Locatelli Moving And Storage

Santa Cruz, United States

3.6

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15 reviews

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+1 831-425-7775
Website:
www.locatellimoving.com
Address:
122 Encinal St, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060
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Today 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Closed now
Local time (Santa Cruz) 03:15 Wednesday, 16 July 2025

Business hours

Monday 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Tuesday 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Wednesday 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Thursday 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Friday 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Saturday 8:00 am – 12:00 pm
Sunday –

Description

Specialties

We are a full service moving provider for both household and commercial moves. We offer professional packing, local moving, storage, overseas and long distance relocation.

Our mission is to maintain a lasting relationship with our customers by providing outstanding service every time. Our crew is skilled and professional. Our office staff is knowledgeable and helpful. If a problem arises, we make things right, right away. In short, proving that United Van Lines and Locatelli Moving and Storage are the finest of movers as measured by our most demanding critics – our customers.

When choosing a moving company, it is important that you have a moving estimator come to your house or office and evaluate your particular moving situation. Please call our office for a free, no obligation estimate.

History

Established in 1982.

Annie and Tony Asche purchased Locatelli Moving and Storage from Al Locatelli. Annie ran and handled the office and estimates. Tony was in charge of the trucks. Together with their family (including their golden retriever, mascot) they provided moving services for Santa Cruz County and beyond for fifteen years.

In 1997 Tony passed away from cancer and Annie has continued to develop the company. From the onset it has been her goal to provide top quality service to her customers and at the same time communicating with her crew and recognizing their needs. As a result, over half of our employees have worked for our company for over 10 years, some as many as 20.

Over the last 25 years, Annie has developed the company into an honored and trusted mid size operation. She has done this with the help of her family and staff. She has great pride in what the company has become.

Meet the Business Owner

Annie A.

Business Owner

Annie Asche has provided moving services in Santa Cruz for over 25 years. Locatelli Moving & Storage is locally owned and operated but also have the affiliation of United Van Lines (America’s #1 Family Mover) behind us.

Annie understands that moving isn’t easy. It ranks in the top three most stressful experiences in life which is why it is our company’s goal to help make it easier. Ironically, Annie lived in the same house for 28 years, until 2006. This experience has helped her help her customers. She is happy to share many helpful hints that she has learned over the years.

At Locatelli Moving & Storage we are like a family and you become a part of our family during your move. We take pride in every move we make. In the rare event that there is a problem, we work hand in hand to correct it.

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15 reviews of Locatelli Moving And Storage

