A Silver Lake bungalow and a Santa Monica high-rise don’t price the same
A hillside house with a driveway a standard truck can’t reach and a 24th-floor condo sharing one freight elevator with sixty other units land on completely different timelines, regardless of what the listing’s square footage claims. Treat them identically and the schedule falls apart on move day, so the number here comes from a walkthrough of the actual address, not a form filled out over the phone.
A typical week on the calendar
Most weeks mix hillside properties in Silver Lake, Los Feliz, and the Glendale hills, Valley ranch homes in Sherman Oaks and Burbank, and a downtown tower where the freight elevator and loading dock run on narrow booked windows.
- Crew leadEddie Vasquez, with the company since 2016
- Silver Lake & Los FelizSteep driveways and narrow lanes measured during the walkthrough, before the truck backs in
- Santa Monica & Downtown LA high-risesEddie arranges the certificate of insurance and elevator window in advance
- Sherman Oaks, Burbank & GlendaleWider streets, generally a more straightforward load
What the flat rate covers
One number folds in the truck, packing materials, and crew time, a table lamp gets carried with the same care as a dining set.
| Home size | Approximate flat rate |
|---|---|
| Studio | $450 to $720 |
| One-bedroom | $720 to $1,180 |
| Two-bedroom | $1,180 to $2,050 |
| Three-bedroom | $2,050 to $3,350 |
| Four-bedroom | $3,150 to $4,950 |
Bed frames, sectionals, and oversized dressers come apart ahead of the drive and go back together at the new address. In an older Pasadena Craftsman, the crew lays down floor protection room by room as they work through, since original hardwood won’t buff a scratch out afterward. A piano rides its own dedicated rig rather than sharing space with the rest of the load.
The building’s rules outweigh the square footage
A Santa Monica tower booking its freight elevator in narrow windows is exactly where an unfamiliar mover shows up without the right paperwork and loses the slot for the day. Eddie’s crew clears the certificate of insurance with the property manager and reserves the elevator days ahead, then pads hallway corners and door frames on the way through so the lobby stays clean. A handful of older Los Feliz blocks can’t fit a full-size truck at all, so a smaller shuttle vehicle bridges the last stretch by hand.
Building paperwork and production timing
On a downtown high-rise job, Priya Nair confirms the elevator reservation against the booked date before anything’s finalized. On a job tied to a production schedule, we build in a buffer day in case a call sheet moves.
Where this habit comes from
Danny Reyes grew up in Glendale, where his father hauled freight out of the rail yards near Downtown LA, and Danny spent his own teenage summers loading trucks for a regional carrier that worked the 5 and the 10. Checking a driveway grade or a building’s paperwork before naming a price isn’t new to him, it’s the standard Aragon Moving Systems opened with back in 2011.
