? How many cards do you have with outstanding balances? How many folks were you supposed to pay but didn’t?
Did you see homey’s posts? There’s a Assistant US Attorney out in the Southern District of New York who’s been sending CD’s of your stuff to the FBI-SAC and the local DA.
March 31st, 2007 at 1:42 pm
And no, Annie and I are not the same person.
March 31st, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Casey, when you were at Walmart this morning you should have bought some of these:
http://louminatti.blogspot.com.....s-kit.html
March 31st, 2007 at 1:49 pm
Casey - since you’re only just getting up, you probably didn’t read all the other posts. You made an effort to answer some of Annie’s questions but some answers were a bit half-*ssed.
On the other hand, you can probably thank her for helping get others to make donations. Because she got you to commit to moderating your traffic peaked & others donated.
Annie’s background story makes her look like a hard worker but without much disposable income. An elderly mother with Parkinsons and a windshield that needs fixing.
I think it would make people see you more as a “stand up guy” if you just thank her for the chat & absolve her of any payment you were expecting.
March 31st, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Casey is now the first e-panhandler.
March 31st, 2007 at 1:53 pm
also, Annie has a broken windshield she needs to repair. Surely you wouldn’t want for her to have a broken windshield, would you.
Show some compassion
March 31st, 2007 at 1:53 pm
Why would you ask Annie to call you at 2:30 if you’d already committed to a one hour telephone interview with me from 2 to 3?
March 31st, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Finally something new going on and it looks like I’ve missed all the excitement. I hope the poor little donate button is okay, it cant be used to being hit so often!
Antispam: WinWin
March 31st, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Is that your home phone number? Can I call you to chat?
March 31st, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Benoit, PayPal handles millions of tiny transactions to individual accounts for eBay sales of CDs and old toys and stuff. I doubt it raised any red flags.
March 31st, 2007 at 2:22 pm
Staved off the wolves for another month. Consider this a one time thing.
March 31st, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Casey, It’s a mistake for you to have sent that payment to cashcall. Reason being is that you had several months since last payment was made and by making this payment you only extend the amount of time it will show as a negative on your credit.
In 1993 I had a failed electronics business and owed about 500,000.00$ and I was 23 at the time. about 40k of it was credit card debt and the rest was corporate loans. In the end I didn’t declare bankruptcy and only one creditor took me to court for 10k which I settled with his attorney for 5k. So, 495,000.00 was forgotten and took 7 years to completely come off my credit. I now have a 780 fico and am quite wealthy (worth over 100 million, the internet is anonymous I don’t mind saying it) through slow and careful real estate investments, not to mention of course the incredible appreciation of the San Francisco real estate market over the past 10 years when I started, coupled with an easy borrowing environment. An interesting thing about being wealthy is that the pleasure of it burns out fast and you get used to buying and having everything you want to the point that you have so much stuff that you start trying to find ways to reduce the clutter and actually have less (but thats another story), the process of getting there was quite a thrill though and I hope you have another chance to experience it.
Getting back to the mistake I’m talking about, I had creditors calling me 20 times a day (back then, cellphones costed 35 cents a minute so it hurt). I then changed my number, so they went to the yellow pages and called people with my same last name and found my parents and sister and gave them messages for me. They also called my neighbors and told them to write me “urgent” notes that they need to reach me. Well, it worked and I made the mistake of talking to one creditor and sending in by western union 125$, this brought a 1 year old debt and made it current and it stayed on my record an extra year because of it.
You don’t need to declare bankruptcy, most likely no one will sue you and bad debt goes off in 7 years, bankruptcy takes 10 and lasts for life.
I think we have a similar story, I didn’t feel so bad about it then and neither should you, people who gave you money do share the risk, thats why they’re getting interest.
The haters like being holier than thou, it’s not their problem that you have financial problems.
