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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Field notes on CAM reconciliation for teams managing real estate across hundreds of locations.
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How to audit common area maintenance charges at scale and recover what the statements quietly overstate.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A repeatable method for catching the operating-expense items landlords are not entitled to bill.