Pulte Homes Reviews

The Pulte's closing subsidiary P&P Tile representative was very unresponsive, took multiple emails to make simple changes to contract. Pre walkthrough process is worthless. Not all items were addressed before closing even though extra time was provided before final walkthrough. Was some of the remaining items will be addressed soon after closing. We are month post closing, we items are still pending. Within 2 weeks of closing and moving in, we had flood in the basement. Water line broke - making us question the quality of work. We also learned the home not constructed to community (CAB) standards - missing solar conduit from attic to electric box. Again, questioning the. ... More

If I could go back amd purchase my home from Pulte I wouldn't. They are very hard to get ahold of near the end of the building process. They are not very good at communicating and wouldn't respond to emails. They made us miss out closing date and then blamed us for missing it.

My salesman Josh and construction manager were very helpful. My loan rep Justice was a poor communicator and hard to contact. After closing on property my warranty person Brock Has been slow or unable to resolve issues. Luckily I took pictures of defects the day I received my keys. Pulte in the past has been a builder I’m proud to recommend. Also Pulte was working with Shasta pool so construction would go smooth but that failed also

Bad communication and had to argue to get what we paid for. We got a new project manager in January which made things a lot better.

My experience from pre closing to current has been stressful and completing home construction has been a struggle. Sales team is fantastic.

Too many turn overs of oversite management has caused items to not be properly completed. Many items are still not completed after two months of moving in. Even the follow up warranty group/manager has left with no notification or who is working on completing the remaining issues. I am not happy.

They do not comply with the established times, they finished the house after 7 months after the established date and the finishes were very bad. We were very disappointed.

Delays, misinformation, no response to problems

Worst sales consultants to begin with. Construction manager is never available for questions. The in answer he had S is that a host is built by humans so it will have issues and defects and will never be perfect. This is his standard answer to all the lousy workmanship on the house. Absolutely poor quality build.

They tell you what you want to hear,, anything to close a loan,,,

When you get a contract on a house and the builder says oh we will have it done in 6 months, don't believe them. We walked in our interest rate with the understanding the house would be good and 6 months, 6 months came and went and a house wasn't built and the contract on the house expired. Then we were told by faulty if we wanted the house we would have to do a new contract at an even higher interest rate. This higher interest rate is going to cost us over $100,000 over our 30-year mortgage, because Pulte was unable to get the house built in time. They have offered us incentives, such as taking $10,000 off the closing costs, they had a Lanai built on the back of the house at no cost and they gave us a lot of platitudes but it still doesn't equal the $100,000 that we're going to lose over the life of the loan. Within a month of closing they had sold the loan to another company. Additionally when we went to closing there was still a lot of things that had not been fixed, our project manager gave us a paper saying Pulte owes us repairs, we're still waiting for those repairs 2 months later. I would like to say that our situation is unique, however I have talked to a lot of my neighbors and it seems it is not a unique situation and that it has happened to most of my neighbors. having a home build is a very stressful situation and to not know when it's going to be ready is even more stressful we had to pay out a lot of money because our profile belongings were in storage. Our house was supposed to be done in 6 months it was 13 months before we went to closing. Talking with my neighbors saying thing for them. When you do your walkthrough unless you're a home builder or you would have done this before you don't know what you're looking for, now I find lots of little problems and we have a home warranty that is good for one year so we will see how many more things we're going to have to be calling our warranty specialist on, currently we're about 14 things that have had to be repaired or are still waiting to be repaired. I wish I could say that this was only a problem that Pulte has but in talking to people in our community that has three different builders, everyone seems to be having the same problem. So if you decide to build a home beware. ... More

Overall below average to borderline poor customer service. New construction home took almost triple anticipated 6 months time frame to build and when closing date was finally given, we booked a flight since we are out of state residents; but then the house still wasn't ready. We then found out the interior was painted the default color but were never given a choice of one. Also paid thousands extra for a custom hand rail by the stairwell; but last second it was repainted the wrong color and not sanded properly like you could accidentally catch a splinter by touching the rail. Had to hire independent contractor to fix and repaint these items. Around closing time after inspection upon bringing it to the managers attention was simply told that just because the inspector points out something during the inspection does not mean they are legally bound to fix it. Communication was also not great during the construction phase. Have not lived in house yet since we are out of state residents so cannot yet comment on the build quality. ... More

We closed on the home and received our keys on 11/22/2022, No Pulte representative was at the close, located at the Pulte sales center at Oak Tree community. Only a Notary was present. We were not able to move into the home until 12/03/2022, because Pulte caused a leak to our two -story home when removing "used" washer and dryer on 11/23/22, that where found on our buyer inspection on 11/15/22. This in addition to other matters on our closing punch list have yet to be fully resolved and completed. There are numerous flaws in the construction and finishings in the home in general. We may now have to have the master bathroom shower re-installed correctly amongst other things. If you care about your customers, please reach out and contact us directly for further information and details. ... More

Really disappointed to be honest.

