Place clear plastic window well covers over the basement window well openings in your mulch bed ($15 each at hardware store).6.

You can use the money to do anything, buy another property, buy a boat (not recommending that), get plastic surgery so you look like bugs bunny.

They take a little longer, but are less destructive to plastics, window seals, etc.

They do not, but they have a $20 plastic casing for their cameras so they can go outside.

I doubt the windows are that drafty to cause most of the problem. but I do know we grew up putting the plastic wrap over the windows every winter.

The water may be from a clogged condensate drain/evaporation system, or, water/icemaker line, especially if it is a plastic hose vs. soft copper.

Evaporative coolers function by sucking the hot dry air through filter pads of aspen or plastic mesh that are saturated with water that circulates via a pump in the cooler sump.They need twice yearly maintenance to even achieve their 5-10 year lifespan. 

I hate vinyl as it's just a photo of wood, printed onto plastic and depending on the product, then put on top of smashed cardboard.I do sub $1/sf tile if I want to be cheap but even my cheap apartments get hardwood. 

I do have several equipment and materials to make it as painless as possible (shopvac, floor to ceiling "tarping" (not sure what they are called, the plastic things you can use to seal the areas off to mitigate dust) and blowers to blow the dusty air out of the window at the top of the stairs during the demo.Tony, those are good prices to know for South Florida since I am planning on acquiring properties in that area in a few years.  

It comes in 2-gallon cans with plastic lids, similar to those on 5-gallon buckets.