Pulte Homes Reviews

Quality of build is really poor. I have seen many new built properties from many builders but their built is the poorest. There are issues just about everywhere in regards to the quality.

I would not recommend building with Pulte to anyone. The sales process was bait and switch. They tell you one price and up it for things like lights which a normal builder would include a flush mount light in a quarter million dollar price tag. They give the cheapest items possible, the price point and marketing claims your getting superior luxury, it’s a lie. The corporate office will not back their product, they don’t communicate. They allow construction teams to give terrible customer experience, bad builds. Almost every trade on my home had to be ripped out and redone 2-3 times. If it weren’t for contracts We would of gone a different route. The president of the company refuses to acknowledge customers. Still dealing with getting things finished, every item is a battle to get complete after closing months ago. It should be simple, you tell your client this is what your providing & you do it. Not with Pulte. Not at all trustworthy. I would not recommend Pulte. ... More

They doesn't have good experience in building homes, especially Land Scaping. One of the worst house we got.

till now most of the problems I had not fixed

Whatever you do, get a home inspection.

House was built in a timely manner. The quality of workmanship of the trades they hire is Very Sub Par. Work is very poor quality and the Pulte Warranty Group's answer is what do you want me to because these are they workers we have and this is the quality of work they do. Pulte needs to set expectations that their trades do not provide quality work to let the home buyer know what to expect in the end so that the home buyer will know that they need to spend tens of thousands of additional dollars to make there home meet the expectations you would expect when getting a brand new home. Overall the home is a good home, however Pulte does not manage their trades and does not expect their trades to perform high quality work, If we could do it over again we would have wanted Pulte to set the poor quality expectation or been given more time to look over the home to have all the poor quality fixed and moved out our close date. ... More

i hate giving bad reviews because it may affect a business however in your case, you need to change rhe way you work desperately. Once we move in, nothing is fixed by the manager involved, which btw they keep changing every 6 months or so. Hardwoods are the worst, and no one comes to fix it, my neighbors have been sitting on their complaints since 1.5 yrs now. Long story short, the sales person salvatore was great, besides that everything was horrible

Major grade/drainage issues: Well, where to start this experience. •The day before closing and after a rain storm, our upper neighbor which did not have sod or grading, had erosion sweep into our yard and the builder had to frantically remove the erosion from our yard, place erosion barriers up and put new sod for us to close the next day. Unfortunately, they did not remove all the erosion, and this affected our grading away from our house. This was the first red flag. • Intermittently, I noticed that water would pool by our outdoor AC unit on our right yard from the builder saturating the houses close to the upper neighbors’ yards with sprinkler water and this water would run though our upper neighbor’s yard which did not have sod or a grade. • The water would pool by our AC unit making our right side unusable. On top of this, the erosion barrier that the builder put up by the AC unit failed to prevent erosion from moving into our right yard by the outdoor AC unit. • This combination of events caused our right yard to become muddy and unusable. • Multiple messages were sent to the Builders PM to put a new erosion fence and regrade/re-sod our yard. A new erosion barrier was not installed. • A warranty ticket was submitted to regrade the right yard and add sod. I escalated the issue to the Warranty manager. He stated they would regrade and re-sod. • The above issues occurred over two months of closing. The last straw was when I found the upper neighbors sprinkler (possibly intentionally/carelessness by the builder) pointed towards my right yard where my recycle and trash cans are located which soaked them. • After talking to the PM about regrading my yard and possibly putting in a trench in, they finally regraded my yard with a 0.5” grade with about a 4' x 10' long area and then resodded. I asked the PM if this enough and he stated yes and if not, they will rip up the sod and regrade and resod again. Great! • The yard still has standing water when the upper neighbor waters their yard, we have placed outdoor gutters by the retaining wall ourselves to resolve the issue. Major HVAC issues: • After two weeks of closing, we noticed the AC system could not hold temperature in the Texas summer, we phoned the emergency line for the AC company: CASA mechanical. The company came the next day and noticed there was a leak in the coolant line (location unknown) and charged up the HVAC system with refrigerant. • The company came back multiple times to do leak testing and decided there was no leak and charged up the HVAC with refrigerant. Two weeks later, the AC could not hold temp. they did another leak test and replaced the outside compressor thinking the compressor coils were leaking. The CASA mechanical company gave no work ticket. I also was relaying information given to me from one technician to the next, essentially project managing the technicians. Mind you, the HVAC system is under warranty. • Two weeks later after replacing the compressor, the HVAC system could not hold temperature again, they charged the unit up and essentially supervising the technician, I stated there must be a leak in the coolant line within the walls of the house. The coolant line had to be pressure scoped within the walls. • Lo and behold, a technician had to rip up our dry wall to find a framer’s nail puncturing the coolant line which was leaking freon gas into my daughters’ room. • Framer finally came to put new dry wall in and painter finally painted the replaced dry wall. • The above issues occurred over a two-month window after closing. These experiences are beyond frustrating. It appears they have downsized during Covid and they have fewer project manager managing builds but this is no excuse. ... More

