Lennar Reviews

Don’t expect much. Quick sale. Delayed completion then bullied into signing off with very short notice. Crooked walls horrible stucco job. Cheap construction. Now being out of state we are left to pick up the pieces. Since our on- line closing we have NEVER heard from our sales agent and offered no help. Shameful indeed

First of all, I want to say our Customer Service representative, Hayley, has done a lot to pull these marks back from the brink of zeros. Now that I have that out of the way, let me begin. We had to do everything remote as we lived out of town at the onset of our decision to buy. First of all we weren’t informed that by going to see a house without a realtor that we were forced to complete the process without a realtor. This in the end seemed to be an effort to take advantage of us since we were treated like someone who needed representation and didn’t have any. The communication was lacking and for people doing business on the other side of the country- 3,000 miles and 3 time zones away there was a need for breathing room on our part as the customer not Lennar’s. With buying plane tickets as a necessity for closing, more than a email was necessary to explain the walk through, closing, etc. the language is different in terms of what happens at closing and what we can expect so we we’re constantly chasing and playing catch up. This is not to be expected on such a massive purchase with such a system that Lennar has in place to go through the process. The homebuyer aka customer should never feel like cattle. Just saying. Now, the construction. We decided on a house already in the process, no problem there, but we received exactly one update on our house. Next the finish. Our house was a disaster when we finally got to see it the day of closing. There were partially painted walls; outlets over painted; doors not painted; paint chips missing; a microwave and trash in our garage; 10 screws/nails on our garage floor (and counting); drawers installed improperly; doors/drawers that wouldn’t shut; a light falling out of the ceiling; trim work not completed; drywall not properly taped; dust everywhere; and many more. The construction manager had the nerve to say “oh well they had their chance to inspect”. I just bought an $800K home that you half way finished and rushed to get out without doing any basic walks let alone a full one (by the way I still have not met the building superintendent) and you have the nerve to say you won’t come and fix what you didn’t finish. ... More

Overall extremely challenging to communicate with the lennar team. Multiple people all responsible for different branches none of them communicate clearly, causing lots of frustration.

Below par quality. Lot of cosmetic issues. You charge premium price but your house quality is far below than premium From the issues I see looks like there is no quality inspection done for cosmetic issues before handing over to customer. Pathetic paint job. Grade C. Cleanliness issues Take the accountability. Value the customer and be respectful.

I purchased a single family home a +55 Active Community and would not ever purchase from Lennar again. Attention to detail and simply doing the job right the first time is lacking. 1. There was not a model for me see so I relied on assurances from the salesperson about certain aspects of the home. The model I toured had large lanai similar size to the one on my house. The model has a hose spigot. I specifically asked the salesperson if my house would have one and was told yes. After the house went up and I inquired why the spigot wasn't there, I was told no. 2.I have doors that open onto each other meaning the door handle from one door is already denting the opposite door. When the door warranty person came out he advised one of the doors should have been a pocket door. In two other places where the doors open onto one another he advised the swing of the door should have been reversed. Lennar's response is, just because our warranty person makes a recommendation we are not bound to make the correction. The result will be that I end up tearing a hole in the door. 3. When I moved in the outlets on the kitchen wall did not work. The warranty electrician had to cut a hole in the dry wall and install a junction box because one was not installed in the build. That meant another warranty person had to come back repair the drywall and paint. 4. A couple days after moving in I smelled gas in the cabinet under the gas cook top. The gas company came out and showed me that the connection had been properly sealed - thus the leak.5. The stainless still kitchen sink is horribly scratched. At the time of final walk through there was so much dust and an dirt in the sink I did not see the scratches. A warranty person came once an rubbed out some of the scratches, I am waiting on a second visit. 6.There is no brush on the bottom of the sliding glass door so bugs come in. Daily, there is as much dirt in the tracks inside as outside the door. 7. The MBD and FR ceiling and light fan were wired so that both the light and the fan were on the same switch when you should be able to turn on one or the other. Meaning... yet another call for and trip from a warranty person to correct the issue. Every trip by a warranty person is another request and another day I have to arrange to be home with people traipsing in and out of the house. 8. The house was left was dirty. The grout in the tile floor is filthy. It should be a light color almost white and it is gray with dust and dirt. Looks like they laid the floors and failed to cover them while additional work was being done. After closing I removed one of the upper and lower cabinet next to the refrigerator to have a bar area built. When we removed the lower cabinet we found the cabinet had been installed on the cement floor. They should have extended the kitchen tile and then installed the cabinet. Additionally the floors in the showers were not cleaned after construction. ... More

There is a lack of pride in workmanship and construction of my home that shows in every level. i feel like i have been robbed. buying a new home is supposed to be a happy once in a life time experience, instead i am spending every day trying to have too many things replace or repaired. on a positive note, the warranty department is excellent and is working hard to rectify all issues.

