Del Webb Reviews in Orlando, FL

Lots of either unfinished or wrongly performed items plus rushed to closing

Very solidly built home at a fair price.

I have a mixed review. First of all the Sales person was outstanding and they were very professional and met our every need. The Construction Manager was also very professional and was great with the entire building process and has continued to work with me to finish the list of things still to be done with the house. Where I have issues is with the final condition of the home at closing. It was not finished - Pulte had issues with their contractors not showing up or not having workers available to finish my home. We closed anyway and it was very disappointing. The quality of the home is great - it has been through 2 Hurricanes in the past 8 weeks and everything held up including the power! My feeling about the process is that Pulte sold as many homes as they wanted to and did not realize that the supply chain and their venders etc was not keeping up. This put a lot of pressure on the Construction Managers who were left to take the heat from the homeowners like myself who had homes that were not completely finished at the time of closing. Will Pulte realize that this reflects badly on their brand.? They have good homes but what buyers are left with at the end when their home is not entirely finished at the time of closing is what people remember. A suggestion would be to work as hard at the end of the construction process as they worked at the beginning of the buying process to sell their homes. To sum up my review - we are very happy with our new home - but have bad memories about the process at closing with the house not being finished. Does Pulte read these reviews? I hope so - because they could easily fix this if they paid attention to the entire process from beginning to end to make sure they finished with pride in their product. ... More

Overall the buying experience was ok. Very disappointed in the craftsmanship of the home. The design is great but the quality of the work was very sloppy. Our Field Manager has been wonderful in responding to our concerns but there are so many issues that have not been addressed and are out of his control.

We spent quite a bit of time reviewing floor plans and options so were prepared when It was time to make decisions and order options. I highly recommend that anyone considering purchasing a home from Del Wood invest the time to do this. It made everything go much more smoothly.

We love our home's floor plan, but the attention to detail really shows a lack of worker oversight when it comes to craftsmanship. We have lived in the home for about eight weeks and have a list of nearly forty issues. About seven of the issues have been corrected, and I corrected about half of them. Del Webb has been very slow to address issues and get them corrected. My advice would be for a new buyer to stand their ground and not to close escrow until the home is finished to their liking. At this point, I would not be able to recommend a Del Webb home to a friend. Del Webb has a great concept, but poor follow through. Perhaps my opinion will change in the future, if it doesn't take Del Webb forever to correct our issues. ... More

I like many found that the home was not complete on closing. I struggled to even get sombody to respond. I was promissed all would be fixed. Nothing was fixed, infact after I moved in I found many more major faults. Master bedroom had no electrics for a week. They found dangerous wiring fault. No hot water, infact no water came out of hot faucet. No internet, they forgot to order it to be connected and then found out no underground conduit was installed to wire the system in. This system comes with the house price and HOA. As we have no cell phone tower internet is important. WE WERE LEFT IN A DANGEROUS POSSITION AS WE HAD NO CONTACT WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD UNLESS WE DRIVE TO A CELL PHONE RECEPTION AREA 4 MILES AWAY. The landscape was half finished, the sod badly laid is mostly dead, no idea when or if that wil be sorted. Sliding doors hard to open, my wife cannot open them, badly installed and damaged, the framing has a 1/2 inch bow in the vertical. Floor tiles have many not fixed to floor correctly so are loose. Walls out of vertical by 3/4 of an inch in various places. Walls bowed buy up to an inch in varios places. Most interior doors stick shut at top or bottom or both, This is because the fromes the doors are in are badly fitted and bent. Damaged vanity unit in master bathroom. Bad stucco on most of outside . Block driveway has suncken for the third time. I can go on but this is just an example of the disgusting quality of home I was sold. I closed on 13 September 2022 it is now November and nothing realy sorted. Still they have my money so who cares, So be warned . ... More

The buying experience, mortgage application, and closing went smoothly . However, at the preliminary walk through there were several things that were supposed to be resolved that were promised would be done at the final walk through that were not. Here it is 6 weeks since closing and only 2 items have been resolved and we are finding more including electrical issues. I feel as if Pulte was sold "factory seconds". I have found that the vanity cabinet was installed damaged. Two of the three mirrors are damaged. A roof vent was apparently damaged causing a leak in the range hood. (That was one of two items that have been repaired. Twelve still remain of the original.) An outdoor lantern was installed without glass. A sliding closet door does not fit and was poorly installed. These are just examples of "factory seconds". I am still trying to get adhesives off my $40,000+ tile floor that was supposedly "acid washed".Our house was supposed to be a "quick move in" for May but we didn't close until September. We understand that there were supply chain issues. We own a Pulte home in NJ that was perfect and pristine when we moved in. It was THE reason we went with Pulte. We expected even more from Del Webb. I'm sorry to say that our Florida "dream house" has not lived up to expectations. ... More

The security and lighting in the community is excellent. The personnel at the clubhouse working in restaurant/bar area are very personable. Alot of great activities.

