April 19th, 2007 9:50 am
Pool Maintenance in Foreclosure
If you’re facing foreclosure, you know that sinking money into any kind of maintenance is the last thing on your mind. Especially when you don’t live in the property and the property is 75 miles away.
The last time I visited that property was sometime in October or November of last year. Here is how I remember the pool looking like:
Apparently, the pool has gotten much worse since…
Here is the email I got from my short sale specialist real estate agent who is trying to help me stop foreclosure on the Modesto property:
Casey,
I just wanted to update you on what is going on. I went by the property today. The pool looks nasty. There is a notice from the mosquito abatement district. They want you to clean or drain the pool within 2 weeks. I tried to call them but they close at 5. The number is 209-XXX-XXXX, if you want to call them. We should be hearing from the second lender soon. ( I Hope.)
– Modesto Agent
Here is how I responded:
Should I call the abatement and see what my options are? Or maybe I should wait a little longer for the answer on the second. Then I can tell them that we have the house in escrow and it should be selling soon and tell them that the new owners will start cleaning it up as soon as it’s closed. Please advise.
– Casey Serin
Oh the wonderful life of pre-foreclosure property ownership!
261 Comments
April 19th, 2007 at 9:54 am
I hope this drives home the point - your actions do not only affect yourself. They are now posing a public health risk. Vacant properties are a problem for the entire community, but you didn’t think about that, did you?
April 19th, 2007 at 9:57 am
Yes, pools deteriorate quickly when they’re not tended. So drive down there, dump 20 gallons of Clorox into it and voila! No more mosquitoes.
April 19th, 2007 at 9:59 am
By the way, I’m catching up on comments from last post (over 200 waiting still). Should be released within 30 min or so.
I got a ton of registrations too. However some of the those are trolls and pretenders. You know who you are. You’re screwing it up for everybody else! I now have to put some kind of a system in place to prevent the trolls from registering again and again using different email addresses and creating a big headache for me.
Perhaps I’ll ban the IP address with a slight risk that the address may be used for more than one person and I will be banning good people with the bad.
So for now the comments will continue as usual with moderation and all. As soon as I have a good system for managing user and registrations I will start allowing instant comments.
Even then it will be a trial period. If the haters start causing more headaches I may have to take more drastic steps. Freakin’ haters… I’m getting tired of you! I don’t know how much longer I’m gonna bother with you. My traffic will be just fine without you.
April 19th, 2007 at 10:06 am
What haters???
Why you have so many haters?? What did you do??
Why you do such things for the haters to do these things??
What’s wrong with you??
April 19th, 2007 at 10:09 am
Casey, what you are doing is truly criminal. You stole these properties using the bank’s money and then you let them go into neglect, thereby causing the bank to clean up your mess, literally. You are a bottom feeding parasite attached to the vein of society.
Go ahead and approve this, it’s time you faced reality.
April 19th, 2007 at 10:11 am
You really don’t have any traffic. You are a gapers block on the highway of doom. People are here to see how many people are going to be hurt in this car wreck.
If you want to get rid of people then do something constructive. No one will visit this site if you clean up your act.
April 19th, 2007 at 10:13 am
I thought you could just, “hack the code a little.”??? Why can’t you just hack the code?
As far as the pool being 75 miles away, maybe you could just, “hack the code a little,” and it will clean itself.
Also, you censored out the word “masturbation” from the comments on your last post. I’m confused, is that a bad word in Uzbekistan?
April 19th, 2007 at 10:13 am
You piece of trash. Get that thing cleaned up. There are people living by that mess. Do you think they like being swarmed by mosquitoes? Again, not very Christian.
April 19th, 2007 at 10:14 am
WHY DO YOU AFRAID OF “CASHCALL”???
WHY SO SCARE?
April 19th, 2007 at 10:16 am
Casey Casey Casey,
Your traffic will NOT be fine. You are delusional as usual =
delusual.
Who gave you the money to (attempt to) bail you out with CashCall? You were not so tired of your critics when they were giving you money. What is wrong with you?
DID YOU BUY THE STOCK OR NOT? It is a simple yes or no question. Do your readers ever deserve answers to simple questions? If you don’t attempt to interact with your loyal readers…they will leave.
DID YOU BUY THE STOCK OR NOT?
April 19th, 2007 at 10:17 am
1) drive 75 miles
2) drain pool (only takes time and turning a couple k**** , assuming the drains arent clogged beyond belief with all the algea you let grow in the pool…)
3) drive 75 miles
4) call mosquito people and tell them you’ve corrected the problem before they levy a fine against you, not that you’d pay it anyway.
April 19th, 2007 at 10:17 am
you need to fix the pool, it is the right thing to do. it is a health hazard. Shame on you.
April 19th, 2007 at 10:19 am
One thing about pool maintenance…unless you are there on top of it forget it. It should be drained the instant that you know that nobody’s going to be there to look after it.
April 19th, 2007 at 10:21 am
just go over there with some kind of pump and drain the pool. sheesh. i got notices and requirements from the city when i struggled with my property, and i complied. it took work. stuff that comes out of my hands when i try hard. try it!
April 19th, 2007 at 10:22 am
So you’ve managed to let your last property devolve into a public health hazard. Good going!
And you seriously believe you can turn this site into a resource?
April 19th, 2007 at 10:22 am
Here’s how you fix the pool problem, casey. You CLEAN THE DAMN POOL.
You want to know what your options are? Here are all your options:
1. Clean the damn pool. Now.
2. Get someone else to clean the damn pool. Now.
Don’t wait for the short sale, don’t consult with anyone, don’t worry about the escrow. Do you really think the abatement district cares who owns the house? Do you think the neighbors, who have to deal with the mosquitos, care?
Why are these things always so difficult for you to understand?
April 19th, 2007 at 10:25 am
BTW, anyone can get the phone number for Modesto mosquito abatement by googling those three words. No need to hide it; it’s 209.522.4098.
April 19th, 2007 at 10:27 am
You are the property owner of record.
I expect the mosquito abatement bylaw can result in
1) fines for you
2) additional costs as the city will do the work and charge you
Also it is clear you have neglected the property. Your lender can come after you directly for breach of duty. If there is damage/deterioration evident at forclosure, insuranace will not cover you due to the neglect. Again you become liable.
If the bank finds itself required to do this after foreclosure they will do it in preparation for auction. Again expect them to try and charge it back to you as breach of duty on your part.
Welcome to the obligations of property ownership. Check with a lawyer.
Small details. Ever consider you are not cut out for this type of work as you are unable to look after any sort non-money-to-you detail.
April 19th, 2007 at 10:33 am
Dear Casey, don’t worry about this little detail. The Modesto house will be foreclosed on soon and it’ll become someone else’s problem. Focus on the future and ignore these tedious boat anchors weighing you down.
April 19th, 2007 at 10:34 am
typical casey response…1: How do i get out of doing it
2: Its someone elses problem
3: i need to arrange a meeting of team and see who has suggestions.
4: i need to blog about it whilst doing nothing else
casey get off your friggin backside little princess and clean it ..another casey mess affecting all in close range
April 19th, 2007 at 10:38 am
Have aquestion.
What will happen if you are found guilty of a felony.
It is my understanding that you can be deported?
April 19th, 2007 at 10:42 am
GO DRAIN IT YOURSELF
Or
HIRE SOMEONE TO DO IT
Pretty Simple.. if you can afford IKEA than you can afford someone to clean up the soon-to-be-very-pest-ridden pool.
I have so much more to say.. but you really really wont get it.
April 19th, 2007 at 10:49 am
Don’t throw another business opportunity away! Bottle the contents of the pool and sell the bottles as “Modesto Wheatgrass Shots” (”With added natural protein!”).
April 19th, 2007 at 10:50 am
The comments for the last post have been released… lots of good feedback. Thank you.
April 19th, 2007 at 10:51 am
Would anybody be in favor of me doing a weekly call / podcast where I can answer your questions and get more into detail on what is cookin’? Perhaps I can even take some foreclosure calls from all the people that have been emailing me for help.
If yes, which day and time would work for everybody?
April 19th, 2007 at 10:53 am
Pool: yeah maybe I should just go over there and drain it. But I believe I need special equipment to do that. I need to check to see what kind of a setup I have there. The system is pretty old.
April 19th, 2007 at 10:57 am
Casey — simply ask the realtor to pore in a gallon of bleach — it will only cost a few bucks!
April 19th, 2007 at 10:57 am
I once had a person next-door who had a pool, and was a wet-brain drunk.
After the first season, the pool just sat there, having never been cleaned, a disgusting mess.
I wandered over there and noticed tens of thousands of mosquito larve swimming in the s***** water, and knew what I had to do.
I went home, about 1/8th of a mile, and changed the oil in my truck, 9six quarts).
That night I put the old oil in the slob’s pool, cancelling out all life inside that nasty place.
The guy really got pissed when the town drained out and disposed of the mess, charging him about 1200.00.
You better take back those shelves and use the money for Clorox, it’ll work without polluting.
April 19th, 2007 at 10:58 am
Haters drive traffic. That’s all that matters.
Another score for Team Casey!
April 19th, 2007 at 11:08 am
Hey Casey,
Can you not see, this is a test for you. 75 miles is not that far away - but its not around the corner either.
This is a test of how much you care for your fellow man and your fellow woman. Your neighbours must not be too happy with that stink ball pool. How would you like to be living next to a pool ?
Why dont you go down there today and get it sorted out ?
Loads O Money
PS.
I was looking at some houses yesterday Casey, here in Dallas. Got my nice shoes a bit messed up, cos I was walking around the house checking for cracks. Got some mud on my W2 shoes - which I had to spend a good 10 minutes cleaning off - before I went to my W2 cubby hole this morning.
Isnt real estate fun Casey.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:09 am
Pool: yeah maybe I should just go over there and drain it. But I believe I need special equipment to do that. I need to check to see what kind of a setup I have there. The system is pretty old.
Do you need the directions to the Sacto Harbor Freight & Tools store in addition to the SKU? Or perhaps you deleted/held the previous comments and didn’t get the advise?
April 19th, 2007 at 11:13 am
Casey, can’t you just sell the fetid pool water to water investors, so the deal becomes a win-win for everyone? Sweet!!
April 19th, 2007 at 11:15 am
ASW:larvae
In order to drain a pool you will need a garden hose.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:15 am
See, here’s the problem: Five comments from you and only the last one contemplates actually CLEANING THE DAMN POOL. The rest is all blogging this and passwords that.
I just went into Google Maps and typed in “modesto pool cleaning”. Got eight or nine results. Now what you do is call each one, ask for an estimate and go with the one that’s cheapest or that you’re most comfortable with.
“maybe I should”…”I believe I should”…”I need to check”… Quit with the maybe and I think and just freaking DO. Why is this so hard for you?
