For instance in CA, if you upgrade the kitchen you have to have a minimum of five dedicated circuits for things like the disposal, counter top GFI's, oven, DW, fridge, etc.

There is no way I'd repair a 14 year old fridge.

Maybe a mini fridge....?

I always put a couple of blocks behind the kitchen range & fridge & laundry machines, never where a visiting toddler might find it.

I wrote a welcome note to each guest, stocked the fridge with cans of bubbly water, bottle of wine and snack bars.

If there's a big hole behind the oven or fridge, you can get sheet rock or the steel wire mesh.

@Svend WhiteOK, so what you're planning on doing here is abandoning your family in your home while you head off to this place to live in a basement and supposedly sponge bathe and eat out of a nonexistent kitchen, but with maybe a dorm fridge, a little electric burner, maybe a microwave, maybe a toaster oven, effecting a separation with your wife and child, all so that you can legally say that you're living in this place for a year and qualify for a low down payment.All these mortgage records are public and permanent, and the IRS can get their hands on them with great ease during any sort of mortgage fraud investigation.If I were an IRS agent investigating you 10 years down the line (federal statute of limitation for mortgage fraud) and I saw this paper trail, I would only think one thing -- this dude was just getting his mail at the property.

Now I have a warning sign on every fridge. 

I had a friend fill my fridge full of food.

I am ensuring the policies will contain dwelling, personal property (washer/dryer, fridge), and liability.