Lease Types
Lease Terms
Budget Terms
CAM for Accounting
Common Terms
100

Lease type where LL takes care of all OPEX and is included in Base Rent, no addl rent charged to tenant

Gross Lease

100
Costs that management can influence or change? 

Controllable Expenses

100

Suite Rentable Square Footage/Building Rental Square Footage

Pro Rate Share (PRS)

100

Revenue - Expenses

Net Operating Income (NOI)

100

Another term for operating expenses (OPEX)

Common Area Maintenance (CAM)

200

Lease type where Tenant pays 100% of their PRS of OPEX expenses

Triple Net

200

Real Estate Taxes, Insurance, or Utilities are what type of expense? 

Uncontrollable Expense 

200

Expenses that are passed back through to the Tenant

Reimbursable expenses 

200

Amount of operating costs charged to a tenant based on that year's budget? 

CAM Estimate 

200

Another term for expense adjustments? 

Manual Add Backs

300

Lease type where Tenant has an expense stop and only pays their PRS over the expense stop

Modified-Gross

300

Lease provision that allows a landlord to charge tenants for operating expenses as if the building were a certain percentage occupied  

Gross Up

300

Expenses that cannot be passed back through to the Tenants

Non-Reimbursable expenses

300

The annual process landlords use to compare the estimated expenses charged to Tenants throughout the year with the actual, total expenses for shared property maintenance

CAM Reconciliation 

300

What is the name of an account in the expense section of a budget used to offset an expense (example electricity)?

Contra Account

400

A lease by a tenant for part or all of leased premises to another person

Sub-lease

400

What is the term for a specific year used as a starting point to calculate a tenant's share of future increases in operating expenses?

Base Year

400

What type of expense is for acquiring, upgrading, or maintaining long-term physical assets 

Capital Expense

400

Within how many days of calendar year end do most common lease languages say a CAM rec must be completed?  

90 days

400

What does "Below the line" refer to?

Non-Reimbursable Expenses

500

Lease where Tenant is responsible for all property-related expenses,

absolute net lease

500

What type of CAM cap allows landlord to recover any unused increases from prior years?

Cumulative CAP

500

To gradually write off the initial cost of (an asset) over a period

amortize

500

 A grouping of specific, recoverable property expenses that are allocated to tenants based on a predetermined formula 

Expense Pool 

500

What is the term used to describe the loss of income due to unrecoverable costs (due to vacancy, CAPs, lease exclusions, etc)?

Leakage