The option to lease a heat pump—just as many households now lease their furnaces and hot water heaters—could help homeowners overcome cost barriers when they switch to the new technology. Options for heat pump rentals—just as many households now lease their furnaces and hot water heaters—could help homeowners overcome cost barriers when they switch to the new technology.
Maybe as a rent-to-own scheme, but frankly it’s not the heat pump that’s expensive, it’s installing it that is. Especially if it has a ground loop rather than an air transfer.