Casey Konstantin Serin (born September 10, 1982 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan) is a former real estate speculator and blogger. In a newspaper article, USA Today called him the "poster child for everything that went wrong in the real estate boom".[1] Serin immigrated to America in 1994. In his early twenties, Serin worked as a web developer, but then decided to quit this job to pursue his dream of becoming financially independent through real estate investments. Beginning in October 2005 and continuing through the following year, Serin purchased eight houses in four southwest U.S. states, and then began blogging about the foreclosure[2] process on the properties he was unable to resell. In time, six of the eight properties foreclosed.[3]
As for his real estate investments, Serin acknowledged to the Sydney Morning Herald that "the stuff I did is technically mortgage fraud, but it’s not officially called that until someone prosecutes me and proves that that is indeed mortgage fraud," [4] asserting a presumption of innocence. On the Jon Ronson show, Serin confirmed his use of so-called "liar loans".[5] On July 11, 2007, Serin disclosed that he was under investigation by the FBI.[6]. In an interview conducted by ABC News, his attorney reported that Casey Serin is under investigation by the FBI, but "no charges have been brought against Mr. Serin. However, based upon conversations with the U.S. attorney’s office in California, federal charges related to Mr. Serin’s real estate transactions are expected to be brought against him" [7].
After staying offline for a few months, Casey Serin has resurfaced as a partner of Damion Lupo (author of Maverick Mistakes in Real Estate) on ForeclosureHelpBook.com. This partnership dissolved in October 2007. Casey resurfaced with a new blog, EscapeMyHouse.com, which was taken offline in November 2007. He most recently (January 29, 2008) started and then stopped a blog based on his information on gold stocks, most specifically GoldSpring (GSPG) called MillionaireByChristmas.com. This site has gone thru numerous edits, some within minutes. His latest blog TrueCasey.com continues themes from his previous blogs, including publishing a foreclosure book and detailing his investment into GoldSpring.
palestine4ever: Hey Luke
palestine4ever: I still get no video here.
palestine4ever: Which is, of course, in keeping with the prohibition against graven images
palestine4ever: So for once I feel more holy than you are.
palestine4ever: I must admit…
palestine4ever: It’s kind of scary that you could out an anonymous jewgirl with just 1 blog post to go on.
YourMoralLeader: my powers of investigative journalism scare even me
palestine4ever: Just remember: use them only for good.
YourMoralLeader: how are the jews treating you?
palestine4ever: Eh, you know
palestine4ever: Always trying to keep a brother down.
palestine4ever: I must admit, I’ve been cheating on you.
palestine4ever: Once Casey Serin began blogging again, I just couldn’t resist.
palestine4ever: I can’t help but to wonder what would happen if the two of you were in the same room.
palestine4ever: It’d be unholy, like flying a kite at night.
palestine4ever: caseypedia.com = about him, truecasey.com = his new blog
palestine4ever: Yes, there’s an entire wiki devoted to him
palestine4ever: and of course, i thought of creating lukepedia.com myself
palestine4ever: but it would be nicer than that
palestine4ever: hay wait
palestine4ever: Casey lives in Sacramento
palestine4ever: he’s part of some weird baptist russian community
palestine4ever: i bet you two would get along great
palestine4ever: except for the urge you’d have to punch him every few minutes
YourMoralLeader: I am not a crook
palestine4ever: but you’re both vegetarians too
palestine4ever: you could have smoothies and talk about being bloggers
palestine4ever: it’d be like the old days with Matt and Emmanuelle, only with a 26 year old boi with a murse rather than a hot chick and her intelligent husband