We moved in two days before Hurricane Ian. Construction was great! No issues as a result of the storm. Attention to detail was lacking. They knew we were not moving in until 30 days after closing. We had requested - at least a month before closing - that the wire shelving in the master closet and the pantry be taken down in order to allow California Closets (CC) to do the installs. This was two weeks before move-in. I arrived the day before CC installs and the shelving was still in place. The shelving were finally removed the morning of the CC installs. We had to clean the house the morning of move in. The dryer was not hooked up until two weeks after move-in. The dishwasher still doesn't dry the dishes. Warranty coming in another week. ... More

I wish the builders and contractors would take a little more time to do things right the first time. It’s very frustrating when the owners move in and they have to log several work issues because things were done in a rush. There also needs to be more communication with the buyers. Final inspections should be done before the new owners move in. My new home was left with dirty floors from the contractors.

This was supposed to be our forever home that we built from a distance. Huge mistake. The workmanship is shoddy and Del Webb only cares about throwing up houses as fast as possible. We have built homes with other builders and none ever came near to the disappointment and headache that is a Del Webb home.

It was a great experience dealing with Del Webb in the whole process of purchasing my new home. Time frame to finish it was as expected, and all came out with all updates we requested.

Allowed to review work of trades prior to drywall to verify the solid joints of plumbing, electrical, vent, so if ever needed , you knew what’s behind the walls was good and firm and would not loosen up

Shane the Forman on our house - nice guy, doesn't demand quality workmanship. Hire a independent inspector. You cannot assume that contractor has your back. We have many warranty items. Don't close until home is perfect.

In general we are good with our home purchase. Several construction issues after closing have been solved in a relatively quickly manner. One important topic that drives our opinion's was the fact that one month after closing, the other homes in the community started to being discounted by the seller. This gave us an impression that the price was inflated before and the house does not have a strong value for the future.

Clay was a great property manager to work with. He has been responsive, pleasant, and professional.

Customer service is lacking in too many operational areas. Who is im charge, supervising operations??

Wrong closing date given, had to close a month later. Promised appliances were ether the wrong ones or not there at all. New sod was mostly dead when we closed and irrigation was not turned on. ALL initial issues were not addressed, had to continually check up on. Overall, house was delivered in a manner where they rushed the closing and not concerned in providing a quality delivered home

Buyer beware. Rushed into closing before house was ready. Taking forever to get issues addressed. Construction pushes off issues to warranty. Warranty team overloaded and unresponsive to certain problems.

All my transaction was clear and precise

Although there were bumps along the way our overall experience was very good. From our Salesperson Lisa, to Construction Manager Shane, the people we dealt with were good at their jobs and went above our expectations. After closing we have been pleased with the warranty service team in taking care of our needs.

The supervisors for Pulte homes did not handle the trades properly to insure the work was done properly. The home was barely ready for the closing date. We paid for an upgrade to the paint color anticipating it would be a better grade a paint, not true you can wipe it off the walls easily with a wet rag. Went to Sherwin Williams to get some touch up because of that and they would not sell us any because the painters use builders grade which is watered down paint (exact words from SW). Found out no insulation was placed in the attic and that had to be re-done. The house was not really construction cleaned for us to accept, but had no choice but to move in. Not a good experience but the construction of the house shell seems good. Also the Phoenix systems pre-wire job was awful we had to bring a contractor to fix their work, Pulte needs to look for someone else in regards to this trade ... More

When we selected our house, everything had been selected/upgraded by the builder, color of cabinets, flooring, appliances etc. The price of the upgrades were high for what we got. We are still waiting to have some issues resolved.

house was not finished at closing ,punch list was partially done and then moved to warranty......good luck :(