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Complaint Review: pulte home reviews Centex Home Reviews - Nationwide

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pulte home reviews Centex Home Reviews Pulte Homes Reviews Centex Homes Reviews JIM ZEUMER JACQUE PETROULAKIS VALERIE DOLENGA Pulte homes REVIEWS Centex Home Reviews Jim Zeumer Jacque Valerie PETROULAKIS Bloomfield Hills Michigan

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I Recently bought a Centext home.  I bought it in a very nice neighborhood. Many home builders like to promote that they build Quality homes.  In most cases I believe that. But in my situation it's a little different. We bought the house we paid the asking price for the house.   Most of the Centext homes Look really good.  The previous owner had a bunch of cats in the house which pissed all over the carpet and we had to deal with the cat piss smell for sometime. The owner of the house was  the president and CEO of the dog food company. He lived in a house that smells like cat piss it was unbelievable.  

 
We decided to start removing the carpet Because we could no Longer tolerate the smell of cat piss. After removing the carpet we noticed that the concrete Did not look right.  It looked like somebody screwed up when they poured the original foundation for the house and realized that they didn't make the concrete slab wide enough to build the house on According to the blueprints. It looks like currently that the wall on the north side of the house is sitting on the concrete that was added to make the concrete wide enough for the house to be built on.
 
When we pulled up to tack strips that holds the carpet down, we noticed another situation. Whoever laid the carpet that we removed new there was a problem with the concrete because they could not use the normal size nails to hold the carpet tack strips down.  They used nails that were almost 6 inches long to hold the tack strips down to the concrete.  Normal nails that hold  tack strips down for carpet are less then a  inch long.
 
We started removing carpet from other rooms and found the same problem down below you will see pictures of the messed up concrete that didn't set properly with they built the Poured the concrete slab.   So I know that there's problems with the concrete slab in which my house was built on.  
 
I took some time and I contacted a few people executives at Centext / Pulte homes.  The first question that I got asked was how was the house I told him I know older than 15 years I'm sure that it's closer to 20.  They told me right out of the shoot that the concrete slab is only warranted for 10 years.  At this point we have to ask the shoddy craftsmanship on the slab is something that they don't give a s**t about ????
 
I ask myself I wonder about shoddy craftsmanship do they warrantee that or do they not warrantee that.  One lady at the companies corporate headquarters told me that I should blame the home building inspector.  The home building inspector did not build the house CENTEXT HOMES BUILT THE HOUSE !!!!
 
I am going to post as many pictures as I possibly can and as I rip out more carpet and I find more  shoddy craftsmanship I will come back to this report and post more pictures.  And if the companies corporate hotdogs listed below contact me and tell me they want to make it right I will stand up and defend them for doing the right thing. At that point I will post an update to my report and post pictures of what they've done to make it right. 
 
I'm not trying to encourage people to not buy their houses but what I would encourage the public to do is to make sure that you buy a house from them AFTER ALL of  the carpet has been peeled back so you can see what the slab looks like all the way around the perimeter of all rooms. If they refuse to do that refuse by the house.
 
And don't trust home inspectors they don't peel back the carpet to look and see if the concrete slab that your house is sitting on is shoddy craftsmanship
 
Jim I will see to it that you get to read this rip off report and if your company of Lex to make this right then I will update this report and not until.  I hope everybody gets to see these pictures and I hope that I can post as many as possible.
 
If you are having troubles with your Pulte or Centx home Please use the contact information below and do not be afraid to call them. Make sure that the house you are buying is truly quality built. And do not trust home inspectors because they do not find this kind of problem because they do not want to spend the time to look for it.  
 
And never be too quick to trust your realtor/agent make sure you get full disclosure or kick a*s.
 
This report will be updated if Jim decides to make sure that I have what I need to fix this.
 
 
 
thanks for sending the images.    As I said this morning, I do not know how much information will be available on a Centex home that may be 15 years old.  Further, I would expect that the feedback provided from the local office is correct in that the home is so far beyond the warranty period, I do not expect any actions will be taken.  I will, however, forward the images with your contact information just to confirm.

 

Jim

 

James Zeumer

Vice President, Investor and Corporate Communications

(O) 248-433-4502

(C) 248-613-8639

 
For general media and investor inquiries contact:
James Zeumer
Vice President, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications
248-433-4502
jim.zeumer@pultegroup.com

For media inquiries regarding PulteGroup, Inc.'s regional markets and division operations, contact:

Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington
Jacque Petroulakis
(o) 480-391-6169 
(m) 602-568-5165
jacque.petroulakis@pultegroup.com

Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
Valerie Dolenga
(o) 847-230-5266
(m) 773-633-5319
valerie.dolenga@pultegroup.com
 
They cant say they do not have the money to fix a home....
 
Giving credit where its needed.
 
Pulte Homes Inc. is buying Centex Corp. for $1.3 billion in stock in a deal that will create the nation’s largest homebuilder that caters to everyone from first-time homebuyers to grandparents looking to move into retirement communities.

The acquisition also will give Pulte large tracts of land in Texas and the Carolinas, two of the most resilient real estate markets, and a presence in 29 states and Washington, D.C.

The new company, which will include the Del Webb and Fox & Jacobs brand homes, will keep the Pulte name and headquarters in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. There will be an unspecified number of job cuts.

 

 

 

 

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