Pulte Homes Reviews in Charleston, SC

Be very careful when it comes to the Contract Details. Many Items are shown in the renderings you need to sign as part of your Contract and later in the Contract Paragraphs Details declared as optional not necessarily in your Home installed. Always per advantage PULTE.

I am not going to bore you with the minutia of my experience. We had over 35 items on our closeout punch list. I work in the construction field and the quality largely depends on the lottery of subcontractors you get for the house. At any point in time the Construction manager has up to 20 homes to keep track of. It felt like because we had committed to the house that you would not get the attention to get your home fixed. Alec is my CM and he means well. Having trouble with sub availability. I feel bad that pulte doesn’t offer him any help so these homes, which are very expensive, have the proper supervision to address the quality issues. ... More

Consumers should be allowed to go to the design center prior to finalizing the contract as the design center adds 10's of thousands of dollars to the purchase price. This not revealed up front. They build the homes too quickly and do not give enough attention to quality. The materials used are not good quality and the subcontractors are not supervised and they do very poor work. The homes are very expensive with cheap materials used so the profit margin is high and the consumer does not get a quality product

We had one issue after another with our build. We would tell CM something was not correct, their response was on it but it never got changed until we demanded it. Towel bars are not hung straight, don't match on both sides of the sink. Take lots of pictures at your design appointment. Make sure you have correct samples of what you are picking for everything. Get exact names of products, ask the designer is this an accurate sample of what will be installed. If you build with Pulte, I would not do any upgrades with them. They do poor work. Have them build the house, save your money and higher professionals that take pride in their work and do it correctly the first time NOT the fourth. We were so unhappy with our home we put it on the market for the first 15 days after closing hoping someone would buy it. ... More

Many items were left incomplete, even though promised, the week of closing and remain that way a month later. We should have held out and made Pulte live up to their end of the contract.

Pulte would rather come back out to fix problems 3,4, and 5 times than do the job write the first time. They employ subpar contract laborers that are not skilled in their trades. We were told that everything past inspection, city code and inspectors have a really low bar.

This is our first home purchase and the experience left deep scars. Pulte delivered us an unfinished house that still is not complete 45 days post closing. We had to follow up more than what we felt was acceptable throughout the build process to ensure quality standards were being met. Communication was poor throughout the build and continues post closing as we try to get our house completed.

When we closed on the house, we found the place a mess. There were nails and screws strewn through the lawn on every side of the house and garage. Debris was littered all around. Painters had smeared pain on outside faucet, mortar and paint buckets were washed out and poured in the grass. We have a window that was incorrectly installed and it has been nearly three months with no one correcting the problem. Sloppy is how I would characterize your work and dissatisfied is my reaction to it. One of the subs on the house, the A/V installer has yet to deliver speakers and finish the install. After nearly three months, waiting for a sub to finish a job is unacceptable. ... More

We were very excited to move into our Pulte Home. We paid a huge premium for our lot which has a lot of natural shrubbery and is a pretty big size. We were told that the lot would be cleaned up prior to move in. Fast forward 2 months after move in, there is still trash, leftover construction materials, a fallen tree trunk, etc on our lot. The lack of care and clean up is holding us back from being able to install a fence and enjoy the lot that we paid for. The house itself is nice, a few minor issues with one of the stovetops not working correctly and not getting the full amount of ship lap that we paid for. ... More

Follow through and communication poor

We closed on our house over a month ago and are still waiting on things that need to be fixed. We still haven’t hung mirrors in our master bath because they won’t come and fix the shiplap that was installed incorrectly. We are also still waiting for Pulte to replace the carpet upstairs from where their painters spilled paint. Not sure why they didn’t replace it prior to us closing??

These homes are basically a slam dunk. Pulte hires contractors to perform the associated task for all trades. The companies do not provide sufficient training and oversight to verify the particular trades have performed their crafts correctly. Pulte is also guilty of the same lack of quality control. Pre-closing punch list are not completed at closing and obtaining the attention toward completing punch list concerns is a struggle after closing. Important irregularities are missed by Pulte's home inspection in their efforts to close on homes. Missing components are craftsmanship, pride and quality. ... More

We have experienced many issues that are concerning to say the least. We are 45 days post close and we still have many items that have not been addressed on our punch list prior to closing. When we closed on our house, the home had a lot of areas still to fix which they assured us would be addressed. We pointed out items many weeks prior to close which were not done until weeks after close. A lot of cosmetic issues including trim work, paint. Issues with chips in cabinets, flooring. Our project manager missed the meetings Pulte promises to have including pre-drywall. Communication was us constantly asking for an update. The day we closed, our home was dirty and they knew there were issues on the closing day, looking back it is kind of numerous that we didn’t get the welcome home sign and pictures that others did, We love the neighborhood but the quality of the house is definitely not up to the price we paid for it. Maybe once all the items get fixed it will feel like the home is up to the value we paid, but I should not be 45 days post close still waiting. ... More

Pulte failed to hook our septic system up to electric. Three weeks later when we tried to reach out to warranty it was an awful experience. No one would return our phone calls or answer any questions about the system. Also, they left multiple items on unfinished on our home after close, and Pulte has not been responsive in fixing 30 days after close. There is no way to follow up and no one responds to warranty. Not sure there is any warranty with the home. Don’t expect any items to be resolved after you close with them. They are so focused on pumping out more and more homes, faster and faster, they have no interest in quality. ... More

Horrible experience buying this house. Mortgage and Insurance were absolutely horrible. I think the mortgage part is a complete scam. They took my 20% down payment and sold my mortgage before my first payment. Insurance is still sending me cancellation letter after issuing and canceling my I insurance before I even closed on my home.

Don’t believe the hype ! The houses are nice but way over priced especially what you get and the size of the lot . Our main issue is the fact that when we closed on our house it still was not finished ! It’s taking about a month to finally get things to about 90% . There is much better builders out there that will actually finish a build before you move into it . I would not recommend Pulte to anybody! No integrity or Quality control process .

I had a terrible experience dealing with Pulte. I got the run around for months about a drainage issue in my backyard, it was so bad you couldn’t literally put a canoe in the water. Pulte representatives didn’t want to spend the 2,000 dollars to have French drains put in to fix the issue. Somehow they were able to look at us with a straight face and say there was no issue. The lack of integrity and honesty was nothing I have ever seen before in any buying experience. This is the third home I have built and it was by far the worst experience.It was exhausting to deal with, but after months of back and forth and having multiple professionals come to our lot, they finally gave us a credit to fix it on our own. ... 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

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.

Ruff work everywhere. Poor communication.

The buying process did not meet our expectations. Sales and upper management overall did not seem to be trustworthy. Their main goal appeared to be making a sale and as soon as the contract was signed they became unresponsive. Advertised sales prices were lower in Pulte's website and on MLS than the actual home prices offered for the same homes when we inquired at the sales office. Quality of construction was below expectations. Our home was not professionally cleaned at closing. Almost two months after moving we are still cleaning paint drops and construction dust from corners, floors, bathrooms etc. We have uneven floors, a poor paint job and overall shoddy workmanship. We do not feel that we received a good value for the price we paid. Overall we like our home's layout, square footage and how it is distributed. However, based on our experience buying a Pulte home in Nexton I would not recommend them. I would probably never buy another Pulte home again. ... 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.

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.

You will be spending a lot of your time fighting to get repairs completed! They will complete them but you have to fight to get them completed.