Lennar Reviews

My wife and I decided to buy a Lennar home. We decided to wait 3 months for the house to be completed. During this process we were told that everything on the inside of the house would be completed by closing. When we had our celebration day, it was far from a celebration. There were many items on the inside of the house that were not completed as promised. There seem to be very poor communication between that sales rep and construction rep. Our construction rep did not even know the proper closing date. We have now lived in our house for about 50 days and still can not get answers on when things will be done. The construction rep just tells us that we should get a call or email to schedule it. When we have had work done, it has been less then professional. We have had a family bring their kids to do work on our house multiple times. It was very low quality work. It would be very difficult to do professional work when 4 kids ages 1-12 are at work with you. It was very sad for me to see. It is not fair for us as homeowners and the workers either. The workers not only did bad work, but they also splattered paint all over and did not clean it up. When I tried to communicate with them, they told me they do not speak English. It has been so frustrating trying to get our house completed. We paid a lot of money for a new house and are not getting the professional work and coordination we paid for. We are having to schedule things around our schedule or miss work to get our house finished. Had I of known this would be the case, we would have considered other options. Had they have been honest with us about the process, we could have prepared differently for what was to come. I would not recommend Lennar at this point. Maybe that will change when my house is completed, but I am sure. ... More

At first it was good but after you sign and put money down, takes sales 2-3 days to call back even my realtor could not get a hold of him. The on line paperwork is a joke. The first walk thru was horrible water leaking in the wall and Lennar was just going to leave water in the wall and underneath the flooring. Paint not finished. Just got it fixed on the day of closing. Let’s talk about Lennar contractors damaged my A/C unit outside and when you send a service request in it’s poor response. Front door sagging. Closet door damaged kitchen cabinets coming apart over all just a bad experience . Will not buy a Lennar house again or will I recommend anyone else. I have learned in business that for every one bad it takes multiple goods to forget the bad , that is something Lennar needs to learn, because what Lennar advertised is not what happened ... More

My home is a disaster. I have two different types of baseboards throughout the house (some round, some square), paint on the carpet in every room; almost every cabinet is warped or damaged; the doors are damaged, the mirrors are damaged, and the outside front door doesn't even have trim; there is sealer spilled and mixed in with the grout in the shower, broken tiles, carpet is cut too short and does not even reach the corner in the loft hallway; my furnace is broken and was repaired halfway...this is just to name a few issues and the original warrant rep told me to "lower my expectations" during my walkthrough. I have been here five months and very few things have been addressed due to so many changes in roles and lack of organization. ... More

I recently completed a townhouse and they've yet to address any issues with this build. The people involved have yet to come back and address any issues and there are some major issues wrong.

Signing in July for a house that would be ready in November, that would then be delayed month by month until May. How can you think you can finish a house in 4 months if it’s going to take you 10? But when it’s finally done, we were given zero flexibility in closing day. We had to be flexible for all this time and Lennar gave us nothing at all, even threatened us with a 500$ per day fine! Communication during construction and even sales was very poor and even now past closing is minimal. If Lennar is the last builder on earth, I’ll buy existing homes..

Construction delays which were not communicated prior to buying the house. Very poor communication throughout the process. House built with poor workmanship standards. And response from Construction Manager was it is acceptable per Lennar standards. I didn't knew that lennar had such low standards. Not happy with at all. Even now response is very poor if I open any ticket. And for bigger issues Lennar asked me to directly contact vendors. So accountability at all. And issues were present even before I moved into this house. I can go on and on .... If lennar really care about these reviews, please reach out to me. Someone with authority would be appreciated. ... More

Terrible responses to work we need done. Had my air conditioner go out in the first month and had to called around to 5 different people before someone would help me. Made a request on the Lennar service page to get my kitchen island fixed and am still Waiting for it. There are staples popping up thru the carpet all thru the house. Not impressed with the quality or the service after. Would never buy another Lennar house or ever recommend it to anyone. Very dissatisfied

