Sun Communities review: sheffield estates prison or mobile home park? 7

Hello, my name is Bryan Hamburger and I am the Regional Vice President over Sheffield Estates. Please feel free to give me a call at [protected] or e-mail bhamburger@suncommunities.com and we can address your concerns further.

I had an interview a few years ago for a local community they owned nearby for an $8/hr office job. They had me drive all the way to their headquarters in Southfield, because they were trying to be shady about hiring someone to replace a current employee before they canned her. Real nice folks. With gas sitting at $4/gal, it was great to have to drive 60 miles in one day - and I didn't get hired, even though I had the same job before with another management firm, made more money, and had better benefits but the company closed up shop.

They are all scam artists at Sun because they bought out another community near me and are being fined by the township over issues with not maintaining the septic system.

To put it bluntly if I had somewhere to go I'd leave in a heart beat. I've lived in Sheffield estates for approx 20 years now. Until sun communities took over approx 8-10 years ago the park was great. Sure it had its issues but nothing compared to how it is now. At least the previous owners seemed to care. Since sun took over, the park has gone downhill fast. To start the lot rent (keep in mind this is only for a piece of dirt and grass I own the home)is at an all time high and keeps climbing i pay over 600 a month for the lot alone and I know there are others who pay more. I've contacted sun management both corporate and in park to no avail as to an answer for these hikes. On top of that theres illegitimate tickets, stray cats gallor, constant management turnover. Recently I learned a possible reason for the rent hikes was forcing old residents out to make room for more single wides that go to low income people and well fare cases at 99 a month. WTF If that's true we as a community need to band together and straighten these F-ers out! I can't stand what's happening to my neighbor hood. In the last 2 months kids have started fires and fights, and there's been gang activity in here for the first time in my knowledge. If your looking for a place to live stay away from here. Its just not worth it.

I strongly agree with you. I too have lived here about as long and it used to be a lot better. This latest manager is the worst we've had. The rent goes up every year but we are not given specific reasons why. Now there are at least two others besides the maintenance man working around. Maybe that's why the rent is raised to pay the maintenance man's sidekicks. My neighbor just got a rule reminder and they said were given two days to correct it. That's crazy! Never were given just two days before why now? I could go on and on.

Now Sun Communities Sheffield Estates has the maintenance man sidekick working on Sundays too! No one has ever worked on a Sunday here before. The only ones would be someone at the pool or someone to come for emergency. That's why they raise the rent every year-- to hire more people to ride around in the cart all day. The way they run things now with yet another new manager its becoming more like a prison than a pleasant place to live. (Referring to someone else's comment) And they are probably getting paid overtime for it too

These complaints are older, but I can completely agree. I have lived here for 2 years, been thru 3 managers, and it has been a nightmare. They will not fix anything in the units, the manager will not help, and if you call corporate they give you the run around and do not respond to calls or emails. We have been lied to and deceived since the day we moved in. To top it all off, they decided to not renew my lease and gave my family (with 3 small children) 2 1/2 weeks to find a new place and move out. Which is pretty much impossible since we had no time to prepare for this, we may not have a place to live for a while because of their lack of consideration.