April 19th, 2007 at 11:16 am
Uhhh, banning the “haterz” means you will suffer the traffic decline. Face facts, kid, you are just not that interesting outside of the responses you get.
As for the foreclosure site, why would anybody WANT advice from you? I saw an email posted elsewhere that said NOTHING. You wanted to charge the guy and all you did is prattle on about your foreclosures on 6 homes.
Guess what? Are you LICENSED for this kind of work? If not, why the heck would I want your help?
April 19th, 2007 at 11:22 am
Yes, a weekly podcast would be great. How about tonight?
April 19th, 2007 at 11:24 am
Whoever posted that number for Mosquito control, i called them up and reported you casey, becasue i “feared for my health” and also said that the police should be involved becasue it’s an open pool. nice!
April 19th, 2007 at 11:25 am
Just “trade services” with an out of work pool man?
Also, why are you going to IKEA? Office Depot has plenty of shelving solutions at much lower prices. Also, you went out of town? For what reason? Where are you getting all this money? The corporation?
I will be posting this elsewhere for Google archiving purposes if you don’t post it. I registered for your silly log in service and trust me when I say I won’t stop criticizing you BUT I won’t resort to nasty words. Sounds to me like you have a lot to loose (lose) if you ban the “haterz” since it sounds as if they are all signing up for your moderation free service.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:25 am
are people seriously emailing you for help?
why?
April 19th, 2007 at 11:29 am
get a pump and a hose and drain it out to the street. Go to a pool shop and they can rent it to you.
It’s really hard to maintain a pool if you are 75 miles away and haven’t been at this home for months!!
April 19th, 2007 at 11:37 am
We can add “lack of pride” to Casey’s long list of faults.
You drove to Tahoe to go skiing. You can drive 75 miles to Modesto and take care of your pool problem.
@20 Darren :
Yep. Casey’s got the weirdest damn thought process I’ve ever seen. He constantly talks about assembling a quality team. Then he fails at the most basic of tasks. This failure leads to huge problems and consequences. His team member notifies him of the problems and consequences. His team member then gives him specific steps to take. Casey then starts talking about his options. His preferred option is to do nothing of course.
If his Modesto agent hadn’t realized that Casey’s a flake, this email cinched it. I bet we see the “My Modesto agent was great, but we decided to stop doing business” post soon.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:40 am
Casey,
You were supposed to clean that pool the moment the authorities told you to do it, not procrastinate.
It’s that simple.
No, you do not need to “think about it”, or “set it aside”. You NEED TO START DOING STUFF. Money is given to people who work for it, not to those who believe scamming is the way towards wealth.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:41 am
Also imagine if I open up the floodgates on instant comments and all these haters start talking like crazy.
You probably just want to work on doing a layered blog. For example, look at thehousingbubbleblog.com. His posts take center stage and, if you want, you can drill down into the comments.
So, essentially, you can let people say whatever they want and then use those posts to create a summary.
Pool: yeah maybe I should just go over there and drain it. But I believe I need special equipment to do that.
this would show that you’re able to go beyond doing conference calls and seminars…
April 19th, 2007 at 11:45 am
Casey my bro,
Jimmy Jack is here to tell you. You DO know that there are really, really easy ways to get around any IP or email address block you put up? Ways you won’t beat with a Wordpress plugin? You ever hear of this thing, called the Law of Unintended Consequences? It’s wicked awesome, bro. You should look it up.
Just making sure you know. Cause that the Jimmy Jack way. Try it, just gone make it worse, bro.. maybes, maybes a whole LOT worse. Just tryin to help you see, cause that too is the Jimmy Jack way. Jimmy don’t want you stressin’ none.
And don’t you fret your blue ball none about the pool. That’s what God gave us malaria for, and besides it ain’t like you gotta live anywhere nearby like those haters complainin’ bout it. That mean it ain’t yo problem, bro.
Thank you, America. Amen.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:46 am
Casey,
YOU always put off till tomorrow what needs to be done today. I cant believe that house is UNOCCUPIED and you have water in the pool. Are you seriously screwed in the head? What about liablity Casey of a kid climbing that fence and falling in that pool .. DO YOU NOT THINK AT ALL ….
I am really a fan of yours until you say stupid crap like you did in this blog and shirk your responsibilties to someone you dont even know. YOU CANT COMMIT them to do something they have agreed to.
NOW GET OFF YOUR LAZY A** AND GO DRAIN THAT POOL … FOR GODS SAKE BE A MAN ABOUT SOMETHING PLEASE ….
A fan and I have to say these things to you.
MY GOD
GROW UP CASEY
April 19th, 2007 at 11:54 am
West Nile virus is a serious concern in my neck of the woods so larvicides are required. They look like floating donuts, are very inexpensive and last the season. If permitted, it may be as simple as having someone drop in some bleach.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:55 am
Your traffic will be fine without us? Do you seriously believe this? A quick bit of research using sitemeter, comparing your site to a personal favorite ‘hater’ site, shows that this ONE hater site has anywhere between 1/7 and 1/3 your traffic (depending on how long a time period you are looking at). This is one site, out of dozens. Now, since the primary content of this ‘hater’ site has become a discussion of what is happening on your site, it is probably safe to assume at least 1/2 of the visitors to the hater site also visit you site (I know I do). Thus, somewhere around 10% of your traffic likely visits this ONE other ‘hater’ site, and can be assumed to be haters. This is looking at only one hater site, and assuming only half of that site’s traffic visits your site.
Doing a little further analysis, it appears visitors to the ‘hater’ site stay on that site a little over 3X the time they spend on your site. So, not only does the ‘hater’ site contribute 1/10 of your traffic (at least), but it interests it readers far more than your site. So, if you started blocking haters, what do you think they would do? Just read your pages in silence? Or take at least 1/10 of your traffic and go to a site they enjoy reading more, which relays all of the news about you plus additional commentary, eliminating any need to visit your site? You need the haters, if you want your site to remain on top of Google and have any significant amount of traffic.
Finally, blocking haters so that they will not destroy any connections you may be building will not work. Even if you remove any negative comments, your posts still show a lack of logistical skills, inability to meet deadlines, little follow through and (albeit unintentional) criminal behavior. Furthermore, this info has spread, so that even if you modify your posts, the info will still be available and indicate that you are a liar, as well. It is too late to build connections, all you can do is try to escape foreclosure and rebuild you life from there.
Finally, what advice would you give people should you reach #1? Most advice on this blog comes from data–your advice amounts to “I should have turned those papers in on time,” and you partners have offered little or no advice, for free. Good luck trying to build this site up without the haters.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:57 am
So casey, It has come to my attention that you are charging people that e-mail you with foreclosure questions. And yet, you seem unable to manage your own properties (pool). I dont know who’s crazier, you or anyone who would want your help.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
YES! I’m totally in on 43’s comment!
Jump in the pool!
I’d pay SWEET dollars for that!
Plus you deserve it.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
1. I registered for your unmod. comments.
2. It gave me a password.
3. I typed it in and is said it was incorrect.
4. I requested a new password be sent to me.
5. In my email, I got a reply to go to a link to have that taken care of.
6. When I visited that link, it said it wasn’t viable.
7. It didn’t work!
8. Kinda like Casey.
9. I come back over here, and now Casey says it isn’t set up yet.
10. Why put the cart before the horse?
11. Oh, I know why.
12. Cause Casey never thinks anything through first.
13. Why not just say in that email “Sorry, the system is not ready yet. Please check my blog for its’ readiness and re apply. Thank you for your interest! Instead…double talk and runaround.
14. Why oh Why would he think I’d pay him a buck to leave a comment???????????
15. And why would I want his financial advice?
16. Last……..Casey, in order to hand out financial advice, you had better be licensed to do so. You are not so please don’t. You may end up hurting some poor idiot that doesn’t know your trackrecord.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
#43
I will gladly pay to see a webcam of casey jumping in that pool.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Ref #5
Exactly! This is why he needs to go to jail. He stole the properties and stole extra money at closing. then give a sh*t what happened to the properties. He is a thief.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
If you’re going to keep this site up, then a weekly podcast would be a very good addition, and probably necessary to keep the content fresh now that your properties are almost all gone.
But please don’t make it just a monologue again. That was boring. Find someone impartial to ask you questions (and followup). It doesn’t have to be T/Nacho, but it should be someone who can be fair and keep you focused on the actual question, as you have a tendency to wonder off on random, trivial tangents (as do most people).
April 19th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
That putrid cesspool IS the perfect metaphor for Casey, taking on more responsibility than one person can handle, and somehow wishing that it’ll all will work out in the end, or someone else will clean up his mess.
Casey LOOKED at that pool last Fall, and what did he do to clean it then? NOTHING. Casey’s not rehabbing houses, he’s actually the opposite: he’s destroying the house, devaluing it. The only thing he hasn’t resorted to is arson to try and bilk insurance companies (hate to plant ideas in a lazy mind).
See, the thing is, owning STUFF is great and all (makes you feel like some rich guy), but if you have any kind of sense of taking care of what you own (AKA responsible ownership), then you start to realize that possessions start to own YOU, you don’t own THEM.
You realize that you NEED to maintain the possessions, for if not, they’ll lose their value. Would I buy a home with a pool? Hell, no: taking care of a pool is a pain in the neck, and not worth the time needed to do it right.
PS if that pool is as damaged as it might be due to months of neglect, you might need to tear it out and start over. THAT’LL be expensive, and you better believe the bank will add that depreciation to your 1099 if they short-sell/foreclose….
http://blog.focuspools.com/blo.....-pool.aspx
I’m hoping all of this IS performance art, or some why form of social commentary. Somehow I doubt it is: like they say, truth is far stranger than fiction.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
You ought to be ashamed of yourself for running down that neighborhood. Of course, you don’t know the meaning of the word shame….or work….or responsibility. Society would be better off without you, lazy boy.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Here’s a novel idea…
Why not make a decision yourself!
You could even then act on that decision yourself!
April 19th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Go by the local pool place ask them what you need to treat this pool.Treat it, give it a few days and if not improving treat it some more.Or drain it you need to rent a pump somewhere drain it and refill it but be sure to use some pool chemicals this time.Its all good!!!http://www.icantsellmyhouse.blogspot.com/
April 19th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Just rent a pool pump/hose and drain the pool.
Or better yet, have a pool professional do it. It will be a lot less of a headache for you & will be cheaper in the long run.
Do put it off or “think about it”. Just do it and be done with it.
April 19th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
I’d pay $10 to see you jump in. Now your only $990 down.
April 19th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
BTW, the green pool is quite conspicuous on Google Maps. Tasty!
