I really don't respect landlords who look for any reason to keep security deposit money.I also think it's unrealistic and unfair to expect tenants to never hang anything on the walls. 

I do think it is unrealistic to assume you will not have a vacancy of more than 30 days.

They also may just have an unrealistic idea of value, as FSBOs.  

While evaluating duplexes and single family homes in the Tampa Bay, FL area (From Clearwater/St Pete out to Lakeland), I've received feedback from a local agent that finding a property yielding a 12% COC return in the greater Tampa Bay (Florida) area is unrealistic.

There are properties where the asking price was unrealistic for a long time.

I know that the market is a little unrealistic as far as most home prices but I figured of the market tanks which no one can predict that I can still hold on to the property and the market will eventually come back up.

Are my expectations unrealistic?

Most of the people who have trouble here are the people that try to nickel and dime the pm too much or have unrealistic expectations.

to the batch of them, which obviously isn't generally going to happen, and then this wonky mix of unrealistic expectations ends up on you and your agent's lap as the buyer. 

I'm just wondering whether I set my expectations unrealistically, or if people have found other companies to be more inclined to talk, in depth, to potential investors?