Lennar Reviews in Austin, TX

The water smells heavily of sulfur. This should have been disclosed when we bought the home. We replaced the anode in the water heater with an aluminum one which was a temporary fix. I asked Lennar to replace it with a titanium one because the aluminum anode has already been eroded. I was told it was not their issue to fix since it was water quality. Yet, I believe since they didn’t bother disclosing the high sulfur in the water reacting negatively with the metal in the water heater would be an issue, it is partly their problem. It would be different if we weren’t willing to invest the money in our home to fix the problem which we have. We’ve added a water softener, purifier, and as previously mentioned, replaced the anode in the water heater. I’m simply asking for help replacing one last thing to try to make it work and was told no. Now I’m left crying every time I take a shower wondering why I didn’t do a better job of researching the area before moving. ... More

Once items were not resolved on the punch list we were passed to many different individuals and did not appear it was any one specific individual's job to resolve the house to get us to close. Do not recommend the mortgage team for the same reason. I would not purchase through Lennar again based on this experience.

Very disappointed in Lennar Sales Rep. and rushed craftsmanship. When being shown the house and we asked if we could put in an offer, the sales rep answered,”you can but if it gets appraised for more you’ll need to pay the difference at closing” this dictated how we proceeded. Just recently we learned we were supposed to be shown rates. We were never shown any. Lying to first time home buyers so a Lennar rep. can squeeze more profit for them self’s is disgusting and I’m appalled that’s what y’all stand for. We trusted our Lennar sales rep. and got taken advantage of! She screwed us out of thousands of dollars! FYI after closing the same exact house was priced for $10,000 less than we paid online. A lot of issues with quality, splitting wood in the fence, nails falling out of the fence due to warped wood put in, paint splatter on floors. concrete splatter all over walkway and by garage, every single hinges creaks, damaged door to dryer, wholes from re drilling, random holes in concrete between home and walkway, chip on porch, uneven painting on porch pillars (from rushed hand painting), super uneven. A couple more thing to add we are in an HOA with no place to put our trash cans except back yard or garage. Also we were given a flyer informing us on the school that we were zoned for. This had a huge impact on why we moved to this neighborhood. Turns out it was not the correct school. We were also told only TXU was the only energy provider here which was also not true. Very misleading and shady!!! ... More

The two people that started out helping me were awful. The last person that helped me from Arizona was amazing. Everything that was suppose to be completed before close wasn't completed. The door jams suck and always move down and allows the wind to be howling all day and night. If I had to do over I wouldn't have purchased this house. Now I am just waiting until I pay off enough or the price of the house goes up so I can sell it or maybe I will look into renting it out.

The quality of the home is not good.

I stil waiting for some issues to be repair

I just bought my first home in 2023 and after a lot of work combing through the market, I finally came across homes quickly selling in an ideal area! I had heard good reviews for Lennar and decided to give it a chance. Immediately in the walk thru I noticed quite a few things that needed to be fixed. I noticed a few cabinets needed to be replaced, one was loose, the doors all had some damage to the paint from being closed while wet, the carpet was stained with muddy boot prints, and there were marks on the flooring. I was told these things had been completed but was never offered an additional walk thru, so I had to trust that the work had been completed and fixed. Upon move-in I was blinded by excitement, but as I was moving my items in, I saw my home at new angles and noticed NONE of the additional work had been completed. On top of that, the house did not get cleaned, there is paint on my carpet and flooring that won’t come up, there’s so many gaps between door frames and door steps, the dishwasher was not installed only placed in the correct cutout, the sink fell within a week which caused severe water leaking to damage my cabinet and I was without my kitchen sink for weeks. At first I had a good experience with my warranty tickets but then quickly realized they kept sending the incorrect people out, proving they had no real understanding of the situation, so now I’m very displeased with the warranty service as well. If I had it all to do again I’d go with a different builder. It’s as if the house was thrown together with no care, not to mention, before it was complete when I went to view the home, there were beer bottles all over the floor and drinks in my brand new fridge. The entire road of Lennar homes have warranty tickets out as well. This company is extremely unprofessional and they seem to not care about the importance of having a livable home with an infant. I probably didn’t even cover everything but I truly can’t keep track of all the things that have made my experience so bad. ... More

I only had an issue with the underwriter. My loan officer was a pure angel as well as my realtor.

