Looking for monthly rentals

Dear friends,

this is Andre. I wanted to know if you could help us with something. Radhika and I have decided that we would like to rent a furnished studio apartment for the two of us maybe 15 minutes from Cedars, starting May 1 or the week before that. Leticia McCart [McGib@aol.com] knows the area and has agreed to coordinate the effort to help us find something.

Here is where you come in: if you know the LA area or have some other suggestions that could be helpful, then please email LETICIA (not me or Radhika) with your ideas .. the more heads think about this the better the outcome is likely to be. Here is what I dug up so far myself:

One of the nurses suggested that Culver City could fit the bill for us, since we could probably go via inner roads and avoid the free way traffic. I went to Craig's list (where she found her apartment) and saw a furnished studio for $1600/month that looked nice. That seems like a good starting point, since it would be affordable for us and there would never be too much traffic to fight.

The chemo is scheduled to run for 8 months, and we could probably commit to 3 months to begin with, but obviously if we could get something on a month-to-month basis that would be even better.

The reason we made this decision is that packing up half of our household every time we have to go to Cedars Sinai is too much of a hassle, and then one has to always coordinate departure and arrival with somebody and make sure that there is availability ... besides we have to anticipate nausea, coming and going at irregular hours and other reasons for sleepless nights, and we just want to minimize the hassles for ourselves and others that this involves.

Thanks in advance to all of you for thinking about this.