Lennar Reviews in Orlando, FL

Make sure you really check out the home before you buy, when we moved in the house was a mess, painting and a few carpentry items were done very sloppy. Paint on the floor every where.

Took 6 months to get a refund ....overall a bad experience

5 different managers..100 calls before response...then weeks before something is complete

Great home for the price. Larry with Eagle Mortgage was outstanding, as was the onsite customer service staff. The staff that works with you to correct any issues during the walk through are awful. My suggestion is make all flaws found during walk through are corrected before you pay, otherwise good luck getting things corrected. The lawn and landscaping are terrible unless you like dead grass and lots of weeds. After 6 months of living there, I finally gave up hope on getting things corrected, so I did them myself. I think it would be good customer service to at least check in with the new homeowners once it awhile. ... More

We were happy to find a home that fit our needs - that gave us the space and aesthetics we wanted in an area that we are so happy with. I would be lying if I said we weren't worried going in to this transaction as Lennar has MANY negative reviews scattered about the internet. From sale to close, and beyond, I can summarize our interactions, both good and bad, as mediocre. This is largely because, I feel, there is a lack of ownership across the experience. Lennar personnel are quicker to pass the responsibility on to another person than to find a solution themselves. I'm not sure if this because there is a lack of a culture of ownership or because no one is empowered to do the right thing, but this theme is prevalent throughout. There were glimmer's of stellar service and I commended each of those individuals, but not enough of them to raise our rating of our experience with Lennar. The Good: The Customer Service Manager was quite helpful and knowledgeable and came out promptly to resolve an issue with the dishwasher...unfortunately, that was the last time he was this helpful. Our home is beautiful and we are happy here. Luckily, we were spared some of the horror stories other Lennar homeowners or even some of our neighbors have. The Bad: Our walkthrough date was "forgotten" about and they were unprepared when we arrived, the home was not completed upon closing, options and upgrades available for the home were VERY limited and unnecessarily stringent, workmanship was occasionally sloppy (who is doing quality control?), the representative of walkthrough is a professional liar who spent an hour misinforming us and giving empty promises. Painters were no-call/no-show on several occasions, Lennar sold a large percentage of our neighborhood to Chinese investors that rented the homes out. As a result, we have teenagers living 6-8 to a home and throwing parties, instead of having a strong and safe sense of security with actual homeowners (there are only three homeowners on our street). Materials are cheap and nothing feels well thought out. Our kitchen and laundry room were designed/built around the provided appliances (who does that?) To summarize, mediocre is the best word to describe our experience. My growing family is happy in our home and we've not had any huge issues that remain unresolved yet. But, as was explained to us several times by sales staff during the purchase, "Lennar is numbers focused," this is very clear. Seemingly for Lennar, numbers > people. ... More

I bought to houses with Lennar I still got damage in both.the do not fixed and managers and employees treat people like garbage.

We and 50-60 of our neighbors were all promised beautiful finished green spaces and a tot lot when we were in the sales process. Lennar never finished these and apparently has no plan to. Other neighborhoods have beautiful amenities for the same HOA cost we do. Different builders who keep their promises. We will have to hire legal council and go through mitigation for breach of the sales agreement as we were all told the same things and our neighborhood is not up to par. Items take FOREVER to be fixed on my home. We have had 3-4 people who are supposed to fix things. Why so many? Can Lennar not keep employees? Still waiting over 7 months to get our roof fixed. It's disappointing. No one expected perfection, but the take the money and run without finishing what was committed to leaves a lasting impression of Lennar as a builder. I would not buy in a Lennar community again until all of the green spaces and amenities promised were already put in. It's sad. We love our home, but our community is disappointed with Lennar's commitment to what they promised. ... More

Everything started off amazing, however they rushed the close of our house leaving many issues after close. We are still finding issues, but likely we are still under warranty and the warranty department has been great. The sales rep. Bob was also fantastic. I am torn on if I would recommend Lennar as the closing process was absolutely horrible.

I had such high hopes when I put my downpayment on my new townhome. I loved the idea of something that was all mine and that no one had ever lived in before. Additionally, the fact that my home would be a smart home and Lennar's promise that Everything Is Included made it that much more exciting. Sadly, the reality was far from the dream. I'm typing this 5 months after moving into my home and I still have a laundry list of items that need to be addressed from my punch list. I've spoken to countless people with hopes of getting things done, and yet all that tends to happen is that trades people don't show up, do a poor job, or only fix one out of the list of things that need to be addressed. It is a neverending process, and I feel like I'm in the movie, Groundhog's Day. ... More

After months of delays, which I’ve learned seems to be the norm when building a new home, I finally moved in. There have been some issues that needed addressing & so far many of them have been. My closing experience was four hours of Awful with CalAtlantic title but the best part of my new home experience was working with Shane S. the contractor. If it would not have been for him I may have called it quits. Being able to choose the floors, counters & cabinets was great. There are still a few issues needing to be completed but overall my home is beautiful & I love my view.

