Gables University Station

I’m a fan of the 30 day move-​out option.
Gables is one of those communities that you are able to move out without penalty within the first 30 days of your lease. But you need to be out by day 30.
The move-​out form has no place to let Gables know why you are moving out.
They are not concerned:
If you don’t like the garbage being taken care of at 5:30 am in the morning.
If you want to have covered parking (as advertised) on the fourth floor. Covered parking only goes up to the third floor.
If you want to be able to reach the controls of your dryer without a step stool.
That the garage doors are so slow that it adds unnecessary time to your commute.
That you want to come home and not hear your neighbor’s music blaring.
You have to pay $ 10 to sign up for the package concierge system.
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This is the place for you if you are a chill, party person. I’m not.

We moved in last September very excited about the proximity to the train station and because we previously rented from Gables at another location. This has not been the same experience at all. The staff is slow to take action on critical items. We alerted them to not hearing fire alarms in our unit almost immediately after we moved in. We are not sure to this day if it has been resolved since we just had another experience with the same issue though they did confirm our hallway was not setup properly. We complained of a gas leak smell only to have to threaten to call the utility before that was resolved. We were never told we couldn’t open our windows when we toured the apartment because our apartment is on the first floor on the courtyard with the pool. A long protracted battle ensued and now we can open them three inches. Not at all ideal. Our shower current was installed way too high which allowed water to pour onto the floor. We had to beg the staff to fix the problem.!The noise from our upstairs neighbors is intolerable. Not the staffs fault at all, but totally an indication of the cheap wood frame construction. Major mistake on our part for not living on the top floor like we usually choose when not in a steel framed building with poured concrete floors.
My most current problem is with the town, not the management company (though they could help!). They DO NOT shovel snow on the sidewalks to the train station. The apartment is advertised as being near a station and only a five minute but that walk is fraught with danger in the winter. Hiking through unshoveled sidewalks is dangerous. Near the train station you have to walk in the road. We’ve brought the issue up with the town, but they still shovel long after the snow is packed into even more dangerous ice. The management company totally wiped their hands of the issue since they don’t maintain the sidewalks, but have not from what we can tell advocated on behalf of their residences to get the town to do their job so that they can advertise the easy walk with any truth. This winter has been an easy one too, I couldn’t imagine the situation if it was a regular winter.
All these issues for slightly less cost per month from what we were paying in Cambridge where the city is devoted to making safe walkways and is in a real community, not a strip mall. On a cost per square foot basis we pay more than we did in Cambridge. I regret moving here. You might not if you drive everywhere, live on the top floor and have patience of a saint with the staff or wait for them to figure out all the maintenance issues with a newly constructed building. One would think being in a new building would be ideal from that perspective but not at all in this building.

Moved in just a few days ago — pricey but extremely nice places and tons of amenities plus the Wegmens/​Target complexes next door with some great restaurants AND be in South Station in 20 minutes via commuter line, this place will be a hit. I’ll update in a few months.