April 19th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Its things like this that turn people to haterz. its shameful the way you try to get out of doing work. you are screwing over the neighbors over there. Dont be a d!ck!
April 19th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
Your photo is a perfect illustration of why I hate houses with pools. If I had to live in that Modesto POS I would fill that pool with concrete.
I suppose you could grow try to grow blue-green algae in it? That’s a health food, like wheatgrass juice. They sell it at GNC. You could skim the algae off your pool and add it to your juice. Sweet.
April 19th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
step 1: gas up car
step 2: go to store and buy 15 gallons of bleach, very cheap should be about $1 a bottle
step 3: travel to pool and pour stuff into your 4 month old couldron of doom.
step 4: profit?
and, you should not have to call them for options… they gave them to you. Drain the pool, treat it, or I bet they wil hire someone to do it and charge you double just for the trouble.
there, I handled the details for you, now I need you to get the idea that you can actually do this.
woo hoo
April 19th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Casey,
This is bad. The property is endangering the lives of the people living nearby - west nile mosquitoes. The health of human lives should be your number one priority now. Please do the right thing.
April 19th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
The best thing I can tell you from what I know. News Media goes after anything negative true or not. A rumor that is negative true or not will spread much faster and further than one that is not. Creatures of habit love anything negative and that is what drives them. We as a society as a whole have been exposed to so much hate and negativity that we do not respond to anything positive. It is ashame but the awful truth.
For me I do not like rumors and I do not like negativity. The sad reality is I can not get away from either. The more known and or successful you get the worst you are going to be as a target of hate.
What you should do is write a policy for posting as others have suggested. If they break the rules boot them with there IP address. If it is minor infraction admonish them and move on. Anyone who posts anything that is untrue, hateful in a harmful way, flaming comments, or not appropriate for the topic you delete it. You moderate comments now so instead just moderate the topic by removing anything that should not be posted. You will still need to allow for negative comments that are true as long as they are refined.
In my opinion if you tried to just get rid of anything that is negative and only kept the positive feedback you will loose a good base of people. If you start charging I can say I would not come back. I do not see the point of charging everyone just to post and be on this blog. I would think more people feel the same way.
You have a good amount of traffic. You need to utilize it by making it a gateway to other products and services where you can cash in and make some money. You say you get a lot of people contacting you for help with foreclosures of there own. You should have a link from this site to another that gives them that help. Every time someone signs up you get paid. You should also create a link to another website you could create were people would pay you to advertise there homes for sale. Something like a forsalebyowner.com or owners.com or any of the many others available out there to the home owner. This is just some suggestions there is more you can do. You say you are creative so now is the time to put it to use.
April 19th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
Just talked with the guy who did the repairs on the house to see what I need to drain the pool (we had it drained before to clean it).
He said all I need is to rent a water pump from the nearest tool rental place. It needs to have a hose of at least 60 feet to reach the drain behind the house.
He said it shouldn’t cost me more than $30-40 to rent the pump for the day.
April 19th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Casey, there’s something I don’t understand about your latest “offer”.
Where do you think that people who are facing foreclosure will get $39 from? And even if they can find the cash, why would they spend it on the highly dubious pleasure of a phone conversation with you?
Especially as they can get tons of info for free of this site - virtually all of the really useful stuff provided by the people you claim are “haterz”.
April 19th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
dude,
no matter what it takes to clean or empty pool, you will probably NOT do it anyway.
why ask what to do if your not going to do anything anyway?????????
get a JOB.
April 19th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Casey my man…..
pool cleaning is hard work…..
I see you CALLED a pool guy to see what it would take to fix the issue….
I believe it’s time for Jamba Juice and a nap now…..that WAS a lot of effort!
keep it green and unclean….you could register it as “wetlands” with the state…soon ducks and Nessie will be livingthere!
Sweet.
P.S. if you go over to the house to look at the pool (yes…long shot since it will require you to fire up the V dub on the bastard tire) please don’t “fall forward” as you will fall in the muck! - yucky!
it’s all good.
April 19th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
CASEY,
USE YOUR BRAIN~~~~
GET A HOSE AND USE YOUR MOUTH TO SUCK THE WATER OUT OF THE POOL
COST $0
SWEET~
April 19th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Casey,
Forget the pool; the city will clean it out for you that is what the health department is for. You’re a tax payer at least you intend to be once you get a chance to catch up. Remember they work for you.
You also paid property taxes, on those 8 properties that is a lot of taxes you have shelled out last year. Property taxes are normally about 1% of the purchase cost (usually higher depends on the county) and you bought 2.2 million in homes so you shelled out ~$22,000 last year just in property taxes. In a way the city owes you, since you’re a flipper you never lived in those neighborhoods so you did not use the schools, parks, roads or other public services but you’re taxes paid for them.
Keep living the Dream,
-Roger
PS: You did remember to pay your property taxes last year using the loan money right?
April 19th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
casey would it be ’sweet’ if some child wandered into the pool and drowned?
tell us how that would be an ‘itsallgood win-win thingy’
April 19th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
It’s a giant hole filled with water. It needs draining. What is Casey’s approach?
“Maybe if I put it off longer, someone else will buy the property and they’ll do it for me! Sweet!”
I mean, it wasn’t “should I drive down and do it, or hire someone to do it for me”. It was simply “if I put this off, do yo u think someone else will take care of it? I’m not a details kind of guy, I’m a successful ideas guy. Isn’t having the idea to clean the pool enough?”
Good God man, some kid could drown in that, let alone the mosquitos and what you’re doing to the neighbors. Get off your freaking *#@% and DO SOMETHING for once. If you don’t know how, find someone who does, but get it taken care of instead of hoping someone else will save you. Sheesh..
April 19th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
NEIGHBORS WILL SUE YOU FOR WEST NILE VIRUSES WHEN THEY ARE INFECT IT.
YOU ARE IN BIG TROUBLE, THE WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD WILL BE ON YOUR DOORSTEP AND TRASH YOUR PLACE
THEY KNOW YOUR CURRENT ADDRESS.
SO SWEET
April 19th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Well, since the pump is cheap to rent… I think a picture of a drained pool would look good tomorrow morning!! That’s a go getter attitude. Now make that dream into a reality!
April 19th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Oh.. and we’re still waiting for some details on your awesome $1.95/minute foreclosure advice hotline!
And what exactly would you advise on the subject of property maintenance while trying to secure a foreclosure-avoiding short sale?
April 19th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Dude,
that a great pool of jamba juice, you can drink it for the whole year.
free jamba juice, yea~
Casey, drink it, it make you good.
CONGRAT~~~
April 19th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
I will give ya a hunderd dollars if ya let someone chain a couple cinderblocks to your feet and jump in the pool.
JK Casey. Tell the haterz to lay off. Good things are coming for you friend.
April 19th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Casey, be a man and join the Marine~
Marine ~~
why ar eyou afraid of join marine??
April 19th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Should I call the abatement and see what my options are? Or maybe I should wait a little longer for the answer on the second.
I am continuously amazed by you Casey. Your options are to drain the pool or clean it; the notice seemed clear enough to me.
If you ignore it then you’re likey to be fined, you’re also increasing the risk of disease in the area, and you’re forcing people who live close to that house to deal with constant mosquito bites and the smell of a disjusting pool. You’re also likely to be adversely effecting the property prices of other homes nearby if your neglect has caused the house to become dilapidated. If anyone happens to be selling a house on that block they have every right to be upset with you. I guess these things didn’t cross your mind, did they Mr Idea Man?
Once again you’ve abdicated basic responsibilities at the expense of others. You are a dispicable man in my opinion and you should be ashamed of yourself.
April 19th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Y dont you set up several webcams at sissys house? Baby, you can make big money you handsim devel.
April 19th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Dunno if my earlie comment is still stuck, or I’ve been banned…
He said all I need is to rent a water pump from the nearest tool rental place. It needs to have a hose of at least 60 feet to reach the drain behind the house.
He said it shouldn’t cost me more than $30-40 to rent the pump for the day.
Nice verb tenses. “Shouldn’t” as in *IF* you were to perhaps maybe sometime get around to it? How about this alternative:
“He said it will not cost me more than $30-40 to rent the pump, and I called today and will pick it up in the morning at Rentals Unlimited, just $35.”
Nah, that would take too much effort.
Like I said before, if I were your neighbor, I’d be pouring all my used motor oil in that pool to keep the mosquitos down.
ASW: murse!
April 19th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Um, if that pump you’ll be renting is electric powered, you’ll want an extension cord. Have you had the electricity at that property turned off? If so, you’ll have to talk one of the neighbors into allowing you to plug into their electric.
And after you drain the pool, you’ll still have to CLEAN it.
Relax, it’s all good!
April 19th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
I will pay $1 for pictures of Casey draining the pool, including pictures of what he and the pool look like when he is done.
This will provide tremendous hilarity, for a day or two.
Any other takers? We only need 30-40 readers to chip in a dollar each.
April 19th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Where’s the old Casey. Is Nigel still posting. Soooo much anger…You’re not gonna go Cho Seung Hui on us are you? And how quickly you forget the hand that fed you during your time of need. You are an ungrateful POS. But try and bring the old Casey back. Here’s a suggestion. Just click your heels and repeat after me: IT’S ALL GOOD
April 19th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Casey:
There needs to be some sort of house party at this place. If you charged 10 bucks a head, you could easily make a couple hundred bucks. I would even fly in for it.
April 19th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
“He said all I need is to rent a water pump from the nearest tool rental place. It needs to have a hose of at least 60 feet to reach the drain behind the house.”
You would need electricity to do this. Since you have not paid your utility bills you will not be able to do this. Just get a hose and siphon the water out like you did with the gas in Uzbekistan.
April 19th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
I’m surprised no one’s mentioned burning the house down and collecting the insurance. Though actually I guess the money wouldn’t make it to you… oh well.
April 19th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
Casey, you do realize that simply draining a pool will probably destroy it, don’t you?. Make sure you hire a professional or you’re going to lose the short sale when the pool basin explodes from external pressure.
April 19th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Casey
Yoiu don’t appear to be the hands on type of person to by and manage properites. It seems like you want to be the center of attention, always being somewhat in control of information flow but you never want to do any of the work. Just pass along the information or better yet, answer a question with a question.
Do yourself a favor , go BK and then find a job in government, that would probably suit you. You are a disappointment as a capitalist!!!!
April 19th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
A VACANT house with a FULL swimming pool = LAWSUIT!
Imagine some young kid wandering into the yard and falling into the pool and drowning.
April 19th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
If you knew you couldn’t maintain it, why in the world didn’t drain the pool? That’s just common sense Casey.
