Lennar Reviews in San Diego, CA

We had a wonderful experience buying this home! The entire sales team, mortgage team, escrow team, everyone was great to work with!

sales agent and customer service are great! Quality of workmanship is poor. Found too many issues during walk through and most are not fixed before closing. Now a few months after closing and many issues are still not addressed.

Smooth process end to end. Also, the after care is great as Margarito has been helping us. He is great!

Overall is good except walkthrough too fast, person going through walkthrough is too fast and not allowed enough time for buyer to understand.

Poor response once you have an issue that need to be addressed, good response via teams or zoom to explain the situation but a lot of time to get fixed any situation on the property, maintenance department need to have a value stream mapping process in order to understand the response time/ Leadtime for costumer service.

Probably the best value condos in the Cota Vera community. Definitely impressed by the quality of work and turnaround time on the build. Still learning about my home. But for the most part, when questions arise and I reach out, Lennar is pretty responsive.

During the inital viewing tour, I thought this experience was going to be amazing. The folks were eager to show homes but that is where the accommodations ended. The entire process was rushed and stressful. Although the home I purchased was unfinished I was unable to make any changes to the decor (i.e. carpet & home automation). During my final walk through & key turnover my home was not even cleaned. That said, I cannot comment on the craftsmanship specifically because my home has not yet had time to settle. However, theses houses are constucted entirely too fast, my neighbors have complained about plumbing issues, cracks in the concrete and chips in their walls. Lennar you must do better to make people feel as if this experience is important. I have seen some residents welcomed with a sign and others including myself told, here are your keys! Moving forward do better Lennar, try to ensure that people feel as if their purchase is exciting and important. ... More

We moved in just under 2-month, and have already found multiple issues related to the quality of workmanship.

The loan process was one of the longest I’ve ever done and this is my third home purchase. Even on the day we were supposed to close thing weren’t done and we had to call to find out we weren’t closing that day. My family moved out of our apartment and had to stay in hotels for a week waiting for everything to get sorted. Once we moved in we found issue that had been identified durning the walk through that were never addressed. We have had issue with our dryer and other products and the local rep is hard to get ahold of and the customer service reps don’t reply for day some times. Honestly not what I was expecting from this builder or a brand new home. ... More

After 6 weeks moved in Lennar new home in Poway, still no mail delivered to my mailbox. Called Lennar and Poway Post Office and USPS services, this issue is not resolved.

Kelsey in sales deserves 5 stars and was unfortunately the only positive part of our homebuying experience. Lennar clearly overclosed as all the homeowners we talk to in the Avion seems to have several issues. Our home came with multiple issues from the start that were identified during the walkthrough, of which several are still not fixed over three months later....let alone many additional issues found afterwards. Our dishwasher wasn't working for over 6 weeks and we identified that it wasn't working when we first tried it on day 6 after moving in (took a day or two to unpack our dishes and then fully load it) and lennar said they couldn't replace it and we had to go through GE only to find out one of the top wires was frayed, likely from cutting the box open or something. Our garage door was scraping the walls and wasn't aligned yet they'll only paint over it, flooring folks have confirmed that it needs to be redone, and the painters confirmed that they only had time to do one coat of paint. This is just a sampling of issues and the worst part is that they have clearly moved on since nothing gets done without us nagging them all the time... Again as evidenced by the fact that our list from our walkthrough is still not addressed and no one follows up with us without us reaching out. We are genuinely concerned there are other issues we aren't even aware of yet b everything was so rushed. ... More

Efficient, professional, fair, and quality! Thanks for making my first home buying experience a smooth and pleasant process!

I had great experience with Lennar during entire process of home buying. Adriana and Jeff were prompt, professional, and courteous. We felt like they were on our side. Also, experience with Donna at Lennar Mortgage was wonderful. She was one of great person I've ever experienced in the finance business.

On our first walk through, they showed us our house without a driveway, no running water, half of the electricity in the house did not work and we were told we couldn’t walk around outside because it’s “too dangerous”. It never should have been shown to us in that state. The second walk thru was better, however it was very dirty because they never cleaned it. They installed the wrong water heater. The wall above the fireplace heats up to over 200 degrees and we have a huge crack right up the front which we were told Lennar is not interested in finding a solution. Lennar installed one heater thermostat upstairs and the main suite downstairs is always freezing. They should have dual thermostats. The quality of our cabinets are so very poor with peeling and chips. These problems are found in almost every home in phase 1 and 2 and everyone on our block is complaining. There are many more problems not listed. We closed escrow on December 6, 2022 and our water heater was changed out on February 2, 2023. We are still waiting for the rest of the fixes. Lennar used to be a top quality builder, but after this experience, I would not recommend Lennar nor would I buy a Lennar build again. ... More

Responsiveness to the problems reported to Lennar is pretty bad. They don't even acknowledge the repair reports submitted to them almost a month ago.

