BOVAEP Property Manager TPC study plan
BOVAEP Property Manager TPC · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 7 hours per week
Property Management Practice and Professional Standards & Law of Real Property and Landlord-Tenant Obligations
Map every statutory duty of a property manager under the applicable property management ordinance into a one-page obligation table, citing the section number for each duty
Distinguish the roles of the management corporation or owners' association, the management agent, and the individual owner, and write a short note on where authority and liability sit for each
Draft a professional standards checklist covering conflicts of interest, confidentiality, record keeping and handling of owner funds, and self-score current practice against it
Explain in writing the difference between a deed, a lease and a licence, and identify which instrument governs common occupation arrangements
Your checkpoint
A 2-page obligation and standards summary that maps at least 12 statutory or professional duties to their source and to the party who must perform them
Law of Real Property and Landlord-Tenant Obligations
Work through the lifecycle of a tenancy from grant to termination, listing the notice periods, grounds and procedural steps at each stage
Compare remedies for breach of covenant by landlord and by tenant, and state which remedy applies to which breach
Summarise how ownership, co-ownership and encumbrances affect a manager's ability to act, using worked examples
Produce a table of key statutory deadlines and notice periods with the consequence of missing each
Your checkpoint
A tenancy lifecycle flowchart plus a deadline table covering at least 10 statutory time limits, each with its legal consequence
Property Management Practice and Professional Standards & Law of Real Property and Landlord-Tenant Obligations
Answer 40 mixed practice questions on practice standards and property law under timed conditions and log every wrong answer with the reason
Re-teach the three weakest law topics from week 2 by writing a plain-language explanation of each without notes
Draft model clauses for a management agreement covering scope, delegation, reporting and termination
Resolve three short scenario problems involving competing landlord, tenant and owners' corporation interests, stating the rule applied
Your checkpoint
A scored 40-question practice set at 70% or above, with an error log classifying each miss as knowledge gap, misreading or guess
Financial Management, Budgeting and Service Charges
Build an annual operating budget for a hypothetical mixed-use building, separating recoverable from non-recoverable costs
Allocate service charges across unit entitlement and demonstrate at least two apportionment methods with their fairness trade-offs
Prepare a sinking fund projection over 10 years that accounts for inflation and a major replacement item
Reconcile a sample set of receipts and invoices to a budget, identify variances over 10% and explain each
Your checkpoint
A complete spreadsheet model with budget, apportionment, sinking fund schedule and variance report, plus a one-page memo explaining the assumptions
Financial Management, Budgeting and Service Charges & Leasing, Tenancy Administration and Occupancy Management
Produce a year-to-date financial report pack for owners containing income and expenditure, arrears position and reserve balance, written for a non-accountant reader
Draft a tenant application and screening procedure that records objective criteria and the reasons for any refusal
Administer a tenancy from offer to handover by drafting the offer letter, inventory, check-in record and handover checklist
Calculate arrears ageing and draft a staged recovery sequence with the point at which formal action begins
Your checkpoint
A financial reporting pack and a tenancy administration file template, each reviewed against a self-made completeness checklist
Building Technology, Maintenance and Defect Management & Health, Safety and Environmental Compliance
Classify 15 common building defects by cause, symptom and typical remedy, and rank each by urgency
Set out a planned preventive maintenance schedule for the main building services, stating frequency and the standard each task is checked against
Build a risk register for the building covering fire safety, water systems, electrical installations, lifts and working at height, with a control and review date for each
Write the response sequence for a water ingress or structural defect report from first notification to contractor instruction and follow-up
Your checkpoint
A defect classification table, a 12-month PPM calendar and a risk register with at least 10 scored risks
Health, Safety and Environmental Compliance & Ethics, Governance and Client Relations
Draft an incident investigation report for a sample accident, covering evidence, causation, corrective action and follow-up verification
Apply an ethical decision framework to three dilemmas involving contractor selection, confidential owner information and a conflict of interest, and record the reasoning
Prepare a governance calendar for board or committee meetings, including papers, quorum, minutes and conflict declarations
Write a complaint-handling procedure with acknowledgement, investigation and response timelines, and a template reply to a dissatisfied owner
Your checkpoint
An incident report, three worked ethics cases and a governance and complaints procedure pack, all cross-checked against the week 1 standards checklist
Property Management Practice and Professional Standards & Law of Real Property and Landlord-Tenant Obligations & Building Technology, Maintenance and Defect Management & Financial Management, Budgeting and Service Charges & Leasing, Tenancy Administration and Occupancy Management & Health, Safety and Environmental Compliance & Ethics, Governance and Client Relations
Complete two full-length timed mock exams and score each domain separately to identify the weakest two
Re-study the two weakest domains using only the error logs and summaries produced in earlier weeks
Condense the entire syllabus into a 10-page revision sheet organised by domain, with no more than one page per domain plus three pages of cross-cutting themes
Rehearse written answers to six scenario questions under time pressure, focusing on structure and the application of rules to facts
Your checkpoint
Two scored mock exams with a domain-by-domain comparison against the week 3 baseline, plus the final 10-page revision sheet
Milestones
Week 2: Can state, without notes, the notice periods and grounds for terminating the main tenancy types, and correctly classify deed, lease and licence in 9 of 10 cases
Week 4: Budget, apportionment and sinking fund model balances to zero, and every variance over 10% has a written explanation
Week 6: Risk register and PPM calendar cover all major building services, and each defect in the classification table has a stated urgency and remedy
Week 8: Both mock exams scored at 70% or above overall with no domain below 60%, and the revision sheet complete