April 19th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
Some photographic fun:
Here’s the pool back when the property was bought:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sercasey/241820147
And here it is after months of neglect and disrepair:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sercasey/465223088/
Casey, you can even see your green pool using Google Maps! Check out that green pool in the backyard of the third house north of Gulfstream Drive on the east side of Muncy. Ick.
http://tinyurl.com/yvs5wb
April 19th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
I like how your description of the property includes a “sparkling pool”.
http://iamfacingforeclosure.co.....odesto-ca/
ASW: flipper (as in “Flipper would die in this pool”)
April 19th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Casey,
Call them on the phone and do the explaining thing. Let them know you are selling the place and the new owners are going to clean it up. Save your money man. You don’t need to do it. KEEP THE FAITH!!!
April 19th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Just hack the code a little.
April 19th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
The latest. Spoke with the realtor. He actually called Mosquito Abatement and here is what they said:
They will come out and check the pool again and see what needs to be done. If there are some larvae they will throw in special fish that eat that stuff. They might also decide its too bad and they will drain it for me. (but not clean it)
That’s not that good because they will leave the 2-foot high sludge of decomposing leaves at the bottom and that’s not going to make things any better. It might even make things worse. My realtor also thinks they will probably charge me about $800 for that.
I offered to come by this Saturday, rent the pump and drain it myself. But again, he reminded me that if I don’t clean up the crap at the bottom its going to be just as bad because it will still be moist and nasty. It might be even worse. He had some doubts about me being able to cleanup the sludge at the bottom by myself.
Also when you drain pools (as somebody already mentioned above) the pull can “float” - the walls can cave in because of the difference of pressure. I’ve had it drained before to clean it but only for a couple of days.
The Realtor did confirm there is no electricity or running water on the property right now. But as some of you suggested, I’m sure the neighbors will be more than glad to volunteer their electricity to turn on the pump to have this mess cleaned.
The realtor told me he has a guy who can do the whole things for $400. Drain, clean the sludge, pressure wash and refil. That includes the spa too. Hmmm…
I would love to help out and make the neighborhoods a safer place. I just don’t have $400 of presonal cash I can commit to this. I STILL haven’t paid my sister-in-law rent and now its going on 3rd month. (I had some urgent stuff come up, what can I say, I promised to get the money for her ASAP with late fees and maybe some interest to make it worth her while).
I am kind of tempted to just go down there this Saturday and have a work day. You know. “Pull up the sleeves and get dirty” kind of work.
Also I was told a section of the fence fell down on the backyard. My realtor is going to talk to the neighbor’s about that to see what they’re plans are, since it’s a community fence.
Back to the pool dilema… I might just go and work on it but here are the problems:
Getting the sludge out: if the sludge and the crap on the bottom is as bad as described it’s going to take a major effort and additional tools to clean out. If I just jump down there with a bucket and shovel, how long is that going to take? Two days? Where am I gonna put the sludge?
$40 for pump: that’s not a big deal. $40 is not that much money. I’m sure I can find it somewhere.
Draining a pool and leaving it might be a bad idea:
I don’t even know what type of pool I have there. All those options don’t sound too good.
Dilemma! What to do?
April 19th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
“Pool: yeah maybe I should just go over there and drain it. But I believe I need special equipment to do that.”
I think they’re called pumps or something? I could be wrong. There are places that will rent you such special equipment.
Hey you heard of a web site called Google? I can’t remember its URL (check with a search engine) but if you find it, type “how to drain a pool” into the blank spot and press the enter key.
It will then display a number of sites, some titled: Draining Inground Swimming Pools, How to drain a pool or spa, Water Smart Pool Tips, D.I.Y. Archives: Drain a Pool Using Existing Plumbing, and a dozen others.
Glad to assist the thousands of people visiting your site trying to avoid foreclosure.
April 19th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
The danger is that someone may fall-in and drown, and nobody would ever know because you can’t see the bottom of the pool. The threat of mosquitos is a nuisance, but not being able to see the bottom is a real danger and will get you stiff fines from code enforcement. Many children have drowned in dirty pools. Clean it up immediately.
asw Thingy
April 19th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
“yeah maybe I should just go over there and drain it.”
Maybe!? *MAYBE*!?!?!?
Sheesh, I can understand not being able to immediately take care of something like that that comes up suddenly like this. (Not that it should have been all that “sudden”.) Owning a home has *lots* of these sorts of events. But saying things like “Maybe I should go do something” is just friggin’ laziness. If you can’t do it today, do it tomorrow. Or make *DEFINATE* plans to do it once your clearly “busy” schedule opens up. Sheesh!
Lazy som’b**** ……
April 19th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
Hey Casey, how many times have you gone to Utah since your last trip to Modesto?
April 19th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
@43 GC
“It’s a great idea on many levels, and I’m letting you have it for FREE! It would be the ultimate piece of performance art, and I bet you could even get TV news coverage. Think about it…”the putrid cesspool that is the sub-prime, flippin’, guru-juicin’ real estate market sucks in innocent young couple” - literally!”
OMG, that was the funniest idea ever.
April 19th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Casey, dont take any advice from anyone or any internet source - you can drain it yourself. The probability of collapse is super small
April 19th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Seems I was a bit tardy in my commentary….
“I might just go and work on it….”
Oh, don’t do that, Casey. That means you’d actually have to so some actual work! You know, out of the house!
Christ, I can’t believe I care this much…
Step 1) Find out *WHEN* the pool was built to determine if it’s one of those “older” pools. Shouldn’t take you more than about an hour.
Step 2) Rent a pump and pump out the water if the pool is likely to withstand the weight of dirt. Or, call a professional to have it cleaned if it’s one of those “older” pools.
Step 3) Bring a shovel, a bucket……
Oh, wait. You’ve screwed yourself too much with this one. No running water (!) and no electricity.
Just let it sit then. That’s probably what you’re going to do anyway. Or, at the VERY LEAST!, go get a bunch of “mosquito dunks” and throw them in. It won’t take care of the nastiness but it will get rid of the ’skeeters.
Once again, Casey screws the guy who’s going to buy the place… Nice going, bubba!!
Next stop on the train-wreck: Mosquitoville! All Aboard!!!
April 19th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
is instant comments working?
April 19th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
Instant comments aren’t ready to be turned on yet… but they will soon.. probably tomorrow
April 19th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
What?
you still here blogging??
you should go there asap and just do it!
you are wasting time and no action!!!
you are not a man!
April 19th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Oh and so much for “not living in a house makes it easier to sell”! Just imagine potential buyers seeing that lake of green slime in the backyard! Why I bet it will send their offers through the roof!
April 19th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
You know what’s funny to me about this?
You’ve spent more time, in my opinion, blogging about this problem than actually doing anything about it.
April 19th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
Please don’t drain the pool Casey. Let’s keep it organic. I believe that is part of your mission statement.
Regarding the short sale and how these ‘issues’ may affect it, I believe it’s all good. The house looks worse, the lender has less reason to hold onto it. A win-win for everyone!
April 19th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
You can rent a cheap sump for a day from any contractors Rent-All for about 20 bucks. 1/2 hp. motor should do. You can even pick them up new at Wal-Mart for 50 bucks and you’ll have a sump for the next wet basement. Make sure that you grab a matching hose of sufficient length and clamp for the outflow fitting.
April 19th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
I don’t know about California, but skitters in Ontario spread the West Nile virus. That can be nasty, liability-wise.
April 19th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
that’s a concrete pool and it’s safe to drain. The concrete and rebar are so thick, there’s no way it will pop out. Keep in mind that no neighbor is going to let you use 15000 gallons of water to refill that pool, so the $400 quote you have is moot unless you can find a source of freshwater.
Why don’t you just let your realtor handle everything and the realtor can add the cost to the shortsale workout.
Or you can cover the pool with framing and plywood–that’s what HUD does with their foreclosures.
asw craziness
April 19th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
Casey, someone had a great idea about a pool party at the house. Why don’t you plan a party on the condition that us readers pay to get the pool cleaned. Then you can charge us entry at the door. You’d make a great party promoter
April 19th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Here’s another idea. Ask the realtor to swing by the pet store and pick up some goldfish. Toss them in the pool and you got yourself one sweet koi pond. Feng shui is all good
April 19th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Casey,
Please take care of the pool one way or another. Mosquitos pose a serious public health risk since they are already significant disease vectors.
Just take care of the pool. It’s important for the neighbors health.
PS - The tenants in my condo broke a ceiling fan before they moved out and they were charged for this (I think $300). They did not receive the entire security deposit because of this. But neither did I take their entire security deposit.
ASW: cashback
April 19th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
Casey,
Use the corporate account and hire someone to clean and/or drain the pool. The house is an investment and fixing/maintain the pool is a business expense it should not be illegal in any way.
Still wondering about that property tax thing, it is not included in income taxes which you are working on those are usually sent out by the county. You did pay those with the initial loan money last year right?
Keep living the Dream
-Roger
April 19th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Two additional words of advice:
TETANUS SHOT.
April 19th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
Who will help me clean the pool this Saturday, if I decide to do it? (or at least come watch and take a picture for the blog)
April 19th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
People from “Cashcall” will be there to help you…
also beat u up for the money too.
sweet deal
April 19th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
I will send send you ten dollars if you post a webcam video of your going to the pool, taking a glass, filling the glass with the pool water (before cleaning the pool) and then drinking the water. I will send you twenty dollars if you after downing the water, you say “Mmmm I need a wheatgrass shot now” and then you eat some grass.
If you pay my airfare to Sacramento and spring for a mid sized car, I fully intend to go to California to help you.
ASW: signhere
In he morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present- I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world? Or have I been made for this, to lie in the bed-clothes and keep myself warm?- But this is more pleasant.- Dost thou exist then to take thy pleasure, and not at all for action or exertion? Dost thou not see the little plants, the little birds, the ants, the spiders, the bees working together to put in order their several parts of the universe? And art thou unwilling to do the work of a human being, and dost thou not make haste to do that which is according to thy nature?- But it is necessary to take rest also.- It is necessary: however nature has fixed bounds to this too: she has fixed bounds both to eating and drinking, and yet thou goest beyond these bounds, beyond what is sufficient; yet in thy acts it is not so, but thou stoppest short of what thou canst do. So thou lovest not thyself, for if thou didst, thou wouldst love thy nature and her will. But those who love their several arts exhaust themselves in working at them unwashed and without food; but thou valuest thy own own nature less than the turner values the turning art, or the dancer the dancing art, or the lover of money values his money, or the vainglorious man his little glory. And such men, when they have a violent affection to a thing, choose neither to eat nor to sleep rather than to perfect the things which they care for. But are the acts which concern society more vile in thy eyes and less worthy of thy labour?
How easy it is to repel and to wipe away every impression which is troublesome or unsuitable, and immediately to be in all tranquility.
