Relocating to a new home requires lots of planning, the correct timing, and the resources to pull it off. Whether the relocation is local, long-distance, or international, let S&M Moving Systems make the experience smooth and stress-free. Maximize your potential with just one global logistics partner and a custom solution for your business.
Let S&M Moving Systems handle all of your logistical needs from supply chain management to high-value transport and more. For a successful relocation, commercial moving requires a high level of advance planning. S&M Moving provides assistance in all aspects of an office and industrial relocation, including planning, coordination, dismantling, set-up, and more.
S&M Moving Systems has specialized in full-service international relocation solutions and global transportation for companies and their assignees for over 30 years. With an extensive network of global partners, we can help manage every aspect of your international move.
Let S&M Moving Systems handle all of your logistical needs from supply chain management to high-value transport and more. For a successful relocation, commercial moving requires a high level of advance planning. S&M Moving provides assistance in all aspects of an office and industrial relocation, including planning, coordination, dismantling, set-up, and more.
S&M Moving Systems has specialized in full-service international relocation solutions and global transportation for companies and their assignees for over 30 years. With an extensive network of global partners, we can help manage every aspect of your international move.
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Family owned and operated since 1918, S&M Moving Systems has grown from a single idea and truck into one of the nation's largest, full-service, moving and storage companies. Specializing in packing and the transportation of household goods, electronics and trade shows, S&M Moving is dedicated to servicing families and companies moving across town and the world.
We are an experienced, full-service moving and logistics company in Fremont, California, dedicated to making your relocation as smooth and stress-free as possible. We have been helping individuals and businesses with every step of the relocation process for more than 100 years, so we know how important it is to safely transport your treasured belongings or company assets.
For over 100 years S & M has been a leading agent for Unigroup. We specialize in residential moving, International, logistics, and storage. Our goal is to provide our customers with the best moving experience whether across town, across the country, or around the world. Are you ready to be your own boss?
S&M Moving Systems provides fully customized logistics services for a variety of domestic and international customers. Our comprehensive and customized technology-based solutions allow us to offer a host of resources & expertise, including customized supply chain management, in addition, to complete logistics support and dedicated project supervision to meet both your requirements today and your business demands of tomorrow.
Office moves, commercial moving, and corporate relocation require advance planning for a successful relocation. At S&M Moving Systems, we understand the importance of project completion in a timely and efficient manner. Providing all aspects of your office move from move sequence, coordination, dismantling, and set-up, we provide complete commitment to your total satisfaction.
Reviews (23)
Connor Cote
Oct 12, 2021
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I used S&M to organize a move from ATL, GA to Boston, MA. I organized the moved months in advance and asked S&M to tell me when they should pick everything up so that it arrives Boston during a specific week. After organizing for the loading dock and service elevators to be reserved on the specific days and times S&M requested, the movers arrived… more than 3 hours late for pick-up in ATL, took over three weeks in transit and arrived more than 11 days late in Boston then arrived more than 4 hours after promised on delivery day.
Not only was the timing of pick-up, transit and
Not only was the timing of pick-up, transit and
Anon F.
Mar 11, 2021
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DO NOT USE . Scam of a company. Picked up my belongings almost 2 months ago with no delivery date . SCAM SCAM SCAM. Please do not use . BBB has been contacted . Don't make the mistake I made . Can only imagine how many of my items are broken if I ever get my delivery. DO NOT USE S&M SCAM RELOCATING COMPANY
E. R.
Aug 22, 2020
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Mike and Denise were both friendly and helpful, though a bit haphazard in communication, but several boxes were crushed, fragile boxes were stacked on the bottom, and their moving guys put all the legs to our furniture in an unmarked box that was very difficult to find after a stressful search. All in all, I wouldn't go with this company again for a cross country move.
