This woman pays $450 a month to live by the side of the road

• Some LA residents are resorting to living in run-down RVs in a darker twist on van life.
• Liberty Justice pays a "vanlord" about $450 a month to live near the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank.
• One "vanlord" says it helps get people off the streets and into shelter.

Van life represents an idyllic escape from the daily grind – and a way to visit different places.

But for some, it's a desperate and insecure last resort that leaves them wondering if their homes will be towed away at any moment.

A rising number of people in Los Angeles are renting clapped-out RVs from "vanlords" – controversial figures who lease stationary vans to those who can afford little else.