I completed mine through Illinois Realtors: https://shop.illinoisrealtor.org/catalog/Pre-Licen...They were responsive when there were minor issues and overall it was a very smooth process.

We are still in the hospital waiting for my wife to be released but everything went smooth.

What steps should I take so I can make things go smooth as possible?

He makes the process go smoothly will give you advice, knows the market very well.

Everything went very smoothly for an auction property (actually a preauction bid accepted). 

I've never dealt with this before so just want things to go as smooth as possible.  

Did it go smooth or could it have been better?

You can also have more than two owners in a TIC, make it easy on yourself and keep the ownership to a minimum.A TIC interest owner can also sign a deed of trust, but not the original note, this smooths over the underlying lender's concerns. 

Over the past year it has been a PAIN due to the original tenants we inherited, but all of them are almost out and things have been going smoothly lately.We are still waiting to get our appraisal back, but it seems to be that it will come in a minimum of $57,000 higher than the amount we still owe on the loan.We are debating whether to keep the property with new tenants vs sell and get our money out.

I've closed on 2 houses using Chris Mikienis and everything has gone smoothly.