“...so maybe they’d expect 70% ROI...”
Dad is not the jerk. It’s his money.
And Mom is only enabling the daughter’s bad decisions at this point.
Unless daughter is getting a technical degree likely to result in a job paying enough to reimburse any loans (including the parents’), the kitchen is probably the better investment.
At least it would go into the cost basis of the house.
“Dad is not the jerk. It’s his money.”
I agree.