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You will want to make sure that you seal the grout in your tile showers and floors. We have tile floors throughout the living area, so we delayed our furniture deliveries for a day so we would have time to seal the floor before putting the furniture down. We did the job ourselves, so cost is not an issue there. But if you physically can't do that job, that would be an expense you would need to consider.

We wanted an internet outlet in our dining room area (which we use as an office area), and had to have a cable outlet installed. It was $50. Almost every room in the house has an outlet, except for the one where we wanted it, of course!

We had a whole house serge protection put in. With all the lightning around here, we felt it was a wise decision. That was around $200.

The new homes only have one towel rod in each of the bathrooms. I wanted an additional towel bar in the master bath. It was $90 installed. We told the guy we would install it ourselves, but he said it would still be $90. So we let them install it! Quite a racket they have going there! They know you can't get the matching one anywhere else!

We wanted an additional garage door opener. (we needed one in the car, and one in each of the golf carts) The guy that installed the garage door wanted to charge us $60 for the additional opener. We went on the internet and ordered one for $20. It came a week later!