Start here if you have been told to submit DD Form 1705. First, know what you are filling: Reimbursement for Real Estate Sale and/or Purchase Closing Cost Expenses. The document is titled DD Form 1705, Reimbursement for Real Estate Sale and/or Purchase Closing Cost Expenses, October 2002..
Next, check the edition. You want not stated, currently carried as not stated by the publisher. Then confirm the form applies to you — this is a Department of Defense form, so you use it whether you serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force or Coast Guard under Defense jurisdiction.
After that, turn to timing. The requirement comes from not stated; the form is maintained by not stated. Local implementing instructions fill in the dates, so check with the office that will receive your copy.
Finally, decide how you will complete it. You can type into a fillable file or print a blank and write by hand, and the rest of this page walks you through both paths in order.
Now fill it in. Work from the top of the page downward, and do not jump ahead — the identifying block comes first, the substance of your entry second, the certification last. Later boxes often depend on what you put at the top.
Your first action is verification. Find the edition date on the form and match it against not stated. A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.
Look up an unclear item on the form face before anywhere else, then in not stated. Should the two texts conflict, the directive is the one you follow.
Download the form
First, look at what you can download. The set covers PDF, the form runs 2 pages, and you will complete roughly 62 fields.
Choose pdf as your default. Next, click inside a box. A fillable pdf responds by outlining the field and letting you type; the text stays in the document when you save it. A printable pdf does not respond, which tells you to print the page and complete it by hand.
Prefer typing over writing. Your form will likely be scanned and emailed onward, and typed text reproduces at every stage while pen strokes fade or blur. When you do write, print in capitals so the receiving clerk can read it.
Handle xfdl in two steps. First confirm you have IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or a compatible reader on your machine; ordinary pdf software will report the file as broken. Once the viewer is running, download and fill the form.
All of it downloads free. When you are ready to work, do this: save the file locally, then open it in a full pdf application. Browsers often ignore field properties, and you can lose everything you typed.
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.
Submit the completed form through the channel not stated or your local guidance specifies. Save a copy for yourself before it leaves your hands, whether that means a scan, a photograph or a duplicate file.
When DD Form 1705 references another form, search on the series and number. Because DD numbers are common to every military department, the number by itself identifies exactly one document.
Be careful when a procedure pairs this form with a service form. Read the prefix, not just the digits. Service forms answer to a service proponent, while DD forms answer to not stated or an equivalent Department office, and the two sequences were never aligned. Grabbing the wrong prefix gets you a form that has nothing to do with your task.
Come back and check the edition next time you need this form. Editions change when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the information collected changes, or when the required notice language is updated, and none of those events reaches you directly. Verifying not stated at the moment you download is the whole defence.
One thing this page does not do: tell you whether your submission will be accepted. We publish the document and explain how to complete it, and that is where our role ends. Nothing here is legal advice. Take questions about eligibility, applicability or procedure to not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office named 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?