There are a lot of successful people sharing real-world examples and learning together. 

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.

But in reality, nothing ever goes exactly as planed with real estate as there are always surprises- good and bad.

I use excel , but many times I forget to add any expenses and then it messes up the calculations.How do experienced people do it ? 

If this severely impacts real estate prices all the better.  

Quote from @Marcus Everett: Hey Everyone, Marcus here, relatively new to SW Missouri and looking to educate myself in the world of Real Estate investing.

Additionally, develop some real estate metrics so that you may measure markets evenly and objectively. 

The people who stay successfully married put their marriage/family first.  

House hacking and multi-family properties are great ways to start in real estate!

I'm a local youth pastor in MN and I'm looking into getting started in real estate so that I can provide extra income for my growing family.