Lennar Reviews in Charleston, SC

It’s a new never lived in home

I love my house, the workmanship is great but I am very disappointed that the swimming pool will not be installed until the summer or 2021 when I was told it would be built by 2020. Management has not reached out to make accommodations for us to perhaps utilize nearby facilities until the pool is place. Also there has been a recent decrease in the value of townhomes in Grand Bees which is very disconcerting.

Overall rushed, sell sell sell.a lot of feeling of false caring.

We were happy with how things were going until the last two weeks to close. The Lennar rep dropped the ball and made it stressful. The punchlist items were not completed until the morning we closed. We didn’t get the Welcome Home banner or rug rolled out made us feel like just a number. And lastly there still are no street lights and it gets dark at 5pm was told these would be hooked up 2 weeks ago.

Average experience. Closed on a new construction home almost 2 months ago. Sales office wasn’t particularly great at communicating, nor was the loan officer and processor team. Lennar is building at a furious rate and likely running their staff into burnout but I am not a first time home buyer and felt better attended to in previous experiences, none with Lennar. I don’t have any glowing praise to offer. The 1 year warranty inspection will tell the true story of the build quality, which in Lindera does not have a stellar reputation thus far. They did hold to the closing schedule which I appreciate, and kept their word on the interest rate float down option. ... More

Would not buy from them again. Lots of things wrong, from windows that won’t open to gaps in the crown mounding. Not to mention the closing was delayed 5 weeks due to forgotten steps with the city. Made my first home-buying experience very upsetting.

The workmanship on this house is ridiculous. There is paint on the carpet, clumps of caulking everywhere, careless installation of the water lines, paint splattered on the floors….honestly, I could go on and on. The response to my work repair requests have been great so far.

Bought from across the country wasn’t able to be there along the way. A lot of qc issues from slanted walls, terrible paint, non existent cleanup. Pretty disappointed with the build compared to 2 others we have built

The Good: Lennar is a quick builder. The Bad: The home quality is not the best. There are some things done great, like the master bath and the gourmet kitchen. However a gourmet kitchen consist of a gas range top and a stainless exhaust hold. And the gas top was left unmounted and slid around the first time we cooked on it. Had to have that fixed properly. Understand these are spec homes with a 40 day start to finish turnaround. As you can imagine, this is a quantity over quality home build. Make sure you order your own home inspection prior to your first walkthrough before closing. It’s $500 well spent. Lennar will not tell you what is not correct in your brand new home. If you don’t see it or point it out, Lennar will gladly sell it to you just the way it is. Broken or poor quality. They will gladly sell you a poorly built home. You will have to pay extra to have your garage painted after you move in. That’s not optional. You will have to install your own towel and toilet paper hardware in the bathrooms after you move in. Lennar doesn’t supply those either. And no mention of that when purchasing. A first for me. The drywall finish and wood trim craftsmanship is terrible. We found lots of areas that needed repaired during our walkthrough before closing. The Lennar project manager for our home walked through our home for four hours and taped the areas of repair or replacement. After moving in we realized that the tape had only been removed and most of the repairs were not fixed by the day of closing. So we have had three rounds of repairs after we’ve moved in and still ongoing. Pre home inspection revealed the attic insulation had areas with 4” of insulation. Had to have contractors come back to spray more insulation. The concrete finish in our garage is horrible. Lots of divots, lumps, gravel is almost sticking through the finish. Lots of cracks in the floor. Crack across the main foundation footer at the garage door entry. The sidewalk your door is the same. Terrible concrete finish. And they broomed the finish different directions on the same sidewalk. The master bathroom shower tile had lots of areas with no grout. Lennar sent someone to fix. The halfway did it and left smeared grout all over the tile. Had to go back and wipe everything down before it hardened. Back patio concrete was not finished at the screen door and there was large opening along bottom of door. Lennar sent someone to fix. The basically took cement and filled the gaps. Now the concrete looks patched and poor quality. The bottom of the screened porch where it meets the side of the house had about a 1” x 4” gap that was left open for snakes and bugs to access the screen porch area. Just terrible quality. The dormer window glass over the front porch was left broken. Had to have someone replace that. Pay attention to the electric, light switches and electrical outlets. They are placed in the most odd places. Some light switches in our home were place 2 feet from the door. You have to feel around in the dark to find them. The electrical plugins are randomly spaced on the walls. About one per wall regardless of wall length. So not very user friendly to use if you want to conceal electrical chords. There are 6 lights in the kitchen operating from one light switch. Lennar is installing the absolute bare minimum switches and electrical outlets. When you open the electrical breaker box, you will notice there’s are more blank spaces than used spaces. That’s because they installed bare minimum electrical devices. The 11’ x 17’ screened porch had one electrical outlet. Horrible design. Ceiling lights are minimal. One 4” glad LED in all rooms except kitchen. The living room has one 4” LED in the middle. The lights over the kitchen island are not spaced evenly. So you can’t change out the 4” LED to a nice pendent light unless you have the lights relocated. I think the minimum lighting is installed so you can’t see all the horrible craftsmanship during your walkthrough. The heat pump piping is installed in the master bedroom wall and the pump outside the window. As you can imagine, it is loud and the pipes vibrate in the wall. Absolutely horrible design and location. You will hear the noise as long as you live in your new home. And Lennar will not allow any change to the plans or equipment location when building. The walls and ceilings are all one paint color. Gray. That’s all you get. Both garage doors had to be readjusted to close gaps. My advice, don’t mug a Lennar home. If you do, get a home inspection before you close. Ask to see the building plans and make sure everything is where is should be. Be prepared to spend alot of extra money after you move in to upgrade all of the lights, paint, and else upgrades to make your home how a normal good quality home would be built. Be prepared to settle for less in a home, and to pay more for less. Personally, I would never recommend buying a Lennar home after our experience this year September 12, 2024 up until today November 14, 2024. If I could sell and move without the burdens, would do so today. Do your homework for different builders and compare quality on the quality and craftsmanship between builders. Read reviews and assume you might be the next buyer to experience the nightmares. ... More

