Lennar Reviews

Call me if you really want to know. Most certainly the worst buying experience I've ever had. HORRIBLE customer service. & response times.

Water tank, dishwasher, emergency shower hinge, ungrounded rail. These shouldn’t occur with adequate quality control. Home experience stafff became invisible and unresponsive after sale, warranty filing process is inconvenient and closed so my property managers cannot file claims on my behalf.

Unfortunately the quality control of their homes is non-existent. I have found issues with EVERY SINGLE TRADE!! I am an engineer by trade and run a construction company so I do know how good work should look like. Flooring / Tiles: Floor in general is off level. Had to add shims to almost every piece of furniture in the house. Very poor quality installation. Also found a couple of broken tiles as well. Grout stained with compound and tiles stained with lines from the framer, Bathroom tiles were never properly grouted on the top edge on all 3 bathrooms. Tiles poorly grouted and poorly caulked where needed especially in the bathrooms. Framing / Drywall: Multiple walls off square, especially window and sliding door openings. Joint cracking in several locations. Upon installing blinds, you lower the blind and one edge has 1/8" light while the opposite end has close to 1" gap. They implement "skip trowel" finish which looks hideous in my opinion and it is just to hide all imperfections and poor installations so they can pay less for the work performed. Electrical: Very poor rough in, off level boxes and face plates. missing light bulbs, faulty wiring on 2 points, missing screws on faceplates. Very poor design, electrical meter is on the opposite side of the house to where the electrical panel is. Cable / Internet: Very poor design, the utilities junction box on the sidewalk is on the opposite side of there the house junction inlet box is. Therefore, to get the utility connected the cable company has to go across the driveway which means going under all the pavers, or going all the way around the back and to the other side of the house to avoid messing up the pavers. The second option is detrimental to the speed of the internet because we all know the longer the run from the hub to the box the greater the loss in signal strength. Plumbing: Loose fittings / connections creating leaks in cabinets under sinks in multiple locations. Poor rough-in resulting in crooked shower heads. Water heater had to be replaced a week after we moved in because there was a foul smell coming every time you open the hot water faucet. When replaced, they were draining the old one and milky water was coming out of it and smelled horrible. Cabinets: Extremely CHEAP quality, poorly painted and scratched all over the place. Dings and dents all over the place and one in particular severely cracked and they tried hiding it with spackle and paint. No soft close mechanisms which these days and for the price point should be standard. ZERO caulking on joints. some of them were drilled on the wrong location and hole was poorly spackled and painted to hide the mistake. Very cheap quality overall. Multiple areas missing paint, poorly painted and dripped paint. Glazing: No impact window option which in Florida should be standard. Missing screens and scratched glass. The silicone work on the glass around the frame is horrible. As if a toddler would've done it. Very disappointing. Masonry: Fortunately most of it is covered by drywall but what is exposed in the garage is not good. Blocks were not laid out level and multiple voids in mortar joints. They also installed cracked and chipped blocks. Pool: It took almost 10 weeks after walkthrough and 6 weeks after closing to be able to use the pool. First at walkthrough, the pool control panel was dead and some of the jet plastic fittings were missing. By closing time it was still not fixed. Then it turned out the wiring of the panel was faulty so they had to replace it. That took 2 weeks to get done. Once it was working the pool turned green. Apparently Lennar forgot to pay the bill so the pool company stopped performing the service. Once that was resolved the pump was leaking and needed to be replaced. Furthermore, the pool heater is not working properly and las but not least the overflow drain was installed a bit too low so the pool fill level line is low obviously because it can't be higher than the overflow elevation as that drain works by pressure equalizing. Pool fence missing pieces and hardware all rusted out. Pool light housing not flush with pool wall. 1/4" gap on 1 and 1/8" gap on the other. Paint: Very poor paint job overall. you can see brush marks, roller marks, drips... In addition to it, EVERY SINGLE HINGE has paint stains. The garage floor is another failure. It is advertised as "Epoxy Garage Floor" but in reality this is false advertisement because they just pain the slab gray and throw the flakes on it. The 3rd step which is the epoxy resin is skipped and Lennar says they don't include it. Therefore it shouldn't be advertised as epoxy garage floors. And since the painter got there after the plumber, the garage floor under the water heater is not painted either. Sprinkler: Sprinkler system control box has a lock and no keys were provided. Rain sensor post was painted green but paint job is horrible. They overplayed some portions of the actual sensor assembly and missed some spots on the actual post. HVAC: Apparently system was ran while the drywall crew was working because all the vents already full of compound dust so you can dust in the morning and you will have a small film already accumulated by the end of the day on all your furniture and belongings. Lennar's response is they don't clean ducts. So one buys a brand new home to get ducts full of compound dust, which by the way is extremely bad for your health. House delivered with no filter in the system either. Pest Control: House has a bad problem with ants and spiders. Ants are undermining pavers all over the driveway and spiders invading the fascia all around the house. Makes you wonder about that termite spray they should used under the slab. Pavers: Chipped, cracked, off level all over the place. 27 in the back and 36 on the driveway. Roofing: Gutters are full of roof tile debris. This is unbelievable! Carpentry: Door hinges, some are missing screws, and others were installed with an array ... More

