Lennar Reviews in Riverside San Bernardino, CA

The underwriting process is a bit extra.

We are now going on for five months since we have move to our new house and so far we have two toilet bowls that have clogged. This is just for regular use, object was put in, just regular use and appropriate toilet materials. I suspect the toilet bowls are the cause.

My experience in purchasing Skyborne unit was a mix of satisfaction and frustration. While the overall quality of the house was satisfactory, there were several areas where improvements could have been made to enhance customer satisfaction. One of the minor yet notable issues was the placement of the garbage disposal button under the sink. It seemed like a small inconvenience at first, but in practice, it became an annoyance in daily use. Simple adjustments in its placement could have significantly improved the user experience. Another aspect that could have been better was the provision of extra doors for the bathroom. Adding an additional door would have provided more privacy and convenience, especially for larger households. Additionally, the lack of extra space for storage in the bathroom was a missed opportunity. Incorporating more storage solutions would have been appreciated and made the space more functional. One major disappointment was the absence of an EV charger, despite the recommendation to install solar panels. This oversight was particularly frustrating as it left us unable to fully utilize our environmentally friendly energy source. It's essential for builders to consider the complete package when making such recommendations to consumers. Furthermore, the placement of the AC compressor right outside the living room, directly under the water pipe, was a significant oversight. During rainy weather, water pouring down from the pipe posed a risk to the compressor and created potential safety hazards. This could have been easily avoided with better planning and consideration of placement. Overall, while the house met our basic requirements, there were missed opportunities for improvement that could have elevated the overall experience. With a little more attention to detail and consideration for customer needs, the buying experience could have been much more satisfying. ... More

Please give your new customers very concrete explanations about your portal very carefully. And no mistakes in handling documents.

Make sure the house key is properly rekeyed before they hand over, they don’t care much once the closing is done. They focus on selling new homes only all the time.

Choosing upgrades with Lennar is a joke. For example floor upgrading means paying extra for having tile for areas where make sense to have tile, but Lennar standard is carpet. The interior designer who works with Lennar in my case have not finished installing my window shutters at the time that I'm writing this review (moved in 3 months ago). The quality of the shutters is low since they usually ordered from Mexico to reduce the cost. They have a contract with a local shutter provider which are not responsive to any emails and phone calls. They already send the installer twice with defective, wrong, or missing shutter panels. I'm still waiting for a missing part to come from Mexico. I was expecting to have them all installed before my moving. Lennar agent said the designer for their own reason doesn't do that. But the designer agent said Lennar doesn't allow us to install the shutters before moving. The first time that I used my bathtub, I got a leak and they had to sent people to fix the leak, drywall, carpet, .... The issue was that the plumber missed fully tighten the bathtub drain. I wish Lennar would have paid more to someone to check the plumber work. In the past 3 months I also experienced other minor electrical and plumbing issues too. ... More

I was excited about my home purchase with Lennar, however I became locked into a solar lease contract despite signing documents to purchase the solar system from Sunnova. I have sent numerous emails and text messages trying to get the issue sorted out and no one from Lennar sales or Lennar mortgage has reached out to me with a response to hear my concerns about this very expensive oversight in my paperwork. For the price I paid for this home I am bummed out about the aftercare customer service I’ve received. If anyone from Lennar is reading this I’d hope to receive a reply. Thank you.

