Pulte Homes Reviews in Seattle Bellevue, WA

The staff was great and answered all questions in a prompt manner. In terms of construction, a few small issues. First, the laundry room door can’t be open (it swings in) while accessing the washer. Second, the washer and dryer doors open giants each each. So you have to pull the clothes out of the washer and go up and over the contacting doors. The doors should be on opposing sides so you can transfer directly. This is especially true if we pre-ordered the washer and dryer from Pulte. The water and electrical hookups are known, so the models can be selected based on that. Third, the bathroom accessories are installed well but do not seem very sturdy. Plus, the markup on them is absolutely insane. From what I’ve seen them sold for online, I would say 50-100x. Fourth, noticing paint where it shouldn’t be. Fifth, a few other installation matters/decisions associated with personalized selections left me a bit baffled and made those selections difficult to use. And yes, maybe I should have noticed during the walkthrough. But it’s tough to see stuff initially. And more difficult to see through sheetrock until you start to mount/install certain things. ... More

Generally high quality construction. Always a few challenges with any large project, but they are very responsive to the issues.

Despite the delays brought by the global pandemic, our Pulte Home’s build proceeded and was turned over to us. We’re happy to be in our new home.

I would say the overall quality & service is good, although it's not as perfect as themselves claimed. My new house has a broken hole on the drywall on a not so noticeable corner, and one of my bathroom blinds as a part of the paid package, is askew severely. For the hole, I personally didn't find it during the "house quality celebration" before close, and for the blinds, they installed a portion of them after "house quality celebration", which makes me have to go through customer service and wait for some extra time. Except for a rush close, I would say they're overall good, I got timely responses from customer service(although due to CVOID-19, it may take longer). Pulte's people are quite nice and willing to help answer questions I have. People also help introduce my new house very clearly, and the overall value for the price paid is also not bad. ... More

Warranty work is addressed quickly

Paint work was not high quality or complete, some jobs not complete around home.

their field manager is super friendly and try to offer help for everything they know. However, the sales promised to refund $500 for replacement of microwave, however, the house closed more than 3 mont, still not receive it, asked couple of times to their sales, either no response or no helpful information.

Workmanship was inferior. Structural, plumbing and electrical areas were missed. Homeowners had to notify construction team of concerns. Trades were careless.

Let me start by saying we love our house. From the inside it is great. For the price paid the outside drainage issues are unexpected and frustrating. Haveing to dig out all the ditches filled with rock and put the gutter run off underground should have been standard. Rock ditches running through the lawn is pathetic. It wouldn't have cost much more to just do it right especially when people are playing 3/4 of a million dollars.

Great experience during build phase but terrible customer service post sales.

We closed on our new home on 1/28/2021. Entered on 1st Feb,2021. We reported our dishwasher was not working and pulte seems to have know there was an issue with our dishwasher but they hid from us during closing because the red horse that supplies water to dishwasher was shut off. When we turned it on the water flooded on floor under the kitchen cabinet. We requested it to be fixed on Feb 2nd and they pronised to send a tech on Feb 23 which they later cancel on Feb 21. It is very frustrating that We have not been able to use the dishwasher since we closed on our home. We don't know when it will be fixed since they canceled the appointment. It has been more than a month now. I am very mad and disappointed at pulte right now. ... More

Overall have been happy with my new home. However, I did have an issue where I needed to file a warranty claim due to a pipe leak, and it has nearly bred 2 months without resolution. I am still waiting for repairs to finish and have not been given a timeline for when to expect them to be done. Very unhappy with how this issue has been handled.

Love my home! I do think they should have included shelves (for sure) and seats in the showers. I need to figure out how to put safety handles in the showers. Wish the tile sealing was already done. Other than that everything is marvelous.

John was great, he deserves 5 stars. I truly want to express my gratitude for his work, the relationship and communication. His attention to detail and customer concern was a highlight in the building process. Eric was helpful and professional. Lisa in the design process was very professional, kind and knowledgeable. Pulte has some work to do on its sales process! We are still surprised that the walls were painted with flat paint. The no flexibility policy left negative feelings. Overall, we are happy with the home and the neighborhood. The closing process and communication was good. The warranty department has been very kind and responsive. ... More

Overall, a good experience except for the constant delays and slides in closing.

Once they actually started building the home, things went well.

This is our second new build we have purchased and while some of the features of the house are better than out first, there are details that are needs improvement. Visible dry wall tape that has been painted over in the owners room. Dry wall corners that is protruding/bent through the wall texture. The floor in the owners room excessively pops/shifts near the closet, the same closet door sticks. floor shifts/pops right in front of the balcony door. Messy caulking on the exterior of the balcony door. You can feel the subfloor surface is not entirely level when walking over certain areas. Finishing work on the cabinets in the bathrooms/kitchen messy or not done. Water damage on the baseboards in a bathroom. Some of these are not as big of a deal than others but quality in workmanship is the issue. Trustworthiness, so far so good. We got a third party inspection done and Pulte completed all of the findings. During our walk through we pointed out some details we did not like and they did their best to complete them. We had one service ticket submitted for the dishwasher and they were very quick to come out and resolve the issue. The dry wall corner that is bent through the dry wall texture is something that the builder said they will fix verbally on the day we got our keys but we yet to follow through in submitting the service ticket yet so we will see how they respond. ... More

My buying experience was not good, the entire process was extreme obscure, with unprepared people, and many disconnections. The building quality is average, the electrical installations are really bad, and the amount of issues with equipment is bothersome. I’ll definitely either avoid Pulte or be more strict on my next purchase.

Pulte Home provides value for the home.

Conflicting information received & cost more time to correct later.

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

Our garage door is broken 2nd week into a new construction home because the J bar was not installed into the wall at all. When it came undone, it caused damage to the garage door, and would have caused serious injury to anyone walking into the garage , or damage to our vehicles. Most of the window latches don't close correctly in the house either. We also do not have the property line marked correctly to setup a fence in the backyard.

Am giving a 3 of 5 star to most categories primarily because of workmanship and materials. Soundproofing in the living room is inadequate; human and TV voices can be heard. Flat wall paint used in kitchen and baths instead of semi-gloss. Floorboards with chips were used instead of being discarded. Cement board siding has spots of gloss paint on it. Framing of the panty door wall is crooked. Heating and cooling design seems haphazard. Electric wall heaters on first floor have to be run most of the time in cold weather. Heat rising from the 2nd floor mini-split makes wall heaters in 3rd floor bath and bedrooms unnecessary. However, floor plan is more functional and esthetically pleasing than other similar townhouses on the market. ... 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

We had an amazing experience with onsite sales and the construction team. Since closing we have had a few warranty items come up, one of which is major. The Warranty Manager for our community it very lackadaisical about the whole things. His communication is poor & follow through is untimely. There is just no sense of urgency. It is frustrating because we want to enjoy our new home, but the issues have left portions of our house under construction with no end date for the repairs.