When an anchor tenant vacates, your CAM charges can spike for two distinct reasons: the denominator shrinks (raising your pro-rata share) and the landlord may gross up variable expenses as if the building were fully occupied. Both manipulations can be checked and challenged. CAMAudit runs both Rule 4 and Rule 5 to isolate each source of the increase.
TL;DR
Not auditing means you subsidize the landlord during their vacancy period; auditing can recover overpayments and establish a corrected baseline that protects you for every remaining year of your lease.
Who this is for
Tenants in a shopping center or multi-tenant building where a major anchor or large tenant recently vacated, resulting in noticeably higher CAM charges even though the building is now partly empty.
Who this is not for
Tenants whose lease explicitly permits the landlord to maintain CAM charges at a fully-occupied-building level when vacancy occurs, or tenants on a fixed CAM structure unaffected by occupancy changes.
Pro-Rata Share Error
CAMAudit verifies whether the denominator used in your pro-rata calculation now excludes the departed anchor tenant space and whether your lease permits that exclusion.
Gross-Up Violation
The scan checks whether the landlord is grossing up variable operating expenses to a 95 or 100 percent occupancy level that the actual building occupancy no longer justifies.
Upload two PDFs. 14 detection rules. Under 15 minutes. Free.
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.
Ready to skip the reading and document the overcharge directly?
Find My OverchargesNeed to extract lease terms before your audit?
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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