Home was a mess.. floors were so dirty, notch for front door lock was off causing door not to lock properly, many floor tiles without mud underneath (hollow sound), lanai light covered by drywall, electrical outlet in attic missing, garage floor has deep embedded lines in concrete, 2nd lanai light not connected to truss (couldn’t hang fan), poor overall craftsmanship

Good day, Over all the loan process with Lennar mortgage was pretty much straight forward. Kim and Susan were Johnny on the spot telling me when I missed something or they needed something else and I think we work pretty well together. As for the support for other Lennar staff some was good and some was very poor. Sometimes I would call and ask a question and no one would call me back. My wife called and asked, in the brochure it shows the house comes with a refrigerator, washer and dryer and wanted to know about this. But as of today we have not received an answer about why our house did not come with this items. This is a text I sent to one of Lennar employees; Could you please stop by sometime in the next couple of days (and my address) this is his reply, What are you needing? I’m pretty busy tied up with a lot of home. At another time, I showed other employee a letter from the water company that I received about the Backflow Prevention assembly that Lennar had install and he said someone from Lennar will contact you about this, no one contacted us about the letter. With no one calling me back or getting back to me, I just stopped asking Lennar employees anything, I just do what I have to do to get things done. As for the house itself, at first it all looked pretty good, now that we are in, we are seeing all the mistakes. The good part is, in my case it all seems to be little stuff (attention to detail stuff) like; paint all in the wrong places, on the carpet, on the tile, on windows. The grass, trees and bushes were in bad sharp, about a 4 x 16 foot strip of grass was dead, one of the tree was broken off at the top and 2 of the bushes were dead. I texted one of Lennar employees, he did not call or text back. So after about 4 or 5 days I called him and he answered, I asked about the warranty on the trees and grass again and he said that there was no warranty on trees and grass, that’s pretty strange since Lennar pay a lot of money for these items. I think the main reason why the grass and bushes were dead were because they should have been planted 2 to 3 days before closing, not 3 to 4 week before closing where no one takes care of them. As for the sprinkler system I had to dig out 3/4 quarters of the heads so the grass could get the proper watering that it needs. As for the sidewalk, big chunks of cement on the sidewalk. If a kid was riding his/her bike and hit one of those chunks of cement they could crash and get hurt. All or most of this items should have been caught by you Quality Control (QC) team or at least the person who signed off on that certain project (paint and grout all over the master shower, whoever signed off on the shower, stating the shower is complete, should have seen all the paint and grout, I wear glasses and I seen the paint and grout without my glasses on). No A/C filter in the Air Conditioning unit, who knows how long ago the A/C unit was instilled and running without a filter. Your QC person needs to go back to Quality Control school and get recertified. I know there is a Quality Control school because I was one of the instructors at one of the schools for the DOD (Department of Defense). The big questions is, would we recommend Lennar homes to other buyers and the answer is NO. With no one calling us back, and text like, I’m busy, what do you need. The bottom line is I was a customer before I bought the house and I’m still a customer after I closed on the house. The only difference is that after closing I can write good things about Lennar or I can write bad things about Lennar with firsthand experience. Here is a good example of your great service; I received an email from Kim on 8 March 2023 stating that my loan will be sold. I emailed Kim on or about 2 April asking about this and here it is the middle of April 2023…. and pro for the course, I did not received a reply back. ... More

Closing date more than three months after promised

Lennar closes on properties way before they are ready. Many kitchen cabinets were damaged, drywall, painting and stucco was very sloppy, back lanai was never put on until a month after closing and half the electrical outlets don’t work.The list goes on. The repairs are being addressed fairly quickly but is a slow process as each repair is a different tradesperson. It appears to be a fairly well built home but the quality of their workmanship in their finished product is lacking.

To be fair to the builder, my ratings above are based on not having experienced having a production home built for me. I was expecting some interaction with the builder during the construction process: there was effectively none, it was discouraged. I believe to have a better understanding now why that is the case. Lennar does not build the home; one of the many subcontractors do in a very organized, time efficient manner. However, I believe the quality of materials and, particularly, workmanship suffer. The priority for Lennar is to bring the house to closure as soon as possible. The quality of workmanship only matters if the buyer notices a quality issue, which in our case only happened on the penultimate day (during the NHO less than 24 hours prior to close). Again, Lennar does not encourage interaction between builder and buyer. The subcontract Lennar has with the landscaping company is an example of questionable materials (perhaps not materials but seemingly no accountability). A sizable portion of a neighbor's back lawn was not sodded but as it was not noticed prior to close that portion of the lawn remains without sod. In summary, it is too early to determine the 'value' of the home. I worry, however, in not many years to come as the floor boards rattle, the kitchen cabinets deteriorate and inferior quality materials need a refresh / replacement, the answer to the quality question will be 'one star'. ... More

Avoid new home builds. Too many corners cut and materials are of poor quality. Our backyard is disappearing with each downpour as they failed to grade the property appropriately. Too many people are only worried about their bonus and not the quality of the product they sell. Buyer Beware. Buy used as someone else has repaired what the builder failed to repair.

