Lennar Reviews

In the beginning Lennar was very helpful obviously trying to earn our business and sell us a house however after moving in all the trouble started. Poor workmanship in the house, getting issues resolved took weeks, it is sometimes impossible to get someone to help you schedule repairs. Community is poorly managed, Lennar literally sells to anyone community is heavy investor properties which has led to many issues with compliance. It was clear to us that Lennar only cares about making money. The support we received has been terrible since we moved in. The house has many problems clearly from the poor work and cheap materials used. Unfortunately I am not happy with my purchase with Lennar and would not recommend to family or friends. ... More

The paint job that was done in the kitchen and restrooms were of poor quality. Paint was splattered all over the floor and globs of paint were dropping on the wall. The construction didn't seal holes from the deck causing a lot of bugs to come inside the house, especially a huge trail of ants the first 2 weeks we moved in. When we did the inspection of the home prior to moving in to fix any mistakes, they missed it of what we marked off. They were supposed to fix all the mistakes but only did about 70% of them. The information we received from our agent was inaccurate as well. Overall, for the new construction, and price being paid, we still had to spend 3 days painting the entire house because it came with flat paint which no one wants to live in a house with flat paint due to stain and scuff marks, and the quality of mistakes made, it was a really disappointing experience and purchase. ... More

Over 100 items that need repairs on a brand new home, painting, replacement windows, holes in bathtub, etc. I've been in the new house for months and can't get any traction on getting repairs done. I will never work with Lennar again and will never recommend Lennar to anyone. Very poor workmanship. Quality of work is a zero out of ten.

This is our second Lennar home and all I can say is I will never do this again. Home buyers - If you can, please look for other trustworthy builder.

Needs to do better

In the seven weeks since closing, have had an electrician in the home three times fixing an obvious mis-wiring issue (no lights can come on in one room unless lights on in another room) and two electrical boxes that were backyard-rigged with no to code. Have also had support out to fix the water heater, fix property drainage issues, for windows that needed fixing, and still waiting on doors to be fixed (on a month long waiting list). Additionally, one section of the irrigation system was installed without sprinkler heads, and that issue I've been promised would be fixed three times, but... Other issues I've found that I've not yet submitted for warranty repair: Front door doesn't seal (can see daylight through >1/4" gaps), more than thirty nail pops (so far), and one full wall that has significant waves in it plus an obvious sloppy repair on the bottom of it that looks like something heavy hit and broke through the wall and was hastily repaired. Not my first new build. I expect some issues with a new build, but...the quality Lennar put forward here is terrible. On the bright side, Lennar support and our project manager are incredibly nice people. ... More

Be prepared to move into a house that has not been cleaned and is missing things like window screens, screen doors, garage doors, garage door openers, alarm system, smart home system, etc. Workmanship is very poor and most everyone has paint over-sprays everywhere with many things that need to be fixed. Warranty repairs are extremely slow, communication poor and repairs very sloppy - the company discounts any concerns and typically respond with reasons the home owner doesn't really have a problem

Where do I start... We purchased a new home by Lennar while it was still under construction and there's been countless issues. They are non-negotiable on closing dates. We were out of the country on their proposed closing date and they did not care and did nothing to help us out to get the closing date moved by a few days. We have only been in our house for a month and a half and have had to put in multiple work orders for loose floor tiles, a tub being clogged from construction materials, our closet shelving literally falling off of the wall, etc. They work with companies that don't show up on their scheduled days and that will not work around the homeowners schedule AT ALL for warranty repairs, causing us to have to take time off of work as if it is our fault that our brand new house is falling apart. Time will tell how the house ultimately ages, but this many problems so soon tells me we are in for an expensive future. I will definitely not ever even consider another Lennar home in the future. ... More

Where do I start. I bought my house in January got the keys in July. 1 week before closing Lennar decided that they were going to send off my loan to another loan company without even calling me first to notify me that I didn’t qualify. I was never even told that I wasn’t qualifying for my house loan so I was blind sided when I got a call from another lender. We did a walk through of the house to mark things that needed to be fixed. Couple weeks later We did the final walk through and nothing repaired. The contractor told me with an attitude that we weren’t there to find new flaws. Cracked paint in the closets, missing paint. Windows missing caulking and paint, carpet cut to short from the wall, vynol cut too short at the door and FIXED with caulking instead of being reinstalled correctly. Door trim with a huge gap from the door. Hole in the baseboard fixed with grout instead of being replaced. Fixtures installed on the wall with stuff stuck behind them so they are not flat on the wall. Hole in the cement floor in the garage. Bath tubs with stains and cracks. When I set up appointments for repairs they repair everything with caulking. No replacing and fixing everything correctly they just patch it all up. Crazy how you buy a brand new house and when you call to complaint about ants being all over the house they state they can’t do anything about it. You would think that the house would be sprayed for insects before keys are given to you. Ants are under the carpet as if coming from the foundation. We have had so many issues with this house that idk if the house is worth what we paid. The contractor didn’t care about fixing anything before handing over the keys, I don’t get how he’s not embarrassed of the workmanship provided by the people they contract. The only person that helped us was our sales rep that went to bat for us when the loan officer couldn’t do her job. He helped us from day 1 when we picked the lot and helped us until the very end and gave us our keys. Honestly I don’t know if I would ever purchase a Lennar home ever again. Buying a new home should be a stress free and repair free experience since we didn’t purchase a fixer upper but at the end it feels like we did which is pretty sad. ... More

