Storage Solutions in Manhattan Beach, CA

Moves that start and end inside California are regulated by the Department of Consumer Affairs Bureau of Household Goods and Services (BHGS), not the CPUC, which stopped regulating household movers on July 1, 2018 under Senate Bill 19. Popeye Moving & Storage operates under CAL T 189749 for moves inside California, holds USDOT 1472924 and MC 498816C for interstate work, and is fully insured. Storage requested as part of a move, for up to 90 days, is storage-in-transit and remains a regulated mover service under Maximum Rate Tariff 4. Past 90 days, goods are held under the warehouse storage agreement and California Commercial Code Division 7, not the Self-Service Storage Facility Act, because vaulted storage gives no customer access to a unit. You can check any mover's permit with BHGS at bhgs.dca.ca.gov or on (916) 999-2041 before you book, and complaints about a California household mover go to BHGS.

Yes. Estimates are free, including in-home and video estimates, and the survey tells us how many vaults your goods need. If storage is part of a move, the moving price is set in writing before anything is loaded, with a Not To Exceed figure on a move inside California. Call (310) 823-9510 - the office is open 6 AM to 9 PM, seven days a week, including Sunday.

With self-storage you rent a unit, hold the key and move goods in and out yourself. With vaulted storage there is no unit and no key: our crews pack your goods into sealed wooden vaults at pickup, the vaults are moved by forklift and kept inside our climate controlled warehouse, and goods are handled fewer times overall. Retrieval is arranged with our office, since the warehouse has to bring out and open the vault.

Goods are placed into vaults at the Mar Vista warehouse the same day as pickup, with no overnight hold on the truck. That keeps the time your belongings spend in transit short and means they go straight into a climate controlled building.

We store household furniture, boxes, clothing and appliances, commercial furniture, files and stock, and items such as wine, fine art, pianos and chandeliers. We do not store vehicles of any kind. Hazardous materials, including gasoline, propane, paint and solvents, are not accepted, and perishable food, plants and open liquids should not go into storage.

As a typical Los Angeles range and not a quote, local residential moving runs $150 to $200 per hour for a two-person crew and truck, and a one-bedroom apartment local move runs $350 to $650. Full-service packing for a three-bedroom runs $600 to $1,500. Access in El Porto or on a walk street affects the total, which is set in writing before anything is loaded.

Popeye holds CAL T 189749 for moves inside California and USDOT 1472924 and MC 498816C for interstate work, and is fully insured. Household moving inside California is regulated by the Department of Consumer Affairs Bureau of Household Goods and Services, the BHGS, on (916) 999-2041. The CPUC no longer regulates movers; authority moved to the bureau on July 1 2018 under SB 19.

Yes. Popeye offers free in-home and video estimates in Manhattan Beach. After a video survey it can give a guaranteed binding price, and on a move inside California the price is set in writing with a Not To Exceed figure before anything is loaded.

Yes. Popeye offers full-service vaulted storage at its own warehouse at 5509 1/2 S Centinela Ave in Mar Vista, with no minimum or maximum term. Goods are placed into vaults at the Mar Vista warehouse the same day as pickup, with no overnight hold on the truck. There is no unit or key, crews handle your goods, and the space is climate controlled for temperature and humidity.

El Porto, around 45th Street and The Strand near the El Segundo line, has dense apartments, condominiums and beach houses on steep narrow streets running down to the sand, alley-served buildings, small garages, many buildings with no elevator and narrow internal stairs. A shuttle from a smaller vehicle is a realistic part of the plan and is priced at the estimate.

Walk streets and The Strand have no vehicle access to the door, so the truck stands at the nearest legal permitted position and goods are carried the rest of the way. Popeye plans the crew size and carry for that and includes it in the written estimate.

Generally, yes. Inland around Polliwog Park the streets take a truck normally, so the job is quoted on the volume of goods rather than on access. A permit for the truck is still checked for the address.