Lennar Reviews

Purchase experience was good but the quality of workmanship is not up to the Lennar standards as per my expectations. It appeared the tradesmen rushed through the job with so many abnormalities. I can see the coverup made and finishing job is not good at all. We see abnormalities in every room of the house and it feels disappointing to see so much money spent for a mediocre job.

Inexperienced but enthusiastic and sweet personality

Lennar Mortgage issued a e check refund after closing. It's been a month and a half, 3 attempts a BOA and one at our bank and can't cash the check. Reached out to everyone we could think of at Lennar including rosiesupport@lennartitle.com. NO body is responding. We have requested a paper check or wire transfer.

We fell in love with the model home we toured - it was beautiful, we loved the neighborhood, and it felt like the right move for our family. Everyone in sales was helpful and responsive, and we got the ball rolling fairly quickly. Then our "concierge" Kimberly became our first contact and she was extremely difficult to work with. I'd get confusing information, would ask a clarifying question, and would get only short, rude responses. She rarely answered my questions directly. Our closing date was moved by Lennar, which is fine, but came off the tails of me asking for a different time of day - her response to that request was that Lennar couldn't possibly figure out how to change the time of day, but she did remind me half a dozen times that if I changed the date, it'd incur a $300 fee. I don't recall getting $300 when they changed the date on us (ha) but when I asked if our pre-close walkthrough day was also changing, she responded in all caps something about charging us $300. It's crazy - I got the sense she thought we were being unreasonable but I was only looking to confirm dates before I upended my work schedule again. Our home inspector was frustrated working with Kimberly as well, he said she made it next to impossible for him to do his job. Likewise our mortgage contact kept changing to someone who was also rude and didn't answer our questions (Desiree) but our original contact, Julie, was responsive and fortunately would jump in to answer our questions. We purchased our home insurance through Lennar, they neglected to tell us it was through a 3rd party so I was concerned when I started getting emails from another insurer. They also sold our mortgage to a 3rd party right after close. Those kinds of things feel shady to me. It felt like every moment from sales to close was confusing, frustrating, and we were just tossed from one random person to the next and could only get scraps of information from any given person. Luckily, our main contact post-close has been wonderful. Dan is pleasant, helpful, responsive, and seems to actually care about us. We have found a few small issues around the house, which he addressed quickly. One larger issue outside has to wait until the spring, but we feel confident that Dan will help us resolve it. We love the home, the neighborhood, and would probably do it all over again given the chance. It's just a shame that a few customer service reps would be so terrible at customer service that the whole process felt shadowed by it. ... More

From the start it was difficult bought a lot put our deposit down and a few weeks later we were told that we lost out lot to a cash buyer ! When we decided on another lot we had sold our house and had cash available ! The lending experience was a night mare ! We had a great realtor and helped us but it was right up to the end that they wanted several documents that had been given before ! The communication was not good and the follow up was very slow ? It was very aggravating and nerve racking the entire way !!

I'm still discovering things about my new home. Overall I love it because it's mine but I can see in some areas where the home was rushed. Lennar has been great about quickly responding to issues.

For us, the actual purchase/closing experience was the worst part of owning at Prosperity Lakes. When we purchased in August, we were told that our closing was in 30 days; two - three weeks later it was changed to mid-October. Then it was changed two more times. To say this caused us incredible stress is an understatement (among other things) BUT I made contact with one of Lennar's Presidents and explained our situation. From that point forward it was absolutely smooth sailing. That's not to say we didn't have issues with the house, but their Customer Care team has worked diligently to get everything resolved to our satisfaction. Of particular note are Jason and Gabe -- these two men have literally been Godsends and have followed through on everything. I can't speak highly enough of them. I know that Lennar is a production builder and they are a publicly held company that answers to a Board of Directors - this is the biggest reason they don't offer options or make changes to their product and obviously the bottom line is of utmost concern to them - but I think a tighter quality of finished product could be managed and some higher end elements included in the homes for the 55+ active adult communities. For example, roll outs were included in the upper section of the kitchen cabinet bases but you are selling to 55+ people -- putting the roll outs in the lower section of the cabinets makes much more sense because bending and reaching into the lowest part of a cabinet opening is much more difficult. Also, making the doorways and hallways wider to accommodate wheelchairs makes much more sense for homes for this age group but there are definitely doorways and hallway entrances that would never accommodate a wheelchair and will require us to modify our home if we get to a wheelchair situation. There are other examples of where just a little more thought on layout/use could be implemented in the design phase that wouldn't impact the bottom line and would make the house more usable for the age group. Otherwise, we are excited about living here and looking forward to when the community amenities are available. We have already met so many great neighbors and that aspect of Prosperity Lakes Active Adult Community is what drew us in. ... More

When I did the walkthrough and talk with the Lennar seller, he told me that the house came with fans in the bedrooms and living room, just like the model house ( I have these on email that he send me), even on the website you can read that the house coming with fans. My surprise is that they never installed them, I sent many emails before closing and they practically told me that now houses not have fans. I felt upset for the lie and because no one wanted to give me the fans that the house brought.

