Pulte Homes Reviews in Hunterdon County, NJ

Seems they are using lowest bidder on the block for their electrical and Sheetrock. Our ceiling is wavy and will need to be replaced (all of it). This is beyond inconvenient as I’ll have to pack everything up again and clean endlessly. I have electrical issues and Buick’s County Electric is staying my dimming lights whenever I turn something on is “normal”. As I work in the business of construction I know better. The warranty department is doing nothing but take the electricians side because they don’t know any better. I’m going to get it fixed and submit the bill to them before I have further issues. ... More

Matt, the sales associate and project manager, Tim, (for the most part) were exceptional to work with. The contractors, not so, and should be held responsible for their poor, sloppy workmanship. There are many items that have to be addressed by Customer Care: most of the door edges were not sanded properly and are rough and sharp, cracks in ceiling spackle, broken window pane, broken window lock. In regards to our upgraded kitchen: chips in quartz counter top, damaged cabinet doors that need replacement, improper alignment of cabinet doors, shelf supports left out. In our upgraded Laundry Room: Cabinet doors are scratched and need to be replaced. In the Master Shower: cracked floor tile and corner shelf, grout fell out around shower base while showering. The list goes on. Our upgraded hardwood floors still needs to have the saddle replaced between the laundry room and garage entry foyer. It does not match the upgraded flooring. We were told the white garage door is temporary and will be replaced as they ran out of the beige garage doors. A garage door needed to be on for the closing. Yet across the street where they are finishing up on construction, their doors are beige. We want the correct color garage door like everyone else in the community, the beige colored one. All the trim outside the front door needs to be filled in and painted. It was never completed before the closing. We haven't even gotten to the second floor to address any issues as we are still settling in on the first floor living area. These units were rushed to completion to meet sales goals. After you move in the last thing you need is to be disrupted by workmen who have to correct other contractors poor workmanship. Paying this much money for a home, we expect it to be properly built and without so many issues after closing. We know there can be issues with a new construction, but many of these issues should have been addressed before closing. The project manager should have done a final inspection without us before the closing and addressed many of the issues that could been clearly seen. That did not happen. We had about an hour to inspect the house before we closed as the house was still being worked on. No new homeowner should have to be faced with so many issues and then getting them addressed. In closing, we are very disappointed at they way we found the house after the closing. We were assured the house would be cleaned as well as the windows, not so. Our hope that is all the issues especially on all the upgrades we paid for will be completed and corrected in a timely manner and don't have to keep sending emails and texts to Rick Semple to line up the cabinet team, the floor team, the tile team, the plumber, etc. to get the issues fixed. Today, the handymen are here working on some of the issues that they can correct. Heating and AC people are also coming as the house is very cold downstairs and very hot upstairs. Cannot use the powder room as it is so cold in there. Rick needs to set up the contractors to correct so many of the issues that the handymen said they cannot do. They are doing a good job today on what they are correcting. As I explained to Rick, I am having major surgery at the beginning of February and need to have as much corrected before then. We hope you will respond to this review. We cannot write a great review at this time but will write another one when all issues have been corrected. Anyone at Pulte would be very upset if this were their new home! ... More

Overall, quality and workmanship is good, but not good enough for the high prices they are asking. Should pay more attention to details, especially the painting.

Siding and window boards falling off outside, cracks and tape coming off walls, left over gobs of plaster on stair lights, cracks on stair moldings, appliences all off balance, broken or bent, window moldings out of place, cheap caulking shrinking and cracking, shelf pins missing on cabinet shelves, no sink sprayer or stopper/strainer, gaps in kitchen floor, dirt and rocks all over parking lot, missing weather seal on entrance door, gutter water guides flying all over the place, landscaping full of weeds and unmaintained and I'm sure there is more I can't think of right now.

Our first newly built home where we hoped to be able to relax and retire has been a nightmare. We closed and moved in a little over a month ago and have had repairs done nearly every week for missing grout and caulk in the bathrooms, broken cabinet doors and door locks that don't work. Repairs can take hours for something that should take half the time. We are still waiting for a fix to be able to use a shower since there is an actual hole in tile. We also moved in to a broken oven (still waiting to find out if it was broken in transit or during install and we can't activate a warranty until that is answered). Responses can take weeks and if we had this to do over again we would pass. ... More

The communications and differences between sales, construction management and post delivery support are significant. The sales rep was very responsive and great to deal with. Construction management was unresponsive and avoided taking ownership of issue resolution. Post delivery support is responsive and working to address open issues.

Double and triple check every detail during your walkthrus especially concerning electiical work. You may be told prior to purchase that your townhouse will look exactly like the models. It won't. Models have pavers and wrought iron railings. The entrance walkways to townhouses have concrete walkways and very few have wrought iron railings

Closing date was constantly pushed back. Issues before and after move in have not been completed. Very stressful and upsetting experience. Not one issue has been fixed. These issues are still in progress ( almost all cabinet doors and draws need to be replaced, front door crack needs to be replaced, 5 trees fallen over need to be replaced, land water issue----that's just a few)

I thought about my response for a while. I took time to settle into my home before writing the review. Overall, I believe that either Pulte used subpar workers or workers that did not respect the population for which the homes were built. The shortcuts in the units are apparent, from the nails sticking out of the carpet (my daughter, my dog, and I have stepped on the nails; they puncture the skin), the shotty trim that meets the flooring, the air filters are filled with dust from construction, the extra holes and bulging spackle on the sheetrock that show through the paint. The horrible paint job and the hassle of trying to get through the punch list. Every neighbor that I have met has expressed similar concerns. Also, the property is filled with debris, old furniture around the trash bins, and garbage that missed the trash has been in the same place since I moved in early February. I plan to reach out to the homeowners association however, it is apparent that the grounds are not being monitored, or again, the person in charge does not care. I am happy to be a homeowner but disappointed in the attention to detail. Regardless of the home being an affordable housing unit, this is still a big ticket purchase. ... More

I would like others to stay away from Pulte all together. I have never experienced such poor workmanship in my entire life. The so called brand new built is ready for renovation. There isn’t a single wall that is even, trim or paint that is applied correctly, tiles that are unevenly set, holes, scratches, etc. I understand that nothing is perfect and things are more complicated with COVID and “great resignation” on top of it, however there is no excuse for such poor quality on almost everything. Pulte should not be allowed to be licensed to build houses in my view as well as my neighbors. This should have been a happy time for us, part of life to relax and enjoy but it is far from it at this point. The company exercises bait-and-switch tactics presenting a well build model to you but when it comes to delivery of your own unit, you end up with something totally different. This is unacceptable. Do yourself a favor and stay away from them. If not, you will regret. I promise you that. ... More

This is the worst quality of the house that I have ever bought. There have been issues all over the house. For the first day we moved in (Friday), I used the master bath shower and turned on the water handle, the handle got popped out and strong water stream almost killed me. We have to turn off the main water control and could not live in the house over the weekend due to no water. Until next Monday, the plumber came to fix the problem. The reason for causing this issue was your plumber forgot to put in the pin to lock the water handle. What a big joke it is. Then many other issues came up for the garage door, wall, floors, sidings....For example the sidings have had one piece damaged, and one piece dropped, and trims rippled, I have reported for 3 weeks, nothing has happened. The siding guys never fixed the problems. We are very upset for the whole house. I don't know what could happen next. ... More

Stay away from Pulte Builders .... they use unqualified people to build your home.