The financing expirence was horrible, the walk through is a joke get the builder to fix issues is like pulling teeth and once you move-in good luck getting them to finish what they promised is a nightmare. They ensure quality and explain that is what you are paying for and it has all been a complete mess

I’ve contacted the builders multiple times about a hanging vent and also putting a front door prep hole and nothing just the run around about I’ll get to it and nothing I regret purchasing from y’all everything is cheaply made and designed

Promises were made....but not carried out. Fit&finish very poor. Did anyone care? Pretty much no. I would not accept any service people to come in and finish what was promised as I don't feel anything would be any better than now. No faith in your labor.

First, we had to wire the complete payment due for settlement almost one week prior to the date we sat down. Second, Lennar contacted us less than 48 hours prior to settlement that our date had been changed and they were unable to get the occupancy permit to close due to the July 4th holiday. Upon further investigation on the part of my wife it was determined that Lennar dropped the ball and they failed to get the permits signed in a timely fashion. Upon direct contact with the permitting office, my wife was able to get the documents signed that we needed and we did settle on the original date. We were most disappointed that Lennar was ok with letting us wait another week to settle after we already had things in motion with movers, cable company, scheduled time off from work and they already had our money. Third, we have been in the home for over a month now and we are still waiting for the items on our punch list to be completed from our final walk through. There is blue tape marked throughout the house and there seems to be no urgency in getting this completed. We will think twice before purchasing another home by this builder in the future ... More

Multiple delays during construction, poor communication, terrible closing experience, and many things required to be fixed or replaced- multiple times in some cases. I had a good experience with the actual Lennar seller throughout the process; however, every thing else has been poor.

They slap up homes so quickly that the workmanship is that of a high school kid in a building and trades class. The appliances appear to be all scratch and dent. The warranty repairs take forever and promises are made and not followed up on. Overall, I would not recommend Lennar to anyone. I thought Pulte was bad!

The purchase and mortgage process was quick, efficient, and Scott walked us through the mortgage process step by step. The walk through was organized, but a lot of "blue tape” areas were listed. Unfortunately, at the closing most of these blue tape areas were not addressed. We were led to believe they would be fixed while we signed our closing documents. Three months later, blue tape items are still not addressed. Living in the house, we have noticed there are a lot of deficiencies with the quality and finishing of construction. It has been a long and ongoing struggle to work with Lennar to get contractors to fix the issues. ... More

We had so-called celebration two weeks before closing, we found about 10 items that needed to be addressed. Nothing were done during that two weeks. Day before closing they promised these were going to be fixed right away. Had to leave the house for one week for ceiling repair. Have to leave the house another two days for all the damages that have done to the floor. Part of the garage door needed to be redone which will be in couple weeks. No accountability to what they do. Workmanship is so bad, I thought project manager job is to supervising the project. After two months, our trash can still don't have handle, no gutter to the house, hopefully will be installed before cold weather. Widow sizes are diffrent but they use same size blind which is short on one window, I can add many small items which I am not going to. I was so excited about my house that I convinced my daughter to buy a house in my neighborhood. Her house will be ready on November and I am so stressed out about it. Most of the item go be done with a little supervising. Now Lennard has to spend more money to fix these and also buyers get lots of unwanted stress. ... More

Very disappointed in Lennar and the volume of issues needing to be fixed after move-in, including lanai flooding, garage keypad not working, water not connected for dishwasher, sloppy workmanship. The sales rep (not Art) and Oleg (construction manager) did a hasty walk-through prior to close — Oleg was completely disinterested and made offensive remarks about this home not being “custom construction.” The pair essentially lied in telling us the repairs we were requesting would be completed “in the next few weeks.” That was May 5 and many of the repairs are yet to be made as of August 3. It is difficult to understand why Lennar wouldn’t do finishing work correctly, rather than sending out multiple vendors to do repairs. Have also found odd engineering such master bath blinds that operate only on the left side, which requires the homeowner to climb into the soaking tub to adjust/open the blinds — who is going to do that every day? The towel bar is also above the soaking tub, making it unusable, and the kitchen sink does not get hot water unless you run it for at least 5 minutes, and then it is “warm”, not hot. The repair person told me this is due to the tankless water system which does not accommodate the island kitchen sink. We have turned temp up but it is a marginal improvement — not right for a $600+K home. Additionally, the Genie garage door opener apparently cannot be programmed for temporary codes as Liftmasters can be — Liftmaster was listed on the original design sheet for the home, and the Lennar “smart home” kit includes a Liftmaster Ring product, so not sure how one is supposed to connect that to a Genie opener. Also a dead-end from Lennar regarding water run-off from gutters in front of garage that is causing deep holes to fill with water and all the mulch to be washed away. Lennar says the gutters are up to spec and they cannot fix further, but clearly having holes filling with water is an issue. ... More

The experience is real bad,first the sales person woman was rude ,after complaining to her supervisor it became good. The loan officer lady Rachel Davies is real pain and very rude. After closing the house we observed multiple issues.including door and cabinet needs to be replaced and it is almost 45 days still the doors and cabinets not replaced. Over all it is a very bad experience with Lennar.

