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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.
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The CAM reconciliation playbook for multi-location portfolios
How to audit common area maintenance charges at scale and recover what the statements quietly overstate.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Auditing pass-through charges line by line
A repeatable method for catching the operating-expense items landlords are not entitled to bill.
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What is a utility bill audit, and why multi-site portfolios need one
A utility bill audit checks whether the invoice was billed correctly, not whether the building used energy efficiently. The errors it finds are structural.
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Commercial property insurance cost: the two bills an occupier pays
Occupiers pay for property insurance twice: their own policy and the landlord’s premium in pass-throughs. US property rates fell 13%. Did your bill?
