Pulte Homes Reviews in Seattle Bellevue, WA

For such a large builder, one would expect lot more choices. For example, there were about 5 choices for faucets. If you choose anything other than what it comes with the base plan, you will pay 3-4 times the market price. On the good side, the Pulte people I worked with - sales and construction - are good people and trying their best, in spite of the corporate restrictions.

They are eager to sell you a house, construction times vary a lot and when things need to be fixed it turns into the speed of molasses running down hill. The lots usually end up looking a great deal different than the plot map they give the owners!

Cleanliness throughout Check air filter to furnace windows. Check every installation fixtures. Check every light and every switch in every room. Make sure all appliances work , all doors and draws operate as they should. We have had several issues from plumbing to electrical to minor structure though the response is good it doesn't ease the trust of the quality to value of the home. We love our new home we just don't like all the inconviences we experienced so far in our first two months.

Every time we discovered a mis-communication or error during the construction phase, we were told there was nothing that could be done, or to hire an independent contractor after the house was completed. Not one accomodation that we requested was made (for example: a 2nd sink in the kids' bathroom or a washer/dryer hook up in the garage). When it was discovered that there was an error in the back yard layout and we had no way to get a wheel barrow through, the foreman promised us a 2nd gate to remedy the issue. Yet, he then told his managers that he never made that promise. Sandy and Chiristi were the only two employees who were people of their word and we could trust in this process. Upon completion, so many details were left unfinished. One minor example was we couldn't figure out why our outside lights didn't work. When we looked closer, there were no lightbulbs and the styrofoam packing was still inside the fixtures. Overall, we are going to be very happy in our hew home, but the sales pitch and exclamations about 5 star customer service and attention to detail, fall short on many levels. ... More

Average quality for above average price.

Poor workmanship and slow response to issues

From our construction manager revealing pertinent details regarding a defect AFTER handing over the keys to the trades destroying our yard and using our utilities after we moved in, I cannot say that this has been a positive experience. No surprise that everyone was much more helpful prior to close. Now it's difficult to answers. In terms of quality... Everything looks beautiful, but we've already begin seeing signs of poor workmanship. Our pantry cabinet door is already breaking apart (we moved in less than a month ago), the smurf tube feature that was highlighted to conceal wires is a total joke (our 16.5' tv cord isn't long enough to reach the closest outlet), etc. etc. I love our home but I am already disappointed that "The Pulte Way" is merely a selling technique on paper only. ... More

My townhome is beautiful! However, there are many issues with the construction and carpentry. I have had an issue with my front walkway flooding, which has not been resolved. After over 6 weeks, there has not been mail delivered. Townhouse is not as sound proof as I was informed.

My home before closing, we went through inspection. Still, there were minor things to be fixed. We asked them to finish and postpone thr closing date, but they didn't allow it. Okay fine, but still some of them remain unfixed.

Our closing was delayed majorly, and we were not even given a closing date until two days before closing. After closing, we are not getting any prompt responses for the issues we're facing. It has been two weeks since I raised an issue with warranty team without any helpful update until now. I'm not sure it pulte was good earlier, but I can't imagine other builders being worse than this.

Different departments had different versions of what is included and what are upgrades. Very confusing buying process especially for new buyers. Found very basic issues (like creaking bathroom floors, kitchen hardwood floors, loose lighting fixtures , electrical wiring issues - dryer wouldnt turn on due to faulty and dangerous wiring mistake) - these should have been taken care of during the quality reviews / inspections.

We first looked at Pulte homes in early June with a wonderful individual, she had a great personality, was open, honest and a pleasure to work with. Almost immediately after signing our contract, she was moved to a different location and a new representative was going to take over. All seemed fine until the emails responses were delayed, the responses were not detailed and the ask of a simple question seemed like too much work. Once we started visiting the sites, we were OK with the process, things were going as scheduled. Then in November a change order came in that we owed 5k for a 'miss' on cabinets. While that was quickly fixed without us paying, the request to pay without explanation was not good business. Our final walk through with the build manager was sub par, the fixes that we tagged with tape didn't get fixed. We were forced to move in to a finished house with minor mistakes vs. delay move in so that they could finish what they were supposed to get the first time. Overall it was a sub par experience. Attention to detail is lacking, follow up, courtesy and customer service is all sub par. We love our house, we love the home that we have created, its just unfortunate that Pulte didn't deliver on the promises that were made by the first representative. The promise that everything will be great, that punch lists will be addressed before closing, that Pulte takes responsibility and rights the wrongs. Since move in, we have a list of 'what to fix' at the one year mark... we look forward to giving Pulte another chance to make up for the work and are hopeful that with some review and evaluation that they can redeem their good name. Two final notes, it's a red flag when the build manager voluntarily leaves things off the walk through report because then know 'it wouldn't look good on paper for his team'. Lastly, when a Pulte rep called after our first 'so-so' review posted, I called him back and never heard from him again. Pulte has plenty of room for improvement as many of the qualities they are lacking are customer service and project completion, I am just hopeful they can turn it around. We made our first 'work order request today', we will see how it goes! - Review written by Max P., husband to Jennifer P. ... More

Overall not satisfactory experience due to followings surprises: 1. Congested townhomes. 2. Not enough guest parkings available. 3. Garage driveway is the smallest one can imagine, you cannot even park a single car on it. 4. Roads are not wider enough to do parallel parking. 5. You can hear music sound from neighbor house. 6. Many houses doesn't have the garbage pickup from the front / back side of the house.

