Doctor-Hosted Furnished Rentals in San Jose
A physician-run pair of furnished apartments in Little Portugal — built for travel nurses, AI interns, relocating families, and anyone who needs to land well in the South Bay.
SCVMC Physician Host · Gigabit Fiber Wi-Fi · Level 2 EV Charging · Smart-Lock Self Check-in · Pet Friendly · Updated for 2024
What “Doctor-Hosted” Means
Most short-term rentals hand you a door code and disappear.
Hi — I’m Enoch, a physician at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. After three decades treating travelers, contractors, and folks new to the city in our emergency department and urgent care clinics, I built 1362 Shortridge to take care of the version of you that just stepped off a flight or finished a 12-hour shift and doesn’t want to figure out which grocery store is open.
The phone number you get at booking is my cell. The welcome video call on day one of a long stay is with me. The text reply at 9 PM is from me.
That’s “doctor-hosted.” It’s a service standard, not a marketing label.
Two Homes on One Property in Little Portugal
Updated for 2024. Three minutes from a bus to downtown San Jose. Twelve minutes from SJC airport. Both units bookable separately, or together when traveling with extended family.
1-Bedroom Junior ADU (Unit B)
Queen bedroom · Subway-tile tub-rainfall shower-wand · Open kitchen-living-dining nook · Mini-split AC · Private rear entrance with smart lock & Ring doorbell
Sleeps 1-2 (max 3) · From $130/night
Best for: traveling clinicians, summer interns, couples on a layover, solo workers on extended Bay Area assignments.
See Photos, Rates & Book the 1BR →
2-Bedroom Ground-Floor Home (Unit A)
California King + Full bed · Deep soaking tub · Sunny great room · Private garden patio with gas grill & herb bed
Sleeps 1-6 · From $170/night
Best for: families, hospital rotations with a partner, friend groups exploring the South Bay, Yosemite-bound travelers basing in the city.
See Photos, Rates & Book the 2BR →Three Tiers of Care That Scale With How Long You Stay
We treat hosting like a clinic. Whatever you came for, we have a level of service built for it.
Tier 1 — 1 to 6 nights
Smart-lock self check-in with Ring doorbell. Gigabit fiber Wi-Fi (real fiber, not “up to” cable). Level 2 EV charging in the driveway, J1772 adapter included. An e-scooter in the backyard. A printed local guide updated quarterly. Same-day text reply during waking hours.
Tier 2 — 7 to 29 nights
Everything in Tier 1, plus: reservation help at Pesticos and Adega. Yosemite gate-keeping advice — which entrance, which day, which permit window. Curated hike recommendations matched to your fitness level. In-unit grocery and Amazon delivery handling. Mid-stay linen refresh. Produce drops from the garden when things are in season.
Tier 3 — 30+ nights
Everything in Tier 2, plus: weekly cleaning. A dedicated welcome video call with Enoch on day one. Monthly mail-and-package handling. Custom day-trip planning — Big Sur, Napa, Pacifica, Mt. Hamilton — we’ve test-driven all of them. Introductions to our personal trainer, dentist, and barber if you need them. The kind of low-friction extension flexibility you can only get from owner-operators.
Built for These Guests, Set Up for These Stays
Travel nurses, allied health professionals, and clinicians
On 13-week assignments at SCVMC (10 min), Kaiser Santa Clara (15 min), Stanford Hospital and VA Palo Alto (40 min). The unit is built for the clinical traveler — blackout shades for post-shift sleep, EV charging in the driveway, fiber-grade Wi-Fi for telehealth and CME, mid-stay linen refresh so you don’t have to.
Summer AI/ML interns and tech contractors
At NVIDIA Santa Clara (15 min), Apple Park (20 min), Google Mountain View (25 min), Adobe and Cisco downtown San Jose (12 min), Meta Menlo Park (35 min). Quiet, fast internet, EV charging, walkable to a downtown bus. Short-term lease terms that bend with onboarding dates and mid-stay refresh in week four.
Families and relocators
The 2BR sleeps four comfortably (six with the convertible sofa), with a fenced backyard, a gas grill, child-welcome amenities, and a single-level layout for older parents.
Yosemite-bound travelers and weekend explorers
Base camp in the South Bay with insider gate-keeping advice from people who’ve made every mistake so you don’t have to.
Why Book Direct on NatalAid.com
Skip the platform fees.
Airbnb and VRBO each add 14-17% in service fees to your total. Booking direct, you pay our nightly rate plus cleaning — nothing else. On a 30-night stay that’s $400-$1,200 back in your pocket.
Talk to the host before you book.
Call (650) 714-7477 or email owner@natalaid.com. We answer questions, hold dates informally, and tailor terms for longer stays in ways the platforms won’t allow.
Flexible long-stay terms.
Direct booking lets us bend on minimum stay, cancellation, and pet rules in ways Airbnb’s standard policies won’t. Returning guests automatically get 10% off every stay after the first.
Where You Are, and Why It Works
The neighborhood: Little Portugal / Five Wounds — a quiet residential pocket of San Jose’s east side, three minutes from a bus to downtown and a fifteen-minute drive from SJC. Walkable to Five Wounds Park, the Five Wounds Portuguese Church, Adega, and Pesticos.
Drive times in typical traffic
Hospitals: SCVMC 10 min · Kaiser Santa Clara 15 min · Stanford Hospital + VA Palo Alto 40 min
Tech employers: NVIDIA Santa Clara HQ 15 min · Apple Park 20 min · Google Mountain View 25 min · Adobe + Cisco downtown SJ 12 min · Meta Menlo Park 35 min
Travel: Mineta SJC airport 15 min · Direct freeway access to 280, 101, 87, and 85
About Enoch (Your Host)
I’m Enoch Choi. I’m a physician at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, where I’ve practiced emergency and urgent care medicine for three decades. I treat the people who visit our city — travel clinicians, conference attendees, hospital fellows, family members of patients. The experience of landing somewhere new with no time to figure out the basics is one I’ve watched, and helped with, for a long time. 1362 Shortridge is what I built to do something about it.
My partner Heather enables the operations side day-to-day. The cleaning team is one I’ve worked with for years. The phone number you get at booking goes to my cell, and the welcome video call on day one of a long stay is with me.
If you’re a traveling clinician, a corporate visitor, a Yosemite-bound family, or a couple looking for a base camp to explore the South Bay — you’ll find me responsive, specific, and genuinely interested in helping you have a good stay.
Ready to Look at Dates?
Or reach me directly:
Phone: (650) 714-7477
Email: owner@natalaid.com
Same-day response during waking hours.