Pulte Homes Reviews

What can I say? I was looking forward for a great experience but has been the worse. No what we expected. The materials, the paint, the finishes, Drain back up, AC not working after a month.

Home is okay. Bad worksmanship noted throughout. Lots of repairs needed to be completed via work order by builder

I spent almost a million dollars on this house and simple things, like the toilet paper rolls, just keep breaking. Overall just terrible quality

Worst experience with Pulte. Customer service keep asks for the rating to be 10 out of 10 instead of resolving the issues.

Our experience with Pulte Homes as the builder of our new home was incredibly disappointing. What should have been an exciting and memorable chapter in our lives turned into a stressful and frustrating ordeal. We were the very first residents to move into the community, which made our experience even more disheartening. We expected to be taken care of better as the pioneer homeowners, but that was far from our reality. To make matters worse, when we finally gained access to our new home, the house was dirty, far from the move-in ready condition we had anticipated. It has taken extensive cleaning to make it habitable. Additionally, we were greeted by a 1-inch gap under the front door, a clear oversight that compromised energy efficiency and security. Shockingly, it took almost a month for Pulte Homes to address and rectify this issue, leaving our home exposed to the elements and security risks during that time. It was an unacceptable delay in resolving a basic structural flaw. During the construction process, we encountered numerous delays and subpar workmanship, which cast serious doubts on Pulte's commitment to quality. What was even more disheartening was that I, as the homeowner, consistently had to identify flaws that should have been caught by the construction manager. This lack of attention to detail and quality control caused further delays. The inspection revealed a large number of issues, suggesting that quality had been overlooked at every turn. Addressing these problems became an uphill battle, with Pulte Homes displaying a disappointing lack of accountability. The closing process was marred by miscommunication and unexpected delays, leaving us wondering if Pulte Homes was truly invested in ensuring a smooth transition into our new home. Shockingly, after closing, we had no working keys for two weeks, making our move-in even more chaotic and frustrating. To add to the list of issues, multiple items in the home weren't installed as listed, and we now have to schedule them after the fact. This will impact my work schedule and result in a significant loss of time and productivity. Furthermore, the back door didn't lock properly, raising concerns about security and safety. Even though we brought these issues to Pulte's attention, their responsiveness to our concerns was lackluster until we involved the warranty department. Our entire experience with Pulte Homes, from the loan process through construction, inspection, and beyond, was riddled with disappointments and frustrations. Instead of our dream home, we find ourselves with a source of stress and discontent. It's disheartening to witness a company of Pulte's reputation falling so short in delivering on its promises. We share this review to alert others to the challenges we have, and still do face, including the surprising need for homeowners to identify construction flaws, the inconvenience of scheduling post-closing installations, and the disappointment of not receiving better treatment as the first residents in the community, along with the initial cleanliness and maintenance issues, and the significant delay in addressing structural problems, so they can make informed decisions. ... More

I would never recommend building a home with Pulte to anyone. We have been in our new home for about 3 weeks and the entire experience start to finish was miserable. The sales guy, Tom H, has no customer service skills and once our deposit check cleared, he basically told us we weren’t a priority and that we were at the mercy of Pulte given we signed the Purchase Agreement. The quality of our very expensive home is terrible. For example, it’s not even an optional upgrade to add vanity light fixtures in your bathrooms…despite having these in the model home—what a sham! There is evidence of cutting corners and poor workmanship throughout our home—chipping/peeling paint, popped drywall nails throughout, gaps between the flooring material and the baseboards, and we discover new problems almost everyday. When we reported some issues prior to closing, we were told that everything was “construction grade” and acceptable to Pulte. Pulte rushed the closing despite the house being unfinished, demanded the glass contractor hang glass that didn’t fit, and now we are paying the price. My baby and toddler step on exposed carpet nails constantly. We have submitted multiple service requests post-closing and there has been no response! Our yard is a rocky mud pit but we have been told it will be months before they finish our final grade. Meanwhile, the Quick Move-in homes’ yards are a priority, graded and landscaped promptly. AVOID PULTE AT ALL COSTS! If you’re in NE Ohio (specially Avon Lake), do your homework and shop around. ... More

Please do not use pulte’s PGP for your closing. Get your own. Destiny is one of the most unprofessional people we have ever dealt with. Pulte tried to move our closing a week later because they did not submit the paperwork to the proper county. Having this mistake they told us just the day before our closing and was unwilling to fix it. We remedied the situation on our own and they still didn’t want to close. We made them close and destiny was very unprofessional through the whole thing. Then when we closed our keys did not work for our house. When we told them all they said was the keys should work. We worked it out on our own and they gave us the keys to the right house but installed a different houses lock onto our house. There are a lot of things they didn’t fix in our walkthrough as of the closet door not closing and our guest closet falling off. Also speaking to all our neighbors they received closing gifts from pulte and we received none. Which that isn’t a big deal but being a first time home buyer this process is supposed to be exciting and they took all the excitement out of it. Pulte is not worth it. ... More

Starting with Mark our sales agent he misrepresented many issues. Especially the closing. We were force to live in Airbnb for 3 months at 3x price of our mortgage. The quality of the build is a disaster, our windows are so misaligned we could not put in blinded. Doors are different heights, garage doors were broken and 6weeks later not fixed. The grass was dead on arrival. Tommy, our finally construction manager did everything humanly possible to help but there were to many problems. I warn anyone not to buy from Pulte. Oh, the dog park in Verdana Village is so small no one uses it.

