Pulte Homes Reviews in Detroit, MI

Due to the poor quality of workmanship, the other measures also followed suit. A good neighborhood with nice sized lots and house plans. However, not good value for the cost of the home. We expected impeccable workmanship but were constantly disappointed even after repairs were done. You cannot rely on anyone doing their job effectively. You must always follow up behind everyone to ensure things are done correctly. Considering we have no clue about construction, it was very inconvenient not to mention aggrevating. Would not recommend them as a builder.

I'm truly baffled when I see 5-star reviews. Must be the Stockholm syndrome: Paid enormous amount of money for a shockingly poorly built house - what to do except celebrate! There not much else or recourse. Everything I'm stating below is also corroborated by all the neighbors I've spoken to regarding a common, shared building experience we've had. We love the "idea" of the house and the general design, and the great location. However, from beginning to end everything is built sloppily by contractors who openly despise the properties they are building. If they didn't despise the house they are building, why would they drop their trash into the a/c-heat registers? Leave cans and cig butts all over the house? Not protect the tubs and showers and toss nails and construction debris into them and scratching them? Why would they mix their cement on the unprotected floor? Why would they leave nails sticking an inch out of the drywall? Or install a cracked tile on the stove backsplash? (and leave it) Why would they destroy windows, doors with acid and not clean it up? (forcing replacement) Why would they drip paint on the screens on leave it like that? Why would they leave splintered doors in every room? Or leave gaps, scratches and chunks of wood splintered off your beautiful oak flooring? Why would they leave 1/2" of brick flashing overhanging all over the house? Nails all over the roof? Scratched and gouged window sills from the siders dragging their goods out thru the windows? A fallen telephone pole in the back yard? A driveway so badly done with such low standards and zero Pulte supervision that it has to be redone - but making us wait 3 months after move-in (preventing sod install and other brickwork)? Siding buckled so bad that passersby ask about it? Our list (and the lists of several neighbors we've met) is too long to lay out here. It's bad. Pulte has already cycled through (lost) three site construction supers just since we signed the papers. Why do they not ask themselves, "What are we doing wrong?" We've been in the house for ~6 weeks. The "list" we've provided on items not considered "warranty" but just not done right by the construction crew are now being referred to their warranty department by the new super. (after no response from 'previous' site super on several promises over the last two months) If Pulte has a bad reputation in this area, they've earned it. ... More

I have found lots of things wrong since moving in that they did that are just poor workmanship. Floors had cut outs for outlets for the electric recliners I had, the edges of the floorings around the outlets had big chips in it. When I noted that during the walk through all they did was take a black marker, flies are grey and color the chips in. All that needed to happen was the flooring need to be taped when they cut the flooring for the outlets, this is flooring 101. The paint is so cheap that when I used a magic eraser to remove a mark it wipes the pint down to the wall board. Grout was poorly lauded and c on omg up on the tiles. The field in bathroom have no caulking at the edges and corners. Just very poor workmanship. They also had very poor options and my place appraised 4K less then they were charging me and they made no attempt to even try to adjust the price. I would never buy another Pulte home. I am still waiting for them to replace a cabinet door that was poorly installed. ... More

It has been overall not a great experience. Try do come back to fix. But not my best experience overall

Felt rushed in making decisions and not allowed to make changes.

On each stage it was bad experience with Pulte starting from Sales Team, Pulte Design Center and Construction quality and standard. Worst part is big brand Pulte can construct Sleight walls.

I was expecting luxury house as they advertised or at least similar to the model that they showed us the final finishing product is so bad - the design and features are great!

Not the best experience, that we expected!!!!

quality wise there is lot to improvise for the price of the home or you can ask 10-15% more of the price so that customer gets quality product.

