Lennar Reviews in Riverside San Bernardino, CA

We moved in to our home on August 29, 2023. From the time of the 1st walk through, it was a rough go. There were many things to be fixed which is to be expected. What wasn’t expected was the way things were handled. We were told we had to sign off on the home which acknowledged that everything was good. When we said we would not sign off without putting some type of comments stating the items needing to be fixed, we were told we can’t do that and if we didn’t sign, then escrow would not close on time. Within the next week, many of the small items were fixed but the large items remained unresolved and continue to be to this day almost two months later. Some of our “major” fixes are the primary bath tub, the kitchen sink, the primary bath shower grout and the air conditioning. Here is an overview of our experience on these items. - The primary tub had a chunk broken out of it. We had to fight hard to get a new tub as we were told it would only be fixed, not replaced. When you pay this much money for something new, you should get a new item, not a repaired one. After it was repaired to our dissatisfaction the first time, it was ultimately replaced with a new one. - The kitchen sink had a small dent in the front. We were told the same story as the tub ie fixed, not replaced. After many discussions, missed appointments, and attempts, it was finally replaced on October 11. - The wrong grout was put into the Primary bath shower. We have yet to hear anything on this even though we have asked for updates several times. This is a very disappointing situation as we paid thousands extra for large tile and the installation of this tile. The pattern virtually disappears because the grout is white on white tile. The only resolution given to us by the designer before escrow closing was to stain the grout. We did not want our main bath to look like an after thought as we know staining this is not the correct solution. When asked why they don’t cut the grout out and replace it, we were told because they may chip the tile. The thought of this whole thing has physically made me sick. I have never used my main bath shower as a result. - The air conditioning. This is probably the most upsetting and alarming situation of all. When we did the walkthrough, we said we didn’t think the A/C was functioning properly. We were told it would be checked. On the second walk through, we brought it up again and told it was checked and functioning properly. After we moved in, we reported it again and we’re told it was checked including checking each register to ensure the air was coming out at the proper temperature. We knew it wasn’t working properly since we had rooms in the house that were hot and others that were freezing. Since Lennar considered this item closed in their books, we spent almost $200 out of our pocket to have an air conditioning company come out to check the system. Bottom line - there were 2 code violations, it was low on refrigerant, the units are undersized and installed backwards. We forwarded the report to Lennar who said they would send their A/C company out again. After Lennar’s second review, they acknowledged that everything the independent A/C company cited is correct. The code violations were fixed and refrigerant added; however he said he needed to get with his boss to discuss the remaining issues. It appears the A/C units were installed correctly but were designed wrong! The 3 1/2 ton unit is servicing the primary bedroom and bath, and the 1 1/2 ton unit is servicing the remainder of the house. This explains why the master is always freezing no matter how high we set the thermostat. A couple of the other rooms are hot no matter how low we set the thermostat. We still have no word from Lennar on how or when this problem will be fixed. The more alarming part is, you have many other homes in this development with the same problem as there are at least 6 or 7 other homes of this same model. Needless to say, this has not been a happy experience for us. Moving during the best of scenarios is one of the top three stressful things you can do in your life. Lennar does a good job of selling you on the front end but a very poor job through the process and delivering on the back end. ... More

The bathroom in the master bedroom is leaking to the first floor, the walls are also flawed, the vegetable sink is also leaking, the bathtub is scratched and I will not be repaired, the steps of the front door are cracked, the glue on the floor leather joints on the first floor is leaking, and the alarm inside the doorbell does not make a sound. The experience is too bad for people to handle the maintenance. I hope someone can help to solve it.

My experience has been difficult especially with Lennar Mortgage and Allen at sales office has been amazing and is trying but could have done better. They don't realize we are deaf and required accessibility at home but not willing to work with us to ensure our home equip with, so we have to pay extra which is not fair as hearing customers have those all set included while we deaf have to buy equipment to go with. That's really annoying. Builder and office need to be sure they're sync as their floorplan are different than office shows so it's a problem when i noticed errors when they built my house. Offices need to ahead with TV/Internet services once they open new homes here, so they have time to survey and set up ready for us move in especially I'm working at home remotely so that caused me a week missed job due to no internet services. That's really stress me the whole week searching services but had to go with one for now till Frontier to get availability hopefully July 1st and hopefully to buy out the termination fee from current to frontier as my job requires 1 gig whereas my current is only 250 mbps so not great one. It's frustrated. I feel that they owe me for that termination fee as soon as frontier completed and availability in July or so. They said pls complete QR and asked me to call with virtual video. I was like duh I'm deaf so i cannot use virtual while I'm using my relay service as interpreter to call. I called and said I'm deaf so no way I can use that kind of technology. They need to do better when it comes down to deaf customers!! I've been with Wells Fargo Home Mortgage for 20 years and 38 years in mortgage industry. I've work with several builders similar as this Lennar. Honestly, they are way much better than this one. I however do love my house than my old house. Through they could do better. I'll be working on ring system that was given to me a box to set up. I was like oh boy we are deaf and not sure if it's requiring for us to hear which is a joke and insult us as customer. They could provide a better one for deaf clients! Overall, I'm giving C to office and D to mortgage which is the worst I've ever had. ... More

