Pulte Homes Reviews

The priority is house is closed (or) not. They don't care about the buyers. what issues they will have (or) not ? Example: they will give u 0 wood like ties. They will not give you extra bricks, paint ...issues after reporting will be addressed later ..Quality of construction is also not upto the expectation...They can do much better.

Pulte would rather come back out to fix problems 3,4, and 5 times than do the job write the first time. They employ subpar contract laborers that are not skilled in their trades. We were told that everything past inspection, city code and inspectors have a really low bar.

We have been greatly disappointed by a number of issues. We were pressured to close on the house with outstanding issues as we were guaranteed that they would be fixed in a timely manner. Some of the issues which remained and were discovered after represent safety issues as well. At this point, over a month after closing, many issues remain unresolved or took weeks to get fixed (with prodding from us - like HVAC piping putting us at risk of CO poisoning, a garage door screw which was broken leading to instability of the whole opening unit). Often, we received NO or very SLOW response when we asked about repairs. We still have a nonfunctional master bedroom shower (the door is currently off the hinges with cracked tiling which we paid extra for) in the master bedroom and no timeline for a fix with 3 failed attempts at repair. We have no guaranteed timeline for a fix. As it stands, we will continue to push for fixes but hesitate to recommend Pulte to others if this is the "Pulte experience". A few other issues took us by surprise. The lack of any finished flooring in the HVAC room on the second floor, the final grade (with multiple areas going towards the house), and that our driveway is now permanently stained by some sort of oil based splatter. ... More

I have very bad experience with Pulte . Before closing 3 days , we walk through house and we founded so many things which are not properly installed . At the day of closing , we walk again and we founded 20+ things which Pulte did not resolved till that day . THEY PROMISED TO US EVERYTHING WILL BE DONE . We make the agreement, after closing 15 days PULTE should complete the list . Today , 6 weeks after closing list is not completed, and they are apologizing all the time , with excuses and sorry for inconvenience. I can prove all calls which I made to PULTE TEAM ( more than 50 ) , emails ( more than 50) text messages ( over 50 ) and of course agreement which PULTE signed with me regarding all 20+ issues will be done 15 days after closing. Again 6 weeks after closing they didn’t complete the list. ... More

Overall, it was a good time to buy a home which is why i did. Prices were rising and you needed to get in somewhere. Would I go with Pulte in the future? No, i'd try someone else out. I had to stay on top of them during the build process and when i mentioned issues, i was assured it would be taken care of. Weeks turned into a few months and during the last two weeks of closing they attempted to fix those issues when it should have been taken care of far in advance when it was brought up. Today after living in the home for two months, I'm finding other issues. Which brings me to their whole warranty process. For example, in my master shower, they never sealed the grout on the top tiles. I could stick my fingers all the way down just about anywhere on the top row. When i called it in, they came and sealed it. However, they wouldnt paint it. That means i have to call it in again to get it painted now and smoothed out. Its pretty dumb that I have to call an issue in multiple times to get it fixed 100%. The outside of my door never got sealed like the windows. I inspected other homes and they are in fact supposed to be sealed. Paint on the inside of the window frames never got cleaned up like i requested. Touch up on paint around the metal sealed plates on the ceiling (where fans/lightsgo) never got touched up. Pretty sloppy and definitely wouldnt try Pulte again. ... More

Houses are really built with very poor quality, there are lot of echo and you can hear through walls up stair/downstair, also even slow walk sound as a big bang noise. flush in a bathroom will create noise as if there was a big machine turned on and it is very lound rt below bathrooms (this is a big issue where we have work from home and in the meeting), this itself show how poor quality is.

Overall poor from sales to construction. Multiple project managers with poor communication, sales with over promises, and a swamp in my backyard making it unusable. Already considering moving.

When I talked to others in the neighborhood, all were given a much lower lot price. People with much bigger lots were charged significantly lesser lot price. I feel I was taken for a ride.

Visit your homesite constantly to view progress.

The quality of construction is not up to the mark, construction finishing is not satisfactory. Painting is not done as expected. Quality for components used is very low quality.

Pulte gives very few choices and charges a premium for many things that we felt should be included in a house. Although I realize Pulte is not a custom builder, we were disappointed by the selections, workmanship, and quality of building materials.

