Senior moves with patience, sort piles, and donation coordination

Yes, at the same hourly rate as moving labor. Sort sessions usually run 4 to 8 hours total, spread over 1 to 3 days before the move. Most families find this is the highest-value hours we spend with them: it's the difference between moving 200 boxes versus 80, and the $300 to $600 in sort labor often saves $1,000+ in move-day labor and storage cost.

Habitat for Humanity ReStore (San Diego, Escondido, El Cajon) takes furniture, appliances, building materials. AmVets and Salvation Army take clothes, kitchen goods, books. Father Joe's Villages takes household goods for transitional housing. We coordinate the pickups; you get a tax-deductible receipt from each charity. We don't charge to load the donation truck if it's coming the same day as our move.

Yes. About 40 percent of our senior moves are coordinated by an adult child in another state or by a senior move manager. We do video walkthroughs for the estimate, send daily updates, and photograph any item the family flags as potentially keep-or-donate-decision. The senior client is at the center of the work, but the family gets the visibility they need.

Our 2-hour minimum at $120 to $180/hr applies. A typical assisted-living move is one bedroom plus a recliner, a dresser, a TV, and 10 to 20 boxes: that's a 3 to 4 hour job. Smaller than that (a single chair and 4 boxes) usually fits better with a labor-only crew or a senior-move-manager hourly.