Pulte Homes Reviews in Columbus, OH

Company wouldn’t listen to our concerns, eventually leading to a basement that’s flooded twice, once after we closed and moved in. List of things that still haven’t been done in almost 2 months of occupancy. Broken promises the entire way.

Everyone I worked with at Pulte has been great. Very personable, very professional, very knowledgeable; a pleasure to deal with. The quality of the materials used, however, is a bit below expectations. When one pays almost a million for a house one expects a higher level of quality.

Would like to see venders do a better job

Poor customer service from builder and sales team. Unresponsive and provided misinformation.

Worst experience ever and very poor build quality Bad customer support

Lot of things were not completed by the time of closing. Still lot of issues exists and slow updates/follow-up on them. On the 2nd day post closing, a little wind blew the roof of covered porch. Not a good quality work. We can understand delay in closing date/home completion due to Covid/supply chain issues but workmanship/quality control is somewhat lacking

We chose Pulte because they're one of the top 3 home builders in the US, and with the trust that they'd do a great job building the house with all the years of experience they had building homes. The reality was a stark contrast. They're outsourcing literally every piece of the build, which isn't necessarily bad, but they're not spending any time in quality control. Contractors come in, do their thing and leave, and it is Pulte's job to verify things after every step and get the necessary corrections done, which I don't beleive they're doing. I literally had 20 items that I could visibly see and had to raise maintenance requests for, post closing, despite identifying them in the build walk through. Now at that rate I can't even imagine what all could be wrong underneath the drywall. The build manager was unresponsive for the most part during the build, and he's almost totally unresponsive post closing. If anything, I appreciate the sales team, as our consultant kept us posted and helped us follow up with the build manager when he was unresponsive. ... More

Nothing can be 100% perfect, Pulte did meet my expectation with 95% !! Quality is good so far in one month, I guess it all depend on the contactor manager and in my case Bob was excellent to listen and response. So far I am happy with everything.

Home was closed with bunch of punch points,All punch points not been cleared after 2 months of closing .. whenever we are asking to pulte team they’d did not resounded on time. I could not utilize the appliances after 2months due to issues.very poor quality of workmanship and materials used, the whole house had been painted single coated( painting could have done 2 coat with primer),electrical pre fan wire not installed 2 separate breakers and drywalls are debt.filed team is not responding for all concerns and they are feeling that doing favor rather caring of customer issues. Totally disappointed with Pulte home Quality and workmanship ... More

This home building experience has been the least enjoyable of the last 3 I have been through. Quality control and workmanship were horrible and 6+ weeks later, I’m still dealing with all of the issues upon move in. I had to have a meeting with the Customer Care Specialist yesterday to go through the laundry list of punch list items yet to be addressed. This takes time out of my busy work schedule. If I had wanted to buy a fixer upper and go through a renovation, I would have done that. The reason to build a new home was to avoid all of these frustrations! Is the home beautiful? Yes. Am I frustrated with the amount of follow up required to get his home completed? Yes. ... More

I would have answered the 15 question build questions completely differently after I moved in if I had uncovered all the problems with my house. The ONLY thing that went well was the title company for this all cash purchase. My punch list is over 20 items long and no one provides updates on anything. The completely wrong counter/sink/mirror/light bar configuration was installed in my master bath. The data panel/closet in the garage has an electrical outlet that is not connect to anything and the other bathroom has a light fixture was not installed and is sitting on the toilet tank. Those are just three of my issues, but the quality of the build is very crappy. The sales personnel, although very personable, don't know details on what they're selling and the construction manager doesn't know the housing development. Construction manager said don't say there are unfinished items in the 15 question survey after closing because people have lost their jobs over this. You need a real ticketing system for service orders with one ticket per service issue. Then you need to provide regular updates rather than communicate either via email or not at all. As it is, service issues seem to fall into a black hole. ... More

Everything was great until we moved in. Then communication and completion of outstanding items stopped. Not only can't I get the outstanding items completed(like a garage door and sod) I can't even get a date when these tings will be taken care of.