I base this review only off of our personal experience. We have talked to other people who had a positive experience with their homes. We however have not. Things that we have experienced: Construction delays (installed the wrong color of cabinets, smoke detectors did not work properly and were not identified until the day of closing), poor build quality for what we paid for the house, problems that were identified well ahead of closing that were not fixed and still haven't been fixed after two months of living in our home. Hopefully soon on that though though. After living in our home for almost 2 months, I would have a very hard time recommending Pulte to anyone I know. ... More

If I could give no start for the workmanship, I would. The workmanship needs to a major improvement. Compare to other national builder, Pulte has proven to be fallen short. We have experience with another builder which was great experience from the moment we made the purchase of the lot, to the workmanship and the details of the aesthetics. These little details are very important to home buyers. They are important to us, yet, we have found so many flaws , which some are dangerous (such as carpet staples coming out and poking anyone who walks on carpet) in our home that create this overwhelming disappointment. ... More

Buying experience was great! Pulte does a great job of that initial days leading up to buying. The workmanship and home quality on the other hand was quite poor. From a large number of polish and quality issues to installation errors, it's been a journey from one problem to the other. The warranty and support staff do their best to smooth out the kinks, but the initially bad experience still leaves a bad taste. I'd expected much better from Pulte. Personally, I will steer clear of Pulte homes any chance I get in the future. While I still enjoy my home, the initial spell and worries was not something expected of a new home. I've had one prior home with another builder and the overall build and quality was much better in every way. While they also missed some items, it was far lesser and far less significant than what Pulte had left. ... More

From the beginning no one seemed to know what they are doing or how to answer questions. Right before our closing date 10 months in they would several water leaks all over the house and mold so they had to ripe out the walls and treat for mold several times. We were told the mold was gone and we had a new closing date so we had a home inspection done only to find the attic was not treated and there was still mold in there. So I was fine with all of this but my issues is that their trades men worked in our house for almost 4 months around our upgrades and there are blemishes on everything. We paid 120,785 to literally upgrade everything ion our house and by the time we moved in our floors and counters had issue they wont fix. But that's not even my biggest issue, anywhere you walk in our kitchen or living room either our kitchen island or living room table rattle. They blame it on floating floors but your floors should not vibe everything around it when you walk. They have said they will fix it but this is yet to be seen. I think if you are going to preach quality you should take your time and build quality, not rush so you can more houses super fast to make the most money possible. ... More

while we do like our new house there were and still are many frustrations. They still have not finished fixing what they said they were going to and we bought out house a month ago. (and i mean there is a laundry list of things). many of our neighbors have expressed the same frustration and are also still waiting for things to be fixed or finished properly on their houses. the building of the house and buying experience was overall pretty awful. throughout the building process we mentioned several issues very early on that were ignored and we were told by our Pulte real estate agent Sylvie to let them to their work because they "have a process and we need to allow them to do their job." 5 months later a good portion of the house still has flash painting on the ceiling. Our real estate agent Sylvie answered some of our questions we had throughout the process. however, either she lied to us about several issues and/or overall communication within the company is awful? It is not a good sign when one meets with the field manager about concerns of your almost completed house and he has heard nothing about the large issues we have been mentioning since feb/march. we met with her to discuss this and she became so defensive she left the room and never came back. that was in May and we havent heard a peep from her since. not even a congratulations on our new house. Whether she was happy with us or not, there was no excuse for the lack of professionalism we received from her the last month before closing. a tip for buyers: do not sign papers for your house until it is done to your satisfaction! once bought all needs including unfinished tasks are sent to the warranty department. Michelle in warranty has been great and done her best thus far to help us however contractors do not seem to respond to or care about fixing things because they are understaffed and pulte cares more about continuing to build new houses than finish the houses that have been paid for. i would not recommend Pulte ... More

It was terrible and we are still going through it. We were forced to close before the house was completed. We’ve been living here for over 1 month and things are still not done. It is a nightmare that we can’t wake up from. We still cannot access the Pulte Home site. There’s no technology support. It’s ridiculous for a publicly traded company. It’s shameful.

Fair construction overall but they don’t want to hear about or address issues until you sign on the dotted-line. Received no response on repair request until issues were escalated to management. My impression on Pulte has lowered signifIcantly.

Entire Glenmore community division was mis managed. Too many open builds, too many management changes. Poor oversight and quality control of trades and the work performed. Good ole boys club on how the builds get completed. Pulte often believes homeowner has no experience with what they are referring too in comments, issues, mfg., quality or trade work. Final closure date moved 4 times and extended another 5 months. Sales staff is lacking accurate info, dismissive, and non-forth coming with information. Communication was extremely poor. Overall, I would not recommend, nor build with Pulte again. Price gouge purchase cost was certainly advantageous for them for the current market, but lacking for the experience, build, and final quality, both in physical home and final land grade for the homeowner. ... More

For the amount of money we spent on the home and the lack of completion of our home when we moved in was very disappointing. The little things you thing would get a lot of attention on are lacking throughout or home. 2 months later and we are still waiting on things to be completed.

We were promised that the house will be ready on the 19th Dec. I took all week vacation. At 1pm i got a call that i wont get the keys that day. 2 hrs before i was supposed to move in. During the inspection we found so many defects and the house wasnt even ready. We are still having issues with so many stuff. Loud noise when the furnace stops running. We asked John (Manager) and his respond was, it is normal. Jason (QA Manager) is very helpful and trying to find the problem. There workmanship is very poor.

Extremely frustrated with the speed at which I am getting the support on variety of issues raised. Customer Support executive is extremely slow / or not responding providing status on issues raised

Quality of workmanship and Quality of materials is very poor, for builder claiming to sell this as luxury townhomes. Items identified as incomplete at close are not yet complete (2 months since close). Response times are 2+weeks with no concrete action.