Leases
Commercial lease escalations: types and calculations
How commercial lease escalations work, including fixed percentage increases, fixed-dollar increases, CPI adjustments, schedules, and rent calculations.
August 24, 2026 · 4 min
Blog
Blog
Working notes on CAM reconciliation, NNN recoveries and commercial lease administration.
Explainers on CAM reconciliation, NNN expense recovery and commercial lease administration — written for owners and property managers who run recoveries against books kept in QuickBooks Online.
Most of it is mechanics rather than opinion: how a pro-rata share is derived, what a cap or a base year does to the arithmetic, where gross-ups come from, and how certificates and escalation dates end up driving the work. If you want to run the numbers, the CAM calculator does the arithmetic in your browser, and the reconciliation checklist is the step-by-step. Unfamiliar wording is in the glossary. If you are evaluating tools, start with CAM reconciliation software or how the accounting integration works.
Comparisons
DoorLoop vs. Ledgerstone for commercial property
An honest comparison for commercial real estate, covering CAM reconciliation, QuickBooks Online, lease escalations, COI tracking and where each is stronger.
August 24, 2026 · 11 min
Lease administration
What lease administration covers in commercial property
The records, dates and clauses that make up commercial lease administration, what belongs in a lease abstract, and why terms that drive money must be fields.
August 5, 2026 · 7 min
CAM & recovery
Base year and expense stop are not the same thing
Two clauses that look interchangeable and are not. What each one fixes, how each behaves as expenses rise, and why the distinction shows up in year three.
July 9, 2026 · 4 min
CAM & recovery
What a CAM reconciliation actually involves
A walk through the CAM reconciliation from expense pool to tenant statement, with a worked example and the three cap mechanics compared.
June 18, 2026 · 8 min