Food for thought.Net net, I think differentiation and uniqueness is one way of adding value in STRs.

I also know that it needs to provide some food money.... how much is that?

Junk": Hoarder type junk, or typical junk left behind by low income renters, such as clothes, mattresses, kids toys, old food, etc..., or are you talking about removing "Scrap" from demo jobs, such as old cabinets, old furnaces, old water heaters, old wallboard, lath and plaster demo, etc.. (???)

Food for thought

She was instinctively possessive of her food and her toys, which we never encouraged nor taught nor experienced with any of our other dogs, and was also fiercely protective of us while our other Labs were just big goofballs and probably would have happily went off with anyone. 

We were still able to cook normally with our propane stovetopWood-Fired Stove: not sure if your cabin includes a wood stove/pellet stove or if this is a feasible option for heatFilling the bathtubs with water before a winter storm: and voila you can flush toilets, include a big stock pot for warming up waterIf there's a spare small closet or cabinet you can lock (and have guests access via a lockbox) with winter storm supplies for your guests such as gallons of water, camp food packs, emergency solar/windup charger for phones, matches, etc to help them weather the first few days and save your booking that may be helpful as well.

The HOA secretary and maintenance went inside to clean the refrigerator out of food (since I’m not local). 

"Evil landlord forces tenant to cut tree, 800lb limb crushes neighbors house just missing children at play, neighbors now homeless living in car with no food to eat, pet hamster "hammy" is missing, children very sad."

Crappy fast food restaurants in an area verse mid-level franchise/national brands verse locally owned bistro style places or cocktail cars can tell you a TON about an area.   

We then, as a family, brought food, drinks, etc. to the person using paper goods to limit their contact with us.