When a line item appears on your reconciliation for the first time, it warrants investigation. It could be a legitimate expense that was previously included in a different category, a cost that the landlord used to absorb but is now passing through, or an entirely impermissible charge. CAMAudit checks every line item against your lease definition of recoverable operating expenses and flags anything that does not belong.
TL;DR
A new charge that goes unchallenged becomes part of the billing baseline; catching it the first year it appears prevents it from recurring.
Who this is for
Tenants who noticed one or more expense categories on their current reconciliation that did not appear in any prior year and want to verify whether the charges are permitted under their lease.
Who this is not for
Tenants in the first year of their lease with no prior reconciliation to establish a baseline, or tenants who have confirmed the new charge is explicitly permitted by a recent lease amendment.
Excluded Service Charges
CAMAudit cross-references every line item, including new ones, against your lease definition of recoverable expenses and exclusion list, flagging any charge that is not specifically permitted.
Common Area Misclassification
The scan identifies new line items that may be capital expenditures, landlord expenses, or non-common-area costs misclassified as operating CAM charges.
Landlord Overhead Pass-Through
CAMAudit flags new expense categories that appear to be landlord overhead, administrative costs, or entity-level expenses that should not be allocated to tenants.
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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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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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