Wordpress on Linode for $5/month with the STR theme you choose.

Great post 1000% agree with everything that you discussed.I have also made posts with similar theme (ie.

Cashflow was great except in the beginning where I had a small negative Cashflow for about 2 years.Anyway, it's a long story and I'll leave it up to the readers.The theme here is to really understand the Math about what you are doing.

Find or pay to have a theme built (hope it converts visitors into leads well... most don't)Get hosting (most use really low grade sub $10/mo shared hosting)Come up w/ the proper content strategy (most don't have the experience to structure the content correctly to perform well or be a benefit for SEO)Write that contentAdd a bunch of plugins (which often times increase chance of vulnerability by hackers or slow things down... but all require the site owner to maintain the plugins)Dial the site in on mobile (most WP themes don't perform well converting visitors to leads on mobile, at any given time we're running 10-20 split tests across dozens of sites improving performance on our platform)Run split tests to continually increase performanceSetup your analytics correctly (we make it easy or use our built in analytics)Continue to update themes, plugins, WP (which isn't hard, it's very easy as you know... but many people don't want to do that)Keep up on the SEO trends / market trends (which we help our clients stay ahead of)etc. etc. etc.  100% anyone can use free or cheap tools to rank well in Google and in the case of a WP site... the simple fact of it being WP doesn't contribute to it ranking well at all.  

I know where they take the test because I ran the Med School Basketball League for 2 years at my college, so I know 100s of Medical Students/Residents, I know the processes.

Starbucks cards seem to be a recurring theme in this thread.

I've dealt with a few, basically the overall theme was realtors didn't understand their home and what it was worth so they were going to price it right and sell it themselves. 

The ME TOO agents make the occasional sale and eek out a living at 50k a year. 

( In case I have a missed connection or you'd just like to connect, feel free to reach out - I am the CO RE broker who specializes in STR/Vacation & Investment properties + owns a unique themed STR :)

We went to support immediately, and were first told that they were just 90 day suspensions when the notice clearly said permanent.