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Why choose SOS Moving?
✓ Licensed & Insured: USDOT 3398018, MC 1153871. Santa Ana movers covering every neighborhood.
✓ Proven Reputation: 2,300+ happy customers with 4.9★ Google and 4.8★ Yelp reviews.
✓ Сlear Santa Ana Rates: $119/hr, no surprises. Minimum 3-4 hours based on zip code.
✓ Secure packing for fragile and bulky items using pro-grade materials
✓ Custom crating and clear labeling to keep everything accounted for
✓ Furniture disassembly, protection, and reassembly done the right way
We treat your belongings with the respect they deserve. From navigating narrow driveways to protecting vintage hardwood floors, our local pros ensure a seamless transition. You handle the keys; we handle the rest—safely and efficiently.
Don't let a long-distance move become a guessing game. We provide a detailed inventory, GPS tracking, and guaranteed delivery windows. From your historic bungalow in Floral Park to your new out-of-state home, we ensure everything arrives just as it left.
Enjoy a full-service experience: heavy-duty packing for the long haul, secure storage, and furniture assembly upon arrival. Get a free quote for a journey that feels surprisingly short.
Whether you are scaling up to a larger facility or moving to a modern loft downtown, we bring the manpower and expertise. We treat your office equipment with the same care as our own, guaranteeing a smooth start in your new professional home.
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.
Santa Ana is the county seat of Orange County, California, and the city's own Housing Element calls it the county's downtown. By Southern California standards it is also old: the plan counts 43,803 homes, about 56 percent of the stock, built before 1970, and rates the city's housing as older than the county's as a whole. For movers in Santa Ana that means houses past the half-century mark, so the crew pads the door jambs and lays floor runners before the first piece moves.
The same plan notes that most homes here went up before federal and state accessibility rules, and many were not built to the "visitability" standard of a zero-step entrance and doorways with 32 inches of clear passage. That is where a sectional or a wide fridge meets a step and a tight opening. Our movers measure the big pieces against the narrowest door on the path and take off legs, doors and headboards when a piece won't clear.
Households run large. The Housing Element puts the average at 4.3 people per household and counts 42 percent of renter households as overcrowded, against 16 percent of renters countywide. More people under one roof means more beds, dressers and boxes than the bedroom count suggests, so when you ask for a quote, describe the move by what is in the rooms, not by the number of bedrooms; crews run 2, 3 or 4 movers.
Every one of our moving services in Santa Ana starts with the same question: where does the truck stand? The Housing Element says many older neighborhoods have small garages that are no use for parking, and that a significant portion of apartment projects built before 1990 lacked adequate parking, which has left certain neighborhoods with real parking shortages. Before move day we work out the parking plan with you: which side of the street, whose driveway, and which neighbor can shift a car for the morning.
Residential streets are swept every week, with the day and time posted on signs along each block. Parking during that window is illegal, and a car at the curb when the sweeper passes gets a citation, so read the sign on your block, or the city's street sweeping map, before you lock in a date. If the only open curb sits under a sweeping sign, book a start time after the posted window ends.
Another city rule shapes the carry: parking on sidewalks and residential lawns is always illegal in Santa Ana, sweeping day or not. The truck stays on the street or in the driveway, never on the grass, and the load rolls to it on dollies. If you plan to hold space with temporary NO PARKING signs, call the city's Parking Enforcement unit first, since verifying those signs is part of its job.
Renters are the majority, 53.8 percent of occupied homes in the plan's figures, and 32 percent of the city's housing sits in buildings of five or more units. Managed buildings run their own move-in process, so ask the office for the elevator reservation, the loading spot and the allowed hours as soon as you have a date, then see how apartment moves work with us. If the building wants a certificate of insurance, SOS provides a COI for $50.
Metro East, the overlay zone near where the I-5 meets the SR-55, is an office district the city is turning into a mixed-use neighborhood of up to 5,500 homes, and its Village Center district allows buildings of six to 10 stories. The city's list of recent projects there includes Elan at 603 units, Central Pointe at 644 and AMG East First Apartments at 552. At that scale the elevator and the loading area get booked before anything else; the crew pads the elevator cab and runs floor protection down the corridor.
