Pulte Homes Reviews

The buying experience was good, but there wasn't any introduction to my home

Make sure all open items are completed before closing. My home closing was 8/31/22 and closet doors were not painted. Closet doors were taken out to be painted and still have not been returned. Bigger issue, AT&T can not hookup my Internet because of missing underground cable feeding my house. AT&T blames builder and builder blames AT&T. In any case it's been 37 days and still no internet service due to missing cable. This is unacceptable, and there is no other service provider available.

Loved the experience I had with the sale folks (Myniesh!). Unfortunately, had issues with upgraded cabinetry (they don't come with handles??), this is despite the design center person telling us that it came in brush nickel, and there were no options for chrome. Issues with one of the outlet circuit breaker tripping. Sent a request to have it looked at, after several back and forth emails, the person literally told me that since it had power, he didn't need to send someone out to look. Let's think about this. A brand new home. Circuit breaker keeps tripping. But because I can reset the breaker and bring power back up, it was ok?? After pleading with him to have some look at it (either a bad outlet or bad circuit breaker), he finally said someone will contact me to have it looked at. Really?? ... More

The process was smooth up until after sale. A few issues with quality appeared in the 30 days after move in that did not present during the final walkthrough (all relatively minor) but the builder was extremely unresponsive about them.

Overall good experience. The trades people used were not the best. Many issues, lots of details in quality of work. It’s like too big of a hurry to just get it done so some of the work suffered.

Now that we’ve lived in our new house for close to two months we are settling in and are happy with the finished product. Pulte completed some of the punch list items and a few are outstanding, however we are optimistic they will be completed. After a two year search of new and existing homes we found Trillium Farm. The home designs and proximity to Blackwell Forest Preserve were the main selling features for us, Going into the purchase we had read other reviews so we had a sense of what to expect and this was helpful information. As others mentioned, Pulte rushes you through the various phases but is slow in other phases. Our contract signing day was close to the end of the day near the end of August 2021. On that day we had to select all the options and the exterior color scheme or our place in line would go to someone else. It felt incredibly rushed considering the size of the purchase we were about to commit to. Pulte has pre-set color packages. It would have been helpful if they had generic exterior color renderings to see what the combination of finishes look like if they expected us to make such a quick decision. The design studio experience could also be improved. Pulte emails out an electronic design book with small images of the available selections a month in advance of the appointment. Pulte could provide some aids to prospective buyers narrow down selections in advance. Links to manufacturer websites could help. Also, an opportunity to visit the design center on a weekend in advance just to look around and not be pressured by a salesperson would have made the selection day (time constrained) 3-hour design experience so much easier. Once we were in the construction phase, we did not receive the regular communication promised by Pulte. Since we lived in the area, we started making weekly visits to check on the progress directly, and this gave us some peace of mind that work was progressing. The completion deadline shifted several times. We were trying to time the sale of our existing house with the completion of the new one. This is where things became very expensive because we trusted their “firm date”. Instead, we had to rent back our house for a month, then move to a hotel for three weeks, put all of our belongings in storage and compensate a moving company for two moves. ... More

Pulte Lender stated we needed to get our application in to LOCK in the good rate . What they didn't tell us was that the rate we locked into was only good for 120 days , yes it took 10 months to build in conclusion our rate went up from 3.25% to 5.75% which our mortgage went up almost 400 dollars in the process. Also at this point what can you do . This type of business left a bad taste in my mouth about pulte lender.

8/10 for our experience beginning to end.

Not very responsive to correct defects

Lots of issues with this new build, and very slow response to fixing the issues. Thought the Pulte brand would signify high quality and dependability. Not seeing that so far.

The buying and mortgage part of our experience was good to excellent. Our field manager, Taylor, was helpful and attentive to our concerns during construction. Our problem was that each time we visited the construction site, we found numerous issues with the quality of work. (Concrete, Framing, drywall and tile.) Nearly every phase had several issues that had to be corrected to be anything close to acceptable. One exception was the kitchen. The countertops and cabinets were great and installed correctly. Our punch list was partially completed prior to closing, and warranty services is slowly scheduling the trades to remedy the remaining issues of poor workmanship noted during our walkthrough. We are happy to finally be living in our new home, and we are looking forward to the correction of the outstanding issues. ... More

Concrete work in drive way and back side of house has already start Cracking in 1 month. Also carpet has nails at few places which heart in your feet.

Wish the office was more responsive to issues. They sold out the homes then closed the office and we were on our own.

Pretty happy with our new Pulty home. Our superintendent resigned recently, but it appears thing will get better with our new guy. We were a little disturbed that all our neighbors have a punch list of minor thing as we do, even though they have been here for 10 months. Just little annoyances. Everyone is very nice and easy to work with once we make contact. They should finish up all the existing homes before they plunge ahead with the new ones. Glad we purchased when we did as the price keeps going up. I was aware of the quality going in, but keep reminding myself that this is not a custom home. ... More

Over all it was good experience working with the Pulte Group!

Buying experience was good. However, not so much with build experience, primarily due to constant turnover of build managers (4) and inconsistent (at best) communication that came with all the changes. Build material quality seems very good, with some of the trades being excellent and a couple substandard. Upshot being we believe Pulte had more houses in construction then they had material availability, managers and preferred subcontractors. Expect the pandemic was a partial cause for some of the issues.

Overall experience up through closing was fairly positive. For a production type home ,Pulte does a good job. But every new home always comes with some after-construction issues. While Pulte goes out of their way to promise that these mostly minor issues will be promptly dealt with, in reality their response to rectify these issues has been less than promised. It seems that once closing is completed they just dont care as much. It's been more than 2 months since we closed and we're still waiting to hear from them on when these issues will be resolved. We've called, emailed and texted numerous times but still no response. Buyers will be encouraged numerous times to respond to ratings requests and told that these are very important for employee ratings satisfaction evaluations. My recommendation is to tell them that once all issues are satisfactorly completed, only then will you respond. Otherwise you have no leverage ... More

Please let fix everything before closing

Experience was average. A little disappointed with Lsni. Smaller than Model Unit

We love our unit. Overall we are satisfied. Finding lots of details that need fixing upon move in. I feel they were rushing in places even though our unit was delayed by months and it shows.

Over all it was an okay experience. The workmanship seems rushed and we don’t feel like it was detail oriented due to it was a bigger company with many units that were being worked on all at once. With staffing changes within the company, as buyers we suffered insufficient communication which lead to some complications with our overall process.

Still awaiting minor post construction issues to be resolved.

Building quality not bad, quick response to requests

Better customer service after closing to complete warranty work

overall the whole process is good. However, some issues which were not solved before closing still remain unsolved although I contacted them several times.