We’ll breakdown this review into 4 areas Lennar Sales, Lennar Title Services, Building Team, and Warranty. This review is for the Dolce Homesite Lennar Sales (Eileen and Carla) - Our first Dolce sales office experience was with Anastasia and she was great. She took the time to go over the features, explain things, and even took us around the Dolce neighborhood to show us properties and amenities. Her customer service, positive attitude, really sold us on the Dolce community. Sadly, Anastasia wasn’t working at the Dolce location when we came back to start the sales process a couple months later. We ended up having to “deal with” Eileen and her “empty-suit” of a supervisor named Carla. This is where we experienced the most grief. Eileen showed disdain for us from the beginning the moment she learned we had a real estate agent representing us and that we had our own financing. We later learned that those two things typically mean Lennar makes less profit because you aren’t financing through them and less commission potential for Eileen because portion has to go to our agent. After viewing the model we were interested in, we went back through the sales office to exit. We were rudely excused to leave the office to “go grab lunch to work it out” because apparently Eileen didn’t want to listen to my wife and me talk about the house and options were were considering and our financing plans. This visit was in the middle of the week and sales office was empty. Apparently we were a bother to her. This was the tone we experienced from Eileen during the whole sales process. We even tried to escalate to her supervisor Carla who also refused to talk to us other than to say keep her cc:d on emails. When we were done, we had over 200 emails. A large number of those emails being because Eileen’s refusal to answer simple/direct questions, refusing to respond, and laying blame on other Lennar departments. Dealing with her was excruciating and stressful. She exhibited the same unprofessional behavior towards us, our agent, our lender, and even Lennar Title personnel. It’s hard to believe that Lennar has this person as the “face of their company” in the sales office. It was also disappointing that her supervisor Carla refused to participate/engage in any discourse throughout the entire process. We left voicemails for Carla and sent her multiple emails seeking help to intervene that went unanswered. If we didn’t love the house we would have walked away from the deal at this point. Lennar Title Services (Vickie)- Yes! finally some adults in the room. We decided to use Lennar title. They were great through the whole process and worked hand in hand with our lender to get our deal done. They kept Eileen to task who kept trying to place blame/responsibility on the title department for items Lennar Sales should have handled. Their professionalism and customer service helped make this a special moment and kept us from walking away from the deal due to all the frustrations with Eileen. Building Team (Jerry) (pre closing)- he’s a personable guy and decent customer service, but delayed responses probably because he’s overwhelmed with the neighborhood buildout. Our Initial walkthrough was done before electricity was as turned on, there were surprisingly a large number of items we marked for correction, and a few we missed that we had to address via warranty claims post sale. Advice… be that person who goes over things with a fine tooth comb as there doesn’t appear to be great quality control during build. Feels like Lennar should have caught and corrected most of the items we called out during our walkthrough. Warranty (Jerry and various trade teams) - less than stellar. You aren’t a priority now that they have your money. Opening warranty claims is easy enough via their web portal, but it basically gets rerouted back to Jerry who has to engage the various trade teams (plumbing, drywall, counters, etc.). Feels like a second job having to send multiple reminder emails just to get an appointment for inspecting your claims and that is after you do a virtual inspection via phone call and picture submission. We are roughly 2 month living at the house and the majority of the items are still open unresolved. Advice..take your time and inspect EVERYTHING in great detail during your walkthrough. ... More

There was a lot of turnover of staff in the beginning which overall delayed our spot on the list to purchase. The floor model options were listed as options on all the paperwork, when it came down to being able to get a floor plan option they were no longer an option, specifically floor plan 2 converting the dining room to a suite. The cosmetic options were very limited (counters, backsplash, floor & window covers). The cabinetry is very cheaply made, definitely a low value. The home was built to be rushed, Lennar clearly focuses on quantity not quality. We had AC unit issues day 1 of move in. We have had electrical issues since day 1, the electrician even stated his crew did a poor job with grounding the lighting. Some items we pointed out during the walk through are still issues today. We have not heard any updates on when the garage doors will arrive. George is very friendly for the walk through being overly stating he could stop by later to quickly adjust/fix things if needed. Nobody ever mentioned that you have to submit a fix it ticket request via Lennar portal and wait several days/weeks for issues to get taken care of. We are still waiting on the electrician now that half our lights aren’t working in the house. Overall I would never buy or recommend a Lennar built property. ... More

We were left in the dark for weeks as they pushed back our closing date several times. We tried getting a hold of Corina multiple times on several different occasions but she ignored all our calls, voicemails and emails. The home itself is beautiful but are now having issues with leaks and things missing. The customer service person - chris- also completely ignores all the calls, voicemails and txts. Only when we complain he comes around and still doesnt actually get anything done. Rick was great to work with and we know he did his best. Brian the builder is amazing and so kind and helpful. This isnt our first home and not our first new build, this has not been the best experience. ... More

The sales team and home care team have been great. Beautiful home with minor issues after move-in that were taken care of quickly. The Lennar Mortgage is incredibly shady. Worked with the mortgage team for over eight months. Terrible communicators with even worse work ethics. Tried to take our house back at the last minute due to errors on their part that could have been solved but they refused to try to work with us. Forced to threaten legal action before we were heard and given a chance to find a new mortgage company less than 24 hours before we were to sign documents. Stay away from Lennar Mortgage at all costs. ... More

The Operations team constructing the house were more helpful than the Real estate transaction team. It should be the other way around.

The processing part itself was not bad. Although we closed a day late because they forgot to give us some papers to sign. Which, they did again a few weeks after we closed.Just a bit of lack of communication. Some of the major issues that were noted in the walk through looked like they were repaired by a 12 year old. They are still not fixed. Customer care guy told us to text him “not email “ him very specifically and so I did but there was never a response at all. I can’t wait until all my issues are fixed so I can just be done with Lennar to be honest.

