The last place I lived had for all practical purposes no AC when it regularly gets to over 100 and closing the house up after 10am is vital to pushing the suffering to mid afternoon. Having more than one fan centered on you and cold showers do wonders.
cold showers, ice drinks and open windows only after dark seems to work so far, though I would (will) get AC if it didn’t violate my lease (when I get around to it, apparently its no longer a lease violation)
nope, they don’t (didn’t) let us do that and apparently its legal in this state. i have some neighbors that have windows units though, so maybe i need to reread my lease in case something changed (it did). they did explicitly say no window units when I moved in though