Pulte Homes Reviews

Working with the sales consultant was great for the most part, until the very end when communication basically stopped. For your sake, I hope you don't have any issues because getting them addressed is time consuming and getting someone to actually help you is difficult. You pay a lot of money for not great service. I continue to notice poor craftmanship in my home and the interior paint job has tons of issues. It simply wasn't possible to catch everything during our walk through and now what was missed we are stuck with. My floor creaks all over my bedroom. Overall, I love the look and design of my home, but for the money I paid, I would have expected better work. ... More

I really want to rate the experience higher - because I know how hard the employees at Pulte work. Some of the most honest, kind, and hard working folks that really care about what they do. Living in the neighborhood I see how late the project managers work and how during the home buying process the reps make themselves available. At the same time they seem spread really thin, too many projects per person at once. I think sometimes folks would mix up our home with others in their update, there wasnt always a clear path to what would get worked on when, there was delays for a bunch of reasons outside of folks control but sometimes the transparency wasnt there. ... More

We have not moved in yet, The basement id still leaking. Sent pictures of water in the basement. The garbage system has not been fixed There are still scratches on the cabinets. Nolan tries gis best

Overall experience is ok and quality of the house isn’t great.

Timely service. Quality of material used is fair

Overall rated 3 out of 5 due to the process or mentoring and the lack of quality in finishing touches. Through the whole process I felt rushed and was asked for information that I did not understand what it would be used for. There is a lot of information to go through and sign that i wish someone could have walked me through and educated me. rather than jsut asking me to sign. Most, if not all, documents are protecting the builder and not you as the buyer so it is critical for you to understand the risk or what you are sigining and agreeing to. Design of the home was great however when it came to the details they are poor. Paint and mud touch ups needed, paint bleeding on walls, trim and doors, faucet handles loose, globs of grout on shower floor, carpet nails come through where you can feel, cabinet drawers not fastened down. These are just a list of a few items but there were more found a few weeks after closing. ... More

Overall, we love our new home and everyone that we worked with at Pulte throughout the process, but you should have realistic expectations about the level of attention your home will receive. It's just the nature of their business. Pulte is one of the largest builders and they excel at building homes quickly and efficiently, which positively impacts their top and bottom line. The downside is that they won't pay close attention to the quality of your home in the same way a custom builder would. Quality - Remember that Pulte is essentially a middle man. Your house is being completed by a large number of third party contractors. Pulte provides oversite to the entire process, but you don't know what reputation each of those contractors have and what quality you're going to receive. This also explains the poor attention to detail. Value - They are cheaper than going with a custom builder. I can't complain about the value for the price we paid. Responsiveness - The level of attention doesn't go beyond what's required in order to pass inspection. Do not agree to moving in if you aren't comfortable with the quality of your home. Once you sign the dotted line, they have less of an incentive to respond quickly to any issues. Pulte Warranty is dealing with backlogs of their own so your issues won't be attended to in a timely manner. ... More

Before buying my Pulte home, I had been researching other homes with little satisfaction. When I saw the Pulte homes, I was ecstatic; they had everything I wanted in a new home. I wanted a single level, a patio, and a pantry which according to the advertisement came with these homes. I made contact with the sales office, selected a model, began the qualifying process and provided my $15k deposit. It was afterwards that I was told the homes in this development did not come with patios. I discovered later, that I was not given the opportunity to make structural choices. Then the process of submitting qualifying documents began. The process was tumultuous to say the least. It seemed as if the entities involved (the sales team, the construction company, the loan company, and title company) were never on the same page., It was the classic story of the left hand not knowing what the right hand was doing. It continued that way through the entire process even to who gave me my keys and when. ... More

Pulte Homes has good service. Like others builder, they have sister companies that will offer you Title service, Loan and Insurance for incentive. We didn't get any of other services, except the Loan (Pulte Mortgage) and Pulte Mortgage's loan officers we were assigned to was HORRIBLE, didn't answers questions and slow to response. Pulte Homes itself provide great service from the sales person to the construction manager and customer care people after closing. The mediocre workmanship come from all the contractors and sub-contractors they hired. They are not detail oriented and miss few things here and there. If you are OCD, you gonna have issues. Overall, Pulte Homes quality is pretty standard. Again, we only bought home from Pulte Homes once, and the market we are in right now is sort of weird, supply chain issues with building material and labor shortage which is maybe the reason why the contractors and sub-contractors aren't that good. ... More

We weren't real pleased with our sales person, wasn't thorough with pre-construction options, and lacked follow up. Luckily we were already in the area and could follow construction, otherwise we would have had no idea. We had two constructions managers, Jordan and Justin, who were both terrific, responsive and stayed on top of the construction, communicated well, hit all their time lines with updates, meetings and closing. After closing your handed off for punch list items, big disappointment at this point with communication and follow through.

