Lennar Reviews in Riverside San Bernardino, CA

This is my second Lennar home purchased, the first purchased before the collapse. I had hoped that the resilient economy and lessons learned from the past that the homebuilder is simply in the business of slamming up a bunch of houses without regard to customer experience. The home is very well designed, and the community is lovely, but from the framing to the wiring, to the plumbing, to the cabinets, doors, and windows, the labor used to construct and/or install finishes in this home are semi skilled at best. I am happy with my home, but know it will need to spend an additional tens of thousands of dollars addressing the builder defects. ... More

When we talked to the new home consultant, it was great. He was very straight forward and answered all our questions. During the first walk through, there were no power so we couldn't test the electricity. The oven was not working; the main bath vent/fan was not working. They were reported and during the second walk through, the oven still was not working; the fan worked but it was out of commission within two days after we moved in. Issues came up rapidly. Light switches not working, oven was still not working, fan/vent was not working. After I reported them, they really took their time to response. I still have outstanding issues that haven't been resolved. When the electrician came by to fix the light switches, even he said the connection were terribly done. Don't get me wrong, the house looks nice, but I am afraid to touch anything in there in fear that one more thing would fair to operate! ... More

Would have liked to have been better informed during the whole process. Structural and design changes were made during the building process that I wish would have been shared with us. Issues addressed were not completed by final walk through. A month into ownership, we feel that some issues were forgotten about.

The sales experience was easy and great! Many promises during walk through and signing- after that ghost town to any issues

Problems keep popping up at this house. We’ve been here five months and I’ve put in probably 15 work orders. The builder slapped this house together without attention to detail or quality control.

Repairs not taken care of as promised

I honestly purchased the home due to the location but was not happy and am still not happy with all the active repairs having to be completed due to negligence on the builders part. It honestly feels like they just slapped my home together.

Buying process was not horrible. Home has turned out to be built extremely poorly and needs lots of warranty work. Builder also decided to save money by not completing a retaining wall between the properties resulting in 15k in out of pocket expense to resolve eroding steep hill of dirt builder somehow got the city to sign off on. Stay away from Lennar if you want quality for your money.

We had nothing but radio silence and issues when we were actually going through the buying process with Lennar, however once we moved in, we were taken care of with nothing but white glove service. Anytime we had an issue, or had a repair needed, we were taken care of or fixed up within a week. Crazy to think they were the same company. If only everyone at Lennar operated like the on-site sales team. Thanks to George, Daniel and Klarissa!

First of all, my last name is incorrect. Even in this email for review. I sent at least 10 email and had 5 phone calls over this issue. Half of my paperwork has the wrong name. Same with my dad‘s name, it’s spelled wrong. Even on closing date to sign the docs for the title we had to go a second time, even then it was wrong. So we signed them with the name spelled wrong. After the closing, I still get emails, requesting documents. Even now after 2 months. It’s very unprofessional and annoying. We want to enjoy our home but we have issues after issues. This is my 3rd Lennar home, and thank god I did not expierence this level of unprofessionalism. I’m beyond disappointed with every step. There is much more but if you like to investigate further I’m happy to explain what we went thru. Thanks Zahra Kabir ... More

Going through Lennar for the mortgage got a better rate, but their people have no common sense. Totally aggravating. Closing was ok. Terrible follow up on punch list items. No call backs. Been in for over a month and they have disappeared, but still building across the street. I would not buy from them again.

Bought a brand new home. A/C already needed fixed. Took 2 weeks to get done and the temperature outside was in the 90s. Also, two months in, we STILL don’t have access to a mail box. Two outlets have stopped working in the kitchen. Solar panels have still not been activated when they said they should be. Overall, disappointed in my overall experience of buying a half a million dollar home.

