You will have to take continuing education and be brought up to speed with the laws and ethics, pay your fees, and be connected with a broker who's willing to take you under their wing.

Also look at my other post on selling a partial rather than selling the note:) I have a link to the excel sheet where you can play with the partials.https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/70/topics/253927-question-about-using-roth-iras-as-claimed-by-eddie-speed

I feel blessed to have the opportunities being offered lately . i hope the same for you ...God Speed, Michael Short  

I hope my 2 cents helps .. and i wish you and your wife the very best of success ..God Speed,Michael Short  

Agree with Chris, except that even when two loans are with the same bank, it doesn't speed anything up.

There's plenty of things to read to bring you up to speed.

If a judge fines you for speeding yesterday and it comes out that you always drive that fast through that area, he is not going to fine you for past violations but for the current circumstance and tell you not to do it anymore.

Is this typical, is there any way to speed the process up?

You can post questions, read what others are doing and otherwise come up to speed.

However, with the speed in which your tenant turned out to be a bum, I think your problem was that your manager doesn't know how to screen, or else is too lazy to screen.When you screen, you never take the tenant's word for anything.