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Occupancy Cost Audit Group (OAG) delivers to our clients the highest standard of excellence in the audit industry.

The Occupancy Cost Audit Group (OAG) offers a full array of services including occupancy savings, strategic reviews and portfolio evaluations. The current commercial real estate environment is severely challenged. The tight credit market, increased vacancy and softening rents have put pressure on landlords as well as tenants that are frequently seeking to eliminate excess real estate and occupancy expense from their portfolio. OAG helps our clients by providing these services:

Occupancy Savings – Rent Reductions/Lease Terminations, Assignments and Subletting

Strategic Reviews and Portfolio Valuations

OAG partners with its clients to across all property types, including retail, restaurants, supermarkets, industrial, distribution centers, office and residential. For over 35 years, we’ve leveraged long-standing landlord relationships and in-depth real estate knowledge to renegotiate and mitigate leases. We deliver comprehensive strategies using state-of-the-art operating models, forecasting and benchmarking.

We provide the solutions to recoup thousands of dollars in overcharges. Our services can recover billing errors, maximize Lease compliance and control future occupancy costs. We will review every facet of your Lease to determine potential billing errors, and our comprehensive approach will provide optimal results.

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Occupancy Cost Audit

Lease auditing is our core service. OAG delivers deep and comprehensive reviews of all the expenses received from and paid to your landlords and ensures their accuracy per your leases. We’re an extra set of eyes on your costly real estate spend and we’re only compensated on successful recoveries.

We review every category of pass-through real estate expenses to make sure you only pay your fair share. We are the expert in identifying, validating and recovering lost profits quickly and efficiently, which result in improved financial performance and insightful information with actionable recommendations for sus-tained performance.

Landlord Statement Audit

OAG can review all the open balances across all landlords and properties to bring you up to date quickly.

We couple powerful software with veteran Lease auditors to efficiently examine invoices, related Leases, Amend-ments, CC&R’s, REA’s and other critical real estate documents, searching for overbillings, overpayments and many other factors that would result in an errant transaction.

Invoice Payment Processing

OAG can assist in processing the incoming CAM reconciliations or operating expense reconcili-ations from your landlords or property managers to ensure they are correct and payable per your lease agreements.

We can also work with landlords to bring missing or incomplete CAM reconciliations up to date.

Special Projects

OAG and its partners offer strategic reviews and portfolio evaluations to review contract compliance, rent reductions, lease terminations, assign-ments, subletting or property dispositions.

We also support research and benchmarking programs with a powerful combination of experience, case studies and our proprietary COMPASS system that warehouses 30 years of claims and landlord data.

Consulting

For many of our clients, we’re their “help desk”.

We utilize a very transparent methodology and we’re always inviting our clients to watch, listen and learn from us to tighten their own internal controls, lease language and team. As your partner, OAG always shares best practices with its clients and is available to answer questions or concerns at no additional cost.