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We were very happy with our experience with Lennar until it came time to close on our home. There were several things not completed but we were told that as long as the house was structurally sound we needed to close even though we wished to wait till everything was done. Once we closed it was almost impossible to get them to come back and fix things even though we were told these would all be taken care of right away. We were continually given dates and times that trades would be coming to work on things, paint, cupboards, carpet, tile, windows, only to have them not show up or bother to call to say they would not be coming. I should also note that often when trades came they did an awful job and repeat visits were needed to resolve the issues. We literally had to texted our customer service rep every day in order to get the things done that needed to be. We also contacted a supervisor who promised to come see our issues and get them resolved as soon as possible. This supervisor never showed up and we were never able to get in touch with him again. It has taken almost six months to get the majority of our issues completed and we still have minor little things that still require adjusting. This is our third new house build and we have never had issues like this before. We love our home but we would not recommend working with Lennar until they can work on their lack of follow through and customer service. Getting a new home is suppose to be a fun and joyful experience but when you move into a brand new unfinished home that you need to fight with the builder to get completed it becomes very stressful and anything but joyful. ... More

I WOULD NOT recommend Lennar. I can’t even count the number of things that went wrong which started with permitting the wrong elevation. We caught so many issues then were made to feel like we were being difficult when we’d bring them up to the builder. We were trying to have items corrected before it became too late to do so. Examples of what we caught were: house painted the incorrect color both inside and out, tile stopped and squared prior to where it should have been & had to be redone, floor plug placed in incorrect location (would have been in the walking path and not under furniture had we not moved it to the same location as in the model home), cabinets hung too low (washer lid would not have cleared when open - they were 2-3” lower than model), tile placed in area that was supposed to be carpeted, incorrect light fixture hung in dining room, incorrect stain on railing to upstairs, kitchen island placed in incorrect location (by 18”!!! Then the prewires for the pendant lights had to be moved as well). Then because the house “sat” in the elements (heat & rain), all the exterior wood that was not protected by tyvek or shingles became warped and had to be torn off and replaced (including the flooring in the 2nd story). Given the fact that rework is the most expensive part of any manufacturing process, I would have thought Lennar would want to prevent these errors from occurring, but they didn’t seem to care at all. The house took 15 months to build which seemed pretty ridiculous. We ended up the last house to complete on our street - we should have been done earlier then at least 10 others that started after ours. The entire process was maddening and I would never do it again and never recommend Lennar as they just don’t seem to care about their customers. ... More

The sales process was painful. I lived out of town and responses were poor. There was no flexibility during purchasing phase. The construction manager “Henry” was phenomenal and provided answers where he could. He insured all of my concerns were addressed and directed me to the appropriate person if it was out of his jurisdiction.

Do not close on your home until everything is move in ready. Very inconvenient to try to schedule warranty items.

I give your company a zero, I have been in my home for 4 months still all the repairs are not finished. My first time buying a home and the whole process was frustrating, I will never purchase a Lennar home nor will I recommend you to anyone. For the price of my house it should be perfect!

We bought a brand new house and had experienced a few issues with the construction in the 4 months we have been living there, such as, unaligned walls, bathroom glass shower without the rubber corners, broken pipe for bathroom disposal which damage our lawn. Even though Lennar guarantee has helped with the issues we understand that some of them shouldn’t be occurring on a brand new house.

Lennar has poor sub contractors and their follow up is horrible.

I read many reviews about Lennar prior to moving forward with the process and most of them were negative but I was naively optimistic that my family wouldn't have the slew of issues others had. We purchased in early June and it was 10 months later that we finally moved in. The sales rep was very attentive and very friendly but after that the experience consistently deteriorated. Our house would sit for weeks with no work done to it, I checked on the house every other day. The largest delay was the electrical contractor, or so we were told, which took a solid month with no progress to the house. Our walk through date changed twice. Then come the final walk through the house was completely unfinished, doors were missing, a lot of holes in the wall, one of the windows was cracked, and don't even get me started on the paint and carpet job. We were originally told our closing wouldn't happen on time due to all the work that had yet to be completed. However, true to what we had heard they rushed the closing and promised to have things finished. I forgot to mention that our garage door was crooked which meant that the exterior stucco had to be refinished after they realigned the door. We moved in and there was a giant gray stucco stain all over the front of the house. Also, our builder was texting me while I was at the closing table showing us things he was finishing up, as I was at the closing table! Needles to say that we've only lived there 4 short months and have already had to open several tickets with the warranty company; don't expect a rep to stay more than a month. We've been assigned 3 different warranty reps in the last 3 months, the current one hasn't gotten back to me in over two weeks. The quality is quite poor and very rushed. Not to mention that the HOA fee is higher than quoted to us and some of the amenities mentioned either don't exist or are not up to par. Don't expect anything to be done correctly unless you intend to hound the builder constantly they are the only ones who are of any help, Lennar shows no mercy. ... More

We have built houses with five other builders and Lennnar was the worst experience. There is no consistency with work orders because the staff is constantly changing. The construction part was very sloppy and attention to detail. We didnt even get towel racks or toilet paper holders and we paid over 300k for this house. We were told this community would have walking trails, a playground, and a picnic area and none of that has been built. The pool is a joke! It's tiny for the size of our neighborhood and don't even have a lock on it so there are constantly trespassers there destroying what we pay for. Once you're signed with Lennar they don't care about customer service. ... More

I have reported Lennar that my street is missing lighting at night. They have not resolve it since them. It is Lennar responsibility to provide those at Windermere StoreyLake

We closed on our home on March 27 and still have outstanding ticket items that have not been rectified. When we contact lennar reps it’s a constant blame game. For our home we have atleast 10 outstanding ticket items that have not been fixed on of them from our original punch list before we closed. I would NEVER build with lennar again and would NEVER refer to friends and family due to the headaches you have caused us.

Overall is pretty good. One issue was finally resolved after closing 4.5 months. Thanks.

Timely completion and great workmanship