Just remember, leverage exacerbates the outcome both good and bad.  

I find it remarkable that a precipitous drop in A/C efficiency, causing it to run constantly 24/7 in hotter conditions due to its failure, further exacerbated by the installation of a window unit to cool a room separated from the rest of the hot house solely by a wooden door, *would not introduce a significant change in energy usage*.

It increased the rental pool significantly with no signs of abating. so another crash will hopefully exacerbate that "problem" as well :-).

Or any that exacerbate it?

This further exacerbates our inventory crisis.

As they age the maintenance costs escalate and the long-term residents esp retirees will push back on assessments, exacerbating the problem. 

Deals in Central Texas are hard enough to find in the first place, but exacerbating your challenge is the fact that Texas markets are flooded with cash buyers.  

Costs can and usually do become much more exacerbated and costly whence approaching it on a piece meal basis. 

I don't think her heart is in the wrong place, but this will only exacerbate existing issues.SF restricts rent increases to only 60% of what they determine to be the applicable local rate of inflation.

Everyone thinks their home is worth more and things like Zestimate (internally screaming) just exacerbate this.