Benefits are numerous - economies of scale, easier management for multiple doors in one location, easier to have professional management (and cheaper), one loan for a multitude of doors, and the list goes on.So, is it possible to get to that goal using SFR's, yes, anything is possible, but less likely and not the best path in my opinion.I have been reviewing many apartment building spreadsheets etc, is their an equivalent quick analysis algorithm such as the 50% rule for those?

Especially with Google's new algorithm updates this can really damage your rankings in several ways.1) When you are getting backlinks you want them to be site related to your website.

A good portfolio quant trader would not sell you hismain algorithm for a million dollars.

So I imagine one can come up with algorithms in which information from the MLS can be run through.

Creating a meaningful algorithm to make sense of the data is really hard.

All use algorithms to determine these values . . . how can you decide which is more accurate?

No algorithm is going to spit out a correct number .

It sounds like you're more interested in the phsycological implications of this form of information delivery rather than the algorithm Zillow uses?  

98115 - 6.5% 98105 - 5.9%98109 - 5.5%Lynwood  (98036) - 8.7%This is what Zillow says, but i would rather rely on area experts than some machine learning algorithm.

Hotel room prices change constantly they are based on algorithms.