Lennar Reviews in Riverside San Bernardino, CA

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.

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.

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!

My main point of issue with Lennar was their response times to emails, calls or texts. This especially goes to Tracy their salesperson, Julie in Finance and Lennar Title. Many errors on paperwork that took forever to fix. Once 5pm arrived, Tracy was nowhere to be found and when I finally moved in, no call, text or email to congratulate me from Tracy our salesperson. Every time I dealt with her, it was a job, albeit there were times she was great. Overall, Lennar was unorganized and left me out to dry quite often. I want to point out that Carlos in QA was a bright spot. He was very effective and his response times were superb. ... 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.

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

Not happy at all return the house I would

This is the 3rd new home I’ve purchased, but the first from Lennar. And while they did provide a very competitive closing deal package, the endless disclosures, the “have to do it the Lennar way or no-way” , the incompetency, broken promises or down right lies by some of the folks we worked with in the mortgage department, Sales team and warranty/customer service folks, never again. They cheated our Agent out of her commission! We purchased a model home and we’ve had to have suppliers out to fix a broken irrigation system, correct electrical wiring (who puts a refrigerator and microwave and 2 other outlets on the same breaker?), water lines under kitchen sink and now repair water leaking from the ceiling due to the air conditioner, whose drip pan is now broken? Pretty sure it was broken when installed into the ceiling, in a location designed by Lennar that no way can it be serviced/maintained. It’s literally crammed into this space. Our neighbor is having similar issues. Never again will I purchase a new home from Lennar. ... More

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

Unhappy with your sales team, and terribly unhappy with the Lennar loan process. Promises made but we're not fulfilled and my sales lady was not at all helpful. When I asked her for help, I got nothing but referrals with no interest in trying to be helpful.... Just excuses.

I fell in love with the house, but the company was not trustworthy, unhelpful, and does not follow through.

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

I will not call this experience a pleasant one. Working level team is not at all sympathetic towards buyer. They don’t have problem solving / reducing mindset. From day one things didn’t go in a professional ways. They collected all information from my agent and later on denied to pay any commission. This list is very long . However the above point was completely unprofessional. Construction quality is also having question mark . I have submitted few complaints but one of them is most important. Hoping a good resolution.

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

Lennar is definitely a builder with multiple lawsuits against their name who will do anything to maximize their own profits, by building low quality products with no care whatsoever, like a lot of other builders. All I've seen is lies and fake marketing. Marketed this community as private and gated, while they sold our safety out to the city just to make more profits. One decent thing is the responsiveness of the staff.

Lennar should be more than a regular construction company, as one of the best or the best in the country. We bought a Model house, good and bad, good that come with some upgrades that we cant get in other regular house, now the bad part is some of the stuff that is not correct or damage ( you name it ) cant be fixed BECAUSE IS THE MODEL WE DONT DO , this is ridiculous excuse, we pay more almost 100k for the same house as the others and get used / old stuff ... lennar REP very bad attitude, I'm not recommend to anyone else.

We have had a bad experience. There has been several several issues with the house. Constantly calling portal for repairs. Taking time off from work. I think homeowner should be more involved in building process when it comes to upgrades or choices for their house. Honestly i don’t think i would buy another Lenar home after this experience. I am still dealing with issues.

Buying experience was torture. To many physical issues with house and property for the price paid. Quality of construction is marginal at best. would not recommend Lennar to a friend, maybe I would to someone I did not like.

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

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

After first home inspection managed to find dozens of flows, while during second home inspections, only few items has been fixed while other ones are still pending month after move in. On top of that other issues starting popping up due to craftsmanship and bad material. Very disappointed with complete process.

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.