Anchorreclaim

Commercial lease and CAM audit

If you lease commercial space, your landlord bills you each year for common area maintenance, taxes, and insurance. Most tenants pay that reconciliation without checking it against the lease. Charges outside the lease's own definitions, costs above negotiated caps, capital expense passed through as maintenance, and plain pro-rata arithmetic are the standard findings.

Your lease and the last reconciliation. Reading them is the work.
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LGA International GmbH
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+1 929 475 8496We work in writing, so that every finding leaves a record you can forward. Email reaches us fastest.
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What we look for

Each of these is a rule that exists in writing somewhere — a filed tariff, a signed contract, a state statute — and can be checked against your own documents.

  1. 01Charges outside the lease definitions

    Costs included in the pool that the lease's own language does not put there.

  2. 02Costs above a negotiated cap

    Caps are agreed and then not applied, particularly after a change of landlord or manager.

  3. 03Capital expense as maintenance

    The distinction is in the lease and is worth real money.

  4. 04Pro-rata arithmetic

    The denominator changes as a building fills or empties, and the calculation frequently does not follow.

  5. 05Administrative fees on top of fees

    Management fees calculated on a base that already contains management fees.

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A parking deck is literally common area. Whether its resurfacing is maintenance you owe a share of, or a capital expense you do not, is decided by the lease — not by the reconciliation statement.

What to send

Documents you already hold. Nothing to prepare, nothing to export, no access to any system — and nothing is uploaded until the agreement is signed.

  1. 01Your lease, including amendments

    The amendments matter as much as the original.

  2. 02One to three annual CAM reconciliations

    More years give a clearer pattern, but one is enough to begin.

We do not need anything that identifies an individual person.

This is arithmetic against published rules, not an inspection of your staff. If a document you are about to send happens to contain names, redact them or send the summary page instead — the arithmetic does not change.

What you get, and what it costs

The deliverable is the same whether or not there is money to recover: a written document that states what was checked, against which rule, and with what result.

A clause-by-clause comparisonYour lease set against what you were actually billed, with the language quoted.
A findings reportEach item, the clause it fails, and the recoverable amount.
Support through the disputeIn writing, so your position is on the record and can be forwarded.
If nothing is recoverableA short written all-clear. Worth having: it means the billing was done correctly.
Our fee40 % of what is actually refunded or credited to your account. Nothing up front, nothing hourly, nothing if we find nothing.

How long it takes

First replyWithin 48 business hours, in writing.
Findings reportAbout two to three weeks. Leases take reading, which is rather the point.
ResolutionDepends on the landlord; disputes are handled in writing.

Three facts to begin

Your state, your approximate annual spend, and the vendor. That is enough for us to tell you whether a review is worth your time — before any document changes hands.

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