NO DEAL!!! (Fifth anniversary edition)

"Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny"

- Bruce Springsteen

Hard to believe, but it's been five years since Casey originated the innovative "NO DEAL!" maneuver in contract negotiations.

Reading through that original post, we are struck with how empty it all seems now. At the time it was so bizarre that it had us laughing out loud at the office as we read through the post and the hundreds of comments that followed. Today, jaded by the five years of Casey's ongoing insanity, we still find it amusing, but it's hardly as funny.

Still, it's nice to read through and see comments by some of our old friends like Stephanie J, ratlab, Ogg the Caveman and others who made the blog so interesting way back when.

It's also been interesting to do some research into the whereabouts of the three parties to the NoDeal-dom:

Casey, of course, we know all too much about. He's hiding out, presumably at his parents' new shithole in Antelope, just outside Sacremento. He doesn't appear to have any internet access or at the very least has been maintaining a low profile. The other events of the past five years of his life have been thoroughly documented and we won't bother to list them here.

Joy O'Day pretty much disappeared. An online search suggests that she went back into the real estate biz. There is one YouTube video of a house that she was apparently trying to sell back in 2009 that lists her phone number. And if the music to go along with that video don't make you want to kill something, then you're a far better person than us.

We also turned up this wonder of a video, purporting to promote something called strengthengine.com, which is a website selling something related to fitness. It's not really clear what it's selling, but there is a one-week free trial if anybody wants to sign up and find out. We don't care to provide Joy and her associates with so much as a throwaway email address.

Also, Joy's personal website is nothing more than a generic Arizona MLS search page, with the addition of a picture of a really hot woman who is clearly not Joy. The LLC that did business with Casey -- Tao Realty -- no longer appears to exist.

Erin Morgan, aka "prlinkbiz" has also disappeared off the face of the earth. We wouldn't be shocked if she switched back to her maiden name, or maybe remarried just to get away from the name she had. Because the happy truth is that the name "Erin Morgan" is completely trashed. Virtually everything you can pull up about her in a search is Casey-related, including lots of embarrassing photos, critical Caseypedia articles, nasty comments on EN, etc.

The website she had managed for Robert Kiyosaki, WorkingForRichDad, went dormant some time back. The other website she managed for Kiyosucki's wife, RichWoman.com, has been folded into the greater Kiyosaki empire and no longer has unique content of its own. Erin's previous association with those sleazeballs presumably ended some time back.

There was a No Limits Ladies website for a while, run by the third NLL, Kimber Chin. It no longer exists and instead forwards to Chin's freephotooftheday website. It is unclear why this one exists at all. Chin, like Casey, has also tried her hand at writing really bad e-books, the design of which could be mistaken for Marty Stewart's handiwork. Some believe that Chin is the woman who was photographed in some rather compromising situations with Erin. We aren't sure, but are reproducing one of these photos here, just in case you haven't seen it. Because we like publishing photos of Erin acting stupid.

It is this third and usually unmentioned NLL, the one who was not part of the NO DEAL with Casey, who remains visible. Perhaps that's fitting, as everybody else who has ever had anything to do with Casey has either voluntarily or involuntarily removed themselves from the internet. (OK, except for Nigel.)

At this point, the NO DEAL is irrelevant. Whatever story Casey may have had to sell five years ago is no longer worth much to him or to anybody who may think they have a claim on it. If a movie were to be made or a book written, it could be done easily using the vast quantity of public information available and without involving Casey at all. Realistically, that's not going to happen. What appeared at the time to be a hysterically funny comedy of errors worthy of treatment, is more rightly seen today as the opening act to ongoing national tragedy. Someday we may look back on this and it may seem funny again, but that day is probably far, far off in the future.

The validity of the "No Deal!" legal maneuver has yet to be tested in any court.

And that's the way things are at the mobile FC headquarters, which is currently buried in the snow.

Thanks Son, We're Broke!

The details are in and it's clear that the Serin parental units have filed a Chapter 13 bankruptcy petition and repayment plan, apparently to avoid foreclosure on their house, trampoline and Casey's guest cell in the basement.

