Pulte Homes Reviews

In an overt effort to mass produce moderate-quality homes, the builder is absolutely rigid in making changes that would save them costs of materials yet they are overtly willing to guide you toward upgrades with 600% markup margins. The only smart move with builders such as this is to purchase the home at near base price, do diligent homework on acquiring upgrade estimates outside of closing and then decide how to proceed with the builder. For us, those moves were an as-build base kitchen, base carpet, base tiles, base paints and no structural wire upgrades. Builder wanted nearly $200k for a home we desired but we were able to achieve that after close for $45k and a little extra dust. It’s your money and generally the largest purchase people make in their lives. Suspend emotion and be smart. ... More

I wrote you an honest review earlier today and you replied saying it does not meet your standards. Because you didn’t like it. So why bother to ask me to write another review? Do you really think my opinion has changed in the last few hours? As I said in the first review, the best thing I can say about Pulte’s Lakes of Orange is that they have a fantastic Field Manager who is responsive and actually cares about the residents and treats them with respect.

We are still working on warranty issues with Pulte.

We built our new home and it is great, but Pulte up-charges EVERYTHING so the price gets very hi unless you don't do any upgrades. Overall it was a good experience but now dealing with yard issues such as grading and sod that is going to potentially take 4 months during the summer is hard and should not ever take that long.

attention to detail may improve small issues that should've been taken cared before I moved in were not fixed

By the time you see your house finished, you are amazed as it’s a dream coming true. By the time you settle in and start living inside it, you start noticing several aspects about the material and workmanship that could have been done better, such as stains all over the walls and flooring, hand marks from the workers that do not go away, poor quality painting that gets off easily and is sticky, small holes left unattended and so on. It’s a bummer to notice those items only after living on it, which starts to be a life of fixing minor issues.

My wife and I found a home in Trailside we really liked, we had noticed the neighbors fence looked like it was encroaching onto the property. I had mentioned this to everyone at Pulte we spoke with Sales, Field manager, Pulte Title company. and we were reassured it would be resolved. we have lived here 2 months now and I have made 4 calls to Title company to find out what actions are being taken to resolve the issue. He says he has contacted Legal and they would be in touch with me and still nothing.

During this COVID-19 outbreak, I am reluctant to get any issues regarding my new home at Reverence resolved. And yes, there are many. Some big, some small, ranging from a hot water heater that doesn't deliver, to a sagging kitchen sink improperly installed with it's caulking falling out. All in all, I am most discouraged by the quality of workmanship that went into building this new home as well as being very dissatisfied with the quality of materials installed. Have some been repurposed? Will I have to spend additional money to redo things? For now I have to let go of these concerns. I am more fearful of opening my door to have repairs made and replacements done. I remain optimistic all issues will be resolved when this crisis ends. Since I haven't contacted Pulte Warranty it would be unfair to give them a rating on responsiveness. ... More

Pulte rushed to finish to close the house. Took shortcuts, not the most professional

Take a very long time for the final walk through. After moving on February 4th. I needed to have the master vanity replaced as it was a factory defect. The tub in the guest bathroom was badly scratched. Filed Mgr. spent an hour trying to rub out the scratches. Have not decided whether to have Pulte replace the tub. Kitchen drawer edge ragged. All the nails were raised on the steps in the staircase, garage door did not operate property due to poor painting of the garage door. Waiting since before closing to have tree in the rear of the property trimmed. Although every half constructed home has received a palm tree, myself and others on our street have not. This has been reported several times. Home was delivered in a very dirty state. ... More

Maintenence with Matt is the great thing with PULTE.

The cleaning before I moved in was pretty bad. The overall attention to detail was poor. And this was after two pre closing walkthroughs. However these are things that are easily fixable. Other than that they have been responsive to try to help fix the issues.

Had a great experience all the way until we made our 30 day list of fixes and only one item has been addressed from our list. It’s been very frustrating

You need to rethink your process to assign labor to some tasks. IF you offer a house with a special door for example, it cannot be the same labor as it is usually assigned. It needs to have specialized professionals to avoid replace the door , costing money and also causing unnecessary headache for everyone.

The wood used looks very cheap The quality of materials should have been better

Understand normal new home shortfalls, but the workmanship was a bit sloppier than we expected from a large, reputable public company like Pulte.

I would say a great professionalism for the Project Manager Jack, but my back yard work is of very poor quality, it was mentioned in the home inspection report to fix some things which are still left pending. When reached out to the builder it says it will be fixed by the developer but don't know when that is one of the burning issue for me

Sales office was good. Pulte Mortgage, was not.

Not impressed with having to follow up on issues identified during closing 7 weeks ago . Still chasing work to be completed.

I followed the whole house construction, the framing was done using a lot of cracked timber. Tiles have been installed directly on the slab concreate without any membrane and indeed some one is already cracking. I have had roofing problems with a leaking which has been fixed. So in general I’m not happy with the build quality

Since moving into our house, we have had quite a few issues (broken furnace, plumbing not working, creaky floors) as well as realizing that there were some poor design choices or just cheapness (cabinet doors that need bumpers because they bang into walls and other cabinets, odd placement of countless light switches, master bath door opens in front of shower, frames only on 3 out of 6 mirrors, counter overhangs not quite enough for comfortable seating, floor tiles and vinyl not running the way any of us would have expected, furnace lines running directly in the center of the master bedroom wall and not protected by anything other than drywall). Eventually I think we will be happy with the house ... hopefully the issues that we have been experiencing will all be taken care of, and hopefully this is just a bad start and we won't continue to have problems. ... More

We wanted the house in the brochure but it seems that - house may not exist -

Overall the experience was very stressful and not very exciting. Lots of problems from the beginning all the way through the closing and still dealing with isssues almost 2 months after closing. The contractors that Pulte uses leave a lot to be desired. Don't think I would ever build a new home again. Not a good experience.

5 month delay, followed by many construction issues once we moved in. If you look closely, there are a lot of small details that have not been correctly taken care of in the house. It is a hassle to call Pulte/Warranty department/etc, as it should've never happened in the first place. My AC/Heating unit had missing parts, and took multiple calls and visits to fix--I wish pulte checked the quality of their products before pushing their customers to sign off on it. I also have a couple of lopsided doorframes. Some are rather obvious, but some not too noticeable. This could've been easily prevented, but it seems pulte is rushing through the building process and not paying enough attention to detail. ... More

I love my new home. Once we signed the papers to close the contractors were not responsive to issues. We are almost 60 days into owning the home and are waiting for our 30 day walk through. Other than that, the house is great!