Lennar Reviews in Bakersfield, CA

The whole buying experience was easy. The home came with everything already upgraded which was the main reason we purchased the home. We didn’t feel like we had to compromise with a lower end package (carpet/tile/ cabinets). Thanks Lennar

Beautiful home at a great price. The quality in the workmanship not so good. I’ve only lived in my newly built home a month & have had to call to make a claim multiple times. Luckily there is a warranty & Lennar is pretty fast with addressing the issue & sending someone out to fix the problem.

Helpful and patient with the entire home process

Mostly a positive experience but disappointed in craftsmanship in some areas.

What can I say my second purchase from Lennar really enjoy my home and the parks,neighborhood that why I bought in the area again

Overall good experience. Delayed in construction made us accrue unexpected and additional cost that we were not expecting to pay. Price of house was higher than comparable properties in other developments. However, team has been very responsive and helpful to any issues after moving in.

Should have a higher quality in the workmanship however these communities are built fast so this was not a huge surprise. Nail pops throughout the house and cracks in most window frames. Given the aesthetic issues we are overall pleased with the purchase of the home. Financed through lenses lender which made the process seamless.

Everytime request repair have go to online, take a while, tile crack can't get repair, blame homeowners.

Lack of communication. Short on customer service.

We've been here for like month, so far we love the house. Some concerns with the electrical. We called Jason, but it takes time for the electrician to come and fix the issue. Some hardwares not yet installed.

The overall design and architectures are perfect for most of the models. The home buying experience with Lennar team was good and smooth process. However there are some areas that really need improvement regarding the quality and finishing of products. 1) Lowest level paint (Flat provided). You have to do it all from scratch on a new home. 2) Stucco outside already has cracks on it on new home on many walls outside. They can’t do anything even with warranty. 3) Quality of fence outside is very bad. Already degrading on new home. Apart from the above things customer service is good. Architecture Designs are roomy and well thought of. If you ignore the couple things. Overall good homes. ... More

The process of buying the Home was well documented and good. Workmanship: Overall, it is good, with some issues here and there; nonetheless, the response to issues has been good. The Sun Panels are not placed in the ideal location to maximize energy harvesting on my property. Neighboring property shadow fails over panel starting from 6 PM. I still can’t determine how that will impact panel performance once they are activated. I wish they have placed sun panels on both sides of my roof rather than compacting them all in one location. Fridge: The fridge location in the Kitchen could have been better. The fridge doors can’t open completely, so some drawers as well. Material: The material is decent; nonetheless, model units have superior material, which is deceiving to customers. Painting: The property wall painting is at the basic level; therefore, it is tough to clean them. This requires customers to add another layer of painting to the walls. Bathroom: The model Unit bathrooms have a complete set of towel rails and holders. My property only has towel hooks. Security System: The model units have a security system installed. The new models don’t have that, nor would your home insurance company provide them anymore. Floor: Property floor colors might vary from those shown in Model units. Conclusion: Lennar is the largest home builder in the US for a reason. They build quality homes with great incentive plans to help customers close on properties and lower interest rate. Lately, Lennar seems to be selling properties at higher sales prices with lower amenities to save and compensate for the rising build material costs. ... More

Way too many issues to list. Cabinetry in the kitchen issues with wrong colors and measurements. entire walls out of square, poor trim, finished carpentry and paint work done through the entirety of the house. Spaces with wrong measurements. Poor quality control. Every single trade’s work is really poor. Not surprised about the trades quality at all, I’m surprised about Lennar’s poor quality control. Now all there is to do is patch work. Unsatisfactory.

Be prepared to "be on your own" , as I was told after I had moved in, papers signed, and asking questions about some very confusing things ( wi-fi, what and where certain things are, including instructions). Good thing this isn't my first house. But, I am in a "learning mode" with special circumstances. I would buy it again, because of the people you "meet" thru the process, which was smooth and painless. No regrets. And survived the "earthquake" with absolutely no damage. The only thing I would change is making the garage bigger and insulate it. Most of the locks, and dead bolts were not installed properly. Read the solar agreement carefully! The last power outage, there was NO power available for "backup". I think that should change, to be true solar energy efficient. ... More

We really love the house, but our experience ended up being very rushed as our house was scheduled to close the day of Lennar’s fiscal year end. We have cracking on our spare bathroom sink that we did not notice on the buyer walk, we were told there is nothing that can be done and it isn’t covered because we could have caused the damage ourselves. It’s in our third bathroom that we just started decorating and haven’t even started to use. There are quite a few gaps in the cabinetry that we were told is “as designed” which is pretty odd. I worked at a store that sold cabinets for about 7-8 years and I’ve not seen wide open gaps in the bottom like that. Overall, the house is nice, just feel we shouldn’t have to put more of our money into it to get what we feel we should have from the start. ... More

Check inside refrigerator, how crisper drawer pulls out. Check how manual slider lock in garage was installed. Check your microwave above stove - can you see how it’s cooking. Short people can’t see what is going on.

