$5K is a serious chunk of change for monitors. Why monitors specifically? Are you planning a nearfield setup with them placed on a desk? What's the room like? What are your placement options? Do you have or can you buy any treatments?

When it comes to big dollar speakers, there's a lot more involved than just what's "good" and what's "bad."

Franco Serblin Accordo's if you can get em second hand.

I'm afraid that 5K simply won't get you what you're looking for in today's competitive price-unconscious marketplace. May I suggest saving up a little extra and getting a pair of Magico speakers? I use a pair of their Q7s on my desk, but the Q1s are a decent entry-level alternative at 25K.

You made my day !

I have been looking for small room speakers also for the past few months, for your needs I think something like this ATC model and a flight case would be something to consider:

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/SCM20ASL
http://www.atcloudspeakers.co.uk/professional/loudspeakers/scm20sl-pro/

Personally at the top of my list currently are the Amphion Argon3, though I have not yet auditioned anything.
http://www.amphion.fi/en/products/argon3/

But for your case, I think powered, with balanced input (no need worry so much about cables length), and studio-use durability would be good features. And respected studio monitors I guess hold their resale value well due to all the folks with home project studios now.. 

I hope your thread gets some more comments... for somewhat under 25K, that is ;-)..
there are so many stand monitors available it really helps to get as much feedback as possible..

They have to be monitors because I'll be moving the speakers around quite a bit.
I'll be using them at home and in my college off campus apartment.
The speakers will be placed on sound anchor stands, not a desk.
I don't ever plan on using them in any exceptionally large room or in a room with treatments.

Ok. If wall mounts are out, (though mounting traps is no more difficult than hanging a picture frame) I would still suggest at least considering a couple of free standing traps placed at first reflection points. Otherwise you may want to consider why you are spending $5,000 on speakers as opposed to say $2,000, and what you are looking to get out of them. If a room is overly "live" and has terrible slap and flutter echo, you can throw all the money you want at speakers and that won't fix the problem. Just go to the typical audio show. Notice how most of the rooms sound like shit? That's why.