Lennar Reviews in Austin, TX

-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

Professional and great group of team to work with during the buy of my house. I would recommend my family and friends.

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

Smooth home buying process. Lennar kept up with dates and was on time with all of our paperwork and closing dates and time.

I am very happy with my house, a very nice area, I love the design of my house and the process was faster than expected and all the people who helped me with the process were very friendly and helpful. Thank you all for helping me qualify and making everything very easy, God bless you.

Lennar has been very accommodating on dealing with issues that came up with our new house. We only have 1 issue that has been a little hard to resolve but other than that they have been on top of things and friendly in handling issues. I’ve already told lots of people that we were satisfied with our experience with Lennar.

My experience with Lennar has not been great. Short of the woman who assisted me as my homebuyer concierge the experience has come up short. Things started off bad after the walk pre purchase walkthrough. I pointed out many issues. Then when final walkthrough came I showed up to the appointment and notii nouns had been completed and then they said they would complete the items and send me pictures. They did complete some of the items but not all and I didn’t get a chance to do a real walkthrough. Then after I closed they couldn’t even be bothered to schedule a meeting to give me my keys. I had to go to the sales office and then nobody knew where my keys were and it took a couple of hours to find them. When I went to get my mailbox keys per Lennar instructions the usps couldn’t find those keys either I had to wait a week. There are several issues with the house. The material qualities are adequate. I’ve had so many issues. It’s the quality of workmanship and lack of pride that’s the problem. Two of My kitchen cabinet doors warped and some of my drawers were not assembled correctly. which were a material issue. The paint on the exterior and interior of the house is only applied with one thin coat. You can see right through it. In the interior you can not clean the walls if something gets on them. It will take the paint right of even with light touch and just water. It really needs a second coat. My garage which is unfinished that is fine but there are several corners of dry wall broken and weren’t fixed. In both bathrooms the pipe coming out of the wall go the shower heads were both installed at almost 45 degree angles intstead of coming straight out of the wall. There is drywall and paint all over my carpet. The final cleaning of the home was done very hastily. There are stains on my carpet from I’m assuming paint. My doors had to be readjusted twice. When I moved on the covers on the exhaust fans in the bathrooms were hanging down. There was paint all over my ceiling lights. On the website for the home community it states that standard the homes come with a water softener loop… turns out they do not. I found out the hard and expensive way. The first night I moved in the temperature outside was near freezing and my heater would not work. Turns out some idiot replaced the drip down on the gas line to the heater and did not turn the gas back on. I had to go through a whole reset procedure to get it to work. There is still a irrigation pipe sticking up in my backyard that needs to be reburied. My microwave above the stove literally lets air blow in from the roof vent. So much so that my stove gets dusty and during the freeze we had I had to tape up the microwave door and vents. I had to stuff rags in the vents. My microwave got so cold inside I put a thermometer inside and it read 32 degrees. I froze a bowl of water in there. When I addressed the issue several times they just said sorry you get north wind and we don’t install dampeners inside the vent. I have never lived in a house where I had to tape up the microwave to keep my living room and kitchen to not be freezing cold. It’s very disappointing. One of there hired trades drove their truck directly into my yard almost hitting my truck and destroying part of my yard. Then when the landscaping came to fix it they didn’t even notify me they were at my house and let me know they were here. Turns out while the were fixing my yard the damaged a pvc clean out cap that has yet to be replaced. I understand there will be some things that need to be addressed with any home new or otherwise but with a new home you expect less. There are several more issues I could go on about. It’s so hard to find anyone to take pride and respect in their work today. Integrity is lost. They throw these homes up and just don’t really seem to care. Which I get it’s numbers game. But the overall point here is that I am not so much mad but disappointed. Especially for a first time home buyer. The whole experience has been disappointing. It’s probably one of the most regrettable experiences of my life. If I had to do it again I would not buy from Lennar. If I wanted a ton of sissies with a home I would have bought a 1920s craftsman to remodel. I guess you get what you pay for. Thai is my analogy… just because I bought a Honda instead of a Mercedes doesn’t mean that the paint should have imperfections or that the seats have not been installed properly, or the radio not work. ... More

I have been very happy with Lennar!! Every call has been returned and the follow up has been great!!