I highly would NOT recommend this builder. Paid for a home well over 400K$ and the home was not as expected. First, home has way too many issues with poor workmanship. We had been dealing with the company for over a month since we moved in with problems we encountered, but they took too long to address the issues. The walls are not painted correctly in the interior of the house and you can see the issues that they have two tone colors, doors are also damaged and are also two tone colors with a poor job of painters. The exterior of the house is DIRTY since day one, also the siding of the home is not done correctly and you can stand in a corner and see the curvature of the walls. The lawn took over (30days) for them to come fix since we had holes and many spots without grass and our irrigation system stopped working after a week and they wouldn't cover this issue, After going back and forth with customer service regarding our lawn they finally arrived to only do a poor job once again. The company states that after 48hrs if the water stands they will come fix this, but this issues persists and has not been fixed as they state. They stated to us that " they are doing us a favor to fix the lawn" which i find this highly unacceptable when the company did a poor job. All these issues couldn't be seen until we started living in the home. All the details that we checked and signed were done all last minute and with a poor job. Highly don't recommend PULTE HOMES. ... More

Low quality contractors, work completed is subpar for the money spent.

This is the third home that I have had built end by far the worst quality. The on-site team is very unresponsive and when they do come for repairs they repair the issue and walk away with no known improvement in the work. Additionally, the ticket process doesn’t seem to work any better either. I put four tickets in over a week ago and I have heard nothing on 3 of the 4 issues. Honestly, I would not recommend Pulte for quality at all. Grant is known in the neighborhood for his lack of his response to homeowners once they move in.

Still waiting for repairs, master bathroom mirror, fan switch in the master and family room and very unhappy with the baseboards there a 1/2” to 1” gaps from the door frames throughout the home. Some areas they did correctly but for the most part it looks terrible

Lots of issues I didn't inspected the house before closing due to Covid19 issue and social Distancing

Since closing and occupying my home I have been getting the run around concerning service requests from the Project managers, all the way up the latter to the VP of Construction. Seems like there is little recourse.

Pulte sold me a new construction home with a dead tree in the front yard. Customer service rep explained that this is not covered after home closing. Trees were not blooming prior to opening so I had no idea the state of the tree. It has been almost 2 months since closing and we still have the landscaping fencing / barricades muddling our backyard. There has been other issues that continue to not be handled. If you are brave, buy Pulte, they absolutely do not stand by their product.

Construction managers had poor commutation throughout the process. Most importantly the quality was poor. Paint and stain was spilled all over the tile floor and carpet. Things that were supposed to be fixed were not. Closing was delayed and should have been delayed again. The cabinets came off the wall right after moving in. Poor workmanship overall. Better off going across the street to Ashton Woods.

The house wasn’t finished at closing and we are going to be dealing with remaining issues for several months! The trade workers they use are terrible; it might be easier to fix things myself and would be done better. Not to mention you have to stay on top of it or they won’t do anything! Advice if you work with Pulte, stay on top of them from day one. And don’t buy one of they already built spec homes.

Low quality. Not trustworthy. Not Responsive.

House was not complete upon move in like it was supposed to be. Been like pulling teeth trying to get things corrected as they were supposed to be before closing. Yard has been under water for over a month.

