Why choose SOS Moving?
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.
With us, you can confidently rule out the fear of uncertainty when you don’t know where your belongings are. We are a phone call or email away from giving you peace of mind by sharing the latest updates about your shipment and informing you about the delivery date or window.
Enjoy our full-service moves, including moving, packing, unpacking, furniture disassembly and reassembly, and storage services. Request a free quote for a smooth long-distance relocation experience.
Our office movers in Lakewood 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.
Lakewood, California is one of the few places in Los Angeles County where a crew can make a fair guess about the house before the door opens. In the early 1950s the developers of Lakewood Park built 17,500 houses on about 3,500 acres, at roughly 50 houses a day, and they were two- and three-bedroom homes built to Veterans Administration specifications.
Lakewood today has about 26,000 housing units, and most of them are still single-family detached homes. For movers in Lakewood that means the usual job is a house with a driveway, not a lobby with an elevator. The crew lays runners over the floors, pads the door frames on the way out and takes bed frames and dining tables apart before they reach the front door.
The builders planted a single tree in front of each house. Where those trees still stand, the driver sets the truck so the ramp comes down between trunks and the box clears the low limbs, and the crew rolls dollies up the driveway instead of across the lawn.
Lakewood's posted parking rules bar commercial vehicles over three tons from parking on city streets. That is one more reason the truck comes and goes with the crew instead of being left at the curb ahead of time. What we ask of you is a clear stretch of curb in front of the house, with your own cars in the garage or down the block.
Some blocks back onto alleys, and an alley can look like the easy place to load. The city allows no parking in an alley for any length of time outside street-sweeping periods, and none on parkways, sidewalks or red curbs, so the crew loads from the street and carries through the front door or the side gate.
Street sweeping is the rule that most often collides with a moving day. Each address has a sweeping day and time, the city's In My Neighborhood lookup shows yours, and a citation goes out only when the sweeper has to swing around a parked vehicle, a moving truck included. The sweeper comes at roughly the same time each week but not to the minute, so tell us your street's usual time when you book, and we will put the truck at the curb after it passes or pick another day.
If the move has to land on your sweeping day, the city's own allowance helps: that day only, a resident with a full driveway may park in the front or side yard or on the apron, as long as the sidewalk stays clear. Your car can wait there while the sweeper passes, and the truck takes the curb once it has gone by. An RV or trailer that usually sits out front needs a city permit to be parked on the street at all, so moving it off the block before moving day frees the space the truck needs.
Mayfair, the neighborhood north of Mayfair Park, is older than the big tract. Developer Charles Hopper named it in 1939, and in the early 1950s it was informally called Radio Park because many of its streets carried the names of early broadcast stars. It came from a different builder than Lakewood Park, so the crew lead walks the rooms before anything is wrapped instead of assuming a floor plan.
In ZIP 90715, water comes from Golden State Water, while the rest of Lakewood sets up water service through City Hall. Trash works the same for everyone: every Lakewood household, 90715 included, opens and closes its trash account with City Hall staff. Make both calls before the truck comes, so the new place has service on the day the boxes land.
The one name to double-check is Lakewood Village. It belongs to Long Beach and sits in that city's Council District 5, so the sweeping lookup, the EDCO pickups and the City Hall accounts described here don't apply there. For a Village address we plan the parking by Long Beach rules.
| Area or home type in Lakewood | What to plan for on moving day |
|---|---|
| Lakewood Park tract house, two or three bedrooms | A clear curb, room for the ramp around the front tree, and your street's sweeping day and time |
| Block with a rear alley | No parking in the alley except during sweeping, so the truck loads from the street |
| Mayfair, north of Mayfair Park | Named in 1939 by a different developer; walk the rooms before packing starts |
| ZIP 90715 | Water through Golden State Water, trash through City Hall |
| Apartment or condo complex | No free EDCO bulky pickup; ask the manager about truck space and a certificate of insurance |
| Lakewood Village | A Long Beach address, so Long Beach parking and trash rules apply |
Every SOS crew starts from one base, 5530 Jillson Street in Los Angeles, and the run to Lakewood follows I-5 and then I-605 south: about 13.2 miles, around 19 minutes without traffic. Weekday commute hours load both freeways, so the first job of the morning and a finish close to 6PM are the most exposed to delay, while midday arrivals are the easiest to predict.
Closer in, weekend and holiday-season traffic around Lakewood Center, the mall at Lakewood and Del Amo boulevards, slows the last stretch for nearby addresses. Crews work Monday through Sunday, 8AM to 6PM, a Lakewood move carries a 3-hour minimum, and the rates page sums up the travel charge in one line: double drive time applies to moves over 10 miles.
The same freeways tie Lakewood to three neighbors. Cerritos shares a border with Lakewood and the 605 runs past both, so a move between them is a short hop across the city line. Downey and Norwalk sit on the way down from our base, which makes a pickup in either one and a delivery in Lakewood a single run south.
Some of the most useful moving services in Lakewood come from the city itself. Single-family homes get up to six free bulky item pickups a year through EDCO, the city's hauler, with up to six items each time, booked by calling EDCO by 3:30 p.m. the day before your regular trash day. Schedule it so the old sofa and the spare mattress leave before moving day, and point out anything still waiting for EDCO to the crew lead so it doesn't get padded and loaded.
EDCO won't take building materials such as bricks, lumber or broken concrete, so leftovers from a remodel need another route. The program also pauses after Christmas while tree recycling runs and restarts in January, which means a move at the turn of the year needs the pickup booked earlier.
The city's code bars storage containers, bins, shipping containers and PODS-style boxes from streets, sidewalks, parkways and alleys. If closing dates leave a gap between homes, a box at the curb is off the table, and the load can go to storage between homes until the new keys are ready.
A short curb slot between the sweeper and the end of the workday goes further when every room is boxed before the truck arrives. That is the job of our packing service, and it keeps the truck's time on a Lakewood street down to the loading itself.
Apartments and condos are the minority of Lakewood's housing, and they don't qualify for the free EDCO pickups. Ask the manager where a truck may stand and whether the complex wants a certificate of insurance, which SOS issues for $50. The rest of the process is on the apartment movers page.
