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APARTMENT MOVERS • SAN FRANCISCO • BAY AREA • SINCE 2005
Apartment movers from CG Moving Company, Inc. handle studio moves, one and two bedroom apartment relocations, high-rise and elevator building moves, HOA building moves, and furnished apartment transitions across San Francisco and the Bay Area. The company has been moving apartments in San Francisco since 2005 and holds City and County of San Francisco approved vendor no. 96965. CG Moving Company operates under California intrastate authority CPUC MTR 0190922 and federal operating authority USDOT 3907428. COI is issued within one business day for building management at any San Francisco or Bay Area property.
CA intrastate authority
City and County of San Francisco
For building management
South San Francisco, CA
Cargo and liability coverage
Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm Pacific. Weekday, evening, and weekend apartment moves available.
CG Moving handles apartment moves with elevator COI and HOA coordination. Free survey.
CG Moving Company provides apartment moving services for renters, owners, and building managers across San Francisco and the Bay Area. Services cover studio and single-room moves, one and two bedroom apartment relocations, furnished apartment moves, high-rise elevator building moves, and HOA building moves with specific COI and building access requirements. Apartment moves are available on weekdays, evenings, and weekends.
Apartment moves in San Francisco have specific constraints that differ from standard residential or commercial moves: elevator reservations and padding requirements, building management COI wording, loading dock or street parking permits, narrow stairways in older buildings, HOA move-in and move-out fees, and lease-end timing that often makes Saturday or Sunday the only available move day. CG Moving Company handles all of these as standard practice, not as exceptions.
Planned house and condo moves. Full-service packing is available as part of any residential move booking.
Short and long-term storage at 1755 Mission Rd for items that cannot go to the new address: downsized furniture, estate items held for family members.
Full-service and partial packing for residential moves. Pack on the day before or the same day as the move. Promoted to its own silo from residential.
The full San Francisco movers page: all move types across every SF neighbourhood.
CG Moving provides residential, commercial, packing, specialty, and more. Free survey.
CG Moving Company provides apartment moving services for the following building types and scenarios across San Francisco and the Bay Area.
Studio apartment moves and micro-unit relocations in San Francisco and the Bay Area. Studio moves are typically faster than larger apartments but come with the same building access requirements: elevator reservations, COI for building management, and parking permits for the moving truck. CG Moving Company provides crew sizes matched to the volume: one or two movers for a small studio, more for a large furnished studio with additional items.
One and two bedroom apartment relocations across San Francisco, the Peninsula, the East Bay, and the wider Bay Area. Mid-size apartment moves are the most common residential move type in San Francisco. CG Moving Company handles the full physical scope: packing (where included), furniture wrapping and protection, loading, transport, and delivery with placement at destination.
Apartment moves in high-rise and mid-rise buildings with elevator access. Elevator moves require padding and floor protection, advance elevator reservation with building management, coordination with the building's move-in rules, and time management around elevator booking windows. CG Moving Company handles elevator reservation coordination and building management COI as standard for every high-rise apartment move.
Apartment moves in HOA-managed buildings with move-in and move-out fees, specific moving hours, and COI requirements. HOA buildings in San Francisco and the Bay Area typically require additional insured wording for the building management or HOA management company. CG Moving Company issues the COI within one business day to the exact wording specified by the HOA.
Apartment moves in San Francisco's walk-up buildings, Victorians, and older pre-war apartment buildings. Walk-up moves involve carrying furniture up and down flights of stairs without elevator access. CG Moving Company confirms the stair configuration, doorway widths, and hallway dimensions in the pre-move survey and allocates the correct crew size and equipment for the building.
Fully furnished apartment relocations and storage transitions for renters vacating at lease end before the new unit is ready. Storage transitions are common in San Francisco where lease-end and lease-start dates rarely align. CG Moving Company provides short-term storage at 1755 Mission Rd, South San Francisco, for belongings between lease transitions.
CG Moving handles every step: pre-move survey, COI, loading, and placement at destination.
Apartment moves in San Francisco follow a straightforward process. Most issues that cause move-day problems: elevator conflicts, COI rejections, parking tickets, building management disputes: are resolved in the planning phase when there is still time to fix them.
