Pulte Homes Reviews

The build quality is great! The house is little bit small, some interior question marks here and there, but overall- it's a great house!

Overall, a solid experience. I would not recommend Pulte Mortgage, but the build went well. Ryan was a good construction manager. There are small aesthetic issues that are somewhat annoying, but I have confidence Pulte will fix these throughout the first year of ownership.

All of the Pulte people were very nice.

Bad experience all the way around. Paint the shipping from the door garage door is not working light bulb was wrong sink was wrong chipped everywhere on the deck

They gave me an unfinished house. After multiple follow-ups they send someone to finish up some paint work, and he leaves it half finished. The quality of such expensive houses is very questionable with mesh door not getting locked, and flimsy pull out drawers in the kitchen.

Make sure everything is fine before you close. It is hard to get them to come by after closing. Do not rate until you have moved in!!

I was told by a salesman that my F150 was going to fit in the garage. When I tried this in my first day at home, it didn't fit. So disappointed. All the hard work, quality, good timing, etc. was overshadowed by that. Now we need to sell our F150.

Frank was amazing to work with from the start of the build all the way until the day we closed! He was always making sure we were informed of the processes our home was going through and was easy to reach for any question we had. Truly a great experience!

I am dissatisfied with the overall buying experience. I was definitely being sold but not informed. When changes were made on my property, I was not notified. Once I moved into the home I was disappointed with the finished quality of the product. The construction crew that built my house did not care about having a quality finished product. Shortcuts were taken all over the house. They are putting too many houses up too quickly with poor craftsmanship.

Our closing was delayed majorly, and we were not even given a closing date until two days before closing. After closing, we are not getting any prompt responses for the issues we're facing. It has been two weeks since I raised an issue with warranty team without any helpful update until now. I'm not sure it pulte was good earlier, but I can't imagine other builders being worse than this.

Pulte is very inflexible with design options. Their baseline features are low quality. Everything seemed to be an upgrade. Pulte tried to force me to move from a double oven convection range to a low budget range. I refused to do so and they charged me more, and still did not get my double oven in time for closing. It's been 8 weeks since they ordered and still nothing. Getting repairs completed due to Pulte's poor workmanship takes an extremely long time. And constant follow up.

We had an amazing experience building with Pulte. They communicated every step of the way, and were responsive when we had questions. Our home turned out amazing and is really great quality. Our construction manager was the best, and even communicated when he was out of the office. If you want a stress free build, build with Pulte!!

During the entire build process there was little to no communication and if there was any it was triggered by myself. Post closing a list of items to be fixed were shared with the customer care team but again no communication on timeline for repairs were given. It is beyond disappointing the customer service provided - it is something you would expect from a builder with no experience.

Tyler, the sales rep was wonderful. He helped us figure out the home options we would like and is very good at his job. The home was completed in a timely manner, and the overall workmanship was very good. Everything was going well until the end of the build. There were SEVERAL issues at our final walkthrough, and this was addressed with the project manager BUT nothing was fixed or corrected. We were assured by the project manager that everything would be taken care of, but when we moved in, the garage door opener didn’t work, the garbage disposal didn’t work, the ice maker did not work, the oven and microwave didn’t work, the painters did a terrible job( painting over switch plates, floors, tile, clumps of paint in places,etc), tile still needs to be acid washed, and framing in some rooms needs to be corrected. We didn’t expect things to be perfect, but we didn’t realize it would be this bad. Angel, a Pulte representative, is helping us now with all the corrections necessary. ... More

First time new home buyers. Everything went very smoothly and the house was done on time and we couldn’t be more pleased!! Its beautiful!!

Pulte is using sloppy contractors and generally doesn’t care about their customers post purchase. They installed lots of already brown, most dead sod that is not coming back to life and 2 weeks of daily watering and accused me of not watering enough despite my day 1 proof with photos and my water bill detailed usage graph, then their sod contractor came and literally yelled in my face and they are refusing to replace the dead sections they installed. Incredibly unprofessional and it’s a disgrace Pulte uses such awful contractors. We’ve also having electrical issues, corners were cut with plumbing, mortar and paint speckles are all over bath runs because they weren’t properly protected, drywall seams are very visible, many items called out during the build process were never fully addressed despite promises they would be. A lot of the issues weren’t seen at the blue tape final walk through. There’s just no way you can catch everything in that one hour window. But after living here nearly 2 months it’s clear Pulte does not pay attention to detail or care about their clients post purchase. ... More

Our ceiling seams and wall seams were less than professional. Pulte sent APV to address. The APV tech informed the only way to correct the ceiling mismatch was to have the complete ceiling texture reworked. It's been 2 weeks and no followup from a Pulte rep.

