Del Webb Reviews in Ocala, FL

Was not the enjoyable process we hoped for.

5 day walk through with construction mgr prior to closing was a joke. We pointed out several things to be corrected that were not by time we closed. This is a big waste of time let alone $ having to spend in hotel til we closed. 6 weeks later still waiting for some of the things to be done. Different tradesmen were no shows more than once, Frustrating . It was a challenge with some not speaking English when coming to make repairs. This is not my first new build . My experience with Pulte And the overall home was disappointing. Already thinking the entire inside needs to be repainted . Although Sherman williams paint, the paint seems very low grade. The carpets are horrible and other thing considering changing. I’m in a new home , I love the layout and community, however, don’t know if I would buy another Pulte home. ... More

interior of home poorly done for price. Came from a Dell Webb built home which was great compared to this. A lot of work was required after moving in and seeing what problems were there with this house.

I SAW EMPTY BEER CANS IN HOME AS IT WAS BEEN BUILT

Purchasing a home should be fun and memorable. Unfortunately, not the case. Most of the key Pulte people are nice and actually attempt to make every effort to satisfy you, until you close. Once you close, then the smiles disappear and your left with unfinished work. Warranties that have no time limit on being fixed or repaired., since they already got you. If the sub contractors were supervised than they might not have so many problems afterwards, but they are left alone to do as they want, and no one cares. I have many issues that have to be repaired and I sound like a broken record inquiring about them, only to be emailed updates that exceed 5 month waits. This is ridiculous. Ask around before you purchase in this area. ... More

Simply put, glad this experience is over.

The contract required to buy the home places NO responsibility to deliver the home on time, and without defects that good quality control could avoid. The developer is focused on securing new buyers, using contractors who too often do slip-shod work and are not help accountable. Getting unacceptable defects fixed are 50/50 at best; for example, we have a shower floor that leaves a large puddle at the back of the shower because the tile floor was not sloped correctly. When reported to the warranty department, the representative said, “Get a mop”. We paid thousands of dollars extra for the larger shower and the workmanship and response of the builder is unacceptable. We have a lower kitchen cabinet with pullouts that do not pull out. Still waiting for a response from the warranty department. We have “shutters” that do not fit the size of the window, preventing privacy at night and too much light in the mornings. This is the case with other windows in the house. They should be referenced as “shudders”. Our sales person was excellent, but once the house closes, you are an “old” customer, relegated to the “Warranty Department “ and no longer a “person of interest”. At this time, it is much easier to get new customers, but this country is changing, and hopefully the company may realize that their “old” customers are as important to Pulte’s health and reputation as the “new” customers are to their bank account. ... More

It seems Pulti home was rushing to hand over the house and finished their work with many issues. It's really a nightmare now to get hold of them and resolved the issues.

This is the 4th Pulte home I've lived in. We went with Pulte because we've always had pretty good luck with this builder. Sadly I haven't had a good experience with this home. Everything was behind schedule by months costing us a lot of additional money. The workmanship was shoddy. I'm still finding glue and paint spots on the floor, cabinet mitered corners are an eye-sore, it's hard to get hot water in the kitchen, the cabinets were full of sawdust when I moved in, the edges of some of my doors are chewed-up, just to name a few issues. I brought it to the attention of the staff and the only response I got was that's just the way it is. (and Covid, lack of workers, etc... excuses for the reality of over-selling in a hot market). This reminds me of when Pulte got kicked out of Michigan years ago for building violations. Bottom line, I have a home to live in and I have to make the best of things, but I'm disappointed with this experience. ... More

Our salesman Allen, was very knowledgable and helpful and made the buying experience a pleasure. Once we moved to the construction phase, the problems began. Poor quality and workmanship was very evident from the beginning of the build. After closing, it's hard to get Del Webb to repair items. You should be excited and happy to move in to your new home but with Del Webb it's more of compromising and settling.

We are still waiting on matching windows. We are waiting on screens. Some windows have 6 pane grids, some have 4, some have none. Don't match, upper and lower. We do not see variety grids on other homes. Don't know why HOA/ Architectural Review Committee allows errors as such when they are sticklers on remodel application. Sloppy work. Had styrofoam in icemaker. Had plastic wrap INSIDE disposal. Fixed myself. Sink still does not drain well. Sink drain pipe slants INWARD. Gouges in garage concrete, they "will" fix. No magnetic catch on shower doors. They "will" fix. Front, garage door and back door did not have good closure, fixed myself. You could see daylight. Microwave surround and range vent hood had scratches/dents. Replaced by Whirlpool. They are working too fast and not learning from past errors. The dryer vent was corrected before we arrived. Garage overhead door is cheap, noisy. We had requested all brushed nickle hardware, faucets. Sink was chrome. Replaced myself. All quality cupboards/drawers these days should be soft close. Windows should be tilt-in so you can wash them. Ask me again in 2023. ... More

Quick to sell, slow to respond to builder issues that need to be corrected immediately

Communication throughout the process has been poor. Slow responses on all levels. While the house is visually beautiful from the street, the interior of the home is poorly done. There appears to be no pride in the craftsmanship of my home. Poor paint, poor fit and finish, bad doors and the list will continue. They are starting to do some warranty work, but the repairs have been slow.

Not impressed withdamaged garage flooring, wood work quality, some doors and painting. Tile floors not cleaned. Waiting still for new range hood and correct refrigerator. Response slow for installing internet and for lawn repair. Would have preferred initial choices for landscaping shrubs and trees.