I have paid for stickers to be posted on the bumper of my car to allow me to enter the community after 9 PM three weeks ago and still have not received them. When I ask Lennar representative I get no response. I also at direction of Lennar have requested planting few trees in front and backyards and have not received any response.

The purchasing process and getting the loan was great - except that I have learned from friends who I referred that additional purchasing options could have been shared. Specifically, a buy down option. When I received the keys I sat in front of the home waiting for my husband to walk in with me. While sitting there a man and a woman walked out of the home (obviously left unlocked). The man was tall, but nonetheless, I got out of my car and asked "what are you doing in my home. The man said he was my neighbor checking design features" I tried to report this to several people, but I was basically given a run around. I did not call the police because I did not get the license number of the matte blue tesla. Next - when we did our final walk through we were told that several items would be done before we moved in. The person replacing a window came in as we left. When we actually moved in, SEVERAL of those items were not addressed. In fact they still had tape on them from the walk through. We have been in the home over a month and we finally had someone come out. I have submitted the information on line, even contacted my HOA - who tried to help. I believe part of the issue is that somehow the wrong phone numbers have been put (transposed) in my Lennar account. I complained about this early on when my initial walkthrough was delayed because of 1 wrong number in my phone number. The phone number and/or contacting my by email or phone was never a problem during the financial phases of the purchase. There are also rough finishes on baseboards and paint drips/flecks around the house. ... More

Lack of assistant during sales transaction. Sales person's availability and timely response can be improved. Lack of follow up on questions.

Just make sure when you do your final walk thru, you have an extra person with a good eye to catch the imperfections that you do not see.

Moved in with some issues and also quality of the work are not really well

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was somewhat understandable that their office was limited interacting with their clients; however, it was very difficult getting to them for questions we had while trying to buy and close our house with Lennar. They were always late responding to our emails and phone calls. We had to try multiple times to get the answers we need in order to move on to the next step. During the last few days while closing the house, it was hard to contact them with questions and to find out the status of the closing process. After we moved into our new house, the customer service response to our service requests have been poor, delayed and frustrating. There were many issues we found at the time of final walk-through before we moved in, but only half of the list was repaired by the time we moved in. We found more and more items that required the repairs, but Lennar's response has been insincere and dishonest. They promised that all items we put into the repair list will be taken care of as soon as possible, but until today, they have only managed to repair few things on the list, i.e. 30% of the items in the list. We had to keep asking the same thing over and over until one or two items on the list get taken care of, then no response from Lennar customer service rep. Only a trickery and falsifying promise was given whenever we made requests for the repairs. In addition, the house has so many issues that need the repairs, we were so disappointed on the workmanship and the materials Lennar used to build the new house for the buyers. ... More

Landscaping is poor. No weed barrier on mow hill. Garage completed without a primmer coat, which is horrible. Trouble matching interior paints. Response time to have issues completed is sub-par. Sales team was amazing, huge props to Rosalie and Kathy.

We love the house itself. We were disappointed that Lennar only installed 1 outside hose spigot in the middle of the enclosed patio and also 1 "inside" of the garage. Both are difficult to use. We had to spend a lot of money to trench the side yard to install water to the back yard. The grading in the back was terrible and we, again, had to pay quite a bit to grade it before landscaping. Lots of small things were wrong and at first the response to fix them were quick, and now we just wait and wait until someone corrects other issues. There were problems in front parkway where water lines burst twice. The workers ripped out all the plants and as of yet have not replaced them. We've asked several times to have that taken care of, but no help there. Our air conditioner slipped out of housing in attic because it wasn't fastened correctly and had to be reattached, then the repair man noted that a lot of the ducts were not even sealed and he taped those for us. We have had several damaged windows and some have been replaced. Now have noticed a cut in the slider door. Also plaster is cracking around family room window and no response yet. Seems like a lot of small problems considering the amount of money charged for this home. We are a bit disappointed with overall quality. ... More

Need to slow down the construction a bit and put a little more pride in the build. After purchasing my home I began to see the “quick fix” repairs around the house. Also do a better job with the fencing. There are three different fences in the community. It looks tacky.

The home buying expereince was seemless except for the rate. The models are really and the home build quality looks extremely good. The support after we moved in was a bit okay and has room for improvement. What I hated the most in the home buying process is the sales rep said that they have interest rates specials but would quote different rates and would defer it to the lender. The lender quotes different rates to different people and when asked about matching the rate that my friend got, she asks me to check with the sales rep and they just blame each other and finally I had to go with a rate that was quoted to me. I wish they keep it consistent with the "specials" they provide. ... More

Within the first month had a leak in the home. Loan officer processed paperwork that was out dated

I have yet to receive any follow up from my original walkthrough from closing nearly two months ago. The response has been unacceptable.