Reading through the filings, it's tough to say how much of the amazing credit card debt is related to Casey, but we believe a significant proportion of it is. Obviously, we have no way of knowing whether it's that debt that pushed them over the edge, or whether it would have happened in any case. But its clear that a chapter in Casey and his family's life is now over. For now, the foreclosure proceedings against them have been stalled, maybe for long enough that his sister will be able to finish high school before they are forced to get out. Life will continue.

Sadly, life will also continue in a manner that allows Casey to mooch for the forseeable future, which is too bad.

The filings:

Bankruptcy filing and attachments

Repayment plan

Repayment order

And that's the way we are at FalseCasey HQ, where we still think it's better to rent right now.

MyParentsAreFacingForeclosure.com

It looks like the end is near for the Serin family's property-owning days. According to the Sacramento Court records, the Notice of Default on their property has been changed to a Notice of Trustee Sale. This typically means that sometime in the next month the guy in the funny hat outside the courthouse will auction off the Serin home, just as he did with one of Casey's properties way back when.

We're not sure what Casey will do then. There has been very little leaking out about this and his Facebook wall has been invisible for some time. There was some discussion in some circles about the fact that Casey's debt was at least 10% of his parents' obligation, and while there's no real corroborating evidence, that seems about right to us. How it might be impacted by a parental bankruptcy is unclear.

Prior to going blank on Facebook, Casey also alluded to possibly traveling and leaving the country for a while. He was discussing WWOOFing as one possibility of getting to the island of his dreams, and also mentioned something about some guy with big plans for an island resort in Fiji who was going to hire him into a great "opportunity." It's unclear if any of this came together.

What is clear is that the Serin parents will be renters for a long time to come, probably in a more modest home which won't have space for a moocher in his own bedroom. Casey's future looks like it'll involve sleeping on the sofa in some 2-bedroom condo where his parents and younger sister each get a room and he gets told that he can have his own space when he gets a job and pays for it.

For Casey this will be a major disaster. Sleeping on the sofa will mean rising at a normal hour with the rest of the family. It'll mean no late-nite blogging and Facebooking. It'll mean no getting high and acting stupid. And it's now winter, so sleeping in his vansion in the inaccessible snow-covered foothills will no longer be an option.

It sucks to be Casey's family in the best of times. While we have our quibbles with the way they've handled the boi, we do wish them well through their hard times. It sucks even more to be Casey though, but at this point we find it difficult to wish him anything but the roughest of times as he has clearly earned them.

Finally, we wonder how Casey missed the opportunity to start a blog about all this?

And that's the way things are at FalseCasey HQ, where we're late but had to stick around long enough to pass this news along.

Casey's Gone

It seems that his firing is for real. This may be the first time in history that Casey has managed to actually throw himself under the bus, though clearly there has been collateral damage to his various associates.

Information we have received suggest that the idea to engage the Haterz™ was entirely his, and was done before he received any permission or even discussed it with his boss. She was dragged in to his world with no prior understanding of what was about to happen, no opportunity to evaluate whether it was a good idea, or even the chance to research what had happened to everybody else who had become a known associate of Casey's, as has been thoroughly documented on Caseypedia™.

As has been noted by others, Casey started two personal blogs last month: BloggerCasey which was all about him, and his boss's blog, which in the end also turned out to be all about him. He sold her a bill of goods and she's paying for it.

As Nigel noted the other day on CHC: "Casey's problem is he blogged about it. He reached out to key people like WWTF and others to make sure everybody knew he was coming back. He went on the talkcast and brought Angel with him. He created BloggerCasey and opened comments. Haterz didn't do any of this. This was all his doing."

Casey is poison because he can't turn off the "I/ME" switch in his head that makes him convinced that every project he's involved in has to involve him as the frontman. As a result, he ends up sabotaging everything he touches.

Our advice to him: Recognize that 99.9% of what you do in the world is not about you. It's about getting stuff done for somebody else. Keep your own name out of it. For everybody else's sake, if not your own.

And that's the view from FalseCasey HQ, where the sun finally came out this afternoon.

