SC PROPERTY MANAGEMENT EXAM SCRIPT 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Rent - ✔✔The consideration payable for use of the premises including late charges
whether payable in lump sum or periodic payments, excluding security deposits or other
charges
✔✔Rental Agreement - ✔✔All arrangements, written or oral, and valid rules and
regulations adopted under Section 27-40-520 embodying the terms and conditions
concerning the use and occupancy of a dwelling unit and premises
✔✔Roomer - Room Renter Only - ✔✔A person occupying a dwelling unit that does not
include a toilet and either a bathtub or a shower a refrigerator, stove, and kitchen sink,
all provided by the landlord, and where one or more of these facilities are used in
common b occupants in the structure.
✔✔Single Family Residence - Renting a House - ✔✔A structure maintained and used
as a single dwelling unit. Not withstanding that a dwelling unit shares one or more walls
with another dwelling unit, it is a single family residence if it has direct access to a street
or thoroughfare and shares neither heating facilities, hot water equipment, nor any other
essential facility or service with any other dwelling unit
✔✔Tenant - ✔✔A person entitled under a rental agreement to occupy a dwelling in unit
to the exclusion of others
✔✔Wilful - ✔✔An attempt to intentionally avoid obligations under the rental agreement
or the provisions
✔✔Essential Services - Electricity and Water - ✔✔Sanitary plumbing or sewer services,
electricity, gas, where it is used for heat, hot water, or cooking, running water, and
reasonable amounts of hot water and heat, except where the building that includes the
dwelling unit is not required by law to be equipped for that purpose, or the dwelling unit
is so constructed that heat or hot water is generated by an installation with the exclusive
control of the tenant and supplied by a direct public utility connection.
✔✔Security Deposit - ✔✔A monetary deposit from the tenant to the landlord which is
held in trust by the landlord to secure the full and faithful performance of the terms and
conditions of the lease agreement
✔✔Obligation of Good Faith - ✔✔Every duty and every act which must be performed as
a condition precedent to the exercise of a right or remedy imposes an obligation of good
faith in its performances or enforcement.
✔✔Notice; Person has notice of a fact if: - ✔✔The person has actual knowledge of it,
the person has received a notice or notification of it or from all the fact and
, circumstances know to him at the time in question he has reason to know that it exists.
A person "knows" or "has knowledge" of a fact if he has actual knowledge of it.
✔✔Notice Given - ✔✔A person "notifies" or "gives" a notice or notification to another
person by taking steps reasonably calculated to inform the other ordinary course
whether or not the other actually comes to know it .
✔✔A person "receives" a Notice/notification when: - ✔✔It is brought to their attention,
delivered to the place of business of the landlord through which the rental agreement
was made with a receipt of communication. Delivered to o the tenant in hand or mailed
to the tenant at the place held, receipt of communication, absence of the designation to
tenant last know place of residence
✔✔NOTICE - ✔✔Knowledge or a notice or notification received by an organization is
effective for a particular transaction from the time it is brought to the attention of the
individual conduction that transaction,, and in any event from the time it would have
been brought to the individuals attention if the organization had exercised reasonable
diligence.
✔✔A notice is legal when: - ✔✔It has been brought to the attention of the Resident
✔✔Proceeding with Notice given Legally - ✔✔The time within which an act is to be done
must be computed by reference to South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure.
✔✔Terms and conditions of Rental Agreement - ✔✔A landlord and a tenant may
include in a rental agreement terms and conditions not prohibited by this or other rule of
law, including rent, term of the agreement and other provisions governing the right and
obligations of the parties
✔✔Absence of Agreement - ✔✔The tenant shall pay as rent the fair-market rental value
for the use and occupancy of the dwelling unit
✔✔Rent Payable without Demand or Notice - ✔✔At the time and place agreed upon by
the parties. Unless the tenant is otherwise notified in writing, rent is payable at the
dwelling unit and PERIODIC rent is payable at the beginning of ANY term of one month
or less and otherwise in equal monthly installments at the beginning of each month.