Responsiveness to identified issues is laughable. I can’t recommend buying a house from del Webb

This is a retirement community. Home is NOT senior friendly.

I filled this out previously and you have the response. I do not type and do not like the inconvenience of having to reconstruct a response. I cannot get questions answered by the subs Del Webb lists, with their phone #'s. Furthermore after questioning the quality of a two level upgrade on the granite(the granite had an obvious flaw) we were called by a supervisor. I was not made aware that his boss was also in on the call. This secretive action and the subs referring all inquiries back to Del Webb, and our construction supervisor, Jacob's supervisor, withheld information from me prior to our closing. We are disappointed in trash hidden under the sod that left on a pallet far too long the sod was not watered appropriately after being poorly laid the yard was poorly graded prior to landscaping and sod placement the refrigerator is not built-in as up charged the carpet pad is supposed to be an upgrade the electrical wiring (three way switches) is inadequate. I think this shortcoming is intentional. forcing the homeowners to upgrade to a smart house. the "on the hinge" door stops are worthless having only one of each rooms electrical outlets operated by a wall switch, inadequate exterior color combinations selection too overly limited gutters and down spouts are focal points detracting from the handsome home-front and back ... More

I really got good customer service before close of escrow but find Pulte really lacking in service after close. I lived in a Del Webb in California some years ago and found them to be much more customer friendly. I suppose I will get used to this but is disappointing.

Everything was good in the beginning. We live in Colorado and are buying a new home in Ocala, Florida. Felt like we were rushed through the walk through and didn't really get a chance to look at the house throughly. We have issues with the house but unfortunately have not moved to Florida yet so we are having issues getting repairs needed. There is a wall on a pocket door which may need to be rebuilt. We have some tile which needs to be replaced. Construction was eager to move us along and only concerned about getting a good review but not really wanting to help us. We love the community and our neighbors. But their customer relations need some work. They say that they will call you back and don't or don't show up when they say they will I don't like being lied to by Chase (a service rep) They also came in our front yard when I was not home and tore up our front yard with out letting us know they were coming. Apparently they do this to every house after closing so they should have told us before it happened. ... More

Don’t trust them to fix things that go wrong even one day after the close, hire someone to give you an expert opinion prior to close. They are great at giving you the run around.

We were promised a quality home "the Del Webb difference" and we did not get it. The bones of the house are hopefully quality but the finished product was crap. We had to touch up every wall, many cabinet faces need replacement, no screens on our windows for many months and still waiting. Every appliance has needed repair or replace and some not done yet. there has not been a single area where we didn't need some kind of repair. The problem is that pult has hired the worst possible trades to do the work. They either don't care or don''t know how to do the work conscientiously and have NO OVERSIGHT. Many in our new development will even allow they back in our homes because they either do a lousy job or they mess something else up while doing work. I have heard the word "class action lawsuit" from multiple people. I would not buy here again if I could go back in time. I will say that the consturction manager, our sales guy and the construction supervisor are great people...but pulte really dropped the ball in this development hiring sub-standard folks to do the work and not giving us the "quality" we were promised. I feel they owe us a rebate! ... More

Careful about packages changing and not being notified. We now have a stove and two toilets that were down graded by someone? And never told. That is not what we paid for.

We have had nothing but problems since moving in. You can see daylight through the garage door and that is an "acceptable" margin of error. This attitude is totally unacceptable! The garage doors are just cheap pieces of metal! The child safety mechanism can easily be put out of alignment. We had 3 defective toilets. Totally not level. They have been replaced. The master bath twice and bath 3 had to have the drain collar replace because it was cracked when the replacement was installed. We were without a toilet in the master bedroom for a whole month. The tile in the master bedroom had to be removed replaced in order to level the floor. The back corner was so out of level. The Slider could not be locked. That took 2 trips to get addressed. A handle on the kitchen cabinet was off. That door had to be replaced and 12 if the cabinet doors had to be adjusted The shutters in the master bedroom were off and had to be replaced. There was only 1 window shutter that did not have to be adjusted. The overflow drain in the tub of bath 3 had to be adjusted. That meant that the wall in the master bath had to be opened for that to be corrected. There is a dead tree in the back yard that was put in between us and our neighbor behind us. our neighbor notified the office before we did and it is still there. We now have a problem with the seat in the master shower where the top is lifting off the tile . So far every week has been a new problem! It is OLD! ... More

Our sales person seemed to lose interest once we signed the contract and was non-existent through the close. Sales person has yet to congratulate us on the new home. Low scores to sales. Pulte mortgage was impossible to deal with and dropped the ball several times to the point I used another lender and lost $8K from Pulte, but it was worth it. The bright shinning star was our construction project manager who was great to work with, communicative and very detail oriented.

Stone Creek used 116,000 gallons of water on our sod prior to ours closing. After our closing we had inadvertently and quite accidentally and mistakenly used 92,000 gallons of water on our new sod. Isn’t that an excessive amount of water and a waste????? Perhaps your notice/awareness Regarding watering new sod to new homebuyers could be made with more emphasis regarding the awareness of the first and second water bill!!!!! It’s been very upsetting to get our first water bill - $733.46!!!!!! It’s absolutely absurd and a shame that we got this kind of bill!!! Very upsetting as new home buyers to Stone Creek!!! We have never experienced this kind of water bill anywhere ever!!!! This should NOT have happened!!! We would trust you more had this not have happened!!! Perhaps literature to new home buyers could be written with a stronger warning regarding their first water bill!!!!!! ... More