Duane: For Once, Be a Man, Casey!

The link is to Duane's "guest post" on Exurban Nation, in which Duane tears into Casey.
Among other allegations, Duane suggests that Casey frittered away Hammar Investments credit, and that Duane has a copy of every single document that Casey had (tax forms, loan docs, etc.)

Duane Spills the Beans

Over on Caseyhaterz.com, Duane begins to spill the whole saga. Note the slipping between third person and first person, such as

She did not want her parents to continue to spend more money paying for me to just "explore."

Here are links to the individual Duane posts with excerpts so you can skip over all the noisy comments from others. Note that each link is to Caseyhaterz.com, and you'll need a login there to read the full post.

The SLOW TRANSFORMATION BEGINS
Casey did not express disappointment with her before the wedding except for two times. Once, he got upset with her for not taking the exercise routine he made for them seriously enough. G would work out with him, but did not always follow his every training command. He wanted to be her fitness trainer, but she just wanted to work out in her own way. For some reason, that really ticked him off. The second time, he took her out and brought himself to tell her that it bothered him that she gained 4 1/2 pounds since she got a new job.

Wedding & Honeymoon
At one point, he dropped in spirit and expressed thoughts of regret regarding the marriage he had just entered into a few days earlier. He was having second thoughts and said that marrying HER MAY have been a MISTAKE. Think about this… on your honeymoon, the guy gets cold feet… sound familiar – CONTRACT!!!

Gift Money
When they got back to Sacramento they went straight to the bank because apparently Casey’s bank account was in several hundred dollars negative. G still had her separate account, this account was not yet joined. He started telling her that the account is negative and he needs around $700 to bring it to positive. He said that he needs to use the wedding gift money for that.

Dipping into the credit cards
Casey would work on consulting projects here and there, but they weren't quite making it with the bills. They would visit the mail box often looking for "the check." For some reason several checks would either “get lost” and would have to be “resent” to them or they would take weeks to make it to their address.

The debt snowballs
She called her mom one night and shared with her the amount of their debt. When she hung up the phone, Casey WAS MAD and told her that he did not like her sharing their financial problems with their parents, that “we should deal with this on our own and not talk to others about it.”

Business Partners
Like when I kept wanting to set up a business plan on paper, he'd get irritated and say that his business plan is in his head and what's the point of setting up a business plan if you don't know what kind of opportunity would come up next month.” She felt pushed out, so she would back off a bit, and then he'd complain that “I'm not involved enough, so I'd try to get more involved, then he'd hold back, and push me out, and I'd back off again because I HATE the feeling of being a burden and being in someone's space when I'm not welcome, and it would go on for the entire 3 years like this.

More marriage regrets
Casey kept saying that G was the wrong personality for him, G was TOO "safe", too careful, not a risk taker enough, too fat, not sexy enough, not a go-getter, not into finances enough, not health food oriented enough, too quiet, not talkative enough, G’s hair was not dramatic enough, and then when G tried to change her hair, “then my hair was too short....etc... that basically there was something deeply wrong with me being the way I was. And I BELIEVED him! I genuinely thought I was born the wrong way, and I kept trying to meet his needs this whole time. “

Getting a job
At that time we were already planning to move to Roseville. Casey got the job in Roseville as a programmer paying $50K per year.

Galina gets a job
I worked there for a couple months until I was offered a position paying $4 more per hour, so I obviously took it and started the new job at the end of November 2005. I was making $15 per hour at the new job and casey started talking about living just on my income so that he could quit his job to work the business. I did not feel comfortable with that...it was a new job, who knows how stable it would be.

Casey considers leaving
During that summer, he started talking about leaving. He said this marriage may have been a mistake, he just does not want to be tied up, he wants to be free to just get up and go do his thing without having to think about another person.

Lonely in Marriage
I was married but unloved. I wanted so desperately to be important to him, but he just never seemed to care much, or to deeply connect much.

Duane also alleges that Casey went on a 5 week "break" from the marriage and had at least two "dates" 1.5 years ago

ABC News Story: Housing Bubble

Nightline/ABC News has a story on Casey.
Excerpts:

"My first set of seminars was $15,000," he said. He was hooked, eventually spending nearly $35,000 on what he calls his real estate education.

"I kept spending because I thought, 'I need more education,'" Serin said.

He didn't think it was illegal because, as he put it, "I just thought as long as it was a win-win deal, it was all good."

A Haterz at the Fraudcast

Caseyhaterz.com regular and genuinely awesome haterz Elizabeth describes her visit to the fraudcast [CHC registration required]

Excerpts:

Quick impressions: Casey spent a lot of time sizing me up, and trying to spin the story. I didn't buy much of it, so he moved onto spinning with the two women he'd talked to. He does miss Galina, and the missing is genuine, but whether it's a deep longing or a vague "I miss my childhood cat Binky" kind of feeling is hard to gauge.

Casey has a really strange view of business, as it turns out. He claims he tries to judge a person by their character, and signs contracts based on his gut feeling rather than reading what's on the paper. If an "agreement" has been reached, then it doesn't matter what the legal document says, because it can be then "worked through."

Recommended reading.

Anyone Believe Him?

Exurban Nation coverage of the latest Casey post:

BS. Anybody who can afford an accountant, two marriage counselors and FOUR attorneys has so much money that they don't have Casey's problems

Norway Would Be a Sweet Place to Visit

In this obvious paid post, Casey waxes on about how sweet it would be to visit Norway. The real gem comes in the comments, though, when he responds to a post about peak oil:

I was starting to buy into it and even started looking into honing my surviving / fishing / farming skills. But then I talked to someone who is involved in funding $700 million for a cold-fusion type of battery-thingy that basically never runs out of energy. ... (It’s sweet to have access to these types of connections.)

At least he has consistent disdain for both mortgage laws and physical laws. Thermodynamics be damned!

Truth in Lending Expert

Casey is a victim! That's right, those predatory lenders forced him to borrow millions of dollars through fraudulent applications.

Comments run universally against him, and he backpedals furiously. Classic Casey.

An Urgent Appointment

Serinitis reports from his meeting with Casey:

Casey said he had collected about $500 in donations Mostly in small denominations

Casey had saved $2-$3000 from the advertising and that is where he got the money for the lawyer

The reason for shutting down the blog is his wife. She however is not speaking to him.
His family relations are fine. I am poor at reading body language but there was something a little off in his answer.

The person offering him the job is doing development in Costa Rica. His trip to Phoenix was not related to NRU.

The lawyer is handling the issues with Mark. He is getting the rights to his story back. With the lawyer in place, Casey is going into LMR ignore mode.