Lennar Reviews

Depending on your sales associate and building manager be prepared to go through a hassle of a process

The house itself is great but the buying experience was difficult. There was a 1 month delay in closing and when I requested to change lenders (more than 1 month before the new close date) I was denied and told I would lose the house if I changed lenders. This made the process more difficult because Lennar Mortgage was the absolute worst part of my buying experience.

It’s a new never lived in home

The initial purchase process was a nightmare. Steer clear of Michael. That being said, quality seems decent. There have been minor quality issues.

Workmanship of the home could have been much better not so impress on how it was put together. Found to many defects backyard could have been leveled much better etc. Eagle Mortage office set me up for failure, informing and was written on my contract that HOA was paid monthly then I get a bill from spectrum stating I had a balance and a late payment fee added to my bill of $40. Spectrum has informed me HOA is paid annually. This could have been avoided if I was given proper instructions. Eaglemortage should be liable for the late fee, since I was not at fault. Communication with the buyer needs to be more clear and written as well from Eaglemortage. ... More

Long lengthy super stressful process would not recommend

We had a very long drawn out purchasing experience through the loan application, both the FHA and Lennar’s conventional loan people. They were very impatient when they wanted information but otherwise slow in keeping us informed as to what was happening. They asked for information that was none of their business and eventually told me that if I did not give them the information that the loan would not be approved. This process took weeks. I went to a bank and got an approval with 4 days. After move in, I (a former builder) found that there were house framing studs missing in places where it was apparently inconvenient. ... More

Bought a new home for my mother. Nice house but appraisal was far below the list price causing me to have to Mortgage insurance. The Mortgage company was horrible to deal with. Lied at every turn. Had to use an outside lender to get the deal done. Would never work with Lennar Mortgage company. Had a few cosmetic issues with the house that were fixed immediately.

Overall, my wife and I love our new home. But buyer beware, the sheetrock, painting and trim work sucks. Never realized we had to get our own garage door opener. Was told garage was paint ready, it's not. it's primer ready at best. Between giving first and second deposit, garage floor developed cracks. Was told it was within Lennar's tolerances, lol. It's not within mine. Lennar did put down an epoxy floor when I was ready to walk away from the deal. We were told the pool would be ready in April, not looking like it at this point. It was a total joy working with Chris J in the Lennar mortgage Dept. The worst was the home quality Dept. Instead of Lennar doing a quality walk through, we had to. The process is to put a small piece of tape on each issue, it took over a roll and a half. There are still many issues that shouldn't be. As much as we would buy another Lennar home, we feel that Lennar could do a better job. ... More

Over all not great home buying experience. Customer service wasn’t great during purchase time. There was not much support in choosing option. Was rushed into everything. Home built is good but experience through out the process is very unfriendly. They just want to build home like factory and no respect or care for someone’s expectations and feelings who is spending 100s of thousands of dollars.

I purchased my home by the help of a virtual assistant (young eyes) and showed it was spacious, had a nice yard and the price range was good, but little did I know after moving, that this home was not meant for seniors/retirees due to the fact in order to replace the a/c filter you would need to pull down a step ladder, adjust it to secure it’s locked then climb up to the attic in order to replace the a/c filter. It’s just a matter of time before an accident occurs. There are drafts from the doors and windows, you can see the caulk is cracking by the walls of the kitchen counter. if I had been able to personally walk through this house before purchasing I wouldn’t have purchased it. ... More

Corners were cut in terms of building materials, electrical wiring incorrectly completed, low quality lighting & plumbing fixtures, lowest quality paint inside & out, low quality toilets seats, receptacle covers, lack of gutters around home, poor concrete finishing work on sidewalk, pavers chipped, pitted and scratched front door, kitchen cabinets not hung correctly, kitchen trim falling off, dirty HVAC unit, no real follow up from Lennar salesman other than the absolute necessary responses, landscaping bushes beat up, lack of exterior electrical receptacles, no garage floor drain or water, lanai door problems, gas lines already rusted, sprinkler system not operating correctly, pool heater pump incorrect & not wired correctly, spa jet pump not correct and broken, garage door seals not adjusted, visible holes you can see through on front and inside garage doors etc etc. ... More

The Lennar team was really nice during the purchase process. It was too much electronic signing, not enough explanation of the entire process. At least with in person, paper signing of closing documents, important pages were explained. I got zero explanation of what I signed, no time to read through everything. About a month after I closed, I texted a member of the sales team and the reply I got was not very nice. The reply was, “this number is not a good contact number now.” It was a weekend day when I reached out to this person and I just feel like as a member of the Lennar team, this person should have helped me regardless and I was surprised by the reply. I feel like this person didn’t want to help me anymore after I closed on my house. The response time to get warranty work scheduled is kind of slow. After I put in my request, somebody contacted me right away. I ended up canceling a warranty work order because I was trying to set up everything on the same day, so I can only miss one day of work. I couldn’t wait for calls/ emails to schedule. It seems like more than a week went by when I heard from someone about the other items. ... More

