Pulte Homes Reviews

Overall, our experience with Pulte was decent-to-good. The home and feature selection process was easy and informational. We did have delays in supplies (prolonged closing by 4+ months), which was frustrating, but the communication was frequent and transparent throughout the delays. We would have appreciated some sort of concession in price/compensation, but that was never offered. Our construction liaison also transitioned halfway through the project, which provided some anxiety, but our new liaison did a great job picking up where the old one left off. During our final walk-through, we were able to point out a lot of the inefficiencies with the house, which got fixed for the most part, but there are still some issues. Our kitchen cabinets are slightly slanted and some of the bathroom counter drawers don’t remain shut. Also, some of the wood around the counter space is damaged, which is frustrating for a brand new house. Finally, our bathroom mirrors, closet shelving and toilet paper holders were delayed by about 3 months. ... More

I love my home and I am glad that I am finally in it. The sales process was rushed and not detailed, I loved the model and the community, but things change after you sign that purchase agreement. The design appointment was cold and uninformative, way too many things to chose from in a two-hour span. After you sign for $70k in upgrades, good luck if you ever get in touch with that salesperson/designer again. The customer service from the sales end is lacking, they put you in touch with a myriad of people that are supposedly there to assist you, but the minute you have a question, or you call them out on something, you hear crickets from them. This was particularly frustrating for me, as you pay all this money for your home, and they did not even have the professionalism to return your call. The way I took their action or lack there off is that they don’t care about you, or your hopes and dreams all they care about is the sale and their commission. Have you heard that saying “You aint nothing but a number…”? Overall, the company is good to get you sold on the house, but the real work is done by the project manager. I have to say that my project manager was the real MVP on this transaction, he was left with a mess of misinformation from the sales/design contract, and he took it all in stride and worked through every single one of the mangled mess and did not stop until they were all corrected to my satisfaction, I feel that he was the only one that actually lived the Pulte guarantee. There were things that were never resolved, but it wasn’t because of his lack of trying. The sales process needs to be more professional, with transparent communication as this would have avoided most of the issues that I experienced. A word of advice…reply to your customers, ALWAYS, even if only to say, I don’t have an answer for you, but I will look into it. ... More

Very important to have proper expectations, that workmanship/quality is very average. You will find many eyesore or things that you think should be done better, but you will get told that it's within the "company standards/tolerances/guidelines" so thats just the way it is. Examples are, uneven painting/trim, paint on trim, poor carpet installation, lots of touch up work left for you to find, asymmetrical stairs, asymmetrical shower hardware. Just various things you'll find in the home where you can tell things were done very quickly and slapped together to meet a corporate deadline. I've submitted many of these items to Pulte and I'm waiting to see how they respond so my review could change. However, it is important to have the expectation that if you are a person who cares for details, that you will have to spend a good chunk of money fixing many of these items on you own, which many people wouldn't expect when buying a brand new house. ... More

The Pulte staff has responded to discussing the issues with us but has been not quite useful in promptly resolving these issues.

Best to be on site and monitor their progress personally and question why sometimes there was a lack of progress causing delays to occur that could of and should have been prevented if a timeline check list had been to monitor what critical paths have to be followed to remain on track to the completion date that was established when the project started.

Pulte office staff were responsible for an awful and completely unreasonable buying experience. If not for the value and location of the home I would have chosen to go with another company.

Quality is what they strive for. They are working on it but follow through after the sale for warranty items is slow. Best to stay on top of the process during the build.

Pulte does build a beautiful home. However, there were numerous delays, incomplete items at closing, and a general disregard for customer satisfaction throughout the process. Special shoutout for "worst experience ever" goes to Pulte Mortgage Company. Dealing with PMC was absolutely not worth the incentive.

This is not my first home buying experience. IN the past had new home buying exp with other Builders too. I will not say Pulte is bad or good. But only piece of advice is that defi. check out for Quality of workmanship , Value for price etc available during the process of home buying, Lookout for options.

Craftmanship and promptness has declined from 2 years ago.

Overall the experience was okay. I love my new home, but getting here was a bit challenging and seemed to have too many bumps in the road. Not sure if it was COVID related or a common issue.

Our build was a quick experience, but unfortunately we have discovered many issues with the way things were completed in the house after we have moved in. The lack of communication was and is a problem still.

home price is high, but the quality lower than we expected

While the quality of the materials used was high, there were many instances where the workmanship was poor.

I recently purchased a new construction condo built by Pulte Homes and I found that it is a decent construction.

The home appears to be built well. There were several small issues to do with general clean up and plumbing. The appliance supplier is horrible and had we payed closer to the contract I would have had second thoughts. We have been here for almost 2 months now and all is fixed except for the microwave.

Don’t let the process get to you. And pay attention to details from the beginning

It was a tiring experience looking for a.nuce house here at Spencer’s Crossing in Murrieta CA. Fortunately, Pulte had called and gave us a chance to pick our new home. Thank you Pulte. Hoping to have a good and better working relationship in the coming years!

Long wait for responses, long wait for information, no replies.

Now that we have moved in we found a number of items that have not been built properly. Items that were damaged such as the front of my bathtub and then it was fixed and it was an obvious fix. Thanks we were told what happened such as cleaning the paint off of my patio never happen

Floor plans are locked with little flexibility to changes other than what is already presented on the option sheet. You also may be asked to close on a house that is not 100% finished with a promise that it will be finished.

We love our home now but we still have a punch list that hasn’t been resolved. Communication during the process was terrible. Went through three different project managers. Constant delays and days with out any progress on home during the building stages.

Build process was fine and Pulte Build Supervisor was very responsive. Basic house construction is good. Detail work not as good. Sub come backs required to fix poor quality initial workmanship. Pulte warranty representative is also very responsive to work through the sub schedule. Overall, even with the finish issues, house is very nice. Landscaping was really nice.

The site engineers should make sure the wooden floors properly installed

There was great communication between the sales office and me but their seemed to be a lack of communication elsewhere. There were a few instances where I was told one thing and it was wrong or for some reason it had to be changed. I wished I was aware of those changes before they were put in place. For instance in the design center, I was showed the cabinet garbage holder and was told that’s the one I would get and I got a cheaper version instead. There was also the instance of the whole process of getting an offer accepted and not being able to actually see the lots before the offers had to be put in and signed. This was also with having a limit on the sales appointment. I was mailed the contract very early in the morning and had to sign it before 12pm the same day. ... More