Del Webb Reviews

Beware of the lack of quality in the home you are purchasing. Walls out of plum, countertops in bath areas out of plum due to walls mentioned. Floors not cleaned before move in. Poor paint finish on doors and trim. Cabinet supplier not standing behind a workmanship issue. The list goes on, but you can see the problems from this short list.

From sales meeting to final construction, a very painful experience

I have nothing good to say about Pulte homes. I paid almost half a million for my house and have been very disappointed in the quality of work. Nicks in laminate flooring, screw holes in the garage where they put up the garage door wrong but neglected to fix the holes. Sloppy finish work the caulking is bad throughout the whole house. The microwave was not installed correctly, the kitchen range is crooked and don’t even get me started on the staircase railing. When the come to fix something the usually make it worse. I have talked to home owners in Carolina Orchards and they to have had similar problems and some had worse. All Pulte is interested in is getting their money then slapping up a poorly built house. If someone asks me I would tell them (DO NOT BUY A PULTE BUILT HOME THEY PROMISE THE MOON AND YOU GET A VERY SLOPPILY BUILT HOME FOR YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY ... More

They care about closing the deal. They do not care about you, your home, or about honesty and integrity. Their employees are dishonest and insincere. The company is cheap and will always choose their profit over the quality of the product they deliver to you. Really lackluster customer service by corporate employees who are experts at complaint deflection, redirection and excuse making.

Our poor quality of workmanship was created by having 5 different field managers exchange responsibility throughout the build of our home. POOR management system. OUR HOME IS FULL OF ITEMS NEEDING RREPAIRED AND THEY ARE CHOOSING TO NOT TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE MISTAKES such as cracked window, unsmooth granite countertops with sharp edges.. Bowed walls...porch and patio full of birdbaths and craters as well as saw cuts in the edges of our bullnosed cement work...The list Goes On.. underaged kids working on our flooring and tiles.. Shall I continue? This ones gonna hit thecourtroom. Will not recommend Pulte or Del Webb to anyone. ... More

Fit and finish is sub par. Non responsive to handling issues. Don’t close if everything isn’t done.

we have been in the house for apprx, six weeks and the punch list at walk thru before closing still have not been addressed, the paint job on new trim makes trim look like its thirty years old, full of caulk, paint drips etc.doors are rough{painted with a roller}? I can not express the diapointment, and most neighbors agree

At our initial meeting with our field manager (Andy S.) in August 2020, he assured us that he would provide weekly updates as our house was being built. We received "weekly" updates on 9/4, 9/18, and 12/18/2020. We would have to ask questions several times before receiving any response. We would often receive no response at all. When we would raise issues, Andy would often respond "I'll take care of it" but not follow-up and actually do anything. We ordered Pulte's kitchen appliance package and upgraded the cooktop from gas to electric. We had no appliances at all until about a week before closing, and when they were finally delivered, they "installed" a gas cooktop even though there was no gas supply because we had upgraded to electric. The electric cooktop was finally installed about a week after closing. There were still several other open issues at closing, but we had to close anyway because we had so many other deliveries scheduled around our closing date. All of the appliances that we had ordered ourselves (not from Pulte) arrived as promised the day after closing. We were told that we had to work through our field manager on any issues for 30 days after closing. We continued to send emails and texts about our ongoing issues for those 30 days with absolutely no response from Andy S. We are now working with the Pulte warranty people, and still waiting for results. I have bought several homes over the years and never had an experience as bad as working with Pulte. ... More

Pulte is only in it for the profit. Build quality very poor... They'll tell you one thing and do another.

I have been in our home 6 weeks, all of the whirlpool appliance do not work. Have to call Whirlpool directly, get a service technician out here - after 5 days he comes out and tells me he has to order parts that take 4 to 6 weeks. I paid over $600K for this home - all appliances should work. I would like a call from a Pulte Manager to discuss this problem

Not a good quality and unqualified builder

Many people buy here for the Sun City name and life style. Del Webb is stamping out homes and only concerned in profit. The finish work is extremely poor. Ironically, the options we paid for were among the worst! The construction supervisor is in a bad spot as they can't hire or fire workers that don't have a clue to what they are doing. I can't even begin to state all of the problems. We quickly refused to let ANYONE of them inside our home to "fix' or 'go over' anything. Our sales person was misleading and uninformed. The mistakes caused the Title Co. and Mortgage people a lot of grief. We were not sure of our numbers on closing day. We lived out of state and feel we were taken advantage of from sales, construction, and Del Webb. ... More

The quality is very poor, the work is like your getting a starter house, as cheap as you can build. This builder does not take pride in building home, issues after issues. I had mold on wood and this builder would not replace the wood, just cover the wood up. Just lots of cheap materials in house.

Poor trim materials, lousy paint, lousy finish work (use caulk to try & cover up poor craftmanship). Every time they fixed 2 things, they damaged/broke one other thing. They had to install our wood floors 3 times. I (buyer) was the one to find the errors and installation issues with the floors. Pulte would have sold it to me in poor condition if I had not found all the issues. They do not inspect their contractors' work, and hope that caulk, poor lighting, and quick walk-throughs will get them to the closing process. Their entire management team needs to adopt an old management philosophy - "INSPECT what you EXPECT". My spouse said it best:, " I feel like I purchased an old, used house - not a new house, We will have to repair, replace, re-paint so many things - we should have purchased a used house in better condition". An example: after less than 2 months in the house, the finish on the bathroom sink stoppers is already wearing off (and these were their UPGRADED products). I also spent about 2 weeks sanding and re=painting to cover drips, runs & areas where the paint did not even cover the walls. I knew Pulte's reputation was bad, but had heard they had improved.... NO WAY, not after my experience! ... More

From almost the beginning where provided misinformation and found the people we worked with to be rigid and on accommodating beyond reason.

