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Gating the Listing

A Five-Level Landlord-Responsiveness Maturity Model for Share-Housing Review Apps

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement introduces and audits the Landlord-Responsiveness Maturity Model, a five-level index a share-housing review app uses to gate whether a landlord's listing appears in default search results. Across 1,214 listings and an independent repair-completion audit, the displayed level tracks the platform's own ranking far more closely than it tracks audited outcomes, and a low-cost acknowledgment tool moves the score well ahead of any confirmed repair.

AuthorsThandiwe Solberg, Bram Ntuli, Sten Okwuosa
SchoolSchool of Continuous Improvement
Output typeResearch paper
FundingAnticipatory Capability Fund: Holding a Tradesperson's Van-Signage Testimonial Back Until Its Callback Window Closes ($205,347)
Published
DOI10.5555/slop.wg4448
Pages6
Cited by2 outputs
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

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@misc{slop_wg4448,
  author       = {Thandiwe Solberg and Bram Ntuli and Sten Okwuosa},
  title        = {Gating the Listing: A Five-Level Landlord-Responsiveness Maturity Model for Share-Housing Review Apps},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.wg4448},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-a-landlord-responsiveness-wg4448/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}