Lennar Reviews

The construction manager is just in a rush to get it over than releasing a quality product. I find huge number of issues on daily basis and have to keep raising tickets which is really overhead for me.

Quality of the build is much worse than a few years ago; pressured into closing even when home had many unfinished or damaged parts such as no mirrors/ shelves and broken windows and cabinets. After closing, very hard to get a timely response on warranty request to fix the problems. Would not buy another Lennar home again

During the buying process we never received updates from the building manager, although we were promised that we would receive weekly updates. At the initial walk-through, there was a long list of punch items to be done. We were promised they would be done by the closing the following Wednesday, when we arrived at the closing walk-through 90% of items were still incomplete, including zero appliances. We agreed to close with the understanding that all issues would be completed by Friday. 2 months later we still have a long punch list of items that are not complete. We never met the construction manager, even though we asked multiple times to meet with him. I could go on but I have little confidence that this survey will receive any attention. ... More

Watch out for the quality of the build. Look at a finished home other than the models.

I really hate to speak poorly of any company but I do wish that someone has warned me about Lennar. They are a big company building lots of houses and it’s easy to get lost. They have lots of small divisions each of which own an element of your selling/building/closing experience. It was really hard to know who to call for what or how to get updates (we lived out of state). The final walk through and resolution of outstanding issues was terrible! I can’t recommend them in good conscience.

The model home (McGinnis) and our builder rep (Suzette) brought my wife and i to grow fond of Lennar. We had a great first impression however, soon after little things start to make one see it’s not that great. The process and stages of building the home are subpar at best. The trades are awful. Lennar’s business model is flawed. To allow a customer to watch and entire house built from the ground up and not allow them to meet their general contractor to discuss building issues is a complete lack of care for any customer relations. Lennar’s idea is to tell your builder rep (who isn’t up to speed on building processes as a GC would be) and then have the builder rep tell the GC. This causes delays in communication and issues with a trade does not get corrected before the next phase. The amount of excuses one can give to obvious mishaps is blatant lack of care. Only when the customer has to contact the county permit department or one has to stress their voice does something get corrected. Don’t believe when they tell you they will fix your walk through check list when you close because then you become a priority to management. That’s crap. We have been in our home for 2 months and we still don’t have blinds in our living room, our exterior paint is still not corrected. Our driveway pavers have not been corrected (the excuse one GC gave is laughable at best). The shady work that goes on by trades is ridiculous and one must constantly check the work and make it known when the work is not suffice. A home which costs over $600k should have a GC who has the time to make sure the trades are doing the job correctly. Lennar’s business model does not allow this to happen. Our builder rep was very nice and helpful as much as she could be. At times, the communication is delayed and not acceptable. She does care about her customers and does help with issues can however, the GC needs to be more involved with the home process and not the builder rep. I feel Lennar could handle the building process better as it relates to customer oriented communication. It’s quite evident once a home is closed Lennar distances themselves and having issues fixed (which were supposed to be fixed prior to closing) becomes daunting. ... More

Still waiting for plenty of work to be done that is supposed to be under warranty. We closed on our home on Aug.29th,2022, and still not 1 issue has been taken care of. I will not be promoting Lennar to any of my family or friends. Under responses to issues it wouldn't let me leave zero stars so i had to put 1.

My experience from start to competition was not experience I ever want again. When buying a home for 1/2 million dollars, You expect it to be finished before being pushed into closing. As for items not completed. Light in master toilet, Broken bricks summer kitchen wall, Electrical panel wrongly labeled to breakers,Handles on sliders taken from show home, master bathroom cabinets in wrong location. Still waiting for laundry cabinets 7 weeks in. I certainly would not recommend Lennar to others.

