CAM reconciliation guides

• How to Do a CAM Reconciliation: Step-by-Step for Small Landlords — A practical CAM reconciliation walkthrough: gather expenses, remove exclusions, build pools, gross up, compute shares, apply base years and caps, subtract estimates and send statements.
• CAM Reconciliation Example: A Worked Calculation — A worked CAM reconciliation example with real numbers: pool total, gross-up, pro-rata share, cap, admin fee, estimates paid and balance due for one tenant in a 24,000 SF center.
• CAM Gross-Up Explained: Formula, Examples and Pitfalls — What a CAM gross-up clause does, the formula (variable expenses × target ÷ actual occupancy), which expenses to gross up, and why grossing up fixed costs leads to disputes.
• Cumulative vs Non-Cumulative CAM Caps (with Examples) — How non-cumulative, cumulative simple and cumulative compounding CAM caps work, with the same five-year example under each, and which expenses caps usually exclude.
• CAM Exclusions: What Landlords Usually Can't Pass Through — A checklist of common CAM exclusions in commercial leases — capital expenditures, debt service, depreciation, leasing costs, landlord overhead — and how to handle them in a reconciliation.
• Base Year vs Expense Stop: How Office Pass-Throughs Work — Base year and expense stop explained with numbers: how each limits what a tenant pays, how partial years are prorated, and why a base year should be grossed up.
• CAM Order of Operations: Gross-Up, Base Year, Cap, Admin Fee — The order in which a CAM reconciliation applies gross-up, contributions, pro-rata share, base year or stop, caps and admin fees — and why changing the order changes the bill.