A pre-move survey is completed for every apartment move. For in-person moves, a coordinator walks the apartment and confirms the crew size, vehicle size, and equipment requirements. For remote surveys, the customer provides the floor plan, building details, and a photo walkthrough. Building management is contacted for elevator reservation, move-in rules, COI requirements, and loading dock or parking access. All of this is confirmed before the move date is set.
A certificate of insurance is issued within one business day in the format required by the building management or HOA. San Francisco apartment building management companies and HOA managers have specific additional insured wording requirements. CG Moving Company has direct experience with the COI wording used by the major property management companies in San Francisco and the Bay Area. Send the building's exact wording and the certificate is ready the next business day.
On move day, the crew arrives at the agreed time, wraps and protects furniture, loads the vehicle, and transports to the destination. Elevator padding and floor protection are applied before any furniture moves. For high-rise buildings, the crew works within the confirmed elevator booking window. For walk-up buildings, stair carries are executed with the crew size allocated based on the stair configuration confirmed in the survey.
Furniture and boxes are placed in the rooms specified by the customer at destination. CG Moving Company crews disassemble and reassemble beds, desks, and furniture that need to pass through doorways. Once everything is in place, the customer confirms the move is complete. For storage transition moves, goods are inventoried at the storage facility and released when the new address is ready.
Apartment move costs depend on floor level, elevator availability, COI requirements, and move size.
Apartment move costs in San Francisco are driven by a handful of predictable factors. Most of them come up in the pre-move survey, which is where estimates are confirmed.
Studio and one-bedroom apartments are the fastest to move. Two and three bedroom apartments with full furniture take proportionally longer. Volume is confirmed in the survey or photo walkthrough and is the primary driver of the flat-rate estimate.
Walk-up buildings with no elevator add stair-carry time based on the number of floors and stair configuration. High-rise elevator buildings add booking window constraints. Both are identified in the survey and factored into the crew size allocation and estimate.
Saturday is the most requested move day in San Francisco. Weekend moves are priced the same as weekday moves. Move date availability varies by season: summer and month-end weekends book earliest. Earlier booking means more flexibility on date selection.
Common factors that affect a San Francisco apartment move estimate:
Apartment size and total volume of furniture and boxes
Floor level at origin and destination (elevator vs. walk-up)
Distance between origin and destination (local SF move vs. Bay Area move)
Whether packing is included or the customer is packing independently
Building access constraints at both addresses: elevator window, dock, street parking permit
Special items: pianos, large art, gun safes, pool tables (separate quotes)
CG Moving Company reviews apartment size, floor level, building access requirements, and move date before preparing a written flat-rate or hourly estimate. The estimate is confirmed before the move date is booked. No charges are added after the estimate is confirmed.
Call 888-508-7838 or submit a project inquiry at
CG Moving handles apartment moves with elevator COI and HOA coordination. Free survey.
CG Moving Company, Inc. has provided apartment moving services across San Francisco and the Bay Area since 2005. Founded by Charlie Gonzalez in South San Francisco. California intrastate authority CPUC MTR 0190922. Federal authority USDOT 3907428, MC 1441357. City and County of San Francisco approved vendor no. 96965. CA small business cert. no. 1745559. CPUC MBE cert. no. 15050132. Storage facility at 1755 Mission Rd, South San Francisco, for lease-transition storage.
GS-33F-0063X
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California
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CPUC MTR 0190922
CA DMV MCP 0426662
No. 96965
City and County of San Francisco
USDOT 3907428
MC 1441357
C61/D34 No. 987530
Furniture installation
CG Moving handles apartment moves with elevator COI and HOA coordination. Free survey.
Tell us the origin and destination addresses, apartment size (studio, 1-bed, 2-bed), floor level and building type at both ends, whether packing is needed, and your preferred move date. The survey is completed remotely (photo walkthrough or floor plan) or in person. Most apartment move surveys are confirmed within 24 hours.
CG Moving Company handles the full physical scope of the apartment move: elevator and building access coordination, COI issuance within one business day for property management, furniture wrapping and protection, loading, transport, and placement at destination. Lease-transition storage is available at 1755 Mission Rd, South San Francisco.
Free survey for apartment moving across San Francisco and the Bay Area
CG Moving handles apartment moves with elevator COI and HOA coordination. Free survey.
CG Moving Company provides apartment moving services across San Francisco and the Bay Area, operating from 1755 Mission Rd, South San Francisco. Lease-transition storage is available on site for renters between apartments.
