Visual Lease is wholly owned by KBA Lease Services, a real estate consulting firm specializing in lease auditing. Lease auditing is the process by which rent charges are analyzed to ensure compliance with lease terms.

KBA has audited over 10,000 leases and have the proven experience to know what to look for, what to avoid, and how to apply the right resolution strategy to achieve recoveries.

Why Do I Need a Lease Audit Firm to Check My Bills?

Correcting landlord billing errors requires specialized skills. To find errors, you must have accounting expertise as well as in-depth legal knowledge of lease clauses, of how your building operates and of how your landlord computes bills for its tenants.  Unless you have a block of concentrated time and extensive resources, you will not be able to identify errors other than the most obvious ones.

In addition, to convince your landlord that the errors must be corrected, and do so without adversely affecting your relationship, you also need very effective communication and negotiation skills. Unless you know how to communicate with your landlord’s accountants at their level, you will not be able to retrieve your overpayments.

Using a third-party lease audit firm significantly increases the amount of savings achieved and simultaneously reduces the potential for tension in this area.

For more detailed information on what to look for in a lease audit firm, please see our Article, Criteria for Selecting a Lease Audit Firm.