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B-189997 1 (1978-02-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadfpb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER ONERAL. DECISION . j. oT HE UNITED UTATEE sC !0tAMM INGTON, D.C. 20b48 VMITI FILE: 0-10999 DATE: februar 1, 197 MIATTER OF:Lloyd 01. McLaughlin - Real Estate Expenues - Mobile Home DIGEST: 1. I; - I Transferred employee purchased land nor new station for purpose of con- structing dwelling. Employee occupied mobile home on land during construction. Although house was not fully constructed 2 years after transfer, employee may be reimbursed expenses incident to purchase of land under FTR pars. 2-6.1b since he ocdupied mobile home from which he reguilarly commuted to work. 2. Employee purchased 10-acre lot on whiclh he occupied mobile home while constructing house. Whether deter- mination of how much land reasonably relat;es to residence site should be made depends upon the fees for which reim'ursement is claimed and the billing practices of personu rendering such servives. Since in this case the re- cording fees, title search, and closing fee were a flat charge, such determina- tion need not be made. By a letter dated Augdat 26, 1977, Mr. H. Larry Jordan, an authorized certifying officer of the Department of Agriculture, requested our:,decision whether a voucher in favor of Mr. Lloyd E. McLaughlin for reimbursement of legal and related coihts in connection with the purchase of land at his new duty station may be certified for payment. The record indicates ,thit on June 2, 1975, Mr. McLaughlin, an, employee of the Department o Agriculture, transferred from Independence, Missouri, to Washington, D.C. Mr. McLau hlin then purchased approximately 10 acres of land at Lovettsville, Virqinia, in the vicinity of his new station. Settlement of this transaction occurred on V p '43> I. ~1 ;~. I II Ii 4' -

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