Pulte Homes Reviews

Our home buying experience was not the best, our loan officer was not much help with questions, our builder accidentally nicked a water line and created water damage all along our bottom main floor weeks before closing and did not disclose the information with us. They have not gone above and beyond to remedy the situation due to their lack of communication.

Our home buying experience was one of the worst - this was my 6th new home purchase. It was horrible for a constellation of reasons. It started with the sales agent giving misinformation on more than one occasion, a sales manager who was spiteful when confronted with issues or challenges in her approach, a design center that appears to have the philosophy of “you will take what we want to give you” and not the “customer is right or valued philosophy. These two general issues caused a large amount of distress in the home buying experience - making it a day to day nightmare. Within this, the quality of the home is fairly low budget. Upgraded toilets are cheap, not non-handle water savers, white rubber plumbing fixtures are used, a low volt transformer for your door bell that won’t even accommodate the Nest Bell, low budget cabinet where you’re forced to spend over $10k to even start to get soft close hinges, texture spray on the wall is awful, low quality doors for the rooms, terrible splitting framing around the doors, a garage header frame that was built over and inch off so the front of the house looks crooked and on and on. Pulte has employed field managers who just talk you into how to accept the warranty issue instead of insisting on repair (a warranty issue takes 30 days to repair). The field manager also wanted us to move in without our refrigerator that we upgraded through Pulte. In short, I would never buy another Pulte home in this market and equate its product to a budget builder where it charges handsomely for the home and increase upgrade prices every month. I can say, I had to threaten to take legal action because of all the issues and the response I was getting from both the sales tram and the field manager. One employee, the construction manager stepped in and toon action and has been a very good job addressing the layers layers of issues with this home. ... More

Overall the buying experience was not great. Right from the time of choosing the lot till the celebration walk there were lot of issues. The buyer is always treated with rude answers. First of all not enough time is given to decide on anything, no clear explanation is given about the land, floor plan and customization, being a first time buyer we struggled a lot by the way we were treated. Almost it felt like pulte has this attitude towards customers " take it or leave it " as there are lot of people waiting to buy. Design center appointment was a disaster, everything has to be decided right at that moment without even having a minute to think about it, no new home buyer will be able to decide things by looking at small pieces of sample available in such a short time. I was always open for suggestions and friendly approach but it was not what I experienced. Any customization you ask for is denied even though you are willing to pay for it. It never felt like the builder is building a house for me according to my convenience rather than customer has to adjust and accept with whatever builder provides. I really had high expectations to build a home with pulte but at the end highly disappointed. ... More

Been here nearly 3 months, thought our new house would be completed to our satisfaction, still waiting like many of our neighbors

Pulte does not supervise subcontractors and demand that work be done right the first time. Subcontractors do the bare minimum. They are supposed to clean up after themselves, but this is not enforced, so our lot and house were trashed repeatedly. There is no pride in workmanship.

From the mortgage to still trying to get multiple poor quality and craftsmanship issues fixed, it’s been a nightmare. House should have never passed inspection with all the issues. The original “foreman” left to take another position so I guess he didn’t care. The new boss Don has inherited his problems and is trying his best. If this was custom built with conventional construction loans, they would never get the 20% hold “punch list” payment. No wonder Pulte does business this way.

Be very careful to get all the details that may help you make an informed decision to by . Poultry has a policy of not availing things you need to know before you go to p&s and contract to by. If I was made more aware I would not have done business with them.

Look for another builder, do not use Pulte.

Pulte put us thru a lot stress, by demanding dead lines on situations that were beyond our control. Promises on the home were not kept, The communication between your departments like your lending department and sales office was extremely poor. I was told that concrete was going to be placed on the Side of the home, and later denied.

I feel like cheated. When I decided to buy a new construction house I had expectations to get a perfect house when I am paying close to my hard earned half Million dollars. When we had new house inspection and walk though we found too many issues which was not expected from a new construction. Drywall and finishing was very poor. Everywhere I could see nail holes in dry wall and all the trims, doors and windows. My closing date was rescheduled couple of times. To make up the changes in closing dates construction manager offered Pulte could do something for us. We discussed the option of getting garage finished and install backsplash in the kitchen. Also told me to buy backsplash and grout. They will install it and also will give me a gift card for the price of tiles and grout. Trusting their words was a bad bad idea. It's been almost 2 months after I bought tile and grout. Now they don't even pick up my calls or return the calls. No proper replay on e-mails as well. I am very disappointed I went with Pulte. I should have chosen a more reputable builder. Don't make the same mistake I made. ... More

Some of the employees are very unprofessional. The home to be considered high quality or value has a lot of errors or not good quality of work.