Am absolutely ashamed of the workmanship and quality control over my community by Jenny. The house had an abundance of issues at my final walk through that she said would be fixed by the time we closed. When closing came around they had still not been done, so I have her another week to have them done by the time we moved it and it still had not. I am incredibly disappointed with PULTE. I had paint stains all over my garage and they had told me there was nothing they could do about it, I am still finding paint all over my tile. The quality control is absolutely terrible and and our field manager the rudest. After reaching out to Pulte multiple times and attempting to reach corporate I finally got someone who was competent. We have finally got our original walk through stuff finished but now I lost my 30 day walk through and now have to deal with customer care from this point forward. ... More

Pulte did not care about the customer's need . The quality of finishes are what you see in much lower priced homes.

Just moved in 2 months and half, already have 2 times of water problem. One-way valve under the ground of basement was glued together so that water from furnace exhaust system caused flooding. drainage pipe from laundry room were damaged during construction, caused flooding again. Gas valves for water heater were not tighten together, caused gas leakage at basement.

Worst framing I’ve seen in years. Studs missing, no corner studs, single king studs around window openings holding up thousands of pounds of roof tile. Electrical wiring pulled with the sheathing pulled off of it. Wires taped together buried in the walls. Outlets covered resulting in excessive opening made in the drywall to locate them. Gas lines moved and only tested after I questioned them About it. Names constantly missed spelled in documents and even yelled at our lender on the phone because they thought it was a robo call - really your a business! I would never had boy this Property had I know about the pending litigation and recent customers waiting for nearly two years to have properties corrects. I would never recommend Pulte. My door bell doesn’t work for goodness sake. Horrible builder ... More

My bathroom clogged within 2 days of move in. When I requested for checking that, I was informed that it was clogged due to use of toilet paper. My concern if you cannot use toilet paper in toilet what else can I use. Builder doesn’t show any responsibility in fixing the issues at all. Overly priced home. Builder charge differently for upgrades for each model making low end homes come out be expensive than it is worth. They miss the updates said over phone and blame customer that it was not informed to them. Doesn’t accept even some of minimal requests once the contract is signed. For example, before signing the contract I was said I can go for 8 ft or a 9 ft basement, but once I sign the contract and requested to add basement they said they can only do 9 ft basement, due to which I had to pay 10000 more on the purchase price. Doesn’t recommend anyone due to quality and tesponse ... More

The sales office will mislead you. For example, I paid for pull out drawers in the lower kitchen cabinets. There are 3 cabinets. They only will put drawers in 2 of them - When I asked they said - Oh, that is the way we do it. We don't put them in the third one. I paid for soft closing cabinet doors. They didn't tell me that it was only SOME cabinets, not all. They painted the inside the wrong color and then wanted to repaint the entire inside after I moved in. Materials are cheap. the kitchen cabinets have gaps and drawers often come off the rails. The bathtub is a bad design. Oven, microwave failed in 2 months. Dishwasher heating unit failed immediately. If you still buy Pulte after this warning - for sure do not get your appliances from them. My friend bought Pulte 2 months before me and her oven and microwave failed exactly the same way! And Pulte washes their hands of the appliance repairs immediately. You have to go to the manufacturer directly. Workmanship is shoddy. Electrical outlets did not work. Doors have big gaps, The tub overflow cover fell off into my bath along with the mounting screw in a plastic bag - Just floating in my bath water. There is paint and drywall mud on the floors. Many details done badly. There was a long list of repairs as soon as I moved in. Refrigerator and range hood both installed with dents and Pulte had to replace. Beware! They sand the drywall after installing your new rugs. And they don't even cover them. They used my new rug as a work surface. They stored the bathtub on the master bedroom carpet. They left their drywall mud and filler supplies on the bedroom carpets with nothing under them. Pulte's response was - "that is how we do it." Beware! They left so much dirt under the flooring that the floors were damaged from below and they had to remove and replace sections. Oh, and the roof leaked at the first hard rain - water dripping from the can light onto the dining room floor. They had to rip off part of the roof and re-do it. Later they say they will replace the attic insulation. Keep in mind i have only lived here 8 weeks and I could go on for another page. I gave 3 stars for responsiveness because they seem to be working on the issues - except of course for the appliances. They aren't bothering with those. ... More