SC PROPERTY MANAGEMENT EVALUATION EXAMS
2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Essential services - ✔✔water, sewer, electricity, gas, hot water and heat
✔✔Noncompliance by landlord - ✔✔Have 14 days after receipt of problem to fix or you
can get out of the lease
✔✔The civil rights act protects what four classes - ✔✔Race, color, national origin,
religion
✔✔What classes were added to the civil rights act? - ✔✔Sex, handicap, familial status
✔✔Steering - ✔✔Guiding prospective tenants to or away from a property based on
religion, race, etc.
✔✔Blockbusting - ✔✔Encouraging residence to move because people of a different
race, religion, etc. are moving in. Also known as panic peddling.
✔✔Redlining - ✔✔Bankers, deciding not to lend in certain locations based on race,
religion, etc.
✔✔Economic decision - ✔✔To sublease instead of assign
✔✔Economic rent - ✔✔Current market rent for property
✔✔Contract rent - ✔✔Rent agreed to in contract, set flat rate, or fluctuations, based on
agreed circumstances
✔✔An oral lease is - ✔✔Unenforceable
✔✔Just because a tenant vacate, the property does not mean - ✔✔The lease has been
terminated
✔✔Constructive eviction - ✔✔Making a property unable through the landlord's actions
or inaction
✔✔Actual Eviction - ✔✔Physically removing a tenant after receiving legal permission to
do so
✔✔Ejectment - ✔✔Legal proceeding to regain possession of the property
✔✔Lease is not terminated in the event of - ✔✔Damage by fire, sale of property - new
owner must honor lease
, ✔✔If a lease is unsigned it is treated like a - ✔✔Oral lease
✔✔Landlord fails to deliver possession - ✔✔Tenant may seek legal action and win up to
three months rent or twice actual damage and reasonable attorney fees
✔✔Landlord can dispose of tenants possessions with value of - ✔✔$500 or less
✔✔Personal property removed as a result of the eviction proceeding, which is placed on
a public street or highway shall be removed by the appropriate municipal or county
officials after a period of - ✔✔48 hours excluding Saturday, Sundays and holidays
✔✔The landlord has the right to refuse to renew the lease in retaliation with a 75 day
notice, but may not retaliate by - ✔✔Increasing rent above fair market value, or
decreasing essential services
✔✔The Americans with Disabilities Act protects - ✔✔Someone with a physical or mental
impairment, someone with a record of impairment or someone who is regarded as if
they have an impairment
✔✔When is it okay to run a discriminatory advertisement? - ✔✔Never
✔✔The bundle of rights includes - ✔✔Control, use/enjoyment, possession, disposition
✔✔Control - ✔✔Do what you want to with the property within legal limits
✔✔Use/enjoyment - ✔✔The right to use property anyway you'd like within legal limits
✔✔Possession - ✔✔Physical custody, plus the legal right to exclude others
✔✔Disposition - ✔✔You can pass your rights on to someone else as an owner
✔✔Quiet enjoyment - ✔✔Freedom from landlord interference and freedom from
concerns regarding defeats
✔✔Tenancy for years/term - ✔✔For a definite fixed period of time. Does not require a
notice determinate, expires last day of lease and has full bundle of rights.
✔✔Fair Credit Reporting Act - ✔✔The purpose is to protect the privacy of consumers to
guarantee that the information on their credit report is as accurate as possible
✔✔Renters insurance - ✔✔Insurance to replace personal property that is damaged or
lost
2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Essential services - ✔✔water, sewer, electricity, gas, hot water and heat
✔✔Noncompliance by landlord - ✔✔Have 14 days after receipt of problem to fix or you
can get out of the lease
✔✔The civil rights act protects what four classes - ✔✔Race, color, national origin,
religion
✔✔What classes were added to the civil rights act? - ✔✔Sex, handicap, familial status
✔✔Steering - ✔✔Guiding prospective tenants to or away from a property based on
religion, race, etc.
✔✔Blockbusting - ✔✔Encouraging residence to move because people of a different
race, religion, etc. are moving in. Also known as panic peddling.
✔✔Redlining - ✔✔Bankers, deciding not to lend in certain locations based on race,
religion, etc.
✔✔Economic decision - ✔✔To sublease instead of assign
✔✔Economic rent - ✔✔Current market rent for property
✔✔Contract rent - ✔✔Rent agreed to in contract, set flat rate, or fluctuations, based on
agreed circumstances
✔✔An oral lease is - ✔✔Unenforceable
✔✔Just because a tenant vacate, the property does not mean - ✔✔The lease has been
terminated
✔✔Constructive eviction - ✔✔Making a property unable through the landlord's actions
or inaction
✔✔Actual Eviction - ✔✔Physically removing a tenant after receiving legal permission to
do so
✔✔Ejectment - ✔✔Legal proceeding to regain possession of the property
✔✔Lease is not terminated in the event of - ✔✔Damage by fire, sale of property - new
owner must honor lease
, ✔✔If a lease is unsigned it is treated like a - ✔✔Oral lease
✔✔Landlord fails to deliver possession - ✔✔Tenant may seek legal action and win up to
three months rent or twice actual damage and reasonable attorney fees
✔✔Landlord can dispose of tenants possessions with value of - ✔✔$500 or less
✔✔Personal property removed as a result of the eviction proceeding, which is placed on
a public street or highway shall be removed by the appropriate municipal or county
officials after a period of - ✔✔48 hours excluding Saturday, Sundays and holidays
✔✔The landlord has the right to refuse to renew the lease in retaliation with a 75 day
notice, but may not retaliate by - ✔✔Increasing rent above fair market value, or
decreasing essential services
✔✔The Americans with Disabilities Act protects - ✔✔Someone with a physical or mental
impairment, someone with a record of impairment or someone who is regarded as if
they have an impairment
✔✔When is it okay to run a discriminatory advertisement? - ✔✔Never
✔✔The bundle of rights includes - ✔✔Control, use/enjoyment, possession, disposition
✔✔Control - ✔✔Do what you want to with the property within legal limits
✔✔Use/enjoyment - ✔✔The right to use property anyway you'd like within legal limits
✔✔Possession - ✔✔Physical custody, plus the legal right to exclude others
✔✔Disposition - ✔✔You can pass your rights on to someone else as an owner
✔✔Quiet enjoyment - ✔✔Freedom from landlord interference and freedom from
concerns regarding defeats
✔✔Tenancy for years/term - ✔✔For a definite fixed period of time. Does not require a
notice determinate, expires last day of lease and has full bundle of rights.
✔✔Fair Credit Reporting Act - ✔✔The purpose is to protect the privacy of consumers to
guarantee that the information on their credit report is as accurate as possible
✔✔Renters insurance - ✔✔Insurance to replace personal property that is damaged or
lost
