Boyle Heights sits up on the bluff just east of the LA River, close enough to Downtown that you can see the skyline from a lot of the front porches on Pennsylvania Avenue. The housing here is older than most of what you’ll find west of the 110. Queen Anne and Craftsman two-stories along South

Westchester is one of those LA neighborhoods that gets defined by what’s next to it. Planes on final approach into LAX pass low overhead every few minutes, Loyola Marymount sits up on the bluff, and the Kentwood pocket in the south has some of the widest, most tree-lined streets on the westside. It’s a neighborhood

People mix up Del Rey and Marina del Rey constantly, and honestly, we get it. But Del Rey is its own small neighborhood, tucked between Culver City, Mar Vista, and the marina, cut through by the Ballona Creek bike path and a mostly-quiet grid of streets off Alla Road and Pacific Ave. It’s smaller-lot houses,

Mar Vista is one of the few westside neighborhoods where people actually have yards, and that changes what junk removal in Mar Vista looks like compared to the apartment-heavy areas nearby. Instead of a packed hall closet, it’s a backyard shed nobody’s opened since a kid moved out for college. Instead of a studio overflowing

Palms is a strange little pocket of LA. It’s wedged between Culver City and West LA, cut through by the 10 freeway, and packed with more apartment buildings per block than almost anywhere else on the westside. If you live here, you already know the routine: a dingbat building from the 60s with a name

West LA does not look like it should have a junk problem. Drive down Olympic or Pico and you see clean stucco apartment buildings, tidy lawns near the VA campus, and streets that feel more organized than most of the city. Then you get inside one of those buildings and realize the garage under the