Todd:  Excellent point!   Gotta love those bricks and sponges(?) holding the units level.

I think you forgot to mention that many people are hurt or killed every year by falling AC Units.  The cage also reduces the liability of the unit's owner from lawsuits.

There are so many new options that are also more attractive... I'd love to see a stager cover the window unit dilemma

Hey Todd...when we lived in California a MILLION years ago we never gave thought to the window a/c units making things easy on the home-invaders.  That's an excellent suggestion....99.5% of homes in Las Vegas have A/C Units built-in...we could not live without central A/C.  We have 2 in our home, one upstairs and one downstairs.  We basically don't use the one upstairs though as we close the upstairs off during the summer months.  We are giving serious consideration on going to room evaporative coolers to save on electricity and electric bills....our bills in the summer run as high as $350 (ugh) and the power company raised the bill of the average home by $30 last month!   The homes without central a/c are older homes built in the 30's and 40's. 

Mary,

With a 115 degree weather, you are not hot you are just plain walking dead! I don't know how you do it. It got to 90 year yesterday and I was dying!

And David,

Here is a stagers answer to A/C - I decided not to post it originally..But thanks flickr

Now I'm waiting to see one of those articles that you see about the burglar suing the property owner because the AC unit fell on him while he was breaking into the house....

Bob Mitchell

ValueList Real Estate Services, Inc. 

Good tip....the window guard.