We love the floorplan and design of our new home. Unfortunately, there has been one significant issue after another since our closing. The lack of response and attentiveness to major issues (flooding due to improper appliance installation requiring the replacement of our entire kitchen wood floors in the first week, electrical systems melting due to improper fireplace installation, front porch requiring complete demolition and re-pouring of concrete just to name a few) has left us shocked. Pendant lights showed up to be installed two months after closing, and they are pendants that we did not select and have never seen before. We are going on another month of trying to get the correct pendants installed with no progress or commitments from Pulte. Everyone we work with just points at each other to "investigate" issues but nothing ever gets done. Everyday we have a feeling of what next in our brand new home. In no way would I recommend Pulte homes to a family member or close friend looking to build a new home. ... More

I am not pleased with the way Pulte is handling my concerns. For starters I'm going to start with my sod and sprinkler situation that I paid $6,000 for. My sod and sprinkler system could not be installed because my soil had not been final graded. So I reached out to the field manager of Pulte for my community to find out when would my final grade be done so my sod could be laid down. so in the midst of waiting for my final grade to be done it was brought to my attention that my sump pump was not completely installed they had the pipe coming out of the side of my house but not running into the ground to the sewer. ( How did this pass city inspection) that was taken care of but my sod situation has not yet been taken care of as of yet and it's been over a month since I closed on my home. My next issued was my air conditioner went out my 2nd week in my home and I had to call out the heating and cooling company who installed the system and I found out that one there was a line that was not tighten and all the Freon leaked out. My 3rd issue is a classic I had a new refrigerator delivered and my GFI socket kept tripping which caused my fridge to shut off. so I would have to reset the GFI switch to turn my fridge back on which would trip again several times a day. I emailed the field manager who told me to call the electrical company and that their number would be on the inside of the kitchen cabinet which it wasn't so I had to contact my salesperson for the number. I called the electrical company and left a message and I'm still waiting on a call back. So I called the warranty department to make a claim about the GFI situation and the 1st thing I was asked is what kind of fridge do I have ? I told her that I have a Samsung Fridge and she stated that Samsung fridges Ice makers make the GFI switch trip and there is nothing that was warranty would cover to repair and I would have to contact an electrician myself for the problem (wow ) I just purchased a home for over $350,000 and I have repair a electrical problem concerning my fridge. So I called a electrician out who informed me that my fridge need to be put on its own electric line and Pulte should have had this done at the time of the build like everything else in the circuit breaker box like the range Ac and ect. It took this guy less than 10 minutes to fix my GFI problem that Pulte would not take care of so sad. So now I've reached out to the sod company who stated they do not know when they can come out and lay my sod which is so unacceptable considering $6,000 was paid out for the job..... ... More

#1. The cabinet finishing is not good #2. If you have your Master Bedroom above your garage you need to buy a separate heater ... Based on our experience, overall it is 1 out of 5 stars.

Our sales representative Kevin was absolutely amazing. He will accomplish great things. Can’t say the same for the quality of workmanship. Having an inexperienced eye for construction I put my faith in the construction crew of our home. Once the honey moon stage faded (60 days after closing) we noticed multiple defects. I won’t use Pulte again for a home, the price of almost 600k has given me a beautiful lot with 200k house on it. Materials are builder grade and the craftsmanship looks to be done by inexperienced laborers. Crown molding around the cabinets isn't attached, cabinets in the kitchen are the lowest grade you can buy, the backsplash tile work is short (some tiles stick out, grout lines appear to be done by a child) Great marketing but the product isn’t worth the cost. ... More

The worst builder so many problems so many missing stuff

4 1/2 months after closing I still do not have my irrigation system or yard installed. Horrible customer service full of threats, but they do not follow through on anything that they commit to. I used Pulte Title and they did not pay the insurance at closing, although they say the check must have been lost in the mail. I will never buy another Pulte home. STAY AWAY!!!

Poor quality for a 400 k home , sorry but we are so disappointed with This home

I would highly recommend not to buy with Pulte homes They use cheap quality materials and worst behavioral construction team. Once you close the home then you will be screwed up. Don’t trust sales and construction team words at any stage until you satisfy DON’T close the home.

Pulte has 10 yr old same designs. You will not have contact from any management outside of sales person and property manager. Bad documentation Bad design studio that not accessible as per customer needs. Explanation of packages is horrible. Pulte expects Customers need to come prepared from a horrible design doc and select options in 2 hrs. One good thing is their team on ground is helpful. Their contractors don't follow a standards Pulte mortgage and Pulte insurance is another horrible company that doesn't care about customer experience and value business.

