A 30% or more jump in your CAM reconciliation is a red flag that almost always warrants a closer look. In most cases the spike traces back to one or two specific billing errors, not a genuine cost increase across the board. CAMAudit can pinpoint the exact line items driving the increase in under 15 minutes.
TL;DR
Running the audit takes about fifteen minutes to upload your documents; not running it means you pay an inflated bill now and lock in that inflated base for every future year.
Who this is for
Commercial tenants with a NNN or modified gross lease who received an annual reconciliation statement showing a significant year-over-year increase and want to know whether the math is correct.
Who this is not for
Tenants on a full gross lease where the landlord absorbs all operating expenses, or tenants in the first year of a lease with no prior-year baseline to compare.
CAM Cap Violation
CAMAudit checks whether your lease includes a controllable-expense cap and verifies that the reconciliation figure stays within that limit. A 30% spike is often caused by a landlord ignoring or miscalculating the cap.
Management Fee Overcharge
The scan compares the management fee percentage on your reconciliation against the cap written into your lease. Inflated management fees frequently account for a disproportionate share of year-over-year increases.
Pro-Rata Share Error
CAMAudit recalculates your pro-rata share using the GLA denominator your lease defines and flags any discrepancy. Anchor tenant exclusions that shrink the denominator are a common source of artificial spikes.
Gross-Up Violation
The tool checks whether gross-up has been applied at a building occupancy level that exceeds what your lease permits, which inflates variable expenses artificially.
Common Area Misclassification
CAMAudit flags capital expenditures, structural repairs, and landlord-only expenses that have been reclassified into recurring CAM operating costs to inflate the pool.
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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