About LeaseGuard
LeaseGuard is a software platform built to help commercial tenants review their CAM charges and reconciliation statements to identify potential billing discrepancies. The platform cross-references your lease agreement against your annual reconciliation to flag charges that may not be authorized, accurately calculated, or properly allocated.
LeaseGuard is designed for the tenants who need it most — retail operators, office tenants, medical practices, franchise operators, and small business owners leasing commercial space. These tenants often lack the time or specialized expertise to manually audit complex reconciliation statements, even though billing errors can cost thousands of dollars per year.
Why CAM Audits Matter
CAM reconciliation statements are the annual documents landlords send to show how common area maintenance costs were allocated across tenants. These statements can contain billing discrepancies that are difficult to catch without careful review:
- •Inflated management fees — calculated as a percentage of total operating expenses, these fees compound any other overcharges on the statement.
- •Incorrect pro rata calculations — errors in your square footage or the total building area inflate every expense line item.
- •Capital expenses billed to tenants — major improvements like roof replacements or parking lot repaving classified as routine maintenance.
- •Expenses that should be excluded — costs your lease explicitly prohibits from being passed through, such as marketing, legal fees, or leasing commissions.
Reviewing these statements manually is difficult and time-consuming. It requires comparing dozens of expense line items against complex lease language, checking proportionate share calculations, verifying CAM cap compliance, and cross-referencing exclusion lists. Most small business tenants simply don't have the bandwidth to do this every year — which is why billing errors often go undetected for the duration of a lease.
How LeaseGuard Works
Upload Documents
Upload your commercial lease agreement and one or more annual CAM reconciliation statements. The platform accepts PDFs, scanned documents, and image files.
Analyze Clauses and Expenses
LeaseGuard reads both documents and cross-references each reconciliation line item against your lease's expense definitions, exclusions, caps, and proportionate share provisions.
Review Audit Report
The platform identifies potential discrepancies and generates a detailed audit report highlighting overcharges, excluded expense violations, and CAM cap issues — in about 60 seconds.
Our Mission
Our mission is straightforward: help commercial tenants better understand their lease expenses and identify potential overcharges.
We believe that every tenant — whether they operate a single retail location or manage a portfolio of franchise spaces — should have access to the tools needed to verify that their CAM charges are accurate. Traditionally, CAM audits have been expensive, slow, and accessible only to tenants with large enough portfolios to justify the cost. LeaseGuard changes that by making audit analysis fast, affordable, and available to businesses of any size.
We are not a law firm and we do not provide legal or accounting advice. LeaseGuard is an analysis tool that gives tenants a clear starting point for reviewing their charges and, when needed, engaging with their landlord or a qualified professional.
Run a LeaseGuard CAM Audit
Upload your lease and CAM reconciliation statement to identify potential billing discrepancies. Results are delivered in about 60 seconds.
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