Gene Steinberg's Financial Shenanigans @ Paracast forums

goblin

Noble

Every now and then, even after months of following this crap, it hits me how bizarre all this is.

If I'm not mistaken, he's asked for money at least once a day since 8/31, and more than once a day on two of those days. That we know of.

He titles the email today, "Thursday emergency!" What is the emergency? Where is this emergency?

Yesterday he wailed about his bank accounts and PayPal account being close to zero. Less than 24 hours later he notes he's paid the motel again (is he really paying by day? why for God's sake? why not get a weekly rate? he certainly makes it sounds as though no move out is imminent), and paid a monthly fee for his storage unit. He really just magicked that money up?

He just asks for money because he wants money. For what it's worth I do believe that he, his wife and their dog have been living a life they find miserable in a motel room for months now. I still just can't get over how this guy operates (and how he defends it and justifies it!). I can imagine appealing for money in some dire circumstances once maybe, something I'd never hope to reach but, I know it can happen to anyone. But for Gene, it's every day. It's his life. I know this. You know this. Yet sometimes the whole thing still boggles my mind.
 
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Standingstones

Celestial
You have to wonder if Steinberg even reads the crap he puts out. He is in crisis one day then miraculously funds appear to stave off another couple days of being put out on the street. We all know he will never be bounced out on his ass but it does make for amusing reading sometimes.
 

GhostofBiedny

Celestial
Every now and then, even after months of following this crap, it hits me how bizarre all this is.

If I'm not mistaken, he's asked for money at least once a day since 8/31, and more than once a day on two of those days. That we know of.

He titles the email today, "Thursday emergency!" What is the emergency? Where is this emergency?

Yesterday he wailed about his bank accounts and PayPal account being close to zero. Less than 24 hours later he notes he's paid the motel again (is he really paying by day? why for God's sake? why not get a weekly rate? he makes it sounds as though no move out is imminent), and paid a monthly fee for his storage unit. He really just magicked that money up?

He just asks for money because he wants money. For what it's worth I do believe that he, his wife and their dog have been living a life they find miserable in a motel room for months now. I still just can't get over how this guy operates (and how he defends it and justifies it!). I can imagine appealing for money in some dire circumstances once maybe, something I'd never hope to reach but, I know it can happen to anyone. But for Gene, it's every day. It's his life. I know this. You know this. Yet sometimes the whole thing still boggles my mind.

For all we know he may be paying weekly to get a lower rate, but telling us that he is paying daily or every couple of days in order to squeeze more sympathy and hence more money out of people.

Even if his situation is really miserable, it is all his own fault and only he can change it. It is quite clear that the main problem is Gene's own unwillingness to budget or live within his means - it seems it is something he just refuses to do.

If you can't do that then it doesn't matter if you get a million dollars a month - you will still end up broke - just look at what happens to celebrities and other people who get lots of money, go around spending like crazy and end up bankrupt.

We know Gene has been declared bankrupt at least twice (that we know of), he has multiple loans judgments against him (going back to the early 90s) and if he is to be believed he has been in rent arrears for a large part of the last 12 years.

Yet still, despite all the contributions people have made to him (some being quite large) and all the promises he has made to get his life in order he changes nothing.

As others have said before the way he moves to more and more luxurious accomodation every time with what seems like no ability or intention to pay rent is actually a form of squatting.

In fact I posted a video of a news report about this very problem a while back.

The stories they showed there sounded exactly like Gene. The landlords in those cases were not rich mustachioed caricatures wearing top hats. They were real people who had scrimped and saved to buy property so they could have something to give them income in retirement. They ended up in financial difficulty themselves because of the freeloaders refusing to pay rent.

There was little they could do legally as squatting is considered a civil matter so they would have to pay to bring legal action and that would leave them further out of pocket with no guarantee of ever receiving any money back. Even the whole eviction process takes time (and hence money) something which people like Gene take advantage of.

So honestly the motel is the best place for Gene. He has chosen to be there. He can't squat there at all. One missed payment and he is out.

