Fresh flowers and a welcome gift are great touches that will lead to 5 star reviews.

I certainly am not looking to be repaid however my parents are insisting on offering me the property at a discount (or selling it to me and gifting the downpayment back).

It’s such a gift.

Any suggestions on going about this without getting involved with "gifting taxes"? 

You could also get the down payment gifted to you, from a relative perhaps?

Assuming the $200K price is fair, he wants us to pay $100K to him and have the other $100K be a (wife's inheritance) gift.

The majority of 1st time buyers I work with are either getting a monetary gift, loan or financial advise from family.

I think a lot of people are simply not equipped to think of themselves as anything other than a success in life, and anything that challenges that assumption or the external appearance of it is to be avoided at all cost.In the end, this is what vanity does to people, it turns them into fragile things unable to grapple with the crippling fear of being revealed to the world but also to themselves as less than perfect, as most definitely NOT good enough, as "losers" and "failures" and "second-raters" and all the words the most vain among us use for those they think they're a million times better than.Being able to laugh at yourself and your pretensions is a gift and a great liberation of the spirit.

Credit: Both my fathers credit and my credit are above 740Down Payment: Would be 20% WITH GIFT Debt: Both my father and myself have debt lower than $1,000.

My birthday is coming up next week and my wife and I agreed that David Greene's long distance investment book was an investment in itself worthy of the birthday gift.