Learn how to preserve and enhance your association’s property and prepare for emergencies.
This course provides a hands-on approach to help you analyze, evaluate, communicate and plan for property maintenance. Your community will benefit from your increased understanding of the various types of maintenance—routine, preventive, emergency, corrective and scheduled. Topics include:
- Evaluating existing maintenance programs and management controls
- Analyzing maintenance contracts
- Overseeing maintenance of common areas, using checklists and reports
- Making maintenance requests and recommendations to the board
- Identifying the basic elements of a disaster plan
- Preparing a request for proposal, including bid specifications
- Monitoring fulfillment of a contract
- Interpreting and invoking contract warranties
- Understanding the concept of sustainable lifestyles
- Using a reserve study for ongoing maintenance needs
Course Materials
In addition to a participant guide and digital access to bonus readings and materials, you will receive:
- Bids and Contracts
- Natural Disasters
- Reserve Funds
Course Length and Format
- Virtual Edition (Zoom): 2 days | 12-3 p.m. ET both days
- Classroom Edition: 1.5 day blended learning course:
- Day 1: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. (in the classroom)
- Half-day: Online content including a multiple-choice examination. The exam and online material must be completed within 30 days of the live course. Results will be available immediately after completing the exam. The half-day program including exam can be taken from home, office, or anywhere with an internet connection.
- Online Course: 4-6 hours to complete the course plus 4 hours of study via reading assignments and webinars. Students have 4 months—120 days from purchase date—to complete the course and take the 60-minute exam to receive credit.
Exam Information
At
the conclusion of the course, we will add the final exam to your course
package. You will have 30 days
from your live course to go through all the material and complete the final
exam. The exam includes 45 multiple-choice questions,
is timed (90 minutes) and must be completed in a single session. If you do not
pass on your first attempt, you can launch the exam again a second time. The
passing score is 70%. At the end of the exam, you
will see a learning objective of how you did on each section. Please record
this information for future reference.
Tuition
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