Apartment and high-rise moves all over Los Angeles
Apartment moves come down to details a house move never has — the freight elevator that’s only yours until noon, the COI the building won’t budge on, the dock window you share with the unit ten floors up. Pro Express Moving works these buildings every week, from the DTLA high-rise lofts with their reserved elevators and dock-window rules to the older walk-ups around Santa Monica and the mid-rise complexes in Culver City and Koreatown. We’re a licensed California mover with our own crews and trucks, so the people who book your elevator are the same people who carry your couch.
Across LA County, LA County movers handles premium moves on a single written flat rate, with nothing sprung on the invoice.
The pricing carries straight over from our other local jobs: $149/hr puts two movers and a truck on the work, $209/hr puts three, and there’s no one-hour minimum to clear. For a studio or one-bedroom the flat rate — it begins at $419 — is usually the cheaper of the two, so we run both and hand you whichever comes out lower. A $99 deposit reserves your date and is credited back on the final bill.
The building side gets sorted before move day arrives:
- A certificate of insurance that lists your building as additional insured, filed well before the date
- Freight-elevator and loading-dock windows reserved with property management
- Wall pads, doorjamb guards and floor runners through shared lobbies and long interior corridors
- Stair-climbing hand trucks for the no-elevator second- and third-floor walk-ups that fill LA’s older housing stock
Parking is its own fight here. On a permit-only block in Santa Monica or a tight downtown street we’ll reserve curb space ahead of time so the truck isn’t circling, and we time DTLA high-rise moves to the building’s elevator window so a crew isn’t standing idle on your clock while the freight car is booked elsewhere. We factor the 110 and the 10 into when we roll, too, so the crew arrives inside your reservation rather than after it lapses. Every piece is shrink-wrapped and padded, covered at $0.60/lb standard with full-value protection and up to $1,000,000 in cargo coverage per shipment available. Give us your building’s name, the floor you’re on, and whatever move rules it enforces, and the COI, the elevator slot and the crew are all lined up before the date comes. Get my free moving quote and we’ll handle the building side for you.
What’s included
- Our own crew and a right-sized Pro Express truck — book two movers at $149/hr or three at $209/hr, and the one-hour minimum is waived
- Studios and one-bedrooms can take the flat rate that starts at $419 so the smaller jobs stay predictable
- Building coordination on certificates of insurance, freight-elevator reservations and dock or loading-window time slots
- Floor runners, wall and doorjamb pads, plus shrink wrap for upholstery and mattresses through shared lobbies and corridors
- Stair-climbing hand trucks and four-wheel dollies for Westside walk-ups and long DTLA interior hallways
- Released-value coverage at $0.60/lb included, full-value optional, and up to $1,000,000 in cargo coverage per shipment
How we set the price
After a quick walkthrough or video estimate, we write up a single flat rate from the inventory you genuinely have — not from a clock ticking by the hour. Whatever the sheet reads is the entire price, with nothing tacked on afterward.