Lennar Reviews in Dallas, TX

The house was flooded while under construction, seemingly due to lack of oversight that would have caught it before the damage was so extensive. We fear that we have mold that will affect us later. Delays in completion cost us a lot of money, part of which ($1,000) Chad with Lennar said we would be compensated for, this never happened.

Building during the COVID pandemic is not easy. Working in the industry I knew going in that there were going to be delays and issues. What I did not expect was the poor work done with the materials that they did have. With Lennar, their marquee promise is delivering a showroom ready home. That is not what we have received. Delays and issues aside, if the work done was worthy of the price paid (and it would have been if it was truly showroom ready) I would be giving 5 stars across the board. Unfortunately, this has been from what was promised.

Our house got pushed back multiple times with little to no transparency, leaving us in a bind with living arrangements. We continuously asked our representative to be upfront and honest about our buyers experiences and situations but he continuously told us “it varies from house to house” rather than being transparent. We’ve ran into a couple issues after living in the house which has taken months to be resolved and required us to continuously reach out to multiple people and parties for solutions. Overall the virtual signing experience was very smooth and super simple and convenient when it came to closing. We love the house but not sure we’d go through this experience again. ... More

I spoke to 4 different people letting them know each time that Id rather pay more money than use the Lennar mortgage company. Terrible sales ethics on your part. This one terrible part of the experience is what ruined it for us. Don’t email/call me about this. I’m tired of talking to your people.

Make sure you look at every little detail when doing walkthrough.

Poor quality materials and construction

The start of our home buying process began smoothly, with a virtual tour and quickly finding a floor plan that was available and fit our timeline. Everything after that went downhill. We had some trouble communicating the specifics of our loan information with our MLO, primarily the fact we wanted the house in both our names, and some other key details around the cash to close which were not addressed until the last week before the holidays. Our sales rep, Lee, was hard to get a response out of for a while until our closing. We closed the day that the snow storm hit McKinney and no one was there to turn our water on, or help in any way outside of handing me my keys. Lee even had the gall to ask us how we figured out to do this ourselves and if we would be willing to help another homebuyer also left out to dry because of the weather. Tip: if no one is coming in to work; let your buyers know so they can adjust their plans and not put them or anyone else in danger. Or don’t shut off the water the day before someone moves in. It was also never communicated until days prior that our closing would be all virtual. That would have been VERY nice to know ahead of time as we were located in two different states until the day prior. ... More

The material looks cheaper than I thought

Buying a home is one of the largest purchase an average person makes in their lives. Unfortunatley for me, my experience with the sales agent I was assigned was not positive. I found the sales agent misleading at times, very pushy. Home buyers concierge's primary job is to communicate, update the customer, which she hardly did. had a hard time getting a response from her. Mortgage department cant give you a final number until the day of closing which I found surprising. Workmanship and quality is supbar. I already have cracks on the trim and corner of the wall. I picked a date suggested by the sales agent for inspection. When the inspection came by , certain items were not ready. I let the team know of my scheduled inspection. Why was I not notified that I probably should postpone it so I can get everything inspected? ... More

I was looking to purchase a home early this year. I went to another Lennar community where an agent named Blanca helped me. After deciding that community was not a fit for me, I decided to look at other properties. After letting her know my budget and also timeframe, she kept pushing for an earlier date, to which I didn’t feel comfortable. I decided she was not a fit, because I wanted someone who understood my timeframe and knew I wasn’t interested in spending thousands of dollars more since I was still leasing an apartment. After finding Falcon, I went for a house there. The process was smooth, until the walks and inspections took place. Lots of items needed to be fixed and also there were items that seemed rushed and quickly done, just to get it out of the way and fulfill the closing time. In addition to that, 6 days prior to closing, the Lennar office removed incentives from the sale and increased my closing over 5k more. Unbelievable! They even told me I could stop down from the sale when I said that was not right. After going back and forth during several days, they were able to correct some of the incentives. That was such a nerve-wracking week filled with tons of emotions. It was extremely stressful to say the least! Then, at the last minute, they said that blinds didn’t come with the house, even when I had in writing by 2 people from the company, that blinds came with the home. They told me no. That’s a very deceptive practice. The last thing that happened, on the day of closing, I went to pick up the keys of my new home and the person who was in the office, was the manager Blanca, who in a very condescending and harassing manner asked me why I didn’t put her as my agent, if she was helping me at the beginning. I felt very threatened by the fact she was telling me this as I was picking up my keys. Instead of congratulating me on my home, she was complaining to me that she didn’t pretty much have my sale. That was crazy! What an experience! I hope Lennar gets it together! ... More

