I've seen complaints on this builder, plus news articles about the company deciding to reduce the fee they'd pay sub's, AFTER the fact, when the work was already done or in progress. For anyone else that'd be breach of contract wouldn't it? I also wonder if subs who never get all the money they were owed will put liens on the home buyers' homes as is common when a sub is not paid by a builder.

There is also the site Defective Homes, which is primarily about Lennar: http://www.defective-homes.net/ The guy that built this site is a real estate agent and the site was a reaction to more than his own problem from what I understand.

Rating sites are a good thing but like any rating or survey, a good report can be very incomplete, and only a sign the home buyer needs to keep looking. Negative ratings/surveys are the ones that are real red flags, that tell a buyer, "STOP: obvious problems."

I found good signs on my last builder, too, (which predated "rateyourbuilder.com" unfortunately), and ended up in a 5 year battle with damages over $100,000. You can still look up my bad builder on BBB's and some other places and it appears he's
clean." He's not. Had I known at the time how to research court records I'd have been forewarned in time to avoid the whole mess.