The home buying experience was tainted by the Lennar company, Eagle Home Mortgage, which made the entire process so stressful and they ignored entirely the impact every delay, and there were numerous delays by Eagle Mortgage. They did not care a little finger that every week they delayed, cost us, the customer, more in lodging, loan points, and utility charges from scheduling service starts, then having to reschedule them, appliance deliveries has to be delayed, orders changed or canceled. It was the worst experience we have ever had in home buying and this was our 6th home. Aside from that, our home was built fairly well, and during our acceptance only a few smallish repairs needed, and the construction manager handled those well. Eagle Home Mortgage, for us, was unprofessional to the point of amateurish and bumbling. Never once were we apologized to for their ineptitude and wholly unsatisfactory customer service. In fact, after all the delays, due to their incompetence, they had the gall to charge us more points because of those delays. I recommend never using Eagle Home Mortgage, if you can avoid them. ... More

Upon final walk through house was not cleaned nor was it ready for the walk. Paint on all floors especially in carpeted areas. Multiple times said it was clean and wasn’t. Disappointed in finish out. Caulking looks like play dough was formed to fit. Marnina was excellent to work with Robert… not so much.

I WISH I COULD RATE LENNAR A LITTLE BETTER, BUT THIS WAS (BY FAR) THE WORST EXPERIENCE, AND THE MOST DISORGANIZED) IVE SEEN IN MY 23 YRS IN THIS BUSINESS. PERSONALLY THIS IS MY 7TH NEW CONSTRUCTION HOME, AND I WOULD SERIOUSLY ADVISE THAT LENNAR IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE. IT'S TAKEN A LOT OF CALLS AND EMAILS TO FINALLY GET 2 GREAT WARRANTY ADVISOR THAT ACTUALLY FOLLOW-UP AND WANT TO HELP (THANKFUL FOR THESE 2!)... BECAUSE THE REST, FROM DAY ONE AT THE SALES OFFICE, HAS BEEN A REAL MESS. I LOVE MY HOME AND LOCATION, BUT IT'S TAKING A LONG TIME TO GET OVER THE LENNAR CIRCUS, AS WE CALL IT! (A LOT OF MY NEIGHBORS ALONG WITH MYSELF). ... More

I was so excited to find a new Lennar Home for sale in Lockhart, Tx. I had a great experience when I'd previously purchased a new build home with Lennar in 2013 in Austin Tx. This time; however, my experience was highly disappointing. I've had multiple issues in my new home to include a significantly broken piece of wood trimming out my garage door that was simply nailed on and painted over. I've been advocating to have the inside of my garage door trimmed out, where there are two inch gaps running down the sides and in the corners. Lennar and the builders used only the cheapest of sinks, tubs, counter tops and flooring as possible. The shower rods fell down and were the cheapest on the market. I've purchased 5 homes in my lifetime. I've never had such a frustrating and disappointing experience. Per Lennar's "creative financing" option after selling my mortgage loan at 4.75%, my monthly principal payment is just over $200 and my monthly accrued interest loan payment is over $600. As for completing all the documentation required. I had no less than 5 to 6 people with Lennar contacting me via email for about a month. The communication from all but two staff was unclear, vague, confusing and pressured. The onsite staff here in Lockhart have been responsive and worked hard to make repairs needed after I moved in. I now have a sense of impending costs due to my experience thus far. One final comment just to give a sense of just how neglectful my house appears, there is no wall paint behind my stove and the refrigerated appears to have been dumped in it's place, is not level and not of the trays inside of is were in place. ... More

Had a terrible experience , as an investor I would have hoped they would have worked to keep my business. I am still working to fix issues with the house 2 months after closing Loan was transferred before first payment and no one could tell me where. Among other issues before closing

Hi Team - We purchased a Cerasi Plan and have verified with multiple trials that the garages are not suitable for owners with large mid-sized SUVs, Full size SUVs and Trucks. The root cause of this is the cosmetic divider which creates a two door garage instead of a single one door garage. We have verified the experience with multiple owners of the same plan and all have the same feedback. - Elton