Countless professionals in building departments in 8 states agreed that the evidence of fraud with building code definitions is very strong, they completely agreed that the disposal of air conditioners and fridges etc no matter state housing codes is without any doubt proof of crime & systematic with communication from the management & execs through it all in their chain of conspirators, when execs were alerted rather than stop suspicious construction projects they keep it going destroying the lives and safety of everyone of us, then contractor has no paperwork for these jobs, management fully aware & execs were too, then offshore companies by Shiffman get a new addition to the crime family, evidence from victims keep surfacing and after I notified execs including Gary Shaftman and Karen Deceivearing, within a highly unusual timeline of events many are not just suspicious that executives sell stock and ignore the residents, they are not buying the Nonsense anymore, so then after they were said by their own they knew, activities continue with Deceptive building code definitions but didn’t realize they were being investigated, then management raises rent after retired school teacher resident asks for permits & safety information & was told she didn’t understand, then he Tony GM mouse mountain rv park Sun Communities paid employee, said to her “waste your money go ahead and sue go ahead you’ll lose anyways”, so as the park has been destroyed with demolitions and illegal construction, rent raised over 30% for an American school teacher now victim of bullying, this is also after a contractor breaks her motor home windshield but no one will take responsibility instead telling her to drive the motor home over an hour away and asking her to commit a motor vehicle crime or take $1800 for a $5500 dollar replacement, while the park looks like a post apocalyptic movie set her rent raised from the $600 range to the $1000 range, while hazardous sites surround everyone and the current state of this property is dangerous and never been so tore up, no permits for water and electrical projects, no regard for children who play basketball near over a dozen illegal demo sites, sharp object in hundreds of tons of dry sand which keeps a dust layer everywhere containing dust mites and 1970s potentially hazard for asbestos without even one inspection, over 35 sites all without respect to human life or the laws, weeks of it and for us to breathe every day and no one has responded from sun, residents with health problems now even more complications, I posted a rash online that develops when I go near demolition sites, over 40 demolitions and sites are in a 1/4 mile all around my lot and everyone else, demolition dumpsters labeled to deceive residents, waste management unscheduled pickups when demo site refuse & non approved household products furniture etc was in dumpster, highest construction costs ever in America and thefts of excavation equipment too, excavation equipment left on illegal demo sites near kids basketball court & well water pumping station for the entire park, electrical infrastructure not following code and resident reported problem was told contact Duke Energy as Duke Energy said no contact Sun Communities back and forth, water report in bulletin for residents to see is not accurate boil water alerts prove it, lab work proves it, when evidence surfaced, construction stops, contractor disappeared, ten days now the most in demand equipment in the country in the fastest developing county in the country just left behind so I notified execs and everyone wanting to see who will be the fool to come get it or the kid that is gravely injured, this isn’t suspicious yeah right, no insurance on illegal projects, no safety or warnings or consideration for residents some 30 feet from where they rest their head, hazardous dry dust as loud explosive sounds of demolitions are 30 feet from some of our bedroom windows, ground shaking, water report is a fraud, execs aware before and after one of their own proved it to an environmental group, hazardous waste tracked & illegally disposed of, residents endure the regular standard sun management bullying threats & intimidation we all know. This is another American community destroyed whats it now two three hundred…. the unethical culture of immorality & deceptive marketing, proven conspiracies & never one safety precaution or consideration to children, residents, disabled, critically ill, environment, taxes, county state federal laws.. on and on that’s not even close to the tip of it. Now though, building codes are one thing, but federal environmental laws have no concern for any manipulation of county or any local laws in any state or deceiving state lawmakers, EPA has total jurisdiction & with just a few of the thousands of videos and photos alone… is more than enough to show ANYONE EVEN A CHILD THIS IS CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR and new types of evidence from every corner of central Florida never stops piling up, this crime organization does this in states everywhere, my losses from Sun Communities is in the tens of thousands, I won’t let it go, the damage from the water & the air is not something sun communities sees value, the management has intentionally created dangerous unsafe conditions, if they come on to my space I’m calling the contact at the FDLE that I was told to call & the Media outlet. Tony was caught, filmed and recorded intentionally creating health problems & kept it going refusing to provide required documentation, yet he was riding all around the park, I will have my days in several courts, yes I said days in court, it will soon be several courtrooms for us all not one! I expect no response I’m following the advice of others so there you have it again Gary Shiftyman and Karen Deceivering you will hear it again & I will be criminally charging Tony your GM so you might keep him away from me and keep my name out of his mouth too. People talk especially your own, and now employees with shiny new fifth wheels, more BS. Keep your criminal GM far away. I’ll be seeing him and your puppet in courts soon enough