Not happy at all return the house I would

The homebuying experience was rough. First, we were not allowed to use an agent, which made me feel at the mercy of Lennar when going through the process. Second, our home concierge was terrible. She would update us on the status of the house late in the night. On inspection day, the house was not ready and had to reschedule after we were already present at the appointment. Finally, they moved our closing date only a few days after were expected to close and put up a fight after we requested to close two days after the proposed closing date. The house is decent but the materials are cheap. The walls scratch easily, the fake vinyl floors are easily dented. Overall, I wasn’t satisfied with the experience. ... More

Our first homebuyer experience could have been much better had the sales team been much more responsive and kept us up to date on the status of the home. We missed out on the initial home we wanted due to the first sales person, Sheri, not responding to us in a timely manner. The sales person for the 2nd home, Corina, was very friendly once you were able to get ahold of her. After the contract was signed though, we only heard from her if we reached out several times with a question or concern. Even then, we sometimes had to reach out to other people to get an answer. Our closing date was missed as the builder did not provide the necessary items to escrow in a timely manner. We even had to provide documents to the escrow company ourselves as the sales person was not responding to the escrow team. When we picked up our keys we were advised there was an issue with our mail box which was being worked on. We got the run around from the post office and the builder on this issue and had mail and packages returned to sender for several weeks. We had to open a PO Box just be able to get our mail. We eventually got someone high up in the post office to respond to us and stated they had already been in contact with our sales person and was waiting on documents. After many weeks the sales person finally responded with what was needed to get this matter resolved. The home has been great but you can tell some of the construction team rushed thru some items such as the shower not being caulked properly and leaking, brand new lights in the house going out - even though they are supposed to last for many years, needing a new ac compressor after living in the home for only 2 months, the sprinkler system not being set up correctly and many of the plants dying. Although I will say the repairs have been done in a timely manner. ... More

First day in the house someone (from the looks of things most likely one of the workers on site) stole all the arc fault breakers out of my panel. First day welsome to your new home. Afte approaching Lenar, I was given the "Sorry Charlie get lost" Not much of a warm welcome is it. I spent $1400 of my own money to replace all breakers and have an electrician come out on an emergency call sfter hours. I think Lenar could have done a little bit more....

Had issues with the building team and the loan team that made the home buying process a living hell. There was not one sole person of contact on the building team that was responsible for communicating with me and getting issues pointed out at walkthroughs resolved. No one wants to do their job, no one is on quality control for the subcontractors, it’s been an absolute headache that has sucked all the joy out of being an owner of a brand new Lennar home, and I am moved in and still dealing with issues and can’t get an answer back on things. Several Lennar employees have told me “that’s not my job” when asked normal and reasonable things of them, and that sums it up perfectly. ... More

Low build quality, finding problems since day 1. A lot of relatively small issues but they build up and snowball. A lot of it can be avoided by putting in high quality work in the first place. Sales team and home rep are generally responsive but the same can't be said for their lender team.