In the four homes we have had built in our lifetimes, this was the worst experience from start to finish with having a new home built. It took over 15 months to complete the home. This was a subdivision 1 level 1850sf cookie cutter home nothing custom. It became very apparent that Lennar was overcommitted and had to much WIP (work in progress) open which basically paralyzed productivity. For the entire duration, we had to be the ones to prod and ask for updates, which were vague and usually a bunch of excuses. Lennar has many issues but it’s biggest issue is zero ownership of anything. I’ve never in my career seen so much lack of ownership and quick to blame others and not just address/correct the issue. When it was finally getting close to the finish line after blowing four “it will be done in a month” guesstimates, we were finally told that the home is ready for walk through. We flew across the US for the walkthrough only to be insulted by it being completely undone and trashed. We arrived and the homes doors and windows were all wide open to the elements. It was dirty and filthy throughout. Missing doors and damage to the finishes everywhere. It was a complete waste of our time and money to even come down. We ended up closing about 3 weeks later and although they did a couple things, when we moved in the floors were filthy and had caulk and paint all over them. Tile floors had chips and scratches, the trim was chipped and dented, doors had holes in them, closet doors were not even hung just leaning against the walls in the halls, the garage floor was dirty and had to be sprayed down due to a blue chemical on the floor, the garbage disposal was not connected but rather a live wire where the switch would be was exposed under the sink. Basically we bought a used resale home and not a new home. There’s no way you could call this a new home when you look at the finish work…it is so dented and beat up it looks like a lived in 10-20 year old home. Then to top it all off the first day of move in we had a roof leak. This was the first time we got to see Lennar quickly jump into action. They came out and started with dry out equipment and tarped the roof. After about 4 days of dry out, which was very loud by the way, they had the roofing contractor come and fix the leak. Turns out the leak was due to shoddy waterproofing work at the ridge vent, after talking with the remediation folks and neighbors this seems to be a common everyday thing….no biggie for Lennar. Again not very new house Feeling. Two months into owning the home, Lennar is actioning the items on our initial 25+ item list, which my expectations are so low of Lennar that I’m actually pleasantly surprised that they are jumping into trying to address the issues. Still have a nice big ceiling stain in the home along with missing trim from the roof leak, which again doesn’t make you feel like you bought a new home, but hopefully in the coming weeks they will fix and hopefully they fix it like new and not just more amateur hour finish work workmanship. If I were consulting Lennar, and they should pay me for this consult, I would tell them their biggest issues are extreme lack of ownership from bottom to top and at every level of management, extremely poorly managed job sites, opening up too much WIP and not being able to effectively and efficiently complete the work, and some of the poorest quality finish work ever, which in the end that’s the biggest thing most of their customers are going to see and judge on. I truly am amazed that this is a publicly traded $12 billion a year in revenue builder. I work for a pathetic $1 billion a year in revenue company and they would never allow this level of incompetence and lack of ownership management. They would fire everyone from bottom to top until the issues were rectified. This is also a company, which serves the electric utility industry, that will send one of their private jets and engineers and equipment if the customer has an issue immediately. They actually care about their customers because as they say, our customers never have to buy from us ever again. I feel like that is a motto Lennar should adopt to attempt to strive to something better than where they are today. ... More

Lennar, where to start with you!!!! ABSOLUTELY the worst home buying experience. It literally took my having to locate Greg (Lennar Homebuilding and Land Regional President) via his personal cell phone number while he was at home to understand how someone by the name of Kelli (Director of Sales & Marketing) could be such a heartless, cold, foul individual!?! It wasn’t until this stage in the process we actually had a conversation with someone in Lennar Corp who actually had brain cells, and functional ears. For that, I thank you Greg. You were the first person in Lennar corporate that actually had a heart, listened to what was happening to us (through no fault of our own) and actually took the time to make the situation right. Well Kelli attempted to call me and take credit for the suggested workaround, however it was the workaround that both Greg & I had discussed during our conversation. As for on-site, here at the Gales Creek location in Forest Grove! Starting from Jason, going to Emilio, and ending with Melissa & Allison. These (4) were ABSOUTELY amazing! I feel bad that great people like the (4) I had mentioned above, are stuck “bearing the repercussions” of Kelli’s poor leadership. Her decision making, lack of empathy, and absolutely FOUL communication skills really puts these wonderful employees in a disadvantageous position. I hope these (4) employees are recognized for all their efforts because they were the saving grace in this whole nightmare. I hope I NEVER have to do business with Lennar again for the remainder of our lives. Good riddance, I hope y’all wake up and reassess how y’all treat people. We understand it’s a sellers market, but the people purchasing your homes are still your customers as well. You should somewhat care about their overall experience when it comes to interacting with your company. Oh, btw. As for the quality. We bought a duplex, and I know we have separate walls (I’ve seen it with my own eyes during the construction phase). However on our shared wall area, you can hear everything your neighbor does. I can hear our neighbor snore at night. Make what you will of that as for their “quality” ... More

In the past couple months we’ve lived here the HVAC has broken twice… the oven flips the breaker. The hot water heater leaks. Our POC at Lennar was not helpful- in fact it seemed that she actively tried to schedule our 3rd party inspector to come at incorrect times so we had to reschedule with him, as you can imagine that was expensive. Our other POC on site was wholly unknowledgeable about our home. He had not idea where filters should go for the HVAC, and at one point told us our unit didn’t need filters. That being said. I love the layout of the house, the location and our neighborhood. But this can be found without using Lennar. I would not recommend buying a home with Lennar. ... More

A lot of quality issues!!! Still not fixed!!!! From sheet rock, paint, wrong doors thru out home! Doors will not close property! Drainage issues! Fixtures falling off wall!!! Closing changed a number of times.

We went with Lennar because we had a great experience in purchasing our last home in SCAL. It was the exact opposite in NV. Yes I get it, we had a rough state of affairs in the country in the past 2 years but the builder should not sacrifice the quality of homes that they produce. Finished product was very disappointing. Felt that Lennar was just interested in making money, build as many homes as fast as they can, sacrificing the quality of homes they’re building. From financing, to getting house keys to customer care was just a bad experience for us.

