Marrick Homes - Clarks Rest. I moved to the SMD area in Feb 2019 from Huntsville, AL. After being here for a number of months, I decided to pursue purchasing a home for myself. I really liked the Leonardtown area so I decided to build a new custom home in Clark's Rest which was being offered by Marrick Properties. I contracted to build the single story Lusby home whose design I really liked. Seeing that this home was my first new home ever, I elected to do many custom modifications to the original design to make it more to my liking. Marrick started construction of my home back in Oct 2019 and it was finished 6 months later in Mar 2020 right as COVID -19 hit bad. Funny thing is, I closed in the parking lot and wasn't allowed into the escrow office due to COVID-19 fears but no problem. Anyway, while my house was being built, Marrick typically excavates a huge hole for the homes foundation and then sets and pours the foundation walls and floors (this process is interesting to watch if you've never seen it done). Anyway, after the foundation is poured, Marrick typically backfills the previously excavated soil -or clay in this case- to be against the exterior foundation walls using either a skip loader or dozer. Unfortunately, this is where some of my quality problems with Marrick began. After being in my new home for 30 days, I filed my list of defects with Marrick in April of 2020 of things needing to be fixed or attended to. In this initial list I mentioned -among other defects- the development of various sink holes in my yard and around my property. At that time, some interior home issues were addressed by Marrick, but the sink holes in masse were ignored by them. In the following months, I sent additional emails to Marrick inquiring as to when the sink holes -and the other missed issues- would be finally addressed. Sadly, all of these requests were never satisfied but were met with a lot of promises and email exchanges, but little else. I again mentioned them (sink holes and other quality problems not addressed from my 30 day list) in my 10 month list submittal to Marrick. In the intervening months from the 30 day to the 10 month time frame, the sink holes had progressively gotten worse as the clay soil around my home continued settling which further exasperated the sink holes issue. It is now over 1 year that these issues have existed and Marrick has yet to address them or even acknowledged them here at the development. I have literally send dozens upon dozens of emails asking and begging that Marrick fix these problems as well as other quality issues with my home. The superintendent here, Joe Rieman and the owner Marvin Oursler have both been copied in on these emails but I have yet to hear from either one of them after 1 year. Unfortunately, with the housing shortage being what it is, Marrick is busy building new homes to sell to other customers at maximum profits but refuses to satisfy existing customers and the quality problems of the homes which Marrick built and sold to them. I have posted numerous pictures of my yard and the sink holes here on yelp with captions as to what they are. Please review them and think twice about purchasing a home here or from Marrick in general. The perception I have is that they are real quick in taking your money, but are real slow to fix problems they've created with their building processes. If you do decide to build a home here in Clark's Rest or any of Marrick's other housing developments, I'd highly recommend that you add specific wording into the purchase contract that states that Marrick will ensure that any and all sink holes developed as result of the building process will be corrected by Marrick as they develop or within 30 days of being formally notified. I'd like to add that I really like my home and the way it's laid out. I like the rear entrance garage and the custom changes I've incorporated into it. However, these sink hole issues and the blatant, deliberate lack of response from the superintendent here and the owner of the company has left a sour taste in my mouth and tarnished the joy of having purchased a home the way I wanted it to be. Thank you reading this and take care. read more

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We found out about Marrick homes from our daughter and son-in-law, who used them to build their home in Elizabeth Hills. In February 2018, we met with Mike Jacques to consider building our dream home in Clarks Rest. We were so satisfied with all the help we received, because we changed a lot of the floor plans to meet our needs. Mike came up with some great ideas for us! We have owned homes before, but have never built one. The experience has been wonderful, although the weather did not cooperate last summer for our deadline, we were happy with the end results. We are coming up on our 10 month occupancy, and although there have been some minor problems (which is to be expected) we contact Diana Penn and she makes sure all are needs are sufficiently met and taken care of within a reasonable time. She is very pleasant to work with! We would definitely recommend Marrick Homes to anyone wanting to build a great home for a great price. Frank and Donna Pfneisel read more