While we are grateful to be in our new home, the purchasing experience was difficult and much more painful than it should have been. From the beginning, we were transparent with the sales agent, Mike, and we wanted to purchase in the community. Yet, we had to follow up with numerous emails and phone calls over a period of weeks to get the buyer's paperwork started. I'm convinced that the only reason his partner, Robyn, finally followed through is because they wanted to close the deal before the end of the calendar year. Despite not having been responsive themselves, they imposed fast deadlines before the EOY, so we were cramming to submit everything before the holidays. Once the purchasing paperwork was completed, we went through an even more problematic time working with Lennar Mortgage. The loan officer we were assigned, Javier, is even slower in responding and is entirely unprofessional. He would not respond to emails. Instead, he would call at inopportune times (e.g., 8 or 9 PM), not leave a voicemail, and send a text just saying "call me" with no context. Whenever we were able to connect on the call, he provided conflicting information between conversations. Hence, my husband and I stopped answering his calls and texts, demanding all correspondence be written via email. He ignored the request for written communications for quite a while. He continued to call, leave no voicemail, and text for a callback until I firmly (in bold, underlined, and capital letters so he couldn't miss it) said that communication would only continue if he responded in writing. Other examples of his unprofessionalism - (1) he tried to run our credit without informing us prior. We only found out after he texted us to say it was a failed attempt because we keep our credit frozen most of the time, (2) pulled our credit multiple times instead of the twice promised - once at the start and once before closing, (3) he would not respond for several weeks at a time (no auto-response) and when he finally did, said that he was sick or out of the office. We wanted to be diligent home buyers and set up a third-party inspector to report on the house. We asked about a (1) pre-drywall inspection and (2) pre-move-in inspection. We learned afterward (by physically visiting the neighborhood) that drywall had already been installed, and instead of notifying us of this fact, they just ignored our inquiry. When it came to scheduling our inspector before move in, we were told that we had to abide by their policy that the inspection must occur "within the five (5) days prior to the New Home Orientation" one day prior to the New Home Orientation, despite multiple email and phone call followups prior. Fortunately, they allowed us to schedule our inspection, but again, this was after so much time spent trying to abide by their policies after contacting them time and time again with no response. The last thing I want to call out, although an annoyance more than anything, is that our closing date was pushed up without notice; we just found out that we were closing when Mike reached out to ask if we would pick up our keys over the weekend. All of our paperwork and correspondence had pointed to the end of May, and we had maybe 72 hours notice before we actually closed. ... More

Wow, where do we start? When we actually stepped into the home, it was completely different than what we anticipated. One layout we received didn’t match on the AC units. We should have 2 and they insisted that we were only supposed to have 1 unit in a 2-story 3,000-square foot home. During the walkthrough process, some items were not completed and they still expected us to sign off as if they were completed. Very shady. We’ve been here about 6 weeks and have submitted multiple service tickets. It seems like we find a new issue every day. The communication between the loan officer and sales manager was very challenging. ... More

I had a horrible experience with purchasing my Lennar home utilizing Lennar Financial for the offered perks. I wish I would've just used my own funding as originally planned. I had zero communication from Lennar Financial - Leslie Ramirez and my out of pocket projecting closing costs were $5,000 under projected which was a huge inconvenience for me. The structure/home itself is great. I wish the home sales consultants and Lennar Financial had better customer service. For these huge reasons, I would not recommend Lennar.

While we have found the home to be exactly what we were looking for the overall experience was a struggle. The lack of communication during the process was astounding. We were asked to provide the exact same information multiple times as if the right hand did not know what the left hand was doing. Even to the point after signing the closing papers and in the process of moving, we did not know if we could have the "keys" to the new home that day. Fortunately at the end of the day everything worked out and we did get our dream home and look forward to many years to come.

After many years of seeing Lennar home sites throughout California, my wife and I decided to purchase one. One of the things we saw on all signs was Lennar’s “ei” everything included. My experience is nothing is included. The level of “cheap” rings thru day after day. We’ve only closed escrow less than two months and are having issues. To be fair maybe this is common for all home builders to be somewhat cheap? I would not recommend Lennar to anyone, based on our experience.

Home buying experience is below average compared to other builders. Issue resolving is worst possible. I have 2 lennar homes (one in Florida, and one in Jurupa Valley CA). Florida house is 2 year old and California house is 2 month old. Whenever I create a issue, computer system picks up my Florida home address and case automatically closes as it is out of warranty. Computer is not picking up new California address for issues, even if I enter it manually. So far I have very tough time in getting issues resolved and I do not know what to do. Hope someone picks up this issue and resolves it.

We just recently bought a home in Rosena Ranch from a Lennar community. Since we've moved in, we have had to call service quite a few times for issues that should not be happening in a new home. For example, our handrail on the stairs are already having separation from the wall. It is under warranty and will get fixed, but it is very inconvenient especially because the contractors have to schedule so far out. These things should not be happening in a new home. I don't know if I trust Lennar's workmanship. The backyard was done very cheaply as well and all the neighbors complain about the amount of mulch that was put in. ... More