Being that we spent over half a million. Things felt rushed. Materials used were cheap. Lots of mess ups that after we move in aren’t covered. Bathroom shower tile is horrible. Master shower casing is losing its color. When you do a walk through and only thing you hear is I have another appointment I have another appointment we got x amount of time left. Process was just the worse. Still don’t have proper doors and other main fixtures for the house. Nightmare! For the amount of money this should of been a non rushed professional set up process. Instead it was I got get my numbers process

They are extremely lazy and slow after purchasing home we had issues with windows and kitchen layover they are never fixed extremely bad customer service and extremely bad repair issues

The overall homebuying process was one of the most stressful and unpleasant things I've ever been through... That being said, we'd do it all over again. We originally went into contract in 10/2021. Our purchase was contingent on the sale of our (at the time) current residence. Lennar made us agree that we would close on the sale of our current home by the beginning on 12/2021 in order to move into our new (Lennar) home in 1/2022. We held up our end of the contract, they did not, and as time went on it was very clear everyone knew there was no way the home would be done by then. Our family was left without a place to live until the end of 5/2022, when we moved in. We were told to "just stay with family" or "find temp housing". Both my husband and I are from other parts of the state/country with no local family and temp housing that accepts pets was very costly. Lennar agreed to reimburse us for the difference between the temp housing and our new house payment, but that still would have required us to front the nearly $20k+ it would have cost. Title was THE WORST. Their emails were rude, they were VERY unresponsive and they weren't always completely honest. We were passed along to 3 different sales agents and I was never really sure who was calling/texting me - That being said, Amy, Victoria and Amanda (who I spoke to the majority of the transaction) were all very nice and patient with me. The only way we could get reasonably accurate time frames/updates was to come to the homesite and speak to the construction team - I have nothing but positive things to say about Russ, Shane and Jason. We were the first ones in this series to move-in (so they're still out here building) and they are still super helpful when we have questions, minor fixes, etc. Ultimately, we found out we recorded at 5:09pm on the final day of closing... the day our rate lock expired. Needless to say, by the time they called me, I was in tears. We were told via phone we closed and given a lockbox code so we could come to the home and let ourselves in. No gift basket, no welcome note, nothing I expected from a company as esteemed as Lennar. In fact, to date, I've never met any of our sales agents. In the end, Lennar is reimbursing us for the cost of our movers and storage, they credited us $2300 on the purchase of the home and they covered the first 5 business days of gas/electric/water services. In the end, we LOVE our home. The craftmanship is better than we expected from a tract builder, the finishes are beautiful and we LOVE our new neighborhood. We're within walking distance of 3 really nice parks, with a very large soccer/baseball complex going in as we speak. Even if we knew how awful the experience would be before going into contract, we still would have moved forward with the purchase because we are so in love with our new home/neighborhood. ... More

One do not use lennar mortgage they are terrible!!!! I know they say you'll save money that way, but your sanity will pay for it!!! The overall build wasn't bad, but their tile contractor did a terrible job in the master shower. You can't even drive a uhaul no matter the size onto the driveway because the concrete is so thin!! They didn't put a man door in the garage and to close off the garage even more they put the big ol tankless hot water heater on the inside!! Terrible idea!! This is the last lennar home I will buy ever!!!

