In the old days of the early Millenium 😁, JD Power published a yearly customer satisfaction survey of all buyers in North Texas and other major markets. DR Horton consistently ranked around the middle year after year. Surprisingly, Lennar always ranked in the top ten. As a Realtor, I've sold both builder's homes and it mostly comes down to customer service. One the worst experiences I've had was with DR Horton. My client at the time had contracted on a home that was just past sheet rock and paint, flooring, cabinets were next to install. We were told by the representative that she could still pick her colors and she did. Went to the design center and spent a day. Then a week later the builder installed something else. I called the builder and went up the chain as far as they would let me and had a huge screaming match with the builder's construction manager for the neighborhood and they absolutely refused to install her picks. Ultimately, they refunded all of her deposits and we bought something else. None of my experiences with them in the intervening years have been negative or dramatic. Lennar has proven to be a dependable partner for my buyers and has gone above and beyond to repair under warranty, even doing repairs on a home sold to a secondary buyer under their structural and foundation warranty when the new owner had a condensation line leak and damage the ceiling and walls over a weekend. Are these builders building the Roman Aquaducts? No. Will you live well in your home for a long time if you do your active maintenance? Yes. BUT at your price point you are going to be very far outside of the city of Dallas and most of the burbs, think Princeton, Anna, Little Elm, Crossroads, maybe far north Mckinney.