We have warranty items that have been identified to Lennar to be fixed. Some items like exterior doors that let air come through the threshold. This is a critical defect that is making our energy cost spike that has yet to be fixed. We have to keep rugs in front of the doors to keep our heat in. Other items have yet to be given an estimated time of completion.

I was warned that Lennar builds cheap homes. I should have listened. It all started on the intial pre-closing walk with our superintendent Luis where we gave him a punch list of items that needed to be addressed. Six days later (1 day before our closing and when we were to move out of our current home) I was called by Luis and told he couldn’t get the majority of things done but he promised we would have them addressed starting the week after we closed. So, we trusted him and on Thursday, October 17 we closed and got our keys. That is the day we started noticing there was more than a punch list not completed. Take away: DO NOT CLOSE IF ITEMS ARE NOT COMPLETED Here is a run down of all the issues we have had: -All of our initial walk through items were pushed to our 30 day list forcing us to take numerous days off of work to meet all the trades. 45 days after closing and we are still getting all of the trades out to fix the laundry list of items. Some of them look at the issue and say oh. My work order doesn’t say that. Sorry we will have to come back. -Sewer backed up into house at 8:30 pm two weeks after we closed. -AC condenser unit froze on move in day and was so loud that you could hear it from across the home -Master bedroom air vent was closed on walk through so we wouldn’t hear that when opened it sounded like an airplane was taking off and so that the other rooms could get air (this has now been band aid fixed with adjusting the dampener so less air goes there). We were recently told that was the best they could fix it but we will see how the house cools when it’s 120* outside -grout in tile is all different colors throughout house. We were told on initial walk the cleaning team would fix this. Didn’t happen. (waiting to see how they will band aid this one) -Front door isn’t square so when a breeze blows wind howls in and our hallway sounds like the set of a scary movie. -Electrical wiring is so cheap in home that when you vacuum your room the lights flicker (electrician said it’s to code and completely normal) The only positive in this process as been our current superintendent, Dan, who is amazing an an asset to Lennar. Too bad he wasn’t the one who did our closing! ... More

My experience with purchasing a new build from Lennar was horrible and will Never do it again. They were not easy to work with, their were to many people involved and was extremely confusing, so many different people and not clear on what they part of the transaction they were calling from. The impression I got was, nothing is changing or negotiating with price, colors, etc, and come to find out the house was painted the wrong color, and did a crappy job repainting. They also had to remove the stone at the front of the house as well, because that was the wrong color as well. The subcontractors didn’t pay much attention, but to build and go onto the next house. While visiting the home while being framed, there were quite a few pieces of 2x4’s that were split and should’ve been replaced, to where they looked like they would crack as the home settles. I’m still having issues with the home, they said they fixed these issues but Im still dealing with them. The tone that was set by Lennar was, if it’s an issue, don’t purchase the house and move on. We purchased grass/landscape and all it was, was grass that had no shape to it, sprinklers that weren’t working so some grass died, and tones of bark with no weed fabric under. You’d think for $7,900 at least weed paper would be provided. The interior of the house supposedly had been clean for move in, Nope! The windows were filthy inside and paint on the floors throughout the whole house, which wasn’t noticed until I vacuumed and mopped the home. Everything was as cheap as they could get to put inside and outside the home. There is much more and I could keep going on but see it now as a waste of time because that’s how they do things. Our neighbor moved in and had a gas leak behind their stove and couldn’t figure out exactly where the smell was coming through until the gas company came out So dissatisfied and will never go through this again with Lennar. ... More