Judge every word and deed which are according to nature to be fit for thee; and be not diverted by the blame which follows from any people nor by their words, but if a thing is good to be done or said, do not consider it unworthy of thee. For those persons have their peculiar leading principle and follow their peculiar movement; which things do not thou regard, but go straight on, following thy own nature and the common nature; and the way of both is one.
April 19th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
If all the haterz were blocked from this site, I would come here to read the valuable advice on avoiding foreclosure, house care, and better living. Duh.
Ban the haterz, Casey!
ASW: millions
April 19th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
You’re reading through 128 comments on whether or not you should drive 70 miles and fix up your pool??
Whether or not you do it… the property is going to be foreclosed on the 24th (correct?) and this discussion won’t matter at all…
April 19th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
Before you start draining the pool into the street/storm drains, you better check the local laws. That’s illegal in many parts of California.
April 19th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
Even if someone were fool enough to agree to help you do it, I wouldn’t be surprised if you:
1) Showed up at least an hour later than ther agreed-on time
2) Not have a clue how to clean the pool and waste a load of time trying to use your PDA to Google some pool cleaning instructions
3) Ask the people to pay for the cleaning supplies that you ‘forgot’ to bring
4) Wander off the “take care of something” after 5 minutes and not come back for over an hour
April 19th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
asw: thingy
The thingy is, I’m done. I first came to this site because I was interested in reading about a guy who did it all wrong in Real Estate, hoping to learn something from him. When I realized I had nothing to learn from him, I stuck around to watch the train wreck. However, I can’t do that anymore. Seeing images of a fetid pool pisses me off. People live around there. BBQ’s at the neighbors’ houses are ruined because of mosquito swarms spawning from Casey’s neglect. And now Casey KNOWS he’s neglecting the pool, but he wants to contemplate the options long enough that maybe it will all go away and he can pass the buck onto someone else. Casey, you a****** .
Casey, when I first came to your site, I was rooting for you. Now that I’ve seen your character unfold over the past several months, I’m disgusted. You have no regard for anybody but yourself. I no longer care what your outcome is, and this post is the last straw.
CLEAN UP THE POOL AND CLEAN UP YOUR ACT.
I’m outta here.
April 19th, 2007 at 4:46 pm
“if I decide to do it”…
IF!?!? *IF!!!!???*
April 19th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
Unbelievable. At least 15 posts with you thinking about, debating, mulling over, gathering info on, considering outsourcing, and ultimately…doing nothing…about DRAINING WATER OUT OF A POOL!
Jesus, to hear you describe it, you’d think it takes an MIT astrophysics grad to do this! Is this the process you go through when you do your laundry or go to the grocery store? No wonder your “success rate” at taking out the garbage is only 75%. I am also no longer- after this little glimpse into your internal “Socratic method”- baffled as to why you usually conclude that doing nothing is the best response to anything that requires action on your part.
Now, more than ever, I am convinced that you suffer from a severe learning disability that is exacerbated by some sort of personality disorder (either bipolar disorder or just plain old sociopathy). I’m also still with Suze that you suffer from a compulsion to gamble.
To “come back” from your dire situation, you must be able to DO something. You are- more and more- demonstrating that you cannot actually do anything, and I believe that mental illness is the reason. I must confess that like 90% of the people here, I started out as a hater and just came here to laugh at you; however, the hate doesn’t come so easily now, and there’s increasingly little here that’s humorous.
Please seek help.
April 19th, 2007 at 4:53 pm
T-t-t-t.. TWO FOOT HIGH?! Sweet F’ing Christ - that’s not a dirty pool. That’s a toxic waste hazard.
Oh, yeah. I’m sure those people are just doing giddy backflips over letting their deadbeat flipper neighbor siphon off their electricity to drain his toxic festering cesspit. I know *I* can’t think of a better way to spend a Saturday.
You have two immediate neighbors; then you’re talking about stretching a cable across the street. What if both are gone for the day? What if one is gone and the other tells you to kindly go rent a generator?
I’d have a backup plan, Casey.
Why start now? You’ve already managed to drag property values down, and by leaving an open property unsold for so long in a falling market, you’re contributing to the social disintegration of the local community. At least in small part (statistically), you’ve helped boost local crime potential. Now you’ve created a backyard biohazard so offensive that it stands out clear and in sharp disgusting contrast on a satellite photo.
I agree that the neighborhood needs to be made safer. It needs to be made safer from you.
In the neighbor’s yard, of course! I mean, they should be happy to help you clean your pool, and all that stuff is organic and biodegradable. It’s like compost! Win-win!
You know, most people at this point would work this through logically. Analyze their options, think it out rather than kicking back and asking the blog to think for them. But not Casey. Casey’s gonna go down there with a bucket and a shovel and no plan whatsoever.
The only thing I ask, Casey, is please please OH GOD PLEASE take photos of this. You have no idea how much it would mean to me to see photos of you wading through two feet of toxic slurry. It would make my April. Really.
Please? Pretty please??
April 19th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
Oh, you’ve got to be kidding.
You don’t need us, remember?
April 19th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Oh my lord! If you zoom in on the pool you can see Homeless Bob floating face down!!! Oh noes!!
Casey, I hope you’re happy.
ASW: olympic pin VIP room
April 19th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Another simple single-word solution for the pool problem: malathion.
April 19th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
I had some urgent stuff come up, what can I say
You could start with “sorry, I spent the rent money on filing cabinets” and see how that flies?
The money from your CD duplication work was supposed to pay your rent (”if we don’t pay then things will get rather uncomfortable around here”); the haters funded your CashCall payment with plenty left over ($378 on begging night plus another $250 for the Nacho interview); where is it all going?
April 19th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
Casey: this is a no-brainer.
That pool MUST be drained and cleaned, ASAP.
IF you have a business corporation as you say you do, this is the perfect place to obtain the money to have a professional do the pool job. Money to do this would definitely fall under the category of a business expense because it is still YOUR property and it must be maintained even though you think you may have a buyer.
If I were a buyer and I saw that mess, I would not make a final offer. I would wonder what else went to hell in that home while you owned it.
If you can take 4k from that corporation to buy subpenny stock then why can’t you take another 800-1000 dollars to hire a pro to do the job right.
Face it, if you were to go out there, you wouldn’t be able to do it. If I were one of your neighbors, no way would I let you hook up to my electricity. You have already proven to be a blight on the neighborhood so what makes you think someone would be so happy to help you out…..because you think you are doing THEM a FAVOR by taking care of your responsibility??
And even if you did find someone willing to hook you up, you still have to get rid of the sludge in the bottom.
So, hire a pro, take the $ from your business account. This is a better spending of that money than sinking it into those penny stocks.
You shouldn’t need someone like me to tell you all this. You are the idea man, remember? I am just a looser with a W-2 job.
Now get out the phone book and start calling pool maintenance companies. Don’t put it off.
And then a picture of the nice clean pool would be great. Prove to your readers that you can follow up on something FOR A CHANGE.
April 19th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
I would love to help out and make the neighborhoods a safer place. I just don’t have $400 of presonal cash I can commit to this. I STILL haven’t paid my sister-in-law rent and now its going on 3rd month. (I had some urgent stuff come up, what can I say, I promised to get the money for her ASAP with late fees and maybe some interest to make it worth her while).
Casey, WHAT is more urgent than PAYING WHERE YOU LIVE?
April 19th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
If you cant take care of something as simple as a pool, how in the world do you expect to run a business??? I cannot believe the level of neglect you can achieve!
April 19th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
OK, I will chip in $4 for the pump, in exchange for full pictures, from beginning to end, of Casey draining and cleaning the pool.
Fellow readers, we only need 9 more of you to do this, and we will great entertainment.
Casey has to promise to use the money just for that, and not buy stock in companies facing bankruptcy.
And if he can get G… to help, wearing a cute outfit, even better.
Any takers?
April 19th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU ARE ASKING READERS TO HELP YOU CLEAN YOUR POOL.
You can take pictures yourself.
You have just proven to me what I suspected all along: you think you are better than us. The average reader. You don’t think you should get your lily white hands dirty. It is filthy, sludgy, smelly hard work and you are much too good for it.
I can see it now: You hold court and supervise the few readers that decide to come over and once again bail you out.
You will circle the perimeter of the pool, instructing them where to dig and scrub. All the while, laughing to yourself that once again, you have pulled one off.
Clean it yourself.
And you can work a camera….you don’t need anyone to come over there and take a picture.
Quit being lazy and take care of your responsibilites. Be a man for once.
Sheesh.
April 19th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Did I just read that you haven’t paid your rent in 3 months? I thought you were going to pay the back rent with the money you earned from burning CD’s. What did you do with the money from that job?
What did you do with the money from the late March Begathon?
April 19th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Casey, I think that is a Big Green Egg grill in the corner. Sell that on Ebay for an easy $400.
April 19th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
People, don’t waste your time and money going to Modesto for the “pool party”. Casey will not be there doing any work.
April 19th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
Keep going Casey!!! You are almost at rock bottom! You try t make a public spectacle out of the most mundane tasks. Who wants to help me take out the garbage? At least come by and take pictures. You have to be joking!!!!
April 19th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
Today’s topic: irony.
Idea man Casey Serin, November 7, 2006 on IAFF.
“So I am expecting some clear directions at this point. But there is none. Just more talking about ideas:
Idea about The Investor Lady flying over to Sacramento and helping me with my properties…. idea that I need to stay in Phoenix for a while and watch her do her thing… idea that I really should be learning in my own hometown of Sacramento…. idea that without her local connections The Investor Lady’s will not be able to help me very fast in Sacramento… idea that I need to go back to Sacramento and learn how to wholesale on my own… idea that I still need to spend time in Phoenix learning to estimate repairs by watching The Investor Lady… idea… idea… idea….
I feel like my questions are not being answered and I am getting frustrated. My mind begins to spin… too many ideas… too much brainstorming. “WHERE IS THE PLAN??? WHAT’S MY NEXT MOVE???”
April 19th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
“Who will help me clean the pool this Saturday, if I decide to do it? (or at least come watch and take a picture for the blog)”
I will, but um, can you sponsor me to fly out there? It’s for a good cause and I’ll pay you back, for sure.
April 19th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
OK, $10. Now we only need 3 more readers!
Tim, Miguel, Yneone, Homey, Nigel, Robert Cote, Darnell…??
I know you are out there!!:)
April 19th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
@ 139 Clotpoll
In Casey’s defense, he hasn’t taken the pool draining course at NRU yet. That’s next month.
April 19th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
“OK, I will chip in $4 for the pump, in exchange for full pictures, from beginning to end, of Casey draining and cleaning the pool.
Fellow readers, we only need 9 more of you to do this, and we will great entertainment.”
I’ll chip in the lesser of $100 or whatever it costs to clean it. I’ll pay you back Tuesday. I promise.
