Spend time designing your perfect home - keep going until it is definitely what you want. Time spent planning will reap many rewards, particularly financial ones if you keep to the plan. Click through to this section for many words about the topic.
Dont take it for granted that all the services you will ever need are just outside your plot. Do not believe estate agents and the seller. Find out for yourself.
Get the right insurance - you never know when you might need its protection. All things that cost money and never (hopefully) get used in anger on the Insurance & Warranty click.