Unless you move out completely, it’s unrealistic to ask the landlord for money back on 2, 3 days of rent while your stuffs are still at the house.

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.

That is wildly unrealistic.

Tenants are far more demanding, unrealistically so,  than homeowners and this must be considered when making decisions.

In general, the ones to avoid are the ones that: Don't allow financing or a finance contingency (it can be a good indication they are selling above market value)Don't allow for your own independent property inspectionAre not realistic with their pro forma's (i.e. they don't include vacancy or maintenance projections or use unrealistically low vacancy factors)Require you to pay for any renovation upfrontSell only in cheap. low end neighborhoodsDon't accurately represent the neighborhood/property classificationDon't have consistent rehab standards for all properties

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 just bailed out of a deal that had been on the market almost two years - clearly because the owner has unrealistic expectations.

The 20% return is pretty unrealistic.

In my opinion, this explains the motivation for Pillario to give me an unrealistically high number.