STONE HARBOR SUCKS!

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Ratings from the site are:

Better look around, this is a troubled community

From: jimsnidercalif@hotmail.com
Date posted: 3/1/2011
Years at this apartment: 2011-01-01 - 2011-01-01
User Response is available. 2 responses


I was following a link and came across superpages.com and a thread that had reviews of Stone Harbor which is our sister community here in PCB. Same developer and same Concord Management company that built and manages Nautilus Cove, 2 miles from Stone Harbor. Below are reproduced ratings of that community on this site: http://tinyurl.com/48htn6t

All the other rating sites I found are also negative, there are a few exceptions that seem to have been posted by the management. I think you could discount such flowery endorsements.


If you are wondering about Concord Management you might take a look at their flagship HQ in Orlando which is NorthBridge Apartments, that is where they have their main office for Concord, the BBB ratesd that place as an 'F' and there are loads of complaints about it also, for Concord generally 
see: http://northbridgesucks.blogspot.com

User Reviews of Stone Harbor in Panama City Beach-

DO NOT MOVE HERE!!!!! From: -Anonymous-
Date posted: 5/31/2012


Years at this apartment: 2010-01-01 - 2012-01-01

I have had nothing but problems. Managment changes like the weather around here. My tenant ledger is never correct and they consistantly add frivilous charges on my account and you have to go through tons of BS in order to get it fixed (which I have yet to get my money back). I am getting OUT OF HERE ASAP! The neighbors are totally inconsiderate, the kids in this place are HORRIBLE! The pool reeks of urine. The only good thing I have noticed in my 2 years here is the fact that its close to the beach..... THAT IS IT! The carpet has tons of burn holes, my cabinets were apparently peeling before I moved in so they patched the cabinets with scotch tape. I'd NEVER recommend this place. I'd rather pay DOUBLE the rent than to stay here another lease term! They pick and choose who they want to extend the rent decrease to, "everyone" does'nt qualify.... o.O Keep searching, this is not the place you want to be stuck in!

From: anonamous8463
Date posted: 1/24/2013
Years at this apartment: 2012 - 2013
User Response is available. 1 response
Manager Response is available. Manager Response is available.





This place sucks. its like projects on the beach. Bad kids and youth everywhere. Car was keyed anonymously for no reason. Management sucks as well as general customer service. Maintenance ghetto rigs everything. The pond with the fountain looks like trash and a sewer drainoff. The management SUCKS! Over charges for water Bill. They didn't give me the required by law 30 day notice that they were not renewing my lease and I had to be out! Poor management. You never can get a answer when calling the front office then you go up there and everyone is in one office laughing and looking like there on the computer doing stuff that doesn't consist of work. Would not recommend this place. Super small rooms even worse bathrooms. Strange people live here. One man stays outside all day I even seen him. walking to the corner store pick out used cig butts and smoke them. a lot of others outside all day and night on their front porch like its a stoop in the hood of new York. Overall I give it a 1 star.

Manager's Response

From: Manager Date: 01/24/2013
Thank you for taking the time to write a review about Stone Harbor. We would like to hear more about your concerns with our team members and how we can better assist you. However, we noticed your posted anonymously. Please send us your contact information to YourView@ConcordRents.com.

Thank you.
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Update 2/11/13

Unfortunately, we have not received a response concerning the issues mentioned in this review. We assume they have been resolved. If you have any further questions, please email us at YourView@concordRents.com.

Thank you.

User Responses

From: whitelady1982 Date: 02/02/2013
This company will take your money but will not make the living situation comfortable for you I was really recommending moving there but the comments are horrible especially about the waterbill ..then they have a nerve to respond and knowing they are lying ..you can tell by the way they respond they are lying ..God protect the families that are there I feel so sorry for them!!!


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Feb 22, 2011
by Guest64584
Feb 22, 2011
Do not even attempt to move in here! We waited an extra month to move just so that we could get a 4 bedroom apartment here and in that time it was nothing but problems! They rarely answer the phone and NEVER return phone calls or emails. I literally sat outside and called them. When no one answered, I went inside to find three people working but not answering the phones.


