Pulte Homes Reviews in Austin, TX

Overall, my experience with my recent house purchase from Pulte Constructions was mixed. While the price was budget-friendly and the community seemed promising, there were several design flaws in the house. Specifically, the backyard was not properly graded, resulting in water buildup during rain. Additionally, there was a linen closet space included in the design without plans to actually build one. Additionally, we had an issue with our house's main drain line being clogged, that was identified in the first week of moving. However, the warranty team and construction manager were able to take care of it after closing. The third party who did the pressure test also left the test ball line in the drain. During this year freeze, we also noticed air infiltration in various parts of the house, and we have raised a ticket but have not yet received a resolution from Pulte. On the positive side, our Sales Consultant, Construction Manager, and Warranty Manager were all helpful and responsive. They truly seemed to care about their customers and resolved issues as best as they could. The neighborhood is quiet and family-friendly, with good schools nearby. It's also conveniently located near shopping centers and major highways. The neighborhood is quiet and family-friendly, with good schools nearby. It's also conveniently located near shopping centers and major highways. ... More

We were told our house would have a door from the garage to the back door. It does not. When we asked they stated it was mark off of the plans we signed. Yes marked off AFTER we signed them. They have yet to really attempt to fix this. The workmanship in the house is lacking. There are foot prints in my driveway and metel rhubarb is showing through. They laid my drive way very inefficiently. We cant even get into the third car garage without driving over the sprinker that they set right at that corner. The other houses on the block have a much different angle for their drive way.

Cannot get warranty work completed in a timely manner. Builder missed multiple appointments today and is unresponsive.

Very unprofessional workmanship. Not Pulte Standards. Useless in Paying premium price. Below points justifies my rating: 1) Very bad finish on the Kitchen backsplash. How will CM says that sometimes construction will end up with gaps and that is out of their hands. Then what is the use of having CM for a house. Any one from office can give directions to contractors and accept what they deliver. 2) Waste water pipe lines are blocked and no one care to check them before close. My house after closing flooded with water twice and made wood flooring wet in master bed room. First time it is just water but next round poop (biological waste) returned back from the pipes and flushed back in 2 bathrooms toilets and again made wood floor wet in master bathroom. I have to clean some one poop in brand new home. I cannot say it is a brand new home after poop everywhere in bathroom and bedroom. The plumbing team came to unblock and flooded with poop in my front yard and care not to clean. We can call this home a Poop home then Pulte home. 3) Did a patch work on the nook celling and it clearly visible as patch. 4) Power in one of the bed room trips off if under kitchen sink disposal is turned on, as well as some one use power plugs in the opposite house. They blame it is city that some have connected two house power line and they can do nothing about it. This is still not addressed, I atleast reset the breaker twice daily. 5) Backyard grass is dead and fence is broken and water get stagnant at the end of the backyard near fence. 6) They made mistake with brick on my neighbor house and removed the brick, they did not even inform me to cover my AC unit in the backyard or did they not cover it. Now my AC unit is filled with little brick pieces. Who is responsible for that bad workmanship? 7) I made about 10-15 warranty tickets and only 5 are addressed and god know when others will be addressed. This is my first home in my life and I regret buying from Pulte. ... More

Jimmy is the most unprofessional person I have ever met as well as lazy and incompetent. I have multiple emails noting issues with the house through out this build that would have completely been missed had we not discovered it and made him aware. Multiple times the things I pointed out were ignored unless I stayed on top of him to get it addressed. For the first two months of our build we had zero build updates from him and he blamed a coworker for not adding us to his email list. When we did start getting updates it was apparent he never went by our house and relied on what he read on their online system to tell us what was going on at the house. We just started going to the house the day before the build update so that we could update him with the progress the next day because he was usually unaware of what work had been done. At one point he stopped giving us phone updates and we started receiving email updates from the sales associate. He wanted us to only tell her, the sales associate who is unfamiliar with construction and still had to relay everything to Jimmy, about the issues we were finding with the house. He was completely unaware of the selections made for our house when there were delays because he could never tell us if the delays affected our specific selections. He used that to delay giving us a closing date. First he said he would set a close date when the flooring went in. It went in and then he said he would give us a close date when the countertops went in. Then the countertops went in and he said he would give us a close date when the backsplash went in which is when we finally got one. He blamed all of the delays on Covid even when we were two years into the pandemic. He blamed Covid for being completely unprepared for the final walk through inspection we had already rescheduled once due to his unpreparedness. On multiple occasions he stated to me that he doesn’t build a perfect home which was absolutely disgusting to hear the lack of pride he had in his work. He is a terrible representative of your company and should never be involved with customers. It’s his lack of management and over site of his team that lead to the scratches in the floors but of course it’s not his fault because nothing ever is in his eyes. If he was actually doing his job and monitoring the progress as it went along things wouldn’t have been constantly damaged as the different trades came through to do their jobs. ... More

Very disappointed with the responsiveness to issues

Biggest mistake I ever made, was buying from Pulte. Workmanship is terrible. Warranty issues brought to attention months ago still have not been addressed. If you are buying from Pulte, be sure to get a 3rd party inspection prior to close, and refuse to close until every deficiency is addressed.

