Acquisition Fee

You thought the building cost a million bucks, but you forgot about acquisition fees. There was the commission, the bug inspection, the guy who crawled around the roof and under the building, looking at plumbing, pipes, and electrical wires, and another guy who stomped around the roof checking shingles.

You had closing costs, like filings you had to make with the city, and then final construction inspection fees, and other random fees, like the "coffee bar access" fee, and you didn't realize that egress down the hall into the corporate washroom with the fountain cost another five grand. But what could you do? Just hold it all day?

Acquisition fees are some form of commissions, and are just leakage on top of the purchase price of things you can buy.