Lennar Reviews in Reno, NV

Our customer service experience has been disappointing. The home was not clean when we did our walkthrough nor was it clean when we signed off although we were promised it would be. The floors were covered with dust and dirt and paint spots throughout when we moved in. We had to call our customer service rep - he never responded. After reaching out that evening and including Donnie, he responded first thing the next morning and he himself came over to inspect the situation. He then immediately sent someone over who spent over two hours removing paint spots from our floors followed by a cleaning crew to clean them. Very disappointing to move into my brand new house with filthy, spot-ridden floors that we were told TWICE would be ( and should have been) clean BEFORE we moved in. Thank goodness our furniture had not arrived until a few days later. Donnie was a wonderful asset throughout our experience - always quick to respond and communicative. Angela was good about responding as well. Unfortunately the dirty floor incident really tainted our move in experience. The build quality of the home is good but not great. Lots of small things were done sloppily such as paint trim, excess concrete splotches around the doors and foundation lines, drywall imperfections, etc. we have several warped kitchen cabinets that indicated new ones were ordered on 3/16 during our walkthrough that we just recently found out from Kurt were never ordered so now we are still waiting for those. The point is, human error happens, we get that, but there has definitely been a lack of follow through to rectify the issues. This is our second Lennar new home purchase and we had high expectations for this one since the first home we bought in University Ridge in Reno in 2007 was such a great experience but unfortunately the bar was lowered. If Lennar wanted us to feel special as a homebuyer your team (with the exception of Donnie) fell very short. ... More

We had a number of delays during construction and ended up closing almost 3 months late. Our home is beautiful and worth was worth the wait. We do love the community we moved into. We do feel there were things that Lennar handled very poorly. Our home was not completely ready we feel to close. Weather this was the fault of Lennar or several of the utilities it is still unclear. None of the TV/Internet providers that service the community were prepared for the closing of our home and several others. It took 2 months and a lot of pressure to finally get our home connected. We feel that Lennar did not take the issue serious and did very little to help. We our home being a "smart" home, there were many of the features we we not able to use on day one. This I feel is a big problem for a builder that uses that as a big selling point. Lastly they talked during our acceptance walk that we shouldn't worry about small imperfections, we will have a 30 day walk to capture man small aesthetic items. We have yet to have that walk and we have been in our home for almost 2 months. Again i do love our home and would likely buy a Lennar home again, but there is definitely room for improvement. ... More

Lennar staff was very ridged and not very friendly. Mail keys should be delivered upon close, the mail office can’t find ours and it has been over 6 weeks since we closed.

It was one excuse after another as to why it was delayed three months. Every delay was blamed on covid, but it sat for over a month with nobody working on it.

Purchased home after a huge fiasco regarding pricing. Felt like I was dealing with a fly by night home consultant. Had to make a deal with the finance department after the quoted price jumped $40K in two days. Bumps along the building process, mistakes fixed. The kitchen island support and other walls are so crooked, hanging pictures is challenging. We finally have a home warranty rep who appears to be getting the ball moving on several repairs. If the house did not have a spectacular view, we would have bought elsewhere. A production home is a production home.

We’ve had nothing but problems with after care service. In fact, they no showed AGAIN today to fix our house. The 30 day walk occurred 4 months late. The smarthouse concept we jokingly call the dumbhouse.

Quality is definitely subpar in a lot of areas. They mean well, but just seemed too stretched thin, making too many mistakes and unfulfilled promises.

Construction took almost 1 yr to finish, closing date moved 5 times. Closed with interest rate 2% higher than when contract was signed because of construction delays- by the time house is ready for move in interest rates are already too high. Moved in and some issues with house still unresolved. Still waiting for Lennar to resolve some issues and have not heard from them still.

After buying the home we had items that needed to be fixed. Our home rep Tom would never respond to our concerns or give us times when we could expect things to be fixed. Only after three emails asking him who was above him that we could talk to did he respond to us and after 4 months the items got fixed. Three of the contractors that had items that need to fix just showed up with out giving us appointment. Luckily my wife was home each time and we were able to get be work done. We asked Tom to please let us know when the contractors were going to arrive. His response was Oh I thought they would call you. Our overall impression is that after Lennar gets your money they quickly for get you. All the neighbors feel the same way. ... More