Also, it seemed like it was constantly one problem after another with the information they needed just to get the application approved. And, like another reviewer, our apartment was leased out from under us! One week before we were to move, I discovered they had given our 4 bedroom to someone else and was just going to put us in a 3 bedroom.


Did they think we would not notice that our apartment was missing a bedroom and bathroom?? I found this out after driving 3 hours to get to the apartment just to try to get a form that was supposed to be emailed to me. Why did they not tell us during one of the many phone calls??


Oct 21, 2010
by Guest22476
Oct 21, 2010
You do not want to move into this complex. The girls in the office could care less about any issues you have, and they will lose your rent several times over the years you live here. People are running out the door of this place due to poor customer service. They care more about how they look than the business they are trying to run.


May 29, 2009
by Guest62832
May 29, 2009
It was a great place to live a year ago but since there is all new management in the office the community has gone down as the just don't seem to take pride in the community. It is like a revolving door of people coming and going due to poor management. The maintenancee crew is great!

It is the people in the office who don't seem to care. Just wish we had Ms. Kim back in the office as she was very much involved in the community and made sure everyone followed the rules which people respected and the community was a great place to live but now it is not a place I want to stay and am looking for a better maintained community to move to.

User Responses

Wow..seems like some folks just love to complain! I applied at Stone Harbor & the young lady I spoke with told me upfront that it takes a bit longer than most places. She was very friendly and helpful. Ok she was the ONLY friendly one in the office so I was glad she was the one helping my family through the whole process!!


There were times I couldn't get anyone on the phone, but I always got a call back from the young lady that is the leasing person! I do have to say that the older 2 women in the office are quite rude always! I almost cancelled my paperwork cause I had to deal with them just once...
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From: Anonymous Date: 05/06/2012
I just moved out of there a month ago on March the 28, 2012 when my lease was up. I give written notice that I was moving out 45 days before. I cleaned the place from too to bottom. I turned in all my keys including the gate key, pool pass and the sticker off my car. April in the office did the walk through. She wrote down no damage and I  signed it. Yesterday I received a certified letter thinking it was my $500.00 deposit. I opened it and instead it was a deposit deposition saing that I did over $900.00's worth of damage to the place and that they were keeping my deposit and they were charging me over $400.00"s more. They also charged me for rent pro rated for the first of April and I wasn't even there.


I called all day and i never was able to reach them. I left a message and no one even called me back. It upset me so bad. I am disputing it and i have a neighbor that seen it after I cleaned it and she even knows that there was nothing wrong with it. So if your thinking about renting there you better think twice cause they seem to do everyone dirty. I lived alone and i never had any company when I was there. When I moved in the people moved out a hour before i moved in and it wasn't even clean when I got there. It was cleaner when i moved out. So please beware!


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Monday, July 16, 2012

User Reviews


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1 of 5 stars
Oct 21, 2010
by Guest22476
business
Stone Harbor Apartments 501 Alf Coleman Rd,
Panama City Beach, FL 32407 USA
You do not want to move into this complex. The girls in the office could care less about any issues you have, and they will lose your rent several times over the years you live here. People are running out the door of this place due to poor customer service. They care more about how they look than the business they are trying to run.   
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1 of 5 stars
May 29, 2009
by Guest62832
business
Stone Harbor Apartments 501 Alf Coleman Rd,
Panama City Beach, FL 32407
USA
It was a great place to live a year ago but since there is all new management in the office the community has gone down as the just don't seem to take pride in the community. It is like a revolving door of people coming and going due to poor management. The maintenancee crew is great! It is the people in the office who don't seem to care. Just wish we had Ms. Kim back in the office as she was very much involved in the community and made sure everyone followed the rules which people respected and the community was a great place to live but now it is not a place I want to stay and am looking for a better maintained community to move to. (Hide)
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Review from Kudzu: 
http://www.kudzu.com/m/Stone-Harbor-19724824/reviews/
Stone Harbor  3 reviews        
501 Alf Coleman Road Panama City Beach, FL 32407       
Phone: (888) 483-2027      

by MovingToTheBeach at Citysearch
Posted on Citysearch on 2/22/2011
Do not waste your time
Do not even attempt to move in here! We waited an extra month to move just so that we could get a 4 bedroom apartment here and in that time it was nothing but problems! They rarely answer the phone and NEVER return phone calls or emails. I literally sat outside and called them. When no one answered, I went inside to find three people working but not answering the phones. Also, it seemed like it was constantly one problem after another with the information they needed just to get the application approved. And, like another reviewer, our apartment was leased out from under us! One week before we were to move, I discovered they had given our 4 bedroom to someone else and was just going to put us in a 3 bedroom. Did they think we would not notice that our apartment was missing a bedroom and bathroom??

