Del Webb Reviews

My sales agent was wonderful and had the perfect personality for her job. She kept me up-to-date on the construction and was most helpful. The construction manager was also helpful and for the most part kept me up-to-date. My negative experiences included the following: my closing date was moved three times requiring that I’ll reschedule movers, utility issues and also renegotiate my rental agreement where I was living prior to moving. When I arrived for my walk-through, painters were in the house, none of the kitchen appliances had been installed, and I was missing a number of pieces to complete woodwork. The punchlist has been huge with problems with getting workers to show up to do work. Also, my closing was delayed because there was no water sewer hook up and when I contacted that company a few days prior to closing they did not even have my address on their map and indicated that no application had been submitted for the water sewer hook up. I have never had these experiences with the other three homes I have had built in the past. All of these issues have made this process quite unpleasant even though I am very happy with the development and generally very happy with the quality of my home. It has just been a real mixed bag! ... More

Worst experience I've had with any company or organization. They stopped working on my house for three weeks with no valid explanation while work was being done on other houses near mine. No flexibility with scheduling. Del Webb's attitude seems to be "my way or the highway." Anyone moving into a Del Webb community should consider buying an existing house.

Not transparent. Discovered that other alternatives were possible and I was driven to conclusions that were not optimal.

Local Sales office was responsive and trustworthy; however, they had no authority to address our issues. We were treated rudely by the construction lead during a field inspection. The specifications for the laundry cabinets were conflicting and led us to believe we were getting something we never received, and after traveling 80 miles to the design center we were given an insulting $300 gift card to make up for a $6k mistake. We were not informed that we would be closing without an oven until a few days before. There was never any follow up on this issue, only when we pressed the City of Mesquite did anyone contact us. We are still awaiting confirmation of an oven being delivered. The sales office and the workers are terrific. It is the management and the poor communications between design-sales-construction that is the core problem. The construction sites on our street look trashy and there is frequently debris flying around in the wind. We have had to take two nails out of our tires and replace a tire ($300) because of a gash caused by a piece of metal we ran over at night. We really do like the home but again the overall experience has been negative, very unlike the customer-focused and positive experience we had six years ago when we first built here in Sun City. Our more recent experience reminded us of the days of Pulte Homes in Michigan in the 1980s. Not good. ... More

This was our second home in Stone Creek. Our first home was trouble free and only took 5 months to build. This second home took 10 months to build and was fraught with multiple contractor problems. We definitely would not build another home with Pulte under current conditions with subcontractors.

have not had much contact with pre closing issues being address or corrected

Quality homes. The wait to move into our home was not what we were told or expected. Communication among the Pulte Team is poor. Very frustrating. Realize everyone is trying to do their job, but I would not recommend Pulte to a friend. Built 3 houses in our lives and this is by far the worst experience.

Carpet were down and house was upon for a month with worker walking on them. No quality control.

One of their mantras is "Build Quality" but they hire the low bidder and each of tell them that this is a "production home", thus the quality suffers. The caulk, spackle & paint job on my house was the worst I've ever seen and I've seen plenty as I was in the construction management industry for 40 years. Also, they don't always use top quality products. For instance, the electrical outlets are very difficult to plug in to. The bathroom toilets and kitchen sinks were low grade quality also,

We were promised a smooth build process with lots of communication. Didn’t happen. The only way we found out about anything was to visit the build site after hours, and ask questions. It usually took a day or 2 to get any answers. House is solid, but the finish work is shabby. Example: We had paint on the floor all around the house next to the base shoe. We were also misled on the home options and lost out on a chance to have a sunroom. We found out just after footers were dug but they would not let us revise the plan under the guise of permitting being completed. We offered to pay for new permits to add the sunroom but we’re flatly turned down. We ended up with three different closing dates, postponing our move-in by a month. Each failed closing date came with a notification just a few days before the closing. ... More

I was very unhappy about the 15 months it took to build, and the morgage game they played on me!!!

the title should speak for itself.

