thank you for finally posting some hard hitting evidence. I've been trying to tell everyone I know who watches the show that it doesn't actually take place in the "hills" and now I have solid proof!! Thanks for all the extra info!

I wonder how long it takes for the producers to feel uhm... notsosmart?

You won't find THEM in Section 5.

I like reading about stuff like this.

wow. all that research....just to prove that the setting was wrong. good job. you have convinced me.

but i sense that it wont end here...and you will soon provide us with pictures of LC or Heidi coming out of their real home. i hope this wont go to your head...making you guys stalkers of the two gals.

yay for this! But I actually have to disagree b/c I think it's the one on Third St across from the Grove b/c in one of the episodes, they show Heidi pull out of the gate entrance and I walk by that entrance all the time and it's the one across the street from Nordstrom in the Grove. I wish I had a screen shot of that to show you. I remember it was the first day of Heidi's job or on her way to the interview for the job.

Duchovnysfan,

I am guessing Heidi that day chose to leave on Third instead of sixth. And even if that wasn't the case and they actually live in Park La Brea East or West, it still doesn't put them in the hills. I think it would be impossible to find a pool like that with corresponding rooftops in Los Angeles, so I am sticking with the Palazzo.

it's hilarious to me that i'm so obsessed with this show as a man on the down side of his 20's, but anyway, i have to disagree that they are at the palazzo. if you look at the pic of heid and audria at the pool, they clearly are in a slightly shaded area poolside, with the furniture around the pool very close to the edge of the pool. the yellow stucco buildings are a dead giveaway too, the palazzo appears to have more of a cream color look, has no shade and the buildings are too far away from the edge of the pool. at the villas, the buildings are right on top of the pool area just like in the pic of heidi and audrina. they may live at the palazzo or park la brea, but this shot of them at the pool is clearly somewhere else. after all this is a TV show, it is not far fetched to think that even though it is raw, reality footage, that they won't still scope out sites to shoot the show, i'm sure for a small fee, the hollywood villas complex is more than happy to take MTV's money for the shoot, not to mention free advertising. maybe we'll never know.

i changed my mind, they are not at hollywood villas or the palazzo, i dont know what that complex is with the yellow stucco buildings, but that is definitely where that footage was shot. i've heard reference to park la brea, and even though i dont live in LA, maybe that is where this is.

No, it is the Palazzo, the satellite image is flat, and even though you can change the angle of view, the trees and everything else is flat, meaning you aren't going to see things like shade. And perspective? It also only occurs in three dimensions. The color of the building is going to be affected depending on what time of day it is.

The challenge is out there! Find me a similar building! Even the path between the two buildings at the top is the same. Send me the coordinates or an intersection of the real building and I'll admit I am wrong. Don't make me actually sneak in there to take pictures.

However, I think we all agree they are not the Hillside Villas.

we need a third party's opinion, where's bside? he keeps talking about park la brea in his recaps. damnit i need to get back to work.

okay it is not park la brea either because their website shows a picture of a jr. olympic size swimming pool, clearly they are hanging out at an oval shaped pool.

look at the palazzo at park la brea's website, that pool in the pic is olympic shaped, not oval. so unless they have two pools, that is not the palazzo.

There are two Palazzo complexes. The original is across the street from the Grove. The later addition is a few blocks away at 3rd and Hauser. Maybe the pools, etc are different? But I'm fairly sure they were living at one of the two. As I commented on one of the episodes, they showed a shot looking out of the windows, and one of the Park La Brea towers was clearly visible. And if it's not confusing enough already, there is a complex called the Villas at Park La Brea in the same area which also has a freeform shaped pool.

J-Unit, I just double checked on Google Earth, I believe the place you've marked with a pin is indeed Villas at Park La Brea, not Palazzo. The villas are on 6th, whereas both Palazzo complexes are on 3rd.

(Palazzo is actually still under construction on the satellite photos.)

Excellent work guys! I love what you are doing, really! However, I'm from Ohio and I'm wondering how far away are the "Hills" to where they are actually living? Also, I'm so curious as to how much it is to rent an apartment where Lauren and Heidi live?

This is gona make me sound really sad but i do interior design so things like this interest me lol!

I think its safe to say that the girls stay at The Villa at Park la Brea...

Go to this page : http://www.thevillas-plb.com/floor/dining.asp?plan=C

This is the floor plan of one of their 2 bedroomed villas. If anyone has seen the aftershow on MTV where the girls showed u round their apartment then u can clearly see it the same as this...

Laurens bedroom is on the left & Heidi's is on the right...does anyone else agree?

Hey guys...
I'm new to this site....but I just wanted to say that I agree that they live at The Palazzo. Take a look at this link....then click on the picture of the pool.
http://www.palazzoeast.com/photo.htm
Let me know what you think!

this is a little off topic buttt according to myspace or favorite scruffy socialite j wahl has taken on clean shaven look:
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=83345203&imageID=1091934537&MyToken=aece7cf2-3667-4bca-8d5e-c65f0e336f67

To set the record once and for all, koalacola is right on the money. These properties mentioned (Palazzo east/la brea and The Villas at Park La Brea) are all managed by Aimco. Go to http://www.aimco.com/Communities/default.aspx?PropertyID=041869
and you'll see in the pics the pool and scenary match perfectly. It's pretty
lame that MTV says it's in West Hollywood but really it's right in the city of Los Angeles. Privacy reasons maybe? It doesn't matter at all since they both moved out long before ep 1 aired.

Just to add to my above comment, MTV took little clips of the other properties and used them together to make it look like one property. So Laurens real home, well was at 5555 West 6th Street Los Angeles,CA 90036.