There is an issue for the investor of being unsecured for that time frame or longer.  

Typical equity build up time is 5 years, depending on your market.But can you purchase another rental using your own capital?

I can imagine this is a challenging decision to make.My thoughts:When hope is a key component of the plan of action, it is time to cut losses.

In my seven years of investing, I’ve only partnered with my wife and my father and have no plans to change that any time soon. 

It's basically built on top of WordPress core and they made it simple and easy to navigate.Where in wordpress, you have to get some plugins (some are also monthly paid) to achieve the same kind of functionality.SEO is not just about having a good hosting/platform and features, it's about utilizing the features in a way so your brand has visibility and people that come into your website gets proper value of their time spent.Here's a table comparison for you that I wrote earlierNow whether you have a carrot or a wordpress site, for SEO, you will need:- Website Credibility (Personalisation)- On Page SEO (Keywords, Titles, Meta Tags, Description, Image ALT Tags & Optimization etc)- Social Media Presence (Regular Posts/Videos and Engaging with your audience)- Monthly Content Publishing (Regular Blogs & Location Pages)- Monthly OFF Page SEO (Citations, Backlinks)Now if you consider the cost, end of the day it's quite same for both the platforms.But if you are starting fresh, I see no point of having their 180$ plan, you can continue with 89$/month plan from carrot and assign someone in your team to put regular blog posts and update the location pages.Or if you want to use WordPress and get someone setup the website and do regular content updates for you, then It can take 3-6 months to start seeing visible growth in organic traffic if all the things mentioned above are taken care of.

Monty, take a small amount of time to work on your credit daily.

Again, I used my parents but this time only as lenders of part of the money for the down payment.

Limiting factors on purchasing the property are EM (5% on $10M is $500k of your own cash you're putting at risk), needing a net worth of guarantors to equal the loan amount and last but not least, finding enough capital who's willing to invest with a first time investor.

Their layouts can be not appealing at times.

Getting an LLC in place from the start can provide peace of mind and give you a chance to familiarize yourself with the process before expanding your portfolio.