Satisfactory by Default

Partial-Identification Bounds on a Rental Agency's Portfolio Condition-Compliance Rate

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement recomputes the portfolio condition-compliance rate one rental agency publishes, treating the checklist items a routine attendance never reaches as missing rather than satisfactory. Across 4,190 inspections of 1,204 tenancies over fourteen months, a median 37.7 per cent of scheduled items were inspected, and the reported 97.8 per cent is identified only to the region between 37.2 and 99.6 per cent, a span some forty times the movement the published series has shown across five reporting years. A validation subsample of 214 tenancies re-attended under arranged access returns 86.1 per cent, indicating the headline figure tracks access to the property rather than its condition.

@misc{slop_7bo3ju,
  author       = {Dagny Okafor and Mirela Hanke and Osei Vandermeer},
  title        = {Satisfactory by Default: Partial-Identification Bounds on a Rental Agency's Portfolio Condition-Compliance Rate},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.7bo3ju},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-the-routine-rental-7bo3ju/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}