Location Agreement not aligned with Peerspace Policy [and a risk to host]

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Hi I have been on Peerspace a few weeks and your advice is sought as I am new and never confronted an issue as the below before.

A film student booked my place for 2 days. After booking, she sent a location agreement via email, for review and signature.

Upon review of the location agreement it was problematic as it 1. Did not include a start and end date and time/hour for their use of the space and 2. Allowed the guest to CANCEL, POSTPONE or EXTEND without any notice as follows:

“It may be necessary for the Director to postpone beginning of the Term, or with Owner’s permission to suspend and extend the Term, or terminate the Agreement, if there is an occurrence beyond the Director’s control.”

This clearly is not in line with Peerspace cancelation policies that have already been agreed to.

I sent my modifications to the location agreement – which were minor and in line with the above issues.

The person got back to me and said that they could not modify the agreement in any way as it is a university agreement.

And I was contacted by yet a second student who did not do the initial booking about the location agreement – so I am now dealing with 2 people.

Then, one of the 2 people had their UNCLE write me in my private email to ask that I accept the location agreement as is. I did not respond to yet a third person.

I have signed location agreements in the past and was always allowed to make minor adjustments to it – including, importantly, including a start and end date and time in the agreement.

This issue also absorbed a lot of my time.

What has been your experience with location agreements?

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I’d never sign anything off of Peerspace ( for future bookings) but in any case, this is unprofessional. I’d flag the messages for Peerspace ( hopefully you haven’t had much interactions off of Peerspace ( in the future- Keep everything on Peerspace). I’m not sure of your wording but you may have given them too much flexibility and they are taking advantage of you. I have had people that were supposedly students of NYU ask to have a group call and I have said no, they will try to get you to agree to things and quite frankly waste your time. I have had students of NYU ask for a discount, but try to take conversations off of Peerspace. All of these people never end up using Peerspace. If you cancel them it looks bad as a host. Contact admin team and find out how you should proceed. Sometimes in business you spend a lot of time on a client and it pays off but more times than not, if I have a bad feeling about someone, I realize it’s not worth the headache.

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Thank you! This is very helpful!