Pulte Homes Reviews

We had no heat in the house for the first 3 days we moved into the house. Pulte warranty dept was very slow in responding. Temp in the house was 67 degrees. With 3 small children this was unacceptable. Stacy customer care manager was very adversarial instead of trying to get the problem fixed ASAP. Still having issues with the home and Stacy. Very dissatisfied. Third Pulte home we purchased. This by far is the worst experience. Had no issues with our Pulte homes in Florida. California service is disappointing

The home is beautiful but I am having issues with the windows, won't lock (it took couple of months to get that fixed) Kitchen cabinets are bit up (damaged), tub in bathroom is stains, home was not clean enough windows are dirty, I notice that priority is giving to expensive home not your regular average home,

Since moving in I have had to have people out every week fixing builder mistakes. I feel like the quality has went down in the past couple of years and it feels like things are being rushed in the building phase and not done properly.

I think the price was too high

My experience at the time of buying and after buying isn’t good and didn’t expect this kind of quality work

They were great until you closed. So many problems but hopefully will take care of all the problems.

I have closed my home during Thanks giving. The response from the Sales team and initial Construction manager was very good. They helped me clarifying all my doubts. But post closing, the new construction manager uis not responsive and corporative at all. He denied working on the exception items as he didn't receive it from previous manager and asked me to contact warranty team. I contacted warranty team and received a note that it has been passed to my warranty manager. Its been 2 weeks now and no one contacted me for my open items.

The Pulte staff themselves seem to be good and want to supply the best customer service and home to the customer, HOWEVER all the sub-contractors are absolutely terrible! Pulte really needs to watch who they are hiring. Some of the work is embarrassing. S3, the siding company especially!!! I suggest looking into some other options.

Sadly the materials used are low quality unless you upgraded and paid extra. Workmanship quality is low!

Sloppy over all. Lot of issues found after moving in. Very slow in responding and sometimes no response at all. The defects are not being fixed.

I do not have a door bell. The placement of the downstairs thermostat is behind where your TV is. The light in the kitchen / dining area is no where near where a table should be. Why is the outside spicket in the garage? Also, unless you drive two compact cars, the garage is not a two-car one. It isn’t a bad floor-plan. The master bedroom is nice a big with a function walk-in closet and large master bathroom. Overall, Pulte builds a substandard product with very little attention to detail.

There are many spots on the first and second floors where the floors make creaky sounds. Walls are not sound proof (not even semi- sound proof). When a bathroom is used the loud water sound can be heard in the bed rooms. Water and sewer pipes throughout the house make very loud sounds. Sound from laundry room is no exception. Regular talk from the first floor gathering room can be heard in the second floor walk-in closet in the opposite corner of the house.

Bad responsiveness by those in construction leadership positions. Apathetic responses to concerns that were raised.

High fire danger problem with the City of Menifee should have been solved prior to giving us a false closing date. We were not allowed to move into our home after it was built due to this problem. We had to stay in a hotel for one month.

Andy and Ryan were phenomenal as Project Manager/Sales Rep. The trades were beyond horrible with craftmanship and response times. Crooked drywall, crooked cabinets, crooked countertops, and crooked door trim and frames awaited me everywhere on the day of my closing. During the build, the trades were scheduled for a certain day and/or time, which was relayed to me by Andy, but when I would check on the house, that particular item was not completed. Sometimes the delay was a week, sometimes the delay was a month. The trades would also have a punch list of five items that I would present to Andy; however, only one item would get completed. If I did not visit the construction site every day, and relay to Andy the issues I found at the time, who knows how bad the framing and some finishing touches would have been. I was told that the closet in a bedroom would be square before HVAC was installed. Unfortunately, the drywall was installed to prep for the furnace and not much could have been done with the wall afterward. I combed through the house searching for any and all crooked walls and was able to point most of them out. Unfortunately, when the drywall was cut, you can see curves and angles that are not square or straight. I will give props to the company that tiled the master shower. Other than that, you need to find tradespeople that give a crap. ... More

We love many things about our new home. We are disappointed with the quality of some of the "finishing work" - sheet rock; painting; trim work; etc. As example, we just had window coverings installed and some windows have the appearance that shades and blinds look not level and unevenly centered when in reality some of the windows are not square. Perfection is not a reasonable criteria but for the price paid for our home we certainly expected superior quality and craftsmanship. The longer we occupy our home the more and more "shortcuts" we become aware of.

Overall the homes and the community are beautiful. The exterior aesthetic is different than most builders currently. I fell in love with the open layout design of the Isleton model, particularly the rear kitchen. However, a lot of the luxury options are not included with Pulte as they are with other builders. This is a huge negative. I also did not have a good experience with Pulte Mortgate. Tiffany was good but I did not have a good experience with my loan counselor Ryan and this led me to switch to a different mortgage lender, Truist, during the housebuying process. I am glad I made that decision. I would not recommend using Vintage, the security company that Pulte is contracted with. You are better off with ADT or a home security system such as Ring. Vintage made a mistake in my selections and did not wire my sound system correctly. As a result, they had to come back out after I closed and break a hole in the wall to rewire. Overall, I really like my home. It is spacious and it is my first home. I do not know if I would use Pulte again in the future. ... More

People very efficient & responsive -especially Sales ( Neal), Construction Manager (josh), warranty ( Trusha) Materials- Not so good, does not correlate to the price. Unhappy with the way the delay from Pulte's side impacted buyer's mortgage rates.

