Pacific Bay Club Apartments

Lived here for three months.
Pros: area is nice, close to everything in San Diego (downtown, beaches). Nice view overlooking mission bay depending on your apartment.
Cons: ants everywhere. They were everywhere. In the bathroom, mostly kitchen, and around the apartment. Also, daddy long legs everywhere. Didn’t really bother me because they’re not harmful, but still insects all over. Rent (depending upon the rate the office gives you) you pay for location and view.
Overall, decent place to live. No issues with parking ever. Managers and consultants were nice. They have a gym area. A nice pool and spa.

DO NOT LIVE HERE!
I lived in a studio here for a very long 12 months. I have lived in San Diego for over 10 years in about 7 different places and this was by far the worst. The walls here are very thin, you can literally hear everything from the unit above, below, or on the side of you. This problem is made worse when you live next to two 18 year olds from Maui who are aspiring to become the next Skrillex and play house music morning noon and night. There is nothing like waking up to Darude — Sandstorm at 9am on your day off followed by 6 hours of DeadMau5 on repeat. This summer the Pacific Bay Club was lucky enough to host 20 Irish foreign exchange students. The short term leases and lack of nighttime security made Pacific Bay Club a perfect spot for the group of 20 who lived in 2 two bedroom apartments (yup 10 people per 1000 sqft apartment!). The exchange students favorite pass times included drinking beer and screaming really loud outside of everyone’s apartment from 2am-​4am Monday-​Friday. The pipes in the wall between my apartment blew up 2 times in the 12 months I was there causing water damage to the unit below mine. They turn off the water every other week for maintenance. Water utility is shared and only payable to a company in Florida. This company charges you $ 5 to make your payment online or over the phone (they call this a «convenience fee»). Building is old and has a lot of water damage, there are spots in the bathroom you can push in with your thumb. They tried to raise my rent the state allowed maximum 10% to renew my lease (not that anyone who has lived here would ever want to renew). There are piles of trash in the hall ways from over filled recycling.
After all this I probably would have given this place a 1.5 stars for the simple fact that if you live here you will never want to come home, so you will spend more time enjoying beautiful San Diego. Unfortunately I am forced to drop it down to 1 star because of the issues I have been dealing with trying to get my security deposit back. Based on my experience living there I assumed that Pacific Bay Club would try to scam me out of my security deposit. After all, this is the same company that makes you pay your water bill to a company in Florida. Upon moving out I took every precaution, did a deep clean, and left the apartment in better condition then when I moved in. I was not at all surprised that they took $ 170 from me for «grease stains on the oven and stain removal from the carpet». Luckily for me I took extensive pictures of my apartment the day I moved out. I have sent 3 emails over the past month and have yet to receive a reply. The contact number for security deposits goes straight to a recording. I have called the front and they say the only way to make a dispute is through email. I was told they would get back to me in 48 hours, it has been 3 weeks and 3 emails sent by me and still nothing. So now I have to go to small claims court which really sucks. I give this place 0/​10, would not recommend to my worst enemy!

DO NOT LIVE HERE.
1. You split the the water bill with the rest of the complex.
2. Nothing works in the apartment (dishwasher, garbage disposal, etc)
3. The walls are extremly thin, i can hear neighbors talking, walking, kids crying etc all day.
4. Parking is a joke
5. No lights anywhere in the apartment except bathrooms and kitchen.
6. They are constantly bothering you with maintenance issues and coming in your apartment at random times of the day. Not to mention the horendously loud construction they’ve been doing at 7:30 in the morning!!!
I could go on, but i think you get the point. If your lucky enough to see this before you decide to move in, do not move here unless you are on te verge of being homeless. Other wise, there are much better places to rent, including actual houses for nearly the same price as this load of shit. You are welcome

Great spot car is essential if your gonna live here though!
Joe and Kaitlin are a pleasure to deal with always felt looked after.
The maintenance team are very helpful and friendly especially Robbie.
Such a laidback environment reminded me of holiday resorts in Spain.
Great communal areas for barbecues.
Lovely pool and hot tub cleaned quite regularly I noticed.
Nice views of the city from some apartments.
Sweet spot great bunch of folk!

People who claim to live their lives free from regret have never signed a lease at Pacific Bay Club. I was asked a few weeks ago by the management if I would write a Unilocal review, and my first reaction was «you really want people to know about this place?» But after a few months of nothing but problems, I felt maybe I should warn folks before they sign a lease. Less than a month after moving in, the property had towed my car, despite giving the complex my car’s information when I was filling out all the necessary moving in paperwork. They never entered my car’s information into their system and I get stuck with the $ 270 towing fee which they of course refused to reimburse me on. Then there is the apartment itself. They spared no expense cutting the corners on this place. Cheap carpet, cheap linoleum, cheap walls, cheap, cheap, cheap! Privacy is not an option because you can hear your neighbors, your neighbors can hear you and with so many maintenance or apartment employee drop ins, you can count on some body you barely know to go through your apartment and give a vague reason as to why. The shower and sinks are always getting clogged and sewage smells permeate my apartment from the bad plumbing. The cheap construction is not just contained to the apartment interiors, it is experienced throughout, from the laundry rooms, to the windows to the cheap kitchen appliances. For example, anytime someone wears heels or someone’s kid runs down the halls, you will feel like you’re in a scene from Jumanji with every step being heard and felt. Since moving in I have had to call maintenance, on average, at least once a month. The last few times for clogged drains (3 times) a broken stove (2 times) and to fix shoddy cable and internet wiring. This month’s maintenance request is for an ant infestation that I just can’t seem to contain with Raid. Lovely! The amenities they offer are lackluster, such as the gym with equipment that looked like it was picked up off the street and is often broken or missing parts. The complex itself has as much charm as a barracks building and decrepit looking plants they somehow feel the need to water every night despite the severe drought that is currently plaguing California. I can not wait to move out of this place, because as I write this, I can feel several ants crawling up my legs.

