It started with heat complaints.

Make sure you do your due diligence on that before you invest. 

If a client complains, you can always make a quick call to boost it for the month and then revert back, but I have never had to do that.

Where did you read that was possible?

Buy some books and start learning how to manager your property now.

If you were me and just needed to get started and get my feet wet, what would you do? I

Be mindful that there are rules that the lenders want you to check off.Furthermore, there are other rules on the tax side where you want to normally be under to get the most tax benefits.The magic number in both instances is '14 days'Lenders want you to stay atleast 14 days to meet the secondary home requirement.The tax accountant normally wants you to stay less than 14 days or 10% of the days it was used as a rental to treat it as a rental and not as a personal residence.Best of luck!

Focus on absentee owners and start with the ones who live the farthest away and only own one property in the area since they have the least use for the property.You can also drive for dollars, looking for anomalies of disrepair and then look them up in the tax records and use a site like Spokeo to do cheap skip tracing.

Nothing on accounting or # of shares.Today I looked on the website and the "Get started" button takes you to a "Coming Soon!

Although in the last couple deals most have come out as 506C deals where only accredited investors are allowed, there are still 506B syndications where you can be a sophisticated investor (self proclaimed) so you don't have to be accredited.