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B-219258 1 (1988-06-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadncq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Leonard L. Garofolo - Real Estate Expenses - Home Matterof. and Pool Inspection Fees File: B-219258 Date: June 10, 1988 DIGEST A transferred employee claimed reimbursement for the costs of a home inspection and a pool inspection, both of which were recommended by his real estate agent. His claim for reimbursement for those fees, on the basis that once they were inserted in the contract they qualified as required services, is denied. The term required as used in the applicable statute and regulations relates only to those services which are imposed on the employee by state or local law or by the lender as a precondition to the sale or purchase of a residence. DECISION This decision is in response to a request from the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management, U.S. Department of Labor, concerning the entitlement of one of its employees to be reimbursed certain real estate inspection fees incurred incident to a permanent change of station. We conclude the employee is not entitled to reimbursement, for the following reasons. BACKGROUND Mr. Leonard L. Garofolo, an employee of the Department of Labor, purchased a residence in connection with his transfer. Among the expenses claimed were a house inspection fee ($225) and a pool inspection fee ($125). Both items were disallowed by the agency on the basis that they were not services required by the employee's mortgage lender and were not otherwise identified in the Federal Travel Regulations as reimbursable. Mr. Garofolo asserts that there is nothing in the law or regulations which would bar reimbursement for these fees. He argues that the decisions of this Office denying reimbursement do so only where the fees charged were not

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