MacArthur Place, at the south end of the city, is another district center the plan earmarks for high-rise office and residential use, and downtown is filling in as well. Under the city's Transit Zoning Code, 3rd & Broadway is listed at 171 units, a density of about 213 units per acre and the highest on that list, with 4th & Mortimer at 169. On lots that dense, get the building's loading instructions in writing and send them with your booking so the crew can plan the route from truck to door.
Santa Ana also has 29 mobile home parks with 3,913 spaces, and six of them, 1,020 spaces in all, are limited to residents 55 and older. Park roads are private property, so the park office, not the city, decides where a moving truck can stand; call it before you set the date. At the home, the crew protects the entry steps and the door frame and takes large pieces apart when the doorway is tight.
| Home type or district in Santa Ana | What to plan for on move day |
|---|---|
| House built before 1970 in an older neighborhood | Small garage and a crowded curb; check the posted sweeping day; measure big pieces against an entry that may have a step and a narrow door |
| Duplex to fourplex, or an apartment complex built before 1990 | Little on-site parking, so the truck works from the street; unwanted furniture goes out only with a scheduled bulky item pickup |
| Metro East building in the Village Center district, six to 10 stories | Elevator and loading area reserved through management; a COI if the building asks for one |
| Downtown Transit Zoning Code building, such as 3rd & Broadway | Loading instructions from management in writing, sent with the booking |
| Mobile home park space, including the six parks for residents 55 and older | Truck position set by the park office; entry steps padded |
Every SOS crew leaves from one place, our base at 5530 Jillson Street in Los Angeles, and the road south is the I-5, the Santa Ana Freeway. It is about 25.2 miles to Santa Ana, around 32 minutes without traffic. Once in town there are other options: the Housing Element lists five freeways serving the city, adding the Garden Grove Freeway (SR-22), the Costa Mesa Freeway (SR-55), the San Diego Freeway (I-405) and the Orange Freeway (SR-57) to the I-5.
Rush hour is the variable. The I-5 slows in the morning and late-afternoon peaks, and traffic can stretch the drive well past half an hour. Our hours are Monday – Sunday, 8AM – 6PM, and on a Santa Ana job the peaks decide how much of that window goes to the road.
For Santa Ana the minimum is 3 hours; the 4-hour minimum is for addresses more than 30 miles from the base. The drive-time rule, quoted straight from our rates page for anyone pricing a Santa Ana move: double drive time applies to moves over 10 miles.
Before you book moving and packing services in Santa Ana, settle what is not coming. The city makes it illegal to leave furniture, appliances or bags on the street, sidewalk or parkway at any time unless a bulky item pickup is scheduled with a licensed hauler or a donation facility. Homes with curbside carts get four free pickups a year through Republic Services, up to four items each and collected within five working days of the call; complexes of three or more units with bin service get up to 10 items per unit per calendar quarter, set out wherever the owner or manager says.
Paint, cleaners and garden or car chemicals go elsewhere: County of Orange household hazardous waste centers take them free from Santa Ana residents, up to 15 gallons or 125 pounds per vehicle per trip. Clear those shelves first and the garage packs in one pass. Whatever stays on the list, our packing crew can box.
Office moves are a different job here, with county courts and agencies downtown and office towers toward the south end of town; office relocations in Santa Ana have their own page. So does an upright or grand leaving an old house in French Park or Floral Park: see piano moves in Santa Ana, which we staff with a 4-mover crew for a $200 piano charge.
Tustin borders Santa Ana on the east, and the I-5 that brings our trucks from Los Angeles runs straight through it, so a move between the two can stay on one freeway or skip freeways entirely; see moving in Tustin. Garden Grove, to the west, is tied to Santa Ana by the Garden Grove Freeway (SR-22) and by the OC Streetcar tracks laid between the Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center and Garden Grove, covered on moving in Garden Grove. Irvine sits to the south and east, reached on the San Diego Freeway (I-405) from the south end of the city: moving in Irvine.