Processing team were always late in updating me especially the closing never told me till I called the office. Very poor communication

This house has been a nightmare! Two weeks after closing we noticed black mold in the owners bathroom. Lennar responded quickly to mitigate the problem but took 3 weeks and multiple vendors to identify the source of the water leak. Tiles, vanity and shower subfloor had to be removed. Two months after closing we still do not have use of the bathroom or our bedroom due to the continuous state of construction. Additionally, a week after the bathroom problem was identified, the garage started taking in water. Again, it took 4 vendors to identify source of the leak, blocks and floor cement escavated, leak fixed and floor and wall reconstructed. All of this was happening while they were addressing the dozen other tickets submitted for damaged items, lack of detail and sloppy workmanship. Poor quality construction. Disappointed for sure. The only shining light is Wendy. She is responsive and easy to work with during this difficult process. ... More

Lennar representatives are very well trained to make up answers on the go - this is everyone else’s, customer service, construction manager, etc. As we get close to closing their objective is to just get your signature to close and not really fix things that were found during inspection. A lot of the work seems to be done in a hurry and does not meet the exaggeration of Lennar representatives. Overall, they are not trustworthy!

House is a good value for the money, but the issue is that nothing in the house was functional of done correct. Light fixtures don't work, I have to hire an electrician to correct them. No crown molding, all exterior light fixtures are loose. Nothing was ready on time. Water main broke on the side of my house and toilets overflowed all over my floors. I am very disappointed. House looks good on outside but beware of how things are put together on the inside. Shoddy craftmanship.

Closing was delayed many times. Last time delay was the day before closing and being out of state we had no place to go. It seems once you had the money, we had wired full payment 2 weeks before closing, that's all you care about. Lennar Wanted documents signed when items were not complete, just trust them. Closed in February still have a check list of items not completed. Amenities still not complete but HOA fees are still collected.

After a delay of about four months we got close to closing and there was another 10 day delay. but we were still haunted about monies and paperwork for closing. Then when closing was actually imminent we had our walk through, After much follow up and nagging the punch list was promised to be completed before the closing. It wasn't and we had to resort to other means to make the unit move in ready. After all that we still didn't have hot water for 2 weeks. Lennar is still out of control

They really don’t put effort in making a home feel “new” there are too many things that need adjusting. There was even some major things. The people who come in to fix the issues don’t show up on time nor do they respect your home and just try to make it look “good enough”. The walls are also way too thin.

After many years of seeing Lennar home sites throughout California, my wife and I decided to purchase one. One of the things we saw on all signs was Lennar’s “ei” everything included. My experience is nothing is included. The level of “cheap” rings thru day after day. We’ve only closed escrow less than two months and are having issues. To be fair maybe this is common for all home builders to be somewhat cheap? I would not recommend Lennar to anyone, based on our experience.

from a purchase point of view, our experance with Ricky in sales was amazing, very detailed and accomedating, however, dealing with corprate closing / title team is less then desirable and needs major attension in future with new home owners

Do not close until everything is what a new home should be. We have had a bad experience.

All the warranty problems are difficult to address and fix Bad comunication

On the date of escrow closing on 1/30/23 we supposed to get the keys to the home after the final walk through at 10am. Lennar made us wait the whole entire day then they finally handed us the keys after 7pm. We have purchased several brand new homes with various builders but never experienced such escrow problems. It was a shock to us that Lennar hardly fixed anything since the first walk through. We were so stressed out because we had to be at home every day for 3 consecutive weeks to allow Lennar to do the fixes but unfortunately Lennar had too many problems. Workers showed up at home without any tools, they did not know what to do because there was no Lennar supervision around. Worst yet the workers were very young especially not speaking a word of English. This kind of episodes kept repeating for 3 weeks long and up until last week things barely got done. We wanted Lennar to refund our money so we can buy a home somewhere else with better quality and timely maner of home delivery as promised. We have experienced tremendous amount of stress and bad experience with Lennar. If we have to write it would be pages long. It would be best that Lennar reach out to us so we can detail our bad experience. We have text messages to prove our efforts in communication with Lennar. ... More

For the past 20 years, I have worked in Real Estate and in purchasing my own home, one would think I would have a better experience. I closed because I needed to but today, my issues are still not resolved. I chase to get things done and no one responds. Worse experience for any homeowner. The quality of the workmanship on my home is horrible.