Everyone else has pretty much covered it, but I felt compelled to add my two cents, just because I really, really want this company to succeed.
When they say it's an "athletic moving company," they are not joking. The young strapping men they send look like triathletes. They do really run - lope, even. They are genuinely nice. Everything you've heard is true.
Even when we ran into a little snag (my apartment company, in its infinite wisdom, decided to paint the DOORFRAMES to my apartment, rendering the AVL boys unable to get my sofa in without ruining it with black paint), they handled it with aplomb. One of the movers kept apologizing, even though the problem had nothing to do with him. It all turned out fine - we just left the sofa in the hallway and I moved it in later after the paint was dry.
I also underestimated how much crap I had and got way too small of a Uhaul, but they didn't bat an eye- they just threw my sofa in the back of their pickup truck, no questions asked.
Hiring AVL is like hiring your friends to help you move - if you had really nice, fast, superhumanly strong friends who didn't bitch about carrying boxes up stairs. Their prices are also very reasonable. My move took 3 hours to the minute (even with the sofa/doorframe snafu), and after tip and everything included, it was $300 (worth noting: I did have to rent my own Uhaul, but that's not a big deal).
You shouldn't really waste your time checking out other companies. Just call AVL. Where else have you seen almost ALL FIVE-STAR REVIEWS?!
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