We bought our house about 2 months ago and had excellent experience from the sales person there. However we experienced major issues with the builder and construction team. We closed on a house that still had items that were unfinished and were promised that they would be taken care off the day that we would close. Not only those items were NOT done as promised, but it took us 2 month of calling and emailing the construction team daily/ weekly without any response. The whole situation was very frustrating as we had were getting no response from Pulte construction management. We had to put our food down to get our house done on the items that were still unpainted, damaged bathroom frame etc. Overall it was a very difficult and exhausting experience!!! ... More

Sadly We lost some money because your cintract eas unclear

Stephanie was our salesperson and her handling of our project left us deeply disappointed and feeling undervalued. She harped on the fact that we would be receiving timely and consistent weekly updates. She even stated that we could choose to be updated via phone call or email. We communicated with her that we would prefer to be updated via email as I was traveling extensively for work and I wanted to ensure that my wife received the same updates so she's in the know and didn't feel like she couldn't make an educated decision without me. Unfortunately, Stephanie was given the incorrect email address for myself. We requested she correct it via phone call, email and I even went physically into the office to get the issue corrected. Unfortunately, that incorrect email address is still attached to Pulte's communication to me therefore our information could very well be compromised. Our build took about 30 weeks. Stephanie sent us a whopping 4 building update emails during that time (one of which had two weeks of updates included and another building update email stating that she would NOT be sending out a weekly update email as she would be out of town). When Stephanie would send out her email updates, it was on Wednesdays towards the end of her work day and she would then be out Thursday and Friday and would be back in the office on Saturday. That being said, if my wife or I had any questions we wouldn't get a response until the following week. We did ask if we could get her to send out her updates earlier on in the week to which we were told "no". Pamela helped us in our Design Center appointment. She was a pleasure and a breath of fresh air to work with. Unfortunately, and to no fault of her own, Pamela's computer crashed towards the end of our appointment and therefore she had to complete our change order the following day without us. I'm unsure if there is a correlation of Pamela's computer going down in our appointment and my wife and I almost not getting to have an electrical appointment but we almost didn't get to have our electrical appointment due to the fact that someone from Pulte informed our realtor that Pulte didn't have on file that we needed one. My wife had to reach out and email Pulte representatives to get clarification that we did, in fact, actually need to have the appointment scheduled. Kolton was our original project manager and we never heard from him other than when I submitted our third party inspection to which he lied about an area that should have been spray sealed green but stated that it was a clear sealant spray paint instead of the green (yet all of the other areas throughout the house were sprayed green). There was an almost immediate change once Dylan and Aaron took over our build as project managers, in the best way. They had great communication with my wife and I and they were very timely with getting things completed. Dylan, Aaron and the construction workers are really the only saving grace through this process. They did a phenomenal job with getting my wife and I through the homestretch. My wife and I never received the first email with this survey in it. My wife reached out to ask for it and Wendy, from the customer call center, stated that it showed in the system that it had already been sent out to me. She then let my wife know that she had to elevate the request for the survey to be re-sent to a manager which took the manager about a week to get to us. ... More

Didnt had smooth closing experience with builder

There are issues which were brought up prior to closing such as paint and door threshold which have yet to be addressed

No quality , identifienv so many issues here and there.. sales and construction team behaving very rood.

Make sure that everything is down be before you sign your closing

Initial Experience was good but later realized when my tenants moved into the hose , very sloppy inspection done by field manager. Lot of issues in the house which could have avoided with minimal inspection.

HI, we are very disappointed with the construction manager as he assured us on many pending items after the closure and he promised that it will be taken care and asked us for 5 star rating, its been 2 months after closing so many tasks are still pending.

Horrible experience with low quality workmanship - excuses from builder were given for numerous issues we brought up. They don't take pride in the quality of work and play it off as all "acceptable". Will never build with Pulte ever again.