Pulte is using sloppy contractors and generally doesn’t care about their customers post purchase. They installed lots of already brown, most dead sod that is not coming back to life and 2 weeks of daily watering and accused me of not watering enough despite my day 1 proof with photos and my water bill detailed usage graph, then their sod contractor came and literally yelled in my face and they are refusing to replace the dead sections they installed. Incredibly unprofessional and it’s a disgrace Pulte uses such awful contractors. We’ve also having electrical issues, corners were cut with plumbing, mortar and paint speckles are all over bath runs because they weren’t properly protected, drywall seams are very visible, many items called out during the build process were never fully addressed despite promises they would be. A lot of the issues weren’t seen at the blue tape final walk through. There’s just no way you can catch everything in that one hour window. But after living here nearly 2 months it’s clear Pulte does not pay attention to detail or care about their clients post purchase. ... More

Great job for all those involved processing to pay my house

We want to give this a higher rating but we just can't. Pulte tries hard to provide a quality home, and their floorplans are excellent, but the contractors just did such a poor job, which ruins the potential. Paint contractors had to come back out on MULTIPLE occasions and the quality of paint still to this day is amateur at best. The contractors installing trim did a bad job and still to this day there are peices of broken trim that was just painted over and never replaced. The ceiling has spots in it where the stamping was done incorrectly. These are just a few of the examples, it seemed like every contractor that came in to do their trade was rushing and did a poor job or damaged something else while they were here and it wouldn't get fixed for a long time. All that being said, we still do love our home, we are just a little disappointed in the quality of worksmanship and the fact we're going to have to spend our own time over the years fixing things that should have been done right the first time. At the time our home was being built, there were MANY other homes being built in the neighborhood and the crews were rushed, no doubt, and the construction manager had way more jobs on his plate than he should have had, and to my understanding they have limited the number of houses being built to make up for this, so you may want to take that into consideration. Just know if you choose Pulte, you will need to keep a close eye on the construction of your home and be a pest to the construction manager to try to get things done right. At the end of the day the community is top notch and the homes themselves are great. ... More

Jennifer and Michael our sales person and construction manager were truly great going above and beyond. There are a few small things that still need done but overall entire experience was wonderful.

The overall sales experience was amazing. Quick responses to issue and questions. The closing experience also excellent. The aftercare is where improvements are warranted. Slow to respond to open tickets and resolve. I liken it to buying a new car and the aftercare service to the car lacking. Pulte homes are too beautiful and they need yo work in improving their after and customer care experience.

Our experience with Pulte has been great. As with any significant project/building process, there were some hiccups, but every one was addressed. We felt that we were truly working with a customer focused, quality company. Everything from the honesty/transparency in the sales process through their design center selection help, home construction, and closing was excellent. We have a quality home that has met our expectations.

Plan on spending some time and money fixing all the things that are delivered just "good enough" by Pulte - floors went in first and weren't protected, gaps around outlets and switches, one coat of paint that is paper thin, and overall such a disappointment. Wouldn't recommend Pulte to anyone. Focus is on selling homes as fast as possible - no one cares about quality of product.

There are several quality issues with parts of our home which we are told stems from the shortage of quality contractors that are available for Pulte to hire to build their homes. The concrete slab is very wavy and bumpy and impacted the look of the vinyl flooring we chose, so much that we had to pay to upgrade to the LVT flooring; walls are wavy and curvy and could only be corrected somewhat; already have cracks in concrete garage floor and back patio (we only took ownership in April 2022); there are other less major issues as well. Overall, Pulte has attempted to correct to our satisfaction all issues we’ve reported- and they’ve been responsive- but we feel like they should have ensured that we received the same high quality and high standards that they advertise given that we paid the price for the advertised higher standards. ... More

Once I closed on my home many issues have been ignored. Front porch has large cracks, never heard about my driveway and grass installation. I had to pay to have my garage insulated and drywalled. After 2 months I have not received my trash receptacles. A little disappointed after purchasing a home for over $400,000

would not recommend Pulte at all.

The primary sales agent was very responsive to questions as well as the construction supervisor. One major issue was that the lot had water drainage problems which they knew and did everything in their power to brush off our concerns. Now our sump pump runs constantly and the company claims it's not their problem and won't do anything to remedy the issue.

Very poor fit/finish and responsiveness

I appreciate Chris and Dale working through the process of building with us. The gave us confidence that everything would be taken care of and made themselves consistently available for questions or concerns. Of course during a building process issues come up but between the two of them they never felt like big issues and the lines of communication begin so open helped us remain comfortable and confident.