We had high hopes for building with Lennar but they failed in many areas. Communication was extremely lacking, workmanship was subpar, and the Title company was less than professional. I had previously heard differently from others, but based upon my experience, I cannot imagine referring friends to Lennar.

Buying this house was a huge pain. The builder routinely tried to lie to me about things and used dirty tricks to try and rush me through the process. I had to fight very hard with them to resolve problems that should have 100% been their responsibility. I am still struggling with the builder to get them to repair things that they screwed up. Aside from them rushing me through getting my new home inspection, they also moved up my closing date by a month without proper notice. I was originally going to close on 03/28 (which was signed the first week of February) per the contract but had my closing date moved to 02/28 after I was under contract because they claimed it was a typo. The communication was absolutely terrible and they dragged their feet on every one of their responsibilities (including the underwriting which did not get finished until the middle of the day on closing despite them having all their documents for 2 weeks). During underwriting, they asked for documents that were impossible to come across such as bank statemens for the current month. The only truly amazing service I received during the home-buying process was with the Loan Officer, Chris. Chris always called me back in a timely manner and never lied to me. ... More

The worst new home buying experience I've ever had. The service level is the lowest I've ever seen. It's like buying a double-wide at Walmart.

Going through the loan application process was horrible. Very unfriendly to people without a realtor. Rude and not helpful or responsive to questions. Given no information on this community on how to handle utilities, HOA etc. Person doing the house walkthrough gave misinformation multiple times on how to do things. I was told by two different people that they get me a list of paint used on home, nothing. Overall it was not a good experience.

After our 3rd party inspection the construction super assured us all of the items would be addressed by closing inspection. Half were not. It took weeks for him to address the deficiencies after closing. I had to contact him multiple times to have the repairs addressed. One item is a tilted roof vent. The construction inspector contacted the roofing company and they said, "It is good enough." I expected Lennar to hold their contractors responsible for quality workmanship and fight for the home buyer. They did not. Every time I pull in the driveway I see the tilted the roof vent and it makes me frustrated with Lennar for how they handled it. ... More

I found it too difficult to gain attention of the sales staff at the model office. I visited the subdivision at least two times but was told to use online system to set appointment with the sales agent and was told that there was long waiting list. That discouraged me as a buyer to proceed any further. Finally, during the last week of December, I used the online system to set up an appointment and saw a sales agent. This time she told me that Lennar was offering excellent deals to sell several inventory homes. I ended up making an offer and purchased the home I could have purchased almost a year before. Although the process of closing went smoothly, I felt that I was not informed of many steps ahead of time. The quality and workmanship is very poor. Also, there is only one entry and exit point to the subdivision, which makes getting in and out very difficult and dangerous. ... More

When we were first shown our Lennar home, we were very eager and excited about the home and the neighborhood. We signed our contract in October and we’re told our closing date would be December. I understand that there are supply chain issues and other things out of Lennar’s hands that caused a delay in building, but we did not close on our house until the end of April. Lennar’s communication (or lack there of) with us and our real estate agent was absolutely terrible. We were given 5 different closing dates, yet did not find out until the week of, that our closing date had been pushed with no estimation of a new closing date. This was extremely frustrating as we had made plans to move out of our housing, but then we’re left scrambling at the last minute to figure out housing 3 separate times. Lennar was never clear on when we would close and everything felt last minute and rushed. There was also clearly no communication between the different silos of Lennar (sales, mortgage, construction, etc) because we had multiple people telling us different dates for our orientation and closing. Even after our final walkthrough, we still had some issues that were not resolved. Looking back, the whole process was such a headache and I’m not sure I would ever buy a Lennar home again. ... More

