Lennar Reviews

I moved in for almost 2 months and still waiting to finish up some work. Don't know if they will do it.

The trades that were hired did not do a good job. The drywall and painting is horrible. There are several issues with the house. The amount of effect put into this home was sub par.

This is a cookie cutter home. you are not allowed to change not even a light bulb. It is built very cheaply. Very few windows, no medicine cabinets or drawers in any bathrooms. all appliances are beginning level appliances. our dish washer wheels fell off 1 week after we moved in. The wash machine leaks, the faucet is already very loose. and I can go on. They promised us the lights for the garage and we are still waiting for them. We decided that we will just rebuild it as we go along.

Bad costumer service not response in a timely matter

I liked the Lennar staff that I dealt with during this process. A couple things of note: 1. The "everything's included" concept is pretty nice but was disappointed in some parts of the execution. Pros: no stressful process of picking out finishes. Some nice features I would not have had otherwise like the gas fireplace and flex room (my office). Cons: All finishes/colors very neutral and not much character (I understand why they do this). Poor materials in some cases with no option to upgrade (cheap carpet and paint, painted door hinges and crack and pop when opening/closing doors). Strange decisions on things not included (water softener - who doesn't need one?, not finishing the drywall in the garage - it is half complete anyway to meet city code). 2. My two warranty requests were fairly unsatisfactory. One simple request to adjust doors that would not close took two visits to complete. One major request to fix a cracked sump line was closed without fixing the issue. A third party made the repair - very disappointing. 3. Using Lennar Mortgage was a pain. Daily emails with information that was not essential in many cases. Difficult to keep things straight. Need to streamline communication. ... More

My appliances are cheap, there is no outside vent for the microwave, No garage opener, I have to lift the door myself. No patio of any kind. calking and pain could have been a little better, a tthe end, I just couldn't split hairs anymore. Just not what I expected for a brand new home,

I would tell them to make sure to do a walk through before closing, the virtual walk through we got was useless as the building manager was not able to show most of the condo due to not getting good showing from iPhone this resulted in a lot of unresolved issues (hole in cabinet door in kitchen, pantry door not working , hole in wall in guest bathroom.) some of these issues not yet resolved and we close two months ago.

Persistence is key when dealing with Lennar. Will receive push back if items are not on “List,” upon move in. If persistent, issues will be fixed. Patience is needed. Overall, love the home. Just wish Lennar handled things differently & utilized better quality materials.

Angelica was very helpful. Great individual to have on your team.

We had a nightmare moving to our new Lennar home in Rosemount. We had several issues with most of the appliances(Refrigerator, Cooking range, Dishwasher) doors, weather strips. We had service personals at home every other day for a month to fix issues. New home consultant helped us escalating issues and replacing defective appliances. Warranty support representative addressed most of the issues on time.

Does not stand behind lack of quality in some areas of workmanship

Overall experience started off very rocky. It ended pleasant but it could have been better. Lennar needs work on customer service and making sure the customer feels welcomed. Also, there were a lot of things not done correct, or finished on my home. Currently waiting on things to be fixed or replaced.

Home was a disaster at walk thru, I should have walked out. Just as bad at closing. No one cared to get any work completed. Felt pressured into closing and was told not to cancel furniture deliveries even though house was not ready. Manager and crews had no work ethic and promised to complete tasks, yet did not. Poor craftsmanship and attention to detail.

No matter what they tell you, add three to four months to the expected delivery date. If you are waiting on a home to be built you must be proactive and engaging. Do not expect anyone to keep you informed about the progress of your build. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. The excuses you may hear range from late inspections, COVID manpower shortages, to supply chain issues. The overall construction is average this includes paint, flooring, and cabinets. If you are expecting a custom build with high-end performance, you can check that at the door. Lennar is an all-inclusive company - sales, construction, mortgage/lending that struggles with communication inside and out. The closing for the house was a nightmare; we hired our own attorney and it took two months for Lennar to provide all of the required paperwork. The best things about the community are the neighbors and the amenities. ... More

you get what Lennar builds. No changes allowed. It's a tract development and they are putting them up as fast as they can sell them. For that reason, attention to detail is your responsibility. If you see something wrong point it out and don't quit until it is fixed. I've owned it for 3 months and am fixing the trim and have already experienced roof leaks.

