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houses for rent in Los Angeles ca?

my dad and i are moving to LA and its a huge change for us cause he and my mom are no longer together. We need to move cause my dad got a new job and his sister is sick and we want to be with her at this time. So we cant seem to find a cheap apartment or house in LA and i wanted to know if any one here could help. i have been on rent.com and los angeles craigslist but cant find any thing. also it really has to be cheap and nice cause my dad has to use most of the money for bills mostly for me because i have had tumors for a few and i have had them taken out but they keep growing so we don't have much money for a nice place. and we found a great Doctor for me that would help me...so we really need help thank you very much for your time and any little help would be fine :)

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1. there are some nice sewer tunnels on the outskirts of town with creepers, very high class for LA
2. You don't give a price range but in L.A. 800 for a one bedroom would be DIRT cheap and you would be very lucky to find one.
3. You don't say what you consider cheap, but the cheapest you're going to find in an OK area is going to be about $1200 for a one bedroom and $1500 for a 2 bedroom apartment, nothing fancy. You might be able to find something a bit cheaper, but not much. For a good mix of safety, good schools and on the less expensive side, look at Glendale. But it's going to cost what I wrote. If you want to live about an hour out of LA, places like Monrovia, West Covina, you might find a 2 bedroom for $1200. In LA, people spend a way higher percentage of their income on their rent or mortgage than other places, that's just the way it is. If you don't have health insurance, and you're 18 or younger, look into the Healthy Families Program, it costs from $4 to $24 a month, plus $5 to $15 copays, depending on income. http://www.healthyfamilies.ca.gov I hope everything works out OK. Good luck!
4. If you want to live here and enjoy the weather, then you have to pay for it. You put up with the smog and the traffic, enjoy the weather and pay your rent or mortgage. My advice is to start checking out craigslist, rent.com, and apartments.com if you are looking to rent. You’ll quickly see that the minimum rent for a non-ghetto place is about $1,000/$1,200 per month for a studio/1BR. Really nice areas (like the West LA area) easily run $3,000 or more. Want to live near the beach? Expect to pay a premium. Sorry, but there's nothing here that's really cheap. The answer to this really lies in the answer to the question, “Where do you work”? It’s not good at all to live in South Bay if you have a job in Pasadena. It’s stupid, in fact. The one thing that grinds people down more than anything here is the traffic. It’s the worst thing about living here. So rather than worrying about “cheap and safe”, your FIRST order of business should be getting a place close to your job. THEN you can worry about safety and price. But, to reiterate, nothing is cheap here. "LA" is such a big place, there are so many neighborhoods/cities where you can live. Of course, even within a city or neighborhood, there are safer sections and less-safe sections. In Los Angeles, some nice sections are West LA, Brentwood, Westwood, Marina Del Rey, Playa Del Rey, Los Feliz, Silverlake, and Eagle Rock. Palms and Mar Vista are pretty good, too. In the Valley(part of LA), you have Encino, Tarzana, Studio City, Toluca Lake, Granada Hills, Woodland Hills, Sherman Oaks, West Hills, and Chatsworth. Glendale and Burbank are good places, and are incorporated cities of their own. To the east: South Pasadena, parts of Pasadena, Altadena, Arcadia, Monrovia, Glendora, San Dimas, Laverne, Azusa, Rancho Cucamonga. Along the beach: Santa Monica, Marina Del Rey, Playa Del Rey, Redondo Beach, Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, Torrance, Palos Verdes, Rancho PV. In Orange County aka "The OC": Seal Beach , Huntington Beach , Newport Beach , Corona Del Mar , Laguna Beach , Dana Point , Capistrano Beach , San Clemente , Brea, Yorba Linda, Orange, Tustin, Irvine, Laguna Hills, Rancho Santa Margarita, Lake Forest To the west: Agoura, Calabasas, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village, Simi Valley, Moorpark. This is not an all-inclusive list, but it's a start. If you want to see the safety and price factors, go to www.lalife.com. Also, the LA Times did a nice job of outlining all 277 neighborhoods in LA County: http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/neighborhoods/. Time to get researching!