This is the 3rd Lennar home we have purchased. The first two homes were well built, the purchase process was easy and the limited warranty work was done well. This time the process was much more stressful. First, we were not allowed to use our Realtor due to some rule that we had used a different one with Lennar in the past. This made the process much more difficult for us. Second strike was the inability of our sales person to respond to us. Once we signed the contract, we were dead to her. After the sale, the person who was supposed to be a liason would never answer calls and always send emails right as day was ending so we could never respond and get quick answers. To say the process up to move in was frustrating was an understatement. To male matters worse, Lennat asked to move up the close date. We could not do quite as early as they asked as the date didn't line up with our other closing. We did move up as much as possible. Yet when we got close closing, the home wasn't close to ready. Our inspection was rescheduled 3 times. The 2nd time we drove by the house on Saturday for a Monday inspection to see the house still had days of work to be done. Even when we did the inspection, appliances were not there, irrigation was not placed among other key things that should have been inspected. Due to the rushed nature of the build, we have had more warranty claims in one month than we did on two other homes combined. The overall feeling is the entire community is being built too fast for th3 team or without regard to quality. Lastly, we recently had to have our back fence removed to dig a sewer line. We were told it was just for when the excavator needed to turn. 10 minutes into job, the excavator had drove over the irrigation system and newly laid sod. Even after it was "capped" we still se water seeping into hoke they have been digging for over 2 weeks with no end in site. ... More

We had many issues closing the loan even when I had over 80% down. The issue was nobody within the multiple Lennar divisions (builder, title and loans) knew who owned getting the Spousal waiver signed off. As a result, my ex had to sign through a virtual notary 4 times. This caused delays in closing which cost me $100s in rescheduling fees not to mention that they had my $1M that should have been earning $150 a day in interest for almost 2 weeks. That is almost $1000 that I will never see. As for build quality, there are many design flaws that are having to get fixed: - pathways to side yards for trash can servicing - Strike plates are too short across the entire house and causing damage to the door trim - Solar panels have the wrong plaque causing delays to start using a service that we have paid for. All in all, I would not be surprised to see a class action suit as a result of these obvious builder related issues. ... More

There is much to say about the home buyer process that I have learned and thanks to Lennar, that was possible, but not in the way you may think. Firstly, Lennar prices and financing sell their houses, not their warranty, not the customer services, not their knowledge, nor the company itself really. Since Lennar Mortgage, Builders, and Title are all "separate" companies, this allows them to give you the run around and waste time on inquiries and questions you may have. Or if something is wrong in a document, they will say its the other company when truly it's one company masquerading as 3 separate ones. They do this so that they can charge you whatever they want. In my case, the Lennar sales rep, his name was Trent M, told me my house is $3,000 less than the displayed price and told me I would get a fridge as well. Well surprise surprise, I didn't get a fridge and they would add that amount to my incentives at closing. Well the "other company", the builders add whatever building and other fees and what not to make up for that. So my building fee was over $3,000 and that is NOT suppose to be that high(after speaking to many people about this). So I didn't get a fridge for free nor did I save $3,000 on my house. These are lies and tactics given by Lennar Sales reps to get you to buy the house. Also, when scheduling my orientation for the house, I let the coordinator know 3 times to schedule my orientation in the afternoon since I work and it's easier to get off work in the afternoon, but even after telling Patrick M that twice, he still made it at 9 am. So clearly Lennar employees either don't listen, or they are so incompetent that they can't schedule something in the leisure time of the buyer. Not only this, but I inquired where my mailbox was since the keys did NOT have a mailbox tag and no one could tell me. My mortgage for the first month was almost late because Lennar employees and the people that sold that house, nor the builders have any idea which mailbox is yours. It was a stressful fiasco dealing with the 4 people I did to find out where is was. Only person I can say helped me the most was Alan A, who is the concercerge for Lennar. He was very helpful, actually knew information, and made attempts to help me. The house itself, so far, is great. Nothing has went wrong and the materials are solid. I am happy with that aspect of my purchase, just not how I got here. Overall, NOT happy with the buying process of Lennar, but realistically, all these building companies are money hungry blood suckers so I expect them all to have the same tactics, Lennar just had a slightly better price. Lennar, if you see this, I want a check for $3,000 back, you know where I live. ... More

My experience was ok. My home is wonderful. Even though it was delayed by water issues. My biggest complaint about my home buying experience is my lawn is horrible. The lawn was put in with no water and now it’s dead. By the time I’m finished getting it right I will have spent a ton of money for something that should have been done correctly to start by Lennar. An absolute travesty.

My sales person was Brian, all around just rude! If it wasn’t for the price of the homes, I would have not bought from him. Rush construction manager fixed my issue very fast, he didn’t however power wash the concrete like promised, pretty muddy on my street. All in all, I think the experience could have been better

The home purchase with our loan officer was great. The closing process was very disappointing. We were denied our keys after closing because of a $49.00 last minute fee by the title company. Never do business with Lennar again and will not recommend to my other investors.

Not happy with some items that were taped to be repaired in the final walkthrough. After the home was purchase still had an issue with an item that was taped for repair

All representatives for Lennar were great. The exception is the loan process. I understand policy and procedures. But the lack of attention to detail and accountability caused a lot of stress. My loan was approved the day before I had to vacate my apartment and started my new job. I supplied documents that were submitted multiple times...emails, pay slips...Other than that everything else was handled professionally.

Lennar has tried to automate too much of the buying process and lost customer service abilities. There was not clear expectations or communication though out the process resulting in a lot of frustration along the way.

There was tons of confusion on closing dates and who was helping us with the home buying process. Once we closed and walked in the floors were still dirty and the place had not been cleaned. It wasn’t terrible but it could have been better.

Low rating due to poor experience with Lennar Mortgage.

I absolutely hated dealing with Lennar Mortgage, you kept checking my credit score which made it go lower in order to charge me a higher interest rate. Dealing with LM is like dealing with the devil. The worst experience I've had in many years.