Senior move management that pairs you with one coordinator and a plan made for your home. Get downsizing help, careful packing, moving day and room setup in one quote.
We only contact you about this request. Your number is never shared.
Shaped around your needs
Family, staff and providers
Packed, driven and placed
A check-in after move day
Senior communities have been part of our work since our earliest days as movers, and they still are today. Year after year, those jobs showed us how much patience, kindness, steady updates and good timing a later-life move needs.
Now that experience has grown into complete senior move management, from the first visit to the day you feel at home. Our own people do most of the hands-on work. When a task calls for a specialist, we find a skilled local provider and schedule them for you. Many callers are seniors planning for themselves, and many are sons, daughters or friends lending a hand. We welcome both.
You will not find one package price here. We list the planning and coordinating work for your plan on a written quote, so the bill reflects only what you ask us to do.
One client wants only the move and setup. Another wants sorting, storage and an estate sale too.
A house with full closets and a garage takes more sorting and packing hours than a one-bedroom unit does.
Cleaners, appraisers or estate sale firms quote their own work, and we show it in the plan before anything is booked.
These hourly rates cover the moving labor and truck only.
| Movers and truck | Good for | Starting rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2 movers, 1 truck | Studio, 1 bedroom or small office | from $190/hr |
| 3 movers, 1 truck | Large 1 bedroom to 3 bedroom home | from $260/hr |
| 4 movers, 1 truck | 3 bedroom home or larger office | from $330/hr |
Each local move has a 3-hour minimum, and drive time is billed by the hour. Moving pads and wrap come with the hourly price. Boxes and tape, the fuel surcharge, valuation and storage are listed as separate lines.
We move residents into a community, out of one, or between apartments on one campus. Our experience includes these Bakersfield communities.
Going farther? See moves within California and long distance moves from our Bakersfield office.
These state and county resources help seniors and their families find the answers.
The state facility search shows five years of information on licensed care homes, including complaint reports. Look it up before you pick a move date.
California care home rules let residents keep and use their own personal possessions and have access to storage space. Ask how much the room holds, and we plan to fit it.
Paint, pool chemicals and propane tanks cannot go on the truck. The county Special Waste Facility on Standard Street takes them Monday to Saturday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., up to 15 gallons or 125 pounds per trip.
The California Department of Aging lists a Long-Term Care Ombudsman program and Medicare counseling for Kern County. Keep both numbers close once you settle in.
No item gets sold, given away or discarded until you or your chosen representative gives the okay. We go room by room, note each choice on the inventory and confirm the list before any item leaves the house.
Sorting starts in the rooms used least, such as the garage and spare closets. The kitchen and bedroom wait until the last days, so normal routines keep going until the move.
Mom is 94 years old. Mentors moved her essentials from her home to her studio apartment at Rosewood. They were very patient with her and her requests as to where her furniture should be. The guys did a great job!
We used Mentors to move our elderly parents to a smaller home. My mom has early dementia, so she was anxious and a little in the way. The movers were so kind and accommodating. Everything went just as planned, even finished earlier than estimated and saved us some money. Would highly recommend.
We have used Mentors Moving and Storage twice this year. Last week Reggie and Martin went above and beyond to help us move odd and heavy items, they were very respectful and careful with my mother’s furniture and didn’t have an issue when we needed more than one drop off location. They were timely, efficient, and very professional.
Posted on Google by people who moved themselves or a loved one with us. Read every Google review.
A single coordinator is your contact for the whole transition, with our local Mentors staff behind every step. Mentors Moving & Storage was founded in Bakersfield in 2006, and owners Jesse Lovan and Chris Shipp both went to Liberty High School and Bakersfield College.
Every mover who enters a client’s home is background-checked before their first job.
Choose only what helps. Each one is an option in your plan, not part of one fixed price.
Every plan starts with a talk about needs, wishes and timing. Your coordinator writes it down and keeps everyone working from the same page.
We now coordinate estate sales, donations and cleanouts for you, always with your approval first.
Call our Gilmore Avenue office to book a first consultation.
It covers the weeks around the move. We help plan, sort, coordinate providers, pack, move and set up the new home, with one person keeping it all on track.
Of course. Plenty of our clients call for themselves. We sit down with you, hear what matters most and set the plan at the pace you like.
Yes. Your coordinator sends news by phone or email, and a relative you have authorized can sign off on decisions from another city.
We coordinate them. We arrange estate sale, donation and cleanout providers as part of your plan, and nothing leaves without your approval.
Yes. We move residents between apartments on one campus, into a community and out of one, in Bakersfield and beyond.
Call once a move looks likely. Sorting a home lived in for many years can take several visits, and an early start keeps the final week calm.
Phone (661) 325-6683 or use the form to tell us where you live now, where you are headed and roughly when. We book a consultation, then mail or email a quote that lists each service in your plan.
We only contact you about this request. Your number is never shared.
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Bakersfield, California:
3101 Gilmore Ave,
Bakersfield, CA 93308
(661) 325-6683
Santa Rosa, California:
3000 Dutton Ave Ste B,
Santa Rosa, CA 95407
(707) 326-4479
Tempe, Arizona:
5325 S Kyrene Rd #105,
Tempe, AZ 85283
(480) 619-8240
Hours: 7 AM to 7 PM, 7 days a week (local time at each office)
Toll Free Number:
855-526-6101
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