Pulte has great people that help facilitate the whole home buying experience. The quality is excellent. The Foreman on the job was outstanding. We would definately recommend Pulte to anyone interested in a new home. Price point is excellent and the quality and workmanship very good. They stay on the job to completion. Having the Foreman who makes sure it is done right means everything. Thank You so much.

I was very disappointed with the way the house was turned over to me after closing dozens of things were not repaired or fixed and the house was in disarray unacceptable for a higher and builder.

Cory and Vanessa were great to work with, however the workmanship wasn't that great. And, friends are shocked when I mention that ceiling fan and hanging lights installation are not included as well as only one rack in a bedroom closet. Some of the painting was pretty sloppy, too.

Corporate is amazing … They go above and beyond to help you.

Britta was great on the front end patiently going through many options on many models. Matt and Meagan were very professional and responsive as we neared the end of the build. Pulte is slow to address service requests after closing.

Was overall great experience buying home with Pulte.

I have great experience with Pulte Sales/Accounts/Builder and all engineer and Support post closing, closing team and the entire team of Pulte. Great coordination and keeping home owners posted on any changes or delays of delivery if foreseen. Also, closely follows up on home closing/post addressing of any home issues as part if warranty. Overall satisfied as of today in buying Pulte Home.

Overall: We are very pleased with Pulte's personnel and our purchase. Our overall experience with Pulte exceeded that which we had with another builder the previous year, which was also pretty good. Our Pulte sales agent MARY differentiated herself from the very beginning. This market was red hot for sellers/builders. I interacted with ~5 different builders on my hunt. All very nice people. But Mary gained my trust very early on, and because of that had me look more closely at Pulte. I have been in customer-facing roles, and led customer-facing teams for more than 3 decades. High integrity, knowledgeable, transparent, directly-answer-the-question-asked-straight-shooters, as best as I can discern, are what I value most. From the moment Mary and I first met 2 months prior to this community even having homes for sale, through hundreds of questions and interactions throughout the process, to closing and even still post-close, Mary exceeded those values. I could go into detailed specifics, but will leave it at the summary for the purposes of this review. We'd also commend our field manager Justin. SUPER responsive and THOROUGH(!) and honest. We greatly appreciated having had him as our field manager. We even had opportunity to interact 1-2x with the GM Anisa. Very friendly in a genuine way. Overall very pleasant interactions. Beyond the people-interactions throughout, thus far we have noticed only very minor fixes needed. To make this a useful review, we will add our top constructive critique: Our #1 agitation by a landslide was with the flooring. (A) Pulte's policy was they do not install planks on the stairs or upstairs hallways. (B) Nor did their design center offer the specific planks we wanted anyway. Thus, given (A) and (B), since we intended to have planks throughout the whole house, the least messy (and wasteful) way to R&R the flooring after close (since apparently the inspector would not allow us to close with a concrete floor), would be to have Pulte install carpet in the dry areas (which could be removed and given away) and sheet vinyl in the wet areas (easy to remove) throughout. Easy right? But when we requested the sheet vinyl option - that was actually listed as an option on our option sheet they sent us for our community - we were told that that was a "mistake" and sheet vinyl was not available "for our community." So they mandated grouted-in ceramic tile as the only "standard" option for the wet areas. So we had to jack up the ceramic tile the day we got the key. A unnecessary waste and mess. Okay. It is what it is: sheer gamesmanship to get a certain amount of people to purchase upgraded flooring through Pulte (the least competitive prices of all their design center categories). Perhaps Pulte "wins" more than it "loses" with this tactic. But it is the main thing that soiled our overall experience since it seemed to betray the integrity and transparency that made our experience so positive with all the front-line customer-facing personnel and that I specifically praised above. Therefore, this public review itself would lack integrity and transparency if I did not specifically call this particular tactic out in this critique. Hope this is useful to someone. Best regards. ... More