Lennar Reviews

The Lennar experience can be broken into a couple categories: buying and construction. The buying experience was frustrating and unprofessional. Our home delivery was delayed by 6 months, and the permit process was out of Lennar’s control, but the communication breakdown was unprofessional. We changed our point of contact four times, and were left in the dark unless we reached out for updates. We could anticipate that the home-building process may get pushed to the right, but the lack of communication was downright awful. The lack of communication and misguidings by Lennar was infuriating. Once we moved into our home, the quality of Lennar’s work was found to be objectionable. We are generally low maintenance and understand that some issues may be more annoyances and everything will not be perfect. Construction is not perfect, and good and even subpar workmanship is expected. Within three months of moving in, we had every trade back in the house to address warranty request items. But the cherry on the top was the leak found from our master bedroom bathroom. This confirmed whatever quality control and quality assurance process in place is a failure. Lennar’s value of “Why Buy New” states to “avoid immediate maintenance, struggle with time consuming repairs, uncover ignored and hidden problems.” The leak clearly serves to undermine those values. On top of these above mentioned items, the frustration grew because we have two boys under 2, so aside from this being a professional issue, it’s a personal issue. The warranty department has been a breath of fresh air. A couple managers did their best to give us fair compensation based on the experience we’ve encountered. But the buying and construction experience is not something we would want a homebuyer to go through. Spending as much as we did on a brand new home, we did not expect this from Lennar. ... More

Cindy our sales agent was great. We were told we could close after we got back from vacation, the sales manager than told us we couldn't and we needed to close before we left. After speaking with several people, they honored the original agreement. We did a walk through with the agent, there were alot of touchup and other items not working, to which I was told, would be corrected. When we got back from vacay and went to see the items, they were not only corrected, the person lied and said they were. They used the wrong paint to touch up the whole house, the doors weren't lined up properly and I am still correcting a main water leak that was there when we moved in and that has cost me a fortune to correct in not just labor but water bills. Someone broke the automatic blinds, to which I was told, "oh well." It took weeks to get someone out to get the lutron and ruckus working. The paint for the house is unavailable and we are borrowing from neighbors to correct the awful job they did in the house. The floors were scratched and they told me too bad. The refrigerator didn't work and they told me if I bought the filter and that didn't fix it they would come out and fix it. I bought the filter, still wasn't working. They told me that they didn't tell me that and to call GE. Someone stole my Keurig part for the refrigerator and I had to replace that. When I brought this up to the sales manager, she said I got the house for the $15k less than the list price so I should be happy. It has been an awful experience. I have bought brand new houses before, and being a Realtor, I sell brand new houses, I have never had this much trouble and been this disappointed. ... More

This is actually a really good efficient home, the problem is the finish work is horrible. They really need to have strong leaders to hold their sub contractors to a higher standard. You just can't push everything off to warranty and inconvenience the new home owner that have to wait on contractors to show up, if they show up and the extra mess it causes after you have already moved in. We love our home we really do great layout energy efficient, but all the extra time and mess to go through after you close is ridiculous. It is 3 months after we closed and we still have a ton of items on our list that still need to be fixed. I am cutting them some slack because I know the labor shortage that is out there, but having to be at home for a 4 hour window and no one show up is totally unacceptable. No call no nothing just a no SHOW. I will say they are trying to get it all fixed but it is just not the right way to do it. ... More

Don't sign papers until after they lay sod!!!!!

Was not happy with the fact that there were no choices, just packages. I took the highest priced packages because of the size of the floor tile, Loved package 3D except for the floor. I wanted the floors in package 3B (Same price package). Was told it was not going to happen. It was a really simple change at no extra expense to Lennar, but I was turned down. I understand they're their to make a profit but my floor change would not have affected their bottom line or the time line to finish the house. There were a few other issues along the way that I don't even want to get into.

The mortgage process didn’t go smoothly

House was rushed and you can tell by the details in the finish and not enough time to review work prior to close.

Quality control is severely overlooked and non existent. Very disappointed in the process.

After my experience, I would never buy or recommend anyone buy a Lennar product. From a distance it looks great, but when you actually look closely, the workmanship is horrible. In the 4 months of living in my new construction home I've had a flood, ceiling leaks, and a loss of hot water due to a gas regulator issue. While most of these issues have been fixed, it was a battle and shouldn't happen to begin with in a new construction home.

Lack of communication throughout the home building process from the Construction Manager and Salesperson. Many things missed or shortcuts taken that I had to ask to go back and address. Flooring options are subpar, as we have already had to replace the cheap engineered hardwoods they use. I will think twice in the future prior to using Lennar.

