Surfside Apartments: Renters Insurance Guide & What It Actually Costs

Renters Insurance at Surfside Apartments

We found a few insurance details on the Surfside Apartments website. Your lease may have additional requirements — treat these as a starting point.

* An "interested party" is the property management company listed on your insurance policy. It doesn't give them any claim rights — it just means they get notified if your policy lapses, which is how the leasing office verifies you stay insured.

One thing to watch for: when you purchase your policy, most carriers have a field where you add the property as an interested party — skip that step and your proof may get rejected. It takes 30 seconds during checkout. Start a quote to see which carriers handle this automatically.

What Affects Your Premium Here

Every building is different. These factors specific to Surfside Apartments can push your insurance cost up or down:

What You'll Likely Pay

How Much Coverage Makes Sense

Renters insurance has two main pieces: personal property coverage, which pays to replace your belongings if they're stolen or damaged (think furniture, electronics, clothes), and liability coverage, which protects you if someone gets hurt in your unit or you accidentally damage someone else's property. Here's what we'd recommend for Surfside Apartments based on the rent level and building features.

How Carriers Compare for This Area

Not all carriers price the same zip code equally. Here's how the major options stack up near Surfside Apartments:

Discounts You May Qualify For

Safety

What Residents Are Saying

Based on Google reviews, here are the issues residents mention most often — and the ones that matter when choosing your coverage. Longer bars indicate more frequent discussion.

On-Site Security

Natural Hazards & Your Renters Coverage

From a renters-insurance angle, Surfside Apartments doesn't have unusual exposure to the natural hazards that a standard policy excludes — flood risk is low and significant earthquakes are rare here. What renters in Duval County are likely to actually claim against, on the other hand, is severe weather: NOAA records around 27 severe weather events a year locally. Wind, hail, and storm damage to your possessions are all covered by a baseline policy.

Flood damage

This address is in one of FEMA's lower flood-risk classifications. Standard renters policies don't cover flood damage anywhere, but in low-risk zones the cost of a separate NFIP policy generally isn't justified by the expected loss. The detail is below mostly for completeness.

Flood zone data from FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer (NFHL). Zones can change — verify at FEMA Flood Map Service.

Earthquake shaking

Earthquakes happen rarely enough at this location that an earthquake-specific endorsement isn't a meaningful insurance decision. A baseline renters policy still covers the claims you'd actually file. The USGS-level detail is included below mostly for thoroughness.

Hazard data from USGS National Seismic Hazard Model. The ground-motion figure is the level USGS expects to be exceeded with about 2% probability over a 50-year horizon — the standard reference used in building codes.

Severe weather you'd actually claim for

This is the part of the natural-hazard picture where renters insurance actually pays out. NOAA records around 27 severe-weather events a year in Duval County. Damage to personal property from wind, hail, and storms is covered by a baseline policy — the historical record below is more about understanding what your policy will actually be used for than identifying a coverage gap.

Severe-weather damage to personal belongings is covered without an endorsement on every standard renters policy. The frequency above is part of why carrying the coverage matters here, not a reason to add anything extra.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, annual averages from the past five years for Duval County. Counts reflect reported events, not damage amounts.

The bottom line: a standard renters policy at this address is sufficient. None of the optional natural-hazard endorsements pay back at meaningful odds.

Monthly Cost Breakdown at Surfside Apartments

The listed rent isn't the whole number. Here's what Surfside Apartments actually costs each month once you add required fees and insurance.

Fees Beyond Rent

These are the additional charges beyond base rent at Surfside Apartments. Some are monthly, some are one-time — all of them affect your actual cost of living here.

Required Fees

Pet Policy

Bringing a pet? Here's what Surfside Apartments allows. Standard renters insurance typically covers pet-related incidents, so you usually won't need any add-on coverage for a cat.

About Surfside Apartments

From the property listing:

Frequently Asked Questions