The current booking workflow hids the rental agreement within a scroll window which does not require renters to scroll to the bottom before signing. In order to support clauses such as binding arbitration and cancellation policy and liquidated damages, a renter must be read and acknowledge the section by initialling or signing that section specifically. It would be great if we had an option to show the entire rental agreement on one page and require guests to initial or sign additional sections before proceeding.
We would want to have guests initial the section stipulating no smoking, no animals, our occupancy rules, our cancellation policy and binding arbitration clauses before signing the entire agreement. This is not only to protect us from a legal standpoint but also to call attention and make sure that guests actually read and acknowledge these sections. We use our rental agreement not only for enforcement, but mainly as a screening tool to dissuade people who would likely break our policies and and cause damage to our property.
As a short term workaround it would be better to at least require guests to scroll to the bottom of the rental agreement (and/or click a button at the bottom of the agreement before the signature window can be filled in). In the current format a guest can state that they did not understand that the rental agreement was several pages and that they were only agreeing to the visible portion within the scrolling window.