Our sales and construction representatives were very responsive and friendly and the condo is overall nice but we have had several issues. They pushed/forced us to use Pulte mortgage even though we already had our own broker. We applied, but ended up using our broker as Pulte couldn't match. That pushed the process back 2-weeks waiting for Pulte's underwriting review. Also, had many delays in closing as the condo was not appraising. Had to wait for more units in the development to close so there were additional comps. In terms of build quality, I wish we would have requested an independent inspection before we moved in to prevent a few issues. The day we moved in the utility room flooded. We have a ranch with no basement so this shouldn't happen with a new build. It took several days for Pulte to respond to our service request so I ended up fixing it myself. Once the HVAC company came out they said the entire system was built incorrectly. The drain is actually the highest point on the floor so water has nowhere to go. This is a major issue and should have been caught by the builder during construction. Also, the refrigerator wouldn't stay on as outlet was GFCI and kept tripping. The kitchen fridge doesn't actually have to be GFCI and the fridge worked fine when using a standard outlet. The master bathroom is designed weird, no shelving in the shower for soap / shampoo and nowhere to hang towels near the shower which means you have to walk wet across the slippery floor. Also, the light switch near the toilet is in the back of the room which is annoying at night as you have to walk to the end of the dark room to turn on the light. It should be next to the door. Overall, I would still recommend as it is nice to have a new build and our initial representatives were easy to work with. Just be aware that "new" doesn't mean that everything was done correctly. I just would have expected a better attention to detail with the design and build. ... More

First, the following is not only based on my wife’s and my experience. After talking to neighbors, similar if not the same issues have been observed on many levels. The list below is not only our impression but was already recognized by the quality manager from Pulte. He wrote the list and I am just copying/pasting parts of it here. After our first walkthrough a lot of things got marked with tape with the explanation that it will be taken care of before move in day (that was expected, no complaint here!). Unfortunately we found that a lot of the marks (tape) simply were removed without taken care of the issue. Following an extraction of the issue list from Pulte’s quality manager: - The house was handed over dirty. Slight dust film everywhere, hinges, handles and outlets were overpainted and not cleaned afterwards - Damaged flooring (luxury vinyl, in total 9 floor boards need to be replaced). - All trimmings (windowsill, door frames etc) are sticky and will be repainted. Some doors need to be sand and repaint - Paint job in general very poor. Brush strokes and patch ups are easy to spot when looking for it - Tiles in bathroom crooked and not leveled, different (mix of) grout colors were used - Tiles in shower not leveled so water cannot drain properly - Master bathroom has hot water issues (also our neighbors experiencing this), 2nd bathroom works fine for comparison - Missing and damaged cables which need to be replaced now (requires to open walls) - 12 out of 18 windows have scratches. One is hard to open, when opened, it will not stay open - Missing or too much caulk (gaps or excess not removed) - Cabinets are crooked, damaged (cracks/scratches), several doors are warped and the paint on it is inconsistent (we paid the for the top tier kitchen btw) - Taping in the garage showed a lot of quality issues (air bubbles under tape, screws extruding or holes not filled). Even though they redid the taping it is still just a touch up of the worst spots instead of a fix (still not happy!) - Bathroom sink cannot hold water, does not seal - Missing or damaged sprinkler and outlet covers - Worst part is the stairs, nails are sticking out under the carpet. Cannot walk on them without shoes. If you do, you will find the steps to be uneven on top of it I could list more but these are the most disturbing to us. Work orders have been placed by Pulte and we have to live through the patch up job, which will be quite invasive considering few items from the list above. To be fair, it seems Pulte wants to take care of the issues but based on the initial work I can only hope that the quality of the workmanship will improve. It probably will take some time to be taken care of and I will use social media to report about the outcome in a few months. #PulteHomesExperience (by end of the year!?) Thanks for reading. ... More

Pulte creates too many homes that it cannot keep up with, thus the quality suffers. Finishings were poor such as painting was awfull, many places were missing paint entirely, choices of wood were poor as noticed during construction, final grading still is not complete after 2 months, window signs still in windows above garage, responsiveness is very slow often times months.

Medium quality at best. Pulte will burn you if they can.

