Del Webb Reviews in Phoenix Mesa, AZ

Unresponsive to customer concerns. Failure to communicate delays to completion. Failure to deliver completed house and follow up to get missing items done

This is the most disappointing experience of my life. I will never buy another Pulte home and will advise all my friends not to buy Pulte homes.

The buying experience was great. The builder is terrible. The contractor did not return calls. A lot of items were not completed. I sent an email to the warranty department with the list of items that were not completed and they sent an email that someone would contact me. That was over a month ago and still no contact.

Would NOT recommend Pulte Homes to any of our family or friends and would have never taken possession of the home if we didn't stand to lose a lot of money that was already put down on the build. We understand that with COVID-19 and material issues occuring worldwide things got out of hand. Pulte should have slowed down the building process and made sure the product they were turning out was quality instead they pushed for quantity. I think we would and buyers would be happy to see one quality built home then ten crappy,dirty unfished homes being turned out. All that being said, Pulte is in the market to make money and sell homes at any cost. We are a greedy, money based world. ... More

A bidding process to pay extra for building lots should have been a warning sign. Very little contact from Pulte construction during the building process. I can understand it’s a difficult time to build with Covid, labor and material shortages. But after a big rush to meet their closing date at the end of the building process, we cannot get anyone from Pulte customer support to return calls or follow up on issues that need to be fixed. What good is a home warranty if there is no response to calls? I left voice messages three days in a row on the Pulte Cutomer Support line. The answering system message states they will return a call by the end of the day. Never got a call back. I sent emails several days in a row. A week later I got a response to my first email asking for a more detailed punch list. Emailed that a week ago and have not received any response yet. A neighbor had water running from a faucet that would not shut off. Pulte customer service told them that was not a priority and someone would be out in a week or so to fix it. What? Plumbing that does not work is not a priority? Sun City Festival looks like it might be a good community, after the house issues are fixed. ... More

The Finnish work is sloppy. Once I signed the papers none of the problems with the house were fixed. ZERO communication on follow up. Seems like they just want to move on to building more houses and don’t care about customer satisfaction.

This is not the first new home that I have built so I am not new to the experience. That said, I was surprised with the number of major quality issues that existed with the house when we were given the keys. From major mechanical issues and missed key parts in the attic and on the roof to a clogged water system and non-functioning electrical outlets, the lack of quality checks and low standard of acceptability on visual items was dumbfounding. The Pulte support services including Sales, Mortgage, Design Center and Smart Home were exemplary and the people there were a joy to work with. Where Pulte totally fell down was with the build execution and now the real completion of the house has been left to the Customer Service rep who is doing his best to close out the issues. In a nutshell, Pulte seems to be building too many houses too fast and not doing the necessary checks along the way to ensure a quality finished product. ... More

Much of the experience is well thought out by the builder that allow the buyer to experience the full multitude of what is being offered.

I am waiting on issues to be fixed yhat shouldn't have to. This is the worst home buying experience I have EVER had. There are number of repairs needed. The home was never cleaned before keys were released. There is no quality control. Throw them together and hand off the keys. No one cares.

Quality of work is extremely poor in every aspect. Materials for exterior/ interior is of poor quality. Little to no communication with anyone from Pulte. Pulte gives you only 30 days from closing to file issues or problems on your home. It is stressful enough just moving in without having to worry about your 30 day notice from Pulte. Do you think Pulte will fix those issues or problems in 30 days?

They just keep selling although they are way, way, behind on fixing the "punch lists" of almost everyone who has built in the past year. Items ordered for replacement being diverted to complete new houses. Senior construction people leaving in droves as the stress of trying to offer some semblance of customer service deteriorates further and further. Class action suits being filed and more and more are joining every day. Hard to believe that this can end any way but badly. We're selling while prices are high and before the whole thing implodes. This isn't the company, look further. You'll never know how good your decision was, trust me. ... More

We’ve had experience with Pulte before and it was good. Pulte today is unresponsive to all the mistakes in the workmanship of these homes. At this point, I’m terribly disappointed in Pulte. It appears that nobody wants to take responsibility.

The overall quality is the best. As with any builder, there are finishing issues they respond to attentively.

This is my fourth Pulte home. The homes are being built too quickly and the attention to detail is lacking. I had my own inspection after closing that revealed several issues with the home. Specifically the attic and roof. Areas that cannot be seen by the home owner.

The purchase and closing on our house was very good, However now that we are in, we closed December 17 2021, we have had a roof leak that damaged the garage and laundry room that has still out been repaired. Can not get anyone to answer the phone or emails concerning this and we have become very frustrated. Not to mention the many other problems that the home inspector we hired found still have not been addressed, NOT ONE. At this point, I would have to not recommend purchasing from Del Webb. Del Webb was very quick to address any issue during the purchasing process, but once they had our money, we seem to have been forgotten. ... More

Sales person Mike was very good and helpful throughout the build. Project manager was great and finished home was very good.

