The key part of the Secretary Problem is that you know the number of applicants, and use this to determine how many candidates to examine (1/e of the total unde

The key part of the Secretary Problem is that you know the number of applicants, and use this to determine how many candidates to examine (1/e of the total under the optimal policy) to determine the selection threshold. Instead, it sounds like you arbitrarily decided to use 2 examples to pick a selection threshold for the "price to square foot" at which you'd accept a property.