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[quote=Anonymous]my answer to your last question is no. Perhaps because we have a very high HHI and our kitchen is from the 80s: laminate countertops, honey oaks, the works.

Even if you have a high HHI and/or net worth, unless you are very wealthy (or your parents are and they give you money, like a couple on my street), those renovations are expensive AF. These renovations are 100-200K and for the UMC that is still nothing to sneeze at. When I was a kid I thought differently. If you could afford to live in a nice neighborhood and were a doctor and lawyer, why wouldn't you renovate? Obviously I know better now.

Also another thing I've learned is that renovations are a major PITA, not just because you have to move out for big ones, but because all the decisions and all the checking to make sure things are going the way you want are exhausting. Our cabinets are getting truly warn out to the point where they are going to break and I'll probably just have them repaired and deal with an ugly kitchen, because I don't think Il'l have it in me to do a renovation.

Okay here is my TL;DR - No I don't think somebody who doesn't renovate is cheap because it's still a ton of money and an exhausting process. [/quote]

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