And the Globe 5/17/15 beat me to it with a study today by Brenda Buote and the US Census – They’ve calculated the Percentage of Home Owners spending above 50% of their Income on Housing.

Whats the going percentage rate? 

Also you might want to consider cutting them in on the deal for a percentage if the numbers are good in order to make it enticing to them so they'll work with you again.Good luck

Step one is building the cushion to handle that adverse scenario, step two is getting that first property and building up additional savings through cash flow, and step three is to add properties and spread out those low percentage events so that you truly get consistent income.

Understand, it's a hedge against inflation and general market paranoia.2) It should be a small percentage of your portfolio, at most.

As a multifamily Property Manager I would build a percentage of late fees into our budget - and that even helped with income!

What percentage of your gross yearly income  do you donate to charity?

Since this is being done within an LLC (as it should), and since there are different classes of membership interests (2 that I can ascertain), there are multiple factors to work out, some of which apply even when there's just one class of membership interest:How initial capital contributions, for each given class, are booked.How subsequent capital contributions, if any, for each given class, are booked.How member loans are booked.How each member's capital account will be handled pursuant to Treasury Regulation §1.704-1(b)(2)(iv), and how reevaluation of said accounts will take place per Treasury Regulation §1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(f), to conform with §1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(g).How distributions will be allocated, including profits and losses, along with any resulting adjustment of percentage interests.How tax allocations will be handled - and if the book value of any company property is adjusted per Treasury Regulation §1.704-3, how that affects member allocations.I have not even covered every item that must be addressed (including voting rights, depreciation allocation, cash flow vs liquidation allocations (as in "when we sell a property - who gets how much of the appreciation, but what about the recapture, etc, etc.")).Insufficient information... and it's time to meet my wife for dinner.

I have heard of this but it was coming a lawyer that was going to help the company I was working for go and get the funds and take some large percentage and what I was hired to do.

It's better to put those percentages a little high then too low.Did your calculation include property management?