Poor quality of materials, framing bad so walls crooked and cabinets hung crooked. Cheap recessed lights and cheap cabinets. Never experienced a builder that does standby their work and do a 12 month punch list. Still issues outstanding and things not working correctly and I only closed 4 months ago.

Sales guy who originally sold us the home- fantastic! Everything else from there- terrible. Lennar lending is terrible I would not recommend them to my pets! Lots of shady backdoor stuff going on with them. The build of the house is ok, lots of little things they don't do which are basic things in my opinion- sealing granite and floors, just to name a few. Once home is purchased and need ur repairs done- ha! Good luck with that. Our building manager was NEVER anywhere to be found. Took 3 months to complete punch list... which by the way was supposed to be done BEFORE closing. If I had to do it over again I wouldn't look into a Lennar sorry. ... More

Entire process in terms of signing/closing was ok but communication could be better. Construction team is very poor in communication and status update and can’t keep up with meeting timings. Overall quality, workmanship and materials were very poor. It is surely not matching what Lennar wow on their website about quality. We had many issues in terms of quality of overall construction. Right after closing within 10 days of living, we discovered shower leak with lose plumbing and dripping water in a bedroom. Also, wall/ceiling bumps visible in all rooms, floor unevenness/gaps/scratches, cabinet gaps/scratches are the few examples. Has to deal with warranty from day 10. Even after 4 months of living, issues are still worked on by warranties. Warranty response to all of these issues were good but sad part is, it is taking very very long to fix those issues. Many reschedule of warranty work happened during fix. Even after closing we feel like we are still living in construction/toxic zone with scrubbing/painting and wood work going on in new home. No doubt warranty is trying to fix the issues but if construction team had done better job with quality, it would not only save lots of time for buyer but also reduce lots of frustration after spending entire life saving. Lennar try to save $$ during construction and wasting everyone’s time. For warranty it is their part of job to fix issues but for buyers, it is just waste of time and lots of frustration. ... More

Once the buying process was completed - Lennar has not upheld the convenance & restrictions of the neighborhood. They don't hold trades accountable for their lack of performance. And the property management team is lacking. It would help if tasks were completed successfully the first time instead of making promises that issues/concerns will get better.

Disclosure about flood insurance and the rental townhomes directly across the street from my house we were never informed about these issues. If we had known we were in a rental community we would not have bought, the agent in the model was not informative.

First, when we requested for an independent inspection, the time scheduled was changed and then work continued before the inspection was done. When non-code items were found, the builder tried to state that they were within code and our inspector had to send them the code for them to change it. Even after this code notice, we have noticed that our neighbors' houses have outside electric covers has not been changed. It almost seem to tell us that unless one complains or point out a problem that only that person's problem will be solved, instead of every house built there after. Also, Lennar's mortgage had promised us that they could secure us a VA loan for us and then later told us there were unable. And by closing on a Saturday, they would not allow us to work with another lender. ... More

Expensive for the quality of workmanship

escrow was horrible....we were in escrow forb8 month while house being built. They waited until the LAST WEEK to let is know we need few more documents. Then we're scrambling to find before we closed. Ended up closing after initial closing date because of it.

I would never recommend a Lennar home. We had to buy from them because we wanted to be in the neighborhood where they were the only builder. Within one week of closing, shingles were blowing off the roof and within 3 weeks we were catching buckets of water from the leaks in the roof/ bathroom vents. I could go on for a long time but hopefully you get the idea. They are responsive to issues because thats how they manage their business, by never doing things right the first time.

Cindy at east highland Lilburn the new house sale agent was very unprofessional never called me for walk through never returned any of my calls Very bad experience. First time my walk through got cancelled she never informed me second time she never confirmed my walk through time. She were not helpful at all.

I quite disappointed in what I'm learning about the vacation home part of the community. Very noisy, crime, etc.

It is clear that the point was to complete our house as soon as possible and cut corners. We were given the run around on everything and all involved Lennar employees were more interested in other things than helping us. It takes forever for things under warranty to get replaced and have someone come out to do so. Th Customer Warranty Rep said multiple times "thats all you can do" on things link the staining of the railing, the crappy wood used for our front step, and pretty much everything else. Also, the contractors they used are not very good and they do not care and stonewall to avoid fixing things. ... More

See above review regarding punch list and warranties.

We love the home despite the fact that we are still having to deal with punch list issues prior to closing now that we’ve been in the home for 4 months. The Lennar agent our realtor worked with was not trustworthy come to find out on things we were told early on when we decided to buy. Lennar management is horrible! I wouldn’t ever seek out to work with this builder ever again.

Experienced numerous problems from purchase to closing. Did not receive things we were told were included in house. Couldn't even get in house for a couple of days after closing. Still unresolved problems. Overall was not a good experience.