I hope that someone is reading this. This is my second experience with this builder and unfortunately it wasn't satisfactory, again. Starting from raising the price after agreeing and paying the deposit, to the mediocre communication level throughout the building process, to the closing day to discover zillion type of "fees" - such as $750 paid to the builder to continue building the community! -, to receiving the wrong keys of the house because of which I can't change the schlage code until today, to time after receiving the house to discover that a door missing a knob, the heating system is not working, the water heater in not working, which I called them about and they sent someone to fix it. Lately, I discovered that the shower glass door doesn't latch perfectly, and attic pull down stick is broken. Mostly, when I called the builder representative, I didn't get but referrals to other staff or the closing lawyer. In a nutshell, I was hoping to feel the builder/staff as a team to back you off, instead of the I and Them sort of relationship! Part of this sad experience is on me, but I just didn't expected a new constructed house of about $500k to be like this. Maybe, I should have left the deposit (just about $15k) and quit all together from the very beginning. I'm surely not happy in general. Note: If someone is wondering why would I deal with the this builder twice, it's just because I needed to be close to my daughter and granddaughters. ... More

NO the best quality materials. contractors made the construction too fast with many imperfections, bur overall, Im happy with the transaction and the seller conceptions that Lennar granted. and I will fix those issues on the way. ahhh…. HOA IS TOO EXPENSIVE, $289 is ridiculous fee for what they do, and not even cover the water.

Overall, we are satisfied though we had issues related to quality of workmanship and lack of cleaning the property before we arrived. The onsite customer service rep did a good job in getting a cleaning crew in to do a deep cleaning when we first arrived, though it took a couple of days. There appear to be significant delays in starting construction of the clubhouse and amenities facilities for this community. We are seasonal residents and look forward to being in sunny and warm Florida this winter. However, we are disappointed that construction on the clubhouse and related facilities has not yet begun. When we went to contract at the beginning of this year we were told construction should be winding up about this time. ... More

Lennar uses a blind bid process to purposefully obfuscate what a reasonable price is. It leads to buyers massively overbidding. Of course, they run a business, so it's understandable, but it massively disadvantages prospective buyers. Their team is good - fairly responsive (at least up until close of escrow - not sure how responsive they will be post closing). Materials used are VERY cheap. For example, cabinets have a LOT of issues, scratches, holes, etc. Really disappointing for a "luxury" homebuilder like Lennar. Cheap materials throughout entire home!

Unresponsive to claims, an outlet in my living room wasn’t connected properly and I haven’t even recorded a confirmation email of my claim yet from 3weeks ago. Also my street still doesn’t exist two months in!! Can’t change my address on any accounts or receive certain packages or deliveries.

For the price of this home, the attention to detail should have been greater. The amount of paint splattered and uneven texture and cracks in the caulking is sloppy. I found beer cans in my closet during one of my walk throughs. I have permanent suction cup markers on my counter tops and stains on my UPGRADED wood floors from careless installation. I love the design of my home but the crappy workmanship is very noticeable and disappointing.

A disappointing experience. The personnel have been very nice throughout; however, this does not make up for the other issues. The quality of material is terrible for the price paid and there is no attention to detail. The finish work, in particular, is shockingly sloppy. Some of it can be touched up but many items will never look they way they should. We didn’t expect perfection, but this suggests work being done as fast as possible with no regard for how the finished product looks. Does no one have any pride in their work? I so wish we hadn’t purchased this home and I’m very worried about it keeping its value. This was a huge mistake. I wish we had paid more attention to the poor reviews of other Lennar homes. Sometimes I just want to cry. ... More

The workmanship could be better. Front stones were crooked and took 6 weeks to fix. Drawer not working properly-fixed, 2 steps squeak, while several people have 2 we have 1 bath shelf in shower, walls are thin. A lot of it is smoke and mirrors. It was advertised that home would be smart and 2 EV chargers will be installed-that's not happening. Cannot trust!