For starters, when doing the 2-hour walk-through, instead of getting some explanations all we got were excuses. And to follow that, I wrote all the issues in a notepad on my phone and went back to the property day after day for 2 weeks to see the progress before closing and would see nothing fixed but all the pointed out issues that were once marked, with the blue tape that we were given during the 2-hour walk, had been tossed out and never fixed/addressed. I complained about the upstairs being hot for almost a month and got excuse after excuse only for the issue to be that I had no insulation in my upstairs attic at all. Once Jodi became a part of the team, she became a life saver and got all my issues dealt with and I greatly appreciate her hustle and tenacity. She helped calm my nerves and got literally all my issues dealt with in a timely fashion. ... More

We started building our house at the peak of housing market. The delivery was as scheduled, and we were lucky to have a good deal on mortgage rates (despite the increase). However, the build quality is poor and we have a long list of items to be fixed. I understand the delays due to supply chain issues, but there's no excuse for the lack of quality. It seems like they rushed things and just wanted to deliver. Just looking at the modal house is deceiving (don't expect the same quality/look). I hope all issues are cosmetic and there's nothing foundational (we'll find out in a few years). We're first time home buyers and it's been a bitter experience (honestly, I don't think I'll ever build a house again). ... More

I had high expectations for this house, but they didn't meet my expectation at all. The construction is subpar at best. The windows make noises when there is even a little bit of wind, there are very loud ticking sounds through the vents and the pipes are freezing when the temperatures are low. This is Chicago, the winters a cold and harsh so a house should be build sturdy not like this. Don't even get me started on the floors, it's all uneven and there are cracks in the celling already. I do appreciate the prompt responsiveness to the issues, however there are too many issues and it's only been 2 months. ... More

Love the home layout and design. Construction took forever while the builder was inconsistent and unresponsive at times. Even after moving in...he was given a list of issues needing resolve and he never followed through. The sales office was excellent. Quality of build and issues seen since moving in have been very disappointing.

The designs are great. But beware contractors are below average and materials are fair.

My sales rep, Jason, was wonderful to work with during the process. During the build though sometimes my house would sit for a couple of months with no work done. Then Andy and Logan took over as field managers and things started to happen quickly finally. All three of these people were great to deal with and on top of things. Once I got into my new house though a few issues came up and it takes weeks for any responses or any one to come out to do repairs. At the moment I have three windows that are leaking causing the paint and drywall to peel, stain and break apart. I reported this issue on 11/27 and after finally getting a response about a week later, I was told the soonest anyone can come is 12/22. It is now 12/26 and no one has called or showed up yet. It's a great location and layout but just a few things is showing that the quality of workmanship is poor. Other neighbors have had the same issues with getting any responses as I have so seems once Pulte gets your money, you get put on the back burner for any issues to be resolved even though there are workers and companies in the neighborhood almost every day, all day long working on building new homes but not existing ones. ... More

The home buying experience with Pulte is well organized for Pulte, but from the buyer's perspective there is plenty of room for improvement. Soon after signing the contract we asked for some information specific to our housing design and Pulte was non-responsive. However, weeks later Pulte needed to alter the contract as they could not deliver the kitchen appliances they agreed to and we refused to sign the addendum until they provided the information we requested. Unfortunately, that theme of trying to apply leverage in exchange for support from Pulte is a lesson we failed to remember. About the appliances, interestingly the sales representative told me they knew in December they couldn't source appliances, yet she must have forgotten they entered into the contract with us in February - feels like entering into a contract in bad faith on Pulte's part. We bought from another state, so routine visits was challenging and we only made a couple trips before closing. At closing it was a scheduled whirlwind and our final walkthrough was only 30 minutes. None of the deficiencies we saw on the final walkthrough were corrected before we closed and so we were trying to get them resolved as the movers were unloading our stuff. The list was simple to resolve and not terribly long, but they failed to complete the full punch list. Unfortunately, we forgot the lesson we learned about leverage and completed our closing survey before the punch list items were resolved. We noted they were not fixed and that seemed to be problematic. The POC for these items refused to answer out calls or texts and when I saw him on one of the sites, I said "good morning" to which he replied with an abrupt "S'up!?" Since then we have completed work orders asking them to finish installing the molding, repair a window that won't completely close (sucks during a cold winter), and a few other open items. We get emails that say they know about the items being open but nothing saying when they will act on resolving them. The good news from our perspective is our problems are minor compared to several of our neighbors. At some point I will finish the molding, I don't have the skill to fix the window and will pay to have it fixed (or pay to heat the outside) and Pulte will walk away from their obligations to this contract. They billed this neighborhood as 'Luxury Estates' and the home designs are nice and the size is big; however, the homes are not ready for turnover when they say they will be, the attention to detail is non-existent, they cannot do all of the things they say they can, and they completely lack responsiveness. If this survey asked us, we would answer that we would not buy form Pulte again. ... More