@Chris Faye i'd like to hear more as well 

STRs need to be viewed from a 365 day lens so if the numbers work well then, you still can be successful.

I have a call out to my accountant as well. :)

My accountant was lazy, not well informed and provided bad advice.

Those are spray and pray techniques that don't fit with sellers right now because sellers/owners are sitting on a very low rate and don't want to move to go up 4-5 points on their rate.Listings aren't a start now thing as well.

I would look into assets that are non-correlated to the stock market or real estate, as well as tax advantaged assets to help shelter your income. 

It's a good time to review markets, but living in China there are a lot of other closer, international markets that could be options as well.

It was a personal referral, received a credit at closing for renovations as well How did you finance this deal?

We host RE meet-ups as well.

Even if you only averaged 2.8% appreciation annually, which if you've had it 20 years I have no clue how that's true given prices have well more than doubled in that time, youre skipping over the fact that you have been benefiting from that appreciation on the ENTIRE house, not just the % you paid for.