Pulte Homes Reviews

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

seems like everyone is trying to get their bonus and hit their goals by rushing to close. After moving in, I realized there are excessive amount of repairs and fine tuning needed (very sloppy work). Spending few minutes in each room during walk thru is completely insufficient. That burden should not be placed on homeowner and it should be with the builder/field manager. Paint drips all over the floor and carpet, gaps and chips throughout the house, loose faucet/sink, etc..etc.. Seems like there are too many homes going up at same time and not enough quality control and not enough field manager to spend time in each home while they are being built. The response and attitude is .... "just close now and let home warranty deal with it. I closed and hit my goal and it's home warranties responsibility now". My neighbors have been dealing same ongoing issues with home warranty for almost a year now. I'm hoping that won't be me. ... More

pulte is cheaper and product really cheap. your new home will feel like old starting very first month

There is a culture of shoddy workman ship that has developed. Almost everyone who worked on our home had to come back to cleanup or redo something they did. Forget about the home warranty department. They don't respond. I will never buy from a National builder again.

While the salesperson (David) and Erin (Project Manager) were both terrific, the overall experience in building a Pulte home was anything but. They are the definition of a tract builder that slaps up the houses in record time...workmanship is atrocious. But, the fact that we were told just a few days before closing that our home did not appraise is sickening. We didn't even do many upgrades (like countertops, flooring, fixtures) because the Pulte offerings were so outdated...can't even imagine how much more under the appraised value the home would have been with these items added to the sales price. Typically, if a home does not appraise, you either cancel the contract or bring the difference in $$$ to the table. We were not allowed out of the contract and had to take on a different loan product with PMI, which Pulte "graciously" paid for...probably because we decided to use them as a lender. Can't even imagine if we had used another lender and had to bring the dollars to the table. We were also told that appraisers were brought in from other parts of the state and were not familiar with the Carmel-Westfield market. Wow. Do your homework before moving forward with any Pulte product. ... More

We were so excited to move into our new home, but all we’ve been doing is filling out work orders to have everything fixed. We are very disappointed.

Nails are poking through the siding. The gutters were installed improperly. My patio concrete was broken. My floors aren't level and need to be removed and replaced. My walls weren't sanded before being painted. There are zero smooth corners in the house. I have "orange peel" all over my walls and ceilings. My windows aren't hung level. There are very few 90 degree corners in my house. The trusses in my attic are covered in MOLD. My shower was installed with broken tiles and a shoddy repair was done, the entire shower needs to he ripped out and redone. My ducts werent attached to the vents and I have insulation blowing into the house. The shower doors were installed improperly and had to be replaced. I could list more issues from my two month old house but I'll wait and see if "it can be done better". ... More

We were rushed to close on a house that was not completely finished. We ended up not moving into our home for two weeks after the purchase so Pulte could fix numerous issues that needed to be redone of finished. Even after that, it took multiple weeks to get other issues resolved. Eventually, we were sick and tired of Pulte not finishing things correctly or in a timely way and decided that any minor issues we still have will be done by us with our own contractors of our choosing.

Very poor quality construction for the money they charged. Not at all satisfied with quality.

I searched the web for reviews on Pulte before signing my contract and most were pretty bad reviews. Unfortunately for me, I moved forward with the purchase and here I am, adding to the bad reviews. I should have known better and I'll be kicking myself for a long time. Overall, the subcontractors performed subpar work and all their work went unsupervised by the Pulte field manager. The field manager told me during and after construction that he was too busy to supervise and quality control the subcontractors. That's great news for a new homeowner. (The cheapest subs Pulte can find are building my house with no supervision) I believe the field manager because I saw the poor workmanship for myself and really felt it after I moved in and uncovered multiple problems. I have been in my home for 6-weeks now and still can't take a shower in my master bath due to poor workmanship. My issues were not specific to me, 3 out of 4 of my neighbors had a major issue immediately after taking possession of the home. Overall, real bad experience but you will probably have the same experience with any national builder. If you want a quality home, build a custom home. ... More

There are so many issues ranging from poor construct to mortgage process.

