Since this will be our first long distance investment it feels like we're starting brand new and would love advice for first time long distance investors.

@Ty Coutts I agree it's to high , searching for new lenders or PML , I didn't account for maintenance because it was basically a full gut , everything is brand new. 

I believe local investors, agents, lenders, property managers, and contractors all have valuable insights, especially for someone brand new to Real Estate like my self.

Let's say I were to secure a NNN with a high rated national brand and qualify for the 30 year amortization as mentioned by @Joel Owens.

@Austin Tessyes, you can get a loan to do a flip, but flipping still requires your own cash - it's typically impossible for a brand new investor to borrow an amount that covers all of the costs of a flip.  

My girlfriend and I plan on selling our 2 properties and finance brand new construction house in Vegas.

I am brand new to real estate investing and still trying to learn as much as possible.

The first book I ever wrote was about Excel when it was brand new!

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.As @Todd Heitner mentioned, 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 earlier:Now 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)- Monthly Content Publishing (Regular Blogs & Location Pages)- Monthly OFF Page SEO (Citations, BacklinksNow 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.

It's brand new (even though they did it 2 years ago).