Hi,I have a triplex under contract with a purchase price of $212.5K and $8500 seller closing cost assistance (he struck the percentage and wrote in that number instead).

So you only get a percentage of the gain tax free.4.

The NYTimes recently reported about the high percentage of bogus/false videos on YouTube. 

Also, I don't know what the percentage of the housing stock is rental in the Boston metro area but I'd say its a majority or at least a huge chunk of it, so if this really does become a possible issue I think you would see a lot of landlords coming out of the woodwork to fight it just because of how many of us there are.

I think it would be a balloon note (I will give him back lump sum when I refinance plus an agreed upon percentage)?

Typically if you are going to use this method you would take your current sale price and increase it by certain percentage each year and come up with a new dollar amount assuming that the property would increase in value and be worth more.

I'm sure the idea is that only a very low percentage of people will be consistent and achieve whats possible, but that will benefit everyone.The problem is when I pressed for more information I got the run around sales talk.

@Tyler Rowland  I am sure the $20k we paid in MD was on a percentage basis, but we were not in a crazy rich part of town. 

I am new to real estate investment and i was just wondering when looking for a lender will they use the rental income or a percentage of it as your income for debt to income ratio?

Sometimes there is one meter and the landlord charges based on the percentage of occupancy.