Building or renovating your home? Before you sign anything, make sure your contract protects you. This post breaks down what Ontario homeowners need to know from written vs. verbal agreements to extras, insurance, and warranties; so you can build with confidence and avoid costly surprises.
Contrary to the commercial construction industry, in which prevenient agreements and purchase orders may be sufficient to govern the relationship between parties, contracts in residential construction must be formal in order to protect homeowners. Particularly, the Consumer Protection Act, 2002 has been deemed to apply to residential construction and renovation agreements.
Construction Law is unique to almost every geographical region. Learning one region’s laws, however, could be beneficial to advancing laws in our own.
