Pass the Hookah

Syndicatered has been smoking the serious stuff.

So between the last time I wrote and now we have taken on a third business partner who is now a part of our company and we have I think some 21 trillion dollars in business we are dealing with finding a home for. Yes trillion. That does not include the commercial properties we are working with. Out of that 21 trillion we already have buyers lined up for at least 17 trillion of it. I am moving up my personal goals to making $500 million before Christmas, thats personal $ separate from my other two business partners.

Wow, pass the hookah! I wonder what the GDP of the US is? Well, according to the CIA world factbook, it's about 13 trillion. The national debt? Something like 9 trillion. This guy is going to "place" well in excess of the national debt and the GDP of the largest nation on earth.

Some simple skepticism would serve this guy well. "Gee, is it realistic that a single client of some shady commercial loan guru could learn in a single weekend how to loan out more money than the US has borrowed in the last 50 years?"

The best piece of wisdom I have come across in my life was to position myself where the most amount of $ flows through and open your arms to it.

I need a new car, so I went walking on the freeway with my arms wide. Instead of a new car, I got arrested! Cop said I was lucky I wasn't killed. So I guess that's not the right answer for cars. Must work for cash, though.

Casey's "Final" Haterzcast Emails

Casey Has Jumped The Shark posted (on caseyhaterz.com) an email conversation with Casey in preparation for the final Haterzcast. Here are two emails he says Casey wrote:

I talked with my wife about the hater cast. First talking with my wife is a very rare occasion and very painful, but when I finally got her to give me some feedback she said if i do go on I should do NO SPINNING though she highly doubts I will be able to do that.

So I propose to have the first/last NO-SPIN cast. I know I know...
IS THAT POSSIBLE? Well since I will be in "hater territory" and will not have mute ability I will be forced to answer some tough questions. However, if people are being unreasonable or I simply don't want to talk about it I want to be able to skip it. however, if I DO answer I am NOT allowed to SPIN anything. I will do my best. I have nothing to lose. The blog is gone, I don't care about any "story" anymore.

Here are the subjects I want to address:

• how much I sold the blog for
• how I waffled about what I'm going to do with the money and how I started to consider shiny things instead of following through my promise
• how I came to my sense and decided to do the right things with the money
• how I started to waffle AGAIN
• what is the status of the money now
• what is the status on paying off G's cards
• what happend to traffic ticket
• what happend to my deal with Mark and attorney fees its costing me
• what is happening with FBI and criminal defense
• what is my plan for employment
• what is my plan for business, etc...
• address the page marriage issues as truthfully as possible

Answer any other questions.

KEEP IN MIND ABOUT DUANE: I DO NOT want to talk to that guy. I dont' care if he listens to the cast but I will not talk to him. I have ZERO respect for him and will not waste any energy on him.

Let me know

--
Casey Serin

Other things I will have to cover by the request of my wife and also because I should set the record straight in light of the no-spin cast:

• I am a lier and manipulator (not outright lies but often half-truths)
• I trick myself into thinking gray is OK. There is definitely gray areas out there but not as much as I'd like to think and I should always stay on the white as much as possible.
• I have been wanting to divorce on and off for the first 2 years of marriage but have been too chicken to do it myself. Through my behavior I left Galina a long time ago. I guess I left her as soon as we got married. I left her for my business and my financial goals and other goals.
• I was pressuring her during Australia trip to go ahead and get a separation or a divorce because I wanted to be able to change my name without getting her permission. The reason for the name change is a new "shiny object" - there is a way to get a brand new credit file by changing my name and doing a few other things, which I was told are not illegal but sure sound "gray".
• I am a big hypocrite when I use bible quotes or make spiritual references making it seem like I have it all together with God but when I am often living in sin by trampling on my own marriage with my separatist attitude.
• The last post where I wrote a message to my wife, although started out as no-spin and genuine, still turned into a spin and besides if it was truly a message to my wife I should not have posted it publicly

Man, that's a lot of hard stuff to admit but I have to start somewhere. So on the talkcast I can talk about each statement.

Final Sharkcast Summaries

Link to all sharkcasts
Over on caseyhaterz.com, many listeners "live blogged" the call. Some highlights:

• The name Hammar was chosen because it sounded Iraqi
• Casey took some of his borrowed money and invested in gold mines and in "rare" gold coins - 3 coins at $1000 per.
• He got the idea to do the corporation thing from "people on the internet". No word if he also is rescuing a Nigerian widow from certain poverty.
• Before finally deciding to use most of the $50,000 from selling the blog to pay off Galina's credit cards, he talks about using the cash to get a "collateral loan" to launch more pie-in-the-sky investment ideas.
• Talked about the "date" he had while he was on a break from Galina in summer '06
• Talks about changing his name, apparently so he can have a fresh credit history. Because banks and credit agencies haven't thought of that loophole.
• The Australia trip started to go south [sorry, couldn't resist] when his host failed to inform the host's fiancee about the extended visit.
• Doing traffic school for the speeding ticket
• The Canadian supporterz is angry that Casey shut down after taking the $1000 for Australia
• Wants to buy Galina a car so he can have sweet vdubs

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.