April 19th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Somebody mentioned you can see the pool form the air… you’re right. I wonder… is that the green pool from before I bought the property or after. I don’t know how after Google updates their satellite maps. I hear from the neighbors the pool was green a long time BEFORE I bought it. The guy was apparently in foreclosure too and wasn’t taking care of it. I know it’s true because I spend A LOT of money trying to clean the pool and all the equipment. Man what a money pit this property ended up being!
April 19th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
@ 157 mo larry and curly:
I’ll kick in $10 too! But I don’t use paypal, so I guess I’ll have to send it via money order. Should I send it directly to the Muncy Drive address?
April 19th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
Casey, you could have mailed in the keys half a year ago. Instead, you insist on short-selling this junker. Look what its costing you.
Explain again why you want to do a short sale?
April 19th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
Here’s another Google/Zillow satellite tip: skateboarders scan the satellite photos for empty pools to sneak in and use, so watch for the “Skateboarding is not a crime!” guys to show up later. Then again, you won’t care cuz it’ll be foreclosed.
April 19th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
If you can find some old school skaters, they might drain it in return for being able to skate it for a while. That will tear the pool up though, and it would have to have a transitional bottom. Depends how scummy it is too. Probably pretty bad since you can see the ooze from space.
ASW: pleather jacket
April 19th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
Also, I’d like to give a belated thank you to whoever posted the link to the PRLeechGal video, which was incredibly nauseating! This site is too entertaining.
Casey: nice try on blaming the former owner for the algae/wheatgrass. I guess the mosquito problem is OK because the neighbors should be used to it then? Or that you at least had the pool mosquito-free for a month or two, so they should be grateful?
April 19th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
If the pool was green when you purchased the property, where did you get the picture of the Modesto house with the nice blue swimming pool?
What did you do with the money you earned for burning CDs? What about the proceeds from the Begathon?
April 19th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
Casey,
IMHO Some of the folks commenting here are barely literate, working-class bots who have no hope of bettering their lives. They resent your unrelenting ebullience. They can not imagine beyond their own enslavement and worker bee lives… I really like that you never put anyone down and point out their shortcomings. They, on the other hand , show their limited view and small-mindedness with a purpose better served directed at their own lives.
April 19th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
Should I clean up the pool tonight, or should I risk little babies getting west nile and encephalitis tomorrow?
Jesus H. Christ. You couldn’t decide to fart or go blind without a public debate.
April 19th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
Weblog infested with Haterz™…
Pool infested with toxic waste and Turdz™…
Sister-in-law’s house infested with Ikeaz™…
Vdubs infested with RealLemon™…
With all this stress, you need a vacation. I think you should go to Disney World!
April 19th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
Hey CS:
Here is a scam that you haven’t tried. For some quick$$, apply to the most expensive school your sorry a(( can get into. Get some student loans, then withdrawl from school and keep the cash. Be carefiul, you have to actually withdrawl, that is fill out the paperwork. You could get a good chunk ole’ change, my boy.
April 19th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
Mr. Serin!!!
“Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.”
- Oscar Wilde
Granted he was talking about a different form of moderation, but same difference.
April 19th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
ASW: manbag
Casey @ 161:
Wait he pool was green when you bought the property?
How do you explain this photo then?
http://flickr.com/photos/serca.....280717795/
Does that photo not accurately reflect the state of the pool when you bought the property and put it on the market or was the pool not green when you bought it?
Do not waste the remainder of thy life in thoughts about others, when thou dost not refer thy thoughts to some object of common utility. For thou losest the opportunity of doing something else when thou hast such thoughts as these, What is such a person doing, and why, and what is he saying, and what is he thinking of, and what is he contriving, and whatever else of the kind makes us wander away from the observation of our own ruling power. We ought then to check in the series of our thoughts everything that is without a purpose and useless, but most of all the over-curious feeling and the malignant; and a man should use himself to think of those things only about which if one should suddenly ask, What hast thou now in thy thoughts? With perfect openness thou mightest, immediately answer, This or That; so that from thy words it should be plain that everything in thee is simple and benevolent, and such as befits a social animal, and one that cares not for thoughts about pleasure or sensual enjoyments at all, nor has any rivalry or envy and suspicion, or anything else for which thou wouldst blush if thou shouldst say that thou hadst it in thy mind. For the man who is such and no longer delays being among the number of the best, is like a priest and minister of the gods, using too the deity which is planted within him, which makes the man uncontaminated by pleasure, unharmed by any pain, untouched by any insult, feeling no wrong, a fighter in the noblest fight, one who cannot be overpowered by any passion, dyed deep with justice, accepting with all his soul everything which happens and is assigned to him as his portion; and not often, nor yet without great necessity and for the general interest, imagining what another says, or does, or thinks. For it is only what belongs to himself that he makes the matter for his activity; and he constantly thinks of that which is allotted to himself out of the sum total of things, and he makes his own acts fair, and he is persuaded that his own portion is good. For the lot which is assigned to each man is carried along with him and carries him along with it. And he remembers also that every rational animal is his kinsman, and that to care for all men is according to man’s nature; and a man should hold on to the opinion not of all, but of those only who confessedly live according to nature. But as to those who live not so, he always bears in mind what kind of men they are both at home and from home, both by night and by day, and what they are, and with what men they live an impure life. Accordingly, he does not value at all the praise which comes from such men, since they are not even satisfied with themselves.
April 19th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
Get on it immediately. With the pool the hole in the fence is a definite safety hazard and bylaw violation on top of the toxic pool. If the city crew sees that and also has to clean the pool expect a whole lot of fines and fees to fix it.
Dark green pool, hole in fence, stupid kids. If you think foreclosures are bad wait until you get a lawsuit for negligence contributing toward death.
Seeing as how your insurance is probably tied into the house payments which all state you live you the liability insurance is sure not going to cover it. Doubly so for you being in arrears in the payments.
Time for action. You have no money to pay someone to do it. Time to be the take charge business man and do it yourself.
You know what that is how most successful business people do it. They do things themselves. It creates more money for them.
Back to the house. If you expect to be in the business of flipping you need to take steps to brush up the properties so they show well. Having done nothing to the pool all this time shows your lack of commitment.
Even on that TV show the flippers do a lot of the work themselves. That is the way to get the best value for your time and money. No time spent searching for workers. No cash lost in paying someone else wages.
April 19th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
It’s all you, Casey. Look on the bottom of the photo:
(c) 2007 Google. Map data (c) 2007 NAVTEQ
Not to change the subject but regarding where all the cashback money went, didn’t $8,000 (or more?) of it go to a friend who hasn’t paid you back?
April 19th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
I live out in San Jose and I would LOVE to go out there and watch you work. I’ll even chip in 10 bucks, better yet, make it 15! Tomorrow’s payday for me at my glorious W2 job.
ASW: failforward
April 19th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Is anyone else here sad that “Homey da Clown” doesn’t post anymore?
April 19th, 2007 at 7:04 pm
LOL Nice Pool Casey…
April 19th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
Casey,
You can’t ban the IP’s of the “haterz”. Ever heard of proxy servers? IPs are more abundant than foreclosures on this blog.
They’ll just come back for vengeance on you. Trust me, let that dog hump your leg and be done with it, otherwise you’ll just piss it off.
April 19th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
“166. Chris Johnson
Casey: nice try on blaming the former owner for the algae/wheatgrass. I guess the mosquito problem is OK because the neighbors should be used to it then? Or that you at least had the pool mosquito-free for a month or two, so they should be grateful?”
“unbelievable
April 19th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
If the pool was green when you purchased the property, where did you get the picture of the Modesto house with the nice blue swimming pool?”
…
Hey EN idiots, it helps to actually pay attention and read what Casey says before asking stupid questions.
April 19th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
You have the plan wrong. Instead of asking people to help, Charge them to watch you work.
April 19th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
Take the dishonest approach.
Call a pool company and get a quote. Assume it is 1,000 to clean and scrub etc. Tell the guy you will pay him 5,000 if he does it that day. When he is done stiff the guy.
If the guy comes after you with a lead pipe take pictures of him beating you. Sue the guy for 150,000 and settle right away for 25,000.
Problem solved.
April 19th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
@ 172. segfault
Vdubs infested with RealLemon™…
Hilarious.
April 19th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
If case ever becomes succesful in anything I will flee this country, this is the most incompetent person I ever saw. Only in America can he become a media star, only in America do criminals steal the spotlight. Look at that idiot who shot 32 people he is a star.
April 19th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
Why not hire a painting contractor and tell him to paint your house green. When he is not looking pour a gallon of paint in the pool. Call his boss and tell him you want 5k or you are going to sue him if he doesn’t pay up.
How about putting up a for sale sign in the front yard and put on the sign ” the first 100k gets it” If you spend the day there you should get at least 10 signed contracts. Remember you want at least 1k with each contract. Take the money pay your rent, screw the pool.
April 19th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
So the CD burning money was used for your week-long vacation and not for the rent like you insisted earlier?
April 19th, 2007 at 8:11 pm
Casey,
Not sure about Modesto, but in my area you can’t close on a property if there are any outstanding violations. You might want to check on that.
-btc
April 19th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
@184. isamu
Has Casey addressed the question about his CD income and the Beg-A-Thon proceeds?
April 19th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
No I haven’t addressed it yet.
April 19th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
@ 193 Casey
Ok, so does that mean that you plan to address those questions in the near future?
April 19th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
Casey can you adress why you couldn’t live in your final property instead of leeching of your sister in law and paying rent?
April 19th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
So what’s the liability problem? Casey has been paying for hazard and liability insurance on that place all along. Right? Er, right? Hmmmm… maybe not.
April 19th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
$10 fix.
At Home Depot, Lowes, or any store with a garden center, they all sell stuff to add to stagnent bodies of water that will kill mosquitoes. It’s environmentally friendly. It’s called Mosquito Dunks. Or, they have other brands similuar. Google it or something. Anyhow, buy a few packages of those and toss them in there. That’ll by you a little time to get your act together…
April 19th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
The better to troll us. What happened to giving us enough info to discourage rampant speculation? Was that another example of just thinking out loud again?
April 19th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
Are you planning to?
April 19th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
My friend did this to raise money quickly: Placed an ad for a rental. The ad went like this: “First month free. 3 Bedrooms, 2 Bath, great location, great schools. $1050/month. No deposit needed. Great deal, open house on so and so date.” Keep in mind, rent for a place like this normally goes for about $2500 in this area. He had about 300 people show up at the open house to rent the place. About 170 applied paying the $35 application fee which grossed him $5950. Almost all of them asked what the catch was and we would tell them that we were looking for tenants that would really “take care of the place, love it, be easy tenants, and that having good tenants means not having to charge extra money to cover potential losses.”
