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RESOLUTION NO. 83-22 PAGE FOUR . expenses. The declarations of William Greenberg and Sonia Greenberg are not persuasive of the truth of the allegations therein contained, both because they are inherently self- serving statements, and because they failed to provide any detailed explanation of the items for which claims are made, or the necessity of incurring costs and expenses with respect thereto, or the amounts of the costs and expenses alleged. Apart from two receipts for electrical work (which are related to the claimant solely by a general assertion in the declaration of William Greenberg), the amounts claimed are unsupported by any independent documentation in the nature of bids, estimates, appraisals, receipts, or statements of disinterested third parties. While such document ion is not ordinarily required or available for moving expenses in the case of a self-move, the Agency would have been entitled to obtain independent bids or estimates of moving expenses in lieu of such documentation (or an agreed-upon estimate such as the February 18 letter agreement) on which to base a determination of proper relocation assistance payments. In this case, however, this Agency was precluded from doing so by reason of Mr. and Mrs. William Greenberg's failure (apart from the discussions leading up to the February 18,1981 letter agreement) to consult with Agency staff on the relocation of WKatie's Children's Boutique.w As noted previously, neither Mr. William Greenberg nor Mrs. William Greenberg ever represented to the Agency that they were incurring moving expenses with respect to their clothing business that were not addressed or anticipated in the letter agreement until this claim was filed, long after the move took place. Agency staff were thereby deprived of the opportunity to evaluate (or reevaluate) the actuality and reasonableness of the moving expenses and related expenses of the clothing business on the basis of either independently-derived or agreed-upon estimates. If Mr. and Mrs. William Greenberg did in fact incur moving and related expenses other than those addressed in the letter agreement, they acted unreasonably in failing to communicate with Agency staff in a timely manner. Their present inability to provide any meaningful substantiation for the amounts they now claim is primarily their own responsibility. . . d. As a separate and independent basis for denial of that portion of the said claim pertaining to wLoss of Personal Property,W the claimant failed to establish its eligibility for payment for any actual loss of any items of tangible personal property incurred as a result of the claimant's move. The claimant made no good faith effort to sell such property, nor did it transfer ownership of such /J -.J./ 6A