Lennar people had multiple mistakes on closing contracts and it was not easy to get is all corrected as their first reaction is blaming instead of accepting the mistakes and working on corrections. Home was handed over with many issues and I was only able to get some of them fixed after many requests.

I would like to express my dissatisfaction with the performance of the underwriter. I found their work to be highly disorganized, with significant delays in both requesting necessary documents and providing approval. This caused considerable confusion and frustration on my part. Due to these issues, I was seriously considering canceling my purchase. I would recommend that no further assignments be given to this underwriter, as their performance did not meet expectations. I have decided to submit feedback regarding my unsatisfactory experience with Lennar Mortgage.

Got a 2 story new home it's 1,950 square feet and they installed a 2 1/2 ton unit that does not cool properly the way it should they have gone out 4 times and still can't find solution and they know that the problem is that the unit is to small for house doent cool it at all down stairs till this day they haven't resolved anything and it's been over a month!!!!

This is my third Lennar home, and to be honest, if it weren’t for my commitment to the Next Gen model, I wouldn’t have purchased from Lennar again. The lack of customization options and the smaller yard compared to my previous homes have been quite disappointing. I’ve also experienced several warranty issues. While they are typically resolved quickly, the quality of the repairs seems to have declined in recent years. Additionally, my assigned sales representative has been unresponsive, and it’s been nearly two months since I moved in, and I still haven’t received a mailbox key which is now supposed to come from the sales office ... More

Do not use Lennar financing. Didn't offer any other products except 30 year for a 1 month bridge loan. Cost me several thousand dollars fir a point ad closing cost. Have your own financing Finding several cosmetic issues that need fixing. Response time for mediacom for an internet problem caused by chesapeak was awful Gourmet kitchen has no pull out drawers No ceiling fans or towel racks installed with spec house. Dead sod and the list goes on.

Not understanding how they sold my loan to another finance company after I told them before they do that let me know and I will go to my credit union that was very unprofessional once they got the money for the house they didn't care about nothing else

Get an inspector and make sure Lennar fixes all issues found BEFORE closing. Lennar will find every excuse to not resolve any issues after the deal is done, even with the one year warranty

This was a horrible home purchase experience. It was hard to get a person to call you back. We had to do a virtual closing and it was awful, the first person we called at the Virtual Closing hung up on use when we didn't get connected fast enough. Then we had to find someone at Lennar who could tell how to get back into the Que since this was already paid for by Lennar. We couldn't ask any questions because it was just the notary on the call. Horrible. After we got moved in our air conditioner did not cool! Lennar has you scan a code if you have any problems and that called us back to help us was rude. The air conditioner had a leak in a coil. It took 3 trips from the air conditioning company to finally be repaired. There are a few minor problems in the house but don't want to call and have them fixed due to the unwillingness of the person we had that received the service request not being helpful! ... More

The sales team has completely gone wrong on day1, They gave wrong info on which are basement lots and which are slab homes and completely messed up the sales during 1st week. The Mortgage team communication was worst as they did not give the loan estimates in time and just don't respond to customer calls. The quality of construction is worst and not up to mark of Lennar. Overall Lennar failed to deliver a quality product from sales to finish line!!

The sales person was not helpful at all, most of the time she doesn't answer back or for the few times she did she was giving wrong information, my new neighbor had the same issue as well. Otherwise some of the floors in the house are not well leveled and also I fund some studs and trush buried under the sod and makes me question the quality of work and not trust your company. One good thing, the QA person who was in the final walk-through inspection was knowledgeable and had a good attitude.