One of the worst experience we ever had with Lennar. We had a bad experience dealing with salesperson Melinda to construction lead worker Louis said they would take care of the stuff but never did. We found a lot of water in the crawl space and pointed out sidewalk concrete damage during the construction workers. They trick us into accepting the defaults in the house and convince us they will take care of it but once we close the house they leave us in the dark. Honest advice we would not recommend anyone to buy from Lennar .

So many building issues are consistently flawed in all the models. In a 6 unit model, all have the same dry wall taping issues, same electrical issues and more. So many corners cut and final product does not reflect what is seen in the models

Purchasing: the house was appraised for 20k less than listed, which is a positive. Our financing representative convinced us to negotiate our offers, until we met at 5k over the appraisal. We later discovered, through our realtor, that she has never seen anyone pay more than $500 over appraisal. We definitely felt swindled. Realtor: The only services she provided were leaving a key available on a lock box, informing us of the discrepancy in appraisal price after we signed, and sending a low-quality video of a walkthrough of the house. We purchased virtually due to distance and work limitations. The effort provided did not justify the 6% Realtor Fee. House: Trash was left scattered throughout the property, including inside. Concrete, grout, liquid nails left on garage floor and driveway, very difficult to remove. Dried grout in guest bathroom sink. Material: Flooring is cheap, bowing in several areas when we arrived. Pending service request as of two weeks at this time. Crooked tile in master bathroom, cheaply thrown together. "Seat" in master shower is slanted enough that products fall occasionally. Transformer in garage was non-functioning, causing doorbell to be inoperable, had to be replaced within first week. Ring Doorbell was not present, had to request install. Outlet beneath kitchen sink only had one functioning outlet. Replaced within first week. X2 shelves missing from cabinets in kitchen. Service request pending for two weeks as of this time. Sticky residue from floor installation throughout hard floor surface. Several spots of flooring missing finish. No vent in pantry. Becomes warm and humid with door closed. Concrete blowout x2 beneath front door. Service request pending for two weeks as of this time. Garage: not insulated, due to being considered "not a living space". Considered "2 car", we have one sedan and SUV that barely fit together. Highest recorded temperature inside was 115, prior to us insulating it ourselves at own cost. Door is not motorized, installed after move-in at our expense. Appliances: Cheap models. Minimal functions. Purchasing Experience: Pressured to close early, with vague threat of "losing out on current model". As inexperienced as we were, we believed it. New Home Owner paperwork/bundle is still not provided to us. HOA has still not communicated with us yet. Pool: Small for relative size of community. Neighboring community (which we were told should not have access) visit daily. Pool secured with simple code. Water murky and trash overflowing on daily basis. Amenity Center: advertised, but nonexistent. Possibility of HOA lack of communication. There is no love in any of these houses, the fixes are cheap, and the company cuts corners on cost at nearly every opportunity. Examples: window screens are no longer included in new constructions. Only 20 ft of sod is provided to homeowners without the sprinkler systems (more must be added at new owners' expense to avoid yard erosion). No gutters are included on any of these homes. I will not be conducting business with Lennar again. I will not refer anyone, who I genuinely care about, to Lennar or any business associated with Lennar. The quality of work resembles an assembly line with minimal to no quality assurance or attention to detail. It is obvious Lennar builds houses as quickly and cheaply as possible and pressures potential customers into purchasing as quickly as possible, leaving no time to notice discrepancies. We were an ideal family for this business model, as we were purchasing from a distance and had not actually seen the house until we were provided with the low-quality video from the realtor. Novice and inexperienced homeowners are the ideal clients for them. ... More

We had a very bad experience with this property. We did online closing and later when we visited, we found the grass Sods completely dead and it was never watered. When enquirer about this with Lennar, they said the property is closed and it’s not their responsibility and also it will not cover in warranty as it’s outside. We also saw cracks in window and a big hole dug in the backyard which we reported and the response was snail paced. Really bad customer service and carelessness on part of Lennar

Stay on top of things, that you see wrong. Get a home inspector for pre drywall and final inspection. I have doors the stick because of the way they painted and hung the door. Over 6 door that are coming apart and peeling..I am disappointed quality of a over half a million home…

I been thinking about weather I should or not write a review but as I get to know my neighbors and we talk about our experience I think I should. Our closing experience in both the construction and financial aspects was not ideal. The construction manager was not very helpful and the quality of his work was not up to par. We have been constantly submitting claims for repairs. Builders excuse to things not getting done at closing was “because of COVID the trades are not as good”. I tell you the prince of a house has not declined but quality sure has.