Sun Bay Apartments

Used to live there at 6230 Apartment 7.

Floor creaks everywhere. Last 2 weeks of living there they wouldn't fix my AC system.

Celing leaked during hard rain.

Had a water heater fire a couple years earlier that could have left me homeless. They only replaced heating element instead of the whole water heater.

Witnessed lots of illegal activity in these apartments.

They unfairly jacked up rent rates and their buildings remain plagued with problems. Happier since moving out. STAY AWAY from Sunbay Apartments!

First off, this new manager, Wanda, lacks personality and people skills.



Highly fed up with getting 12/24 hour notices on my door for maintenance or inspections that never take place. It took them 4 or 5 next day notices for re-doing the parking lots when there was nowhere else to park our cars without running the huge risk of having our cars towed away if we parked them at businesses or other places along South Dale Mabry.



The maintenance guy, Johnny, is a really nice guy, but is severely overwhelmed with maintenace issues. He needs help. Because of this it takes a long time to get something fixed or replaced.



I've lived here several years. These buildings look nice on the outside and when cleaned up for new tennants, but they are old and constantly band-aided. Anywhere there is paint flaking it just gets painted over. Termites are everywhere within these buildings. Walls are so thin you can hear your neighbor's conversation on their phone. Can't even turn up the stereo without somebody knocking on your door to complain about the volume.



When I moved here a lot of these apartments had a lot of nice and respectful neighbors. Now, I can't even trust my own neighbors because many of them are low income, irresponsible, and inconsiderate of others. Parking spots are clearly numbered, yet, tennants let visitors park anywhere without pointing out that there are GUEST parking spots. The problem goes boths ways on parking spots. Some tennants have more than 1 car and use the GUEST spots as their own permenant spots which in turn keeps others from having guests visiting without fear of being towed away.



Many of the more inconsiderate neighbors have lawn chairs, BBQ grills, and other crap outside of their dwellings which take away from the conformity/uniformity of these apartments. It's a huge eyesore. Some of these neighbors bring shopping carts from the neighboring Family Dollar and I've even seen Walmart (3 miles away) shopping carts dumped by the dumpsters between each building.



Sadly, I've witnessed drug dealing going on in these apartments, too. Weed smokers and pot dealers live in these buildings. I wish these apartments would be like Camden Bayside and rent to military and city/government employees only without changing their rent prices. The location is excellent to the military base, but it's sad that there are a lot of shady people here. Because of my job is the only reason why I stay here, but I keep my gun loaded in case one of the dope dealer's customers decide to try and do some snooping in my apartment.