I am so overwhelmed. We are building a new home and so far we and our builder have met with 2 contractors with our A/V/Smart Home wish list. The first makes a lot of million dollar beach houses (second or third homes). He showed us the Control4 system (although he didn't pressure us, to be fair) and we talked about what we wanted and he came back with the pre-wire part of his offer. It was around $40,000. These included speakers, but nothing else (TVs were not included). Our builder said he's seen the bill top nearly $100,000 for projects like this. That is NOT in our budget. The second guy is a lot less snarky, but seemed to contradict some things I've learned from reading this sub (he thinks WiFi will be fine for most of our needs, while I've read over and over to connect whatever you can ). I have less faith in the second guy and would have to keep a close eye on him to make sure we get what we want. What we want: We are an Apple household. We don't want Google or Alexa in our house. We have Sonos speakers everywhere in our current home and would like to continue with Sonos but add some built-in Sonos/Sonance ceiling speakers to our collection. I am quite technical, my husband is not. I could probably learn Home Assistant, but I'd rather not scale a new learning curve while building a new home. It would be great if HomeKit only worked for our needs. We want some smart motorized shades. We want a smart doorbell, about 4 surveillance cameras, smart light switches in the main areas. We will be using Apple TVs on both TVs. I'm trying to find someone to give us a third offer? Someone between entrepreneur #1 (too big) and entrepreneur #2 (too casual). I was hoping I could turn this over to someone with more knowledge than I have, instead of having to watch it every step of the way (while constantly running to this sub to make sure I'm doing the right thing!). Any guidance will be greatly appreciated!