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A CAM charge is an additional rent, charged on top of base rent, and is mainly composed of maintenance fees for work performed on the common area of a property Each tenant pays their pro rata share of a property's total CAM charges, which prorated share is the percentage of the tenant's rented square footage of the total, rentable square ...
The calculation of a given tenant's share of an expense can be complex. A general system is to divide it up by the tenant's rented area compared to the total available rentable area in the building. This is often used for items that are truly shared, like the gas used to heat the building, or the electricity used to run the lighting and air ...
Porter's wages is an accounting method used in commercial real estate to calculate inflation of certain recoverable expenses.. The term "porters" normally refers to people who carry objects, like bellhops in hotels, but for historical reasons in the United States it also came to cover the cleaning and maintenance staff as they were represented by the same unions.
In commercial real estate in the US, a building's loss factor is the percentage of the building's area shared by tenants or space that are dedicated to the common areas of a building used to calculate the difference between the net (usable) and gross (billable) areas. [19]
[3] [4] [5] Landlords typically calculate a rent amount that reasonably covers the cost of rent, standard utilities, and other expected and day-to-day expenses. [6] In a gross lease, the rent is primarily paid by the tenant. The landlord assumes the costs of maintaining the building. This includes parking lots, common areas, and utilities.
Deferred maintenance is the practice of postponing maintenance activities such as repairs on both real property (i.e. infrastructure) and personal property (i.e. machinery) in order to save costs, meet budget funding levels, or realign available budget monies. The failure to perform needed repairs could lead to asset deterioration and ...
A homeowner association (or homeowners' association [HOA], sometimes referred to as a property owners' association [POA], common interest development [CID], or homeowner community) is a private, legally-incorporated organization that governs a housing community, collects dues, and sets rules for its residents.
Net Effective Rent, sometimes Net Effective Rate, or NER for short, is a measure of the expected income from a tenant, seen mostly in commercial real estate. It is the net present value of all the rental payments over the period of the lease, as well as any abatements or incentives that might add to or lower these payments. An example of a ...