Shawn Tyler
May 18, 2020
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We moved from Puerto Rico to Oakland recently and S&M Moving handled the delivery, move-in and unpacking in Oakland. The guys were very professional and did a great job. Literally one small item was broken from the whole move which was impressive. We did have an issue with a few new scratches on the hardwood floors from the move in and Mike D from their office was amazing and covered the expense for the repair. The guys were careful but I wanted to call this incident out as great customer service is something I have not seen previously with moving companies. They were fantastic and I highly recommend
Rusty Rector
May 03, 2020
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We have moved across the country several times, and I can say without a doubt this was the best moving experience. From the very beginning Robert was very courteous and professional, and did a great job working with me on the estimate for the move. He asked a lot of questions and did a thorough inventory. He also made several trips personally to deliver moving supplies (without a charge) to us on three separate occasions. Our moving coordinator, Denise, was also in contact frequently throughout the process, and was responsive to any questions we raised. The movers on both ends were very friendly
William K.
Apr 10, 2020
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Worst experience ever. I moved from Ohio to Texas and when my property arrived I asked the movers if they kicked my property from Ohio to Texas. My property was scratched and dented and of course some of it was missing. My advice would be to sell your property and by new property because they Will literally Rob you before the move is complete.
Helina M.
Feb 12, 2020
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Moving to your dream city with your dream company sounds awesome, right? Right! But you know what isn't awesome? Packing up your life and orchestrating a cross country move. Fortunately, I was taken care of with the latter.
The S&M moving team arrived at my apartment in Dallas and packed up everything. From small things like candles, knicknacks, toiletries and utensils, to larger items like furniture, clothing, kitchenware and appliances--- they handled it all. Nothing for me to pack or organize. They did it all. So convenient! And when it arrived in my new city (beautiful, sunny Los
The S&M moving team arrived at my apartment in Dallas and packed up everything. From small things like candles, knicknacks, toiletries and utensils, to larger items like furniture, clothing, kitchenware and appliances--- they handled it all. Nothing for me to pack or organize. They did it all. So convenient! And when it arrived in my new city (beautiful, sunny Los
Leo G.
Feb 03, 2020
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S&M Moving created the worst moving experience ever. 30% of my items were missing by the time they arrived at the final destination. After months of back and forth, their insurance had agreed to cover only a small portion of my looses. Everyone up the management stack is unprofessional. Use them at your own risk.
Lauren R.
Jan 09, 2020
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Update: the day after the BBB reached out to the company, the claims team notified me that they would pay for the damage claim in full and that they weren't going to send anyone out for repairs. Glad to have this experience behind us.
DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY!!! All of the negative reviews are beyond true. I hope everyone reads them all before hiring this moving company. The process was a mess from start to finish. This company was hired for my job relocation from TN to CO. What should be an exciting time turned into a dreadful and extremely unprofessional experience. They caused thousands
DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY!!! All of the negative reviews are beyond true. I hope everyone reads them all before hiring this moving company. The process was a mess from start to finish. This company was hired for my job relocation from TN to CO. What should be an exciting time turned into a dreadful and extremely unprofessional experience. They caused thousands
Jennifer A.
Sep 25, 2019
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The team at S & M are amazing!
Robert was extremely responsive and thorough from the very first phone call. He did an in-person consultation for our cross-state move and got us exactly what we needed. He definitely helped ease a lot of the anxiety with our big move. He's very professional and knows every angle of the business!
Henry, Howard and Matt helped us with the packing and loading, and we then met Henry at our new home with Steve who helped with the unloading and placing everything exactly where we needed it. Thank you so much for your help, Henry! You and the guys are incredible
Robert was extremely responsive and thorough from the very first phone call. He did an in-person consultation for our cross-state move and got us exactly what we needed. He definitely helped ease a lot of the anxiety with our big move. He's very professional and knows every angle of the business!
Henry, Howard and Matt helped us with the packing and loading, and we then met Henry at our new home with Steve who helped with the unloading and placing everything exactly where we needed it. Thank you so much for your help, Henry! You and the guys are incredible
Sarah N.
Sep 03, 2019
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DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY! Had a terrible and frustrating experience with this company, I advise others to heed the warnings here and STAY AWAY!! I wish we would have.