For the most part things are/were great until… the cable from the garage to the house was blocked underground when I moved in. I texted and was able to get it fixed in a timely manner as with most things. But we had a heavy rain and my walkway and my neighbors walkway washed out and sank approximately 10” so far. This has been at least a month ago. According to my Lennar guy this was all His responsibility due to the EROSION caused by the fix of the underground cable and He is going to take care of it. Now I can’t finish the pavers along my walkway and my walkway is getting worse as time goes by. I can no longer contact my Lennar guy when I do I get no response. I was told to wait until the higher ups give the ok to fix this. When there is NO contact as to how things are going it makes you wonder IF things are going??? If you an get everything fixed in a speedy manner and then when something goes very wrong and there is no response what are we to think???Until this EROSION Matter is taken care of I can’t move forward and finish my walkway nor is it safe and neither is my neighbors. I would think this would be a PRIORITY. Who do I contact when the person I’m supposed to contact will not respond. Please someone from Lennar contact me. This damage was done by your contractors, you are responsible and that has been established by the person who ordered the job done. Help! ... More

The sales agent Tina is great! Tom the customer care specialist is responsive and helpful. Well, my closing was pushed out several times and lennar wanted me to pay to lock my rate in which I thought wasn't very cool since they were the ones that kept pushing my date out. Secondly, Once I do get into my home the Furnance wasn't working, which Tom addressed quickly, however as the weather warmed I find my AC isn't working to which I submitted a ticket through the lennar portal, but all I've heard so far is crickets. Certain little shortcuts that I notice after the final walk through, once I got moved in, kind of show a lack of quality, but hey I guess you get what you pay for. Wait, not really! ... More

While I love my new home, the customer service is awful. We have been in the home for 6 months and things that should have been fixed before we moved in still are not done. We were told it would get fixed quickly. If I had a recommendation for anyone it would be to put off closing escrow until the things you want done are completed.

Since the middle of August when Ernie was transferred I have been trying to get repairs handled. Most have been request multiple times. I was advised Ron was the new contract and was advised by him the middle of September he stated he had 10 communities to deal with but as of today still have not been contacted to take care of the issues. He stated he would take care of the issues but when. I am not happy. I was required to act timely but apparently the same rules don’t apply. I have a list of about 12 plus items. I feel I was more than generous with my rating.

I think if you go into buying a home from Lennar with lowered expectations, you'll be OK. The construction quality is average. Not terrible but definitely a little sloppy. For example: I can feel several clumps of dried drywall mud under my carpet (Lennar's suggestion was to get a mallet and try to pound the clumps through the carpet until I can't feel them anymore), installation damage to wiring and appliances, the yard was full of leftover construction debris, and when they were repairing one of my walls and removed the drywall you could see the space behind the wall had a bunch of trash just left there by the construction crew. (Trash which the repair crew just left behind the wall, by the way.) The fixtures, cabinets and appliances are nice. The smart-home features are a nice idea but Lennar and Amazon don't have the implementation fully worked out yet so the homeowner is left on their own to troubleshoot a fairly complicated setup. Responsiveness is good up until the day you close. They, and their preferred lender, were very helpful and responsive throughout the financial and purchasing side. Once they have your money, though, responsiveness drops WAY off. Part of it is that they have local staffing issues so they can't seem to keep anyone in the customer care position long enough to get issues resolved. That said, the price is lower than the competing builders that offer higher quality so I guess you get what you pay for. As long as you don't put any stock in their lip service about a "Zero Defect" guarantee and go into it expecting to get an average house for an average price, you won't be disappointed. ... More

The experience with Lennar was great until I received keys. After that scheduling was like pulling teeth. Personnel not available and unapologetic. After two months I finally contacted the people who were to contact me for the first month’s walk through. I’ve emailed a few times to schedule for my first week off and it’s Sunday, June 5th and tomorrow starts my week off And there is no proposed schedule or communication. Last email was 5 days ago. Before that probably a couple of weeks with list discussed on walk through. Grass dead when moved in, still looks horrible. Bath fixtures pitted. Mirror in Master pitted. Paint and cement in front all over the place and home needs touch up paint. These are just a few of the items. Overall, it seems Lennar was interested in selling but not interested at all in servicing home and cleaning up messy, incomplete and damaged work where needed. ... More

We love our new home. I think that once we moved in the builders are more worried about completing the homes than taking care of what the should have done right in the first place.

Several things wrong, even now after 2 months.

