Our Venice movers are well trained, and therefore, highly skilled to move belongings in and out of the buildings without damaging the walls, doors, doorways, and floors. We have expert moving crews, competent at handling both heavy and fragile items, ensuring they get to your new location in the original condition. We invite you to join hundreds of satisfied customers who experienced our services. Request a free quote and take the first step to a blissful moving experience.
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 Venice 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. We also handle local moves in neighboring Mar Vista and Playa Vista.
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 Venice 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.
Venice, the beach neighborhood on the western edge of the City of Los Angeles, was built around canals and footpaths before the car took over, and a good share of its housing still works that way. The city's Venice Coastal Zone Specific Plan defines a walk street as a public street paved for pedestrians over part of its width, landscaped over the rest and never improved for vehicles. Its appendix lists about sixty of them, among them Nowita, Marco and Amoroso Places between Lincoln Boulevard and Shell Avenue, Crescent Place off Palms Boulevard, and Park Place and Vista Place west of Main Street.
The same plan routes vehicle access for homes on walk streets through other streets or alleys, so no truck stops at the front gate. It parks on the cross street or in the rear alley, and the crew carries from there: furniture padded inside the house, runners on floors and thresholds, bed frames and table legs taken off before they meet a narrow garden gate. For local movers in Venice, that stretch on foot is where the hours go, far more than the size of the load.
Canal homes add water to the equation. The Venice Canal Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, keeps six canals: Carroll, Linnie, Howland and Sherman run east to west, while Eastern and Grand run north to south. According to the Venice Canals Association, the one-way vehicle entrance to the canals is at Dell Avenue and Sherman Canal; Dell crosses four bridges, lettered Courts A through E lead to the houses, and nine footbridges are for pedestrians only.
That layout decides the load plan. A canal house with a garage on its court is loaded from the court. A house whose only door opens onto the canal walkway, the sidewalk the city rebuilt in the early 1990s, gets a hand carry along the water, with dollies kept to the path and nothing left standing on the walk while neighbors pass.
Inland from the sand, the city pushes cars to the back of the lot. In North Venice and in the Oakwood, Milwood and Southeast Venice subarea, which runs from the Santa Monica city line south to Washington Boulevard and east to Lincoln Boulevard, the specific plan puts driveways on alleys. Its commercial standards also ask that curb cuts be kept to a minimum to protect public street parking. For a mover, that makes the alley the working side of many houses, while the curb out front is shared with everyone headed for the beach.
Venice is part of the City of Los Angeles, so temporary no-parking signs for a moving truck fall under LADOT; its public FAQ points questions about requesting those signs to the Special Traffic Control Division. The client files that request and, in a building with an elevator, books the elevator with management. If a condo board or property manager asks for a certificate of insurance, SOS provides a COI for $50. Our crew lead can tell you how much curb the truck and ramp take up and which side of the block keeps the carry shortest.
The Marina Peninsula runs from the Washington Boulevard pier south to Via Marina, a strip of short streets between Pacific Avenue and the ocean. Galleon, Privateer, Reef, Spinnaker, Westwind and Yawl are walk streets west of Pacific, and so are Jib, Mast, Northstar and several others between Pacific and Speedway. On most of these blocks the truck stays at the street end and the crew walks the rest.
Across Ballona Lagoon, the Silver Strand runs east to the Los Angeles County line. Its malls, among them Ketch, Mast, Northstar, Outrigger and Topsail, are not shopping centers but landscaped footpaths listed as walk streets, and the plan requires them to stay open to the public. A sofa headed for a house on one of them rides a dolly down a garden path, so the crew plans the turn at each gate before the truck is unloaded.
Inland, between Hampton Drive and Electric Avenue on one side and Lincoln Boulevard on the other, Oakwood, Milwood and Southeast Venice fill the blocks with houses and small buildings served from the rear. The plan caps lot mergers at three lots in Oakwood and two in Milwood and bans them outright along the canals and in the Silver Strand, so buildings stay close to the size of the original lots. Alley width, trash bins and a neighbor's parked car decide how close the truck gets, which is why the crew walks the alley before picking a spot.
