Section 2: Allowable Moving Expenses - Residential
Anchor: #i1000839Overview
When using an actual cost basis, consider the following items as allowable expenses.
Anchor: #i1000851Personalty
Costs, including packing and unpacking, for moving personalty lawfully located on the site from which it is moved.
Anchor: #i1000861Personal Transportation
Costs for transporting residential displacees to the new location. Reimburse these costs at the current TxDOT rate, or, if commercial transportation is used, reimbursement can be for reasonable actual fees. Costs for special personnel services, such as ambulance transportation for invalid displacees, are eligible.
Anchor: #i1000871Removal and Reinstallation
Costs for disconnecting, dismantling, removing, reassembling, and reinstalling displaced household appliances and other personalty;
Anchor: #i1000881Storage
The District Engineer may approve requests for personalty storage for periods up to one year. The need for storage must be documented in District files. Costs for personalty storage must not exceed one year unless TxDOT determines that a longer time is necessary and approves the estimated additional time before the move. Costs are not eligible for storing personalty on the remainder of real property being acquired, or on other property owned or leased by the displacee or a member of his family. Animal boarding is not considered personalty storage.
Anchor: #i1000894Temporary Lodgings and Meals
TxDOT may approve reimbursement of the reasonable costs of temporary lodgings and meals, for up to 14 days, when it is determined, before the move, that such costs are necessary. The necessity of incurring such costs must be documented in District files. Approval by the ROW Division is required, before the move, for reimbursement when costs will be incurred for more than 14 days. Costs are not eligible for lodging displacees in vacation quarters or resort facilities outside the relocation area, or for temporary lodgings and meals in other property owned by the displacee or rented by him for other purposes.
Anchor: #i1000904Insurance
Costs for insurance premiums covering loss or damage of personalty while in storage or transit. The coverage amount must not exceed reasonable replacement value of the moved property.
Anchor: #i1000914Losses in Moving
Reasonable replacement value of property lost, stolen, or damaged in the moving process (not through the fault or negligence of the displacee, his agent, or employees) when insurance covering such loss, theft, or damage is not readily available.
Anchor: #i1000924Utilities
Costs for utility and telephone hookup charges. Refundable service deposits are not eligible.
Anchor: #i1000934Mobile Homes
Eligible costs are as follows:
- reasonable costs for disassembling, moving, reassembling, and anchoring any attached structures (such as porches, decks, skirting and awnings) that are not acquired as real property;
- reasonable costs for repairs or modifications determined necessary by TxDOT for moving the mobile home to a replacement site; and
- non-returnable mobile home park entrance fees unless TxDOT determines that a comparable mobile home park is available which does not require an entrance fee.
Other Expenses
Costs not specifically listed as ineligible in Ineligible Moving and Related Expenses and determined by TxDOT to be reasonable and necessary.