The concept of Optimal Stopping applies to apartment hunting in the sense that you need to make a decision on when to stop looking for more options and settle on an apartment. The challenge is to balance the need to explore more options with the risk of losing the best option found so far. If you wait too long, the best apartments might be taken. If you act too quickly, you might miss out on better options. This is a classic example of an Optimal Stopping problem.
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