Would you be comfortable leaving your home for a month..

While a room or two are being renovated by strangers?

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No way. But my parents did that decades ago -- they were planning to retire to a house in Florida back in the 1970s and each year they would choose a room to renovate, arrange things with a contractor, then leave until the next year. The contractors all were honest and did the work and by the time my parents retired the house was finished the way they wanted it to be.