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john -lrb- gspg.ob -rrb- perez , mike muzio , ira , goldspring tashkent , uzbek ssr , soviet union 200px 10 september 1982 real estate speculation , blogging sacramento , california , usa casey serin.jpg casey serin
 casey konstantín serin former real estate investor
casey serin

casey konstantin serin -lrb- born september 10 , 1982 -rrb- is an uzbek-born american blogger and a former real estate investor .
in a newspaper article , `` usa today '' called him the `` poster child for everything that went wrong in the real estate boom '' .
born in tashkent , uzbekistan , serin immigrated to the united states in 1994 .
after graduating from high school , serin bounced from job to job , generally working in website design .
however , in his early twenties , serin decided to quit working full-time in order to pursue a career in house flipping as a means of earning an income and building wealth .
in an eight-month period beginning in october 2005 , serin purchased eight houses in four southwest u.s. states , and then began blogging about the foreclosure process on the properties he was unable to resell .
in time , five of the eight properties foreclosed .
the dubious nature of serin 's real estate transactions , coupled with his subsequent blogging about the affair , have led to serin 's name becoming strongly associated with the subprime mortgage crisis .
