CAM Charges — Guides for Commercial Tenants

How Common Area Maintenance billing works, where it goes wrong, and how to check your own.

• 5 Ways Landlords Overcharge CAM — and How to Catch Them

  The five most common overcharge patterns, with how to spot each on your own statement.

• What Can't Legally Be in Your CAM Charges

  What generally can't be passed through — and the lease language that protects you.

• CAM Charges FAQ — Is My Landlord Overcharging?

  Quick answers: management fees, capital improvements, reconciliation jumps, and your review rights.

• How to Read Your CAM Reconciliation Statement

  The annual true-up is where overcharges hide — the three things to check before you pay.

• Your Pro-Rata Share: The Most Common CAM Overcharge

  How the building denominator quietly splits every CAM dollar wrong — and how to cross-check it.

• Gross-Up in CAM Charges, Explained

  The clause that bills you as if the building were full — and how it inflates your share.

• How to Verify Your CAM Charges With Public Records

  Cross-check the landlord's numbers against free public data — county building size, REIT filings, BOMA benchmarks.

• California SB-1103: What Small Business Tenants Can Do About CAM Overcharges

  The Commercial Tenant Protection Act gives qualified small tenants the right to documented, proportional CAM.

• How to Use Your SB-1103 Records-Inspection Rights

  Step by step: how a qualified California tenant demands the itemized CAM backup, allocation tabulation, and signed attestation.

Tools

• CAM Overpayment Calculator

  Estimate the annual dollars at stake when your landlord's building denominator is overstated — free, no sign-up.

Informational only; not legal advice and not an audit or attest service. © ReCAM Technologies LLC.