Not satisfied with purchase or with help on getting set up on my new home. They promised you the world . After you close escrow your on your own!!!!!

This was our second time purchasing a Lennar home. However, their “everything’s included” motto is no longer, it’s especially disappointed since the price was double than our first home. Sellers agent was a terribly difficult to work with and made the buying experience unpleasant.

If you buy a house and there are issues with it lennar will try to blame you for it. And since there are issues with it obviously they didn't do a good job on it.

Quality control is severely overlooked and non existent. Very disappointed in the process.

If I didn't have an amazing Realtor this would have been an even worse experience. My best advice is really do your research on materials because the options they provide (carpet,tile etc)never look the same once installed. I will be having many things replaced (windows and doors) some things were just thrown together in the build. Better communication with their lender would also improve the process

House defect include: unfinished dry wall, recess not working and solar system still not working after many attempts to fix it. It had to take time off work to wait for contractors that do not show up. Just terrible.

We had issues with our walkthroughs and continue to have issues almost 2 months after closing. Each walkthrough, construction issues were not addressed and more issues were created due to sloppy workmanship. We had a confrontation with the construction supervisor, Rob, and then he called the salesperson, Allen, while we were in the office to yell and cuss him out for allowing us into the home that we had already put money down. A crack in our kitchen cabinet was addressed multiple times and the same crack continues to come back because it was somehow caulked rather than replacing the cabinet. After closing, we put in a work order to have the cabinet replaced, the cabinet vendor came out not prepared and we continue to wait for a response. After closing, we discovered a crack in the granite countertop, that our customer service rep, Alex stated is not covered under the warranty. We let him know that we had not even moved into the house so there was no way we created that damage. He took a look at the crack and said it didn't look like there was negligence our part because of the odd place the crack was in. He would have to speak with his supervisor, but we have not heard anything back. ... More

Everything started well, but there were issues at our 1st walk through that were never addressed. Windows and sliding doors were not aligned, chips in paint, chips n bath tub, chip in flooring. By second walk through things were still not fix Mark said check it off so you close and we will come fix any remaining issues…… Not the case the process to submit tickets is terrible and the follow up was worse. The biggest issue wears an electrical breaker was going off at the walk through. I identified it and asked for it to be investigated, at the second walk through the only fix was that the breakers was reset, then tripped again. The electrician was called and the wire was fried, he stated it was a big fire risk and good thing we didn’t keep resetting the breaker. He was to update the build and that never took place. Spoke to mark 4 weeks after close to follow up and he said put a ticket in even though the original ticket was never closed. It was finally fix, my wife and I felt dismissed because now that we closed our concerns are not priority once the money is transferred. After closing, comes to find out mortgage company didn’t complete the final credit check and closed without it. This is added unnecessary stress for anyone. Builder mix up mail box keys, we received keys of our neighbors box, this was confirmed by the post office. There are many gaps in processes from loan process, to building, and customer service. Do better for the incoming homeowners ... More

Home buying experience was OK, but Lennar Mortgage was pathetic. Being a first time buyer I expected a lot from Lennar.