I found this out after driving 3 hours to get to the apartment just to try to get a form that was supposed to be emailed to me. Why did they not tell us during one of the many phone calls?? While I was there, a resident came in and asked to have her apartment unlocked because maintenance locked her out and her keys were inside. She was there for at least 30 minutes (I left before she did) waiting for someone to come unlock her apartment that THEY locked. While these are beautiful apartments and a beautiful complex (in a great location), it is not worth all the headache and BS you have to deal with. We will not be accepting that 3 bedroom apartment!  Overall

by BeachyMe1 at Citysearch
Posted on Citysearch on 10/6/2010
 It is Great here!!
I have lived at Stone Harbor for 3 years now, just renewed my lease. There were issues til about 6mos ago. There is a whole new staff from manager to maintenance and things are much better now!! The gates, that never worked before with any of the other managersWork Now!! :) And they are enforcing the rules to live here. There are definitely rules for living on this property but I Love it. We finally have people in that office who care enough to enforce the rules for a safe and peaceful place to live. ...  Overall
         

by mega me at Citysearch
Posted on Citysearch on 6/15/2010
WHAT EVER YOU DO DONT MOVE HERE.

THE STAFF IS VERY RUDE. ESPECIALLY THE DISTRICT AND REGIONAL MGR. THEY WILL LIE TO GET HERE.. WATER BILL EVERY MONTH IS 90. TO 140.. WHEN NORMAL WATER BILLS ON THE BEACH ARE 60 EVERY 2 MONTHS. THEY FIRED A REALLY GOOD MAINTANCE MAN THAT WAS THE BEST WE EVER HAD.

NOW WE HAVE A GUY THAT CANT EVEN CLEAN THE POOLS MUCH LESS FIX THE A C THAT KEEPS GOING OUT. THEY KEEP RAISING THE RENT IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR LEASE. I THINK IF EVERYONE HAD A PLACE TO GO THEY WOULD MOVE OUT OF HERE. SOMEONE SHOULD HAVE A LOW DEPOIST AND FREE FIRST MONTH SPECIAL. IF THE COMPANY WOULD GET RIDE OF THE COWS IT WOULD BE A BETTER PLACE. ALL THEY CAN THINK ABOUT IS THERE BOUNUS.   

Monday, July 9, 2012

Stone Harbor Bed Bug Infestation

Bed bugs spotted in Bay County




Panama City - A nuisance that was largely eradicated during World War II is making a come back: Blood sucking bed bugs are turning up all over the country.
Posted: 10:41 AM Feb 24, 2011 -  WJHG.COM
Reporter: Amber Southard
Email Address: amber.southard@wjhg.com

Panama City - A nuisance that was largely eradicated during World War II is making a come back: Blood sucking bed bugs are turning up all over the country.




They’re usually found hiding in bed mattresses. Called Cimicidae, but better known as "bed bugs," the small parasites feed on the blood of warm-blooded animals, including humans. And since 1995, they've been spreading across the U.S. at near epidemic levels.
"A person calls once every two months, but it seems like lately I’ve had more calls -- At the end of 2010, the last two or three months of 2010 and January -- more than I’ve ever had," said Epidemiology Specialist Michael Fluharty.
A viewer alerted us to one of the latest reports at Stone Harbor Apartments on Panama City Beach.
Virginia Ballard, her daughter, and 5 year old grandson have lived at stone harbor for five months. She's concerned about reports of bed bugs in neighboring apartments.
"There’s a small child in the house, and I heard that's really serious (the bed bug situation), and I’ve heard that they travel from place to place and they're really hard to get rid of," said Ballard.
Stone Harbor Corporate officials say, "Any residents with a pest concern of any kind are dealt with expeditiously by a licensed pest control contractor."
They say only one apartment had bed bugs and they've handled the problem. The insect's bite causes skin rashes, psychological effects and allergic symptoms.
"It’s not only the bed bug bite itself, but it's us scratching and introducing bacteria that can cause further problems," said Fluharty.
But officials say you can start looking for bed bugs by just lifting your mattress.
"You find little blood stains -- and you can find them on sheets, especially if you have white sheets. It's a good idea if you have white sheets, so you can see what's going on," said Fluharty.
If you spot the signs, call an exterminator. Health officials believe this current increase in bed bug infestations may be due to more people traveling to less developed countries, and more people buying second-hand furniture.

