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B-202684 1 (1981-10-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjvd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: . 1 .1 _1 6 B-202684 MATTER 0 DIGEST: F: DATE: October 19, 1981 Martin Wood - Relocation expenses - Closing costs paid by seller Employee claims closing costs arising from purchase of home in Montgomery, Alabama, incident to transfer. Agency questions whether claim may be paid, since purchase agreement placed liability for closing costs on seller and settlement sheet shows that closing costs were paid from seller's funds. Employee argues that closing costs were included in sales price, but did not provide statement to that effect from seller. Since employee has not shown that both buyer and seller regard costs as having been paid by buyer, claim may not be allowed. D. E. Cox, Authorized Certifying Officer, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) requests our decision whether closing costs paid by the seller may be reimbursed to a transferred employee who purchased a house, where the seller has not provided a statement that the closing costs were included in the sales price of the house. Our holding in Philibert A. Ouellet, B-200257, August 18, 1981, is control- ling, and the employee may not be reimbursed for the reasons set forth below. Mr. Martin Wood, an employee of the FBI, claims reim- bursement for $1,833.50 of the closing costs paid by the seller of the residence that Mr. Woods purchased in Montgomery, Alabama, incident to his transfer to that city. The certifying officer questions whether the reimbursement is authorized in the absence of documentation to show that the closing costs were clearly separable from the purchase price and paid by the buyer. In particular, he notes that under the purchase agreement the seller is liable for closing costs and the settlement sheet indicates that the closing costs were paid from the seller's funds. Mr. Wood has submitted a memorandum in support of his claim. He states that the settlement sheet does not reflect what actually happened. He notes that he obtained a Veterans Administration (VA) loan, and alleges that when a VA loan r. - gk~~ DECISION FILE: TH E COMPTROLLER GE NERAL OF THE UNITED BTATES WASHINGTON. 0. C. 20548 /¢7y 04

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