1. We arranged the spectrum installation one week after the closing but no signal at all for the house. Spectrum came four times then finally installed it after the guests checked in! The owner requested the bulk account with Spectrum on 11/18/2022. Due to the builder updating the information delay, the Spectrum bill’s amount is not for a bulk account. After tons of phone calls and emails, the issue still hasn’t been resolved for months. 2. The utility shut down on 11/17/2023, one day after the closing without any notifications. It didn't give the owner two days to transfer the utility. It caused a lot of issues with the furniture company. The title company asked the buyer to sign two days’ notice for utility several days after the closing. 3. After the guests checked in the water backed up from two toilets and showers downstairs during the Thanksgiving holiday. 4. The closing got delayed a lot due to material and labor issues. But the furniture package was ordered half a year ago and stayed in a paid storage room for almost 4 months. Now TVs have issues but missed the return period. 5. There are still many issues with the house waiting to be repaired. ... More

I had a terrible experience dealing with Pulte. I got the run around for months about a drainage issue in my backyard, it was so bad you couldn’t literally put a canoe in the water. Pulte representatives didn’t want to spend the 2,000 dollars to have French drains put in to fix the issue. Somehow they were able to look at us with a straight face and say there was no issue. The lack of integrity and honesty was nothing I have ever seen before in any buying experience. This is the third home I have built and it was by far the worst experience.It was exhausting to deal with, but after months of back and forth and having multiple professionals come to our lot, they finally gave us a credit to fix it on our own. ... More

The original home my wife and I designed to built located on 10732 Merrick Run was not completed in a timely manner……..dates were moved from June 2022, August 2022……..and still today not completed. Due to needing a home to move to……..we settled for the house on 12306 Sagerider SA 78454. Although a bigger home, many of the amenities my wife and I had on the home we help to design lack here. Although we have gotten use to it…….we still have issues not resolved. Torn stair carpet on the first step, stained (red) on carpet staircase floor (before first step), dark stain upstairs still there, carpet cleaners attempted to resolve both but remain as found. Exterior window panels still not stained. This has been addressed to supervisor Steven multiple times but have yet to be resolved. Its come to the point that Supervisor Steven is agitated for being called or texted during working hours stating he is busy with meetings or other work related excuses that i texted him late today to get an update and address recurring trash coming from work sites near my home (multiple times) and he texted me with a negative tone that I requested he not to make contact with me again and i will report these issues with someone above him until all resolved. Needless to say, the experience has been a nightmare for me and my wife. Just trying to get acclimated with no more issues, meaning repair to my carpet, removal of stains to my carpet, stain exterior window panels, and have workers pick up trash from my property when they create this indirectly. I would like to personally speak with a senior representative from Pulte to address these concerns and when and how will they be resolved. Dr Joe Arroyo ... More

The sales agent was difficult to work with. He was inexperienced and often misleading especially regarding the home taxes and bond obligations . The builders financing process was a complete cluster and anything but a process. The construction team failed to complete almost the entire punch list that was provided weeks in advance of close with items remaining to date, months after close.

i wrote an email to coporate

I wouldn't recommend Pulte unless you have an attorney on retainer that can essentially hold your hand through the entire process. From sales to walk through, to follow up issues post sale they were terrible. The folks who helped sign were great including Teri who set herself apart from the rest of the company.

Just not a good experience

With pulte buying experience is very bad. If you trust sales agents you will loss lot. We need to fight , argue with them to get best. We sign a contract with other party on same day, same time and same model. Other party lot have more land nearly double and also cul-de-sec but finally there paid 12500$ less than us. Pulte decrease there price because there fight well and not trusted pulte mortgage. We didn't get any advantage by trusting pulte. We regret our decision. I want to know new buyers don't trust and they don’t follow equality. Never go for pulte mortgage if you choose pulte mortgage you need to pay more. We loss very much and very bad buying experience ... More

From the beginning to the end Pulte did not deliver as promise. The mortgage company pulled out last minute and didn’t understand what I explained would be needed up front, additional monies were charged and not refunded, items I didn’t want were charged and performance on final product poor. After closing a power line was cut by builder and property was rushed to close but unliveable with no power for two weeks while I was of course paying to own it and rushed to close then the builder cut the line.

When I signed my contract, I was given a closing date of 7 months from then. I wound up closing 1 year later. This caused my monthly mortgage payment to increase by $500 per month due to the rising interest rates. During that time, there was no communication. The house would sit for weeks at a time with nothing happening. There was also high turnover in the construction department. Duringthe 1 year, we had 4 different contruction managers. Our sales agent and her boss both left. I don’tvthink I would have built with Pilte had I known this is how the experience would be.

Pulte has nobody in charge of the construction of your home, there is no one accountable for the poor workmanship. The construction manager simply blames all of his mistakes on the subcontractors. Our construction manager lied about punch list items getting completed in our new home or used double talk, saying things such as "...that should get fixed..." In reality, Pulte fixes as little as possible for as cheap as possible. We know for a fact either the construction manager or CCM just removed the blue tape on some problems from the final walk through. The trades they send to fix punch list problems often say Pulte doesn't give or pay for the time to fix issues correctly. The CCM warranty manager will also lie to you and spend as little money as possible to protect the Pulte bottom line. After customers miss work 1-3 times to fix the same problem, they get worn down and give up. I will never buy another Pulte home, nor will anyone I can tell about this experience. ... More