I recently (Feb 09) built my first ever "to flip" site as a bit of an experiment.

I purchsed the domain at www.namecheap.com for $8.88, added it to my hosting, then installed a basic Wordpress configuration.

I uploaded a few plugins...

• All-in-one SEO
• Sociable
• Google XML Sitemaps

All this took about an hour of real time, I guess. I had already spent a very short amount of time researching some keywords and phrases.

I used...