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To be fair, OP said their house is "old and busted". I live in a century old farm house so I know old and busted.
We run our furnace fan sometimes when it gets hot out as our dug basement stays cool so it'll blow that cold air through our house. But we have made sure to seal windows better, use black out curtains on the south side of our house (Where the sun tends to be most of the summer) and do what we can without needing to use our Heat Pump or AC units.
plant shade trees to the south and wait a few years for them to grow?
Working on it! We have a small hill on the south side that leads to our south hay field. We want to start growing stuff on that hill in the next year or two.
simple solutions are the best solutions.
keep it far enough from the house so that you don't have tree trimming issues when the tree gets big or when a storm hits..