Two jobs in the same city with nothing in common. One is a tower off Figueroa: a single freight elevator, a reserved block on the building calendar, a dock two other crews want that same Saturday. The other is a fourplex a block off the sand in Santa Monica: no lift, a stairwell that turns hard at the landing, street sweeping at ten. We plan them apart because they go wrong for completely different reasons.
The building paperwork we take off your hands
- Property managers get their certificate of insurance from our office, named the way their form asks for it, as soon as your date is on the books
- The elevator hold and the load-in window are arranged by us with the front desk or the HOA, so the job exists on the building’s calendar and not only on yours
- Lobby tile and corridor carpet get runners, jambs get padding, and both stay down until the final trip is finished
- Walk-ups are measured at the quote, flights, landings and the turn radius on the stairs, then staffed for what they are rather than hoped through
- Guest passes, call-box codes and coastal permit rules come up on the booking call, while there is still time to fix any of them
One contact, one copy of the rules, and we take it from there
One building wants a certificate uploaded to a portal a week out. The next wants a refundable deposit at the desk, pads hung in the lift, and the whole thing done between nine and four on a weekday. Our office chases whichever it turns out to be, so you are not arguing with a management company during your own move week.
How a unit move actually runs
- Check in before anything moves The crew chief finds the desk, the manager or the call box first, and furniture stays exactly where it is until access is confirmed in person.
- Wrap upstairs, carry down Film and pads go on inside your unit, so nothing sits half-dressed in a corridor your neighbors are trying to use.
- The window governs A hold that expires at four, or a loading zone the HOA shuts at sundown, sets the whole plan; Marcos Villalobos staffs the job to finish inside it instead of negotiating for more.
- You direct the set-down The label gets a carton to the right room. You get the last word on which wall it goes against.
Roughly what a unit takes
| Unit | Crew | Time on site |
|---|---|---|
| Studio | 2 | A morning, longer when the lift is shared |
| 1-bedroom | 2 | Half a day in an elevator building |
| 2-bedroom | 3 | Most of a day, and add time above the second floor without a lift |
Those times already assume a slow elevator and a long push in from the loading zone, so neither one reopens the price you signed. Packing prices as its own line and can ride on the same booking. For a whole house rather than a unit, the local moving page is the better starting point, or packing if the boxes are the part you would rather hand off.