It was a nightmare with Pulte. They never gave clear timelines. Huge mismanagement. No proper planning. Delays on everything. Now seeing at other friends houses from a different builder I see how bad Pulte’s work is.

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

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 workmanship, the quality process is very very poor. Houses pass quality inspection with lots of things missing from what we signed up for. Many items are not in working order and had t be fixed after closing. Response to issues is very poor. Construction team just tries to dust off issues.

Home looked good on paper, demo house was good as well. After signing trouble began. During build there was a lack of initial contact, got however changed by Raul, sales guy and Steve our build foreman. No changes could be done to house and promises of a water loop got forgotten and I had to pay out of pocket. Build quality is what can pass the code inspections plus lots warranty issues. Screen windows was broken, garage floor cracked, GFCI wiring done wrong, HVAC thermostats misaligned, paint marks everywhere and on everything. Installed carpet is creating allergy reactions for all of family, which I asked them not to install. Pulte declined...Garage was said to have been insulated... but it's not. One of the toilets even included a present from a builders. Home will be great once Pulte fix their mistakes then I can begin and rebuild it to proper finish. If you can get 50% discount then Pulte is worth it. Pulte is an emperor without clothes, upheld by a few good people who really try and do their best. ... More

Not sure where to begin, because there is so much to say. First, Pulte does a great job of having decent sales representatives and after that it is a steep decline in all other aspects of the home build. The design consultants are horrible, lazy, rude, and pretty much incapable of doing the basic aspects of their job. We never asked for their design opinion and I'm glad we didn't, because I could only imagine how bad our home would have turned out (probably even more in cost than we already paid as well). All of this is just the beginning of your issues to come. Pulte doesn't really do anything on your house and takes almost zero responsibility throughout any issues that might arise. I thought this was indictive of just us, but after talking to our neighbors they had a similar experience. This will be a problem for you, because they subcontract your whole house and the workmanship is mediocre at best and certainly not worth the amount you will pay. With all of that being said, if you do spend money on expensive upgrades like us, you should know that the choices you make are actually good quality materials, but they won't be well taken care of when storing, or installing. An example if you don't understand that. We have excellent cabinets and quartz countertop selections and upgraded trimwork / baseboards, but they are installed poorly and look absolutely sloppy, thus leaving us to deal with home warranty post home closing. Most homes typically have small things to worry about, but craftsmanship shouldn't be an every house issue. Again, this is in large part due to them subcontracting everything and honestly not giving a crap about you or your home that you overpaid for. Everything above be prepared to encounter, but for us personally this was also one of the worst things that could happen to you. Our first and second of three project managers, we had were absolutely horrible. They consistently left us uninformed on our house progression, and completely missed our build timeline without any justification, which there wouldn't have been one that wasn't either a lie or bogus anyways, but still, a common courtesy or small compensation for Pulte's inability to meet deadlines should be expected. I honestly could go on for days about how much I despise Pulte, and I would never have built a home with them knowing what I do now. I will never again build with them or ever recommend them. ... More

Right from the beginning, it was so tough to get any update from the construction manager. Target closing date Aug 2021 got delayed for 1 year. Finally closed in Aug 2022. Final walkthrough was a nightmare. They missed to put the window in one bedroom and got caught during inspection. They keep telling about staff shortage but it dint seem true since they are building scores of other houses in the same community. Construction manager didn’t bother to inform us of the status. We kept pushing to get the closing date and finally ended up paying sky high interest, only because of a careless construction manager. Horrible experience with this construction manager. ... More

1. Closing date extended 7 months past agreed upon completion date. "Quality Build" process failed to identify framing, plumbing, and electrical errors. Missed framing of upgrade option for tray ceiling in gathering room, dryer vent located incorrectly due to plumbing line interference. 2. Home had punch items identified at celebration walk, but 6 weeks later remain incomplete. Including missing light fixtures, incomplete exterior paint, damaged cabinets, missing tile grout work, gaps in window caulk, appliances installed incorrectly, damaged vent hood, damaged water heater, missing bathroom hardware, missing trim on fireplace built in shelving, drywall repairs incomplete. 3. Doors are not hung plum and square with daylight gaps and missing hardware including a temporary exit/entry door with missing floor sweep and deadbolt prep not allowing door to lock. 4. AC appears to be undersized or poor airflow for square footage thus running 3-4 degrees above thermostat on 2nd level. 5. "Final Clean" completed but paint spills remained on tile floors, saw dust inside of drawers/cabinets from hardware installations, tile grout stuck to cabinet trim, front porch with masonry cement splattered on walkways. Upon closing, the home looked used as opposed to new construction. ... More