We contracted in April 2021, and while there were some supply delays, the lack of communication and timing by the construction team caused us to wait 14 months to close. They were still working in the house the day of closing and had to be let in throughout the next two weeks to finish items. It has been 5 weeks from closing and we are still waiting for some work to be completed. The sales team is great but the workmanship and all around delays are horrible.

Our sales agent, Zorinel, was great. We should have taken more time looking at all the options for lots and size of homes. But, at the end of the day we are happy with the floor plan we chose but we could have chosen a bigger lot. The construction process was very difficult not only because of the lack of people to work and lack of supplies but we had a very bad experience with the back sliding doors. Somebody screwed up big time with these. The doors were bigger that the frame of concrete and therefore they had to break the concrete to fit the doors. It took maybe 6 months for the doors to be installed. The end result is not what we expected. There are hollow areas where critters can come through. There is still a lot of stucco to be applied to the framing and it's been 2 months since we closed and it has not been taken care of. Our field manager during the entire construction process, Adam, did everything he could to deliver the house in the best condition. Very hard working person. Julie and Robert are helping us with the issues that need attention and have done a good job. ... More

Make sure the future homebuyers know up front that they will be responsible for the sprinkler system water and get it in writing . Also give the homeowners more time than an hour to inspect the outside/inside of property during celebration tour. Both myself/spouse and pulte manager missed a lot of flaws. Basically this tour was rushed. Even the closing day too!!

We ended up with two contractors during this home-buying process. Our first contractor was Kyle and he tried to update us on a regular basis. Daniel jumped in at the six-month mark when Kyle left. He provided weekly updates and tried to address any issues we saw when we visited the property.

Build manager and finishing manager we’re good. Subs needed to be better managed and blatant issues could have been fixed without me stating them. Door frame, island, cabinets, and deck were clearly not up to par and the ground out back wasn’t graded correctly to disburse water. I understand you need to make money cause this isn’t non profit and I would just ask to do the right thing and not see if I as the homeowner would catch it so it would need to be fixed. I had to escalate things cause boots on the ground were not empowered or motivated. Mortgage process was a challenge due to lack of knowledge by the processor. I would build with Pulte again but my recommendation is when you see something not up to par just get it fixed and not see if the consumer catches the problem. Didn’t exactly exude confidence with. Pulte and now I’m going thru all fixes with double and triple checks. ... More

I understand there are some shortages for material but it doesn't mean work hss to de done sloppy!! Since very begging to end was not a good experience !!

I like The workmanship and layout of the condo. My complaints are minimal . Only 2 TV outlets, not even one in room you call the den. The trash room is locked. So you carry out trash , have to put it down on carpet, unlick the door, pick up trash bag then put it down because you need two hands to open the chute. Locked? Ridiculous! What is anyone going to steal? Halls and garage are overly cold with the air conditioning.

Honestly i wasn’t too happy with the process. Started off with a sales consultant who didn’t follow up with the process of the bidding. Then because of lack of communication, we had to change the model of the house we wanted and the colors for the exterior. We were told dates of work to be done and no calls or emails to inform us of delays. We understand labor shortages and supply shortage but a simple email or call would help the buyer know estimated times. Then upon closing the title rep gave us the run around. The lawyer that represented us was even frustrated and he’s been doing this for many years and dealt with many new builds. The construction on the home is great the only issue is they didn’t clean up the leftover materials and scraps. I’ve been finding wood boards and small metal gutter pieces that are dangerous in the yard. The front door was dented when being painted and that wasn’t repaired and now I would need to file a claim for the door because we didn’t notice it sooner. We were told we would have something down in the yard for our dogs because the sod cannot be installed until a later date and that hasn’t been done either. We have nothing but a dirt pile and mud. ... More

The house was rushed so I’m not totally pleased

This is my 5th new property that I buy and the have really bad quality I didn’t like the quality of the townhome in general and they give me the townhome with a lot incomplete areas and poor warranty service

Construction Mangers are the stars of the company and are great to work with. The sales staff were unresponsive and did not provide accurate information. Very frustrating at times.

Site construction team was excellent. We were rushed to closing while many issues kept popping up. Design and construction of the house seems well done, however some building materials were questionable.

The entire procedure was boilerplate for me. I really didn't have too much contact with builders. Maybe there should be an N/A category?

There are a lot of cosmetic touch up needed, microwave not working properly, masters shower drain clogged, some cracked roof tiles, and dying landscape plants,

The quality of our home did not appear consistent with other homes done by Pulte. We were the last home in the neighborhood so we felt like our home was rushed and did not get the attention it should have. We are still waiting on several repairs and items to be finished nearly 2 months after move in. We do love the floor plan that we selected.