It may be miserable but it may be the only way to force him into being honest and protecting unwitting landlords.
 

Standingstones

Celestial
“It may be miserable but it may be the only way to force him into being honest and protecting unwitting landlords.”

The words ‘honest’ and ‘Steinberg’ don’t go together.

If you knew for sure that you would be out on the street with nowhere to go, wouldn’t you seek government assistance to have food and shelter for your family. Steinberg utterly refuses to do that. That tells me he isn’t in as bad of shape as he lets on. I love that he whines about the wicked motel managers who won’t cut him any slack on the rent payment.

By the way, if you can’t help Steinberg yourself, send the help plea to a friend or relative! Right Gene, I don’t want those people hating me.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Wheredidtheroadgo is by far the best podcast there is. Check it out.

Agreed. Like it but I lost track of it a while ago. When I saw Castle-Yankee54's avatar it reminded me of that podcast (and the podcast artwork that popped up at the time) and I was wondering if that was Seriah.
 

GhostofBiedny

Celestial
I would literally rather be buried up to my neck in huntsman spiders than forward those friggin' chain mail cons to anyone.

I really can't imagine anyone in existence, no matter how naive, ignorant or just plain dim they may be, would pass these messages on to others.

Adding this request on to the messages makes the whole thing look more like a scam and somehow makes the whole thing more offensive too.

It still strikes me as extremely bizarre that Gene can't even understand that.

It's like he is so desperate to get any money, anyhow, that he is blinded to things that will actually sabotage his own efforts to do so.

I suppose the ramping up of the message frequency is another example of this.

I have previously contemplated that perhaps some unconscious part of his mind understands what he is doing is wrong and is actively sabotaging him.

- I don't know maybe I'm just reading too much into it and he is simply so socially inept that he truly has no understanding of how things seem to other people.
 
Someone will post the full text but the new solicitation is a doozy. So I love this new angle and I, for one, totally think the hotel used this incident as an excuse to kick his ass to the curb.

Given how he's treated staff my guess is they want him out bad and that little furball gave them the perfect reason. Also did you all notice how Anders may not finish until next week? The deadline keeps creeping and that's def the next money grab from him.
 

goblin

Noble
Teddy Bear turned vicious!

SchemeGeneRC on Twitter

(it is so hard to know what to believe when Gene is the one telling the story but, Teddy Bear is of a breed that seems pretty harmless to me... not sure we've ever seen a pic of him though?)
 

Wade

Stare..... They are always staring
The thing is I would think Teddy's a sweetie but you'd think from the way Gene describes him he sounds like a pit bull on speed. I think I would have just punted him across the interstate to next week if he so much as growled at me.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
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GhostofBiedny

Celestial
Here it is:

No, it wasn't Teddy Bear's fault!
Hi,

So Barbara, and I and Teddy Bear have to leave the motel Saturday, due to a weird incident in the front office on Wednesday.

It all started when I was extending the reservation, with Teddy Bear in tow on his leash, when a man came in.

Typical of Teddy Bear, he walked towards him, tail wagging rapidly, barking for attention. With a bit of reassurance from me, every other person who has been approached by Teddy Bear allowed him to come close, at which time he’d make friends.

Teddy Bear loves people!

This time, the man started screaming loudly and incoherently at Teddy Bear, so I pulled him away on the leash.

The man then yelled at me, threatening physical violence. Management took him away and tried to mollify him.
The next day, the front office insisted I come on, at which point one of the managers handed me a letter saying we had to leave because our dog threatened that man.

This is the sort of he said/he said issue that’s hardly worth disputing. It’s just a motel after all.

So we found a slightly better deal at another place. With two carloads of stuff, and Barbara still feeling less than well, it means a long, tiresome process to pack everything up and move to another motel.

I’m trying to put together enough cash on hand to cover the new reservation. We’re running short again.

Anders, our web developer/marketing person, is still busy finishing up work on the upgraded YouTube channel and the Paracast site. It’s taking longer than I hoped, but he promises we will most launch by weekend or maybe a day or two later.

In the meantime, are you able to help me survive for a few more days?


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