KBA Gets Landlords to doWhat’s Fair

Most lease audits stop at arithmetic and accounting.

KBA’s process resolves what those alone can’t: methodology, interpretation and fairness, without making an adversary of your landlord.

Four Reasons the KBA process recovers what others can’t

Commodity firms stop at the surface, KBA digs through every stratum.

Our multidisciplinary expertise — CRE legal, forensic accounting, building operations, and engineering — identifies and resolves overcharge issues other firms overlook, even when the landlord isn’t at fault. Only KBA fixes situations the lease didn’t anticipate, doesn’t protect against, or actually permits.

Where Savings Hide

Claim Type

Administrative & Arithmetic

Pro-rata share and formula errors, wrong totals, dates or indices

Accounting

Improper accruals and amortization, cap miscalculation, allocation issues, excludable charges, opportunistic cost categorization

Where typical audit firms stop ↓

Subjective

Lease language misaligns with the deal’s intent; opportunistic methodologies; interpretive expense inclusions; CapEx redefining; non-arms-length costs

Fairness & Equity Claims

The landlord isn’t wrong — but the cost isn’t fair

The deeper layers are where KBA finds 4–10x the savings — and only KBA works there.

Only KBA’s CRE legal acumen and unparalleled length of tenure puts you at peer level with landlords and real estate counsel.

While we are not acting as your attorneys, the nation’s top leasing lawyers and brokers turn to KBA when it comes to OpEx, CAM and additional rent questions. Of course, we have forensic CPAs to analyze landlord books and records for accuracy and accounting fitness, but only KBA adds a focus on how well your liabilities track the intent of the parties, not just the ledger entries and invoices.

Only KBA combines the CRE legal acumen and length of tenure to engage landlords — and their lawyers — as peers.

KBA does not act as your attorneys.

The only people that like audits are those that get paid for them.

Books and records audits do not resolve claims; they are just an optional method of collecting and researching documentation. There are more congenial ways to obtain the same data. KBA’s delicate approach is better suited for amicable, business partner relationships and for situations where the issue isn’t correctness, but rather fairness of complex financial decisions.

There are two ways to resolve a dispute — only one keeps your landlord a partner

The Formal Audit Route — CPA & commodity firms

Invoke audit rights formally: Tension starts on day one
Inspect books & records: Tight deadlines, narrow lookback
Myopic focus on only objective errors: Equity claims off the table
Protracted back-and-forth: Months of friction over red herrings
The outcome: Modest recovery, strained relationship

The KBA Advisory Route — 90%+ of KBA’s cases

Research quietly, no audit invoked: Faster, focused on what matters
Raise issues peer-to-peer: Merits and fairness, not accusations
Pursue every layer of savings: Errors, methodology, and equity claims
Time saved: Avoid formal inspections, arbitration and/or litigation
The outcome: 4–10x the savings, realign the deal to original financial intent — landlord relationship preserved

When a formal inspection is genuinely needed, KBA performs it — fully compliant with your lease’s audit provisions.

The brokerage/CPA approach risks your audit compliance and leaves money on the table.

Most lease audit providers do not understand how flexible research and solutioning can be. They accept every limitation as written — forfeiting your savings, service quality and sometimes your compliance along with them.

Lease audit “rights” are really restrictions — but most firms treat them like scripture

The lease says…	Typical firms	KBA
“Only last year’s expenses may be reviewed”Drastically limited lookback	Forfeit value from past years	Expands the years in play for resolution
“Audit and dispute must finish fast”Very tight time limits	Acquiesce to the clock	Works the process so deadlines don’t cost you claims
“Only certain parties may audit”Party & process limitations	Settle for more expensive and less experienced resources with more downside risk	Keeps experienced, zealous experts on your side

YES — we are fully compliant with your lease requirements. Tenants get what they deserve, despite any apparent limitation.

Optimize your Process with KBA.

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