North Conway or someplace with at least three good seasons might pan out better. 

I have 10000000 examples of **** I started, thinking "yes this is going to be my thing"...and it never panned out. 

It may not make the most sense financially (assuming your investments actually all pan out and more than cover the debt), but you can sleep better at night not having to stress. 

However, some inspectors are quite "thorough" and there have been many stories from landlords about a unit failing because of a pulled thread in a carpet being a "trip hazard" or a range with dirty drip pans being a fire hazard.Keep in mind that some Section 8 tenants can be quite rough on a rental property and landlords will attempt to "harden" these.  

Although I find it hard to fathom that an inspector is looking for the state approved stamps a lot of times they would have to take the fixture out to see it.Where I learned all this is a shower pan in a flip in PDX.. the buyer of the home was over 400 lbs and he cracked the brand new plastic shower pan.. upon taking it out..

Let us know how it pans out, good luck!

Mostly since that’s what’s easiest to understand, but definitely open to hearing about how other strategies in SA pan out.  

If you can get away with it, I would install a shower pan for the shower base instead.

You will learn so much about people skills, and you will realize how much influence you have on how a given interaction pans out.

When I hear those stories I always think about Kenny Rogers, "Don't Do The Counting Til' The Dealings Done".I never count someone else's money in my mind because so many people are so full of B.S. and they tell you they are getting rich, but they don't tell the truth and after time passes I find that most of these people's business ventures didn't pan out and these people made either very little money when compared to their effort, or they actually lost money.Here is an example.