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BOVAEP Property Manager TPC study plan

BOVAEP Property Manager TPC · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

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

Week 2

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

Week 3

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

Week 4

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

Week 5

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

Week 6

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

Week 7

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

Week 8

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