Overall our experience with Lennar was decent. However, what left a sour taste in our mouth was when Lennar decided to change the buying process to a bidding war. It went from going down the priority list (all on list were prequalified through their lender) and offering the houses for their respective set price, to opening it up to everyone on the list and forcing us bid against each other. Only 1 bid allowed so it should be best and final. We did that and progressively started bidding higher and higher above the “Lennar starting at price”. I know the housing market was booming but we were then bidding 60k - 100k over the houses that we wanted and we were getting ghosted (must have gotten out bid but no information was provided). The house that was in our budget and that our family wanted, become unattainable in the blink of an eye. We paid an embarrassing amount over the starting price, and that was pre upgrades. We are now in a house our family is already almost too big for our family just because an exec saw an opportunity to exploit the system. As said, I know the market was booming but I feel like Lennar, a multi million dollar corporation, who was already making a ton of money building houses with the old process, saw an opportunity to take advantage and pad their bottom line and make even more money. It’s a bitter pill to swallow to live in a neighborhood who half of your neighbors were the old system, and you paid a hundred thousand dollars over what they did, and you have the same house and closed right after them. ... More

Poor communication during construction process. Quality of home was subpar.

Great sales team. Soooo many routine building issues / defects that should not have been there and 3 months later are not fully corrected. Lennar should have their own in-house repair team as this seems to be endemic - or at least the 12-20 other new homeowners we have discussed with have the same issues.

Fit and finish for a upgraded home with everything included was poor. Follow through on commitments is poor as well.

Lennar being a big title n company i decided to trust their construction work but i was very disappointed. I thought inspection was not needed since it's a new built but i was wrong. Please make sure to do one. Found tons of issues. After almost 2 months of living in the New house. i am finding issues every day. I see tons of cutting corners poor built is it blame. I think lennar is more into quantity than quality. Which is very inconvenient for the home buyers. At least they respond for issues quick. I m very disappointed in the quality i got for the price i paid :(

Our new home consultant (Liz l)was great and communicated well with us and also helped us with some personal matters as we acclimated to FL. The process of purchasing a home site unseen(we moved from MN and couldn’t make it here) was nerve wracking. The process they had set in place to purchase, in retrospect, is absurd and in the best interest of Lennar. It’s essentially a bidding war and you automatically put in your highest and best offer, however, you could potentially only be bidding against no one (only Lennar knows). We signed our contract mid-April for an early September close date. The other thing that was frustrating is we had ZERO say in finishes. We knew we’d have to make some compromises but not having any day sucked. This differed from people who closed merely 3-4 months prior. Overall we like the finishes but honestly, who puts tan paint everywhere when you have all grey floors and cabinets and white trim!? We ended up being delayed due to supply chain issues, but that could have been communicated earlier. Thankfully we were living nearby so we could come check on progress. We caught several things that needed to be fixed that should have been caught by the construction manager. Unfortunately we caught many more things after close. Some items include, a closet 5 inches less deep than an identical closet (can’t shut the doors with clothes in it), cracked tiles, interior doors needed to be replaced due to them being wet, crown molding not being painted and all of our interior trim and doors needing to be painted due to needing to be replaced or not painted to begin with, exterior paint needed to be done due to rain, and the first painters got paint on our toilets and blinds. I will say the process to get these things fixed has been fairly easy and they have “made good” on fixing most things so far. Thankfully we did get a private inspection and they didn’t find anything major or they fixed things that needed to be addressed before closing. Wayne, our warranty guy, has been great with helping us! Overall we love the neighborhood and are happy we are here, but I will say, I won’t use Lennar again if we build. The attention to detail and quality isn’t the greatest. ... More

-internal paint job; our realtor even commented it was the worst new build paint job she is ever seen -Still have electrical issues -dents in doors and walls, feels like a newer apartment instead of a brand new house we get to be excited to move into. - neighbors have severe drainage issue and their slabs have to be torn up.

It's hardly 3 months since moved into our brand new home and I'm noticing structural issues already (loose railings, floor panels). The quality of the work is nowhere near the price we paid.

Pleasant staff but the finished product/home does not meet the long awaited anticipation and expected results.

I have tempered my expectations of the builder Lennar with all that has happened over the past several years with the pandemic, labor crunch and all of the other challenges facing individuals and companies. However, Lennar uses and iron clad contract where you follow their rules or they keep your 10% down and then sell your contracted home to someone else - to say they have you between a rock and hard place is an understatement. Long story short - my new home was not complete when I received the "time to close" notice. So we closed, I headed to our new home and what did I find - a home that was roughly 95% complete. The home was dirty, there were building materials laying around, damage to appliances, dinged walls, used toilets that were left dirty, the list could go on but I think the brief description accurately depicts the circumstances. In their rush to close the properties, they closed them before they were genuinely ready, and I presume they intended to button things up at a later date. It has been 60 days since we closed and I haven't heard a word from Lennar on the open items that were to be resolved. ... More