Make sure your real estate agent isn't just about closing that one deal but understands the benefit of protecting you on each purchase to ensure that you keep buying because you are enjoying success.  2.

Do you have tips for structuring short-term leases that protect me as a landlord while accommodating their needs?

So your saying select No Damage Protection and just submit an extra charge when it's warranted? 

A business line of credit through your LLC protects personal assets, builds business credit, and may allow interest deductions, but it might be harder to secure for a new LLC.

However, since you put the asset into an LLC, I am going assume you care about asset protection and further this discussion just a bit.My advice to you is to seek out local banks where much of their business is derived from commercial lending.

And, the longer you wait to act, the longer the squatter stays - and even gains some legal protections to stay while your waiting on a slow court system to act on an eviction. 

Whether they have personal property protection, and how much, should be left up them.

To protect yourself, make sure you have a great property for STR. 

Even something as simple as utilizing ChatGPT to speed up certain processes such as asking for generalized information on a market's demographics and immigration patterns can be useful and save a lot of time.

I'm not into Sub2. there is no personal liability protection in a single member LLC.. there is protection if you have unrelated members in your LLC .