Pulte Homes Reviews in Charleston, SC

While I like the home overall, the quality that Pulte keeps telling you about does not exist. Over 30 days post close and our punch list still has not been addressed. The end product is not satisfactory and we still have multiple issues with the home. The bandaids are already falling off. The cabinets are cheap. The only upgrades I would recommend are foundational with extended rooms otherwise I would recommend minimal upgrades and do it yourself post close. When it comes to the punch list, they simply remove the tape and not fix the original issue that was taped. And when they actually fix the issue, they create more. Our driveway is already cracking after bringing repaired twice. The interior paint job is like a 3rd grader did the painting. Nice home but terrible quality. Just prepare yourself for an end product that is nice but lacks the “Pulte Quality,” or maybe this is what Pulte considers quality? ... More

The only positive thing I can say is our sales manager Sam was amazing! He answered all of our questions and more and was very knowledgeable! Besides that our build was littered with issues and now being in the home a few months still experiencing issues. The quality that we received compared to what we paid for is atrocious! I have a very long list of issues but I'll name off as many as I can. We closed without there being a smoke detector on the first floor that wasn't solved until weeks later. None of the cabinets or floors were covered during the build and are scratched and had paint on them. We were told to fix this by using a brown sharpie instead of Pulte replacing them. The quality of the concrete is the worst I've ever seen. There are swirl marks in the driveway, the porches are not remotely flat, they weren't cleaned after the build, and the garage floor was so bad that they had to put Ardex on top which is only a temporary fix. The landscaping is not flat and has holes all over and one side of the backyard floods even though we were told it was fixed. The kitchen sink was scratched up when they had the cleaning crew come in and we are not able to get those scratches out and Pulte refused to replace it. The trim around all the windows and doors are scratched, not straight, or we're not sanded before hand. Our wood stairs were stained very poorly and was not stained uniformly. The subcontractors they had come in to fix the mistakes were incompetent and had no idea what they were doing. We had an exposed outlet. The lights in the ceiling were not installed properly. After closing we found there was no insulation above half our home. And the list of things wrong go on and on. We have talked with multiple Pulte neighbors and they have also expressed their frustrations with sub par quality. I would highly discourage anyone from buying from Pulte! We will NOT be buying another Pulte Home. ... More

Our new home was built to a very poor level of quality. It looks like they used bargain bin/defective sheetrock and trim throughout. Cheapest possible appliances, carpet, cabinets, and paint. Wish I had gone with a different builder.

Ruff work everywhere. Poor communication.

This was the worse experience we ever had building a home. We have built 3 other homes in the Charleston area and this was awful right from the mortgage company on. The workmanship is horrendous!!! They rushed building our home and right from the sod, bushes and trees on into the house it is cheap, poorly done, and still not completed after 2 months of our living here!! Even the appliances were wrong! I would never recommend a Pulte home to anyone and would discourage anyone from building with Pulte.I

Horrible experience, zero customer service, no pride in their work, sloppy, constant mistakes that they never fixed, did not care about the customer at all, just throwing up the house as fast as possible with unqualified workers.

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.