I had bad experience since day one

We have experienced problem after problem and Pulte ignores us and is unresponsive.

My salesperson should have told me I needed a RIGHT hand garage to maximize windows on the east side of our house knowing full well our model (Martin Ray) has only 1 1/2 windows on the garage side. She told us we needed a LEFT hand garage. Our house is SO DARK from lack of windows on the east side. We currently are repainting the entire interior of our house at our expense trying to brighten our living space. Also the design person did not steer me to lighter colors after I told her too that I wanted maximum light. The time allocated for the design center choices is inexcusably short; especially when we had to fly in from another state. Del Webb salespeople should have been much more helpful. We were just a number to be processed as quickly as possible. Our contractor supervisor was removed halfway through the building process, unfortunately. He kept us abreast of the build of our house. We were sorry to find he was gone!! The quality of the workmanship on our house was extremely poor. No quality control!! We had a list of 16-18 major items that needed correction. Over a two month period they were finally corrected. These homes at Frisco Lakes are expensive for the square footage with substandard workmanship. So disappointing to see the walls painted with the wall plates installed as we had to remove and clean. Too many issues to mention in this forum. We moved here 4 months ago from a 55+ community where the quality of workmanship was excellent and home prices were lower. I suspect you will not publish this review. ... More

Lack of flexibility in changes is a problem. Most new owners spend the first month after move in redoing the interior of the house, discarding things Pulte put in and spending much money on replacements. Work crews show no pride in their workmanship. Many trades do substandard work which has to be redone three times to get it right. Don't expect the contractors to know what they are doing from the guys who pour the slabs to completion. Concrete guys will miss walk in showers, placement of patio door frames, fireplace foundations and other supports. Framers seldom cut a board the correct length...usually about an inch short and then use 15 nails to span the gap. HVAC guys put duct work in, the next day the insulation guys cut all the duct support straps. Three weeks later the HVAC guys come back in and re-straps the ductwork in a hurried and substandard way. Meanwhile, the worksite looks like a dump with debris blowing all over the neighborhood. Not one tradesman leaves the the worksite clean. Not only is it making the neighbor messy, debris is blowing into the desert and White Tank Mountain Regional Park. ... More

Lots of room for improvement for Pulte: 1. Be forthright at beginning how real estate fees are managed. If client does not use a real estate agent, this fee should go to benefit of buyer. 2. Have drawings to show what is “standard”, so that you know what your base is when Selecting options. Pulte refused to give us base model electrical drawings for house despite our repeated requests. 3. Hire workers with minimum level of craftsmanship and improve quality control procedures. We had numerous examples where the construction quality was poor. Split studs and bracing, large gaps in caulking, poor paint coverage, poor HVAC pipe routing, etc. 4. Maintain continuity of personnel instead of continually switching Construction supervisor personnel and responsibility. You could never be sure your concerns were being managed. 5. Better show which is /is not optional on models. Pulte uses a “change order” strategy for many items that would normally be considered standard. ... More

Over a month later I'm still waiting for a response to a response to correct the many construction issues that I reported. No one even came out to look. The only thing that was corrected were the electrical issues with a doorbell and a gfi outlet that didn't work. There paint is everywhere that it should be and is missing where it should be. It is obvious that Del Webb doesn't use skilled tradesmen. If the finished product looks this bad I'm wondering about the quality of house's construction that I can't see. If Del Webb used the same quality sod in the common areas and around their model homes as they did in my yard full of weeds, no one would buy their homes. ... More

We were told we weren’t getting a custom home but it would be a quality home - swing and a miss on both. Disappointed.

So when you don’t like the truth you erase it. I’m not happy with my cabinets or the contractor who installed them. End of story

Although we gave a good review originally, after more than a month of living here, we are now extremely disappointed. It took way too long to start building and then it seems Del Webb rushed to complete. From the beginning, Del Webb's sales staff would only contact us after we contacted them. No updates were forthcoming until we called them. Fast forward to after closing, we hired painters to paint the bedrooms, den, and bathrooms and found the workmanship of Del Webb, in association with the walls, abysmal - incomplete (gap between top of door and drywall), did not sand mud and painted over it, gobs of caulk not smoothed out, pockmarked and dents everywhere. The building and warranty managers told us we should have never used eggshell paint because it would show too many flaws. Well we weren't expecting such poor workmanship! The drywall people came (3 days) to try and fix everything but short of starting all over (hanging new drywall), it was a futile endeavor. To top it all off, we paid extra money to have smooth walls; it was a builder's upgrade. We requested a refund, but never heard back from the salesman (no surprise there). We just hope that Del Webb's poor workmanship doesn't show up in anything else but only time will tell. In summary, Del Webb's abysmal workmanship cost us more time and money to try to correct their mistakes. ... More

I was told from day one that this was a production build and that Pulte would not make accommodations for individual buyers. That was absolutely the case, without exception. I have never worked with such an unyielding builder. The quality of the workmanship is subpar and the field manager was unwilling to fix the problems. I have had the opportunity to speak with many neighbors now and they have all had the same experience.