Very beautiful home in a beautiful area. We had everything we needed in order on our end so there was very minimal headaches the first couple of months we waited for the home to be built. Last three weeks went completely down hill. Apparently a certain part we needed for our hood vent was not available and this prevented us from moving in, according to Lennar. From the beginning, I said I don’t care about the hood vent. Just give me the home and you can figure it out after. No can do said their sales staff, it’s impossible to close without this ”critical part” because the city with not allow it. I was patient for about three weeks and our closing date came and went. Once we missed our second closing date, that’s when I began calling at least once a date for updates. At this time, the sales staff seemed to go out of their way to make this as frustrating as possible. From them not communicating within themselves, to missed deadlines, not returning phone calls etc. it was clear they had no idea what the construction side was doing. When I called, to tell them that I had young kids in school, and renters moving in on our current home and we had to move out, that did not motivate them to move any quicker. They still dragged their feet and seemed ti be enjoying it. All due to a missing part on an exhaust fan!! I finally called the called the city of Shafter to ask why they will not sign my building off with one trivial part missing and guess what? The city of Shafter said that was ridiculous and stated had Lennar shown them the building with one trivial part missing, they would’ve signed at once with the exception that Lennar return after we moved in and finish whatever they needed to finish. The tone of the city, was just as incredulous as I was. After that we were able to move in within the week with the week with the fan still not complete, but happy with our home regardless, which is what I asked for from the beginning. The one thing that the sales team said was "not possible “ was completed by me with one call. All due to a missing part on an exhaust fan!! It’s been about a month since we moved in and the Lennar sales team still hasn’t been able to get their whole team to finish the fan and we still are getting the runaround. But we don’t care because the home is ours. I can’t help but wonder, if I didn’t make a simple phone call, if they would have been still playing games? Absolutely! All due to a missing part on an exhaust fan!! ... More

Overall. 3/5. House quality seems like they just wanted to push these houses out. Freezer has been inoperable since day 1. Havnt been able to et fixed or replaced. Followed all recommended steps from Lennar team to get fixed. Point blaming between builder and appliance company. Master closet shelving collapsed on itself first week of puttting clothes on it. Carpet nails sticking up at edges of liners. “Was told to step over nails” I’m like “I have kids” I can’t even get them stop running around the house let alone try and tell them to never step over nails sticking out of the carpet. Tried to get me to sign DocuSign documents on incomplete tasks. DO NOT LET THEM PRESSURE YOU INTO SIGNING ANYTHING! ... More

I was excited to be buying a lennar home but i was disappointed with not being able to choose the elevation of the home. our house was a moonlight skye series and its all white it makes no sense that lennar would do this the house looks unfinished. Also during the walkthrough there were so many things wrong with the house due to the construction team building these houses too fast and sloppy. the sale agents were awesome though very nice and helpful its just the craftsmanship of lennar thats quite horrible and now my family has to live with these flaws for a long time.

My experience with Lennar. Is very poor and disappointing. First I talk to the builder Lance about my sod water unit and I also talked to the Plummer that installed it before the plumbing went up. And told them I had a soft water unit they said it was going to be ok. And it was addressed and I had the system removed from my old home and brought down to the new house and they couldn’t install it because they never installed a bypass because the house has fire sprinkler, the workmen shop is very poor they have to keep coming out to repair issues, they installed carbon monoxide sensor. But they installed it wrong to far from the smoke detector and and 180 degrees, the carpet mail stripe they installed i the stairs we keep on hitting them down with a hammer when we get poked, the power outlets don’t have them in an some areas. Also if we use a few things it the kitchen the breaks pops. Because they are tided together in the same circuit. The house is bigger than my old house but there’s fewer places to store things in it. No medicine cabinets i any of the restrooms. Also another concern. You build i this house to save energy but you installed a A/C unit and condenser that run on 240 volts. The house has some nice things and I love the layout. But just the quality is very poor. I don’t recommend or see my self buying another Lennar built home again ... More

We were promised a bigger backyard with a brick wall for our home. We originally were going to purchase a different lot that was cheaper, but were offered our current home because the backyard was bigger. Of course, you would have to pay a bit more for a bigger lot. Come one week before closing, right during our walk through, they told us that our backyard would have a slope fence. Imagine our perplexed face when they literally told us this one week before closing. They still had the nerve to tell us, you can still back out on the house if you are not satisfied. Okay lady, yea let me just live in the streets while I find another home. Had this been mentioned months earlier, we would at least actually have a realistic opportunity to back out on the purchase. We were very adamant about having our backyard that we paid more for done correctly. But no, they completely ignored our request. Very dishonest and untrustworthy, sneaky people. So now our backyard’s width has 3 feet of unusable space. That may seem little, but when you already have a ridiculously small back yard, 3 feet makes a huge difference. The cherry on the top of all of this was during our one month walk through. The lady apparently thought it would appropriate to say “So has the backyard grown on you?” Who does that?! Overall, we are very dissatisfied with our experience. ... More