Whether you need a local, commercial, or long-distance move, SOS Moving is the trusted moving company in West Los Angeles, to help you. Apart from having skilled movers, we pay attention to details and ensure that your doors, walls, and floors don’t get damaged during your move. We wrap your fragile items using top-quality moving supplies.
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 West Los Angeles 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 serve Brentwood, Westwood, Mar Vista, Playa Vista, and Pacific Palisades.
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 West Los Angeles 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.
"West Los Angeles" is a name with two maps. On the city's planning map it is one community plan area: West Los Angeles proper, Sawtelle, Century City, Cheviot Hills, Rancho Park and part of Pico-Robertson. In everyday speech it is the whole Westside, from the Palisades to Culver City, and that wider region is what this page covers.
Most of that ground belongs to the City of Los Angeles. Brentwood, Pacific Palisades, Venice, Mar Vista, Playa Vista and West LA/Sawtelle share one council district, and Westwood is city territory too. Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Culver City and West Hollywood are separate cities, each with its own permit process for a moving truck.
Hiring movers in West Los Angeles starts with that split, because the address decides which counter issues the curb signs. Before we quote, we check which city each address sits in and what that city asks of a moving truck.
Inside the City of Los Angeles, temporary no-parking signs go through LADOT's Special Traffic Control Division. The same process covers Westwood, Brentwood, Sawtelle, Mar Vista and Venice. We ask clients to start that request early, and we place the truck with the block's posted street-cleaning day in mind.
Beverly Hills sells its own moving-van "No Parking" signs at City Hall on Rexford Drive, and they must be posted at least 72 hours before the move. North of Santa Monica Boulevard, residential moves need no signs at all. The city limits residential moves to 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily and forbids staging furniture on the sidewalk, so on Beverly Hills moves our crew carries straight from the door to the truck. Office moves there can be limited to Sundays, depending on the location, and we book commercial crews around that rule.
Santa Monica makes the signs optional. If you post them, Santa Monica police inspect them, and from then on the space is a tow-away zone; loading zones, bike lanes and red curbs can't be reserved at all. Active loading in an alley is allowed while 11 feet of clearance stays open, so for Santa Monica moves we look at the alley before we look for a curb. Metered spaces can be reserved by meter number, while a dumpster or a storage container needs a separate public property permit.
Culver City issues a moving-truck permit for a single day. The signs are picked up at City Hall, and photos of the posted signs go to the city's parking enforcement by email. For Culver City moves we lock the date first, because a permit for Tuesday does nothing on Wednesday.
West Hollywood works the other way around: the space is reserved through the city's encroachment parking permit, and the city posts the official signs itself. Whichever city it is, we confirm the posted date and hours the day before the move.
High-rise condo and apartment towers line both sides of Wilshire Boulevard between Glendon Avenue and the Los Angeles Country Club, a stretch the city designates the Wilshire-Westwood Scenic Corridor. Moves there run on the building's clock: a reserved freight elevator, a dock slot and a certificate of insurance on file. On Westwood moves we pad the elevator cab, stage at the dock and keep the Wilshire curb out of the plan.
Venice has walk streets: public streets improved for pedestrians, where the Venice Coastal Zone Specific Plan limits vehicle access to emergency vehicles. Front doors face the walkway, often behind a garden and a fence line. On Venice moves the truck waits at the nearest cross street or alley, and we bring extra dollies and hands for the longer carry.
Parts of Brentwood and Pacific Palisades lie in the city's Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone, and Sunset Boulevard ties the two together. On streets posted for Red Flag days, parking is banned whenever the LAFD declares one, and parked cars are towed to keep narrow roads and hairpin turns open for fire engines. Before hillside Brentwood moves we check the block for those signs and the LAFD's Red Flag status; on a declared day the truck needs another spot, or the move needs another date.
Cheviot Hills grew from 1920s tracts, among them Country Club Highlands, Cheviot Hills and Monte Mar Vista, and many of those houses have been remodeled, some heavily. Original floors and trim in houses of that age are hard to match, so we lay runners and wrap door jambs before the first piece leaves a room.
Sawtelle was an incorporated city until it merged with Los Angeles in 1922, and its old limits ran from Centinela Avenue to Sepulveda Boulevard and from Wilshire to Pico. It now forms the western end of the West LA plan area, where quiet residential blocks sit behind busy commercial boulevards. We park on the residential side street when the curb allows and keep the truck off the arterial.
Century City's towers can be seen from much of the basin, and Metro is still building the D Line extension west through Beverly Hills and Century City to Westwood. Street restoration on Constellation Boulevard can mean lane reductions and weekend work, while station work at UCLA and the VA can bring off-peak lane reductions and pedestrian detours in Westwood. For office and condo moves along that line we match the building's dock booking to Metro's construction notices for the date.
The Palisades Fire began on January 7, 2025, and destroyed nearly 7,000 structures. A year later Pacific Palisades led every neighborhood in the city in approved building and electrical permits, and in 2026 the utilities are still restoring service to homes as they are rebuilt. On Palisades moves we expect work zones and construction trucks on residential streets, confirm that a box truck can reach the address, and offer storage when a house isn't ready on the day a lease ends.
Our only base is on Jillson Street in Los Angeles, and every Westside crew leaves from there. West Los Angeles is about 17.8 miles away by I-5 and I-10, around 26 minutes without traffic. Once there, the 405 cuts north to south through West LA, and Sunset Boulevard carries the truck west through Brentwood to the Palisades.
The 10 fills westbound in the morning rush and eastbound in the late afternoon, and a Westside job has to fit inside our 8AM – 6PM day, Monday through Sunday. As West Los Angeles movers working from one base, we aim to have a truck bound for the east side loaded and rolling before the afternoon rush builds on the eastbound 10. The minimum is 3 hours, and double drive time applies to moves over 10 miles; hourly rates are on our local moving rates page.
UCLA moves students into campus housing in mid-September and closes its Sunset Boulevard entrance at Bellagio Place during move-in. When a Westwood client can pick the date, we steer apartment moves near campus away from those days; when they can't, we add time to the plan.
Red Flag days average four to seven a year, according to the LAFD, and the department sends alerts by text, phone or email to anyone who signs up. We ask clients on posted hillside streets to sign up the week of the move and to call us as soon as a declaration comes through.
| Westside area or home type | What to plan for on moving day |
|---|---|
| Wilshire corridor tower, Westwood | Freight elevator and dock booked, COI on file, D Line work near the UCLA and VA stations |
| Venice walk street | No vehicle access; the truck parks at the cross street or alley and the crew carries |
| Brentwood or Palisades hillside street | Red Flag no-parking signs; on a declared day the curb is off-limits and cars are towed |
| Beverly Hills, south of Santa Monica Boulevard | City "No Parking" signs up 72 hours ahead; residential moves 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; nothing staged on the sidewalk |
| Santa Monica building with an alley | Alley loading while 11 feet stay clear; a reserved curb only after police inspect the signs |
| Pacific Palisades rebuild blocks | Work zones and construction trucks; truck access confirmed before the day |
Our moving services in West Los Angeles follow the same map: apartment and condo moves, office moves in Century City and along Wilshire, packing, storage between leases or during a rebuild, white glove handling for art and antiques, piano moves, same-day moves when a crew is free, and long-distance moves. Each one starts with the same questions about city, building and curb, and the answers shape the crew before the truck leaves Jillson Street.