We moved cross country and this company was an unprofessional mess from start to finish. There's a long list of problems we had with these folks so I'll cut to the chase with the worst of it: This company's staff are non-communicative, evade calls, and are RUDE when you finally do get them on the phone. Was beyond disappointing and stressful dealing with this company when a cross country move is stressful enough as is
We moved cross country and this company was an unprofessional mess from start to finish. There's a long list of problems we had with these folks so I'll cut to the chase with the worst of it: This company's staff are non-communicative, evade calls, and are RUDE when you finally do get them on the phone. Was beyond disappointing and stressful dealing with this company when a cross country move is stressful enough as is
Kathy W.
Jun 24, 2019
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We felt comfortable using this company because they represented United Van Lines-----BIG MISTAKE!!!!! I cannot tell you how many things NEVER showed up or were damaged. Of course they're covered by the deductible. I WOULD NEVER RECOMMEND THEM TO MY WORST ENEMY!!! If I could put a rating of -10 I would.
Barbara Donahue
May 03, 2019
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Absolutely the worst and most despicable company. They move soldiers' possessions who are on deployment, then without their permission move their possessions to a third party....WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION...then when things come up missing and broken they do nothing. Disgusting, and disrespectful to our military.
Chelsea G.
Dec 20, 2018
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As many others have already said this company is comprised of nothing but spineless, lying, evading, frauds. I had an $8,000 first edition Eames chair "covered" by high-value, full replacement liability coverage (which I paid extra for). The movers first tried to hide that they'd broken it in half after it came off the truck. Then when I pressed it, the driver and the worker who admitted to breaking it went outside and started screaming profanities at each other, and then the driver proceeded to PULL A GUN on the other man for having admitted fault. Our account person Denise was
Redhead F.
Dec 18, 2018
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Don't trust these fraudulent people!!!!!
Broke a bed, a tv and than said it could be repaired- look at the damage- splintered my bed by dropping it and than waited 3 months to said they would fix it. Sleeping on the floor for 3 months because of them.
On packing and unpacking-
Late, didn't send enough people and were beyond rude. Each day, said one thing and did another.
It's the most expensive move I've had by double and broke or damaged 7 different items.
Don't trust them if you want your things back.
The worst!!
Update- even worse! Didn't repair the broken
Broke a bed, a tv and than said it could be repaired- look at the damage- splintered my bed by dropping it and than waited 3 months to said they would fix it. Sleeping on the floor for 3 months because of them.
On packing and unpacking-
Late, didn't send enough people and were beyond rude. Each day, said one thing and did another.
It's the most expensive move I've had by double and broke or damaged 7 different items.
Don't trust them if you want your things back.
The worst!!
Update- even worse! Didn't repair the broken
John T.
Sep 02, 2018
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Try to avoid this Moving company if you possibly can. The initial service is excellent. It's the moving part and follow-up that is absolutely terrible. The movers themselves are very nice and try hard not to damage anything as they move items in and out. But in our case, they lost 4 boxes of items, some extremely personal and a couple very valuable. They claimed the boxes were not in their warehouse and that we must have them. I thought they were kidding. They weren't. The follow-up to our Claim was even worse. Extremely poor communication, minimal follow-up, and zero sense of urgency on their
Thinny A.
Aug 29, 2018
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I recently use this company thru the relocation given by my company.
They are very pricy and they will charge you every ways they can. They will charged u overtime for loading the goods on weekend, fuel charge, loading and unloading charge. They will even charged you for waiting for delivery (when i requested them to deliver my stuffs at 11am and the delivery crew came at 9am and said if they need to wait more than 2 hours, they will charge me extra 300$) I moved from Southern CA to northern CA and cost me 7K (around 5k for shipping and 2k for storing our goods at the storage for 7 days) I have
They are very pricy and they will charge you every ways they can. They will charged u overtime for loading the goods on weekend, fuel charge, loading and unloading charge. They will even charged you for waiting for delivery (when i requested them to deliver my stuffs at 11am and the delivery crew came at 9am and said if they need to wait more than 2 hours, they will charge me extra 300$) I moved from Southern CA to northern CA and cost me 7K (around 5k for shipping and 2k for storing our goods at the storage for 7 days) I have
Greg C.
