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Why choose SOS Moving?
Our professionals are equipped for any complex task your Glendale move requires. We have the experience to hoist valuables onto the hillside balconies of Adams Hill homes and the finesse to transport delicate art to a classic home in Montrose, ensuring every item is moved with precision.
Your dedicated move coordinator will then provide a detailed inventory and a guaranteed delivery window. This is our promise of a predictable, surprise-free relocation. Request your free long-distance quote today.
Our office movers in Glendale 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.
Glendale, in Los Angeles County, fits very different housing inside one city line. The city's South Glendale Community Plan describes its residential areas as running from low-density hillside neighborhoods filled with single-family homes to high-density, multi-story apartments and condominiums surrounding downtown. For a moving crew those are two separate jobs: one is an elevator and a long corridor, the other is a slope, a flight of steps and a longer walk to the truck.
In the multi-story buildings around downtown Glendale, the elevator sets the pace of the day. You reserve it with management; our crew pads the cab, lays floor protection from the elevator to your door and takes apart beds, desks and dining tables so they clear the hallway corners. Boxes ride down stacked on dollies, furniture goes one piece at a time, and nothing sits in the lobby longer than it has to.
Hillside houses, like the ones on Adams Hill at the south end of town, turn the problem around. The truck often can't stand level at the front door, so the crew picks the flattest stretch of curb, walks the route first and covers door frames and stair edges before the first piece moves. Dressers and sofas go down the steps on straps and dollies, never dragged across a porch or a painted stoop.
Glendale's Parking Services lists a Reserved Parking Permit, and the request goes in online through the city's self-service permit portal. It is the permit to ask about when the curb outside your building is full every day of the week. If you get one, send us the hours it covers so the crew arrives inside them, and set the moving date around the permit rather than the other way around.
The city's guidelines for temporary no-parking signs are specific about the paper itself. Each sign is filled in by hand with the dates, times, exact address or block number and the reason for the posting, and the signs go up roughly 35 feet apart; on metered blocks every meter post gets its own. Copies need authorization from Public Works, and the posting needs verification and approval from the Glendale Police Traffic Bureau at 131 N. Isabel St., so the signs go up well ahead of moving day, not that morning.
Around downtown, where Glendale's multi-story condos and apartments cluster, the building is the second sign-off after the city's. Before the move we ask you for four things: an elevator reservation, the move window management allows, the spot where the truck may stand, and any certificate of insurance requirement. SOS issues a COI for $50. These are the questions any Glendale moving company should settle before your date, because they decide where the hours go.
The 134 cuts across Glendale, and the city plans the southern side on its own. The South Glendale Community Plan covers nearly 3,000 gross acres south of the freeway, downtown included, and splits them into 44 planning areas sorted into centers, corridors and neighborhoods. Its neighborhood profiles cover Adams Hill, City Center–Citrus Grove, Moorpark–Vineyard, Pacific Edison, Road's End, Somerset–Mariposa and South Brand, so name yours when you call: it tells us more about stairs and curb space than a ZIP code does.
The plan's corridor profiles follow the long through streets: Broadway, Colorado, South Central Avenue, Glendale Avenue, San Fernando Road and Verdugo Road among them. A building on one of those puts the truck beside moving traffic, so a reserved stretch of curb matters more there than on a quiet side street, and the crew loads from the curb side, away from the lane.
The plan's centers are clusters of concentrated development, some built around a single major use such as a hospital or a studio; Tropico TOD, Pacific Edison Center and the East Colorado Gateway are on that list. Addresses next to a center tend to have busier curbs than the neighborhood blocks around them, which is one more reason to line up parking before the date instead of hoping for an open space.