Ironically, he rented the place to me with a 2 year lease, however he was already in foreclosure. The bank had a difficult time getting me out because I claimed that I lost my deposit by moving out and I claimed a hardship by moving out. The bank broker offered me $1500 to leave within two months. I declined. He then offered $3000 a week later. I told him a sob story about my poor mother and then counter offered and said that I could leave within a week if you gave me $5000 cash. I only got $4500. But I happily moved out the next day.
April 19th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
Casey,
Forget about moderating the comments and go drain the pool!
April 19th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
I want you to tell us EXACTLY to the penny how much you got paid to put together those training CDs.
not “ummm.. I dont remember…”
“it varied…”
“we did an exchange of sumthin’ for sumthin’…”
“I was workin’ off a debt i owed him.. can’t remember…”
YOU never, ever are exact about ANYthing. Infuriatingly vague. that’s why you wont get a real w2 job. It’s becaue you can’t get one, or hold one. Employers loathe wishy washy ambiguous kinda sorta maybe crap that you spew out all day long.
you need a good smack upside the head to jar you out of your passive indecision.
April 19th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
@ 192 and 193:
Why don’t you just answer the questions Casey?
Or are you biding time while trying to think up a sweet story?
And you insist we “don’t know the half of it”….
This is why.
You dodge all the questions.
Probably because you don’t want to divulge what you spent the money on.
I can’t believe your sister in law hasn’t kicked you out yet.
April 19th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
cleaning up 2 foot deep sludge heap. Assuming that the deepest area of the pool is 10 feet by 8 feet (a reasonable assumption): Our young man would have to remove 160 cubic feet of sludge (roughly 1200 gallons of material).
Then if he uses a five gallon bucket to remove the material it would be at least 240 trips out of the pool with a full bucket.
At six trips per hour (Very optimistic I realize), it would take 40 man hours to empty the pool. That means it would take at least a week putting in 8 hours of work each day (expect a 10-12 hour day on site). If you production is slower I would expect a commenserate time increase.
I realize that my estimate is being made sight unseen, but it should give people a roughly idea of the scope of work. If I’m off by 100-200 gallons of material, may bad-It will only take 3-4 days to clean out the pool.
This assumes our man Casey has the following equipment to make life easier:
Non skid boots. The full knee high ones that sewer workers use.
Hip waders. What is ever in that sludge you don’t want touching your skin.
Gloves and other protective gear.
Traction mats that can be walked on so you can get out of the pool.
Extension ladder that can be tied off so you can get out of the pool.
Five gallon bucket.
Shovel.
Cell Phone (in a water tight container so you can call for help if you get trapped in the pool)
Advanced equipment:
*Sewage Pump. This kind of pump is designed to pump effluence, solid organic matter and sludge. You just have to figure out what you are going to pump it to since not just anyone is going to want to deal with this stuff. The city may object to you just pumping it out to the curb so it runs down the drain.
*Second Worker, pulleys, ropes and additional buckets. Then one person can stay in the pit, fill pails and then have someone else haul them out. Definite production increase.
Sewage pumps cost more than a standard water pump. Make sure that if you plan on that course of action , you get a sewage pump and not a storm water pump.
April 19th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
Casey isn’t addressing it because he knows he can get paid for the answer at the next monkey dancing session, so why give it out for free?
April 19th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
Casey,
I honestly can’t believe how you have let things disintegrate so far negative in your life. Having a positive attitude is good, but in your case, it’s more like total denial of your true situation and abilities. Perhaps you are not cut out to be an entrepreneur just yet.
First of all, you know your weaknesses already (which is great that you know) - you’re not good with details. This is incompatible with success in your own business because so much of business means paying attention to the little things before they get out of hand. For example, some CEOs have a “dashboard” they check several times a day. The dashboard contains up-to-date, real-time, industry-specific ratios on their company so that they can attack things as quickly as possible when the slightest deviation occurs. You, on the other hand, seem to miss important points, dates, times, signatures - major details - that later spiral out of control.
Second, you may not have enough self-dicipline to follow through with important tasks. You seem to instinctually gravitate towards the idea that problems will go away on their own - as evidenced by thinking someone will buy Modesto so you don’t have to clean the pool. In fact, I think some haterz might mistake this for laziness. I don’t think you’re lazy, but I think you may not have that true internal drive, or real self-initiative, that is so critical for success as an entrepreneur. And, I’m not talking about having the gusto to jump out and spend 30k in RE courses because that’s simply - just spending money. It’s almost, but not quite, like buying lots of jamba juice.
Finally, you don’t seem to have a proficient understanding of risk management. Especially in RE where investments are so very highly leveraged, risk management is of paramount importance in controlling the risk/reward ratio. In fact, RE can be more dangerous than stocks in this regard. The risk, however, can be easily controlled by running conservative, detailed numbers and projections before you buy as well as by having appropriate hazard and liability insurance. However, it doesn’t seem that you understand this as evidenced by your high number of foreclosures.
I would like to see you succeed, and at this point, it seems to me that success means having that stroke of luck or benefactor as a result of your increased noteriety that nets you millions or enough to pull yourself out of debt. I don’t know what is the probability of that occurring. High? Low? What do you think? Does the probability increase or decrease the longer you blog?
In the mean time, it might be good to have that W-2 to fall back on. In any event, I seem to recall something about you signing away your rights to this whole story, which ironically has already been told via this blog. This has been a wild ride for sure, but I don’t think any of us would think less of you if this blog simply disappeared one day and you got a decent-paying job. In fact, to many people, perhaps family and friends, this would earn more of their respect. Either way, good luck.
ASW: vdubs
April 19th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
So wait: you had the water turned off? How does the lawn and landscaping look right now? Uh, nevermind…
April 20th, 2007 at 12:41 am
Troll. This whole site has become a spoof of Casey. Just wait a couple of months and you’ll find out Casey has “sold” his rights to his corporation who is hiring writers to make this story up. “Juicy” ha ha ha. “It’s all good” ha ha ha. The bankruptcy is a forgone conclusion but I think Casey has been smart enough to turn his assets (ie. his precious traffic) over to his corp. Good job, you turned it around.
However the story needs to get juicier to keep folks coming back. Details, really. Seems you’ve gotten by consequence free for so long that you’re due some. Get the writers to make a plot around that - make sure to drag it out tho’! No quick gratification on a pay per click model. Gotta keep that traffic soaring, dancing monkey boy.
Casey Serin has left the building, folks.
April 20th, 2007 at 1:07 am
Hey, only 4 days to go and it’s all over — foreclosure that is (short sale collapses). So, no problemo on the pool thing. Bank is paying insurance now, right?
You’ve been hinting — when do you officially announce the prego?
cheers!
April 20th, 2007 at 1:29 am
“You know what’s funny to me about this?
You’ve spent more time, in my opinion, blogging about this problem than actually doing anything about it.”
Haven’t you realised that is normal for this blog.
Good point by doug, IF Casey gets over there, IF he tries draining the pool, IF he can get electricity, IF he hires a pump - then you can be sure he’ll hire a storm-water pump and get it clogged with sewage within minutes of starting the job.
Here, if the local authority have to do work to your property, they can put a charge on your house for the cost, so they get paid when you sell. Is that the same in CA?
April 20th, 2007 at 1:33 am
@204 Doug … don’t discourage the boy
Casey, if you actually get down on your hands and knees and clean out pool sludge for a week, you will earn some respect. Not a lot, considering the disasters you’ve already created, but it’s a start.
April 20th, 2007 at 1:42 am
“I had some urgent stuff come up”
If your spreadsheet from January (? was it) is correct you have some more “urgent stuff” coming up in a few weeks like a balloon payment on Promissory Note 2, a $22,000 note.
April 20th, 2007 at 2:08 am
Mortgage Pool
Andrea got herself a $719,000 fixer-upper by the bay in North Miami in May of 2004. She started off with a conservative 30% down and $503,000 financing with American Home Mortgage. But she got quite a fixer… watch the show and you’ll see… she had to spend $40,000 on all new impact-resistant windows and doors, then another $12,000 on the remodel of the guest bathroom, and of course there’s the boat she had to get to fit in with the neighbors. The above were financed with a $147,000 cash out through a refi of $650,000 with Wachovia Mortgage.
April 20th, 2007 at 2:18 am
green and a potential hazard. The city wants him to drain it or get it cleaned up. Pools are kind of tricky when it comes to selling and sometimes require some effort to maintain. Outdoor pools are the most troublesome because they are exposed to the sun which can cause algae to
April 20th, 2007 at 2:38 am
casey!!!!! 1,000$ to pay pal NOW!!!! as soon as you web cam your self jumping in that pool!!!!!!!
IM SERIOUS………ITS ALL GOOD!!
April 20th, 2007 at 4:36 am
ASW: malaria
@195:”Casey can you adress why you couldn’t live in your final property instead of leeching of your sister in law and paying rent?”
Have you seen the pool?
April 20th, 2007 at 4:42 am
The others are right, Casey. If you want to have Monkeydance II, you’re going to have to make up a good story on why you didn’t pay Yulia. It sounds very much like the “urgent things” that came up were a vacation and some IKEA cabinets. Otherwise, nobody is going to give you a dime this time.
Annie must be glad she didn’t send you her windshield money!
April 20th, 2007 at 4:53 am
“…I hear from the neighbors the pool was green a long time BEFORE I bought it….”
You did not inspect the property before buying it ?
“.. The guy was apparently in foreclosure too…”
That did not ring any alarm bells for you?
“….Man what a money pit this property ended up being! ..”
Welcome to the world of real estate investing
April 20th, 2007 at 6:18 am
Just F-it.
What does it matter?
The bank is about the take back the property anyway.
April 20th, 2007 at 6:36 am
Casey, please, just drain the pool. Why does every little thing have to be a big issue. Just. drain. it.
Don’t make this a problem for the new owners. This happened on YOUR TIME.
You just don’t understand about responsibility.
I can’t read this blog anymore.
Good bye.
April 20th, 2007 at 6:37 am
dude,
i like the last asp word better; Flipper. you are not old enough to remember the Flipper tv show.
did you get a JOB ???
April 20th, 2007 at 7:06 am
If you would have just hired a neighborhood teenager (or better yet, a pool service, to cut down on the chance of unauthorized pool parties) to rake, skim, and scoop that pool and toss chemicals in every week, you wouldn’t be looking at that mess.
Did you think it was gonnna stay sparkling all by itself?
Just an FYI
from a responsible pool owner.
April 20th, 2007 at 7:13 am
@125 Philip
We are not talking about some recent tenant that damaged something. We are referring to your post on your blog where you said:
“Today, I went to show the condo to some prospective tenants, and when I went into the unit, I found it in good shape. The tenants really took care of it. I’m sorry to say that they will not get their security deposit anyway because
that is the current trend - take the tenants security deposit too. I know it seems mean, but it happens to every renter, just ask them.”
