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B-205412 1 (1982-04-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkfz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: II DECISION FILE: B-205412 MATTER OF: DIGEST: THF. COMPTRDLLERG EWNERAL OF TH UNITED UTATIB WA 13FIHINQ(3TON, L, C, VO 15 4 B DATE: April 15, 1982 Richard C. Smith 1, Employee may be reimbursed deposit he forfeited to a builder who was to con- struct a residence for the employee before he was notified of his transfer. Such amount is a forfeiture loss within the meaning of para. 2-3.1 et seq. of the Federal Travel Regulations (FTR) and is payable as a miscellaneous expense. 2. Although the employee intended a residence on a lot at his old station before his transfer, he to build I duty .is not entitled to real estate expenses for sale of the lot. The employee did not live in a residence on the Jot when he was first notified by competent authority of his impending transfer as required by para. 2-6,1d of the FederaleTravel Regulations (FTR). Real estate expenses are payable only for the sale or purchase of a lot integrated with a dwelling or used for a mobile home in accordance with para. 2-6.1 of the FTR. May an employee be reimbursed real estate expenses for the sale of a lot and for a deposit that he paid to a builder for the construction of a residence at his old duty station which was forfeited because of his transfer? As we will ex;.;ain, he may be reimbursed the amount he forfeited to the builder, but he may not be reimbursed the real estate expenses for the sale of the lot. Mr. Richard C. Smith, an employee Administration, transferred from Storm Joseph, Missouri, effective January 12 or early August 1980, he and his wife in Storm Lake and purchased a lot on it to construct a new home. lie and his fe quarters until their new home could be of the Soci Lake, Iowa 1981. In sold their hich they i amily moved built, He al Security , to Saint late July residence intended into rental t paid a 'V ) a /5- /0 I.-Op K ; r- 1;0,., A-, C-k L !

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