How to Import Rents/CAM Estimates into a Budget

This guide shows how to quickly populate a budget with accurate, prorated current rents and CAM estimates from lease data so your monthly budget reflects escalations, options, and fixed CAM escalations automatically. It walks you to the Budgets tool, explains choosing Base Rents or CAM Estimates (not historical actuals), and how to set the correct import date and options before importing. Follow it to save manual entry and ensure consistent, escalation-aware budget inputs.

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RAAMP allows you to import current rents for all your tenants based on the lease abstracts. This has several advantages: 1. All rents are prorated, so you get accurate monthly rents. 2. Imports automatically adjust for escalations and options. 3. Cam Estimates, if set to fixed, also automatically escalate and prorate. **Recommended Workflow** 1. Import historical Actuals first. 2. After actuals are imported, import Base Rent. 3. Then import CAM Recovery Estimates. Importing rents after actuals ensures projected rent values replace historical rent amounts instead of being overwritten by the actual import.

How to Navigate to Budgets

From the navigation menu, Select **Accounting >** Select **Tools >** Select **Budgets.**

From the **Accounting module**, select the **Tools** tab > Select **Budgets.**

Budgets Tab Overview

How to Import Rents/CAM Estimates

Select the row's **import** icon.

From the **Import From** dropdown menu, select **Base Rents or CAM Estimates.** **NOTE:** Do not choose actuals because those are historical values.

Set the **Import date** to the **current period.** *In this example, the budget starts in January 2020, so the value selected would be January 2020.*

You can apply adjustments and other options, if needed. Once the import data is set, select **Import.**

Related Tutorial(s):\ \ [How to Add a Budget](https://support.raamp.com/wiki/87)\ [How to Project a Value in a Budget](https://support.raamp.com/wiki/88)\ [How to Import Actuals into a Budget](https://support.raamp.com/wiki/91)