Casey, I will come watch you work and throw bananas to you.
April 20th, 2007 at 7:29 am
This is a non issue for 99% of people investing in RE. Most people just do what they are supposed to do and never let things get this bad. Really???? 75 miles is too far for someone without a real job to through some bleach in a pool every month???
April 20th, 2007 at 7:44 am
aaackk!!
Just woke up from my nap, and noticed you need someone to help you clean the pool! Well, here is my answer:
“I would love to help. However, I get tons of requests. To make sure I give you the timely attention you deserve I must charge a small fee.
The fee is $39 for a 20 minute pool consultation. That also includes unlimited email consulting for a week.
I can’t guarantee anything but I will usually answer most questions in that time or refer you to somebody I trust. Additional help is on a case-by-case basis.”
aaack!! [asw: letsdoit] SWEET!!
thhhppttt!!!
S_t_C
April 20th, 2007 at 8:04 am
When you get caught, will you put on your leprechaun hat and try to run, saying
“Hehe! You’ll never catch me and my magical murse of gold”
April 20th, 2007 at 8:17 am
I bet we could grow something in that mess, if you know what I mean….
So Casey, how was that 2+hour nap you took yesterday afternoon????
Julian-Trailer Park Biy and Hater
ps. I am calling the EPA on you!!!!!
April 20th, 2007 at 8:28 am
dude,
did you get a JOB ??????
have you ever heard the expression ” Dumb A** ”
it seems to fit you to a tee.
get a JOB !!!!
April 20th, 2007 at 8:50 am
I say let the pool sit. Another few weeks, and you’ll have a free source of juice, filled with proteins and wonderful stuffs. Imagine how much you would save by drinking from the pool rather than spending money at Jamba Juice?
asw: looser
April 20th, 2007 at 8:51 am
“Also I was told a section of the fence fell down on the backyard. My realtor is going to talk to the neighbor’s about that to see what they’re plans are, since it’s a community fence.”
Yes, it’s a community fence…to keep YOU out. It didn’t work. Drats, foiled again!
And yes, the property is a money-pit. Something you would’ve realized if you were an “details guy” and did a little research before you purchased it. Drats, foiled twice!
April 20th, 2007 at 9:03 am
You have folks (with young children no less) trying to LIVE next to the house you couldn’t care less about. Think of their health, you insensitive sh*t!
April 20th, 2007 at 9:13 am
Hi Casey, I haven’t read the billion posts, but pool maintenance need not be hard. Run some chlorine tabs into the pool and start running the filter for a day (assuming it starts fine.). That’ll clear up the green within minutes. Take out the leaves if you like. The point is not to make the pool usable…you just apply a ’shock treatment.’ That’s about 5-$10 of chlorine.
Pool maintenance is tedious to make it swimmable, but for mosquito abatement, ridiculously caveman easy.
April 20th, 2007 at 9:14 am
forgot to add…do not drain the pool. that is unnecessary.
April 20th, 2007 at 9:15 am
umm…okay, one last thing. don’t use bleach, despite the suggestion. not the same.
April 20th, 2007 at 9:20 am
To clean the pool:
1. Put a garden hose in it.
2. Suck on the garden hose until mucky water starts to come gushing out.
3. Hours later, pour a gallon of bleach in whatever is left.
What Casey will do:
1. Nothing.
2. Ask realtor annoying questions so it looks like he’s doing something.
3. Go buy file cabinets to document discussion of doing nothing.
April 20th, 2007 at 9:21 am
I’ve heard that (at least in the Houston Area) pools can’t and in fact shouldn’t be drained. Maybe because of the soil but the idea is the water is the only thing holding the pool in the ground.
April 20th, 2007 at 9:59 am
Casey, how about we all get together for a little pool party at the house this weekend? I’ll bring the beer, and we can use the pool as “the facilities”. Maybe that will even kill some of the mosquitoes. Another win-win, and a good time for all!
April 20th, 2007 at 10:03 am
Casey ..you cant have a work day this weekend …cmon..it needs at least another week of indecision, avoidance, advice seeking, and of course team and business planning as well as blooging before it could even be considered to be ready ..oh and by this time ..im sure you will have found another issue to jump onto leaving this one as unsoved..for someone who carries a man bag ..really just pay the friggin money to get that pool cleaned and emptied - your what i considered a no man…you cant even make a solid decision based on your f ups
April 20th, 2007 at 10:28 am
#204:
Are you saying that Casey could die 1,000 ways if he tried to clean the pool by himself?
April 20th, 2007 at 10:33 am
CASEY - You should go down there just for the picture value! Think about the frenzy a bunch of detailed, slime-pit pics will cause!
cheers!
UncleC
April 20th, 2007 at 10:39 am
To #227:
“We are not talking about some recent tenant that damaged something.”
I know. That’s what I’m talking about. If you read later posts, you will see that it is this same tenant (where I claimed I would take all his deposit) that broke the fan.
Thus, he was charged. I think $300 was fair enough for materials and labor, don’t you?
April 20th, 2007 at 10:39 am
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April 20th, 2007 at 10:45 am
#146. lawnmower man
Interesting point. Ok then what Casey will need to do is sell that property to his Corporation using the Corp line of credit. Then the Corporation can use the corporate credit to hire someone to fix the pool then sell it at a profit. Casey will be able to unload this property onto the corporation and the corporation will have a genuine fixer upper to work on, Win-Win.
Keep living the Dream
-Roger
PS: What is up with CashCall? Kind of leaving us hanging there, are they moving this to legal?
April 20th, 2007 at 11:09 am
And that house, sitting in the California sun with no water and no air moving around inside (closed windows, I’m sure no fans, etc.).
Boy, oh boy, it’s gotta smell GREAT in the house by now. Probably even better than outside, with that s***** pool.
All the wated in the U-joints has evaporated by now, leaving the pipes free to allow sewer gas back into the house.
Don’t light a match!
April 20th, 2007 at 11:15 am
Clean.
the.
pool.
April 20th, 2007 at 11:38 am
@206 Philip GCScammers:
Please quit with the smarmy know-it-all drivel. You are starting to sound like Nigel. Your ‘keep the tenant deposit’ debacle from December is right up there with some of the stuff Casey has tried.
asw: cashflow
April 20th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
A buddy of mine owns a company that deals specifically with cleaning up toxic waste and spills. He is not far from this location. One of the machines he owns is designed for cleaning up petrochemical contaminated water. The machine rapidly sucks up the water and pushes it thru a series of filters separating out the oil, debris, and certain other types of water contaminants.
I asked him about your pool and if he thought the technology could be applied. He said that it could but that it was untested and there would a few potential problems. They are:
The pump he uses displaces about 400 gallons per minute. That type of suction could suck up a plastic liner, destroying the pool. He would have to decrease and disperse the intake in order to avoid direct suction on the liner. This would adversely affect the efficiency and decrease the allowable size of the debris from 4” max to about 2” max. The risk of sucking in the side of the pool would be minimized but would still be a risk.
The next problem is what to do with the water. You would have to take your clean water and dump it back into the dirty pool water for two reasons: maintain the water level in the pool and you have no place for the treated water to go (like a holding container). He said that under no uncertain terms should you completely empty the pool. Furthermore, quickly pumping out a pool into the curb will run you into a whole lot of other problems without first consulting the municipality. So, you have to pump the clean water back into the dirty water. This means that you have to repeatedly recycle the water thru the process. This increases the amount of time to complete the process.
Assuming the pool held 12,000 gallons and he cut the intake to 200 gallons per minute, he could do one cycle in about 1 hour. He said depending on how clean you wanted the pool, it would take anywhere from 3 to 6 cycles. 3 cycles would get everyone off your back and the pool would “look” clean. 6 cycles would be clean enough to swim in after treating it with the appropriate chemicals. (He said for 10 cycles he’d personally drink a cup without further chemical treatment). However, each cycle requires new and better filters. For the first 3 cycles the filters would cost about $50 each. The forth filter would jump to about $80. After that he said each successive filter would be about $25 more then the filter before it.
I explained to him your situation and asked if he would be willing to do it. He said he was fascinated with the idea and potentially sees a new market. However, like testing everything new, there is risk. I asked him where he would rate the risk. He said that because he’s never actually done this before he’d put it at between 20% and 30% that he’d destroy the pool.
So, here is the deal. This guy is willing to try this out. And he’ll only charge you for the filters he needs plus a day laborer to help him ($25/hour). He said if you want 3 cycles it’ll cost you $225. If you want 6 cycles, it’ll cost you $765. He will make no profit. This will just cover his expenses. However, if it doesn’t work and it ruins the pool, he’ll cover any of his out of pocket expenses. He’ll return anything you pay him. However, you’ll have to be liable for any damages he may cause and sign a waiver to that affect. You also will have to agree to allow him to use you as a photographic reference for potential future clients that he may find. He also only wants cash upfront because you have too many outstanding debts and doesn’t trust that you’ll actually ever pay him.
If you’re interested, reply and I’ll then email you his information. You can deal directly with him. I get nothing from this. You’ll have to act soon because he’s got another contract that starts in about 6 days and will not be interesting in “playing around” with ideas. Also, if a new contract comes up sooner, he won’t do this either as it won’t actually make him any money.
April 20th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
MMM…. bottle up that slimy green pool water and market it as organic energy juice with a splash of algae and wheat grass!!!!! You’ll be a millionaire in no time!!! You can name it “It’s All Good” sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!
hell maybe you could be a pool guy like the one in the movie “birdcage” LOL
April 20th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Casey:
Can we have a pool party at the houes?
April 20th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Hey casey,
If a kid falls in the pool and dies you’ll have a man slaughter charge to go with that fraud. You’re already screwed man, just rob a bank. IT’LL BE YOUR BIG COMEBACK!
April 21st, 2007 at 12:17 am
are you planning on addressing it?
April 22nd, 2007 at 7:18 pm
Also be sure to visit our good friend Casey Serin’s site. You may remember him, he’s the one Nigel stabbed in the back by making Foreclosure Avoiders. http://www.iamfacingforeclosur.....otta-give/ http://www.iamfacingforeclosur.....reclosure/ http://www.iamfacingforeclosur.....hcall-not/ http://www.iamfacingforeclosur.....-comments/ http://www.iamfacingforeclosur.....contracts/
April 22nd, 2007 at 7:46 pm
In this gem, Casey (or ghostwriter) attempts to don the new “Foreclosure Avoider” persona to subtly shift the focus of the site to be a foreclosure assistance site. Before we go into what is said here, can anyone tell me what the f a foreclosure assistance site
April 24th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
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