You can easily look up licensing on DOT website to be totally confident about your future move with our company. Whether you have sports equipment, antique piano, fragile items, oddly-shaped furniture, or even medical practice, our professional movers are ready to help you.
Our company has full-service movers who are constantly trained to achieve the highest level of proficiency in all types of moving: local, long-distance, or commercial. Our movers and packers in Chatsworth use the quality supplies and materials to pack your belongings for all our moves. Save your time and enjoy an extremely pleasant move with us.
As well as people moving to a new place in inspiring films, you’ll also literally snap your fingers and get everything in your new home. Our professionals can accomplish a move of any complexity, so even an antique piano of your grandmother will be safely transported to a new place.
By providing in-person estimates to our customers, evaluating the scope of work, and planning all the stages in detail, we minimize the chances of any emergencies. This way, you have the complete plan and dates for your moving process, excluding any unpleasant surprises.
Our office movers in Chatsworth deliver top-level commercial moving services. We’ll cope with any office furniture, professional equipment, and even medical practice. Due to a professional approach to all stages of your office move, we help you not to lose excitement and inspiration from your new office in the overwhelming packing, lifting, and unpacking process.
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.
Chatsworth fills the far northwest corner of the San Fernando Valley, where the flat Los Angeles grid runs out against the Santa Susana Mountains and the Simi Hills. A few blocks can take a job from a postwar tract house to a horse property or a hillside lot, so for movers in Chatsworth the address says more than the inventory does.
This is one of the few parts of the City of Los Angeles still zoned for horses, and many of its streets run beside bridle paths. The big equestrian parcels sit mostly in the west and north, where the front door can be a long walk from the curb. Our crew pads every piece for that longer carry and lays runners at the entry first, because boots coming in off a bridle path or a gravel drive bring the grit with them.
A city environmental report noted that several local streets west of De Soto Avenue remain unpaved, in keeping with the horsekeeping around them. Dry dirt is no problem for a loaded box truck. Soft ground after rain is, so on those streets the truck stays on firm footing even when that adds steps to the carry.
Farther west the land turns to boulders and sandstone, with Stoney Point rising beside Topanga Canyon Boulevard. The city's historic survey describes the few streets that push into those hills as winding and steep, with switchbacks. There the parking plan comes before anything else: a legal stop that doesn't block a blind curve, and a carry path that skips the steepest stretch of the drive.
Most Chatsworth homes came out of postwar housing tracts, but the apartment stock has a few surprises. The same survey singled out 1960s Tiki-style complexes such as Kona Kai Village on Eton Avenue and Stoney Point Apartments on Canoga Avenue, set in tropical landscaping. In a garden complex like that, the walk between the parking area and the unit is part of the job, so the crew wraps each piece inside the unit and guards door frames and corners on the way out.
Chatsworth is part of the City of Los Angeles, which puts curb space for a moving truck under LADOT. Temporary no-parking signs start with a request to LADOT's Special Traffic Control Division, and the sign fee is paid only after that request is set up. If the curb in front of your place is usually full, SOS asks you to start that request well before moving day.
Chatsworth Lake Manor, the hillside community above the Chatsworth Reservoir that grew out of weekend cabins, is the exception. It lies outside the city limits, so a City of Los Angeles sign request doesn't cover it; agree on where the truck will stand before the day, and the crew works from the driveway or the nearest legal curb.
Parts of the western hills lie in the city's Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone, and the city's Red Flag map marks a posted no-parking area there. When LAFD puts Red Flag parking restrictions in effect, vehicles at posted spots can be towed, and a moving truck gets no pass. The crew reads the signs before parking; checking LAFD's Red Flag status the evening before a hillside move takes a minute.
Gated streets add a step. At Monteria Estates, the gated community near Winnetka Avenue and Devonshire Street, a truck goes nowhere until someone opens the gate, so SOS asks residents to give the gate or HOA office the date and the truck ahead of time. If an association or property manager wants a certificate of insurance, SOS issues a COI for $50; if the building has an elevator, reserving it is on the resident.
