You've got a baby on the way.  You're getting married. Or you just plain party a lot.

In any of those cases, sharing walls top-to-bottom, side-to-side with neighbors in an apartment building might not be ideal for you.

But rents are so ridiculously high in L.A. that the mere thought of renting a single-family home is pure fantasy for many. Well, people, your dreams can come true. We asked the kind folks at real estate site Zillow for help, and they gave us recent Zillow Rent Index data for single-family and multifamily rents in the L.A. area.

While the data includes apartments, a Zillow rep tells us their figures skew heavily toward single-family home leases. That makes sense. As you'll see, the prices would be hefty if they represented just apartment rents. One 2014 study pegged the average local 2-bedroom apartment at a seemingly low $1,398 a month, for example. The lowest rent on our list is. $1,758.

We went through the Zillow data and came up with the best compromises between community setting and price. Here's our list of the 10 best L.A. neighborhoods for single-family home rentals:

10. Boyle Heights. Yeah, the real Eastside (not Silver Lake, Echo Park or Los Feliz) is changing rapidly. One key reason is that you can still find a place for a median rent of only $1,758, which is actually eight percent more than you would have paid in fall of 2013, according to Zillow. (Here's an apparent duplex for $1,800 ).

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9. University Hills. We have more Eastside action for you, this time in the hills near Cal State L.A. Here you'll find a pad to call your own, at least temporarily, for a median lease rate of $1,866 a month. That's 5.2 percent more than you would have paid last year, says Zillow.

8. Lincoln Heights. Northeast L.A. is on fire when it comes to house flipping and rising rents, so we're surprised you can still find a humble abode here. But Zillow says you can get a place for the median rent of $1,934, which is 6.1 percent more than the price you could have locked in last year.

7. El Sereno. Ah yes, beautiful, hilly El Sereno. You wish you could afford South Pasadena or Monterey Park, but El Sereno will do. The median rent here is still under $2,000, at $1,953, which is 5.3 percent more than last year. (Here's a three-bedroom for $2,200 ).