A growing army of Lennar homeowners has flooded TikTok with footage of fractured ceilings, tile floors breaking apart and closets furred with mold — racking up millions of views and turning one of America’s biggest builders into a punchline.

The loudest of the bunch is a Celina, Texas, homeowner who posts as TexpatBBQ, whose walkthrough of his Dallas-area house has rocketed past 10.6 million views.

He follows a fissure climbing the brick from the foundation toward the roofline about an inch wide, then heads inside to show damage snaking through a bathroom.

“And here is where the bath faucet is literally coming off the wall,” he says. “We have cracks in the ceiling. We have doors that don’t shut.”

He says he’s spent a year pressing Lennar to act while the home is still covered by its 10-year warranty. After the company sent inspectors, he says, he got an email that read “it is not a structural concern. It is purely cosmetic.”

“Apparently, being able to see through the wall is not serious,” he said with sarcasm. 

He ends by asking the builder “when are you going to do the right thing and fix our home?”

Lennar later posted online that it knew about the videos and had been talking with him directly. His later updates mention a third Lennar inspection, a divisional president stepping in and a structural engineer report on the calendar.

He’s hardly alone.

In Austin, Paige of @turnmypaige drew more than 580,000 views tracing a ceiling crack that she says lines up with fractures in her tile floor and a split in the foundation below.

“I have talked to various neighbors who have also experienced this,” she sais. “So it’s not just me.”

She claims the family has been battling the builder since moving in. “I don’t think this is just cosmetic. I don’t think this is normal for a house that is less than 10 years old.”

Across town, East Austin homeowner @honeybeeabs pulled in more than 504,000 views after a company rep looked over her cracking house and declared it normal. She closed in summer 2019 on a CalAtlantic home that became Lennar’s when the builder bought out CalAtlantic mid-deal.

“I pulled up this piece of tile to see that my foundation is cracked,” she says, before showing floor readings more than an inch higher in the kitchen than at the front door.

She took aim at the visitor’s credentials. “He’s just doing his job. But he’s not an engineer. And Texas code says that an engineer should be the one doing this inspection.”

“It is getting worse every single day.”

A Lennar spokesperson told MySA “We are working directly with the homeowner to address her concerns.”

Then there’s the mold.

Houston homeowner Ashley Frazier, who posts as AshThorLoki, has built a running “Lennar Lawsuit” playlist chronicling what she calls a health nightmare. 

“Within 2 years I started to get really sick with breathing & gastrointestinal problems,” one video reads.

Frazier, who is suing Lennar over mold in the home she bought in 2021, told the Wall Street Journal she was hit with daily asthma attacks, headaches, dizziness and rashes in under two years.

She insists she did her homework. “& yes I did have it inspected prior to closing & again before my 1 yr & they did not find anything that would make me think this would happen.”

In a June 2025 post, she warned buyers lured by fat incentives that “me and MANY others are suing because our homes are being deemed uninhabitable in less than 2 years from mold & construction defects.”

Another TikToker, bethanyhope, posted the aftermath of what she described as a crash inside her house, with clothes and shelving heaped on the floor. 

“Heard a big crash and this is what I found. NEVER buy a Lennar home. Your life or your kids lives actually depend on it.” The clip has more than 225,000 likes.

One parent pointed a thermometer at a toddler’s bedroom on camera. “Hey Lennar, can you guys explain why this is the temperature in my 18 month old daughters room when our heat is set to 73?” the post asks. “We’ve been ignored for months. Maybe we can get a hold of you this way?”

The misery has spread to Reddit, too. A Tennessee couple who bought a Lennar townhouse in 2022 for $368,000 say it’s now worth roughly $320,000, and that their thermostats show indoor humidity between 75% and 95%.

“Now, four years later, the house has a persistent musty smell, flickering lights upstairs, and mold in the closets,” the husband wrote. “The front door frame holds so much moisture that it burned out two smart locks within a month of installation.”

The social media revolt mirrors a mountain of litigation.

In March 2025, the Seminole Tribe of Florida took Lennar to Broward Circuit Court over 552 homes belonging to or rented by tribal members, claiming shoddy construction bred humidity, mold, spores and dust mites that made people sick. Lennar has denied wrongdoing and said it offered a “comprehensive plan” to tackle the problems. Just last week, the builder hauled dozens of subcontractors into the case, arguing they should cover the bill if Lennar loses.

In October, owners in a California Lennar subdivision filed suit in state court, blaming cracked concrete and leaky pipes for at least $1 million in damage.

In South Carolina, a Summerville couple filed a proposed class action in April 2024 after the second floor of their “Georgetown model” home began sagging, blaming a faulty I-joist that they say runs the length of the floor and plagues similar Lennar homes across the state. Down in North Naples, Fla., a condo association has sued over alleged building code violations it says caused leaky roofs and windows. The builder is also fighting claims of water intrusion, mold and structural flaws in Alabama and beyond.

Legal exposure at major builders including Lennar and D.R. Horton has ballooned as more buyers sue over alleged defects.

Homeowners are also chipping away at Lennar’s favorite shield, the arbitration clause. South Carolina’s top court ruled in 2022 that the builder’s arbitration terms were unconscionable and couldn’t be enforced. Lawyers for plaintiffs elsewhere are winning similar fights to drag defect cases out of private arbitration and into open court.

Still, the TikTokers say the cameras are their best leverage.

“Please help me by sharing my story so I can hold Lennar accountable,” Frazier pleads.

Lennar did not immediately respond to a request for comment.