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Sure, our movers can bring packing materials and boxes if you need them. Make sure you mention that you need them to our operators in advance.
No, tips are not included, and it’s up to you how much to tip your movers. Tips are always appreciated but not required.
Your apartment moving cost depends on factors, such as the type and size of your property, the complexity of your move, the number of bedrooms, the volume of your items, zip code, etc. At SOS Moving, we offer flat and hourly rates. The hourly rate depends on the number of movers to be involved and the size of the moving truck. Flat rate is based on the volume of belongings you need to move, and it’s the best option for long-distance moves. To know your moving cost, please contact us or submit a form on our website to request your free quote.
You should schedule your move date as early as you can. If you’re moving locally, at least 1-2 weeks in advance, for long-distance moves, we recommend getting a quote at least 2-4 weeks before your move date.
You can choose any convenient day for your relocation, and yes, we can help you move on weekends and holidays.
A safe relocation is our goal, so we’ll provide you with a detailed list of items that are prohibited to transport. It includes perishables, hazardous materials, firearms, batteries, etc. We also don’t recommend packing your personal and irreplaceable items, including family heirlooms, family photos, jewelry, documents, etc. Carry them with you during the move.
We accept cash, all major debit and credit cards, and certified checks. We don’t accept personal checks. There will not apply any transaction fee on card transactions.
Yes, we’ll contact you prior to delivery. We’ll deliver your belongings within the given moving arrival window. In case the window is no longer possible, we’ll also contact you in advance and set another delivery time.
Anaheim's housing splits almost down the middle. In the 2010 count used by the city's housing element, detached single-family houses made up 43.8 percent of all units and multifamily buildings 43.6 percent, and in 2011 renters occupied 54 percent of homes. For movers in Anaheim, the first question about an address is which side of that split it sits on: a house with a garage and driveway, or a unit in a complex where the truck shares the lot.
Most of that stock is older than it looks from the freeway. The same document puts about 65 percent of the city's homes in the 1950–1980 building wave, and Anaheim's own history says the city doubled in size and population every three years during the 1950s. For a crew, that means door openings and hallway turns get checked first: the sofa, the king bed frame and the refrigerator are measured against them at the old address, before anything is loaded.
Renters are the larger group, and the housing element found the two-bedroom unit to be the most common rental, at 48.3 percent of renter-occupied homes, with one-bedrooms next at 29.4 percent. On a job like that, three details shape the plan more than square footage does: the floor, the stairs or elevator, and the walk from the nearest legal truck spot to the door. Have them ready when you book the apartment moving service.
Anaheim also keeps a sizable mobile home stock: 3,955 units in the 2010 count, about 3.7 percent of all housing. Streets inside a park are private, so the park office, not the city, decides where a moving truck waits and at what hours. Get that answer before move day and pass it to the crew lead.
Anaheim has four city-designated historic districts, and together they cover about two square miles of a city of roughly fifty. The Historic Palm District, added in 2006, fills the blocks between North Street and La Palma Avenue. It is named for Palm Street, the old name of Harbor Boulevard, and the city counts about 180 qualified historic structures there, mostly French, English and Spanish in style. Five Points, adopted in 2004, takes its name from the junction of Lincoln, West and Center streets and protects homes from roughly the same era as the Colony.
Many of these houses meet a crew with a front porch and a run of steps, and the city's preservation plan for the Colony asks owners to keep original porches intact, down to the railings, floor boards and steps. So the crew pads railings and porch posts, lays runners over old floors, and carries heavy pieces up the steps by hand instead of bumping a dolly over original treads.
Hoskins, adopted in 2008, is a small post-war pocket carved from the north end of the Colony: 53 properties, 43 of them qualified historic structures, built in the 1940s and 1950s when the ranch house was just catching on. Where the plan is on one level the carry stays flat, and the time goes into protecting floors and door frames on the way out.
West Anaheim filled in during the 1950s and 1960s, after Disneyland opened, and much of it is still blocks of single-story ranch houses with apartment complexes mixed in. A ranch house is a direct load: no stairs, garage to driveway to truck. What slows these blocks down is the street itself, meaning which side the truck can use and whether the block is signed for permit parking.