Anthony the Pulte representative that we did the walk through with has been very helpful and is a excellent representative of Pulte homes

Be ready for a slow build

The build went pretty well and we had an excellent building supervisor. However, since closing we have had a difficult time getting Pulte to assume responsibility for things that need to be fixed

We love the house and really thought we were buying a quality home from a quality builder and why we spent over 100k on upgrades but what we didn’t realize was they couldn’t execute the standard features of the home, much less the upgrades, We should be able to run our dishwasher and turn on our disposal at the same time, but we can’t. Our 22k corner sliding door shouldn’t be full of scratches, the extra money spent on counter tops, all look like it was done by a someone inexperienced. They had trade issues, ok then delay and do it right. Don’t keep changing the close date but then to rush at the end and leave things not even completed or wrong for the homeowners to deal with it. We still love the house, just disappointing. ... More

When you buy a brand new home, you expect brand new everything. Prior to closing a worker had tracked grease on the new carpet. There have been 3 attempts to clean it to no avail. Rather than having a new carpet, I have one that has been cleaned multiple times along with the associated fraying of the fibers that comes with cleaning.

We had a great field construction manager. However the trade people are predominately Hispanic piece workers with very little quality control. We are in our new home but it may take some time to get all the defects repaired.

The quality of the material used in the kitchen, bathrooms, and the main room make the house very pleasant to look at and to use. The condition of the yard at the time of closing was much better than I expected in that it was raked and clean of all building materials.

Even many of the upgrades still are cheap materials. The workmanship is a zero out of 5 stars. The drywall and texture in every corner looks like a 6 year old did the work. The paint is so watered down that you need to repaint the inside of your house right away. The cabinets are cheap and half of them don't close properly. The brand new bathroom countertops came scratched and lare so cheap that I am afraid to put anything on the counter. The carpet was an upgrade and it is no better than the cheapest and thinnest carpet I have ever seen. When the carpet installer comes to install carpet in the new builds, they show up with a roll of carpet in the back of a non-marked pick-up, they put the brand new carpet in the street, new side down on the asphalt to cut the carpet to the proper size. They don't put any protection between the new carpet and the filthy street. We have a 19 page report that was sent to Pulte of repairs that need to be done. Not a word in 2 months from Pulte regarding fixing the repairs. The toilet and counter top in the spare bathroom belongs in a kindergarten classroom. The size of the toilet and the countertop is embarrassing that a builder would put that in a new home in a 55+ community. Standard height for every home that I have ever been inside of throughout the country is much taller than both the toilet and sink. The baseboards throughout the house look dirty all of the time. They have been the same since the first homes were built here. If you are building a home make sure that pay the money for the upgraded baseboards. The finish work on the home lacks any pride of workmanship. For example, uneven windows, damaged inside doors, terrible drywall and texture work, paint drops on nearly every piece of tile throughout the house, very sloppy grout work between the tiles and the walls throughout the house, the whole house fan air duct was never connected (how did that ever pass inspection?), broken tiles on the new roof, the list is long. The sub contractors need to be held responsible to clean up after they are done for the day and to respect the home that they are working in. Trash was thrown every single day in our island before it was covered by the countertop. Workers urinated in our spare bathroom bathtub. The construction site is filthy with trash and leftover materials thrown on the ground. Pulte can do better and should do better. ... More

Del Webb/Pulte sales staff has slick marketing and friendly folks to sell their product. As we waited over the next 6 months, we heard nothing other than from the money people wanting to make sure we paid. Our "celebration walk" (looks great in the video, smiling customers, clean home, etc.) was a DISASTER. The home was SO dirty - floors, cabinets, walls, ceilings and they were ALL damaged or so poorly finished we couldn't believe they would turn over a house in such a condition. Del Webb's/Pulte's response was "well, you get a year to let us know what needs fixed." We wanted a house we could move into and enjoy - not this! We spent the first two weeks on our knees just trying to clean paint off the tile floor through the WHOLE HOUSE - one tile at a time. We spent the first two months waiting for sub-contractors to show up to "fix" things that should have been fine in a brand new home. Now we're starting month-3 and over half of the contractors never showed up in the first two months. Apparently, our time doesn't mean anything to Del Webb/Pulte. We are SO frustrated. We moved to this community for the amenities, but haven't been able to use any because we sit home waiting for subs to come get our house move-in ready - as we live out of suticases waiting for repairs to EVERYTHING! Del Webb/Pulte doesn't give you any way to reach anyone other than one person - so if they aren't responsive, you're out of luck. ... More