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ALPHA Office Escalations™ is a BOMA-approved SaaS platform that accurately calculates and manages operating expense escalations for commercial office leases.

News & Insights

Red News — December, 2020

Gross-ups and COVID: Alpha Office Escalations solves complicated calculation issues.

Red News — August, 2020

Alpha Office Escalations: Eliminates the escalations headache.

Reality News Report — October, 2019

Q&A with Bill Brownfield, Author of a Commercial Real Estate Classic.

Product

ALPHA Office Escalations (AOE) is the ONLY software product that incorporates BOMA-approved methodology, used by thousands of real estate professionals.

AOE has been in use since 1998 and our loyal client base considers it the best solution on the market. AOE offers the most flexible lease setup, the best support team, and the most accurate way to calculate escalations including gross-ups, capital amortizations, expense pools and expense caps, allowing property managers and building owners to get an overall picture of their building year after year.

Features

AOE generates better information, which leads to better management, so tenants are only charged what is agreed to in each lease.

AUTOMATIC

Automates the entire escalation process, from calculations to billings and cover letters to tenants, for both pre-billing and for year-end reconciliations.

ACCURATE

Accurately and consistently calculate escalations including gross ups, capital amortizations, expense pools and expense caps.

FLEXIBLE

Accepts any chart of accounts, an unlimited number of leases and expense pools, and accommodates virtually any lease escalation clause.

KEEPS YOUR HISTORY

All prior years data is stored on the cloud and immediately available, which can prove invaluable for refunding successful property tax appeals or providing answers to tenant auditors.

WORKS ANYWHERE

The program and all its data is stored in the cloud and available anywhere you have internet access.

GREAT SUPPORT

When you talk to us, you'll be talking to the people who designed the software. Free technical support and free upgrades are included in the annual maintenance plan.

Customers

AOE has been in use since 1998 and our loyal client base considers it the best solution on the market. AOE offers the most flexible lease set up, the best reporting package, and the best user support in the industry. Here's what a few of them say about us.

“ALPHA Office Escalations has removed all of the apprehension from performing the annual true-ups. They are now fast, accurate and never disputed. They have been commended by the auditors themselves.”

— Karrie S. McCampbell, CPM, SVP, Management Services, Transwestern

“We used to rely on Excel spreadsheets for our escalation billings. The ALPHA Office Escalations software is much more dependable, since formulas can't be changed. It's fast: Year 2 was a breeze, since we only had to input changes. And using BOMA's standards makes our tenants really comfortable.”

— Brett Williams, SVP, PMRG

“The software is great and easy to use. Makes reconciliations much easier.”

— Carol Sapstead, Property Manager, Lincoln Property Company

“I like the invoices for tenants. The breakdown and format are very clean and understandable. The program makes it easy to verify any caps on expenses or gross-up calculations – and there are fewer human errors.”

— Karen Bray, Property Manager, Lincoln Property Company

“The software has become an essential part of our accounting business cycle. It has improved our operating expense pass-through process and we highly recommend using it for CAM Estimates & Reconciliations.”

— Ann-Marie Douglas, Assistant Regional Portfolio Manager, Equastone Real Estate Investment Advisors

“We've achieved greater consistency in our year-end reconciliation's, gross-up calculations and our tenant pre-billings. The software easily works with gross and triple-net leases, multiple expense pools and detail reporting.”

— Paul Noetzel, Associate Director, CB Richard Ellis, Austin, Texas

GET YOUR ESCALATIONS UNDER CONTROL

Better information allows owners to make smarter decisions when interpreting building expense and preserving excellent records.

About Us

Half a Century of Escalation Experience Founders Bill Brownfield (CRE, CCIM) and Larry Mayerhofer (CPA) provide solutions for accurately billing office building expense escalations (each tenant's share of operating expenses). Since 1991, their products have been used by landlords to calculate escalation invoices for thousands of tenants, uniquely encompassing complexities found in individual leases that most accounting systems can't handle.

Bill Brownfield (CRE, CCIM)

William H. Brownfield is a Counselor of Real Estate (CRE) and a Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM), and previously held the Certified Property Manager (CPM) designation. Bill has been responsible for management activities of more than 28 million square feet of office properties in markets across the United States.

Larry Mayerhofer (CPA)

Lawrence M. Mayerhofer is a Certified Public Accountant with more than 30 years of real-estate accounting experience. Larry co-founded Brownfield & Mayerhofer in 1998. As Vice-President of Accounting for the nations largest REIT, he was responsible for the billing escalations for over 14,000 tenants annually.

Bill & Larry have also educated thousands of industry professionals on the subject during BOMA International meetings/webinars and corporate seminars. They believe that creating enduring relationships between office building owners and tenants is accomplished through education and a commitment to adhering to each lease's escalation language. Bill & Larry are co-authors of The Escalation Handbook for Office Buildings (3rd Ed. 2014) and ALPHA Office Escalations (AOE) software, which automates the processes outlined in the Handbook. These are the only products in the industry that use BOMA-approved methodology for invoicing office escalations.

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