I looked at cashcall’s website, they offer loans at 96%. Well, if some fellow americans are stupid enough to pay that kind of interest they should be able the charge it. But why should they be surprised when some people default. Are you really scared of their legal department? I mean, they can line up and take a number like the rest of the creditors.
Take my advice, don’t pay anybody except friends and family, make no more payments on anything. Ignore everything you get from creditors. Wait for 7 years and rebuild. There is no other option and it works because I’ve done it myself.
Now the big question, after the last foreclosure, what’s your plan for keeping folks visiting?
March 31st, 2007 at 2:26 pm
How strange that the very prople who have been blasting Casey for not meeting obligations, ah.. well… did the very same thing! Again: this site is littered with hypocrites blathering on about much better they are . Boring AND full of it is no way to go through life.
March 31st, 2007 at 2:30 pm
That’s great that the community supports you. We’re all learning through your pain.
March 31st, 2007 at 2:32 pm
This is not the answer, Casey.
I’ve been reading for a while now. I’m not a “hater,” but your behavior is definitely showing cause for concern. Using your blog to solicit funds and then act like you “raised the money” is insulting to the people who gave you of all people their hard-earned money. Their charitability walks a thin line between kindness and enabling.
The more you say, the more you show us, the more we leer in, you’re just digging your own hold deeper. You’re becoming a caricature of yourself. When it was just about the foreclosures and your real estate odyssey into financial ruin, I felt like there was a constructive discussion taking place and that reading this blog was informative. I guess this is the beginning of the aftermath, in which reality comes pouring down upon young Casey and the enormity of what he’s done sets in.
I like you, Casey, I really do.
This is the not answer. You should be ashamed of yourself.
March 31st, 2007 at 2:37 pm
Casey - Find out what that guy is going to do with the blue ball and then let us know. I’d like to see him list it on Ebay and make a pile of money……..
“T” and Annie are not the same person…………….after reviewing the answers you gave to Annies questions last night, I think you owe HER money
ASW - SWEET
March 31st, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Casey,
Im glad the cash call crises is over for a few months. Was it worth your self respect? Oh well, free money. You may want to edit out your home phone from that wal-mart pic, you think your phone bill is high now….
March 31st, 2007 at 2:44 pm
I guess it can’t hurt to ask for donations sometimes… what an awesome community we have here!
Not a bad group for haters.
Did you pay Cashcall because they are yelling the loudest? Wouldn’t that money be better used for food?
March 31st, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Congratulations on dodging that bullet. Now get a job. Oh yeah, why was the Modesto foreclosure delayed? Was the short-sale approved?
March 31st, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Let me get this straight. After spending hours online literally begging for money to pay off CashCall, taking pictures for handouts, selling off furniture, answering questions that you have made a formal strategy out of avoiding…
You sleep in so late that you have to call for an extension?
Literally, all you had to do after last night was to go to WalMart and buy a MoneyGram. And you can’t even do that right, without missing the deadline? No wonder you’re a failure. That sort of thing speaks to a profoundly systematic incompetence.
March 31st, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Casey,
I’d say congrats, but I’m not so sure it was a good idea to actually pay CashCall.
Aparently I’m “late to the party”, but I prefer to think of myself as “fashionable”.
Is there a reason you don’t have ads on your blog? I saw some comments that suggested that you might have given away the rights to your website. This isn’t true is it? It sounds like this site and your notoriety are your only assets. Protect them.
If you still control this site go here now: https://www.google.com/adsense/ and sign up.
At least you could make a little money off this site without performing stupid pet tricks.
March 31st, 2007 at 3:12 pm
Your phone number is published with the middle graphic in the lower right hand corner.
Not sure if you care, but you might want to edit it.
March 31st, 2007 at 3:21 pm
This is fun entertainment keep up the hard work casey
http://www.icantsellmyhouse.blogspot.com/
March 31st, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Let’s forget those dying kids in Darfur - I heard Jamba is going to introduce a new pomegranate/rhubarb combo megaslurpie. Let’s send some more money to Casey!!!
