A building sale often triggers CAM increases because the new owner reassesses property taxes, hires new vendors, changes the management company, and may interpret your lease more aggressively than the previous owner. Your lease terms do not change when the building sells, but the new owner may not be following them correctly. CAMAudit verifies that every charge complies with your original lease language.
TL;DR
New ownership is the highest-risk period for billing errors because the new management team may not have reviewed every tenant lease in detail; catching errors early prevents them from becoming the new baseline.
Who this is for
Tenants who received a higher CAM reconciliation after their building was sold to a new owner and want to verify that the new owner is billing according to the existing lease terms.
Who this is not for
Tenants who signed a new lease or lease amendment with the new owner that changed the CAM terms, or tenants whose increase is within normal year-over-year ranges.
Tax Overallocation
CAMAudit flags property tax increases that result from the purchase price reassessment and checks whether your lease permits passing through reassessment-triggered increases or limits tax pass-throughs to a specific growth rate.
Management Fee Overcharge
New owners often bring in their own management company at a higher fee. CAMAudit verifies the new management fee stays within your lease cap.
Excluded Service Charges
The scan checks for new line items that appeared after the sale, cross-referencing them against your lease exclusion list to flag charges the new owner added that your lease does not permit.
Landlord Overhead Pass-Through
CAMAudit identifies transition costs, acquisition-related expenses, and new owner overhead that may have been improperly passed through as CAM operating expenses.
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Next Best Step
Scenario pages should bridge from diagnosis into the dispute path and audit proof.
Use the audit process if you still need to validate the billing error.
Use the dispute playbook if the issue is already active.
Run the free audit once you are ready to quantify the overcharge.
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A CAM audit is only as accurate as your lease data. lextract.io extracts 126 structured fields from any commercial lease PDF: CAM definitions, pro-rata share, caps, base year, and audit rights. So you have the exact terms your landlord is supposed to follow.
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