Casey's Boss Comes to Her Senses

All evidence of Casey has been expurged from her blog. True, a few pictures remain, but nothing that would show up if you searched on his name. Even the former reference to the "Staff Blogger" is now gone.

It seems that being a Real estate broker, even one with huge fake tits, doesn't make one so dim-witted as to not realize how toxic Casey is or how badly you can get hurt by associating your name with his.

And that's the way things are at FalseCasey HQ, where we're anxiously awaiting the next eruption of Caseyness, which will most likely hit us when we least expect it.

Silence

There's been nothing new since our boi Casey was apparently taken out to the woodshed by his short-sale specialist boss, sometime late last week.

All that has happenned is that he has removed pretty much all comments from her blog as well as his BloggerCasey fiasco, and shut up completely.

We think this is not over here, but who knows? He mentioned something about a financial decision that needed to be made soon, and we suspect that he's running scared. Perhaps he's caught between the desire to blog free and the need to have a paycheck this month. In which case, we say "welcome to the real world Casey," as this is the kind of choice pretty much all of us need to make from time to time.

We strongly suspect that his role has been clarified as "office assistant who also managed the blog and replaces toner cartridges," not "full-time blogger and comment moderator."

Eventually he'll break out. He can't stand not having the publicity.

And we're waiting, watching the blogs (with scripts blocked, of course) and biding our time.

And that's the way it is at FalseCasey HQ, where things are really slow today.

Learn to Park, Bitch!

Yup, that's our favorite Sacramento Fake-titted Caseyboss and short sale specialist, parking her Infiniti sport-bling-vehicle in front of the 9645 Sea Cliff Way house. Note her parking on the wrong side of the street, because parking on the other side of this minor suburban road and walking across, or just turning around, would have been too much trouble. Note her parking in front of a fire hydrant, because, well, we can't find a single plausible justification for that except for simply not giving a shit.

We could be cynics and suggest you also note the license plate on her car and key it if you ever come across it anywhere. But Casey would call us mean. Waaaah!

Also, are we the only ones who find it amusing that the street is "Sea Cliff Way?" Isn't this Sacramento? Isn't the ocean about a hundred miles away?

And you need a locksmith to change out a cylinder on an el-cheapo original lock? How about learning to do something useful for yourself? It's a two minute job for anybody with a screwdriver.

And that's the way it is here at FalseCasey HQ, where we're still waiting for the UPS guy to show up.

Nice to know they understand their own market...

Casey, writing on behalf of his real-estate huckster boss, has posted a video by "Buyer Brad" and notes that:

Brad is fighting multiple offers trying to buy a house in Sacramento in the sub 200K price range. Is the market heating back up or what?

Brad also tells us a little bit about the tax credits he is taking advantage of. Maybe the tax credit is the that's the reason for the activity.

TrueCasey then quizzically asks:

Anybody else experiencing this?

It is sad that he and his sugar-mama don't realize how stupid they look.

After all, this trend has been reported on quite widely, especially since the latest tax credits became law. In the hardes-hit areas (which include all of Sacraento), prices have declined to the point where buyers are coming in. The tax credits are also big enough that in the sub-$200K market, they really make a difference.

Of course, employment is still a shambles, especially in government-heavy places like Sacramento (we voted against the latest tax increases this morning, meaning that more layoffs in CaseyTown are virtually assured), there are still a ton of option-ARMs out there that have not yet reset which will over the next year or two, and the higher-priced regions are just now beginning to feel the real pinch and are likely a 12-18 months behind.

But, back to the main point, none of this is real news. Even the mainstream press has caught on to this, as evidenced by this piece in the LA Times this morning.

But Casey is wondering if this is really going on and whether anybody else has noticed.

Nice way to tell your clients that you know less about the market than anybody who just reads a newspaper occasionally.

We wonder if he even bothered checking with his boss before posting this drivel, supposedly on her behalf. We suspect, that as usual, he didn't.

And that's the view from the FalseCasey HQ, where we are pondering the words of arch-villan Ernst Stavro Bloefeld regarding Bond-girl Tiffany Case: "If only they were brains."