March 31st, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Now Casey, I want to think about what went down the other day and the whole money issue. The stuff that you were selling did not raise a lot (other than the ball I don’t think that there was nothing else) nor did it look like it was about to. And the things people were asking you were not that easy (I don’t think that they were that hard either, though). You were trying to raise just over two hundred dollars. You took on debt of just over two million (with an “M”) dollars last year. Raising a couple of hundred was not that easy was it? Yet that was around .001% of the debt that you took on. The stuff you have has almost no commercial value. Notice the offers you got? I did not see any offers for your real estate courses. I bought Russ Whitney courses on E-Bay for 19 dollars and just bought another for $5.50. I bought the complete Carleton Sheets “Nothing Down” course for the exact same amount. Since I live overseas the shipping costs are quite high, and I have to take that into consideration. I’ve heard that the Carleton sheets course is $1995.00 at the seminar. . .0.28%. We are talking fractions of the original amounts. . .
An excellent post was submitted on your blog about “woo woo money” and reality. I think that these are excellent examples. When I started investing in real estate in the 90’s I did not have enough cash to close on a property (I was putting around 20% down and found that the closing costs were going to cost an extra thousand or so). I learned the value of much of my ‘assets’ as I ran around to used bookstores, consignment shops, friends and pawn shops trying to sell my valued “assets”. (I can remember going to a check cashing place and being told that the fees for cashing my paycheck a week early was 10%!) I was able to raise the funds and close on the triplex that I bought, but it was a very valuable lesson for me about the value of possessions-I think of most of my stuff as having no monetary value (of course that does not include the real estate, stocks, cash and such). You should do the same and stop making flippant remarks about “$30″. That $30 will buy quite a bit of used stuff if spent wisely-think about the offers on some of your stuff. . .
By the way, I have 18 separate properties that vary in size and units and I’ve owned (since sold-never flipping) in three countries. Yet, I still hesitate to call myself a “real estate investor”. I think of real estate investors as people and companies who buy and sell huge properties.
Of course, I’m a looser with a job and the property stuff is more of a hobby.
Dick
March 31st, 2007 at 4:04 pm
Both people are very kind hearted ladies, but Annie and T are not the same person.
You can find either at EN.
March 31st, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Uhhgg, poor people get screwed again. It cost $6.50 to send that to CashCall. That’s pathetic, I make 129k yr, have flawless credit, and 434k in the bank (at age 29 mind you) and I get platinum card offers in the mail begging me to transfer balances and borrow all the money I want. Why? they know I net, NET AFTER taxes about 6k month and they pay me to get my business. I never ever have to pay extra to transfer money.
March 31st, 2007 at 5:05 pm
Casey, pls answer this question if you have guts
====
Casey,
Why you are so much afraid of “cashcall”?? when you’re not afraid of other foreclosures?
Why?? did “cashcall” want to beat you up or cut off u???
why you so afraid of them?
you already lost lots of “money”, keep the money and spend it on jamba juice and enjoy life
sweet~~
March 31st, 2007 at 5:11 pm
“what an awesome community we have here!”
I thought it was too negative and just a bunch of haters?
March 31st, 2007 at 5:16 pm
Starting bid $5
BE CREATIVE ASN ASK CASEY TO DO SOMETHING BEFORE YOU DONATE, IT’S AT LEAST CASEY CAN DO IT FOR YOUR MONEY.
SWEET~~~
March 31st, 2007 at 5:20 pm
Casey!
What are your plans now? How are you going to get back into the RE game?
What do you think about multifamily units? Did you take a look at the Seattle RE market? Suppose to be the #1 RE market in the country. Its not slowing down like the rest of the country.
March 31st, 2007 at 5:25 pm
What are you going to do with the extra money?
March 31st, 2007 at 5:25 pm
Hey Casey,
Sounds like you had a wild night last night. I was asleep.
