Why Would Anyone Buy a Pulte Home in Texas?
In San Antonio over 25 homeowners have felt the devastation from buying a new home in Texas, this time from Pulte Homes. Pulte merged with Centex in 2008 taking on the liability of these homes that are literally sliding down a hill. This major screw up has received national attention. From the Washington Post.

Poorly Built by Pulte Home:
Homebuyers: Please Beware of Pulte Brand Homes
I understand these are not custom homes but there are far too many short cuts for the price. Especially in insulation and unseen areas. -Sun City - Shadow Hills, Indio, CA.  This has been a horrible experience. Between all the problems, the non-responsive customer service, the poor "fixes", we are very saddened that our "dream home" has become a nightmare. It is unfortunate that so many problems have occurred, but even more disappointing that we are left to deal with them, no recourse at all. We had thought about getting a lawyer, but just wouldn't know where to start. The water damage to the house was because of negligence and was a problem that we noticed on our walk through. This house was built very fast, and it is showing over the years. I would NOT recommend a Pulte home to anyone, and I am embarrassed to say that I own one. -Heritage at Tartesso, buckeye, AZ    Read more...

Pulte problems: Lessons to be learned from company's history 
Koenig did what he thought was right: he went to the builder, Pulte Homes, to tell them about the problem in Sun City Hilton Head, the retiment community in Bluffton, S.C., where Koenig lives.  What happened next is at the root of what's driven Koenig for the last three years. He says it also will be at the heart of the matter for residents of the Hills of Rivermist neighborhood in northwest San Antonio, where a ruptured retaining wall caused a slope failure that imperiled many hillside homes and launched several lawsuits alleging that Pulte is responsible.

Workers protest homebuilders in Cool Springs
With a giant inflatable pig in tow, workers from Michigan-based Pulte Homes and its subsidiary Centex Corp. joined homeowners in a protest in Cool Springs today. It's a greedy pig. It represents how we feel that homebuilders treat their customers and the workers that build their homes," said Paul Price, campaign organizing director. 

Protests planned at local homebuilder
A couple hundred people plan to demonstrate at Pulte Homes  Inc., based in Bloomfield Hills, to protest the homebuilder’s lending and construction practices. Homeowners and workers will travel 3,300 miles, stopping in 10 cities across the United States to tell Pulte Homes to stop foreclosing on the American dream.

Sun City Anthem resident battles HOA
"Yes, we have construction defect issues, and yes, we are upset and mad about it," McCullough said as he pointed out stress cracks and crumbling exteriors on homes in his neighborhood. "But the real story here is not about the defects in our homes. It's about a board of directors who are more sympathetic to Del Webb's financial well-being than they are for the Sun City Anthem residents." The association hired a contractor to fill in the cracks and paint over them, but not before McCullough took 44 photographs of damaged villa homes on Peoria Avenue, where he lives, and around the block on Harrisburg Avenue.

Industry leaders call for tougher regulation of home builders
The Attorney General’s Office says Katrina fraud cases are tapering off, but complaints are becoming more common in other parts of the state. Cases referred to the attorney general’s Consumer Protection Division decreased almost 39 percent from 2007 to 2008, when 423 cases were reported... “We feel like as an industry that it’s hard to understand,” said Marty Milstead, executive vice president of the Mississippi Home Builders Association. “For heaven sakes, you have to take a test to drive a car. You have to have insurance to drive a car, but not to build a house.”

Evaluators say county's building department is improving
More than two years after Beaufort County's Building Codes Department came under fire for overlooking defective roof supports in almost 700 Sun City Hilton Head homes, the department is turning itself around, according to an organization evaluating it...County Administrator Gary Kubic brought in IAS in late 2007 to review the building department after news surfaced several months earlier that trusses -- wooden frames that support the roof and secure it to the home's walls -- were defective. The trusses weren't fastened together securely enough with metal plates and nails or they had too few wooden cross beams to provide adequate bracing. Such defects could have allowed the roofs to fly off in extreme winds, experts said.

Local homeowners accuse builders of deceptive trade
Bill and Connie Consentino thought they were getting a good deal on a Pulte home in the age-restricted Solera community in Anthem. The incentive package for financing through the builder's mortgage lender included free upgrades, new appliances, landscaping and payment of Local Improvement Districts, or money used to pay for neighborhood infrastructure. The complaints call attention to sales and lending practices of some of the nation's largest public homebuilders, including Pulte Homes, KB Home and Lennar Homes, and their affiliated mortgage companies, Alliance spokeswoman Denise Martin said.

Homebuyers File Complaints Against Nation’s Largest Corporate Homebuilder Alleging Deceptive Practices
Nevada homebuyers today called on the Nevada Attorney General to take action on complaints of deceptive sales and lending practices by Pulte Homes Corp., the nation’s largest corporate homebuilder, and by several other builders. Eighteen homebuyers have filed complaints alleging false statements and concealing of important information in violation of Nevada’s consumer protection law. The complaints highlight the role corporate homebuilders played in the housing boom, bubble and bust that led to America’s economic crisis. Pulte and other builders misled homebuyers about the deals they were getting and pushed them into unfair and deceptive mortgages, all the while continuing to buy land and build homes despite clear signs that the housing market was unsustainable.