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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 1705 — DD Form 1705, Reimbursement for Real Estate Sale and/or Purchase Closing Cost Expenses, October 2002. — exists to Reimbursement for Real Estate Sale and/or Purchase Closing Cost Expenses, and it applies across the services rather than inside one. That is what the DD prefix encodes: joint issue, single edition, every branch and defense agency working from identical paper.
Authority: not stated prescribes it, not stated maintains it. Those two names settle most disputes about why the form is being asked for. Local commands add timing on top; the requirement itself comes from above them.
Current edition is not stated, carried as not stated. Check that against any copy you already hold before doing anything else — Department-level revisions land everywhere simultaneously, so a stale file is stale across the whole Department.
The set is PDF. Size: 2 pages, about 62 fields. Everything below refines that choice.
Default to fillable pdf, print only when you must. The fillable file stores what you type; the printable file is a blank picture. A Department form often travels further than a service form — scanned, emailed, forwarded to an agency that never saw the original — and typed text is what survives that.
Xfdl is a legacy Department format, IBM Lotus Forms, requiring the matching viewer. Its survival in DD distribution reflects how widely it was fielded across the Department, not any advantage over pdf today.
Nothing costs anything here. Work in a full desktop pdf application rather than a browser preview; field behaviour in browsers is unreliable.
What the form asks for
- 21. Commission fee: expense for former residence at old duty station.
- 22. Advertising fee: expense for former residence at old duty station.
- 23. Appraisal fee: expense for former residence at old duty station.
- 24. Legal and related fees: expense for former residence at old duty station.
- 24. Legal and related fees: expense for new residence at new duty station.
- 25.a. Prepayment charge: expense for former residence at old duty station.
- 25.b. Lender's appraisal fee: expense for new residence at new duty station.
- 25.c. FHA or VA application fee: expense for former residence at old duty station.
- 25.c. FHA or VA application fee: expense for new residence at new duty station.
- 25.d. Certification fee: expense for former residence at old duty station.
- 25.d. Certification fee: expense for new residence at new duty station.
- 25.e. Credit report fee: expense for former residence at old duty station.
- 25.e. Credit report fee: expense for new residence at new duty station.
- 25.f. Mortgage title policy fee: expense for former residence at old duty station.
- 25. Mortgage title policy fee: expense for new residence at new duty station.
- 25.g. Escrow agent's fee: expense for former residence at old duty station.
- 25.g. Escrow agent's fee: expense for new residence at new duty station.
- 25.h. Tax stamps: expense for former residence at old duty station.
- 25.h. Tax stamps: expense for new residence at new duty station.
- 25.i. Expense for former residence at old duty station.
- 25.i. Expense for new residence at new duty station.
- 26. Other incidental expenses for former residence at old duty station.
- 26. Other incidental expenses for new residence at new duty station.
- 27. Total costs incurred for sale of former residence.
Verify the edition before the first keystroke. The date on the form face should read not stated. If it does not, discard the file. Field numbering shifts between editions, and on a DD form the new layout reaches every receiving office in every service at once — there is no lag during which the old version is still normal somewhere.
Work the printed sequence: header, body, signature block. The order is functional rather than decorative, since entries below frequently key to identifying data above them.
Mark inapplicable items N/A rather than leaving white space. Use the date format the form specifies. This matters more on Department forms than on service forms: the record may be reviewed by personnel outside your branch who share none of your office conventions.
Read the Privacy Act Statement before entering identifiers, not after. Four facts are in it: authority, purpose, routine uses, consequence of declining. Its placement ahead of the data fields is deliberate.
Sign last, in ink or with a credentialed digital signature. A typed name in a signature field certifies nothing. CAC-based signing is the usual electronic method where the receiving system supports it. Date the block immediately — unsigned and undated certifications account for a large share of returns.
Check before submitting. The recurring failures are edition mismatch, gaps in required boxes, unreadable scanned handwriting, wrong date format, and certification without signature or date. Field-level questions go to the printed instructions, then to not stated, which is authoritative.
Send it as not stated or local guidance specifies. Save a copy. Cross-service and cross-agency routing is normal for Department forms, and a lost original outside your own organization is harder to chase down.
Related forms are found by number alone. The DD sequence is one unified Department-wide series, so a cited number resolves to exactly one document with no branch qualifier needed.
Prefix before number. A DA citation and a DD citation in the same instruction point at separate systems — one Army, administered by an Army proponent, one Department-wide under not stated — and there is no correspondence between them at any number.
Three drivers of revision: directive reissue, altered collection requirements, updated statutory notice text. No notification accompanies any of them, so download fresh and confirm not stated rather than reusing an archived file.
What is here is the blank form and a description of it. What is not here is legal guidance or any assurance about a particular filing — this page is not the issuing authority and does not speak for one. Those questions go to not stated, to your servicing administrative office, or to the authority identified in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1705?
- DD Form 1705, Reimbursement for Real Estate Sale and/or Purchase Closing Cost Expenses, October 2002.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?