From the beginning no one seemed to know what they are doing or how to answer questions. Right before our closing date 10 months in they would several water leaks all over the house and mold so they had to ripe out the walls and treat for mold several times. We were told the mold was gone and we had a new closing date so we had a home inspection done only to find the attic was not treated and there was still mold in there. So I was fine with all of this but my issues is that their trades men worked in our house for almost 4 months around our upgrades and there are blemishes on everything. We paid 120,785 to literally upgrade everything ion our house and by the time we moved in our floors and counters had issue they wont fix. But that's not even my biggest issue, anywhere you walk in our kitchen or living room either our kitchen island or living room table rattle. They blame it on floating floors but your floors should not vibe everything around it when you walk. They have said they will fix it but this is yet to be seen. I think if you are going to preach quality you should take your time and build quality, not rush so you can more houses super fast to make the most money possible. ... More

I have been in my new home for 3 months and have yet to be fully settled in the house. My floors were not to standards and what is worst the “replacement” has been just as bad; now I am waiting to get my floor redone again. My wife and I have noticed the workmanship was not as good in other areas but the main thing that stood out was the bad tile work. The responsiveness has not been up to par when asking for something to get fixed.

I would never recommend Pulte to anyone I know. The options are not great and Pulte nickels and dimes you for everything. The closing date Pulte gives you also means absolutely nothing. Very poor experience.

while we do like our new house there were and still are many frustrations. They still have not finished fixing what they said they were going to and we bought out house a month ago. (and i mean there is a laundry list of things). many of our neighbors have expressed the same frustration and are also still waiting for things to be fixed or finished properly on their houses. the building of the house and buying experience was overall pretty awful. throughout the building process we mentioned several issues very early on that were ignored and we were told by our Pulte real estate agent Sylvie to let them to their work because they "have a process and we need to allow them to do their job." 5 months later a good portion of the house still has flash painting on the ceiling. Our real estate agent Sylvie answered some of our questions we had throughout the process. however, either she lied to us about several issues and/or overall communication within the company is awful? It is not a good sign when one meets with the field manager about concerns of your almost completed house and he has heard nothing about the large issues we have been mentioning since feb/march. we met with her to discuss this and she became so defensive she left the room and never came back. that was in May and we havent heard a peep from her since. not even a congratulations on our new house. Whether she was happy with us or not, there was no excuse for the lack of professionalism we received from her the last month before closing. a tip for buyers: do not sign papers for your house until it is done to your satisfaction! once bought all needs including unfinished tasks are sent to the warranty department. Michelle in warranty has been great and done her best thus far to help us however contractors do not seem to respond to or care about fixing things because they are understaffed and pulte cares more about continuing to build new houses than finish the houses that have been paid for. i would not recommend Pulte ... More

It was terrible and we are still going through it. We were forced to close before the house was completed. We’ve been living here for over 1 month and things are still not done. It is a nightmare that we can’t wake up from. We still cannot access the Pulte Home site. There’s no technology support. It’s ridiculous for a publicly traded company. It’s shameful.

I was not expecting to get my house of this quality. And the follow up is horrible

This is our first home purchase and the experience left deep scars. Pulte delivered us an unfinished house that still is not complete 45 days post closing. We had to follow up more than what we felt was acceptable throughout the build process to ensure quality standards were being met. Communication was poor throughout the build and continues post closing as we try to get our house completed.

I was initially so excited about building a home from the ground up, but not after what I went through with Pulte. I had 3 different builder POCs bc everyone kept quitting. Closing of the home was delayed for over 4months and still wasn’t complete when I did close. There was a laundry list of punch list items that still need to be fixed that haven’t been addressed yet. Now that I’ve loses no one responds to any form of outreach communication. My home has several errors that need to be fixed and that still has not. Careless errors that shows they didn’t care about end quality output. So now that I’ve noticed so many things installed and built poorly it truly makes me question everything else in the home. Very disappointing especially knowing that the majority of the neighborhood all have similar issues. Makes it appear as if they just don’t care if they repeated the same mistakes in every home. Example of this would be the placement of all the pendent lights in kitchen are not centered, issues with being able to have internet provider give access to home, their service partners for smart home Installation don’t have all the things they need etc. Bad experience and even worse customer service ... More

We are 75 days into the ownership of our new home and while we love the house, it has been a horrible experience in getting the remaining items finished on our property. We have no schedule, work done incorrectly identified by us and not Pulte because the Field Manager did not monitor or QC, no communication from the Field Manager, and workers showing up unannounced. When we have brought this up to the Field Manager, we have been told that they can't "control the trades" and that they were unaware of them coming out to do work. It's been a very unprofessional, haphazard, and disappointing experience to close out what should have otherwise been a great experience. I hope that the remaining fill dirt & grade, downspouts, and landscaping can be completed at level we would expect at this price point, but we have no faith in that occurring. ... More

I can’t think of anything good to say about this experience, other than the leasing agent was friendly and helpful. It went downhill after that.