Seems like sales was not interested in our needs; just getting homes off the books. If we were told that they were having a sales event in July, we would have waited. We wanted the Waverly & got the largest home we could afford, the Osprey. We didn't know some of the larger homes may have a bonus room upstairs; didn't know that the there were more homes available other than the models. Would have liked to have brought our pool table, but sold because no room in Osprey. Sales person said when we do a Reverse to Purchase, would only have to put down half as much...LIE...ended up having to put down more. Wasn't told that A/C unit would be in back & outside our bedroom; the models show on the side. Back-flo is right next to it. With the small yards this takes away from our outdoor space. With Capital Gains, we can't move for 2 years. Seems like Lennar doesn't care about the homeowner's quality of life Very disappointed. We have neighbors that feel the same way. ... More

Poor comms, workmanship, concierge (Nicole) argumentative 11 properties purchased to date; this was the worst experience.

We did not have full disclosure at the time of purchase they tried to make it right but we were past the beginning stages.

The GC (T) was very responsive in all emails UNTIL we met in person and, in our opinion, saw the buyers were a same sex married couple. From that point on he wouldn’t even talk to my husband and I when we had issues. He would only talk past us to the other Lennar associates. He would not even make eye contact and would walk 10ft ahead of us while TRYING to discuss issues. A total of 3 separate offensive interactions. I voiced my issues to the Lennar staff and my realtor about wanting to be done and pull out. Then magically T was artificially friendly and personable. I’m glad I did a 3rd party inspection and additionally did my final walk with a general contractor of my own to address all of his craftsmanship shortcomings and contradict his “within industry standards” BS. This plus the constant follow up with my mortgage guy to supply the documents he said he was going to send, I wouldn’t wish this company on an enemy and fully intend to share my encounter with anyone looking to buy a house. #FHEO ... More

The drywall and painting company are beyond bad and there are many homeowners that are dissatisfied. I have worked in the production building world for 20 years of my 40 and have not experienced the poor quality and lack of professionalism of the drywall/painting company. It is the number 1 topic at all community gatherings. Unfortunately, Lennar spends a lot of money on customer experience and one vendor is giving a bad review of Lennar.

Honestly, there were a lot of communication issues during the home buying process with LENNAR. I was especially disappointed with the construction manager Cody. There were several issues with the home that needed to be fixed. We brought up the issues during the walk throughs. Whenever we showed up, Cody was still working on the issues . It was disappointing to hear that Cody stated we were the ones delaying the processes when he could not even get his workers to fix the issues in the home. Lennar should have workers readily available and the Construction manager should not be stressing over fixing the issues. We also were unable to complete the final walk through on time as the home was not ready when we showed up to approve the corrections. I would not want someone else to go through what we experienced. Lastly, there was also an issue where our washer hoses went missing. We presented the problem to lennar and weren't helped to correct the issue... ... More

Pay particular attention to small details - point them out every time you get a chance and if given the chance put them in writing

I will not call this experience a pleasant one. Working level team is not at all sympathetic towards buyer. They don’t have problem solving / reducing mindset. From day one things didn’t go in a professional ways. They collected all information from my agent and later on denied to pay any commission. This list is very long . However the above point was completely unprofessional. Construction quality is also having question mark . I have submitted few complaints but one of them is most important. Hoping a good resolution.

It's a good community when you build your house try to keep the engineers who they are when you move them around there are a lot of differences in the construction of the house so there is a lot of irresponsible behavior from your engineers and to this day I still haven't got the key to my garage door key missing. Also I didn't get any painting code or color code for the inner wall. You didn't give this at the time of closing. You engineers don't know. After asking, they showed me with open arms. So I can't even go to the paint shop and get a sample of it. When you made the concrete base, it would have been much better if you had put a little more concrete in the width and length of the step of the back door that goes outside the house. If I hire a local contract now, how many dollars will he charge me? It is because of the difference in your one job that Homoners have to spend so much money. It's just that, I'm not happy anyway ………. ... More