Pulte Homes Reviews

Overall, it feels like corners were cut throughout the construction process. Attention to detail appears to have been lacking in framing, stucco, sealing, plumbing, and electrical work. I can’t even remember how many times I’ve put in for service request and I’ve only been in for two months. My Tesla battery nearly exploded. The whole neighborhood is going to have to replace their batteries because of the wiring issues.

Very hard to know what you are getting for your money, little flexible in design and build. Yard quality very poor. Some subs did subpar work.

I would tell buyers to hold off on completing evaluations until after living in home for a few weeks. My issues were dismissed or deflected after title transfer.

Framing isn't square, and the finish work isn't great. Do not believe that you will get a complete landscaped yard unless you're willing to accept all weeds in the back and standing water. Without a landscape warranty, they will simply shrug off the poor landscape job, resulting in the new homeowner having to pay thousands of dollars to correct the backyard.

Overall the experience was not what we expected. The home took 3 months to start after we signed the contract. It turned out that Pulte didn’t even own the lot and work had to wait until they finalized the purchase of the land. In the end they delivered late by 5 weeks. So many items that we spotted on the final walkthrough should have been picked up during the build process by the construction managers.

I love the home. Hard to get hold for repairs.

Shortcuts, cheap materials, poor craftsmanship. Flashing not appropriate size , still waiting to have it replaced and moved in 3 months ago. A/C- poor balance ventilation even after A/C company came to “balance” it. My shower leaks water, so need to get caulking. Some doors don’t latch or handles get stuck. The list goes on..

well we’re to begin I’ve submitted over ten tickets in not even 2 months of living in my house !! Good thing Mr. Pike is such a great employee or your company would be even worse ! Your project managers are a complete joke and do not care one percent about anyone that has already purchased a home , O and my back door lock has stopped working for the second time in the two months I’ve lived here bravo , your a company who only cares about making $ and not helping the people who buy your homes , again besides Mr pike who is excellent I’d say I’m very disappointed with pulte and would not recommended unless to treat you guys like 2 year olds . ... More

In my opinion we had way to many issues. Issues included, insulation, cement, electrical, communication, and follow through on request requests.

Great home but i doubt the quality and finish details

The layout is nice, and the kitchen countertops and floor throughout are nice. The people I've worked with are also nice. But I think that's where the positives end. The process from start to finish was very poorly communicated. The closing was extremely rushed and I'm not sure that's a good thing for a half a million property. 2 months in, I still haven't received things I was promised at closing, or things I paid for that were not included in the home. Would never buy from Pulte again and would not recommend to anyone looking to build new. I've built a new build before and it was night and day better than the process with Pulte. ... More

It was a long stressful process if was not for our salesperson we would have went with another builder.

We are five time new home buyers and are used to working through warranty on minor items, but we were never expecting to 1) have major issues with our electrical, HVAC, and garage slab, and 2) still have these issues unresolved after months of support.

Generally speaking the house appears built to industry standards. Have not seen any of the City's building inspection reports so cannot say with any great certainty. However, preventing us from fully moving in, is inadequate final cleaning of the floors and damage cupboards that have not been rectified to date. Both, Pulte knew of after the first walk through. The tile surface is marred by an adhesive and the shelving in the cupboards were damaged during shipping and were still installed. There is also a window in bedroom two that does not close and allows wind blown sand into the house. There are a number of smaller problems that all add up to a big headache. ... More

We wouldnt recd Pulte as a builder. Numerous things had to be redone before move in due to shoddy workmanship first time or two. Wrong replacement door sent 2x. Still waiting on replacement. Pulte-provided refrig missing shelf we've ssked for 5x. Poor floor plan wastes a lot of space ( have the architects ever lived in a house?). Very short time alotted to make decisions with little recourse to modify unless Pulte needed to change. MAJOR months long hoopla to get ADA shower grab bars approved (even though we were paying). Millions of Americans from disabled vets to folks with knee and hip injuries need grab bars. Get into the 20th century Pulte (yes 20th C). Floors very dirty for "move in ready" and construction mgr could hardly compel cleaners to return. Sales office response was to one-up us on how filty their own Pulte home was for move in. Why would sales person brag about Pulte inability to turn over clean home at closing? We're the 3rd home we know that had to have garage door repaied within week of move in. Yes, they did respind quickly. Overall would not recd Pulte as builder. We will say eventually our construction mgr worked hard to get things right for us once he knew we would not stop advocating for ourselves. And wait until the rains, alot of the subdivision is not properly graded for runoff. Does Pulte know about civil engineers who specialize in drainage? We only bought here in Broadmoor Heights to be close to several family members already here. Perhaps we've been ruined by working with and buying from better builders over our 45 years of home ownership. ... More

Upon moving in, we had outlets without power. Within one month after moving in, the air conditioner stopped working and needed parts replaced. The online service portal where service requests are made has a slow response time so I just ended up calling customer care to escalate these repairs. The customer care personnel is pleasant and helpful.

I had very bad experience with Pulte mortgage and my landscaping needs attention and I called many times and nothing.

Did not value the buyer concern and lacks of communication. Overall didn't have a great experience.

When we purchased the home , wife and I were put a very slow , non- communicative, treadmill, moved in with no information or instructions or any normal helpful tips.

Lack of training for consultants that are selling the homes. Post build cleaning is not adequate for move in. Dusty , countertops dirty and windows dirty. Company pushes for a 10/10 in order to close on home. Comes back to fix or correct things afterwards.

We are having issues from the day signing the contract as not much information shared on lot grading. We have to dig in and research rather depend on pulte. And also they gave outdated appliances which is not worth for the price.

For a brand new home I expected very little issue to see like small cracks. But there are so many issues that show there was no pride nor quality from electrical, installation of cabinets, to painting. Walls have holes made by a drill bit, scraping during installation in walls, base boards not painted, I can feel nails and bumps on my feet when walking bare foot on carpet. There has been tile glue throughout the house, door threshold has a hole, bathroom sink bottom part is broken, trash cabniet is not installed correctly its hard to open and closed. Kitchen and master bedroom breaker has popped once already, where they installed wire for camera is a bad position because light is in the way, nails sticking out on baseboard, bathroom tubs are rusted, flooring wasn't sealed correctly etc. ... More

Pulte mortgage is manipulating people right and left giving 7 higher interest rate where market rate is below 6 and then give $10,000 which they use to buy down the rate.

They try to finish the work as fast as they can and close the house. After framing is completed, they give all of the remaining work to contracting companies. And they finsih their work with poor quality and the finishing look of the work do not look good and fine. The problem is they either donot have control over the contractors or they are lazy to properly coordinate with them. In the end, the construction team overshadows the issues and try to convince you that the item/product/structure itself look like this and there is no scope for improvement.

Both the salesman and the Engineer did a fine job but Pulte Management sold me a property and is now trying to take a portion of this land. Not only I paid for the lot, they want me to take on liability for a section of this property to be used for the benfit of the community.