Whether you need a local, commercial, or long-distance move, SOS Moving is the trusted moving company in Calabasas, CA, to help you. Apart from having skilled movers, we pay attention to details and ensure that your doors, walls, and floors don’t get damaged during your move. We wrap your fragile items using top-quality moving supplies.
Our moving crews show up on time, on their best behavior, and communicate with you every step of the way until we deliver the best relocation experience. With SOS Moving, your valuables are safe, and your move is stress-free. So, get your free quote today.
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 Calabasas 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.
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 Calabasas 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.
Calabasas sits at the southwest edge of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County, where the Valley floor runs into the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains. Much of the housing here was built as planned tracts off a few main roads rather than on a street grid, and a long list of those tracts sit behind gates: The Oaks, Calabasas Park Estates, Calabasas Hills, Vista Pointe, Mountain View Estates, Mont Calabasas, El Encanto and more. For movers in Calabasas, the first job of the day often has nothing to do with lifting. It is making sure the guard booth expects the truck.
The city is known for estate-size houses, many of them inside those gates. A big house changes a move more than the mileage does: more rooms to wrap, more stairs, and a longer walk from the truck to the door when the entry sits above the driveway. We lay runners over stone and hardwood and pad banisters and door frames before the first dolly rolls in, and for a full house we usually suggest a crew of four so the carry doesn't stretch the day.
Not all of Calabasas is new. The city's own history names Park Moderne, in Mulwood near Calabasas High School, as its first subdivision: a retreat for artists, craftsmen and writers, built on homestead land traded off in 1928. Houses in the older corners of town can have tighter halls and stairs than the newer tracts, so we ask for photos of entries and stairways ahead of time and decide in advance which pieces go out by hand.
Calabasas code classifies any vehicle built to haul property with a manufacturer's weight rating of 10,000 pounds or more as an oversize commercial vehicle, and Chapter 10.12 of the municipal code sets the rules for parking them. A box truck sized for a house move typically falls in that class. The same code defines parking so that it leaves out standing temporarily to load or unload, which is how we treat curb time here: the truck pulls up, the crew works, and the truck leaves with the crew.
Some residential streets in Calabasas are preferential parking districts, created where students, employees or customers of nearby businesses used to hold the curb for hours. Inside a district, the posted limits apply to every vehicle, and only residents and their guests with a valid permit are exempt. The city takes these applications, including one for a temporary preferential parking permit, through its online permitting portal. If your block is signed, check with the city well before moving day whether a temporary permit will cover the truck, and tell us which stretch of curb it applies to.
Fire weather is the other local variable. The City of Calabasas describes Red Flag conditions as winds over 25 mph with humidity under 15 percent, notes that Southern California averages about eight Red Flag days a year, and tells residents to park facing out on those days so they can leave fast. On a Red Flag day we place the truck so it doesn't pinch a canyon road or a cul-de-sac, and if an evacuation warning covers your area, we would rather talk with you about shifting the date than keep loading.
Every gated association in Calabasas writes its own rules for movers, and no Calabasas moving company can see them until the homeowner shares them. Ask your management company for its move policy as soon as you have a date, and forward it to us. A move inside the city can easily run gate to gate, from Calabasas Hills to Mont Calabasas for example, which means two policies and two guard lists on the same day. If either association asks for a certificate of insurance, SOS issues one for $50; send us the holder name and the exact wording they want, so the certificate matches their form on the first try.
Before moving day, please line up:
One more local detail: water in Calabasas comes through the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District, whose founding in 1958 set off the area's building boom. Arrange the service transfer with the district rather than a Los Angeles city utility, so the new house has water on the day the first boxes arrive.
Calabasas is easiest to read by the road that feeds each neighborhood. Parkway Calabasas leads to Calabasas Hills, Calabasas Park Estates, Westridge, Vista Pointe and The Oaks: gated tracts of large homes, where the day turns on access. Guard list first, then a long carry across a big footprint.