We closed on our home on August 30th with three pages of items that still needed to be done on our home. Now seven weeks later, we still have atleast 2 sheets of items still not complete. There has been very little follow up. I do work from home as an real estate appraiser and realtor, but I still have appointments and things I need to do. I have had to stay home atleast 10 days for people to come do things on my home. I have also had contractors knock on my door without any advance notice given at all. The post closing experience has been a disaster and a headache. The warranty department is a joke!! The quality is poor. I have even had the contractors from the warranty department tell me honestly certain areas of my house just looks ugly. If this is what you get from Lennar for $600K I will never give Lennar another dime of my money. We were a cash buyer and this was just a stepping stone for us to get into a home. We planned to go into on of Lennar's golf and country clubs, but they do not deserve my hard earned money. ... More

I went into buying my first home with such excitement. After signing my papers and doing my first walk through of the home, i realized there were many repairs that needed to be done. Even then, i was still excited because i thought everything would be taken care of. As time went on and walk through after walk through, my excitement became less. The fixes were barely being done and i was being given the run around. After i received my keys, i kept submitting work orders. Shower drains were clogged by cement, bath tubs were cracked when installed, cabinets were installed and wood broke, backsplash was installed as if a kindergarten student installed them. It has been two months and i have barely had anything addressed. As a first time home buyer, this has severely disappointed me. I have since had people i know ask me about my experience because they were interested in buying a unit but i have told them to not buy with Lennar. It has only been a headache and a run around. ... More

Poor response to issues and takes to long to find someone how can respond you hear excuses like is not my job I agree but you should know one who supposed to help I am very disappointed off your professional response

As a retired building/remodeling contractor from New England, I was shocked at the poor quality of workmanship and construction oversight that went into this building. Construction flaws and short cuts were only discovered following hurricane damage that never should have happened if a better quality roof vent had been used. Because a large section of my living room ceiling fell after the insulation above was soaked due to rain pouring into these vents, I was able to see just how poorly this place was constructed. From frame to finish, speed seems to be all that matters. Examples include hip and ridge shingles blown off because they used a light weight 20 year product instead of the better quality product designed for use with the 35 year roof shingles, lack of framing in critical areas that allow for secure drywall application, poorly installed door trim, incomplete kitchen cabinet moulding, appliances in place but not connected, hot and cold water supplies reversed in guest bathroom, white paint and drywall compound clumsily applied around bronze colored window and sliding door frames, and over the range venting microwave not vented to the exterior, preventing moisture from cooking from being expelled to the outside. The list goes on, and these deficiencies are prevalent throughout the neighborhood. That being said, it should be noted that appliances, plumbing fixtures, HVAC components, counter tops, Ring alarm system, all are of good quality. In my opinion, these units are simply being thrown together to fast, and when that happens, corners get cut and construction quality is sacrificed, which is unfortunate, as Biscayne Landing is a nice community with good neighbors in an up and coming area of Port Charlotte. ... More

Many delays. The day of closing so many items were not finished. Was asked to sign a document that they had a final inspection but they couldn't provide a Ceretificate of Occupancy. The quality of workmanship is far below construction standards, especially for the money they are sellling these units. Punchlist was over 30 items and 2 months after closiing no attempt has been made to address them. Had to complete some of them myself in order to make the unit livable.

The only bright spot to my experience was my sales person Shawn, other than that my experience was awful. From Lenoir mortgage to the closing process to the inspection process to being forced to close without the home being completely done and still living with a huge punchlist. I will never buy from Lennar again I am also in our stockholder, and will be liquidating my stocks in the very near future. Very disappointed.

Erik the salesperson and Jaimee the site person are the only 2 Lennar people I give 5 stars. The warranty dept has been bad. The finish work is horrible. Hopefully things improve. Still no dishwasher after 6 weeks when they knew day one it had to be replaced. Hot water heater has been a problem from day one. Still don't know if you're getting a hot or cold shower. I understand the hurricane may have caused some delay, but this is ridiculous.

Waited on fixing items after closing and then informed me I had to go through the warranty side. Many items wrong are amateur items, holes in walls, paint on tile floor and rugs, knobs on kitchen cabinets don’t line up, sensors missing, openings in garage, a/c draining into the garage, weather stripping left off the external doors, house never cleaned and I could go on. Not one item has been repaired, it’s been 45 days. Talked to other owners and some of their problems are worse than mine and still waiting on repairs!

