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Our company offers full-service movers who are continuously trained to handle all types of moves - local, long-distance, or commercial - with top-level expertise. Highland Park movers and packers use high-quality supplies and materials to protect your belongings every step of the way. Save time and enjoy an effortless, stress-free move with us!
Just like in those inspiring movies, you’ll feel like you’ve snapped your fingers and everything is ready in your new home. Our skilled professionals can handle moves of any complexity - even safely transporting your grandmother’s antique piano to its new place!
We provide in-person estimates, assess the scope of work, and carefully plan every stage of your move to avoid unexpected issues. With our detailed approach, you’ll have a clear plan and timeline, ensuring a smooth move with no unpleasant surprises!
Our office movers in Highland Park 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.
Highland Park sits in Northeast Los Angeles, in the Arroyo Seco between downtown and Pasadena, and a large share of its older blocks fall inside the Highland Park–Garvanza Historic Preservation Overlay Zone. City Planning calls it the largest HPOZ in Los Angeles: about 4,000 structures, more than fifty of them city Historic-Cultural Monuments, in styles that run from 1880s Queen Anne and Shingle houses through Mission Revival, Tudor Revival and, most of all, Craftsman homes. Nobody built those rooms around a modern sectional, so for movers in Highland Park the routine is pads on every piece, protection on floors and door frames, and legs and headboards off before anything crosses a threshold.
Garvanza, the part of Highland Park that rises toward Poppy Peak and the Pasadena city line, is where the ground gets steep. The city's survey of it describes irregular lots shaped more by topography than by the street grid, houses set on inclines and in crevasses, and Arroyo stone in retaining walls, porch rails, chimneys and front steps. The HPOZ plan asks owners to keep historic stairs and retaining walls in place, so those stone steps are the route the crew takes, and their count is worth mentioning when you book. A piano going down them adds $200 and moves only with a crew of four (see piano moving); any other item over 300 lbs is $150 with a crew of three.
Bungalow courts are the other local pattern. The preservation plan describes them as one-story cottages, usually in two rows, facing a courtyard that runs back from the street, often anchored by a two-story building at the rear, which turns a rear-unit move into a long walk and a flight of stairs. The truck stops at the street end of the court, and the crew keeps the shared walkway clear between loads.
Mapping L.A. ranks Highland Park's population density among the highest in the city, and the preservation plan notes that many older houses came down for apartment blocks before the district won protection in 1994. In those buildings our apartment moving crews plan the day around stair count and the distance from curb to door. If the manager wants a certificate of insurance, SOS issues one for $50; reserving any elevator, gate or loading area stays with the tenant.
Highland Park is inside the City of Los Angeles, so temporary no-parking signs are an LADOT matter, and requests go through its Special Traffic Control Division. North Figueroa Street and York Boulevard are the neighborhood's commercial streets, where an address shares its curb with businesses, so reserved space there is worth arranging well ahead. The client requests the signs; the crew brings the truck to that stretch of curb.
Marmion Way needs its own plan. The Metro A Line runs along it, with Highland Park station at Avenue 57, and a truck has to stay clear of the rail line. The crew takes a legal spot at the curb or around the corner on a cross avenue and carries from there, which adds walking time to the day.
Garvanza was platted in 1886 between today's Marmion Way, Meridian Street and Avenues 63 and 66, and it is still mostly one- and two-story houses. On the east side of North Avenue 66 the lots fall steeply behind the houses to the Arroyo, so patio furniture and anything stored out back comes up the slope by hand. The rest of the neighborhood changes block by block.
| Area or home type in Highland Park | What to plan for on moving day |
|---|---|
| Garvanza, up toward the Pasadena line | Hillside lots, houses on inclines and Arroyo stone steps; plan on carrying rather than rolling |
| Craftsman or Victorian house in the HPOZ | Historic stairs and walls stay as built; floors and door frames padded, big pieces taken apart |
| Bungalow court | Long walk down the central courtyard, often to a two-story building at the back |
| Marmion Way near Avenue 57 | A Line tracks along the street; the truck parks clear of the rail line, sometimes on a cross avenue |
| North Figueroa Street and York Boulevard | Curb shared with businesses; LADOT temporary no-parking signs requested ahead |
| East side of North Avenue 66 | Rear yards drop to the Arroyo; yard items come up the slope by hand |
Every SOS crew leaves from one base, 5530 Jillson Street in Los Angeles. By car the trip is about 11.1 miles via I-5 and SR-110, around 17 minutes without traffic. That stretch of SR-110 is the Arroyo Seco Parkway, long known as the Pasadena Freeway, and Caltrans bars commercial vehicles over 6,000 pounds gross weight from it between the 101 and Glenarm Street in Pasadena. So the truck's route differs from the car's: the crew plans the last leg on city streets such as North Figueroa Street.
For local movers in Highland Park, timing comes down to I-5, which slows near downtown with weekday commute traffic in the morning and again in late afternoon. An 8AM start, the beginning of our 8AM – 6PM day, meets the morning rush on the way in; a later start avoids it but leaves fewer hours before 6PM. Any day of the week works, and a same-day move is possible when a crew is free. Highland Park is under 30 miles from the base, so the minimum is 3 hours, and double drive time applies to moves over 10 miles.
Two neighbors share Highland Park's roads. Eagle Rock borders it, and North Figueroa Street runs on into Eagle Rock, the same road Occidental College left in 1914 for its new campus there; see moving in Eagle Rock. Garvanza's northern edge is the Pasadena city line and the parkway ends at Glenarm Street, so the same surface-street rule shapes moves to Pasadena.
