Del Webb Reviews in Riverside San Bernardino, CA

Pulte (Del Web) is our 4th new builder in California, All 4 were “production” / “track” homes. Of the 4, Pulte falls short, with the buying experience, the construction and its customer service.

Notice a lot of small touch up issues( grout, floor boards, paint trim) that are not addressed in a timely manner.

The design of the homes, orientation of lots and the overall community are awesome. The construction process is underwhelming. Had to schedule every trade to come back to make things right. Example - our exhaust system above the range was installed without the duct (3.5’) connecting the fan to the outside ducting. Bad painting, drywall, I’ll-fitting doors, etc. Best advice - forget upgrades. Buy with “included” and upgrade after mow-in.

Love the home , but they ruin the experience by always keeping you in the dark And if there’s questions. Hard to get answers

If the staff are dealing with late supply issues, it is difficult to rate all the resulting problems. Relating this to pre- buyers isn’t happening.

Jason and Kevin have been great and very responsive. We expect issues but construction was rushed with very little quality controls. I would have expected more quality for the price we paid for the house.

We love the design and layout of our new home. However there was a rush to complete it and close escrow, which left too much to be corrected. The builder has been slow in response to our concerns.

I love the design of these homes, my neighbors and sense of community. There was no attention to detail towards quality of workmanship during the final month and I am still waiting for about ten trades to finish. I am still missing screens, parts of walls and ceilings were not painted, front door still needs repair, while some work has been done much remains.

It was all about the sales cycle. The quality of installed products was good and bad, and follow-up service is terrible. As an example, it's been 5 weeks since we asked to get our quartz counters (which are a mess) looked at. They don't even respond to requests half the time and once they hand a ticket off to a contractor the Pulte support team help ends there. Zero followup.

Lack of communication in process.

It's been a big inconvenience pointing out so many imperfections on the entire home at all categories. Ex: Paint-Cabinets, Hardware, Fixtures, Stucco, Solar, Electrical and many others.

There are so many homes being built at the same time and not enough support to handle buyers needs. There also needs to be oversight of what is being done by subcontractors and employees and to keep building sites clean. The main focus is on a good review. Sales support was weak.

Final walkthru produced an unacceptable number of touch-ups and repairs. Follow thru was not prompt and had to be argued as Customer Care Del Webb contested almost every repair. Very low standard of quality. Again, customer care is actually Customer No Care. Would not recommend.

Look carefully at plans. Bathroom not well laid out. No where to put anything like soap. Tub is too big. Owner's suite closet very small. Not big enough for 2 people. Lighting fixtures outside the home horrible Spanish old design. Front doors ugly as are the upgrades.

Very carefully evaluate what you get for advertised price, versus all the "options" you need to satisfy desired living. Plan on adding about $100,000.00 to get the final product. Options appear outrageous. Some are basic and should be provided in base price of house. LOOK WITH A SHARP EYE AT FINAL PRODUCT AND TRY TO OPERATE ALL EQUIPMENT .

I purchased my home and moved in to have problems that I still have to address. The exterior painting is awful. Some of the interior walls need to be repainted. My AC circuit breaker keeps tripping, the caps on Tile roof(end with cement) is not great, looks like cement paint is off and sloppy . My fireplace doesn't light up after it was fixed.

Hire your own inspector.

First Dy in the hose th breaker box trips. I reset it and two seonds later it trips again/ Ridiclos! New hose and this happens. Took too long to receive a response from builder, I hired a building inspector because I cannot trust this builder. The inspector found several issues with construction of home. I have submitted report to builder. Let's see how long it takes for them to fix issues. Ii am not holding my breath. If I did I would be dead. Builder is more concerned over quantity of homes built in shortest time instead of quality and does not take pride in homes already constructed. in the quality of homes built ... More

Brent intentionally mispresented when punch items would be finish in order to get a sign off on closing. He refuses or neglects to get items done. Its been 45 days since closing still not finished.

We bought a new build home from Pulte.. All went well until we received the call telling us the date for our walk through. We live in another country and could not drop everything and fly to see the home. After much back and forth, a date was agreed upon. Then came the calls saying “can we push it back a week?”. After booking flights, hotel, kennel for the dogs, I said it is either finished, or you hold it for when we come down in November. They promised to get it ready. We arrived as agreed and the house was not finished. It has been a &*$# show since then. We had to fly home and are left with a long list of things to get fixed when we arrive in November. Pulte will promise you the moon, but once they get your money, you fall to the bottom of the list. It appears that the company has internal performance measures that each team has to meet - sales, construction, walk through, after build - and the targets put the squeeze on staff which puts the squeeze on the home buyers. At the end of the process, we are left to deal with a “Customer Care Manager” who says he is overworked, with 250 homes to service from phase 5, and just seems to sign work orders for things to be fixed or completed, and the new home owner becomes the contractor for the work. Not what I would have expected on the delivery of a new home. Free advice for Pulte and Del Webb - stop squeezing your staff with unreasonable timeframes, stop “delivering” new homes that are unfinished and full of deficiencies, and listen to your customers versus trying to push us into your time frames. ... More

The gas pipe is out to far to put my stove into place needed to find a handyman to fix that and our outdoor hose spicket at our cost very shady. We have already closed and no one can help us from Pulte

The buying part was fine. My sales agent was very attentive and kept in touch constantly. She also took pictures at various points and sent them to me, which I greatly appreciated since I didn't live close enough to check on progress frequently. Since closing, however, I have had endless issues with the quality and response time in getting problems fixed. Every separate item requires a separate repair order and pictures. Then you wait for someone to approve the repair, the vendor to contact you, and even then, sometimes the items are not all fixed and they have to come back. I feel that my closing was rushed at the expense of quality and that some of the vendors used for the different trades are not experts at what they are doing. ... More

Buying experience was a nightmare, our contract said the house we bought will be ready by the second week of March, it was ready Jan. 16 and closing Jan. 26, That was two months earlier, I have to sell my house as soon as possible to meet the closing date. I have to reduce the price to sell. It was sold below market value I have to move out of my house by the closing date, so I have to move my household goods to three 10 x 20 storage space. I asked if I can move at least all the big and heavy stuff to the garage of the new house so I don’t need to move twice but Delwebb won’t allow my stuff to be placed in the garage.It was a terrible experience. ... More

Good floorplan, goodies, and pricing. However, watch the contractors used as some do sloppy work.

Dealing with the salesperson, could have been a better experience!! Customer service could have been much more bettter!