As far as book, outside of every major leadership book these are the ones that stand out in my head regarding mindset:The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do IN BusinessAccidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and ContentThe Two-Income TrapSuper Crunchersand Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (reading this one now)

Maybe you could build a net to seller model...algorithm...but you'll always have variance based on simple things like closing date...remember, property taxes are pro-rated through the day of the sale...a simple delay in closing by a couple days may impact your costs significantly. 

Our team is in the process of creating an algorithm that is designed to indicate the best possible time to lock a mortgage rate determined by various factors such as upcoming economic/market data, news related volatility, duration of lock allowance, present US 10 year treasury price action etc.  

I don’t trust any value that is based on an algorithm.

They determine market values based on a computer algorithm.

On the other hand the pricing is getting pushed down due to Airbnb suggested pricing algorithms, high competition, stringent permitting regulations, harsh penalties.

I am wondering if anyone here has done a deep dive on their algorithms / tools to see how reliable they actually are (after all the 1% is a rule of thumb, right?). 

The SEO approach, no matter how good you are, is always limited to whether people search for your keywords or not, and whether google shows them your message or someone else's based on their algorithm of the day.

Do you have an algorithm that you could share when screening triple NNN properties, or minimum 5 sq mile population?

However, I was not great at using the algorithm to my advantage for pricing, so the overall income was not what it should have been for the first year.