While we certainly have hobby's, we also have also lived very bohemia, with a roommate our first year our marriage, a fixer up "first" house, our second personal was an amazing rental but not my first choice for a personal, and one of the deployments.

Just ask any failed couple who decided to jointly buy a house before they committed to each other with a marriage.

They have decent, respectful marriages.

I was going to start with either a logistic regression or naive bayes since most of the variables are categorical and the dependent variable is binary but a decision tree might be the way to go.I was also thinking of trying to tie in life events (birth, birth +17 years, marriage, divorce, credit card default, tax lien, etc) to the model but there are substantial hurdles: access to data, reliability, scraping and\or text mining, having a dynamic stream, accurately tying the life event to the right person\household, etc.My actual end goal is to approach deal-finding in a data-driven way, my current thought process on how to achieve that goal may not be correct, and I'm more than willing to adjust, but I'm thinking there must be a more analytical approach than relying on word of mouth or MLS emails.Trevor, what was your goal when scraping properties near military bases?

That's detemined by state law, who owned what before and after marriage, equity, children and seveal other things.

My wife’s crazy didn’t appear until 5 years of marriage (joking, kind of.)

It personally sounded like an odd story to me, or else they have a very strange marriage. 

If I was single I would possibly buy it just to try it.FrankI wouldn't want to live there, regardless of marriage status.

Welcome to BP @Stephanie Ugboaja and congrats on your marriage!

Make sure you're both comfortable with whichever route you take though, big decisions like this can potentially split a marriage if the property ends up being a poor one.