I highly recommend staying at Jocelyn‘s place. It is located in a beautiful and quiet neighborhood with lots of old trees in Sherman Oaks. Lots of places are easy to reach from there, e.g. it’s just a 15 minute drive across the hills to Sunset Boulevard or you can take the 101 to Ventura or Santa Barbara. The apartment itself is very spacious, nicely furnished and equipped with virtually everything you could wish for including complimentary snacks, coffee, etc. The AC is very effective and nicely adjustable. Since we stayed there only for two nights and did a lot of day trips we didn’t get around to using the pool, which we regretted a bit, because it looked pretty inviting the morning we left. Communication with Jocelyn was super easy and we would come back to stay at her place at any time.