Forget about appreciation - it's impossible to predict.

I have been doing my accounting on Excel and find that it is impossible to set it up properly.

In an additional six cities – Fresno, California; Jacksonville, Florida; Kansas City, Missouri; Los Angeles; New Orleans; and Santa Barbara, California – restrictions on legal operation are such that STR is practically impossible, though theoretically legal under very narrow circumstances."

However, finding these properties at the right price is close to impossible.

Buying a fully turnkey property and getting a "great return" at today's prices and interest rates is going to be near-impossible.

If you keep rolling one 1031 exchange into another until your time on Earth is up, you will not only have deferred taxes on your gains each time, but you will have accomplished the seemingly impossible: avoiding taxes altogether.

Getting financing on condos in general these days is nearly impossible, let alone a 55+ condo.

Without that statement it is kind of impossible to to report the rental income and expenses on your tax return. 

Living in California does make it difficult, but not impossible.

I recall telling them that's impossible