If my intentions were to benefit myself at the expense of others than I could use the lease option strategy to do that.

You are losing thousands of dollars a month in potential rents and actual expenses.

Trust your plan.

They are expensive.

Profits during the partnership can be shared based on the agreed equity split, with income and expenses reported via K-1 forms. 

There is a designer sofa bed in the living room with a queen bed with a comfortable mattress in it and it was pretty expensive.

The LA fires will drive rates up for everyone and is now a major line item expense.

I currently live in Butte, Mt but plan on moving to Phoenix, Az for 6 months out of the year.

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.

Are you planning to use those funds as a downpayment for the purchase of the investment property in the US?