My experience is not the best overall. I will say the our salesman and our closer / finance gentleman were extremely attentive and went 100% out of their way. They were the ONLY reason I didn't walk away and stayed with the homebuilder. I have owned a Lennar home before and my previous husband actually was a construction manager for them so I know the product very well. I have also owned a DR Horton, Antares and a Highland. Lennar is by far has the spottiest workmanship, esp. now, not like before. I don't want to hear nor care about the pandemic, that does not mean that the workmanship and the materials should be crappy. I could see it taking longer but it shouldn't be subpar. My house was the dumpster of the block while being built so all contractors threw the trashy materials in our yard and broke a lot of brick. then my driveway is literally melting away, the top layer spalling away and they dont want to repair it. my roof leaked in the bathroom and the AC repairman just left and also he gets alot of repairs from them and that our roof and attic has issues, you can literally stand in the attic and see daylight and see the workman truck. he started laughing when we asked is that normal and should we see that he NO not at all. they left me no brick, they should always leave a stack of at least 12 bricks. the ones they had to replace before we closed DO NOT even match. big eye sore. My sprinklers are still not working properly in the front yard. all this and I have not even made my first payment yet. I 100% regret buying this home. I just wanted a home that I come home to and be proud to come home to and call home and be my safe haven from everything we are having to go through with my grandson. ... More

I had a horrible experience with Lennar. The communication was horrible. I received "update" emails for the building process but, it was not correct. The building process was about 2 weeks behind from what the emails were saying was done/ to be done that week. During the scheduled "closing" week, I received communication from the Lennar team threatening to cancel the contract because I was not using their Lender. THE HOUSE WAS NOT CLOSE TO FINISH at the time of. They expected us to do a walk-through of an unfinished house that did not even have power or water running. They even forgot to install a window. I had to notify them of this error. Once the house was completely finished almost two weeks later, the house looked great, but I definitely would not rebuy with this builder. 4/10 would recommend. ... More

The main issue my wife and I had with lennar was the lack of communication during closing from the loan officer, loan processor and a little bit from the sales rep. Important things were not communicated to me, which complicated the closing a bit. Luckily my real estate agent was able to guide us and help us. At closing, we found several other people complaining about the same issues. The only thing that saves lennar from 1 star is Bill, who did the walk through with us. He was more than helpful.

Dont even respond to emails.

Return calls are horrible!

Not a very good experience..

The final handover team, was very rude and absolutely not professional. They treated as if we had no other options in the market, other than Lennar. I will share my experience with my fellow home buyers so that they can be prepared. Your ground staff needs to be trained.

The underwriting process was a complete mess. My close date had to be moved because of this. The underwriter and processor were so difficult to work with, I got approved a day before closing. The processor would not answer calls or emails and would keep requesting for the same document even though it had been uploaded multiple times. She would not call to clarify or nothing. The people in the office gave me a hard time, they were no help in getting the mail key and kept referring me to usps. I had to report the matter to higher ups to get the mail box issue fixed. Since moving in, I have had terrible red ant issues, the house is not properly sealed and red ants be coming in the house through the cracks in the wall/foundation. I have had to get pest control to come spray the house exterior and interior. The back of the gas burner had a massive hole that was not properly sealed and this was another entry for ants. The baseboards were not properly sealed too and ants were coming out of baseboard/trims and I had to seal them myself. I can imagine the amount of damages the ants will do behind the trim. The only good thing about the house is the amount I paid for it, everything else is just below average. ... More