Would recommend lennar to my friends

As a 1st time homebuyer we were so intimidated to purchase a home. Had we known how easy the journey was, and how great our agents and Lenders were going to be that work for Lennar, we would had started this journey a long time ago! I highly recommend anyone looking to purchase your 1st time home or even if it’s not your 1st home, to buy from Lennar. The Warranty process gives our family such a peace of mind that we can live comfortably in our home.

Incomplete. No follow up. This is a joke. Recommend- going back to basics keep the brand, ALIVE!

As with any home purchase their were hiccups however the Lennar team got us through them with great service

Hardware in use were good quality, however the contractors Lennar used need more training w/o any doubt

Home buying went good but after one week in new home we had a plumbing backup. Found out it was due to a test ball left in the line from builders. Took a month to get repairs done. My advice to builders is to make sure you are using your check list.

The sales guy from Lennar was wonderful to take care of the whole process. There were hiccups during the first walkthrough but they fixed them all on the second walkthrough. There is an emergency leak caused by outside hose speagot. Lennar sent right away to fix the issue of plumbing. They fixed the drywall and did the painting caused by the issue. They stand by their warranty.

The home buying process was easy and quick. Happy customer of a new build!

My home is beautiful. Minor issues but they have come right out after a virtual visit. The process for me went very fast, I would have like input & requested on carpet in the bedrooms.

To start, my 3rd party inspector found way too many issues for a brand new home. Now that it has been a month more and more issues pop up. I can barely get the warranty rep (Hunter) to even return my call after giving him 12 days to review the newest case I have submitted. I am currently not satisfied with my overall experience and Lennar could do better.

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.

The experience with Lennar was so smooth, they were responsive and attentive to every need. After my customary walk through they made sure they thoroughly touched up every little detail so that the home appeared perfect. Overall the process was so easy I couldn’t even believe I had purchased a home. I highly recommend them for your housing needs, we also used the Lennar financing and it was a breeze.

They were increasing prices by the day creating artificial pressure to purchase home very fast. The lennar mortgage, title and closing teams were efficient. Not impressed with build quality though. Even visually you can tell that the material used is of cheaper quality and workmanship is average.

Information on website about available homes and prices of homes is not accurate. There is wide variations. Home selling agents don't seem to have the right info, and try to simply set aside any complaints/issues. Selling agent hung up on me when I raised an issue that I had. Inflexible schedules when final walk throughs are being scheduled.

The first time I came out to meet the Sales agent "Cindy" to find out about the possibility of becoming a homeowner. My entire process, from initial purchase to final move-in my experience with all including the builder was great, he listen if I had any concerns which were not many. I love the quality and value of my new home. If I had to mention anything I would say I would have like if the builder gave little more patio/porch in the backyard. However; The Lennar -Team and every one made me me feel at ease. They provided exceptional customer service. I do not remember everyone I had contact with, but the Lennar staff-Team members, are a awesome group of people. Logan, believe he was the loan officer made me feel comfortable the first time I spoke with him, as he walked me through the process from start to finish, which took away our feeling of stress or being overly anxious. As of now I am enjoying my Lennar home, and I highly recommend all the Lennar team.. ... More

We signed in Dec with the expectation to have the keys by March. Went to the lender and got rate locks with a buffer built in so even if Lennar delays by a month to April, we will be covered. March moved to April and then to May with absolutely no reason provided, except finger pointing - the sales manager will point to construction manager, who will point to vendors who wont be around to answer why its getting delayed. Thats fine, we extended the lock and took us multiple request to get that covered by Lennar and that happened at the end and Lennar made it look like they were doing us a favor to cover that cost, though they were delaying. The final delay was the only one that had a reason and that was because someone came in and flooded the kitchen 2 weeks before ready to close! This all paled in comparison when the time to close came with Lennar Title. We have bought 2 homes in the past and by far this was the worst experience. We sent a mail 2 weeks before closing asking if we are ready. No response. During the last week of closing had to call, escalate to get any response from Title. They had scheduled closing with no property survey report until the previous night. Did not have the courtesy to notify us or the lender. The lender was freaking out that they were not getting any response from Title about the survey report. Even while signing the document I had to point out the differences in the numbers. Overall no accountability and absolutely no integrity in the whole home buying process. I am surprised Lennar is in business and considered a top builder, with this level of abysmal customer service. Its been just a month since we moved in so will reserve judgement on the quality of the house, fingers crossed its not even half bad as the buying experience. Of all the people we have interacted with so far, only our warranty manager, Brent, seems to be very competent and is responsive and feels trustworthy. ... More

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