Erin Gobler is a personal finance writer based in Madison, Wisconsin. She writes about topics including budgeting, student loans, credit, mortgages, investing and insurance. Her work has been ...

No matter where you live, at some point in the summer, you'll probably want air conditioning. You have three options for cooling your home -- central air conditioning, window air conditioners and ...

THERE'S NO ELOQUENT way to say this: it's hot as hell outside. If sweat isn't already seeping from your pores just reading that, trust us, it will. On those oppressively, exhaustingly, disgustingly ...

When the weather heats up, a portable air conditioner can feel like the ultimate summer essential. They're easy to move from room to room, don't require permanent ...

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We've spent the last several months testing window air conditioners and portable air conditioners and found that while window units cooled rooms faster, it wasn't that much faster. It's true that ...

Based on Consumer Reports’ testing of portable air conditioners, they should be seen as a last resort for cooling a home when fans aren’t enough or other types of air conditioners aren’t an option.

Apartment managers know the summer scramble: tenants buy portable ACs, windows get patched with foam, and everyone worries about leaks. Instead, AC Ports is announcing a patented AC Port system ...

First it was toilet paper and hand sanitizer, then hair dye and webcams. Now, the latest pandemic “must-have” appears to be an air conditioner. Many Americans who thought that working remotely would ...

Portable air conditioners are an option for spaces without central AC, but consider these potential drawbacks before ...