San Francisco
Apartment movers for studios, one and two bedroom apartments, high-rise elevator buildings, HOA buildings, and walk-up flats across every SF neighbourhood. SF vendor no. 96965. COI in 1 business day.
Peninsula / San Mateo County
Apartment moves in South San Francisco, San Mateo, Redwood City, Burlingame, and across the Peninsula. CG Moving operates from 1755 Mission Rd, South San Francisco: minimal transport time across the Peninsula.
East Bay
Apartment moving services for Oakland, Berkeley, Emeryville, Alameda, and Contra Costa County. Studio, one bedroom, and two bedroom apartment moves across the East Bay.
Silicon Valley
Apartment moves for San Jose, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, and the wider Silicon Valley. High-rise, low-rise, and walk-up apartment moves with weekend scheduling.
Marin County / North Bay
Apartment moving services for San Rafael, Mill Valley, Novato, Sausalito, and Marin County. Weekend and weekday apartment moves with COI for HOA and building management.
Common questions about CG Moving services, licensing, COI, and costs answered below.
Apartment move costs in San Francisco depend on apartment size, floor level at both ends, distance between addresses, and whether packing is included. CG Moving Company provides flat-rate and hourly estimates confirmed before the move date is booked. No additional charges are added after the estimate is confirmed. Submit a move inquiry or call 888-508-7838 to get a survey scheduled.
Yes. Weekday, evening, and weekend apartment moves are available. Saturday is the most requested move day in San Francisco. Move date availability varies by season: summer and month-end weekends book earliest. Earlier booking gives more flexibility on date selection.
Yes. Send the building’s exact additional insured wording and waiver of subrogation requirements. The COI is issued within one business day. San Francisco apartment building managers and HOA management companies have specific COI wording requirements. CG Moving Company has direct experience with the COI wording used by the major property management companies across San Francisco and the Bay Area.
CG Moving Company contacts building management to coordinate the elevator booking as part of the move planning. For buildings that require the resident to make the elevator reservation directly, CG Moving Company provides the timing requirements and the crew schedule in advance so the booking can be placed. Elevator padding and floor protection are applied at the start of every high-rise apartment move.
CG Moving Company provides short-term and long-term storage at 1755 Mission Rd, South San Francisco, for lease-transition moves where the new address is not available on move day. Goods are inventoried at intake and released when the new address is confirmed. Storage is available by the week or month. A storage move involves one pickup and one delivery: quoted together at the time of booking.
Yes. Stair carries are standard for San Francisco’s walk-up buildings and Victorian flats. CG Moving Company confirms the stair configuration, number of floors, doorway widths, and hallway dimensions in the pre-move survey and allocates the correct crew size. Stair carry volume is factored into the flat-rate or hourly estimate.
Yes. Full-service packing, partial packing (kitchen only, fragile items only), and box supply are available. Packing service is booked and quoted alongside the move. For full packing, a packing day runs the day before move day. Packing materials are included in the packing quote. See /packing-services-san-francisco/ for the full packing services scope.
A general residential move (/residential-moving-san-francisco/) covers houses, condos, and all residential property types without specific building access requirements. An apartment move adds elevator and HOA building coordination, building management COI, stair carry planning for walk-ups, and lease-transition timing. This page is for apartment-specific moves. For house and condo moves, see the residential moving hub.
Call 888-508-7838 to book a free move survey. Written estimate before your move date.
Whether you are moving a studio in the Mission, a two bedroom in the Richmond, a furnished apartment in SOMA, or transitioning between leases across the Bay Area, CG Moving Company handles the full physical scope of the apartment move from the initial survey through placement at destination.
CG Moving Company holds City and County of San Francisco approved vendor no. 96965. CPUC MTR 0190922 and USDOT 3907428 cover all transport. Lease-transition storage at 1755 Mission Rd, South San Francisco. CA small business cert. no. 1745559. COI issued within one business day for any building management or HOA wording. Every apartment move starts with a free survey and a written estimate.
Apartment movers in San Francisco and the Bay Area. COI in 1 business day. Storage available. CPUC MTR 0190922.
CG Moving Company, Inc.
1755 Mission Rd, South San Francisco, CA 94080
Phone: 888-508-7838
CPUC MTR 0190922 | USDOT 3907428 | CSLB C61/D34 No. 987530 | GSA GS-33F-0063X
Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm Pacific. After-hours and weekend apartment moves scheduled on request.