We purchased our home through Lennar. we were given incentives to use Lennar Mortgage and Title. The mortgage process was EXTREMELY cumbersome and the communications from the mortgage team about things that were needed was abysmal. Income verification items that were requested and the explanations required by underwriting went back twenty five plus years and included several residences we'd never owned, only rented while in the military and after retiring. During the final two days prior to closing we received minimal communication on our actual closing time. We did a virtual closing which had an issue for my wife. The most frustrating part of closing was the final closing costs, the day before closing, I contacted our loan officer (Kyle), to confirm what our final costs were going to be so I could send the required wire transfer. I was told a number that was roughly $2400 less than what Kyle had given us throughout the process, this number came from a different group than Kyle and he confirmed that it was correct, so I sent the wire transfer. Shortly after sending the wire transfer during my personal review of final closing documents in the website I couldn't find where the number existed that Kyle had been given by his team. I contacted Kyle and he said they'd given us the wrong number and that the number he'd given originally was correct. He told us not to change anything, while he worked to resolve the issue. Fortunately, Kyle was able to get a closing cost concession and we only had to pay the revised lower amount we were told was the final number Virtual closing - my wife and I were in two separate locations, not in Texas, at the time of closing. Closing for me was fairly straightforward. I downloaded the app and completed ID verification, document review and signing in about 45 minutes. My wife, Terri, had difficulty with her ID verification through the online site, she had to download the app, at which point she was able to complete the closing without any other issues. Three weeks later our loan was sold to another company. After the sale, we received a "new" document to review... our VA Notification of Value, and an issue with the closing from Terri's signatures where, the notary missed her required signature on a VA Disclosure document. This required a second Notary for the VA Disclosure... and a new document review process by my wife and I nearly six weeks after we closed on the home. Construction/Local sales office (Tile/Sheetrock) - We purchased our home through a Real Estate agent and found the location through various online resources. We did a virtual tour of the home and my mother had walked through with the agent and sales consultant (Ben) from Lennar Eastwood. On the surface and at first glance the home looks very good... when you start looking at details you start to see where Lennar cuts corners on their building design/construction... my biggest issue is/was with the finished product and look of the tile work and sheetrock fit and finish. About two months before our closing date, I was able to actually visit the home and noticed two very disturbing issues... first, the tile work, the edges of the tile were raw edge (cut pieces), instead of using a bull nose tile for a corners which would provide a smooth, professional, finished look, they preferred to specify that the tiles just have a grouted edge, versus something like a bull nose smooth corner tile or an edge rail with a nice caulk line for sealing purposes... for a smooth finished look... either option would look better than the current "finished" product. When I brought this to Ben's attention and looked at the model home (which looks exactly the same), I was told "you're only paying $300,000 for a home what kind of quality do you expect"? Another Lennar homesite in the same area of Texas that we're living in yet sells the same floorplan for 200,000 more. I'm very disappointed paying 300K for the product that we received, I'd be furious if I paid 500K for our home and saw the same quality of work that was performed by Lennar and their sub-contractors. Sheetrock work in the home was another significant quality issue. A vast majority of outlets and light covers had gaps between the sheetrock where the hole was cut for the receptacle and what the cover plate actually covered (basically a large number of holes were cut too big for the receptacle). The only solution after overcutting a receptacle hole like that is to put sheetrock mud in the gap. However, instead of removing cover plates, mudding the gap, touching up the mud and texture and then putting the cover back over the finished product, the finish team instead just mudded the gaps with covers in place. Numerous cover plates had mud splatter on them, which we had to clean off after closing. I even identified these issues to Ben during unofficial walk-throughs I did during the time before closing. Again, Ben gave me a non-chalant response which seemed to indicate that Ben could care less about the quality of the product that he is selling, as long as he can keep finding suckers to put into Lennar Homes. Most identified issues during the walk through were fixed before occupancy, however, two significant problems were identified and not resolved, one issue was regarding the sheetrock/wall behind the pedestal sink in the powder room. That wall has a significant curve to it. It's behind the sink, but very obvious that the wall is warped. The last issue is the Disposal, which doesn't work currently because the construction crew dumped waste mud/grout down the kitchen sink and bound up the disposal. It hasn't been fixed yet, because we put in a warranty claim and weren't able to be on-site while I was still in Texas. We'll be submitting a new claim to get it fixed this week. I'm highly dissatisfied with Lennar, I'm hoping that the home and construction will be better than service received to date. Feel free to contact with questions. ... More

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

Make sure you get an independent inspection and all punch list items are completed before closing on the house. After market services are slow to get done. Look at paint and caulking for cleanup, painting is sloppy. Lennar Customer Care is a joke. They want to do virtual inspections, which does not tell the real issue.