Las Virgenes Road serves the western side of the city, with Mountain View Estates, El Encanto, Mont Calabasas and The Colony. The crew leaves the 101 at a different exit than for the Parkway Calabasas tracts, and on a cross-town move we set the order of stops around each association's allowed hours rather than the shortest route.
Mulwood and Park Moderne sit by Calabasas High School, reached from Mulholland Highway and Valley Circle Boulevard. School drop-off and pickup load those streets twice a day, so we time the truck's arrival and the final load around the school traffic instead of fighting it.
Old Town runs along Calabasas Road, anchored by the Leonis Adobe, Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 1. Old Town has even seen a house move: the Plummer House, once the oldest home in West Hollywood, was relocated beside the adobe around 1983. Shops and restaurants here occupy old buildings, and the city lists a park-and-ride lot in Old Town, so for a business on Calabasas Road our commercial moving crew settles where the truck stands, from photos or a call, before anyone packs a box.
| Area or home type in Calabasas | What to plan for on moving day |
|---|---|
| Gated tracts off Parkway Calabasas: The Oaks, Calabasas Park Estates, Calabasas Hills, Vista Pointe | Truck and crew on the guard list, the association's move hours, a certificate of insurance if the association requires one |
| Communities off Las Virgenes Road: Mont Calabasas, Mountain View Estates, El Encanto, The Colony | A different freeway exit from the Parkway Calabasas side; a second set of gate rules on a move across town |
| Park Moderne in Mulwood, by Calabasas High School | The city's first subdivision, where halls and stairs can be tighter; photos before the move; arrival timed around school traffic |
| Old Town, Calabasas Road | Historic storefronts; agree on where the truck stands before packing starts |
| Streets inside a preferential parking district | Posted limits apply to every vehicle; ask the city about a temporary permit through its portal |
| Hillside streets on a Red Flag day | Truck placed so the road stays open; the date can move if an evacuation warning covers the area |
Calabasas is about 37 miles from our base at 5530 Jillson Street, around 46 minutes without traffic. The route runs up I-5 to SR-134; west of the Hollywood Split the Ventura Freeway continues as US-101 and runs straight through Calabasas, with separate exits for the Parkway Calabasas and Las Virgenes Road sides of town.
Rush hour on the 101 through Sherman Oaks and Encino can stretch that drive well past the no-traffic figure, so we set Calabasas start times with the gate and the association's hours in mind. When the load heads back toward central Los Angeles, we plan for the last unloading to be underway before the evening peak builds.
Because Calabasas is more than 30 miles from our base, moves here carry a 4-hour minimum instead of the standard 3. The travel rule on our rates page applies as written: double drive time applies to moves over 10 miles. Crews work Monday through Sunday, 8AM – 6PM, and a same-day move is possible when a crew is free, although a gated address still needs the guard list sorted first.
Estate-size houses take the longest to pack, and in a gated tract every extra hour has to fit inside the association's allowed hours. Our packing crews can take the whole house or only the kitchen, glass and art, and we size the crew so the job fits the hours the gate allows.
Gate-to-gate moves have a timing trap: one association may want you out on a day when the other doesn't let movers in. When the dates don't meet, our storage service holds the load in between, and a single-night gap is covered by overnight storage for $200.
Woodland Hills borders Calabasas to the northeast and shares its stretch of the 101, so a move between the two is mostly a question of which end has a gate. For that side of the city line, see moving crews in Woodland Hills.
Canoga Park has an older tie. The city's history tells of settler families who left Calabasas for Owensmouth, today's Canoga Park, once water and power reached it. The drive is a straight run north on Topanga Canyon Boulevard from the 101, and our Canoga Park moving team handles that side of the freeway.
Reseda sits farther east, up Reseda Boulevard from the 101 in the flat middle of the Valley. Moving help in Reseda covers moves that start or end there.
