Pulte Homes Reviews

Had an issue with main staircase with visual nail marks on treads and open gaps between stairs and stringer. All 16 steps out of 16 steps have gaps and nail marks. Reported to site manager before closing and he told us to handle it with warranty. Stairs contractor and Pulte warranty manager came out and look at it. Both agreed that it’s poor workmanship but still Pulte’s response is it’s within spec. Still working with warranty but this shouldn’t cause this much trouble. Still not sure if Pulte is going to fix the stouts. And so many little issues but once you closed the house, Pulte don’t response and resolve the issues promptly. Asked site manager to 3 door stoppers multiple times but no response. ... More

very bad experience and very disappointed

I am experiencing multiple heater issues in my new house 1) getting big noise while running heater multiple times in a day in Flex room as well as powder room. Pulte management saying it's as per quality, I did check with multiple Willwood house owners and they are not getting any noise. 2) we need to wait 3 to 4 minutes every time to get hot water in master bathroom so we are wasting 15 to 20 minutes of water every day before shower.

Pulte DID NOT follow their own guiding principles: “Do the right thing”; “Compassion for the customer” or “Care about quality”. They bullied us into closing on a house that was Not “Complete, Clean or Move-In-Ready” They switch out appliances selected and paid for to lower level brand. A house that should look new looks like a 20 year old resale due to chipped floor tiles, chipped drywall corners, scratched doors, dented and gouged baseboard and trim, window, door, electrical and plumbing issues, too many more list.

Very poor quality, poor customer service, very poor communication. I still have a ton of pending items after 6 weeks of closing

They delivered the home with lots of issues. Pulte is not checking the basic construction quality prior to closing. Water was leaking from my pantry and Pulte took almost 1.5 months to fix. They installed wrong tile and still waiting to replace. Outside is horrible. Water and mud in my back, left and right of my home. Pulte is not giving any timeline to fix. They did not install the digital lock either and did not reimburse till now. I am very much frustrated with the build quality and response from Pulte.

After we moved into the condo, we have experienced 1. two gas leaks 2. window water leaks 3. Shower sink leaks 4. missing part for the dish washer - customer care manager said he would give us the part but never did. 5. multiple dents in the garage floor - customer care said it's not a warrantable item. 6. hard to remove window stain - had to dissemble the window ourselves and clean 7. touch up paints so bad we will have to re-paint multiple walls 8. charge us an item on the contract($200) which is never done. Opened a work order more than 1 month ago, still no one has contacted us to schedule the fix. Overall experience with Pulte is pretty bad. They charged the highest price possible but did the least they can get away with. ... More

Dear Pulte sales team and construction managers, Your unwillingness to honor your contractual obligations made our 11 month building experience almost unbearable, our daily struggle to compel you to build a quality home; without end! Not only did you act in bad faith throughout the lengthy construction process, but (on four separate occasions) scheduled our home to close with unresolved structural defects, no built-in appliances, or the required Certificate of Occupancy. We will not soon forget how we were deceived, ignored and disrespected. No new home is worth the indignities we experienced. ... More

They denied my prior submission for a review. Laughable. If I could give 0 stars I would. House was built with 0 care. Bathtub urinated in multiple times. Drinking on the job beer bottles everywhere..food trash etc..ac didn't work for a month and a half list goes on.

Bought a home, before closing everyone node their heads and after closing no one responding.

Don't BUY!!!! Very poor quality and they don't care. They promise the world and nothing but problems. Still waiting for things to get fixed.....no follow up on anything. I upgraded everything and the upgrades are cheap!!!!!! I can't imagine how cheap the standard items are. NOT WORTH THE COST AT ALL!!!!!!!!!

Pulte is clearly a quantity, not quality type company. Our home in Wild Blue was a JOKE. Justin forced us to close without mirrors or glass in the bathrooms. The entire house is full of nicks in the walls, unfinished trim work, paint on everything (not just the walls). It is the epitome of sloppy. Getting someone to care once you’ve closed - nearly impossible, unless you make your way up the chain to superiors. Justin must have mentioned his “survey” ten times insisting he didn’t want to lose his #1 spot. While Justin is a nice guy, the only reason he is #1 is because he asks you to do the survey well in advance of completion of your home, before the home is complete and before buyers can take a good look. Despite being in the position for a significant amount of time, Justin apparently forgot that we were to do a quality walk-thru before and after we closed. THIS DID NOT HAPPEN which lead us to the most frustrating, gut-wrenching, disappointing feeling after we closed. We had to BEG them to take care of some of the sloppy workmanship, even our doorbell was on crooked. Not once did Pulte offer any apologies or compensation for our troubles. They truly do not care. I will NEVER build or purchase another home with Pulte. ... More

None of the tiles are levelled- Pulte says this is normal. None of my furniture stay levelled. Walls are not laid straight. Doors does not latch properly, painting not uniform, drywall already having cracks, walls already shaking after one month of closing. There are 30+ issues. Builders just want to close before all proper quality checks are done and forget about it. Field Manager is always in rush to go through inspections with you. To fix the issue, you need to go with their schedule and wait for two weeks upto month. When they come to fix it, is not good and have to redo it or, they simply say this is how it is. I had purchased other home from Century Builder. Compared to that I am not happy with quality and workmanship. Lets see how structure works. ... More

Poorly built home, no quality control.

