Right now, it costs about $8,000 to grow and harvest an acre of "boutique" aroma hops, which have a spot market value of around $40,000. 

@Jay Hinrichs Lol timberland is far from "regular flat space"  I myself am actualyl buying timber land, and for the exact reason you specified, except I also am builing my own mills and harvesting the wood myself to sell it in bulk direct to major construction, engineering, and brick and mortars.

Equity Harvesting (slow but nice in the right circumstances)Cashflow (while renting) - 2x costs.Financial leverage - More Cashflow and multiplying Equity dispersion across assets that produce a higher return then the alternative. 

If it's pink, you need another coat.

Also we have put a total of $4,500 out of pocket the last couple of months to Pay for updates and the mortgage payments we had to make in June/ July.The other option will be to keep that price, but reglaze/ refinish the kitchen counter (which is a pink tile at the present moment)and sink for about $1,000 more.

Look at it this way:  Your share is blue, her share is pink.  

Not loving that pink?

If you have lived in it 2 of the last 5 years, you can harvest that equity also. 

Look into something called Tax Loss Harvesting.

This reminds of me of the saying warren buffet says at his speaking engagements . “ you can always tell who is skinny dipping when the tide goes back out “ Most people continue on in their idiotic spending of liabilities right up to the time their boss hands them a pink slip then they are left dumbfounded in total ruin all because they didn’t practice personal responsibility when times were good .