I bought my first house with lennar and it has been a nightmare. I had to reschedule my original 1st walk-through and the seller from lennar conveniently did not send the new walthrough date to my realtor. Due to this I had to do my walk-through alone, and not knowing what to look out for. The demonstration person from lennar told me we could sign off on everything and I didn't have to do the second walk. Not knowing that this is not supposed to even be an option I signed off and was not let back into the house until after closing. The roughly two weeks between my walk through and closing a skunk somehow got into my house and went into the negative space between two cabinets in the kitchen and died. My house smelled awful. After being told from the seller and construction manager that it was 100% not skunk and they would send someone out I found out it was skunk and it was dead. Since then I have been fighting to get rid of the leftover smell of skunk that lingers in my house. I have had multiple people come to clean and I have been cleaning and washing the walls and floors with vinegar and nothing is working. I have been extremely patient and after asking to have certain materials where the skunk was replaced the customer service team is refusing and pushing back on thus request. They tell me it's okay to use a range that had a dead skunk in it! I haven't even moved into the house because it smells and I don't want the smell to permeate my belongings. Not only that, while dealing with the smell issue I have had a plethora of other issues with the house and customer service team. The construction team had the primary drain pipe and secondary drain pipe of the hvac system switched so I had to have someone come and fix this. Once it started to get hotter and the AC was working harder a leak was discovered. My guest bathroom was flooded. They had to come and tear apart my bathroom due to all the water damage and get the leak fixed. There was mold inside the walls they just left open to possibly spread until they removed all the damaged materials. I also did not appreciate the customer service worker implying that the leak was my fault and I could have voided the warranty. My backdoor had the wrong doorknob on it so my key didn't work for the door and the deadbolt. It took over a month for them to fix the doorknob and it didn't happen until I sent an angry email asking why it was taking so long. Then when they come to fix the issue they never ordered the deadbolt so now I have to wait on that. The floors are covered in paint and the customer service team will tell you that "that's the best they can do" to remove the paint. But it's not. They can do better. If I can spend hours on the floor cleaning up their messes so can they. There are many other smaller issues with construction like stripped screws sticking out of cabinets and the trim around the tub falling off. I'm waiting on submitting these tickets because I don't want to distract the people working on my leak issue and smell issue to get distracted or take even longer to complete these requests. I bought this house on May 5th almost 2 months ago and I'm having this many issues. If you buy a house from lennar have someone to represent you. Push for what you want and do not blindly trust them like I did. ... More

I’ve moved in for 4 months, yet most of my repair requests prior to closing has been pending since then. Management is not doing their job on monitoring progress.

The sales person was friendly and helpful . However when it came to warranty work, totally non responsive on all levels unreturned txt messages , full voicemail boxes I cannot even leave a message and after several attempts I still got no response or follow up. I want to know what good is your warranty if nobody follows through . Very frustrating and I definitely will not recommend Lennar to anyone who wants to buy a house . How can I get somebody to honor your company's warranties

Sales reps were disrespectful I still have a clue tape items and each week have to follow up with construction to ask if they will compete the blue tape items. I shouldn’t have to ask in the first place but it’s a constant battle. This is not been a fun experience, buying my first home.

-A large pattern of sod was stolen from our backyard the day of or right before closing and took a month to be replaced. -The wrong addressed deadbolt was installed on our front door so we couldn't properly secure our home until they got the right address. Took a week. -Cracked/loose fitting water meter box. Was told it’d be fixed after the blue tape walk, never fixed or communicated to about being fixed after closing -Along with the sod being stolen, a lightbulb was also taken from the front yard, leading me to believe the builders took it from my property to put elsewhere. Was told it’d be replaced, never was. -The customer care representative for Lennar was extremely strict about what day and what time we could have a 3rd party inspection. Okay, well when I asked to switch the day or at least the time due to work not being flexible I was told it’s impossible. A few days before the inspection, we woke up to an email that due to the weather the inspection had to be moved. So they were not flexible with me at all but I was expected to all of a sudden be flexible with them. Not professional. The list goes on. At the end of the day, I am happy with my home, but it has not been a fun or enjoyable experience. ... More

The process was very easy , however once we got to the fish line I was told things would be completed before moving and that were not. And once closed I was on my own with fixing these issues

Cheap quick builds with cheap slow fixes to any issues with the home. Grout is falling apart day 1 in the bathroom. Salesman Josh in Bastrop was helpful up until he made his sale. He became unresponsive and dismissive once he made his commission. We’ve been living in on brushy creek drive since March and we still have no mailboxes. Lennar is trash. Customer service is trash. I regret buying this home.

A lot of little details were left undone just to push the sale. Plants were dead not enough mulch irrigation heads messed up water bill has been high because of lack of repair. A/C unit went out in 3 months.