I am interested in buying your real estate courses. Can you please provide a paragraph on each course, please let me know the material I get with each course, the author and let me know the price. If your still interested in selling let me know and I will send you my “real” email address.
I spent this morning doing a walk though at a house, noting in detail what the contractor should do, then did books. Real estate is fun hey Casey.
Who is the guy you lent money to in Dallas. I want to not use any lying theiving contractors in Dallas. Can you provide me the name ? I can give you my real email also, if you will give me the name,
Loads O Money
March 31st, 2007 at 5:28 pm
Hey Casey,
I’ll be watching you on Suzie Orman next week ! She gives pretty good advice, and I would listen to what she says.
You really need to find a way to start again Casey. You need to find a way to draw a line under all these debts and start again.
Why was bankruptcy created if it wasn’t for people like you Casey !
You need to treat your money like a business Casey.
Loads O Money
March 31st, 2007 at 5:35 pm
***
It’s A Wonderful Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTYKBOv_0MM
March 31st, 2007 at 5:39 pm
Hey Casey,
Have you read
#19 - the optimist
That sounds correct Casey. Sounds like you were wrong to make that payment.
Even Suze Orman on her show asks people not to make payments on their credit cards if they have not made any payments for years - cos it resets the clock !
Man - you gotta take real advice and do stuff that makes business sense.
If I were you Casey I would take advice from the optimist.
You need to find a mentor Casey who will help you. You need to recognize good advice and forget about trying to do the good thing, about helping people etc… You need to help yourself.
Loads O Money
March 31st, 2007 at 5:39 pm
> 188. Please return the fund
> March 30th, 2007 at 9:05 pm Casey,
>
> please refund my amount for $800, you can keep the $50
>
> i did a typo, it should be $8.50
>
> pls return the money to me ASAP
I wonder if this was an attempt to scam poor Casey. The whole incident reminds me of an (exceeding value) cashier’s check scam described on craigslist: http://www.craigslist.org/about/scams.html
1. The guy sent the money to Casey from a stolen CC
2. The amount far exceeded the usual reasonable donation.
3. Then he asked Casey to keep $50 but to “return” $800
4. If he made Casey to send the money back by Western Union, or MoneyGram (by offering an additional $50-$100 bucks to keep), Casey would be in real trouble
March 31st, 2007 at 5:40 pm
Hey, whats the story with annie?
I think Casey more than fullfilled his part of the deal and she agreed to pay up to $250… Casey should get that money.
Seriously annie, if that was really you on post 505 from the last post and you are trying to renege on paying up, then shame on you.
How can you talk any s*** about casey if you cant make good on promises you freely made?
That is BS….
March 31st, 2007 at 5:43 pm
I can’t believe that people actually gave you money.
I need to start a blog and see if they will give me money.
March 31st, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Casey, with your shortage of cash and being two months behind in your rent, did you ever consider that you could live “rent free” in one of your own houses? You still have one left!
Let’s hope the haterz are wrong and you don’t end up in prison for what you’ve done. I’m worried about you in prison. You’re kinda pretty.
March 31st, 2007 at 5:46 pm
darling,
Annie T is same, T is the last name initial for Annie
aduh
March 31st, 2007 at 5:47 pm
LET’S SEE HOW MUCH CASEY CAN GET TONITE
CAN HE BREAK THE RECORD??
can he do it???
i bet he’ll fail like the real estate deals..
March 31st, 2007 at 5:52 pm
To tell you the truth Casey, your reaction to CashCall’s tactics demonstrate your extreme naiveté (it is the weekend for God’s sakes, and banks are closed, as well as CashCall offices.) Why you went so overboard on this bait is beyond me.
Practice you most important negotiating skill, and repeat after me: “No.”