Margaret & Danny were great. Danny accepted another position and Norm took over for him. Norm has not been very responsive and I had to call the office and ask for his manager before he came to do our 30 day walk through (over 60 days later). We are still waiting for the cabinets that were scratched and broken before we closed to be replaced. They had the HVAC company come out and check our heater because it is not working and the house gets cold. They did not check the furnace, but claimed the thermostat was defective and replaced it. The house is still cold. Even when I have it set at 72 it drops as low as 63 in the house when it is cold outside. We have sent pictures to Norm and over 2 weeks later still waiting for someone to fix this. ... More

Quantity surpasses quality with this build

Lowest bid, poor workmanship, not the same Lennar.

After buying our home, we have had several issues with setting up the Next Gen features. Lennar has been either unwilling or unable to help us resolve these issues, and now, almost 5 months later, the issue STILL isn’t resolved and we are having to pay someone else to come fix it. Our multiple calls to lennar go unreturned and it is frustrating.

Jennifer was the best with keeping us updated and answering our questions about our home from start to finish. The warranty team however is a different story. Trustworthiness, lack of professionalism and unwillingness to help with issues needing fixing on the first and final walk-through was very telling. The biggest issue was the damaged smaller condenser unit installed. We brought it to the attention of Rich in warranty. He just blew us off about it. He did the same when we told him of the brick/rocks that wasn’t placed on the outside pillars of our Lennar Juniper. He said we weren’t getting it. This caused me undue anxiety & I contacted Jennifer who said he was wrong and we were getting the bricks like the other Juniper models. This was the first incorrect info given from warranty guy Rich. The second final walk thru on closing day we showed Rich the damaged smaller condenser & he said smaller doesn’t mean it’s not a good efficient condenser. We showed him the dent & he just blew us off. We also showed him three spots on the main family room wall that looked like it was patched up with different color paint without any texturing. He said just to put a large TV in front of it. What kind of professional response is that say to a customer spending over $555K on a new Lennar home? We didn’t want to deal with him after this. Lennar then assigned us to Scott. He said they would replace the condenser with the SAME SMALL condenser. We are questioning this as all the other homes after us, Tule, Pinion, Juniper ALL have LARGER condensers. We asked Scott to move our concerns up the ladder and we received a call from Kelly. He said he would evaluate the condenser and size or our home & get back to us. That has been over 3 weeks ago. We did NOT even get our 30 day walk thru. Needless to say, our condenser has still not been replaced and our wall still needs to be fixed. This whole situation has disappointed our buying this home from Lennar. As a disabled Veteran it has been very disheartening for my me and my wife receiving this type or treatment and lack of customer service, help and action. ... More

I bought a new home from Lennar at Sendero in Sparks NV and I have had nothing but problems since the house was in the construction phase. I noticed some of the work done was below standards and I addressed it with the superintendent of the job-site which got most of the issues resolved. When we did our walkthrough we spotted several issues with paint scratches and broken tiles but the customer service representative Ron would say “oh we’ll take care of that” and not mark it in the list of issues, now 5 months living in this house there is still issues that need to be fixed and I called the Lennar warranty center because Ron won’t return my calls or address the issues and they say they cannot fix what is not on the initial walkthrough because it could have happened after move in, but since Ron didn’t mark the issues in the list I have not proof that we pointed those issues out. This is our first brand new home and the second home we owned. It’s been 5 months dealing with this, the baseboard for the downstairs bathroom was removed about a month in and it’s been like that since, the air vents for the air conditioning rattle at night and will not let us fall asleep, the the paint on the garage door is really uneven, the plumbing makes a whining sound when you close the faucet and other issues. We sold our previous home because it was getting old and we didn’t want to deal with repairs and issues but little did we know we were about to walk into a headache of issues and repairs. It’s not all bad I think Lennar uses quality materials and builds a really nice house but their customer service addressing warranty is horrible to deal with. ... More

From the buying of the house to moving in with so many issues the house looks nice on the outside but that’s it and even then I still have to fix things if I ever buy a new house again it will not be with Lennar

The home is nice with the exception of the issues Horrible experience being told a few days before that we no longer qualify. We have moved in, and even though Lennar may fill the issues in the house are minor, but for the price we are paying it becomes more of an inconvenience because now I lose pay due to the service time schedules, virtual etc. are usually before I get off work, so I lose more money due to timing. I appreciate the courteous Lennar group, Jen, Jenni, Jodi, Julie, Rich. Even though their kindness did not help the experience, it didn’t made it worse speaking with kind respectful people. Thank you. ... More