I'm close to Charlotte, NC and we have been cooling the downstairs in our house with two of them, after the central A/C went bad, for 3 summers now. Our house is 1800 sq feet, with 700 upstairs and 1100 downstairs. The upstairs has it's own heart pump which works great. Downstairs we have a 10,000 BTU portable sitting in our bedroom and a 14,000 BTU sitting in the living room. They will keep the house around 73 on a typical summer day, but on those 95 plus degree days the temps will jump as high as 78 or so. We usually maintain around 74 in the living room, year round (heat mainly with a wood stove in the winter). Even when it hits 78 we typically have the ceiling fan, and sometimes a 16" pedestal fan going so the temps are still comfortable as long as the air is moving.
As far as the humidity being a problem we have ran into that only once, when there was some water in the floor around one of the units. Even then I think one of us bumped it and cause the spill as it hasn't happened again even though we've had rain and high humidity nearly every day for several weeks now.
As for the vents to the outside, yes, they can put alot of heat back into the room. That said, I noticed that with ours right off. I keep the hoses as short as possible by keeping them accordined up as much as possible. I then insulated them by wrapping them with a couple of old towels. You can lay your hand on/near them and tell a big difference on the amount of heat radiating off of them into the room without the towels vs with the towels.
Power wise our old system was put in in '94 so it wasn't one of the high SEER units available nowdays. The bill hasn't really changed that much with the two portable units doing their job vs the old central unit cooling the same square footage.
In the end all I can say is we spent less than $500 for the two units and have managed to keep the house cool for three summers now, instead of having to spend close to $5000 we didn't have to have a brand new Gaspac/heat pump unit installed. In my opinion they aren't ideal by any means, but they do work.
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