March 31st, 2007 at 5:58 pm
I agree with #48
I would also like to bid on some of that guru stuff you have in the closet
Ill buy the whole damn closet for 1 fitty
And I’ll pay another 20 for a casey auto
Im glad people are off nigel and back on u
March 31st, 2007 at 6:03 pm
You should see “The Pursuit of Happyness.” Note the part about the IRS.
March 31st, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Did you sell the “blue ball of dumb” today ? How much did you get for it and what is the buyer going to do with it ?
March 31st, 2007 at 6:16 pm
I wonder if there are people who are willing to buy a signed blue gym ball from you even though it will not be “THE” blue ball. Time to look for a source of cheap good quality blue gym balls…?
March 31st, 2007 at 6:17 pm
35. passive_agressive_nonplanner
AFTER taxes about 6k month and they pay me to get my business. I never ever have to pay extra to transfer money.
Yeah, you do. You just don’t know it.
March 31st, 2007 at 6:21 pm
Not terribly surprised to see that Annie, T and others aren’t actually putting up the promised money.
I give them full marks for opportunism, but no points for throwing away their moral high ground.
March 31st, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Hey Casey,
So what ya say about those RE courses,
Let us know,
Loads O Money
March 31st, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Paying CashCall is probably the more honorable things you’ve done on this blog. For that, I applaud you.
March 31st, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Annie, you said you would pay Casey for the questions.
If Casey didn’t answer 100% of the questions and answered 75%, then pay him 75% as much, but you should still pay him.
I don’t care whether you have a broken windshield or not. If you did and you had to take care of it, you shouldn’t have said that you were going to pay Casey.
I’m not a Casey supporter, but right now, I have as much respect of you as I do of Casey.
Annie, it’s pretty funny how you like to treat a human being like a dirt. I thought you were a good person.
If I asked him all sorts of questions and got as many answers as possible along with a picture of refrigerator, I would pay him the amount that I agreed to pay.
I hope you enjoyed humiliating a person (as the person agreed to be humiliated for $$$) and not paying him.
March 31st, 2007 at 7:14 pm
Hey Casey!
How about list your smallest line on here (Macy’s or HSBC?).
Let’s see if you can get it paid off using the balance of last nights fund raiser and tonight’s upcoming effort. Put up a photo of the last bill and offer to show the card cut up when the amount due comes in!
IT would give us haterz a real positive spin to help actually clear one of your overdue lines!
March 31st, 2007 at 7:15 pm
This is so frustrating. KC couldn’t move into one of his properties because he could not afford the utilities. And he couldn’t afford to have the refrigerator full. And he couldn’t afford those little things that his sister in law very kindly provides, like hand soap, laundry services, toilet paper, etc…
March 31st, 2007 at 7:17 pm
Casey,
YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME BY PAYING CASHCALL.
Your donations should be going back into your blog and for fund-a-mentals.
You will have to declare bankruptcy anyway. This money wont mean anything in the long run. You are too deep in the hole. Way to deep. You declare BK first and then pay whatever your FORCED to pay afterwards.
Legal department? Please. This is a BLUFF intended to scare you. Assuming they did get a judgement it would be 15 months from now and you are insolvent anyway.
F**k Cashcall.
I’m listening to the cashcall file right now. This is modern day slavery. Sending it to legal? Please. It’s a poker bluff. Casey you need to pay yourself first. Your situation is too dire to be paying Cashcall right now. And they are sucking you dry 500% interest? $60 late charges? Cutting you a break? Please. This is slavery.
Casey do NOT pay them anything again until after you declare BK and only if you are FORCED to pay them.
This payment is thoughful but in the long-run it will not matter becuase you are too deep in the hole and have to declare BK anyways.
March 31st, 2007 at 7:43 pm
@Graham
March 31st, 2007 at 6:21 pm
Not terribly surprised to see that Annie, T and others aren’t actually putting up the promised money.
I’ve already paid Casey the money, Graham. Pay attention.