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Place rating: 5
Castro Valley, CA
Our move was done professionally from booking to arrival on time and moving everything with TLC. Miguel greeted us in an organized and efficient manner as we were moving from one location to two and was open to some last minute changes. The rest of the crew, Fidel, Rene, and Frankie all were courteous with a friendly, positive attitude. As we watched, they treated our property as if it was their own. We highly recommend these movers.
Place rating: 5
Lake Oswego, OR
This is written on the day our stuff was loaded onto the van. I wanted to tell Monica how grateful we are to her for her incredibly efficient, careful, and lightning-​fast packing, plus the strong calming influence she had on two very frazzled people over a 2-​week period. She saved our lives and our sanity. Misty, estimator at Locatelli, is professional, very personable and kind, a pleasure to work with. Scott (aka Scooter to his crew) is an expert mover. He is also amazingly calm amid chaos. The guys working with him – Frankie, Daniel, Eric and Monty – were a great team. Annie and her company saved our bacon when Regal Auto Transport bailed on us (after taking our $ 400 «deposit»), leaving our cars in limbo. We’ll be contacting A-​Z Shipping to arrange transport of two cars and expect to be very pleased. This is an interstate move that needed careful coordination. I recommend Locatelli highly.
Place rating: 5
Santa Cruz, CA
This review is somewhat late, and if Annie should happen to read this, please accept my apology for my tardiness.
Annie and her moving men had come to the rescue of Redding Title Co. just after the October 17, 1989 earthquake. We had around a quarter of a million title and escrow files in the basement storage area of the Leonard Bldg., downtown Santa Cruz. My business partner had called Annie in the evening to remove the files and to replace them in a separate storage facility in Santa Cruz.
The move was done that night (with no electric lighting). She is a superwoman!
I have used her moving services since then a few times for moving from one residence to another. Always done in a proper fashion, no provlems, and what I considered a very reasonable fee. The last move that was done was in July 2012. She also assisted her workers in getting the job done.
If there were more stars to give her and her company I would add them to this reviews.
Thank you Annie, you’re a gem!
Sherman U.
Place rating: 4
Monterey, CA
These guys were great! Hardworking crew with great fun loving attitudes. What a brutal job these guys have. Ours went the extra mile. Zach, Francisco and the boys were great.
Place rating: 2
Santa Cruz, CA
This business rents penske trucks. The MORNING OF my pickup reservation, I get a call waking me before 8AM from one of Locatelli’s employees telling me that they, in fact, will NOT have a truck for me. This is an unacceptable oversight, as now my brother who I was planning on moving this weekend is completely screwed. 2 stars instead of 1 because I’ve had decent experiences there in the past. Being fair, this probably doesn’t happen frequently. That being said, I would not consider using Locatelli Moving & Storage again
Place rating: 5
Capitola, CA
I used this company on Feb 5th. I was hesitant because of some of the reviews on Unilocal.I am so glad I did. They were fantastic! They were on time, very careful with my things and affordable. I have a lazyboy sectional and a sleep number bed and they knew exactly what to do! Thank you!
Place rating: 5
Santa Cruz, CA
Already posted last month, but trying again. 5 stars for sure!
Our move with Locatelli’s was as painless and smooth as it gets! Annie was wonderful to deal with, and the crew that moved us was punctual, professional and really took good care of our stuff. Nice group of guys. Can’t speak highly enough of the entire process and would definitely use them if we ever move again.
Place rating: 1
San Mateo, CA
They rent penske trucks, and I have to say when I arrived to pick up my truck the office was confused and in turmoil. They pushed me into the damage waiver insurance and stated it would only be 20 for a day. I was only to be charged for 1 day even though they were closed for the weekend and I couldnt return on SUNDAY. They ended up charging me for 2 days of insurance even though they stated it was only a one day charge because they are closed. I had to complain to corporate to get my money refunded. Not to mention that when I went to return the vehicle the system were down and they could not provide me with a final total, and would call me. I never recieved a call and when I did I noticed they charged me for more than what we negotiated.
Customer service is bad, and expect extra charges if you rent from them.
Place rating: 1
Santa Barbara, CA
Very bad experience. Bad attitudes from top down. They took advantage of a recently widowed woman by increasing their price and not protecting her belongings. I spoke with Annie the owner and soon realized where the attitudes come from. Be aware.
Place rating: 5
Ben Lomond, CA
My other half and I recently moved across the county, and on day 6 of our self-​move, we both ran out of f*cks. We were not going to finish our move on time, and we were contemplating various arson-​based object-​removal options, but there would’ve been very bad consequences and our former landlady would’ve been sad if we caught her house on fire.
As such, I decided to get some quick quotes from local movers. I called four movers, and got four quotes, but Locatelli won on speed of ability to work for us, convenience, and best rate.
Locatelli got someone out two days later to pack what I said was «mostly packed” — my standards are different from professional ones, though. Instead of dinging me with their two hour minimum, he packed one room for me, then gave me some useful instructions to improve my own packing, and we rescheduled a move of everything at once.
