Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I have been thinking about trying out a portable AC but I had been holding back because I saw bad reviews on many other brands sold at Costco. I stumbled on this unit and found out so many good reviews on this products, for which I made up my mind to buy it and give it a try. As most users pointed out, I experienced the easiness of assembling the exhaust hose unit and had the unit up-and-running in 10 minutes. Immediately after 5 minutes or so, I already feel it to cool down my room and remove excess humidity. This unit is simply amazing. I set it up at my Living Room, Not only does it cool down my Living room and the dining room next to it, but it also cool down my kitchen with big eat-in area when I use a floor fan to circulate the cool air to the eat-in kitchen area. What is more amazing but no surprise is that it helps to remove humidity and therefore it makes my basement Dehumidifier run less in time. My basement is now drier as i can feel no moisture in my cardboard boxes in basement. When the unit AC is on, the exhaust hose does get hot and I will see if I can wrap an isolation on it? When the unit AC is off, my kill-a-watt unit measured about 43 watts with the fan on. Now, let's talk about how much money it will cost me on the electricity bill - - - I run it 7x24 and I attached a Kill-A-Watt measuring device to this unit and based on a unit cost of $0.250 per KWatts, it estimated that my monthly cost will be around $30 per month at this time (June 11-14). Due to the recent cool weather in the northeast, I expect that I will get a much higher reading in July. I will measure the month of July and give an update of my Kill-A-watt estimate later in the summer. In conclusion - great product, very efficient and quite enough !!! I want to buy a second unit at my second floor to handle bedroom areas. if this unit proof to be more cost effective than my central unit AC, i might as well use one unit for first floor and another unit for second floor. And the best is that it also reduce the usage of my Dehumidifier in my basement.