Pulte Homes Reviews

There are multiple issues in the house. Sod was not laid properly and was not watered properly until closing because of which most of my sod is already dead in spite of regular watering. Issues that were identified during prewalk are yet to be fixed and many issues identified during prewalk were only fixed after closing.

I was forced to close without issues been taken care found before and during the celebration meeting. I was given letter of completion from Vice president of Pulte with the list of issues that will be completed by Aug 13th. Field manager stopped responding to calls/ emails right after giving me that letter and I am still running behind the customer care for getting my issues fixed. Had a very bad experience.

I am absolutely amazed, astonished even, at how poor the quality of the subcontractors’ work was. Sloppy painting, stained carpet, broken windows, malfunctioning oven, upside down doors, etc.

Pulte homes are not very certain on closing date and rush on it, so as buyer didnt had proper celebration and worst experience and fixing up cosmetic and couple of damage within home. As a new homer we have lot of question and nothing was properly answer and field manager chnages no often with not at all update to what happen at site. I would not recommend for improper response with sales and field manager here. Unsatisfied and keep getting lots of very very delayed response.

The customer service from this company is non-existent. From the top to the bottom they do not value their customer’s experience in the slightest. We had multiple issues with our foundation and basement during the building process caused by the field manager, and had to contact him first about it. Then we had to demand certain things take place to ensure they did not try to cut corners. Communication on progress or about issues was never initiated by Pulte and it takes a minimum of 2-3 attempts at contact before a short response that often doesn’t even address your concerns or answer your questions. Close to closing our inspector (not anyone at Pulte) discovered a leak in the basement wall. We had to fight tooth and nail for that to be fixed, and fixed properly. On our celebration walk, our house wasn’t close to finished, our railings were the wrong color, and there was a leak in the basement. The field manager “guaranteed” it would all be taken care of by our closing. On the day of closing for our final walk through, our house still wasn’t near ready. We could not believe they would try to close on a house in this condition. The final paint was not done, the railings were still the wrong color, it was filthy, there was still a leak in the basement, and the sump pump stopped working causing the basement to fill with water. The only one who ever apologized was the sales person. The field manager would not even come up from the basement and has dodged us since. We also dealt with the VP of Sales, who was completely rude and clearly does not value the customer after the way he spoke to and about us, before he even had all of the information. Everyone I’ve talked to in the neighborhood has had similar experiences. I would not recommend building with Pulte. ... More

Any issues found after closing are not considered important. You are not able to talk to a real person.

Before closing, there was a laundry list of issues that were promised to be fixed after closing. Some were small, others pretty big. The more minor issues I fixed myself or the supervisor had resolved. Without being petty, I will say the overall workmanship was poor. The biggest issue I reported was visible seems on the ceiling. I tried to work with the Pulte team on getting the ceiling issue resolved; however, after two months and five Pulte people later, I was told, “there isn’t anything further we can do.” I’ve been given a myriad of excuses why the seams are visible; here are some of the more comical ones were, “well, your house is set East to West, so you’ll see the seams,” “they aren’t seams; they are shadows,” “gravity pulls on the wet drywall mud so you’ll never have a seamless ceiling.” In addition to the visible seams, the other topic that got under my skin was the Pulte team talking to me like I have zero knowledge about the home building process and that I should accept defects. Just today, I was told, “I have twenty years in construction, and visible “shadows” (seams) are very common.” In reviewing this entire process, I’ve realized that Pulte doesn’t care about the homeowner. It’s a turn business. Sign the contract, and they are done with you. Honestly, I cannot say one positive thing about purchasing new construction from Pulte. ... More

We moved into our Pulte house in late March, and there have been a ton of issues with our house. See list: -Roof in our office leaked due to defective shingles which led to trim damage. -Painting was rushed as whole walls/rooms need to be repainted. Our house is currently stickered as we wait for the painters to come back. The painters have been scheduled four times over the past two weeks and have not shown up. -Windows in the master bedroom/third floor do not lock. -Cabinets with splits were identified during final walk through, and we are still waiting on replacements. -Toilet in upstairs bathroom leaked which caused damage to our floor. Issues that were encountered but resolved: -Main floor had a ton of scratches due to contractors when we moved in. -Water leaking through our stove hood when it rained. -Gas leaking through the pipe under our stove. -Our driveway had a drain in the middle of it which scratched the bottom of my car and was a major inconvenience. Two months in and the house feels like a construction zone. Note: Brad Cunningham has been great with resolving any concerns/issues. This survey does not reflect on Brad's performance. ... More

I am still waiting for many issues to taken care of. It is hard to get a response from anyone.

So many thing wrong with the house that still need to be fixed. Original it was the cut line of the toilet drain that forced the ceiling wall and floors to be replaced twice. Front porch with foot prints in the cement. A driveway that won’t be done until summer and yard to follow after that. Broken dates as to fixing these issues. Poor communication as to resolving these issues

I was not happy with the experience. I feel that they do not go above and beyond and once you sign they don't even call you back. They don't finish the end product.

House not completed for walkthrough, no quality checks were performed by Pulte, all issue identification was left up to us as the customer, promised by builder that issues would be resolved by closing and they were not. Forced to close with 77 open issues like leaking pipes, damage to cabinets and other finishes, uninstalled features, missing paint, chipped tiles, etc. As soon as we closed it was like we did not exist. It has been left to us to coordinate, schedule, and communicate issues with the trades, as our Pulte field manager told us he was moving to a new development across the street and did not have time to follow through on all the issues we discussed before, during, and after closing. Pulte sells you the "Build Quality Experience" and says they are the highest of quality. There was no oversight of the work along the way, that is obvious by the poor quality and numerous mistakes. There was no inspection by Pulte, they looked to us to point out even the most obvious damage and needed fixes. We are 6 weeks passed closing and our house is torn up with partial fixes, most items not addressed at all, and many items worked multiple times and still not acceptable. I would not recommend Pulte, they have not taken any pride in their product, and along the way each Pulte representative has pointed at someone else as being responsible. ... More

Do not go with the Pulte lender!!! They will make you jump through hurdles for the same rate another lender will offer you for free. We got our keys but we’re still sending them documentation. Watch everything in the build process. Take notes & stay on top of the construction manager to get stuff done!!

So many things to say! The hluse was not finished when we moved in. We were told that the final issue would be take care of in the next few days after the moved but almost 2 months later we still working on those issues. Next week they will replaced over 10 tiles... it has been a bad experience overall...

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.