Section 42-248 - Limit on total rental payments. Lessee to acquire ownership when fifty per cent of all rental payments made by lessee equals cash price of rented property. Termination of agreement.

CT Gen Stat § 42-248 (2019) (N/A)
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(a) No lessor shall offer a rent-to-own agreement in which the total of rental payments necessary to acquire ownership exceeds twice the cash price of the rented property.

(b) When fifty per cent of all rental payments made by a lessee equals the cash price of the property disclosed to the lessee in the rent-to-own agreement, the lessee shall own the rented property and the rent-to-own agreement shall terminate.

(P.A. 91-162, S. 9, 18.)