Please Break up the sentence.

Question

Reserving the property requires a $500 security deposit , which will be refunded unless there is damage to the property or evidence that there has been smoking in the cottage or a pet on the premises or if the reservation is canceled within one month prior to the rental period.

Answer 1

I'd divide it like this. You can do the rephrasing and put in the correct punctuation. Hint: I'd use a colon after the first rephrased clause in the second part and then commas or semicolons to separate the parts of the series.

Reserving the property requires a $500 security deposit ,

which will be refunded unless there is damage to the property or evidence that there has been smoking in the cottage or a pet on the premises or if the reservation is canceled within one month prior to the rental period.