The construction manager did not closely monitor the work of any subs. They are basically just inputting requests and scheduling. The trim and painting on this house is the worst I have ever seen in new construction. Pages of followup needed.

sloppy workmanship; paint drippings on windows, floors. lack of communication. garage door still has dent. Lennar financing personnel awful. building supervisor was helpful.

We just purchased April 2020 and sold April 2022 a new build Lennar townhome in Prior Lake, MN, that experience was great. The attention to detail, commitment to follow here in Punta Gorda, FL is horrible. I booked a flight and the Lennar team was completely aware that I was flying down for a scheduled walk thru August 22 so we could close by the end of August. I walk in and could not believe what I was seeing, no appliances, vents not installed, no weather stripping on front door, garage floor not done, closet doors not hung, closet shelves not hung, filthy dirty outside and in. I'm sure I'm missing several other issues. What was most amazing to me was that the Lennar construction managers said "this is all minor things, the structure is in good shape and will get the rest of it down so we can close in August as that is our "Lennar's" target date" If this was my company and crew I would have fired them all, a complete failure for a final walk thru. We did a video walk thru later that week after I had flown back home and was assured all was taken care of. We met the movers the week of September 12 and some of the issues had been addressed. Still no weather stripping on the front door, the gap was big enough to allow rain, bugs to come right on in. Many paint mars on closet doors that did get hung but looked like they have been thrown around before mounting, inside of the house we completely dirty, shelves not done in the bedroom closets, I called and asked if we could at least get the weather stripping on the front door done while we were here and was assured it would be taken care of, 7 days later it was not done. I was even forwarded a message from Dave that Grant told him he could not find weather stripping anywhere.................hard to believe with a Home Depot just a few miles away. ... More

The lender was very non responsive - until I went with an outside lender, then they were in contact daily trying to get my business back. There were several problems in the house before and after closing, including shoddy workmanship and poor attention to detail. For example the house was clearly not cleaned before closing. To be fair, out of my list of about 15-20 items needing to be addressed they took care of just about everything timely and well done.

Overall, not a pleasant experience once deposit was made. Workmanship is below average; response time is not good and will not use Lennar on any future builds

What's the sense of doing a walk through if the issues weren't addressed? I should have not believe the builder that they would be addressed after closing. It was also disappointing that Lennar did not provide a welcome or after closing packet with instructions. I will never buy another Lennar home.

Part of our floor was damaged and needs taken care of.Paint on doors and door frames wrong color-not fixed yet.Some drywall work needs to be done. touch up.Sliding doors need to be replaced.stove needs to be leveled.windows and screens need to be cleaned.Irrigation hasn’t been on in awhile.Might be more so I’ll have to look.Thank you.

Lennar was very pushy to use their mortgage company from the start, making the process super difficult when we decided to use our outside lender. We moved in in early August and different color cabinets were installed in the kitchen, still hasn’t been replaced. There’s rebar sticking straight out of the foundation above the grass. The sod next to our AC unit that we were told was going to be put in was never done. The AC didn’t work correctly for the first two weeks. I had to pay 500 dollars out of pocket to have an electrician come tell me the ground and neutral in my dryer power outlet we’re shorting together because the neutral insulation was sliced. There are holes popping up in our ceiling now throughout the house and inside the holes are rusty nails. Seems like there’s moisture getting onto the nails and it’s making holes in the ceiling. Seems like the cheapest materials were used in the house. The back of the island in the middle of the kitchen isn’t made out of wood, it’s a cheap flimsy almost cardboard material. I leaned against it one day and almost fell through it. Overall not a good experience. ... More

Horrible experience. If it wasn't for the good Floorplan we would have walked away! Very very poor workmanship. There isn't a wall straight in the house. No craftsmanship. Don't buy Lennar!