I closed escrow in July 2021. I expected quality for the price of the house and for having Lennar as the builder. But staying in the house for few months now brought me a lot of disappointments. The granite in our kitchen countertop absorbs water and now stained with oil after it was claimed to be sealed by Brandon from quality control dept., and even after I sealed it before use. I spoke to Brandon about the issue, and I was told that it will be adressed, but I have not heard anything yet until now. Brandon said that maybe because the granite has been stored for a long period of time before it was used is the reason why it absorbs water easily and is already stained. But I don’t think that there is any excuse for not assuring the quality of anything before putting everything together in this house. The shelves and brackets in master’s closet also fell apart after we hanged clothes. As per Brandon, there should only be maximum weight to be placed, which was never mentioned ever. And I don’t think that good quality will break easily. I wish IBrandon said that it is how they make standard closet and I can always upgrade using another company if I want a better quality. Too bad, I thought Lennar has the quality I was looking for. For the repaint and drywall touch ups, I was scheduled for a certain day and when I was making sure to get it done by the scheduled date, Adrianne from builder’s choice snapped at me and told me that I am not the only client. Then the appointment should be more than a day and was managed prior, for me to plan my days as well. Now, for the repaint of my front door and doorstep, the door should have been painted entirely, but it appears that there is no touch up in the bottom area. which is very obvious and frustrating to look at. and for the doorstep, the paint dripped underneath, and now stained the stucko. Which i need to call quality again for. In my backyard, the planter looks weird. It wasn’t straight all the way and the sprinkler switch is the in the middle of nowhere. Brandon said that it was how it was disigned and approved by the builder. Which is confusing because both of my neighbors doesn’t have a planter. Anyway, I got the planter corrected on my own since quality dept will not do it for me in order to show quality. ... More

Loan processor asked for the same docs over and over again. The worst materials used. I’m still having issues and currently I’m without heating and AC.

I had a great experience with our Lennar realtor but unfortunately did not have a good experience with the loan officer we used by Lennar. We do love our house and understand things happen while building BUT Lennar should do a better job with communicating. We have been contacting them for months to have our block wall fixed (which is detached from the wall and is becoming a hazard) and we’re promised the company would call…months later nothing still. We have had to put in two orders to get it fixed and text the manager in charge and have not received a response. The lack of communication with this company is pretty disappointing. ... More

Constant threats of losing your deposit even though they didn't approve you and sends you to another place to get approved very sketchy. They approve you even though you cant actually afford a property to make a sale. The house itself was way overpriced for the area in what you actually get, no fans anywhere in the home and all bedrooms don't even have lights wtf is that. A bunch of damage that was identified through the walkthroughs that still have not been fixed and its been 3-4 months already. They leave you with a dirt backyard no grass or anything and left a BUNCH of construction trash throughout the backyard. Ive bought 2 homes before this and by far the worst experience I've ever had but hey they got the sale they wanted. Walkthrough guy was dale, made a bunch of promises to fix things and never does. ... More

The paint job that was done in the kitchen and restrooms were of poor quality. Paint was splattered all over the floor and globs of paint were dropping on the wall. The construction didn't seal holes from the deck causing a lot of bugs to come inside the house, especially a huge trail of ants the first 2 weeks we moved in. When we did the inspection of the home prior to moving in to fix any mistakes, they missed it of what we marked off. They were supposed to fix all the mistakes but only did about 70% of them. The information we received from our agent was inaccurate as well. Overall, for the new construction, and price being paid, we still had to spend 3 days painting the entire house because it came with flat paint which no one wants to live in a house with flat paint due to stain and scuff marks, and the quality of mistakes made, it was a really disappointing experience and purchase. ... More

No . Disappointed about services care team of Lennar.

The worst experience one can have, bought this house for more than $1M and the quality of the house is extremely low. The customer service and warranty services are disaster, vendors takes months and months to even address the issues those have posted even prior to closing the escrow. I have purchased houses through other builders and I could see a big difference in the quality. If you can't make it right in the first place then at least try to be customer obsession and insisting on the higher standard but providing great customer service to make it out as warranties. Call me if you really wanna to know more to improve ... More

Don’t want to say anything

Poor floor quality no happy with first floor material

Issues began the first day we moved in. Within the month we’ve lived here we have had a major water leak. Slow response times to fix the issue. The items we discussed in the walkthrough were not fixed and our move in day was awful because of it. We are even considering legal action at this point because the leak was brought up in the inspection and lennar breached its contract by lying to us and telling us it was fixed and addressed when it clearly wasn’t. Do not recommend this company to anyone and this seems to be a similar issue with our neighbors. Really disappointed wish we could take it back and go with another builder. ... More

Can’t believe Lennar would want me to reiterate the nightmare of an experience home buying at Willow Springs has been. Fraudulent actions on so many levels, and a home that has had numerous issues within the first week of moving in. Non responsive customer service department. Love the location, but absolutely shocked at the multitude of issues upon move in, and the fact that they are still unresolved six weeks later!

The quality of the materials and workmanship very poor.

Poor response to issues and takes to long to find someone how can respond you hear excuses like is not my job I agree but you should know one who supposed to help I am very disappointed off your professional response