The following transgressions have happened since moving into my home via the contractor next door: Pulte did nothing to stop theft of Water and Electricity. Came home to workers helping themselves to my water and power. This happened multiple days, had to call police to arrest behavior. Contractors working next door splashed stucco on my Vehicle and the windows of my home. They made a mudhole out of my grass on that side of the house. Washed their paint brushes between which also helped to kill grass. It remains to be seen if this issue will be resolved. I get to pick up trash daily from the construction next door. The people grading the yard next door cut the Fiber(internet) which feeds my home. The contractors next door thinks it's a great idea to park in front of my driveway. All in all a miserable experience. Thanks for being classy Pulte. ... More

Upon purchasing my home I was told about several walk through processes that would happen to ensure my satisfaction with the house. None of those meetings have been accomplished, and when multiple issues arrived including drainage issues and flooding the company was not available to speak on important foundational issues. I feel as though I was offered the moon and the stars at closing, and none of that has come into fruition. This has been an incredibly frustrating and disappointing process. I would appreciate it if somebody would call to address my concerns since I have been unable to get anyone to address the concerns that many of my fellow neighbors have also been unable to get addressed ... More

I was so excited to build with Pulte as we had purchased a model home from them three years ago. We had picked out the perfect lot and did over $100k in upgrades too! I had expected a few bumps in the road but not as many as we went through. To give you an idea we were supposed to close in December (we signed in June of 2018) and well we had about 5 closing dates and finally closed the end of June 2019. The quality of the home is poor and the craftsmanship is a joke. No one cares. It all went down hill after I went to look at the house and see that at the door of my walkout basement sat a pile of broken Concreate. We I walked in the plumbers were there jack hammering all the areas of the floor where any plumbing was. Apparently it didn’t pass inspection but Pulte poured the floor anyways. When I called anyone and everyone not a soul knew what was going on. It took The GM of sales a couple of hours to try and figure it out. He did and he had to tell us what happened. The bottoms of all my doors in the house are damaged and I was told “it’s the bottom of the door”, basically just deal with it. My hardwood floors all had specs of paint and drywall dust within the cracks that I had to clean off because the cleaners are a joke. We were told no water on your floors and no chemicals and I walked into my house prior to closing and it looked like the cleaners dumped water on it and they used chemicals on it. When I told someone the response was “they didn’t use chemicals”...I seen what they put in the bucket. I have a 7 ft retaining wall that wasn’t in my contract because no one listened to us when we told them “hey, you don’t have enough dirt it’s going to drop”. They poured the driveway and oh gee we were right. Anytime we had shown them anything as simple as adding more caulk around the windows we got “it’s Pulte standard” and wouldn’t go above and beyond to please us. We are moved in and now dealing with the property pins. Our back yard is t a perfect square in the way that they graded it and put sod down, it’s pie shaped. When we told Pulte’s field manager the response was “ it’s close enough”. Close enough to me is ok if it within a couple of feet but not when it’s about 30-40 feet. Here’s the kicker, when we signed I was told by every person including the General Sales manager that for every 3 homes that are sold the base price of the homes will go up $1,000. It did once and just after we closed the base price of all homes dropped $25,000! So, would I ever recommend them?? Probably not. ... More

This is the second home from Pulte we purchased because of the quality work based on the first one. Unfortunately, the quality of the workmanship and materials on this new house is so poor, we just can’t even compare to the first one or even some fixer uppers. Doors and door frames are refurbished with new paints over them but still can be seen visibility on the outside with dents and uneven surface. Most windows don’t seem new with serious scratches on the handle bars. Shower tub also with serious scratches. People not cleaning after themselves, which left paints in the kitchen sink and shower. The wall in the garage is made of the cheapest material I’ve even seen for a new build, if I had not asked the site manager to fix some of the stuff, one would not believe it’s a new house. All of the above plus other small details not worth mentioning, are just one would not expect for purchasing a brand new house. Minimum zero attention to detail and carelessness are how I would describe this new build. I would like to invite the senior leadership in Pulte headquarters to come check out the quality of work and see for themselves and tell me if this is what a new house should be nor would they be happy with it. I got tired of asking the site manager to fix this and that, I rather deal with it myself after work because I knew there was no way to demand further, which was going to waste a lot of my time, plus the site manager had a tight schedule and other demands from other home owners. On the flip side, the site manager was great. I’m just disappointed at the materials that Pulte decided to use for a new house, maybe it’s just mine. ... More