-T (Nacho)
March 31st, 2007 at 8:17 pm
Casey,
I will pay $40 for your old dirty man bag… you know the version #1 as mentioned in your first interview with Nacho. Are you interested?
-Big Cheese
March 31st, 2007 at 8:22 pm
“You don’t need to declare bankruptcy, most likely no one will sue you and bad debt goes off in 7 years, bankruptcy takes 10 and lasts for life.”
WRONG.
You can’t be for real. The bs is piled high in here lately.
After 2 yrs of Bk and timely payments made on new lines of credit, your Fico climbs and the BK is less of an issue to getting a loan, as long as your pay history after that stays decent. If you have creditor charge offs from NOT filing BK then that stays with you for 7 plus years and you don’t even get a loan from Guido. It is bad news.
Sorry. Get your facts straight. You are obviously lieing about all that personal info.
Besides, who wants to answer the phone for 7 years with angry credtors being on the other end of the line and tracking you down where-ever you go.
The foreclosures are another issue. It takes 7 years to fall off your credit report, but after 3 yrs it is no longer such an issue if there are timely payments made consistently after that and new lines of credit held for 24 months. A loan can be obtained.
March 31st, 2007 at 8:34 pm
Yep, these bashers are no better than Casey. Promising one thing but failing to deliver.
Casey, listen to post #19. Ignore the creditors. Save whatever you can to get back on your feet. Get a freaking steady JOB! And if the creditors come knocking, get a lawyer and file BK!
March 31st, 2007 at 9:25 pm
Whoa boy. I just finished listening to the talkshoe with Annie.
Is this representative of most people on this blog? I mean gee. She never ever bought a house! Many people here never invested in real estate. They have no clue! I hear some attacking going on by someone who has nothing and knows nothing. Get real Annie. How can you question his failed efforts when you never ever have invested in Real Estate? This is a real estate blog. I guess there are lots of voyeurs here looking for vicarious pleasure off of your misfortune Casey.
March 31st, 2007 at 9:59 pm
Annie
Can I help you out and do a short sale for 5 bucks for your redemption rights on CS BS
March 31st, 2007 at 10:12 pm
So What are you going to do in 2 months?
You could have done something better with the money IMHO.
Maybe try a donation drive to Settle it in full?
March 31st, 2007 at 10:42 pm
casey, i try to donate some money but it did not work, i would really like to help
March 31st, 2007 at 10:59 pm
i think casey had adsense at one point, but his account was disabled due to fraudulent clicks.
March 31st, 2007 at 11:19 pm
So how much are you in debt now with most of the properties gone. It would be interesting to have a running total somewhere on the site. I assume its less that the 22 million I saw at some point.
April 1st, 2007 at 8:24 am
I’m glad that you got the donations you needed. I would suggest setting up a ‘Sponsors’ or ‘Donators’ page to salute those who are donated. Including their name or a link to their website would be very nice indeed.
April 1st, 2007 at 5:40 pm
What a surprise. Casey’s site has now deteriorated into him begging us working people for our spare change to pay for things anyone with a job could afford. Why don’t you just stand out on the L-street mall and harass people like a legitimate Sacramento bum?
April 1st, 2007 at 5:50 pm
# 65 Michael Cooke,
Thanks for saying what i’ve been saying for months.
Paying an unsecured creditor ( thats not even a prime bank you can salvage a relationship with) thats deliquent a partial payment on a Bluff is one of the stupidest things someone on debt can do.
Most of the people here don’t really know anything about practical and legal considerations of paying off or settling deliquencies.
Casey has the time to learn about Corporate Credit, but doesn’t know 101 about REGULAR credit and how to deal with debt?
April 1st, 2007 at 6:11 pm
#19. The optimist
I love America! You can take out a half million bucks of loans and seven years later it’s like you never had a dime of it, and you don’t have to feel bad about it because they didn’t really expect you to pay it back — they were charging interest!