Lennar Home Mortgage was a waist of my time! Dealing with the incompetence with the loan officer there made the entire process stressful!!

Awful I moved two months ago and bathrooms did not have towels racks I notified the people in charge and a month later still waiting.

Lennar was NOT flexible and at times rude regarding reasonable requests. Lennar consistently switched positioned on construction issues that had been discussed and presumed resolved. We would recommend perspective Buyers avoid Lennar at this time. We would be happy to discuss our experiences.

We have had problems from day 1. Some to be expected, some not. Immediately upon move in, we found foundation issues, painting that needed to be done, light fixtures that fell out of the ceiling, broken air vent that shouldn't have been installed, broken dishwasher, new cabinetry cracked, broken tiles, shower doors with no weather stripping, front door you can see right outside, not installed properly, garage double door bending in half, missing parts/hardware. Broken sprinkler outside, Most recently just this weekend, we lost AC. Just not what we expected in a brand new home. I have a list that just never seems to be addressed, waiting for workers to come out. ... More

If you want a Brand new house that you have to fix, buy a Lennar Home. Outside of the lack of craftsmanship throughout the home and garage, there was very little oversight on the contractors during the building process. We would be told that certain things were being done on the home and then find out that nothing had been worked on in weeks. Our home sat for 12 weeks during the inspection process and was failing inspection due to the issues that were there from the initial inspection. Lennar told us that it was making progress until we saw the actual inspection documents that showed the negligence in the build. There is such a lack of oversight and a lack of caring from Lennar because in this housing climate, they can always find another buyer. Phone calls and text messages would just be ignored and then the construction managers would act surprised when the concerns that were brought up became issues towards the end. We have been in our “new fixer-upper” now for over a month and the quality of work is awful. The finishes from painting to actual framework look as if I would have done them myself. Windows that don’t latch, doors that don’t shut correctly, siding that is missing leaving the home exposed, walls where you can see where they were patched, paint that doesn’t match, raw wood exposed, yard that wasn’t leveled, and bowed walls on the third floor (something we brought up prior to the inspection phase) are just some of the issues. If you are buying a Lennar home, expect to put in an extra $10,000-$20,000 after the fact just because they don’t want to do it right the first time and they hope that you get tired of calling them out. They beat you into submission purely by ignoring or delaying their response by weeks at a time. Buying the home based on layout was easy as they look great. Watching them build the home was a nightmare that made me second guess every penny that we spent on the home. We will keep our fingers crossed. ... More

We had a great experience with Lennar up until the end. But 2 days before close they sent us an updated survey showing that 60% of our lot was unusable due to easements and buffers. It turns out that had been planned prior to us ever going under contract but was never disclosed. They essentially backed us into closing by waiting until we’d already sold our other home to tell us this. They didn’t sod half of our yard and left construction debris in it. I would NEVER do business with them again. Highly deceptive. Their employees we interacted with along the way on the ground level were good (the foreman managing the project), but ultimately their hands were tied by the powers that be. Literally would never buy a Lennar home again after this experience. Such an unethical business. Also their realtor was terrible. ... More

Substandard workmanship coupled with poor customer service at a a price point that should have been far better.

Unfortunately, we had experience what a lot of our other neighbours also experienced. Lennar project was delayed by over a month and there was no clear answer about why and when it will be ready. We were all left up on the air until 10-12 days before closing. We’re phase 1 of this new construction and there are so many essential things (heater in the winter and water heater to start with) were defective when the home was delivered and there are so many outstanding issues still remaining. One thing that makes it more painful is that we bought this house almost $300k over asking price and I believe strong market made the Lennar to don’t care about their customers, because there’s always demand and another person if you don’t want it. Overall, terrible experience and still have the buyer’s remorse. Avoid buying from Lennar if you can. ... More

They said the the repairs would be done 5 days after closing now I have been my home for 7 weeks and still no work has been done word to new buyers don't sign at closing until the home is done

Lennar turned what should have a been pleasant experience into a nightmare! If I had known then what I know now about the Lennar process and the agonizing efforts to get things fixed, I would never have bought a Lennar home in this community. I only hope that once the community is completed my experience becomes more positive.

Slammed together homes. Company knowingly closing homes with many defects they hope will be overlooked

I hate this home. I will never recommend a Lennar home going forward. I was strong armed into closing when I should not have. This house is still being repaired from the original punch list. The little compensation I was provided dors not suffice the aggravation, the frustration nor the quality of work for the price I paid. more compensation is deserved for my personal time in waiting around for someone to show up, not show up or cancel at last minute. You know, most would love to call their place a home, I can’t its just a house that has brought unwanted stress to my life. Should not be this way. ... More

The flooring in my house was a complete catastrophic failure. Everything else was done well. The build suffered a great deal from having the flooring installed so terribly. There’s nothing that can be done to fix the issue other than rip it all out and put new flooring in correctly. It’s pretty sad. Now I have to have someone come rip it all out and do it correctly.