Why do I say this, when I don't live with them?
Simple - they gave us their old freestanding air conditioner when they got it. And as a result, our downstairs now has AC as well. It can't keep it at a set temperature - the space is too large for the one AC - but it does a pretty good job of keeping it under control, which is all I really care about. Poor abused AC. But we use it only when using the space, or on the rare day like today where if you let the temperature rise, you're never going to get it back to tolerable. (High forecast for today: 101. Not sure if it made it. Didn't check. Didn't go outside after an early-morning run to the grocery store. The areas of the house without AC were certainly suitably miserable.)
Simple - they gave us their old freestanding air conditioner when they got it. And as a result, our downstairs now has AC as well. It can't keep it at a set temperature - the space is too large for the one AC - but it does a pretty good job of keeping it under control, which is all I really care about. Poor abused AC. But we use it only when using the space, or on the rare day like today where if you let the temperature rise, you're never going to get it back to tolerable. (High forecast for today: 101. Not sure if it made it. Didn't check. Didn't go outside after an early-morning run to the grocery store. The areas of the house without AC were certainly suitably miserable.)