Common area factor rate question
I'm looking at leasing a floor in a commercial building and I'm curious how common area factor is applied in situations where there is a large disparity in rental rates per floor. In this case the top floor has a rate that's double that of one of the other floors. Each floor is a different rate.

Tenants are responsible for a portion of the common areas proportional to their square footage.  I understand that.  The part that seems wrong to me is that the tenants are billed for their portion at the same rate as their floor rate.  So the tenant on the top floor is paying a huge rate for boiler room and hallway space while tenants on the lower floors are paying a lower rate for the same area. Is this normal? Is there a mechanism for making this more fair?
[{"id": "dbu3i8e", "text": "The CAM charges and taxes are flat per square foot (or at least grouped in very large buildings), but yes the different in square footage between the rentable and usable square footage is always charges at the same rate per square foot as the main space being leased. (The entire rentable square footage is leased at the same amount psf.)\n\nOverall, having higher base rental rates on higher floors where the views are typically better is not-uncommon. But it would be very unusual for the building to negotiate on the rationale you ave described as every building is doing the same.\n\nIf you really really pushed on this issue, and were a large enough tenant that it was worth it, the building would just figure out some way to offset this amount, but it would come out of the amount they are willing to provide in other concessions, such as abatement, tenant improvement allowance or a reduction in the base rental rate.\n\ntl;dr: Don't bother fighting with the building over this, and if you want to pay less, focus on negotiating the base rental rate or asking for more rental abatement.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]