Centex Homes Reviews in San Antonio, TX

This house was built so poorly, I would need to take over 100 photos to show someone. I can't even begin to try and describe the issues from walls being crooked, lack of 90-degree angles, lack of caulk where it needs to be, massive gaps that were caulked instead of properly worked. The trades this company hires to do their work are absolutely garbage. Overall worst experience and in the community Facebook group, I am one of the hundreds of people who have had a worse or similar experience. Centex should be closed down.

Every aspect of the home was cheaply done. Mold growing in ceilings, sod dead the minute I moved in, doors falling off the hinges, paint all over the ground and doorknobs. To get warranty service you have to call the manager’s manager just to talk to someone. Would not recommend centex or Pulte to anyone.

Our overall new home build experience has not been a good one with Centex/Pulte. I want to start off with the fact that key contacts for us changed during the build process. First our Sales Consultant changed halfway through the build and then our construction manager changed. Overall, we did not have a problem with Lisa on the sales side but when Ana was our Agent she put the primary cell phone number for us incorrectly, so throughout the entire process our build, the building managers, mortgage company, title company, and whoever else had our number wrong which delayed multiple things. It was very frustrating. The construction side is another story. We started out with Javi who was excellent. Javi was transparent about the house, he was great at communicating, was realistic about everything, most even most importantly, Javi took our conversations serious and remembered things we spoke about and would actually address them after we would speak. If things were delayed he was honest and gave us real expectations, something we absolutely appreciated and the only thing we could ask for during this process. We never had that type of service since he was moved off our house. Halfway through our build, our construction manager changed to Zach. For starters- THIS SHOULD NEVER OCCUR. This is the point that our major issues began to arise. At first things were going okay with Zach, he was keeping us updated for the most part with the house. I was coming to the house every week and seeing how it was going and then I would get with Zach on what issues we were concerned about. It seemed like they were being addressed. Around the time the walls started coming up and when the cabinets came in, things changed. On multiple occasions my wife and I would meet or speak with Zach, go over multiple issues, and he would assure us that it would be addressed and would say “I will have my best guys fix it” yet they would not be addressed weeks later. This occurred with countless issues with the house. Zach rarely documented anything during our walk throughs and would maybe address 1 out of 10 problems every time we would speak and we would have to remind him again over and over on issues with the house. About a month before our projected closing date of June 24th, a major leak occurred in the ceiling of the kitchen. This flooded the first floor of the house and damaged multiple walls, kitchen cabinets, the guest room, pantry, and storage closet. We came to the house after Zach contacted us and he let us know they would be taking care of it immediately and we should still be good for a closing date of June 24th. We let him know it is very important that we know asap if our closing date is changing because we had to let our current landlords know if we are needing to resign our lease for July. We would’ve been happy to do this if he would’ve given us this expectation and realistic and honest answer, but Zach assured us the home would be completed in June and by the 24th, so we advised our landlord that we didn’t need to rent for July. We came by the house every week and for 3 weeks there were stagnant water. We called to ask what was being done and by week 3 were concerned about mold because the water was STILL there. They worked on the leak, remove the damaged walls after 3 weeks from the flood occurring. We show up at the house after week 2 of the flood and there was finally a machine but the tube sucking up the water was just on the floor in the downstairs bathroom and the water from the kitchen and guest room now flooded the bathroom and was leaking into the garage. I asked Zach what is going on and he said they had left the windows open over the weekend to let it dry, but it had been raining for over 2 weeks in Boerne, so everything got wet again. In addition to this, the machine was now leaking water on the floor instead of draining in the bathtub. All of their hard work removing walls and drying the house and the house was flooded all over again due to their negligence and NO ONE CHECKING ON THE HOUSE TO ENSURE THINGS WERE GOING PROPERLY WITH THE TRADESMAN. With less than 1 week to close and being guaranteed by Zach that they we would still close in time, our house was not prioritized at all and we felt lied to and very disrespected during these last 2 months of the process. During the final walk through before closed, Zach took pictures of all the issues left on the house on the Friday before we closed. He kept forgetting our closing date and we had to remind him at least 6 times because he would repeat it back incorrectly. He stated they would be working on everything over the weekend(this was something he had been promising us for weeks, that he and his crew would be working weekends to ensure our house would catch up and close on time) since we were closing the following business day, Monday 6/28. Nothing was done over that weekend. In addition, Zach advised us that he had dropped his phone in the river over the weekend tubing with his family and lost the pictures from our final walk through. Extremely unprofessional and disrespectful at such a crucial time in the process of us having to close and move in the very next day with countless items still needing to be done with the house. This is the point that I wrote the sales team and had them give me Peters information because I no longer trusted that our house would be completed after we closed. We were given 2 days to move out of our rental house and move into a house that still wasn’t finished. Weeks after close and we still had people coming in and out to fix things. The garage was installed incorrectly and crashed down on the ground when it was rising, incredibly dangerous and upsetting. Where are we today? We closed around 2 months ago and our house is still not finished. Involving Peter did not prioritize our home. I have a back door that was replaced finally but still needs to be painted. I have 1 more page of feedback & not enough characters. ... More

The total project from start to finish was a complete nightmare. I still have things that need to be addressed/fixed The quality of the carpet and the faux floor is not made of quality material. The concrete is pealing in the garage and around the front door. The ceiling in kitchen and the great room has two large patches where product was over sprayed. The trim in the kitchen are not flushed. The kitchen exit door has dents and the window has a scratch in the glass. One of the worse made homes I have ever lived in.

Constant electrical trips of water heater. Plumbing mixed up with outside faucet and kitchen sink. Grass in front yard sunk after rain.

My rental home was in better condition than what I thought would be a new home. My wife says the habitat for humanity home she grew up in didn't have as many errors. I don't know whether to trust any repairs would be more than just patch work rather than actually correcting the building errors and lack of craftsmanship. I regret buying a Centex home I regret trusting Centex with building my home. I don't know whether to just walk away from this home it's saddening to know Centex builders have such a low moral standard when building homes. I've called the building manager several times with no answer. I would really like a representative of Centex corporate to see the obvious errors. Walls aren't straight I know cause I checked the most obvious one with a leveler the top of the wall is level where the obvious lower part is pulling forward the leveler verified this. Their in a gap between the granite counter top and the lower kitchen shelves it's obvious the same issue is present in the master bathroom but they used a nail gun to try and attach the restroom lower cabinet to the wall then they used seal to fill in the gap running the length of the master sink they even left a nail popping out the side of the lower restroom cabinet with no attempt to remove it it's just popping out. Shady and extremely poor craftsmanship all the way around my house. To many errors to list I'm extremely disappointed and looking into other options to abandon this house. Biggest mistake of my life was choosing a Centex home. ... More

poor workmanship poor materials