Fast forward five days, and his instructions really fixed my packing procedure and made it work better, so that was big bonus number one. Doing my self-​pack correctly saved me big additional bucks, and saved a lot of my stuff from trouble.
Second MAJOR bonus, though: the Locatelli crew were on time, professional, very kind and pleasant, and moved my stuff, beating their estimate for just the move portion by nearly 30%. They earned every penny and then some. I have never tipped so gratefully in my entire life. The guys were stellar from start to finish, and were polite and clean in our home. careful about our low-​hanging cables and phone lines. just a total class act.
I asked them after the fact if everything usually goes this well, and they were honest, saying, «nope, sometimes things don’t, you really got lucky on timing and availability, but we’ll go the extra mile to get as close to the mark every time». Which is exactly what they did, and exactly what I believe they will do in the future if I ever need to call them.
We now have all our stuff, my ex-landlady’s house is still standing, no felony convictions were made, and I will, henceforth, go to no one but Locatelli for local moves, and no one but a United affiliate for a long-​distance move. Great show by everyone from the business office to the packers to the movers. I would dance at your weddings, except most of them probably are already taken and I dance like Elaine Benes anyhow so I wouldn’t bring any value-​add to the equation.
Place rating: 1
Los Angeles, CA
My mother recently used Locatelli for a move from California to Colorado. Annie was her contact there. Initially Annie was sweet although difficult to get a hold of as she does many other jobs apparently. Bottom line is she lied–
1. She told my mom that she was taking $ 400 off the move but in the end charged her more than the original quote.
2. The move date was set for the end of July and Mom was told transit time would be 5 – 10 days. 1 week before her planned move date Annie called my Mom and said you are either moving tomorrow or not for another month. Also, she would have 4 days until her stuff arrived in Colorado.
Annie backed her into a corner (she couldn’t wait another month), caused A LOT of extra stress on my Mom, who is 64 and was ill at the time. AND Annie didn’t even give her a break on the price of the move (which I am sure she got a last minute deal on).
Once the stuff was on the road we couldn’t get Annie to call us back with the contact information for the mover.
TERRIBLE BUSINESS PRACTICES. Go elsewhere.
Place rating: 4
Pleasanton, CA
I had a good experience with Locatelli. It was many years ago, but there was no damage, everything handled well. The owner was great.
Place rating: 1
Santa Cruz, CA
Overpriced, clumsy, reckless… Hire them if you want some goofballs to charge you way too much and break your stuff. We hired them based on the great review and the reputation they used to have. We were very disappointed.
Place rating: 5
Santa Cruz, CA
Larry and Ben kicked major ass
For those frequent SBC Unilocalers who know my love life. the boyfriend and I moved in together… meaning that I had to move out of my apartment. In less than 24 I turned around my apt enough that a nice couple decided to move in. SWEET… now where to move my crap? The usual suspects are all growed up and we all work full time. another friend’s family is remodeling and our other friend is moving himself to Fremont… it was me, my brother and the bf… most of the stuff was packed but no truck or man power… Christ. I found the sole Unilocal review for movers in this area and I do not regret it for a minute… screw U-​Haul and those other moving companies. do it local… do it right the first time.
Misty was very nice and answered all my questions. They have 15 movers and two happened to be available when I needed them (which was literally the next day– I had called on Sunday and received a prompt response Monday morning).
A two man crew plus their truck is 115 an hour with a three hour minimum. they charge per mile… Larry and Ben came all coffee’d up and rearing to go. they look one look at my one bedroom apt and two couches etc boxed up and said «That’s it?» They were done in half an hour and we were on the road to Monterey (where my storage unit is located). They did not take a break and they hauled major you know what… the whole cost was $ 373… fantastic. By 10:30 (they started at 8:15) I was going back to Santa Cruz the major stuff out of the way.
They showed up when they were supposed to… got it done efficiently, with care and a positive attitude…
THANK YOU GUYS FOR LIFTING A HUGE HUGE STRESS OFF MY SHOULDERS!
If you are moving in the Central Coast… look these guys up.
Place rating: 5
Sacramento, CA
Locatelli Moving came through for us at one of the more stressful times in a household’s life — moving day. I did a lot of research before hiring anyone and found horror stories and bad reviews, and not much on the positive side about local and long-​distance movers. After interviewing a few places, we went with Locatelli. Locatelli gave us an estimate before hand, answered all of our questions, and got us all packed up. Their contract for long-​distance moves is with United Van Lines, so it was a huge United truck that moved us into our new place in Austin. We weren’t moving a lot of stuff, so we just had one tiny section of that truck. But it was still treated like a priceless treasure during the moving process.
The move couldn’t have gone better, and it was a huge sigh of relief when it was all done. No broken items or crazy bandit movers as we had heard about. Thank you Locatelli and United!