Water Heater Rental - How is this legal?
Can someone in Ontario real estate explain how this is legal?
I'm a firm buyer on a new build. Buried in my Agreement of Purchase and Sale is a clause that binds me to assume a water heater rental
from a company that isn't named
on terms I've never seen
for a length I don't know
with a buyout amount nobody disclosed.
I'm told this holds up from the lawyer I hired to review the APS
So I'm genuinely curious:
→ How does a signed obligation to assume an unnamed contract, on undisclosed terms, survive basic contract principles?
→ Is "you'll find out after closing" actually the standard?
→ And let's name the elephant in the room - builders take a per-home payment from these rental companies. How is that not a conflict that should be disclosed to the buyer?
How, in 2026, Can a buyer can be locked into 10–15 years of payments before anyone tells them who they're paying, how much, or how to get out.
Lawyers, agents, builders, fellow buyers — What am I missing, and has anyone actually pushed back on one of these successfully?