We moved in from day one we had issues with the plumbing

I decided to go with all Pulte products (mortgage, insurance, title company) for my closing. I did this to make things “easier”. What I found is that all of the parties have poor communication that led to delays and inconveniences. Closing was pushed causing me to miss an international trip. The build quality continues to be an issue with no communication on when things will be resolved. Overall, I would not purchase a home from Pulte again.

Delayed the construction in more than 7 months, and delayed closing over 20 days. Lots of unfinished details, broken doors, drawers. Clogged toillets and bathtube. Dirty pool, without the filter.

My builder had rushed closing and left my garage unfinished and multiple issues throughout the house. I have broken wood unleveled floors, cabinets installed incorrectly and paint that is chipping.

You guys don't do anything and never keep your word

Communication was horrible the entire time! I finally moved in and have submitted around 12 service tickets I’m on week number 3 and non of them have been addressed. My next step might be legal representation!

This has been the worst experience I have ever had. We are considering selling the house due to the ongoing and consistent issues

Poor workmanship, the quality process is very very poor. Houses pass quality inspection with lots of things missing from what we signed up for. Many items are not in working order and had t be fixed after closing. Response to issues is very poor. Construction team just tries to dust off issues.

It is almost 2 months but Pulte is still not able to have internet setup at my place since it is a part of HOA bulk service. Even i am paying HOA and it is still not setup yet.

From my experience with this company First, the materials are cheap and of poor quality Secondly, there are major problems inside and outside the house at all levels Please contact me to clarify the matter

Worst service .you pushed me to close my home promising that all issues I pointed out during pre closing orientation will be addressed immediately.now it’s more than a month I closed my home but no one took care of the issues .plumbing,pests,cabinets doesn’t close ,lot of ants and musquitoes due to improper sealing ,commode paint peels off.poor quality materials used and construction quality is below average,carpet padding is not proper and nails hurt me whenever I walk on them .it’s a nightmare with pulte

Very disappointed with the quality of workmanship! Damaged floor tiles, kitchen cabinets and countertop, appliances did not work, fridge needs to be replaced. Paint is on the floor, carpet and windows .Several windows need to be replaced.

Sloppy trades, especially painters. Cabinets in kitchen and bathrooms not installed properly, huge gaps, do not close like they should, peeling, bubbling. Caulking looks like a five-year-old did it.

Very difficult to get in touch with anyone during the building process. We also had very basic requests post close that are completely unwilling to work with us on. Honestly I feel like there is a bit of common sense missing on Pultes side throughout this process very frustrating.

I would never buy another house from Pulte Builders. First off before we closed the builder would not do anything about a large crack that ran over 10 feet in the garage. This formed in the beginning process of building and there solution was to just cover it up and move on. I asked for test to be done in that area to confirm there were no foundation issues and they refused. I asked for an extended warranty on that area due to it forming so quickly they refused and said if we didn't go to closing we could be charged for holding up the closing. We had a closing list was suppose to be completed right at closing which they did do most of but we are still waiting on an issue with our backdoor and haven't seen any urgency about finishing the list that was suppose to be completed at closing. Now after living in the house we are noticing small craftsmanship issues but the main thing is that the floor on the second floor is uneven and so uneven that it had to have been noticed by both the carpet installers and the tile installers. The vanity in the bathroom is not level because it is such a dramatic drop in one area. So Pulte instead of fixing correctly again decided to just cover up a problem rather than fix it. I am truly worried about the craftmanship behind the walls that I can not see. ... More

The only positive thing I can say is our sales manager Sam was amazing! He answered all of our questions and more and was very knowledgeable! Besides that our build was littered with issues and now being in the home a few months still experiencing issues. The quality that we received compared to what we paid for is atrocious! I have a very long list of issues but I'll name off as many as I can. We closed without there being a smoke detector on the first floor that wasn't solved until weeks later. None of the cabinets or floors were covered during the build and are scratched and had paint on them. We were told to fix this by using a brown sharpie instead of Pulte replacing them. The quality of the concrete is the worst I've ever seen. There are swirl marks in the driveway, the porches are not remotely flat, they weren't cleaned after the build, and the garage floor was so bad that they had to put Ardex on top which is only a temporary fix. The landscaping is not flat and has holes all over and one side of the backyard floods even though we were told it was fixed. The kitchen sink was scratched up when they had the cleaning crew come in and we are not able to get those scratches out and Pulte refused to replace it. The trim around all the windows and doors are scratched, not straight, or we're not sanded before hand. Our wood stairs were stained very poorly and was not stained uniformly. The subcontractors they had come in to fix the mistakes were incompetent and had no idea what they were doing. We had an exposed outlet. The lights in the ceiling were not installed properly. After closing we found there was no insulation above half our home. And the list of things wrong go on and on. We have talked with multiple Pulte neighbors and they have also expressed their frustrations with sub par quality. I would highly discourage anyone from buying from Pulte! We will NOT be buying another Pulte Home. ... More

This company is very irresponsible, I handed over the house with a large water leak, in bathrooms and an invoice of more than USD859 for this problem, the garden grass was handed over dry in a terrible state. I paid for an electrical connection for an electric car and it was not there, the dishwasher did not work, many touch-ups due to failures in doors, walls, the roof was distorted outside the house, the interior doors are raised with a space of at least 2" left girls, poor quality cabinets, worst of all, is that the water is 30 centimeters deep. Automatic sprinkler system does not work. They cut it off due to the water leak, water that I have to pay for, they are not responsible for it ... More