B-227567: Aug 26, 1988

CIVILIAN PERSONNEL - Relocation - Residence transaction expenses - Finance charges DIGEST: A transferred employee may not be reimbursed for the buyer's closing costs he paid in the sale of his residence in the absence of evidence that such costs were customarily paid by the seller in the locality at that time. He was unable to sell the property until May 1986. That the purchaser was insistent that...

B-227567: Aug 26, 1988

The Army Corps of Engineers requested a decision concerning an employee's claim for reimbursement for closing costs on the sale of his residence incident to his transfer. GAO held that there was no evidence that sellers in that locality customarily paid such costs. Accordingly, the claim was denied...