A lack of respect, attention to detail and quality of construction is less than substandard. Finishes were done poorly and now that weather is changing it is apparent this it is not an energy efficient home. The cold comes right through the windows. Poor quality at an extremely expensive cost.

Poor site drainage/site engineering planning, unresponsive to post move in problems in first 30 days (example: electrical plug for kitchen range protrudes from wall so drawer on said range will not fully close, so was told to call Whirlpool and builder totally shrugged off repair for owner to deal with) we moved in on 13.Agosto.2020 and the more than 3 foot high weeds behind home are still uncut. 2 frikkin months. Email replies state give the landscaping company a little time after rain to cut lawns. This is a homesite design flaw that is unsightly and massively below expectations. If we wanted deep weeds and field grass we would have bought a farm. The HOA fees we pay should address this problem by correctly remediating drainage problem (standing water over 5 inches in back yard during a heavier steady rain) and also having landscaping maintenance company with adequate equipment to keep home site clean and classy looking. May hire outside contractor cut weeds and bill to HOA. Some of the inner fixtures are of lower quality (garage entry handle falls off forcing one to go outside, re enter home through front door and then close garage entry door). Interior wal finish is of VERY LOW quality, i.e. a sloppy thin skimcoat was smaered on sheetrock and drywall seams are apparant after a month. In model home walls are proper and seamless. Not sure if this endemic to our developement or company wide but this is not a first class build. Knowing what we now know, would we have a home built with Pulte? I think not. Just being honest... ... More

After moving in, we found the garage was not insulated contrary to our purchase agreement. It then took numerous calls and threat of legal action to get this resolved. The contractors did a haphazard job fixing the issue. It also took multiple contractors multiple days to finish the work.

We were told that we should pick Pulte Title to do the closing because being part of the parent company the things go much more smoothly. Lie. Total lie. Our final walkthrough was scheduled after the closing and the keys to the house were not given to us for two full days after the closing. And then when we needed repairs done, we simply did not get any response for weeks, and got service only after we escalated the matters to senior management.

The quality of work is very disappointing and for the price we paid we expected something much better

We have lived in the house for five weeks. I have a leaking pipe, Cracked driveway, and a leak in our basement.

Just do what's right. There is no way I would leave someone's house in a terrible condition.

i think they dont understand how to to business with there clients they are super intelligent taking clients money after that they are like non responsive

Our Pulte home was rushed to be completed and it shows in the workmanship and detail. After several walk thru appointments and issues discussed, nothing was corrected prior to closing. It’s taken months of meetings, missed appointments, emails to even have companies come in to correct issues, and they end up making it worse. The homes are not well supervised or managed. Our house manager promised many things would be corrected, yet moved off to another division and will not return calls or emails regarding issues still remaining. Pulte markets custom high quality homes, but workmanship is poor. Our experience has been very disappointing and I do not recommend Pulte homes. ... More

Pulte wont help you in what ever situation you are. All they need is to complete with in the dead line unnecessary of what situation the homeowner is in. They make mistakes and you have to pay for it . In my case in they screwed up with the AC and they want me to pay for it.

poor engineeringquality，price cut too fast

Definitely not high standard compare to what you pay. Aims walls are not straight , and lots of thing you find out after final walk in. Poor quality. Not to mention the sales people ( at least ours on that time) that wasn’t clear about very important information about your lot we purchased , without showing us the real space and back yard we are getting - just let us add 30K more for ‘premium lot’ with worse shape of yard than regular lot. We found out after we paid the deposit and after they start building. Will never buy from Pulte again , 30K extra laid for nothing ! For extra space you can’t really use ( back of the house and front of the house) and getting bad shape of back yard. ... More

very disappointed with the warranty Very slow to non existent redponse

Quality of work is terrible, managers do not inspect the work .