I quite enjoyed my stay at Carlos' place. The place is cute and nice. Carlos welcomed me with a pot of nice tea (I forgot the name, Carlos!) and fresh pears from one of his fruit trees. He was very helpful in general and gave me all those 'insider's' scoop about the neighborhood. I traveled alone this time, walked to every where in the neighborhood and downtown Culver city, and felt pretty safe. The metro train station is a 20 min walk-away and a bus station is very close (a 3 min walk probably).