It’s very sad to get the service response and no good enough information shared ahead. I am following up almost two months keep o. Reporting issues but very few of them were resolved

Very expensive house not worth the money. Lennar give you incomplete house. My house was with no gutters and took them 6 to 7 weeks to install gutters. Garage door still missing side trim. Horrible electricity, when plugged any device it tripped the circuit breaker. Windows are not soundproof. Bad window screens can’t pull up or has no pull tabs. Doors are defected. Doors broken at strike plate. Towel and toilet paper holders loose and came out many times. Numerous paint and drywall defects. Terrible exterior molding defects. Kitchen cabinets has many cracks. It takes them long time to fix anything. Our representative did not come with us in the walkthrough twice. His excuse was he is busy and Lennar has shortage of staff! You will feel depressed instead of feeling happy in your new home. Horrible customer care! ... More

I am a repeat customer with Lennar. Technically I purchased with Cal Atlantic my first home and about a month before closing, Lennar took over. However, my home stayed with Cal Atlantic team until closed and it was a wonderful experience from beginning to finish. The Cal Atlantic sales team was thorough and welcoming and even met me on the day of move in to walk my home. I never put in a single work order. Since Cal Atlantic got bought out by Lennar, I figure that they would have the same quality and customer service, but boy- Lennar is way inferior to Cal Atlantic. The buying experience was terrible, I didn’t know who I bought from and could barely get to respond to my emails and text messages. I bought at a high time and lennar must have banked on capitalizing on that because they provided NO customer service. However, how you treat people comes back to bite you and I am seeing that. The market has shifted. It didn’t stop there- we didn’t have anyone walk us to our home on the day of close (they can’t use Covid as an excuse) as we closed in October 2022. Lennar is just lazy. Our house was a wreck, the details were horrible, this was nothing like the model. Cabinets has dents, nails protruding, my shower head didn’t have hot water until 7 mins, and didn’t have any pressure. No electricity in some rooms, leak under sink, dish washer not mounted, dents in baseboards, cracks in tubs, the lists goes on and on. When speaking and follow up to customer service, they were dishonest and kept on trying to tell, my shower because it’s in the master that it’s hard to get water up there. I called a plumber and there were rocks and debris that were in the shower head causing the issue. Lennar tries to tell you that these things are normal so they don’t have to come back and fix it. But it’s been a horrible experience with entering work orders, you have to waste your personal time to wait for them to call you virtual to verify and take photos . Then you have to wait for a trade to call you to schedule and be home for the trade. It’s a full time job and will take away from your time working. It’s ridiculous. Our street, 50% of the homes have active leaks from the rain right after moving in because of missing roof tiles. Thank goodness our gutters installation caught ours and notified us before the rain otherwise we would have been in that count. Do better, Lennar! Stop being crooks and taking people’s hard earned money and start living what your company core values are. Start with honesty and quality. ... More

My home still needed a few weeks of work before, but was still handed over. My recommendation is to do multiple walk throughs beforehand and not sign the pre inspection until everything is fixed. You can tell these homes were really rushed as well as closing dates. This is my 3rd new built home and 3 different builders, Lennar is at the bottom. If I could do it over again I would have been more patient and just stayed in my previous home with other than size had zero issues.

Response for issues are slow, so many items missed at the time of build.

They are a big builder that took advantage of California real estate boom, built too fast and not great quality. Their communication and responsiveness is incomplete.

Home buying pretty good. Customer care follow up afterwards, slow. Cell reception in area being not so good has affected customer care reps responsiveness.

The sales team is amazing always willing to go above and beyond to help. Shoutout to Ryan. In addition, the help with all questions have been outstanding. Well done to the team in Citrine - San Diego - class act.

Poor plumbing installation with 2 showers leaking on Day 1. Windows on first floor breaking after 1 month, cause uncertain. Bad experience with blinds/shutter installation from the Design Center vendor.

Delivery was spot on time, despite challenging circumstances, sales team was responsive and supportive, home move-in experience was good... only problem is with the quality of the finish... looks like poor supervision leading to too many issues post handover. Also, ticket resolutions is painfully slow.