Excluded Service Charges: What Your Landlord Cannot Bill You For

CAMAudit extracts the exclusions section of your lease using AI-powered document parsing. CAMAudit's excluded service charge detection rule identifies every expense category your landlord agreed to exclude from CAM pass-throughs, including explicit exclusions named in the lease and implied exclusions based on lease type and local commercial real estate custom.

CAMAudit classifies each line item on your CAM reconciliation statement and checks whether it matches an excluded category. CAMAudit's classification uses both keyword matching and semantic analysis to catch expenses disguised with non-standard naming conventions, such as capital work listed as "maintenance" or leasing costs billed as "administrative fees."

CAMAudit pairs each flagged line item with the specific lease exclusion or GAAP principle that prohibits it. CAMAudit also notes the total dollar value of excluded expenses included in your bill so you can see the full scope of the overcharge at a glance.

Beyond lease-specific exclusions, CAMAudit scans for items that are universally non-recoverable under GAAP regardless of what the lease says. Bad debt reserves, provisions for doubtful accounts, contingency reserves, and litigation reserves fall into this category. These are landlord-side financial risk costs, not property operating expenses, and they never belong on a CAM statement regardless of how they are labeled.