We were excited to do our walk through about a week before our closing date. There were still quite a few unfinished items, missing stove vent, stove, touch up paint, cabinet scratches etc. The representative jotted them down on a paper and we were supposed to sign off, go ahead and close and trust them to finish. We were told repeatedly it would happen in a day or two but it didn't. I understand there are labor shortages and supply chain issues but don't fib about it. At 30 days post close, I texted our guy and asked when we could expect the touch ups to be done. I never even got a response!

Its been weeks since Warranty was advised about many items that need correcting and very few have been addressed. The finishing work in the house was not good many items were not correctly done.

not a luxury experience, poor internal communications between builder, mortgage, and in house title company, salesperson excellent and carries the burden for the brand. DWRM seems to have really gone down in neighborhood quality in these last phases. Dirty work sites, skimpy landscaping etc.

the workmanship has declined over time trying to get people in ASAP. the workers don't seem to care about doing the job right they just want to do it fast. I think the builder is wasting too much money redoing jobs that should have been done right in the first place. It causes money being lost and bad PR. I'm willing to talk further about this with anyone

You’re signing up for a production line house with a custom price. Don’t expect your house to not have most/all the defects that others have had. Pulte does not appear to improve its methodology as it goes.

NOT TRUSTWORTNINESS, NON-RESPONSIVENESS TO ISSUES MIS-LEADING ON SALE WITH ITEMS YOU LATER DO NOT RECEIVE AFTER YOU AGREE ON PURCHASE. MANY PROMISES NOT KEPT

The communication to us from the Sales office and building Manager was very poor. The whole experience was terrible but the DelWebb North Ranch community is beautiful

Here is a short list of our issues at closing Hot water not working Gas not working Washer dryer not working Gas range not working No refrigerator Mirrors and glass scratches throughout Outside gas outlet not working Hvac heat/cooling not working Door crack front door Master shower handheld not Installed Drywall hole coming in from garage Garage floor coating coming up

While I know there have been "supply chain issues," what was initially an exciting event turned into a very disappointing experience.

The contract called for an insulated garage door, now they say they cannot deliver it and offered a $500 credit. No way you can buy a door for that price! What an insult!

There was and is a lot of grout on the vinyl plank flooring. I have spent over three hours so far removing it and still have a couple of hrs. to go to finish removing the grout in every room. Installed grout looked to be installed by someone who had never done it before. Areas that should have grout around door trim, baseboard trim, doors windows in every room was absent in every room. The roll out cupboard shelves have fallen apart on two cupboards. The hinges on the front door fell off, and the door was hanging by 2 screws that were about 1 1/2 inches long that were obviously much too short to hold a heavy door. The cement work on the front driveway and entrance was very rough and unfinished looking. Light could be seen on both the front and back doors( about 1/8 to 1/4 inch gaps) Lots of cold air entered the home for the first three weeks we lived here durning a very cold winter weather snap. The electrical and other boxes (3) total were not closed properly and were covered in rocks and debris(located in front yard). The light to the attic was left on by construction personnel and has been burning 24-7 for the last 37 days as my husband is disabled and I am not willing to climb a ladder and enter thru the small attic opening. Everyone in the community comments on the very poor workmanship on these homes. I have built 5 brand new homes in my life and have never experienced this kind of poor workmanship before. In the other 8 homes I have lived in for years I did not have the number of nicks, scratches etc. on workweek, doors, paint that were in this home on the day I moved in. I have pictures if you would like me to send them . ... More

You don't move to Del Webb for the house quality. Poor workmanship, very mediocre materials and and very slow response, if any to make things right. Very disappointed!

Very poor workmanship for a high-priced product. What we got wasn't what the model looked like. Although Del Webb stands behind their product and eventually everything will be fixed, the continual no-shows by contractors are doubly disturbing. You would think it would be much better for both Del Webb and the owners if things were done right the first time. Quality Control is definitely lacking.