Your lease almost certainly grants you the right to audit CAM records. A landlord who refuses to provide documentation is violating that right. Even without full documentation, CAMAudit can flag inconsistencies and structural errors in the reconciliation statement itself, giving you specific records to request by name rather than asking for everything.
TL;DR
Proceeding with the CAMAudit scan on the reconciliation statement you do have lets you identify specific disputed line items, which makes your records request targeted and harder for the landlord to brush off.
Who this is for
Tenants who have formally requested CAM backup documentation from their landlord and been ignored, delayed, or denied, and who want to build a documented audit trail.
Who this is not for
Tenants who have not yet made a formal written records request; you should always start with a written request citing your lease audit rights clause before escalating.
Management Fee Overcharge
Even without backup invoices, CAMAudit can calculate whether the management fee percentage on the reconciliation exceeds the lease-defined cap.
Pro-Rata Share Error
CAMAudit recalculates your pro-rata share from your lease definition and the GLA figures on the reconciliation itself, flagging discrepancies without needing the landlord to provide additional records.
Gross-Up Violation
The tool checks for gross-up violations using the occupancy rate disclosed on the reconciliation, if present, or flags the absence of that disclosure as a potential issue.
CAM Cap Violation
CAMAudit verifies cap compliance using the total controllable expenses reported on the reconciliation and your lease cap percentage.
Common Area Misclassification
The scan flags line item descriptions that appear to describe capital or excluded expenses based on the language in the reconciliation, giving you specific items to dispute.
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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.
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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