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by jacob on Feb 26, 2011 at 04:58 PM
I beleive I am the apartment they are talking about. The situation I called about should have been dealt with after the 1st month I moved in. I called riligiously to get them to come out, and when they finally came, they said it was fleas!! So now, I have to move, buy a new mattress, get rid of furniture, and be without an apartment for almost a month. Stone Harbor appearently doesn't care about their residents.
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by Cindy Location: Panama City Beach on Feb 25, 2011 at 02:50 PM
Stone Harbor says they only have ONE apartment with bugs and they have dealt with it? They are attached together like eight apartments in one! they crawl through the walls!! how can they lie like that! the whole place should be gutted!
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by cme123 Location: destin on Feb 24, 2011 at 07:56 PM
contact your local pest control they are who the hotels call to get rid of there bed bugs....it takes several months.if they will even say anything...due to laws of privicy...
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by Debbie Location: Panama City on Feb 24, 2011 at 05:08 PM
Bed bugs were a problem at Kapalua Apartments on Joan Avenue 2 years ago.
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by beach guy on Feb 24, 2011 at 12:12 PM
If they are at stone harbour apts, then they will be spreading to all the condos and hotels the foreign workers work at. Lots of foreigners living at stone harbour apts, you see them walking down the road there all the time. Jeez, 1st oil, now bed bugs, what next?

From:  http://www.wjhg.com/home/headlines/Bed_bugs_spotted_in_Bay_County_116781548.html

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Stone Harbor

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501 Alf Coleman Rd, Panama City Beach, FL 32407
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  • Bryan
    Posted on 09/11/11
    F*ck this place and the people who run it.It's a sh*thole. I can't wait to move out of here.
  • natasha
    Posted on 05/03/11
    This place is absolutely horrible. the management are a bunch of irritible coogers who will lash out with poor attitudes if you request for maitanance. The first week the new tall goofy maintanance started my diamond bracelet came up missing. The water bill is 125$ for a one bedroom when I was on vacation for three weeks and is the same regarless if I use water or not. I can here our neighbors screwing through the paper thin walls at 2 in the morning. Washer, dryer and dish washer barely works; however, i am still paying 80$ for it every month. I just can't wait to move out of this place!!!!
  • shelly
    Posted on 06/18/10
    All of those reviews are not real residents. This the crappiest place I have ever lived. They got rid of the best maintanence this place has ever had. Now they just have some big old tard. There is trash all. over the property. Nothing gets fixed right. The pools are always dirty. The trash compacter is. Always broken now. The rent keeps getting raised before the lease is up. The water bill is 130. A month when it should only be 50 or 60 every 2 months. This place is a rip off. Management needs to learn manners.they are the most rude people in world. If the CEO only knew what these people have been doing.
    • resident
      Posted on 01/13/10
      We have lived here for about 7 months and this has been the worst 7 months of our lives the walls are so thin the neighbor kids have shouting matches with their parents have talked to the office and we know now it is a waste of time.. I can see out my front door without even looking out my peep hole their is such a gap and the door has been repared before. The office staff would not live here even if they got free rent!!!
    • Tini
      Posted on 03/19/07
      We lived here for 4 months and they were nothing but helpful. Any questions we had or problems, they were quick to answer or fix. Beautiful apartments and beautiful property! Only 3 blocks from the beach!
    • paula
      Posted on 02/11/07
      I am a resident here for almost 3 years and haven't had any problems. Stone harbor is very people and kid friendly with all the extras that they provide for their residence. Whether your a young or old there is always something happening at Stone harbor. A great place to live.
      madalyn3
      funny how this comment sounds just like an ad for the place! HMMMMMMMMMMM. FISHY!