That’s the best advice I’ve heard for Casey. Don’t pay back one dirty penny! Change your number and eventually all those bad people will stop calling and this fiasco you call a “business” will correct itself. Then in a few years when you’re anonymously worth $100 million, you can crow about how we stupid people were advising you to declare bankruptcy and ruin your life.
April 2nd, 2007 at 12:24 am
I’m surprised that anybody has enough sympathy for you to give you money. I know this sounds harsh, but it’s been people like you that have created the biggest real estate crash that this country will have ever seen and kept people from being able to buy homes at affordable prices.
Speculators have driven the cost of homes up to such a degree that people can no longer really afford them. I’m in Silicon Valley - where a home sells for 30 times what annual rent is. The historical average is 7 years. We’re returning to that 7 year average, and it’s going to be ugly as we make the transition. Either the dollar will have to inflate and we’re going through the 70’s again, or we’re going through an economic crash the likes we’ve not seen since 1930.
People like you haven’t just bankrupted yourself, you’ve bankrupted millions of people. Some people just wanted a home for their familes - people like you made it unaffordable to them by creating a speculative bubble. It’s very simple, if you can’t rent out a place for the price of the mortgage, the house is over-priced. It’s very simple. That’s the way it’s been everywhere for almost the entire history of this nation.
The media keeps calling the bottom - people who have studied real estate know that we’re at least 2 years away from a bottom, and it’s more likely 5-10 years. It’s going to be bad. You think your life is rough now? Wait for the recession to hit. As adjustable rate mortgages reset to higher rates, discretionary spending will dry up. When there is no discretionary spending, people don’t buy anything other than essentials. GM is going to fall on rough times, tech will as well, everything that is non-essential.
You don’t really understand what people like you have done yet. I do.
April 2nd, 2007 at 8:23 am
I don’t know what is more sad. The fact that you are no better than the homeless littering downtown, or the fact that people actually donated enough to get you out of this mess.
Even though Casey is a charity case, any money you give him is NOT tax deductible.
April 7th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
@ 80 richard wicks
Most people still just want a house as a primary residence for themselves and their family. Now it’s impossible. Lax lending standards and easy money really did make this happen.
You see the prices of houses now and days and it’s just outrageous. I cannot believe it. Fundamentally they are simply not worth it anymore. Who wants to become a lifetime financial prisoner to a depreciating house? The Realtors covert hands in this situation cannot be denied. They are a major reason prices are not adjusting back to normal.
Pure Greed. Talk to one today as a buyer. I am having the hardest time dealing with these tricky imbeciles. They still think they are in a late 2005 market, and stubbornly lower prices just one notch at a time. They use all kinds of “tactics” to get you to buy at the HIGHEST PRICE. Both buyers agents and sellers agents work together against the buyers best interest. The more money you pay - they more money they make. It’s as simple as that.
One “tactic” is to hang a “SOLD” signs outside of Condo units that are not even sold! To make buyers think that it’s a desirable place to live. “Look honey. A SOLD sign. It must be worth the price. Other people are buying them.”. Another is re-listing old listings and claiming they are “new ones” and “just came on the market”. Better hurry up and buy it. This ones hot.
Realtors have no shame. None. Your local car salesman is the most honest person in town compared to Realtors. They will say anything to sell you a home even as the market continues to decline around us. It’s shameless and disgraceful.
At this point, in allot of ways, for most people a house really is a prison sentence! And if you buy a house now chances are you will be “ball and chained” to it FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!
April 13th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
I just stumbled on this site and I sincerely wish you the best. So many of us are hurting out here in Cali with trying to make money off real estate investments. Hang in there and stay strong.
April 19th, 2007 at 4:44 am
lowering himself to the status of Internet beggar, Casey Serin would follow through on his goal of making a payment to CashCall in order to gain a fairly long term deferment. He wired the money close to when he said he would and posted a photo of the completed transaction