we bought our house as a spec home (so 3/4 of the way through building it)

make sure you have eaves all around the house, if you dont and have a window open dirt and rain and sh*t comes in from everywhere, plus imo it looks yuck

DISHWASHER!!! i dont have one and its a p.i.t.a!!!!

thats about it for me really haha!!

but if you dont like something or it dosent look right, speak up about it, chuck a hissy fit if you have to, at the end of the day, they work for you.. i have learnt my lesson about not speaking up

good luck!