Casey Serin

From Encyclopedia Dramatica

Trump 2.0

Casey Serin lives out the American Dream as advertised on those "zero-down" home-loan get-rich-quick infomercials. At 24 years old, he, a hot-shot Californian Web 2.0 developer, quit his day-job and bought eight houses within eight months with non-traditional loans.

His success ended thereafter as he failed to successfully "flip" any of the properties. Apparently, lending institutions are not doing it for the lulz and expected Casey to pay the mortgages. Subsequently, the respective lending companies started foreclosure proceedings on all of his properties and, in the authentic Web 2.0 Californian douche-bag style, Casey started a blog to chronicle the process.

1 HALP ME INTERNETZ!!!
2 Pwned by family
3 Quitting the internets
4 Not quitting the internets
5 Links

[edit] HALP ME INTERNETZ!!!

Don't h8 the player, h8 the real-estate market.

I Am Facing Foreclosure turned out to be an exemplar of how financially and generally immature a 24-year-old male can be, rather than a reference for anyone else going through foreclosure. From how he managed to rack-up $200,000 in credit-card debt traveling from property to property, to a squatter living in one of "his" houses and to his eternal love for Jamba Juice smoothies with shots of wheat-grass, Casey and his blog represent the wider cognitive dissonance between actual wealth and entitlement that will make America bankrupt by 2015. [

Casey earns $50 from his Haterz™.

Through his actions, Casey is the lolcow of the west-coast house flippers. For years he dealt with his problems by sleeping past noon, throwing away his mail unopened, and making grandiose plans to get "sweet passive income" from his blog, investments, fake corporation, MOAR real estate, and his lame DaVinci Code ripoff book. At one point he ran off to Australia to "pursue business opportunities" (read: suck cock for airfare) while his finances disintegrated and his bitch wife contemplated murder. Meanwhile, "haterz" and "supporterz" tore each other apart in the comments, trying to determine whether Casey is a con artist or just the dumbest man alive. About the only people for whom Casey doesn't provide massive lulz are those who are losing their houses because of actual problems, not because they thought they could be 1337 real-estate moguls like all those guys on HGTV and TLC.

The only job Casey can get.

At present, Casey is sleeping on his Mom's couch, his wife has divorced him, he is over half a million dollars in debt, under investigation by the FBI, hasn't paid his 2006 or 2007 taxes, is unemployed, unemployable (thanks, Google!), broke, and eager to help people in need by dispensing his formula for success to the highest bidder. Some haterz™ have proposed to help him out of his financial difficulties by paying him to eat live bugs on webcam.

[edit] Pwned by family

In what must be a new low for humanity (but lulzy for the rest of us), Casey's younger brother Steve called Casey's "talkcast" show and let him have it to the delight of Haterz everywhere:

“	Casey, in a sense you're a homeless guy with a computer, man. You're doing the same thing a homeless guy does, only difference is you have a computer so it's easier for you to beg.	„
—Casey's brother Steve

[edit] Quitting the internets

~~Unfortunately,~~ Casey ~~announced that on August 3rd, 2007, he was going to LOL QUIT THE INTERNET FOREVER~~ ~~LOL QUIT THE INTERNET FOREVER on 29 July 2007~~ ~~LOL RETURNED TO THE INTERNET on 6 October 2007~~ ~~LOL was fired by his partner and LEFT THE INTERNET FOREVER on 06 November 2007~~ ~~LOL RETURNED with a new blog on 09 November 2007~~ ~~LOL LEFT THE INTERNET FOREVER on 17 November 2007~~ ~~LOL RETURNED with a new blog on 29 January 2008~~ ~~LOL LEFT THE INTERNET FOREVER on 30 January 2008~~ ~~LOL RETURNED with a new site and a new scam on 22 July 2008~~ ~~LOL took it down again a week later~~ LOL returned with a new blog on 8 August 2008. Once the kid makes a decision, he really sticks with it!

[edit] Not quitting the internets

Wormsign was observed on July 22nd, 2008, when Casey resurrected his site Escape My House to herald a new get-rich-quick scam. On a Haterz™ talkcast the previous week, Casey had called in and mentioned his plans to sell the ebook for $80. Since a) ebooks are usually much cheaper than the printed kind, b) nobody buys ebooks anyway, c) writing a book requires "work," an alien concept to Casey, and d) he doesn't have the slightest idea what he's talking about in the first place, this, too, will be short-lived and take its place in his legendary collection of Fail.

On the talkcast, he mentioned that he had abandoned his job search because he realized that he really didn't want a job. He is living with his parents, his wife left him, he has only a high-school education, is around $600,000 in debt, hasn't filed his 2006 or 2007 taxes, probably faces Federal indictments in the next six months, is almost completely broke, has utterly trashed credit, and refuses to work -- in other words, precisely the sort of businessman that can charge $80 for his secrets to success and riches.

Casey took Escape My House down shortly thereafter, but came back with his new blog TrueCasey a couple weeks later on August 8th. His stated plan is to produce an Escape My House e-book (probably retitled Escape My Mortgage) and sell it online. Casey tends to get sidetracked easily, and in the first weeks of the project progress has been, at best, sporadic. Somewhere, Casey has acquired a new video camera, still camera, and laptop; he soon figured out it was easier to just videotape a days' blog entry rather than write it. Within days, this led to an entry over 35 minutes long.