List of Casey Serin media coverage
From CaseyPedia
In reverse chronological order.
- Real Estate Leaves One Investor High and Dry
- ABC News: Nightline, July 27th 2007
- Tales of woe: Foreclosure "expert" to publish book
- Sacramento Bee, June 26th 2007
- A short, puffy piece on local antihero Serin.
- Jon Ronson On... Crushed Egos
- BBC Radio 4, June 19th 2007; interview recorded May 2007
- A mocking look at Serin's story. No longer available online; transcript.
- Q&A with the 'world's most hated blogger'
- smh.com.au, June 19th 2007
- Accompanying video to the SMH article.
- Blogger learns how to monetise hate
- Sydney Morning Herald, June 19th 2007
- Ostensibly supportive, but slyly critical ("increasingly bizarre") article on Serin's notoriety.
- Elbujdokolt a világ leggyűlöletesebb bloggere
- Index, June 18th 2007
- Hungarian article on Serin.
- Utah bucks foreclosure rate in U.S.
- Salt Lake Tribune, June 15th 2007
- Short mention of Serin and his Utah property within a broader article.
- El mundo contra mí
- Clarín, June 14th 2007
- Argentinian newspaper report on Serin. (Google Translate)
- World's 'Most Hated Blogger' Flees US, Threatens to Sue Haterz
- MarketingVOX, June 14th 2007
- Rehash of the CNET News article.
- Hated blogger leaves U.S., threatens lawsuits
- CNET News, June 12th 2007
- McCullagh's third article on Serin, describing the outing of Stewart and Serin's flight to Australia.
- McCullagh added a followup comment dismissing claims that Serin was a lonelygirl15-esque stunt.
- Interviewing Serin, the blogger people love to hate
- CNET News, June 12th 2007
- McCullagh's telephone interview with Serin and "publisher" Marty Stewart.
- Making money by driving readers nuts
- Spokesman Review, June 11th 2007
- Short piece on the IAFF shutdown and revival.
- Login required; full story on printer-friendly page.
- Two followups on Spokesman Review's Blogspotter blog: Casey Serin gets under everyone's skin eventually, June 11th 2007; "Hated blogger" Serin speaks from undisclosed location, June 13th 2007.
- Notorious debtor Casey Serin shuts down blog
- CNET News.com, June 1st 2007
- McCullagh's second article on Serin.
- Casey Serin: The world's most hated blogger?
- CNET News.com, May 14th 2007
- Declan McCullagh's first article on Serin; critical, and scores an interview with Galina.
- McCullagh added a few extra details in a followup comment; also an accompanying podcast discussing the story.
- Real estate short sales: "win-win" or reward for failure to live within one's means?
- San Francisco Chronicle, May 4th 2007
- A brief mention of Serin's failed short-sale attempts: "the personification of an over-leveraged real estate market."
- Real Estate Leaves One Investor High and Dry
- ABC News Nightline, April 13th 2007
- Article accompanying Serin's Nightline appearance. Largely sympathetic to Serin: "It's kind of like speeding on the freeway. Everybody does it."
- An diesem Haus hängt unser Wohlstand
- Stern, April 12th 2007
- Serin mentioned in page 2 of this German article on the US housing decline. (Google Translate)
- From the Top: April
- Scotsman Guide, April 2007
- A brief followup on Serin's "permanent residence in the land of shortsighted investments."
- America's housing market: Cracks in the façade
- The Economist, March 22nd 2007
- A brief mention of Serin as a hook for an article on the subprime crisis.
- Central Valley Man Poster Child of Mortgage Crisis
- CBS 5 Eyewitness News, March 7th 2007
- Homeowners stuck as lenders cinch standards
- USA Today, March 4th 2007
- A brief followup mention of Serin in an article on tightening mortgage guidelines.
- Say Everything
- New York Magazine, February 12th 2007
- Serin mentioned in page 5 of a long piece about openness on the Internet. "If I shut down, I’m at the mercy of what other people say."
- Investor's tale of woe winning big audience
- Sacramento Bee, January 24th 2007
- An uncritical puff piece.
- Now expired from sacbee.com; copy of article at EN.
- Truth or Consequence
- Scotsman Guide, January 2007
- Serin used as a case study for mortgage fraud.
- As bubble sags, market critics are busting out
- San Francisco Chronicle, November 5th 2006
- Serin's "massive real estate failures" mentioned in an article on bubble bloggers.
- Mortgage fraud -- the worst crime no one's heard of
- San Francisco Chronicle, October 29th 2006
- "Notorious real estate loser Casey Serin" mentioned in an article on cashback mortgage fraud.
- 10 mistakes that made flipping a flop
- USA Today, October 22nd 2006
- Detailed description of Serin's "mistakes".
- Loose Credit Standards Boost Real Estate Woes
- NPR Morning Edition, October 19th 2006
- Going, Going, Trying to Go Green
- New York Times, October 14th 2006
- Round-up article briefly mentions Serin and IAFF in the wake of the Motley Fool coverage.
- Bankrupt? Desperate? Blog for sympathy
- The Globe and Mail, October 13th 2006
- Another early article on Serin: "by turns contrite, clear-eyed and apparently nuts." Maybe the first story to focus on the haterz: "like contestants before a dunk tank."
- No spin is used as blog describes downward spiral
- San Francisco Chronicle, October 8th 2006
- Detailed profile of Serin: "a sucker for every real estate myth."
- 24 Years Old, $2 Million in the Hole
- Motley Fool, September 25th 2006
- An early, critical piece on Serin: "greed makes you stupid."
- My Life Is an Open Blog
- Voice of San Diego, September 22nd 2006
- A short early story on IAFF. "I don't like the word flipping because it makes it sound like you're doing something illegal."
