This is to protect sellers but also to encourage buyers and agents to have necessary conversations about how everything works, before jumping straight to house hunting.At the end of the day, I believe the industry will adapt quickly, and these changes can be a positive thing for all sides. 

I have found the CSA damage protection policy was worthless. 

If you want to keep them, make sure they are 100% honest about their intent, check zoning to verify they are allowed in that area, charge them market rate, and confirm they are insured to protect you and the property. 

But also need to protect myself. 

its to protect personal assets and possible to set up a property manager 

LLC is just another layer of protection.

Experience with STRs - they at least know or can understand the extra steps it takes to make ready the properties, including photos (cleaners hate taking photos, I've found, even though it protects them from being blamed)2.

Protected class in MA

This gives much better diversification protection across geographies, asset types, strategies, investment subclasses etc. versus putting all the eggs into one basket.The downside is that it's not for everyone, and a person has to be comfortable with turning over control to someone else.

In previous crashes, the market out performed class a whereas now, it is initially out performing A, but many economists are for casting a quick recovery for A while B and C take a few years to rebound fully. i think new buyers have to require a higher going in cap to protect themselves.