The flats in the south and east follow the Valley grid. Devonshire, Lassen, Plummer and Nordhoff streets cut them into even blocks of tract houses, and curb parking near the door is usually the easy part of the day. North of Devonshire and west of De Soto Avenue, the grid gives way to horse country, and toward the western city limit the streets bend with the terrain.
Along north De Soto Avenue, horse properties sit mostly on the west side and newer subdivisions on the east, between De Soto and Mason Avenue. The same city report noted a signalized horse crossing at De Soto and Rinaldi Street. Riders use these streets, so the crew backs the truck in slowly and keeps the ramp off the bridle path.
Chatsworth also works for a living. The community plan sets aside about 1,821 acres for industry across the Chatsworth–Porter Ranch area, concentrated along the rail corridor through the middle and home to labs, plants, service centers and corporate offices. So a job for Chatsworth office movers usually covers more than desks: a front office and a shop floor or lab often move together.
The plan also says on-street parking should be prohibited in industrial areas whenever possible, so the crew works from the building's own lot or loading door, taking workstations apart and padding equipment there. More on how those jobs run is on the commercial and office moving page.
| Part of Chatsworth or home type | What to plan for on moving day |
|---|---|
| Horse properties west of De Soto Avenue | Large lots, bridle paths and some unpaved streets: expect a longer carry, runners at the door, and horses and dogs kept clear of the loading path. |
| Hill streets toward the Santa Susana Pass | Winding and steep, with switchbacks: pick a legal stop off the curves and look for Red Flag no-parking signs. |
| Tract homes in the south and east flats | Even blocks off Devonshire, Lassen, Plummer and Nordhoff; curb parking is usually simple, and LADOT signs cover a curb that stays full. |
| Monteria Estates, gated | The gate or HOA office gets the date and the truck in advance; a $50 COI if the association asks for one. |
| Chatsworth Lake Manor | Outside Los Angeles city limits, so City sign requests don't apply; settle the truck's spot before the day. |
| Industrial buildings along the rail corridor | Load from the site's own lot or dock; the community plan steers parking off the street in industrial areas. |
Every SOS truck leaves from one base, 5530 Jillson Street in Los Angeles, and reaches Chatsworth by I-5 and then the 118 west: about 37.9 miles, around 48 minutes without traffic. At rush hour both I-5 through Glendale and Burbank and the 118 slow down hard, so an early start and a late-afternoon finish are the two parts of the day most exposed to traffic.
Moving services in Chatsworth run on the same Monday through Sunday, 8AM – 6PM schedule as the rest of our work. Because Chatsworth sits more than 30 miles from the base, the minimum here is 4 hours instead of 3. The rate page adds one more rule: double drive time applies to moves over 10 miles. Overtime starts after 8 hours, so a full horse property or a large house is worth booking for the start of the day.
West of town, the 118 crosses the Santa Susana Pass into Ventura County, and that freeway is the truck's road to Simi Valley. The older two-lane Santa Susana Pass Road winds over the same hills, and it can close without warning: in January 2026 a rockslide near Redmesa Road shut a stretch of it in both directions.
For long-distance moving from Chatsworth, the 118 works in both directions: east to I-5 for trips up the state, west over the pass toward Ventura County. SOS moves under USDOT 3398018, MC 1153871 and CAL-T0192140, and the long-distance moves page explains how those trips are planned.
East of Corbin Avenue the grid rolls on, and the strip between Corbin and Tampa Avenue is a place most residents call Northridge, even though it sits inside Chatsworth's planning area. For addresses on that side, see moving in Northridge.
Topanga Canyon Boulevard and Canoga Avenue both run south from Chatsworth into Canoga Park, which makes a move between the two a short run down one boulevard; details are on moves in Canoga Park. On the city's planning map, Reseda's area also meets Chatsworth's at Roscoe Boulevard, and the Reseda moving page covers that side.
