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Originally Posted by RErmer
We had an R2D2 (love that description!) to use in our South Florida home during emergencies. Can not recommend it - always hard to find a good way to vent it, and not particularly effective. It beat nothing in a hurricane, but not by much. On the other hand, I lived in a rented studio apartment (about the size of a lanai) for about a month with the Mitsubishi unit, and it was great , keeping the area as cool as I wanted it and very quiet. Also, our neighbors just had their lanai extended and went with a Mutsubishi unit because they were told that if they expanded their "house" a/c to include the lanai, the square footage of the lanai would be added to the size of their house, resulting in higher prosperity taxes. Can't vouch for this info because our neighbors aren't always right, but worth checking.
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And, how, you might ask, will the tax man know that you have more square footage under air conditioning to increase your tax assessment.
Because, I respond, the contractor must get a building permit to make the modifications. The tax assessor gets his information from building permit files.