| Area or housing type in Glendale | What to plan for on moving day |
|---|---|
| Multi-story apartment or condo around downtown | An elevator reservation made by you, a COI from SOS if management asks ($50), floor and door-frame protection from the elevator to your unit |
| Hillside house, such as on Adams Hill | A level spot for the truck, stair carries on straps and dollies, a third mover for the longer walk |
| Building on a corridor like Colorado or San Fernando Road | A Reserved Parking Permit worth asking about; loading from the curb side, away from traffic |
| Metered block with temporary no-parking signs | One hand-filled sign on each meter post, verified by the Police Traffic Bureau before moving day |
| House or small building with one to four units | City bulky-item pickup requested three working days before trash day; items at the curb, alley or side street |
| Building with five or more units | Bulky pickups booked through the property manager; elevator and move window confirmed with the same office |
Glendale's bulky-item pickup takes the couch that isn't worth a spot on the truck, but it runs on the city's calendar. Homes of one to four units request it on the city's form at least three working days before their trash day (for a Monday pickup, by the Wednesday before), and every item has to be fully off private property, at the curb, in the alley or on the side street. Each piece that leaves this way is one our crew doesn't carry on the clock.
The accepted list is broader than furniture: old dryers, stoves and small freezers, microwaves, lamps and computer monitors, desks, chairs and bookshelves. If you don't know your trash day, the city's Integrated Waste Management division on West Chevy Chase Drive can tell you, and the same form points residents to earth911.com for local donation and recycling. Whatever stays behind, tell us before the estimate so the crew size matches what actually moves.
The city is strict about wrapping. Mattresses and box springs have to be in a mattress bag or plastic, and glass furniture needs the glass shrink-wrapped or covered with cardboard, or the collection crew leaves it at the curb. The same care goes into everything that does make the trip: on a Glendale moving and packing job, our packers bag the mattresses, wrap glass shelves and cabinet doors, and box the kitchen before loading starts. The full scope is on our packing services page.
Power and water in Glendale come from a city department, Glendale Water & Power, not a private utility. Its customer service counter at 141 N. Glendale Ave. keeps Monday-to-Thursday hours and is closed on Fridays, so a weekend move-in goes smoother when the account is sorted out earlier in the week.
Every SOS crew leaves from one place, our base at 5530 Jillson Street in Los Angeles. Glendale is about 15.6 miles away up I-5, around 22 minutes without traffic. Weekday rush hours stretch that: I-5 past downtown Los Angeles slows in the morning and again in the late afternoon, which is why an early start inside our 8AM – 6PM day usually beats a mid-afternoon one.
Glendale jobs fit the same 8AM to 6PM day, seven days a week, and a same-day booking works when a crew is free. Glendale sits well inside 30 miles of the base, so the three-hour minimum applies rather than the four-hour one, and overtime starts after eight hours. On travel, our rates page puts it plainly: double drive time applies to moves over 10 miles.
Our moving services in Glendale are priced by crew size and day of the week. Two movers with a truck cost $119 an hour in cash or $129 by card Monday through Thursday, and $135 or $145 Friday through Sunday, which suits a ground-floor unit near the curb. An Adams Hill staircase or a long downtown corridor goes faster with three ($159 or $169 Monday through Thursday, $175 or $185 Friday through Sunday). Fuel is a flat $30 and the $50 deposit counts toward the final bill.
Street work changes the picture week to week. The city's construction list currently includes routine grid pruning of street trees in Maintenance District 10, running into spring 2027 with lanes closed intermittently at various locations, so a block that was clear when you booked can be coned off on moving day. When that happens, the driver follows the posted detour and the crew adjusts where the truck stands.
Two neighbors share our Glendale routes. Colorado runs east out of Glendale, through Eagle Rock, to the 134 entrance at Eagle Rock's far end, so a move between the two can stay on one street; see our page on moving in Eagle Rock. To the west, Los Feliz Road becomes Los Feliz Boulevard at the city line and runs on across the Los Angeles River and I-5, the direct line to moves in Los Feliz.
Buildings of five or more units run on their own track in Glendale. The city leaves bulky pickup there to a city-franchised hauler booked through the property manager, with up to four free pickups per property each calendar year, and the same manager usually controls the elevator, the loading area and the move hours. As apartment movers in Glendale, we plan those jobs around that office first; our apartment moving service page covers how the crew handles elevators, stairs and tight hallways.
Four more Glendale pages go deeper on specific jobs:
