We've done something similar by offering local coffee, tea, snack baskets, bottled water, local pastries, and seasonal flavors (pumpkin spice, peppermint, gingerbread, etc.) which have been a big hit with much less risk involved. 

It costs about $2000 in Destin, FL for instance to convert a regular residential use to STR use permit if it's the first time the house being coverted for usage.

I am debating whether i should just fix the shower pan. or, rebuild shower as well just in case water leak is coming from shower walls. what do you think? 

A professional that can navigate and verify permissions, usages and support due diligence are critical to profitable investments. 

Every area I know has gotten worse and worse and worse on it.Fifteen years ago,  when I was buying, rehabbing houses and holding, I oculd hire a licensed contractor and they were able to change toilets, faucets, even water heaters.

I’ll do something different to find the same benefits even if its harder than just drinking some garbage water.  

About half of them because of heat, storms, fires and fresh water concerns.

I had a client buy an REO property and there was a water leak.

Scheduled to open in the summer of 2019, the $51 million, five- story, 267-unit development will be a large and distinctive presence on the east side of Water Street.- In the past five years, Mobile has experienced a 33% increase in manufacturing jobs compared with about 8% nationally.- McGowin Park developed a huge retail space in 2015 which consists of: 199,500- square-foot retail shopping center containing a future expansion area, five restaurant "pads" and 4.5 acres of outparcel development, and the west development consists of a 148,000-square-foot anchor store with an associated gas station, an 89,600-square-foot shopping center and 7.41 acres of outparcel area.

Water heaters need replacing, bank errors occur, tenants move out, real estate bubbles happen, etc.