Marital decisions like this require both parties to be in sync and committed to the plan for it to be a success.

They claim the occupancy rate is also high because several units were mid-rehab when the owner ran into marital issues.

The fact that it's an REO won't signify any particular change in repair costs, every property is unique.What will change the costs is flipping for rent vs resale (depending on the area). 

Many times marital statuses are missing, legal descriptions are incorrect, or there is other missing or incorrect information that causes issues in future transactions.

At the end the permit is "closed," signifying that the work is complete and meets code.This is important for a few reasons, the biggest is knowing that the work was done to code and properly executed.

My advice would be to get a second job but if it's going to cause marital strife, I wouldn't do it.

@Horacio Gutierrez, what you have described could be construed as a form of discrimination based on marital or familial status, which is a violation of fair housing rules. 

Their marital status isn't your problem.  

depending on your marital status you can get 250k for single and 500k for married .. its the I have done it 5 times in the last 25 years.. its a game changer let me tell you 

We live an the property is in co which is a marital property state and the property management company will be issuing 1099 misc to us.