Anaheim Hills took shape in the 1970s as a master-planned community on the city's east side, and it is part of the City of Anaheim rather than a separate town, so the same city parking rules apply. It is also the part of Anaheim farthest from the base, and the crew drives past the rest of the city before the last leg east. Gated associations, the hill streets the city routes traffic onto, and the city's size limit for trucks at the curb are covered on the page about piano moving in Anaheim.
| Area or home type in Anaheim | What to plan for on move day |
|---|---|
| Historic Palm and Five Points houses | Porch steps and original floors: railing pads, floor runners, heavy pieces carried up by hand |
| Hoskins post-war houses | Early ranch plans on one level: the time goes into protecting floors and door frames |
| West Anaheim ranch houses | Check the block for permit-parking signs and pick the side of the street for the truck |
| Apartment complexes, where two-bedroom units are the most common rental | Ask the manager where the truck may stand and whether a COI or elevator booking is needed |
| Mobile home parks | Private park streets: the park office sets truck access and hours |
| Anaheim Hills | Longer drive east; names on the gate list for guarded streets |
Some Anaheim blocks are permit-parking districts, set up after residents petition the city. Under the city's guidelines the default restriction in a district bars every vehicle without a resident sticker, all day and every day of the week, and the city posts signs on each approved street segment.
A resident of the district can buy one-day guest permits online or at City Hall; each one is valid only in the district where it was bought and expires at noon the following day. If your street is signed, buy one for move day and hand it to the crew lead when the truck pulls up. Street sweeping days, the early-morning ban on parking heavy trucks, and the city's Parking Variance for holding curb space are laid out on the page for long-distance moves from Anaheim, where a loaded truck is most likely to meet them.
Townhouse and condo associations write their own move rules, and few publish them online; attached homes were another 8.7 percent of the city's units in 2010. Ask the office three things: whether a certificate of insurance is required, whether an elevator or loading area has to be booked, and which hours moves are allowed. A COI from SOS costs $50. Send us the certificate-holder wording the office gives you.
Office and warehouse addresses in Anaheim Canyon or around the Resort follow building and truck-route rules of their own. The page on office and commercial moves in Anaheim goes through them.
Water and electricity in Anaheim come from Anaheim Public Utilities, which the city owns. To close an account, the utility advises calling about five days ahead, with your name, the service address, the turn-off date, a phone number and a forwarding address for the final bill. Set the turn-off for the day after the move, so the crew has lights for the last room check and you have water for the final clean.
Starting service is slower online, where the utility says an application can take up to a week to process. New customers pay a security deposit before the electricity is connected, and a move within Anaheim needs proof of ownership or tenancy plus ID. Apply as soon as the lease or escrow date is firm, so the crew is not unloading into a dark house.
For things you are leaving behind, the city's free bulky item collection is run by Republic Services: three pickups per household each calendar year, up to 20 items per pickup, collected only from the curb. The city says it is not meant for emergency removals, so book it ahead and time it so the discards are gone before the truck needs that stretch of curb.
Sorting before packing shortens both jobs. If you would rather not pack yourself, SOS offers moving and packing services in Anaheim, described on the packing services page.
If you are comparing an Anaheim moving company with one from Los Angeles, ask where its trucks start the day. SOS crews leave from a single base on Jillson Street in Los Angeles and take I-5 south into Orange County: about 19.6 miles, around 27 minutes without traffic.
That is the freeway the city's own history says cut through the middle of Anaheim when it was finished in the 1950s, so central and west Anaheim sit close to its exits. Anaheim Hills adds a leg east beyond the city center and takes longer to reach.
Rush hour slows the 5 in both directions, and on a run this long it shapes the schedule. SOS works Monday through Sunday, 8AM – 6PM, so a first-slot booking sends the truck south in the tail of the morning rush. A later start misses the worst of it but leaves less of the working day, so book a full house for the morning and save the afternoon for a studio or a small load.
Moves in Anaheim carry the 3-hour minimum. One line from the rates page is worth reading before you book: double drive time applies to moves over 10 miles.
Harbor Boulevard, the old Palm Street, runs north out of the Historic Palm District into Fullerton, so a move between the two can stay on one boulevard for most of the trip. The page for moves in Fullerton covers that side of the city line.
On the north-east side, Kraemer Boulevard crosses the 91 by Anaheim Canyon and carries on into Placentia, the short way between the two for addresses near the canyon. Moving in Placentia has its own page.
Heading south, Harbor Boulevard leaves the Resort area and continues into Garden Grove, which borders Anaheim to the south. See moves in Garden Grove for that city.