Jul 22, 2018
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Do not use this company!!! Denise Curry and Dawn Szabo are terrible employees, but especially Ms. Szabo. I was issued a contract/estimate by Ms. Szabo that had a tremendous amount of errors in it. The errors included:
-No arrival date
-Incorrect name listed on estimate
-The unrequested addition of storage services
-Wrong move date (arbitrarily selected by Ms. Szabo)
-The unrequested addition of full packing services (when we explicitly stated that we did not want this service)
I spoke with Ms. Szabo on Tuesday, 6/26 and asked her to fix the errors in our contract. Not only did she refuse to issue
-No arrival date
-Incorrect name listed on estimate
-The unrequested addition of storage services
-Wrong move date (arbitrarily selected by Ms. Szabo)
-The unrequested addition of full packing services (when we explicitly stated that we did not want this service)
I spoke with Ms. Szabo on Tuesday, 6/26 and asked her to fix the errors in our contract. Not only did she refuse to issue
Camille B.
Jun 18, 2018
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My husband and I sent our goods on May 31st to be moved from Utah to California. By June 18th we were not given any update about the whereabouts of our personal items. Our move coordinator, Rebecca, did not keep in contact with us and never kept her promises about following up. We have been completely disgusted at the lack of communication. We were told that we would receive 24 hour notice of when the crew would get here with our things, but we were given notice just the night before. Two and a half weeks with no communication is way too long to go between UT and CA.
Mal L.
Jan 29, 2018
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If I could give negative stars I would.
I got a quote from Mike who said he would like to do it via Facetime. He gave me a quote for 2 pods and said that would be good.
Moving day comes and they say I need 3 pods not 2, then they try to charge me for a 3rd pod. Since we already paid and signed the contract by law they can't charge me extra. Keep that in mind if they do this to you!
Moving company kept our personal moving dolly. It wasn't even in the truck when they delivered our pods. Tried to contact Denise and she didn't respond, not surprised. There goes $100 bucks.
They
I got a quote from Mike who said he would like to do it via Facetime. He gave me a quote for 2 pods and said that would be good.
Moving day comes and they say I need 3 pods not 2, then they try to charge me for a 3rd pod. Since we already paid and signed the contract by law they can't charge me extra. Keep that in mind if they do this to you!
Moving company kept our personal moving dolly. It wasn't even in the truck when they delivered our pods. Tried to contact Denise and she didn't respond, not surprised. There goes $100 bucks.
They
David K.
Feb 16, 2017
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I used S&M for a work transfer from SF to Germany.
My coordinator was absolutely terrible. She was non-communicative, dismissive, and managed to royally screw things up. She also repeated lied to me (about arrivals, about the number of people who were coming, about how long things would take). We almost missed our flight because of her poor coordination, and in the end, a box got lost. Also worth noting, she no longer works there...
Honestly, the people that I worked with after the fact were decent enough, and if it had been a regular box of random household goods, I'd probably be giving
My coordinator was absolutely terrible. She was non-communicative, dismissive, and managed to royally screw things up. She also repeated lied to me (about arrivals, about the number of people who were coming, about how long things would take). We almost missed our flight because of her poor coordination, and in the end, a box got lost. Also worth noting, she no longer works there...
Honestly, the people that I worked with after the fact were decent enough, and if it had been a regular box of random household goods, I'd probably be giving
Tiana Monique Buchanan
Apr 12, 2016
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Rose Dalipe-Cranston
Jul 02, 2014
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Henry, Steve and Charles packed, load and moved our household goods to Oregon. Henry contacted me to let me know they will be at the house around 8:00 am on a Wed. morning. Henry and Steve were clean, professional and friendly. I gave them a tour of the house, garage and the shed. Charles came a few minutes later and they started the process of packing. They were very meticulous about wrapping our high value items. It took 2-days to pack and then loaded the truck on Friday. These guys were funny, but conscientious and fast. The house was free of packing debris when they got done. Henry very carefully