Try to contact to the builder to fix some stuff at house , no answer

We love the floor plan of the house, general layout an functions. We love the neighborhood too which is why we bought Lennar. Aside from those the experience was painful and exhausting. The amount of quality control I had to do on their work is unreasonable. Rarely could they provide straightforward answers and if something wasn't right they didn't have a path to escalate issues. You have to go find executives to complain to yourself. The design and marketing teams are top notch. They get you in the door and so excited but when it comes to sales and building you realize delivering is not their focus. We had so many issues with that we were told or lead to believe we would be receiving in the house vs what was actually delivered. Often times they could not confirm many details for us. They build things saying this is what the plan calls for but you can't see the plan and that plan doesn't seem to have the other information you are trying to figure out. If you buy Lennar, pay for at least 3 independent inspections of your own. Document EVERYTHING, every conversation with them, issues you find and all concerns you have. Know that the next year after you move in you'll spend setting up appointments for trades to come back and fix things in the house which means you'll have to be home alot and you'll have to clean up after the trades alot. ... More

very nice community but the nearest school for my kids to attend is over 30 mins away and estimated bus drive is 1.5 hours. If we needed to pick up or drop off our kids it would consume over 2 hours a day spent driving. If you have kids that need to attend school do not move here. also the infrastructure has not been addressed. One builder is dropping 700 homes and the roads are single lane each way. This area is going to be a mess for several years until the growth catches up to the homes being built.

Lennar’s house plans are very well done for modern living. Materials are as advertised. Home care warranty is practically worthless. And their people can be spiteful if you get upset with their poor service.

Sod was laid dominant at the time. Once growth began weeds popped up. I was told nothing could be done. Also the sod was supposed to be rolled and two after close still not done . When the lawn service cuts they are making ruts and tearing up loss sod. Ruining the lawn!!

Kevin is horrible. Lennar mortgage ran my social security number without my consent. I had told Kevin that I had my one lender but he would not listen. I felt like he took advantage of me because I was a single mom doing this on my own.

Although we appreciate that Lennar pushed to meet our established closing date, it was at the expense of the quality and completion of certain items. We are now 4-5 months post closing and still have items unfinished. Our construction manager essentially abandoned us and it's been extremely difficult getting things fixed via the warranty group. We love the house but this did not go the way it should have.

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.

Lennar personnel promised to resolve quality/warranty issue within 30 days of closing on our house on 30 September 2019. After delays, and in some cases, multiple attempts by Lennar appointed technicians, we still have lingering issues with exterior doors. We also submitted a Lennar warranty ticket on a cracked countertop in our master bathroom that still is not resolved. The exterior doors have had added added in various places around each door that look terrible and have not solved the door sealing issues. The exterior door seals need to be replaced with new seals that reliably seal the doors and look aesthetically Correct. ... More

We've had nothing but problems since the day of closing when we walked in for final review and none of the issues had been corrected. I could give a whole list of issues and problems that almost 5 months in we are still trying to get taken care of. Seems like every time we get one resolved, another issue shows up. I wouldn't recommend them.

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

Very disappointing experience for the price of the home.

I definitely would like to arrange an inspection by leadership to see the overall work performed in my NEWLY BUILT home, especially by GMT. Specifically, with the trash found inside the walls, we reported to Leadership. And that it was found after they had to remove the shower wall for replacement less than a month after closing. And many other less-than-satisfactory issues we have endured. The quality of craftsmanship being witnessed is borderline criminal.

1. Door strike on front door is missing. 2. Baseboard trim gaping from the wall in many places. 3. Incorrect emergency contact number. 4. Stairwell had to be repainted 5 times (orange peel and runs) at our insistence 5. At final walk through windows we’re still grimy. 6. Ant infestation in house. 7. Furnace vent crooked above roofline. 8. Wood exposed around outside of former windows. 9. Concrete poured down valve box to fire hydrant.

Just as any buying experience when before after you say yes and give them the down payment to commitment, they fall Over themselves to “be there for you”. The s day you sign you’ll never hear from anybody you saw before again! The lender from Lennar didn’t know what he doing and I got emails from him requesting the same material even after I had closed. At closing, the keys my new home were mysteriously “lost”. I went to my new home with no keys. I had to stop at the sales office for the agent on duty to give me the standard key to open the house. Finally, after three days, they told me they would have to re-key the house and I would have to have a new key to the mailbox made at my own coat. I still, 6 weeks later, have not been reimbursed for that key. Pathetic customer service for a big box office store let alone a National Home Builder! The day I moved in 2 of the fire alarms were chirping. They continued to chirp every 8 hours after I would reset them with a the only long enough stick I had to reach them. On Monday morning the electrician came to the house and changed the batteries and that resolved the issue. They used old batteries in the smoke detectors. 3 weeks later another smoke detector started to chirp. I knew what it was this time. I am still amazed that they used bad batteries in a new house. 3 to be exact. Not a coincidence! The sod they use in the lawns is pathetic! I have been sincerely trying to grow this “grass” with the help of a service and it just isn’t growing. The quality is sub standard. My son Kaye’s his sod last weekend and the difference in quality is worlds apart! Apparently half a million dollar homes don’t qualify for good sod! Lennar should be ashamed! ... More