Unless otherwise agreed, rent is uniformly apportionable from day to day
✔✔Unless Rental Agreement is a definite term - ✔✔The tenancy is week to week in
case of a roomer who pays weekly rent and in all other cases month to month
✔✔If the Landlord does not sign and Deliver - ✔✔A written rental agreement which has
been signed and delivered to the landlord by the tenant, acceptance of rent without
reservation by the landlord gives the rental agreement the same effect as if it had been
signed and delivered by the landlord
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Rent - ✔✔The consideration payable for use of the premises including late charges
whether payable in lump sum or periodic payments, excluding security deposits or other
charges
✔✔Rental Agreement - ✔✔All arrangements, written or oral, and valid rules and
regulations adopted under Section 27-40-520 embodying the terms and conditions
concerning the use and occupancy of a dwelling unit and premises
✔✔Roomer - Room Renter Only - ✔✔A person occupying a dwelling unit that does not
include a toilet and either a bathtub or a shower a refrigerator, stove, and kitchen sink,
all provided by the landlord, and where one or more of these facilities are used in
common b occupants in the structure.
✔✔Single Family Residence - Renting a House - ✔✔A structure maintained and used
as a single dwelling unit. Not withstanding that a dwelling unit shares one or more walls
with another dwelling unit, it is a single family residence if it has direct access to a street
or thoroughfare and shares neither heating facilities, hot water equipment, nor any other
essential facility or service with any other dwelling unit
✔✔Tenant - ✔✔A person entitled under a rental agreement to occupy a dwelling in unit
to the exclusion of others
✔✔Wilful - ✔✔An attempt to intentionally avoid obligations under the rental agreement
or the provisions
✔✔Essential Services - Electricity and Water - ✔✔Sanitary plumbing or sewer services,
electricity, gas, where it is used for heat, hot water, or cooking, running water, and
reasonable amounts of hot water and heat, except where the building that includes the
dwelling unit is not required by law to be equipped for that purpose, or the dwelling unit
is so constructed that heat or hot water is generated by an installation with the exclusive
control of the tenant and supplied by a direct public utility connection.
✔✔Security Deposit - ✔✔A monetary deposit from the tenant to the landlord which is
held in trust by the landlord to secure the full and faithful performance of the terms and
conditions of the lease agreement
✔✔Obligation of Good Faith - ✔✔Every duty and every act which must be performed as
a condition precedent to the exercise of a right or remedy imposes an obligation of good
faith in its performances or enforcement.
✔✔Notice; Person has notice of a fact if: - ✔✔The person has actual knowledge of it,
the person has received a notice or notification of it or from all the fact and
, circumstances know to him at the time in question he has reason to know that it exists.
A person "knows" or "has knowledge" of a fact if he has actual knowledge of it.
✔✔Notice Given - ✔✔A person "notifies" or "gives" a notice or notification to another
person by taking steps reasonably calculated to inform the other ordinary course
whether or not the other actually comes to know it .
✔✔A person "receives" a Notice/notification when: - ✔✔It is brought to their attention,
delivered to the place of business of the landlord through which the rental agreement
was made with a receipt of communication. Delivered to o the tenant in hand or mailed
to the tenant at the place held, receipt of communication, absence of the designation to
tenant last know place of residence
✔✔NOTICE - ✔✔Knowledge or a notice or notification received by an organization is
effective for a particular transaction from the time it is brought to the attention of the
individual conduction that transaction,, and in any event from the time it would have
been brought to the individuals attention if the organization had exercised reasonable
diligence.
✔✔A notice is legal when: - ✔✔It has been brought to the attention of the Resident
✔✔Proceeding with Notice given Legally - ✔✔The time within which an act is to be done
must be computed by reference to South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure.
✔✔Terms and conditions of Rental Agreement - ✔✔A landlord and a tenant may
include in a rental agreement terms and conditions not prohibited by this or other rule of
law, including rent, term of the agreement and other provisions governing the right and
obligations of the parties
✔✔Absence of Agreement - ✔✔The tenant shall pay as rent the fair-market rental value
for the use and occupancy of the dwelling unit
✔✔Rent Payable without Demand or Notice - ✔✔At the time and place agreed upon by
the parties. Unless the tenant is otherwise notified in writing, rent is payable at the
dwelling unit and PERIODIC rent is payable at the beginning of ANY term of one month
or less and otherwise in equal monthly installments at the beginning of each month.
Unless otherwise agreed, rent is uniformly apportionable from day to day
✔✔Unless Rental Agreement is a definite term - ✔✔The tenancy is week to week in
case of a roomer who pays weekly rent and in all other cases month to month
✔✔If the Landlord does not sign and Deliver - ✔✔A written rental agreement which has
been signed and delivered to the landlord by the tenant, acceptance of rent without
reservation by the landlord gives the rental agreement the same effect as if it had been
signed and delivered by the landlord
