I need to better implement some sort of compensation for future bookings.

You hear about the "ambulance chasers" etc, but I don't know of anybody who really has had those sorts of frivolous lawsuits, if thats the correct term.I've been a landlord for over 20yrs with a good number of properties in my personal name. 

I sort of like the 10 scale, people who give 4s for a less than perfect stay can now leave a 9 :)

I already have an umbrella policy so not sure if upping that premium or moving it into any sort of trust/land trust or something else would be a smart move. 

Someone upthread mentioned that Branson has had STRs longer than the booking channels have been around, and that illustrates a point related to this: in the olden days, when you'd look up a vacation rental in the classifieds, people were more tolerant of the idea that they were sort of borrowing someone else's house and things might not be completely perfect and they'd have to procure their own supplies, but these days, the booking channels have created almost hotel-like expectations.

Or an alternate strategy if your goal is to have a vacation rental paid for is to buy some sort of investment, STR, buy and hold, stocks, bonds whatever and just dedicate the cashflow from that to renting a place each year. 

I'm guessing the appraisers for the auction have some sort idea on the condition of the property?

Tract books were supplemented with additional records on little blue cards known as micro fiche sorted by time and name. 

Not everybody has read and hung out on Bigger Pockets reading how the similarity in this sort of scam has repeated itself.Please tell your friend. :-)

., FFB too, to all sorts of guests.