Commercial Lease Check Your common area maintenance bill, set beside your lease.
Your landlord just sent the common area maintenance bill.
Before you pay it, get it checked against your lease.
Each year your landlord sends a common area maintenance (CAM) bill: your share of the building's cleaning, landscaping, security, taxes and insurance. Send us the bill and your lease. We check each charge against the lease and send you the results in writing, with the lease words beside every line.
Your free first look arrives within 48 hours of complete documents. Want the full check? It's $295, whatever we find.
A made-up example: a restaurant's 2025 billStatement dated March 15, 2026
| Charge | Billed to you | Lease section and its words | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Landscaping | $2,140.00 | 6.2(a) lists landscaping | Matches the lease text |
| Parking lot repair and sweeping | $1,860.00 | 6.2(a) lists parking lot repair and sweeping | Unclear: ask the landlord for the invoice |
| Roof replacement | $1,950.00 | 6.3(c) excludes capital replacements, including roof replacement | Differs from the lease text $1,950.00 in question |
| Legal fees, landlord's dispute with another tenant | $640.00 | 6.3(f) excludes legal fees in Landlord's disputes with other tenants | Differs from the lease text $640.00 in question |
| Common area utilities | $1,410.00 | 6.2(b) lists Common area utilities | Matches the lease text |
| Management fee, billed at 6% | $480.00 | 6.4: the fee shall not exceed four percent (4%)of the charges listed in Section 6.2 and not excluded by Section 6.3 | Differs from the lease text $263.60 in question |
| Your share of the center | 8.57% | 3.1: 2,400 square feet divided by 28,000 square feet | Matches the lease text |
- Billed to you
- $8,480.00
- Amount in question
- $2,853.60
- The 60-day date in Section 6.5(c)
- May 14, 2026
Within sixty (60) days after the date of the Annual Statement
: March 15, 2026 plus 60 days = May 14, 2026.
Who it is for
Businesses that rent their space under a commercial lease: restaurants, shops, offices, clinics, franchise locations.
What you get
- Every charge on the bill, set beside the lease words that include it, exclude it or cap it.
- The amount in question, added up so you can check the math.
- The time your lease gives you to ask, quoted from your lease, with the date worked out when the wording is plain.
- A list of anything we could not check from the documents you sent.
Our request template is free for anyone: open the request template. It asks your landlord for the supporting documents. You fill it in yourself; we do not fill it in or tell you what to put in it.
How it works
Upload your lease and your yearly statement. That is the year-end true-up statement with its line items, not a monthly estimate bill.
We email you to confirm your documents are complete, or to say what is missing.
Your free first look arrives within 48 hours of complete documents. It tells you roughly how much is in question, and it quotes your lease's time limit for questioning the bill when it has one.
Want the full check? It's $295, whatever we find. It arrives within 5 business days after you pay. You decide after the first look.
Many leases give a limited time to question this bill. Check yours: if your time ends before our check arrives, our check may come too late.
AI reads your lease. A person checks every result before it reaches you.
A sample
A made-up example: a restaurant's 2025 bill, 7 items compared with its lease. 3 charges are listed in the lease's included costs. 2 are listed as excluded: a roof replacement ($1,950.00) and legal fees from the landlord's dispute with another tenant ($640.00). The management fee is $263.60 over the lease's cap. Amount in question: $2,853.60.
See a full sample checkPrice
- Free first look, within 48 hours of complete documents. It tells you roughly how much is in question.
- Full check: $295, whatever we find.
- You decide after the first look.
VMG is not a law firm or a CPA firm. We do not give legal advice. This is not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. We set your landlord's bill beside the words of your lease. We do not check the landlord's books or records, and we do not say whether the bill is right. You may want a lawyer to read your lease and our check before you act.
Questions
- Is this legal advice?
- No. We are not a law firm. The check sets each charge beside your lease's words and marks it: matches the lease text, differs from the lease text, or unclear: ask the landlord. It does not say whether the bill is right. The request template is yours to fill in and send, or not.
- Why $295 and not a percentage?
- Some firms in this field charge a percentage of any money the landlord returns, and some leases do not allow outside help paid that way. We charge one price, $295, whatever we find.
- Do you contact my landlord?
- No. Everything comes to you, and what you do with it is your choice.
- What happens to my documents?
- They are stored privately and deleted after 30 days. AI reads your lease. A person checks every result before it reaches you.
- Am I allowed to share my lease?
- Check your lease first: some limit who may see it. When you upload, you confirm you may share it with us.
Who we are
Commercial Lease Check is a product of Vantage Meridian Group LLC, a small company in Florida.
Send your lease and bill
VMG is not a law firm or a CPA firm. We do not give legal advice. This is not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. We set your landlord's bill beside the words of your lease. We do not check the landlord's books or records, and we do not say whether the bill is right. You may want a lawyer to read your lease and our check before you act.