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.
By providing in-person estimates to our customers, evaluating the scope of work, and planning all the stages in detail, we minimize the chances of any emergencies. This way, you have the complete plan and dates for your moving process, excluding any unpleasant surprises.
Our office movers in Simi Valley 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.
Simi Valley, the Ventura County city on the far side of the Santa Susana Pass, is a city of houses. In the housing data the regional planning agency SCAG compiled for the city's housing element, 72.4 percent of its 43,469 homes are single-family detached; add townhouses and other attached units, and single-family housing climbs to 80.3 percent, against 61.7 percent across the Southern California region. For movers in Simi Valley, that makes the typical job a whole house: bedroom sets, a dining room, the garage shelves and the patio furniture, all leaving through a front door and down a driveway.
The houses are middle-aged, too. The 1960s produced more of today's homes than any other decade, 28.6 percent of them, and roughly seven in ten were built between 1960 and 1989. Before the first dresser moves, the crew pads the furniture, puts runners on the floors and covers the door frames, and beds and tables come apart whenever they won't clear a hallway turn in one piece.
Ownership shapes the calendar. Seven in ten Simi Valley households own their home, 72.1 percent in the same data, so plenty of moves here hang on escrow dates, and those don't always meet. When the old house has to be empty a day before the new keys arrive, overnight storage is $200; for longer gaps, look at our storage options. If boxing up a whole house is more than you want to take on, our packing services cover it.
Many of those owners have stayed put for a long time. In the SCAG tables, about four in ten owner households moved in before 2000, and more than half are headed by someone 55 or older. A house lived in that long fills its garage and closets, so sort out what goes to donation before moving day: every box that stays behind is one the crew never has to carry.
Apartments are the smaller slice. Buildings with five or more units hold 13.2 percent of the city's homes, two-to-four-unit buildings another 4.7 percent, and the count includes 761 mobile homes. In a complex or a mobile home park, the office decides where a truck may stand and whether moves have set hours, so ask before you lock in the date.
Simi Valley's traffic code makes it unlawful to park a commercial vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating of 10,000 pounds or more on a street in a residential district. Like the state law behind it, California Vehicle Code section 22507.5, the rule exempts a vehicle that is picking up or delivering goods at a building on that street. That exemption covers the loading itself, so the truck belongs at your curb while the crew works, not before or after.
The parking plan starts on your side. Move your own cars into the garage or down the block the evening before, keep the stretch of curb in front of the house open, and warn the neighbors that a big truck will sit out front for a few hours. On the hillside streets of Wood Ranch or Bridle Path, mention the slope when you book; it decides where the ramp goes.
Gated streets add a step. Wood Ranch alone runs from open townhome rows to guard-gated single-family enclaves, and a truck that isn't on the gate list sits at the entrance while someone calls the house. Put the crew on the guest list for the move date, send the gate instructions when you book, and ask your HOA whether it wants a certificate of insurance or limits the hours for moves; a COI from us is $50.
Wood Ranch, on the far west side off Madera Road and Wood Ranch Parkway, is the largest planned community in Simi Valley. Building began in the mid-1980s around a golf course that threads through many of its streets, and the homes range from entry-level townhomes to large houses behind guarded gates. In the townhome sections the question is which guest spaces the truck may use; in the gated sections, it's getting through the gate on time.
Bridle Path, in the hills on the southwestern edge of the city, is an equestrian neighborhood of 630 houses, each on at least half an acre, backed by a private 1,700-acre mountain park. Riding trails run along its streets, so the truck and ramp go where they leave the trail open. On a half-acre lot, the walk from the back rooms to the truck is part of the job, so count it in when you plan the day.
Santa Susana Knolls, at the southeastern edge near the pass, isn't city territory: it's an unincorporated Ventura County community at the foot of the Santa Susana Mountains. It also breaks from Simi Valley's street grid, with narrow, winding roads between oaks and rock outcrops. Send the exact address when you book, so the crew can work out where a truck can stop and how far the load must be carried.
| Area or home type in Simi Valley | What to plan for on moving day |
|---|---|
| Detached house on the valley's street grid | Open curb in front; the truck parks there for the loading only, under the city's commercial-vehicle rule |
| Wood Ranch townhome sections | Which guest spaces the truck may use and the path from the lot to your door |
| Guard-gated enclaves in Wood Ranch | Crew on the gate list for the date; HOA insurance or move-hour rules; COI $50 |
| Bridle Path half-acre lots | A long walk from the house to the truck; ramp and truck kept off the riding trail |
| Santa Susana Knolls | Narrow, winding county roads; agree in advance where the truck stops |
| Apartment complexes and mobile home parks | Office rules on truck placement and move hours |
Our moving services in Simi Valley run from our only base, 5530 Jillson Street in Los Angeles. The route is I-5 → SR-118: north on the 5, then west on the 118, the Ronald Reagan Freeway, which climbs to the Santa Susana Pass between the San Fernando Valley and Simi Valley and enters Ventura County at the Rocky Peak Road exit. That's about 44.3 miles, around 54 minutes without traffic.
Your exit sets the last leg. Kuehner Drive is the first exit down in the valley, at its east end; Madera Road, the turn for Wood Ranch, is at the west end, just before the 23 interchange. Weekday rush hours slow both freeways, so on a weekday morning the drive can run well past the 54-minute mark.
Because Simi Valley lies more than 30 miles from our base, the minimum here is 4 hours instead of the usual 3, and overtime starts after 8 hours. Crews work Monday through Sunday, 8AM to 6PM, and the rule from our rates page holds on this run: double drive time applies to moves over 10 miles. With the pass to cross in both directions, a morning start leaves more of that window for the house itself.
Rates are hourly and lower Monday through Thursday: two movers with a truck cost $119 cash or $129 card, against $135 or $145 Friday through Sunday, and a three-mover crew is $159 or $169 against $175 or $185. With 4 hours as the floor on every Simi Valley booking, a Monday-to-Thursday date is the easiest place to save.
Chatsworth is the first Los Angeles neighborhood on the other side of the Santa Susana Pass. The 118 comes down the grade straight into it, so a move between the two is a short run across the county line; our Chatsworth movers page covers that side.
Just east of the pass, Topanga Canyon Boulevard leaves the 118 and runs south through Chatsworth to Canoga Park. That boulevard is the road for a move from a Simi Valley house to the west end of the San Fernando Valley; see Canoga Park movers for that end of the trip.