Shawty cheap work! I’m disgusted at the amount of money I paid and the lack of care that went into my house. Can’t get anyone to fix anything properly after several attempts and work orders. Buyers beware!!!

By far the worst experience I’ve had with Pulte buying a brand new home, They over promised and under delivered on completion date, they can’t be trusted make sure to read the contract over and over again, they can change your material options after you signed the contract and there will be nothing you can do about it! They also don’t communicate with you so your always finding yourself reaching out to them.

For me any stars!!!!! I hope that any family will go through something like this again. My family and I decided to invest in our first home and we were very excited that we had found the perfect community. We are first buyers and we thought that they would take us by the hand throughout the process from the financing until the closing. To our surprise it was not. When the day of closing finally approached, we went to see our house and it was totally incomplete. the housework they did was of poor quality and many things were incomplete. Until today I am trying to fix all the things that are missing in my home. The process with the guarantee has been a terrible one and worst customer service. Not to mention that the builder who was supposed to be responsible for fixing all the mistakes and incomplete things resigned and there is another one that is worse than the previous one. I don’t not recommend buy a home with them and especially if it is a house that is not ready to live in. ... More

Never ever with Pulte again.

We closed on our home at the end of June after almost 14 months of waiting. During our walk through several days prior to closing, all items that we could readily see that needed repair were noted and "blue taped". On the day of closing, we were given our keys and told that all of the items that had been listed were either done, or would be done as soon as possible. Those items noted at walk through, but not done were damaged kitchen cabinets, including doors that were on order because they had a whole in the front of them, chipped cultured marble bathroom countertop, an outdoor light fixture not attached to the house and a cracked driveway. When we contacted Pulte Customer Care, we were told to submit a list of problems via email. We received a standard "auto" reply that they were busy and our issues would be addressed as soon as possible. We received no communication from Pulte Customer Care, so after 30 more days, we contacted them and were told that Pulte no longer did repairs at 30 days, it was now a 1 year wait. So much for Pulte "Customer Care". ... More

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.

House sold way over price, have to sell for a loss. Quality is bad, gave house with torn carpet and broken windows. Then asks for a review and refuses to publish as it deters business. Good for you pulte, I’ll write a review somewhere else. Thanks for the trash house that’s underwater now. Oh and thanks for the dangerous living conditions for $1.4m. Love being scared to open my door due to pitbull

PULTE dropped the ball and almost every single part of the process of us buying our house from the first conversation to the 30 day inspection after we moved in. Sales people didn’t communicate deadlines and we were left without structural options we said we wanted. Mortgage company is arguably the worst customer service I’ve ever had ANYWHERE in my entire life. They consistently lost our documents and made us resubmit them, changed things at the last second without communicating to us, and dragged a 1 month process out for 9 months. Craftsmanship was subpar also. Cabinets hung crooked, electrical outlets not straight, holes in the drywall, cracks in the baseboards, unpainted baseboards, broken window. All these things should have been discovered by our construction manager when he did a walkthrough and fixed when we did our walkthrough before moving in but only 2 of the 10 issues we outlined in our walkthrough were actually corrected. PULTE consistently blamed the pandemic and the laborers they hired and never took responsibility for their poor work in every single step of this process. If this ever gets posted and you are reading it do yourself a favor and look somewhere else. We were warned before we started the process and we didn’t listen. Don’t be like us! ... More

We have been ignored post move-in. Do not respond for requests to complete work. Terrible organization.

FOR PULTE BUILDERS The house we purchased almost in double price they charge us, with all extra works , hmm obviously more money, All Material cheap quality , sometimes where roof not in level , same thing with exterior and floor. Some outlets are loose from wall, Garage door works very slow and doesn’t close lot of time. Kitchen cabinets are cheap quality with makes shuts sound. When we walk on second floor, sounds like roof will broke soon . Specially the Paint is not a paint , it’s just like a cheap primer only. Just move to the house last week, but it’s looks like very old house, hand prints all the way in house .outside all the grass they put not gardening grass and from lots of space it’s already gone/dry BEST COMPLEMENT TO PULTE HOMES TRAILSIDE PLAINFIELD IN 46168 ... More

Worst ever experience with Pulte, totally unlike "Pulte". The construction manager at this Irvine site was a totally irresponsible person, should never had been hired. The quality of the home under his supervision was so so so bad, we had to fix all issues after closing. The list of defects are more than 10 pages long. Still trying to fix it with the warranty team.