TENANT CAM AUDIT

For Commercial tenants & lease teams

CAM charges look wrong? Audit them against the lease.

Run a tenant CAM audit from the lease and landlord reconciliation statement. Find CAM overcharges, cap violations, excluded expenses, and missing backup.

SOUND FAMILIAR?

The CAM bill jumped. The landlord's math is not clear.

You may have only 30 or 60 days to find an overcharge and object.

START WITH THE FILE

Lease + CAM reconciliation statement

Add the signed lease, annual CAM statement, and any expense or invoice backup the landlord provided.

signed-commercial-lease.pdfcam-reconciliation-2025.xlsx

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Lease + CAM reconciliation statement in. CAM overcharge report out.

See every cap, exclusion, pro-rata, fee, and unsupported charge that needs review.

01

Read

Extract the lease rules for caps, exclusions, shares, fees, and audit rights.

02

Recalculate

Test the landlord statement against those rules line by line.

03

Challenge

List likely overcharges and the exact backup or correction to request.

A small lease rule can create a large overcharge.

01

The statement ignores a cap or uses the wrong base year.

02

Capital work or landlord costs may be billed as CAM.

03

The pro-rata share changed, but the denominator is missing.

See exactly what needs action.

See every cap, exclusion, pro-rata, fee, and unsupported charge that needs review.

Bring these first

  • Signed lease and amendments
  • Annual CAM or operating-expense statement
  • Expense ledger, invoices, and landlord backup

We show the source. You make the call.

SAMPLE RESULTCAM overcharge report
Example
Controllable-cost cap
Billed increase 9.2% · lease allows 5%
Over cap
Management fee
Applied to taxes excluded by §6.4
Check
Expense backup
Roof repair invoice not provided
Request

Got questions? Start here.

Clear answers. No jargon.

What is a tenant CAM audit?

It checks the landlord's common-area charges against the lease, the annual reconciliation, and the available expense backup.

How do I audit CAM charges?

Start with caps, exclusions, pro-rata share, gross-up rules, management fees, base years, and your deadline to object.

Which CAM overcharges should I look for?

Common issues include capital expenses, excluded landlord costs, wrong allocation shares, cap violations, duplicate periods, and unsupported charges.

START WITH YOUR FILE

Find the overcharge before the audit window closes.

Check the CAM statement against the lease before you accept the true-up.

Audit CAM charges