How to audit common area maintenance charges on a commercial lease
Reconcile every CAM charge against your lease: confirm your pro-rata share, strip excluded and capital items, apply every cap, and check the gross-up before you pay.
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CAM reconciliation
Field notes on CAM reconciliation for teams managing real estate across hundreds of locations.
7 posts
The CAM reconciliation playbook for multi-location portfolios
How to audit common area maintenance charges at scale and recover what the statements quietly overstate.
CAM reconciliation and ASC 842: the accounting intersection
Base rent gets modeled cleanly at go-live. CAM true-ups are the part that keeps generating surprises, and they feed directly into ROU asset and lease liability calculations.
CAM reconciliation errors: the occupier audit checklist
Six billing errors appear in CAM reconciliations more than any others. Where each one hides in the statement, and what it costs when it goes uncorrected.
What is CAM reconciliation? The occupier's guide
The annual true-up between the estimated CAM you paid and what the landlord actually spent: what it covers, how pro-rata, gross-up, and caps work, and where the errors hide.
What is CAM reconciliation? The owner's guide
How landlords recover actual common area costs from tenants: what belongs in the CAM pool, how the math works, the delivery timeline, and where disputes originate.
Auditing pass-through charges line by line
A repeatable method for catching the operating-expense items landlords are not entitled to bill.