Miguel was very knoledgeable and helpful throught the buying process.

Far too much probing with ‘required’ documents for loan approval. This is a monetary transaction and nothing more, the ONLY thing that matters is that the loan can be paid legally. Check my job, check my credit, that’s all that is needed. My education and life story is not your business.

Title team is not cooperative at all, i understand they are busy but it leaves bad taste to customer. Communication is very limited and no response to email and messages on portal.

Upon putting in an offer on our home, our sales person contacted us and tried to get us to sell our current home that we were living in to "Open Door". I told her I would not do that and undercut the Realtor that we had our home listed with. She then proceeded to email us information on how to sell with them. I called her again and told her we would not be doing this and I felt like she may be getting a kickback by pushing it. The salesperson was very unresponsive from that point forward. I had to pursue other avenues to find out information about the progress of Our House because she would not Return to my phone calls. At the time we were first visiting the property,we were informed, there would be a cool playground in dog park in the development. While we understand that all homes must be complete before they be in this building process. Comma we have since learned that the pool would be acrossed the road, in another Lennard development. This would mean that my family would have to cross a major street. Walking to the pool will NOT be possible due the no cross walks, traffic lights and a speed limit of 45 mph. We will have to drive in order to use the swimming pool that we have are paying CDD's for. We believe we should have been told the truth about the pool placement. We may not have chosen this development with that knowledge. In addition, right before closing on our home when the appraisal was done. We found out that the house appraised for less than what we were paying. Lennar refused To Do anything about it and are only choice was to walk away from the deal. Since we had already sold our home and were out of it in a different state. We feel that we were put in an possession of accepting the appraisal or being homeless. Don't know if I would recommend this company again. ... More

The process is simple in its entirety. Lennar made it very easy with the buying process. The issue is that there is a lot of language that isn't friendly to first time homebuyers. Everything needs to be kept in writing for anyone buying a home through Lennar. There was a lot of talk about what was agreed and not agreed to but because there wasn't a paper trail from phone calls it made the process difficult. Also Lennar pulls credit far too soon in advance to where when they pull your credit score again before you close your rate will change due to initial credit hits. Communication from the sales and mortgage team was sub par past the initial contract. The construction crew and warranty team did an excellent job throughout the whole process Peyton, our construction superintendent, addressed many issues and concerns throughout the process. Peyton also put in contact with the right people for problems he couldn't answer. Justin, warranty specialist, has been quick and efficient in fixing any problems that have arose thus far. He has had people at our house to fix the problem in the same week and followed up to ensure we were happy. Peyton still stops by as they are still building in the neighborhood to make sure everything is perfect. Morgan in the mortgage department was the one person in that department who made sure my questions were answered and she contacted the right people to make sure I had a good closing experience. Shauna and Aunya, who I never met, were quick to help via email and were efficient and accurate in addressing closing concerns. Lennar has the world of new homes at their fingertips, they have great people in Huntsville but they received 2 stars on trustworthiness due to contract talks to buy a home. Make sure everything is in writing and it may be best to contact a realtor who has worked with Lennar. A solution to Lennar's problem with buyers would a portal where all communication is logged and kept through the system that multiple people could refence within contract negotiations. I also felt somewhat rushed to buy a home in initial talks as they were saying things like "you need to sign today if you want this house". Peyton, Justin, Morgan, Sharna, and Aunya... thank you so much for making my experience great! ... More

My experience with Lennar Craft Springs is not great. First, I don't believe I received the best value as a veterans. Second, I was rushed through the second walk through the day of the closing. A long crack in the garage floor that that was noted in the first walk-thru remains, food crumbs in the microwave remains, a bedroom wall cover is missing and I did not receive all closing material at closing.

Wiring money, especially if you have a 2d property, is bureaucratically burdensome.

I cannot recommend Lennar Title. There were multiple mistakes that I’m glad we noticed and the entire stressful experience culminated with our keys being given to another homeowner. I had to drive his keys to him in order to trade. I’m an ex Realtor and I’ve honestly never seen so many serious mistakes. I can only assume they were understaffed.

There are a few things that lowered your score (not sodding the whole yard, upgrading appliances, or especially not installing water purification for the incredibly hard water situation here that will mean appliance and plumbing replacements in the near future). Angel and Bianca are the best who worked with us through the process!