UPDATE!
The fleas are gone! Management paid for an exterminator and the fleas haven’t retuned since *fingers crossed* I still have scars on my legs but overall the problem lasted about two weeks.
They also added some really nice and cool looking furniture to the pool area, it’s like a mini vacation spot over there.
We had my cat move in and Joe and Kaitlin made it a really smooth and easy process. I didn’t mind the $ 350 deposit but the $ 40 pet rent sucks and I really don’t get it.
I forgot to mention earlier… The hot water here is awesome. The shower heats up super quickly and has never gone cold on me. This is a huge deal!
Overall I would definitely recommend this place. It’s a great location & really nice units for the price. Sucks for us we got stuck next to sucky neighbors but that’s a hit and miss with any place you get & thin walls are a reality for almost all apartments.

Joseph did an amazing job moving us in!!!
We got a remodeled model apartment, everything is brand new everything works.
Thank you Joseph and crew.

I found Pacific Bay on line from out of state. I have been here one month now and have nothing but praise for the complex. Very well maintained and very hospitable. Highly recommended!
Stan Fairchild

I couldn’t have asked for a smoother transition with my move to SD. Joe and Kaitlin in the leasing office have been more than helpful and so accommodating with my move-​in process. I have had one issue with my refrigerator thus far and the maintenance team was there to fix it as soon as I reported the problem. Of course any place you live (especially if you have lived there too long) will have its issues as nothing in this world is perfect but what matters most is how the staff/​management handles that problem and the staff here have done an exceptional job at catering to the residents.
Points of Interest:
1. This complex is in a prime location and easily accessible to HWY 5.
2. Laundry Room uses a card system which is SO much more efficient than a pocket full of quarters
3. Liquor store, two restaurants, two parks within walking distance (1 block to be exact)
4. Free parking space
5. Great public BBQ/​picnic area
6. Elevators
I came from living at 7,200 feet where I walked two blocks in the snow to dump my trash so for me, it is the small things in life that matter… be positive!

I stayed in this place way too long (several years) and should have moved out after my initial lease expired. I finally moved out and am so glad I did. My advice to you is stay away. The issues are numerous:
1. They jack up the rent by 8−11% at each lease renewal period.
2. If you want to switch from an annual lease to a six-​month or month-​to-​month lease, they will jack your rent even more (on the order of hundreds of dollars per month).
3. The construction is shoddy and the units are contaminated with ASBESTOS. They are constantly renovating units and when they do so they post asbestos warnings and seal off the unit. Environmental hazard teams come in to clean up the mess. Downright scary.
4. The water is paid through a 3^rd party company and the entire property’s water bill is divided equally between all lease holders. So you’ll pay the same amount as a family of 5 with only one person on the lease. Basically they use all of the water and you pay for it.
5. The pool and spa have so much chlorine that it burns the eyes and skin. They probably put so much in because of all the kids that are peeing in it every day.
6. Water gets shut off to the entire complex 2 – 3 times per week, just about every week, for 3 – 6 hours each time.
7. The complex is perpetually under construction. There are always construction guys hanging out in all areas of the complex talking loudly on their phones, listening to the radio, and cursing up a storm with their co-​workers.
8. The construction noise is overwhelming– jackhammering, grinding, sawing, hammering, etc. All day, Monday-​Friday. This has been going on for years.
9. Because of all the construction, there is debris and dirt in most common areas, especially the stairs, elevators and common hallways.
10. Most of the common hallways have major dings, gauges, holes from careless residents, movers and construction crews.
11. There are landscapers with gas blowers making ridiculous noise and blowing dust around almost every day of the week. This dust ends up on all of the cars, so don’t bother ever washing your car because it will be coated in dust and debris the next morning.
12. It is simply never quiet here.
13. There is no guest parking. Street parking is a nightmare.
14. I’ve heard from other residents that they don’t have hot or cold water, just luke warm water and management won’t/can’t fix it.
15. There is high turnover here due to the numerous issues, so there is no sense of community. Nobody says hi to each other and there are some sketchy people usually hanging around.
16. I could go on, but you get the picture. Need I say more?

I couldn’t have picked a better place to call home after moving out of my mom’s house! My cat, Audrey, and I comfortably shared a studio unit for the course of a year and I have very little to zero complaints to make about my residency there. Sure, guest parking could be better but the street parking was never terrible– at least the surrounding neighborhood was nice! I loved how close it was to PB and the 5 freeway. The staff were all very, very friendly. Excellent pool/​spa area. I would love to move back there someday!