The upgrades are expensive and of poor quality. The overall construction is weak. On a simple windy day the whole house makes loud noises in the roof. The overall quality of house is poor. The purpose of going for a new construction is defeated. One month after moving the dishwasher leaks water , the Owen when turned on gives out strong burning.smell. They rush through the closing process even though the house ins’t fully done. The basement developed mold even before the closing. Professionally treated but worried about it coming back. I opted for a designer island which isn’t half good as shown in the model home. No pictures available of it before hand. No way to know how it is going to look until it is installed. Overall a bad experience for me. ... More

My fire alarm goes off in the middle of the night and Pulte can’t fix it l!!!

No quality, bad sales consultant, not happy at all.

Jennifer sales consultant only looks out for sales, that’s it! She adds options and upgrades without explaining description and costs. She did not tell us we had 9 days to review agreement and back out. Too far in to purchase months later I found this out. I’ve already closed on house. Our first night sleeping in house my son’s bedroom did not have a register in the floor for A/C to cool his room. Next morning Ali comes out to house and I show him the pre-drywall picture showing register in son’s room on floor. Pulte even had city inspectors with City of Novi give us final certificate of occupancy. Other issues with house: paid for 4th car garage to be insulated and I had to show Ali the attic space over 4th car garage that no insulation was installed; items to be fixed on final walk through were not addressed and fixed and we did not realize until we were living in house and when brought to Ali’s attention he directed us to go through warranty department now. There are some positives though: design and layout of house is nice and lot is big enough to put a pool in. For the price paid I expected better quality, which my Pulte Home is lacking. I wonder what other upgrades I have paid for that were not installed or completed. ... More

Fast construction and don't care about the house being built. damaged floors and damaged walls. Just want to close fast and not make sure everything is to standard.

Negatives: - expensive option's - base price doesn’t include minimum options. - fraud sales tactics used my company especially with East facing lots. - fraud valuation before the closing to show customer that valuation is more than what than are paying. - cheap materials for the options and high prices - being a new built, i expect builder to cover initial taxes, lenders title and owners title insurance. Which they don’t

We were shown a model home that really impressed us and we were also looking at other properties from Pulte and liked the finishes and setup. Hence we decided to go with the purchase and the finishes we selected were more or less the same as we were shown in the model. The overall project was on-time and we did get regular updates from the site engineer / manager. The closing process went well. Here is where I had issues - We were offered a date by the site engineer for closing on our home, when we requested for another date the sales personnel came back stating this is the date for closing. So there was no coordination between site engineer and the sales personnel. When we noticed some issues with the carpet we were told that these carpets are not good, so why was Pulte offering these during the design consultation and during the initial stage when we were choosing our finishes, another case of miscommunication. We started our loan processing with Pulte Mortgage and everything was going fine until a month before the closing where Pulte's mortgage company came back with unreasonable conditions. This required me to scout for another mortgage vendor. Third instance of screwed up communication, they had all my info from the time I signed the contract couldn't they have been clear with their requirements? Fourth instance - we were told that the sod and sprinkler system will not be installed as it was getting cold or rather it was cold, to this I was okay dn there were email confirmations come closing day I see my lawn and backyard with sod and Pulte site engineer making me sign a wavier that going forward sod will be my responsibility, another case of gross miscommunication. We were made to do a 'Celebratory walk through' on the day of closing and the site engineer made it clear that he had other closings and we too had to get to our closing hence looked at the big issue and signed off with him. But when we moved in and actually started seeing the issues the Site Engineer would come back and state it was not mentioned in the walkthrough sign off. Does Pulte expect the owners to do an inspection with a fine tooth comb on the closing then this should be scheduled a day before and not on the day of closing, We nearly found dozen or more issues once we started living. Of these there are two issues that Pulte has not addressed. The main one being the lightning issue, we paid nearly $3k for additional lightening in the entire house and even after making the payment we were never offered a choice of lights (day light vs warm white or yellow light) and now when we are following up with Pulte, the Site Engineer states that this is the Electrician's discretion. I am mean Pulte is such as big company and they let electrician decide on these things where the owners are paying through their nose for each service request....this is ridiculous. Over and above all of this we were coerced by the Site Engineer to give him a 10 rating on the survey as he assured that all issues including the lightening issue will be taken care. We did our part and now he is refusing to do this part. I am appalled by the way Pulte and their employees treat new home owners. I will never again go to Pulte or recommend this to my enemies. ... More