Poor customer set is and made k of professionalism

Numerous problems during the construction, especially the quality control was very poor

We were very disappointed with Pulte in almost every step of the process. It started with the offer of incentives to use Pulte Mortgage which was not competitive and they changed their numbers on what our payment would be through an “honest” mistake. Needless to say we shopped around then and found much better rates/payment. Loan match guarantee? Promised- but couldn’t do. Work that was supposed to be finished prior to closing, was not. Spending hours of our time to get issues fixed. Not a positive experience.

This house is by far the worst quality build I have had in all my homes. We have safety issues in our yard that has not been correct after several requests. This is a common theme they do not follow through. Myself and other in our neighborhood agree that there is a lack of oversight on the subcontractors. The site supervisor do not roughly inspect the work completed. Our living room ceiling was not built according to plans and it is two feet lower. A bedroom closet was not built correctly so we lost closet space there. Our outside was not caulked or pained correctly. After one month in our home we have trim work popping around house don't settle that quickly. Sales team mislead us and gave us incorrect property information, we added upgrade that were not done to our expectations which are either errors or misleading the customer. Our realtor realtor was also upset on the numerous issues and lack of combination and timelines of corrections. Overall I would warn and new buyer. ... More

Site service is good !

While the final product looks nice on the surface, my overall experience building with Pulte was frustrating and disappointing. From the beginning, key design elements were either poorly explained or not presented at all — including options like stair trim, siding choices with certain layouts not available and a natural gas line out back. I later found out these could have been included if I’d been properly informed during the design phase. The mortgage process through Pulte’s preferred lender was also a nightmare, adding unnecessary stress to an already difficult build. Midway through construction, my original building supervisor was replaced, and things only went downhill from there. I dealt with hundreds of issues, both before and after the official inspection — far too many for a brand new home. To their credit, the Pulte Care team has been responsive and fixed most of the problems, and I’m thankful for that. But the overall experience — from miscommunication to poor quality control — left a bad taste. I expected more from a national builder. ... More

takes a long time to resolve problems

We were promised that our home would be completed between October and December 2024. Pulte was fully aware that we had to move by the end of the year—had we known this timeline wouldn’t be met, we would not have proceeded with the purchase. Despite this, we were first told the completion date would be pushed to January 2025, then later to April 2025. When we requested to cancel the contract, Pulte refused, instead offering us a different completed property in the neighborhood, which we ultimately accepted. Unfortunately, just two weeks after moving in, we experienced a major water infiltration issue. While the home is under warranty, Pulte did the absolute bare minimum in addressing the problem, wasting weeks of our time. Every step of the way, we had to argue, escalate, and even hire outside consultants to ensure the work was done properly. Their handling of the repairs was riddled with mistakes, delays, and substandard workmanship, forcing them to redo the entire grading, drainage, and landscaping. I had to demand proper equipment, safety precautions, and sealing of affected areas, all while dealing with health issues from mold exposure and excessive construction dust. Three weeks into dehumidification, the flooring is still not dry, meaning demolition and restoration cannot proceed until the underlying issue is fully mitigated. We continue to have serious concerns about mold and air quality, which remain unaddressed. We paid a premium for a brand-new home, yet we still do not have full use of it. This has been an astoundingly bad experience, marked by broken promises, inadequate repairs, and ongoing issues that should never occur in a new home. Buyers beware. ... More