North Venice, between the Santa Monica line and North Venice Boulevard, holds the walk streets closest to the boardwalk: Dudley, Breeze and Wave Crest Avenues between Main Street and Speedway, Paloma Avenue, and Ozone and Club House Avenues. A move from one North Venice walk street to another means two separate carries, each from its own alley or cross street, with the truck repositioned in between.
| Area or housing type in Venice | What to plan for on move day |
|---|---|
| Venice Canals: Carroll, Linnie, Howland, Sherman, Eastern and Grand | One-way entry at Dell Avenue and Sherman Canal; Courts A to E reach the houses; footbridges are pedestrian only, so a door on the water means a hand carry along the walk |
| Walk streets such as Nowita, Marco and Amoroso Places | No vehicle access on the walk itself; the truck parks on the cross street or in the alley, and the carry runs longer |
| Ocean Front Walk and Speedway | No vehicle access from the boardwalk; the truck loads from Speedway behind the building |
| Marina Peninsula walk streets: Galleon, Reef, Yawl and others | Footpaths between Pacific Avenue and the ocean; lots on Pacific Avenue are reached from side streets |
| Silver Strand malls: Ketch, Mast, Topsail and others | Landscaped paths, not roads; the carry starts at the nearest street end, and the county line is just east |
| Abbot Kinney Boulevard, Brooks Avenue to Palms Boulevard | Individual storefronts; newer buildings have a pedestrian door facing rear parking, so loading can go through the back |
Crews leave the base at 5530 Jillson Street and take I-5 to I-10, the Santa Monica Freeway, west toward the ocean. That is about 22.8 miles, around 33 minutes without traffic, with the last stretch on surface streets such as Lincoln Boulevard or Venice Boulevard, which runs all the way from the beach to downtown.
Traffic is the part no map can promise. The 10 between downtown and the coast slows in both directions at commute peaks, and on warm weekends beach traffic backs up on Venice and Washington Boulevards. Moving services in Venice run on the same clock as everywhere else we work, Monday through Sunday, 8AM to 6PM, so an early weekday start meets commuters on the freeway but quiet beach streets, while a weekend start often trades the other way.
The 3-hour minimum applies here, because Venice sits inside the 30-mile line from the base and the 4-hour minimum for farther addresses does not come into play. Rates follow the price list, where double drive time applies to moves over 10 miles and overtime begins after 8 hours of work.
Abbot Kinney Boulevard shows what commercial movers in Venice work around. Between Brooks Avenue and Palms Boulevard, the specific plan requires new ground floors to be split into individual storefronts, and new commercial buildings must give walls that face rear parking a pedestrian entrance. That rear door often becomes the loading door, so desks, monitors, racks and files go out to the back lot instead of across a sidewalk full of shoppers. Studios, shops and offices are handled as office and commercial moves.
On a walk street or a canal lot every box travels by hand, sometimes for most of a block, so movers and packers in Venice pack for the carry: books in small cartons, dishes in dish packs, nothing so heavy that it has to be set down halfway along the walk. Our packing service brings the boxes and the people to fill them. What is not making the trip, such as a worn couch or a broken dresser, can go out with LA Sanitation's free bulky item pickup, which City of Los Angeles trash customers in Venice book through the MyLA311 app.
I-10, the interstate that reaches the coast in Santa Monica next door, runs through Phoenix, El Paso, San Antonio, Houston and New Orleans before it ends in Jacksonville, Florida, according to the federal route log. Hiring long-distance movers in Venice therefore puts much of the southern half of the country one interstate away. For a long-distance move the load-out is still the same walk-street or alley carry as a local job, but the truck is packed for days on the road, with every piece padded and tied off.
For apartment movers in Venice, the address matters less than the alley behind it. Lots on Ocean Front Walk take vehicles from Speedway, the alley behind the boardwalk, and the specific plan says that access may never come from the boardwalk itself; buildings on Pacific Avenue are meant to be reached from side streets. An apartment move off the boardwalk therefore loads from the back: truck in Speedway or on the side street, crew through the rear entrance, pads on stair rails and runners in the hallway.
A piano bound for a canal house or a walk-street cottage covers the last stretch on a board and dolly, along a paved path that by definition takes up only part of the street's width. That is why piano movers in Venice size the job by the carry rather than the drive. Piano moves are booked with a four-mover crew, and the piano fee is $200.
Owners who move out for a remodel meet another rule in the specific plan: no demolition, grading or building permit is issued for a Venice coastal development project until it clears the plan's review, whether by exemption, a Planning Director sign-off or a full approval. Move-back dates hang on that clearance and the construction after it, which is where moving and storage in Venice go together. Furniture can wait in storage between the two moves, and overnight storage is $200 when the gap is a single night.
Cross the county line at the east edge of the Silver Strand and you are in Marina del Rey, which Los Angeles County runs through its Department of Beaches and Harbors, down to the lease agreements and the parking citations. A move from a canal house to a marina apartment therefore changes who controls the curb, even though the two sit side by side. Our page on moving in Marina del Rey covers the county side.
To the north, the City of Los Angeles ends and Santa Monica begins, and Main Street runs straight across the line. Santa Monica is a separate city, so a no-parking request on that side goes to Santa Monica, not LADOT, and the Santa Monica moving page picks up from there. To the east, Mar Vista stays inside the City of Los Angeles, with Venice Boulevard running through both.
