Cracks Appear in the Partnership

In the latest post on ForeclosureHelpBook.com, Casey indicates that once again he's flip-flopping on his partner.

Ok, so yesterday I talked with Damion and he got pretty pissed. I made the last post without getting it reviewed by him. Especially when I said I’m gonna shut the blog down!
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Damion has been very instrumental in keeping me accountable and focused. I’m very blessed to have this opportunity. He has been very patient with me.

But also direct. He made it clear that he cannot continue putting up with my crap.

I believe that in literature this is called foreshadowing.

Dr. Phil, & Another Abortive Attempt to Stop Blogging

Casey describes his visit to Dr. Phil's studio, and engages in some class A rationalization in a new lengthy post.

In addition he decides to stop blogging to "keep his promise" to his completely estranged soon-to-be-ex-wife.

The blog portion of this site is most likely going to come down in the next day or two. At least the personal stuff will. I’m not accepting any more comments. Sorry.

On the bright side, though:

If [Galina] does [come back to Casey], Dr Phil offered to provide counseling for us. Pretty sweet!

Divorce, and Dr. Phil: DEAL!

Nigel comments that Casey did Dr. Phil after all.

Casey expounds at length on the process, in a post that has since been deleted:

On Saturday I did a whole day of field taping for the Dr. Phil show. I’m pretty used to the drill by now. All the practice in the past. I think this segment will be the best one yet.

On Wednesday I’m going into the studio. I’m excited. My first studio experience! (Well, except Suzi Orman, but it was a remote call-in studio). The show will air in a few weeks.

But he's burying the lede:

Lets go back a few days. I found out from my parents that I got served divorce paperwork.
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This is it. I am getting divorced. Man, do I hate the sound of it. Sounds so foreign. We had such a great start. We both believed in “till death do us part”. Is this really happening to me?

Accepting reality is tough sometimes. My emotions did a number on me last couple of days. I started thinking about anything I can do. Anything to get her back.

Accepting reality is tough? How exactly would you know that? My absolute favorite line is the first one here:

But how am I going to pay off my $500K of defaulted debt with a JOB?

Doing the foreclosure book / blog (and related services) is still my best opportunity to accomplish that. Especially now that I have Damion Lupo as my partner.

My rhetorical question would be, how am I going to pay off this debt WITHOUT a JOB? Once again, income is "limiting". Because actual income is a concrete number, not having income means you have unlimited "potential income".

Later, in a comment on that same thread, he whines:

Man, I still wonder if being back online is a huge mistake. I couldn’t sleep last night, thinking about it.

I know she’s giving me a clear sign that its over. But if we were still together she wouldn’t want me back online. She doesn’t want any of this publicity and wants to live a quiet life.

What if she is just testing me to see if I’m willing to REALLY give all this stuff up for her?

Because I’m definitely willing. Before I wasn’t. Now I am. So maybe I’m shooting myself in the foot by coming back.

This is insane!

That’s OK, I’ll ask Dr. Phil about this. Hopefully he will give me some direct advice.

Casey Returns to Blogging - Foreclosurehelpbook.com

Note that the previous posts were written in hindsight, so no credit to us for predicting this, but, he's back.

Apparently up to almost the same exact thing he was with his Foreclosure Code buddy, he's working on a book to help people (and make millions of dollars.)

Nigel confirms that it's really Casey behind this site. Guess all that talk about living up to promises was so much hot air, as usual.

Welcome back to the Caseyverse!

Casey Follow Up

Casey issues a follow-up to the previous email. At least he's not coming back to blogging!

Some may argue that this "final statement" is itself a breach of my promise. I said I will not be back online right?

Maybe so. But hey at least I'm not going back and blogging. So if I have to do this to get the last bit of "publicity" out of my system and go away for good, so be it.

Casey Serin Update

After nearly two months without hearing any updates on Casey Serin, I was starting to worry that we'd never find out how the story would end. Fortunately, it seems like we'll get to watch the rest of the trainwreck after all.

Keith over at HousingPANIC posts an email from Casey Serin. He claims he's not going to return to blogging, so we know he will.

Excerpts:

I'm working a stable consulting job for an experienced entrepreneur. Consulting is a generic term which means I'm doing whatever needs to be done. The best part is I have a slice of ownership in the venture.
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Turning down the Dr. Phil show recently was a very tough one! I have to remember that it was the online/media over-exposure that was the "last straw" in my marriage breakup, amongst many other things.
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In the end it was much more harm than good. Loosing my wife that is.

Having said that... I'm not giving up on my dreams of financial success. God gave me those desires for a reason. Instead I am even more determined to pursue it but in a safer way - even if takes longer. Biggest thing is I must put my loved ones first. For it is because of them, my family and friends, that I want to become financially independent. I'm looking forward to that day when I can share my abundance with them.
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Anyway... this is the last the online world will hear from me for a long long time. All in all, the past year has been some of the craziest times of my life. That's for sure. I thank both the haterz and the supporterz. Everybody played a role.

Syndicatered Hits the Wall

Looks like his estimate of time remaining was a little generous. here we are before October has hit, and he's out of cash.

So on money matters, we exhausted the last of the $ we had from the condo purchase back in December and the rest of the $ from my last paychecks back in March.

Hasn't had a job in six months, and considers cashback at close to be operating expenses. He's everything Casey wishes he were.

If I were to max out my credit cards, I could pull out $15,813.41 with some kickass interest rates of a mere 19.99% on all of them for cash advances. It's really interesting to me to see how much I've grown since I graduated college in the sense that money really used to mess my world up with worrying, stress, and anxiety my entire life because thats what I was taught by my parents. Now that I have set myself on a given path with full understanding and determination to make it a reality whatever the cost I have found myself not stressed, worried or anxious at all because one,I made the decision six months ago to this path and two because change is inevitable in the universe. Without the acceptance of change I am stuck to follow the path of everyone before me who's never given themselves the chance to really do and accomplish what they want in life. So rather than pull the cash from my credit cards I applied for an unsecured loan with Bank of America, one of the banking entities that I have been fucked over by in the past for over $1200. So in my time of need, BOA stepped up 100% off my credit score and gave me a $50,000 personal loan.

Note to self: Short BofA. But damn, I wish I could borrow money at "only" 19.99% interest. I mean, that's practically free! I wish my mortgage were that low.

Work is going. That's all I can really say for it. We are so close to some really big things we have been working on for a while and they should finally start paying off soon. 6 months, no money, and overwhelming sums of it just out of fingertip reach. On the plus I really have internalized what it is that I am a part of and it shows to everyone I talk to on the phone. People absolutely love dealing with our company because myself and two partners always make people laugh and enjoy themselves in an otherwise tense and stressful work capacity.

I love this. We're tantalizingly close to closing 12 trillion dollars in commercial loans. If only we can borrow another $50,000 to burn through in the next six months, I'm sure we'll make $500 million in commissions.

Oh, and they're not laughing with you.