We were a first time home buyer and probably should have done a little more research on this builder. First of all, they are not accredited. Our home was a brand new construction and had a year warranty on it. Many times when something would go wrong they would let us know a superintendent would be out in a specific date (we would have to take off work to accommodate this) and the person would never show up. On our 10 month "fix list" we were told that they would not reseed our yard (which has had trouble growing grass from the beginning). This was an interesting response considering when we first moved in they reseeded it saying that their company has standards that they need to keep. I guess those standards have changed. There were a few additional items on our fix list that were never fixed, again, they said they would send someone out but that never happened. Our sump pump broke one rainy weekend and we could not get a hold of their plumber (could not even leave a message). Had to go buy a water pump and pump water out of the basement door to keep it from flooding. We had to wait until Tuesday for it to be fixed and was told we would not be reimbursed for the pump because that "was part of owning a house". Overall I would not recommend Marrick to anyone. read more

I own a beautiful place built by this company as a custom home in 2001. I purchased this as the third owner. Overall quality is ok, some truss-lift in the upper floor and lots of flex in the floor trusses used across the family room. The only major problem at this point is a main drain towards the septic that was built with a UPHILL section in it. This is the result of the hole in the foundation for the main drain being placed too high by the general contractor who did the foundation work. Later in the construction, Instead of spending an hour with a jackhammer to expand the hole, the plumbing subcontractor just bent the 4in main drain upwards to go through the hole and then added 2 45deg elbows to make it match up with the drain line out to the septic tanks. There are not enough swear words to describe the lazyness and epic stupidity involved here. Apparently neither the construction manager nor the county plumbing inspector picked up on this poor workmanship. After the second sewage flood in my basement, I am now spending about $4k to get the main drain repaired and the area under the slab that had to be dug up re-tiled. This is not 'wear and tear' or 'just the kind of stuff you have to expect in a 17 year old house'. This is poor workmanship and poor construction management. So, if I was going to spend money to have a home built, I would think long and hard before I would go with this company. read more

Don't buy a Marrick property! If you do, buy one of their spec homes. We bought a "custom" home. They cannot sell the homes in this neighborhood so everything is a spec house and has significantly lowered the values of anyone who may have had their home built. The majority of the options I wanted, we were told were not offered (custom lighting, flooring, tile). We went with the top level upgrade and it still wasn't what I would have chosen if I had more choices yet we paid ridiculous amounts for it. The landscaping contractor they use is atrocious they put nothing but weeds and crab grass in your yard. It's has been three years for us. We have spent thousands and it still looks horrible. Take a drive through the neighborhood and you will see. Unless you spend a fortune on sod you will never have a nice yard. We also paid extra for an extension to our driveway. Despite catching it before it was paved and making a new outline on where the asphalt was supposed to go, they still did not pave it correctly. They also messed up the custom columns on our front porch. They do not fit and the stone is higher than the door knob. It looks ridiculous. We cannot use our fireplace because the exhaust flume is too close to the master bathroom window which we were told may get fumes into the house if it is used. I could go on and on. We tried numerous times to have our many issues resolved. I'm resorting to this post to at least save someone else from going through the same thing. Bottom line, do not use this builder. You will be VERY disappointed. read more

Marrick Homes - Elizabeth Hills Community: I purchased one of their luxury townhomes. Although, I was having a few reservations one being the parking issue - I went ahead with the purchase. So far, the home has not had many issues (several cosmetic), although the heating and air conditioning system has been a challenge as my upper level does not cool or heat very well. The lower level is always cold and does not heat - B & B heating and air that installed the heating/air tells me to keep the fan running to circulate the air within. It's been a few weeks and I am trying it out - and, now the parking has been a real issue in the townhome community. We have all adopted the parking spaces in front of our homes, each usually two spaces and I have only adopted one space! It has been another challenge having to secure the parking space close to my home. It appears everyone who visits the town home model wants to park close to my home. I advise potential new townhome owner(s) to consider the parking issue when considering making a purchase in the Elizabeth Hills Luxury Townhome Community! read more