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 Whittier 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.
Most of Whittier, CA, went up in one postwar burst. Regional housing data that SCAG prepared for the city's housing element puts about four in ten homes in the 1950s alone and roughly two in three before 1960, while less than 1% date from 2010 or later. That age is the first thing movers in Whittier plan around: runners go down on the floors before anything else, door frames get padded, and every piece is wrapped inside before it crosses the threshold.
The typical home here is a detached house, 19,370 of the city's 29,721 housing units in the state's 2020 estimate, or about 65% of the stock. On those jobs the crew takes beds, dining tables and sectionals apart where they stand, keeps each set of hardware with its piece, and loads from whichever door gives the straightest line to the truck.
The same SCAG tables show owners outnumbering renters most among householders aged 75 to 84, and a house held that long usually has far more to pack than a rental does. Our packing crews can take the kitchen, the closets and the garage shelves off your list before the truck is loaded.
Buildings with five or more units hold about 22% of Whittier's housing, and roughly four in ten households rent: 11,911 renter households against 15,694 owners in the 2014–2018 survey. If a complex's management asks for a certificate of insurance, SOS issues the COI for $50 and you reserve the move time, plus the elevator where there is one, with the office. For apartment moves, tell us which gate or parking area the truck should use, so the carry to your door is planned rather than discovered on the day.
Whittier sets street-sweeping parking limits block by block. Residents circulate a Public Works petition to get "no parking on sweeping day" signs, the signs are posted at the end of the block rather than in front of each house, and the Whittier Police Department enforces them. Walk to the corner before you settle on a date, and if sweeping lands on move day, say so when you book so the parking plan works around it.
Posted curb rules in Whittier come out of the city's Parking and Transportation Commission, and some streets are preferential parking districts, created by City Council resolution under Chapter 10.18 of the municipal code. On those blocks, cars displaying a valid district permit are exempt from the posted limits. If your street carries permit signs, mention it along with the address, so the plan covers both where the truck stands and where your own cars wait while the crew loads.
Not every place called Whittier is the City of Whittier. South Whittier, East Whittier, Rose Hills (North Whittier) and Los Nietos are unincorporated areas governed by Los Angeles County, and Los Nietos is served by the Sheriff's Pico Rivera station and the county fire department. City programs, from sweeping petitions to permit districts, stop at the city line, so it matters which side of that line your address falls on.
Uptown Whittier, the city's historic business district around Philadelphia Street, runs on shared parking: 10 city-owned lots and two parking structures, with most surface lots free for up to 3 hours between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. Those limits are written for shoppers, not for a loading job. For an Uptown apartment, the crew plans curb space near the entrance and keeps the carry short instead of counting on a lot.
The city has four locally designated historic districts. Hadley-Greenleaf is the largest, with more than 190 properties, and Central Park has 45; both were designated in 1990. Earlham holds just seven properties, an early Whittier College neighborhood from 1903 to 1940, many of them once linked to college faculty and administrators. In houses like these, anything original along the carry path, whether stair rails, door casings or floors, gets padded or covered before the first piece moves.
College Hills, subdivided in 1923 and made a historic district in 2002, was Whittier's first planned hillside development, built into steep slopes and grade changes on curving hillsides. On lots like these the truck may sit well above or below the front door, and the carry can include steps up from the street. The crew works out the truck spot and the carry route together, and heavy pieces ride on dollies only where the grade allows it.
| Whittier area or home type | What to plan for on move day |
|---|---|
| Uptown Whittier District | City lots and two structures, most with a 3-hour free limit; the truck needs curb space near the entrance |
| College Hills | Steep slopes, grade changes and curving hillsides; extra time for steps and a longer carry |
| Hadley-Greenleaf, Central Park, Earlham | Designated historic houses; rails, casings and floors padded along the path |
| 1950s detached houses across the city | Furniture taken apart in the room; one clear route from the door to the truck |
| Complexes of five or more units | COI for $50 if management asks; you reserve the move time or elevator |
| South Whittier, East Whittier, Los Nietos | Unincorporated county areas; county rules, not city ones, govern the curb |
Whittier is about 8.6 miles from our base at 5530 Jillson Street, around 17 minutes without traffic, on surface streets the whole way. Pico Rivera fills the ground between the Rio Hondo and the San Gabriel River, and the drive crosses both riverbeds before it reaches the city. Weekday rush hours slow the boulevards on that stretch, which makes a morning start the cleanest use of the 8AM – 6PM window, especially when a hillside carry is on the list.
Pricing for moving services in Whittier follows the standard rules. Addresses here sit far inside the 30-mile line, so the minimum is 3 hours rather than the 4 that farther jobs carry, and under our rate rules double drive time applies to moves over 10 miles. The rest of the hourly breakdown for local moving sits on the service page.
The historic districts add a step to renovation: in all four, changes to a building's exterior go through the city's certificate of appropriateness review, while interior-only work is exempt. A remodel that touches the outside of the house can wait on that review, and if the rooms have to be cleared in the meantime, moving storage in Whittier, CA through SOS storage holds the furniture until the work is done.
Inside city limits, Athens Services collects residential trash, and it hauls away furniture and major appliances only on request, through a bulky item pickup. Schedule one before move day for whatever is staying behind, so loading goes straight to the pieces that are making the trip.
Athens does not accept hazardous waste such as paint, solvents or pool chemicals. Los Angeles County and the Sanitation Districts run free drive-through collection events and permanent drop-off centers for household hazardous waste and e-waste, which is where the half-empty cans on the garage shelf belong.
Pico Rivera is the city just west across the San Gabriel River, sitting between our base and Whittier. La Mirada shares borders with both Whittier and unincorporated South Whittier, so a move between them is a short hop over a city line. Norwalk lies on the far side of South Whittier, the county area just below the city limits.
