However, going forward with future deals, I'm wondering what top-producers are using for data insights and also CRM.

What is your personal income tax bracket, does the property produce gains or loses, what's your intent 5-10 years out hold it or sell it.

It is still early but this treatment exist today and could be massed produced fairly quickly. 

The reason given was that owner liked the cash flow the property was producing. 

Any transactions of benefit provided between a disqualified person and the IRA result in a prohibited transaction with severe tax consequences.If you are using your LLC to produce opportunities for your IRA, that could be problematic whether there is an income component to your LLC or not.Please discuss your strategy with your plan provider and/or CPA.

Recently I decided to focus on income producing properties and begin participating as an investor.

I read the takeaway as "With a couple of possible exceptions, the markets with the most appreciation, produce the most wealth over the past 10 years, when combining both cash flow (which grows over time with the inflating rents) and equity appreciation."

Then I would follow up with them regularly to keep up on anything that changes with the situation. 

The municipalities also regularly auction of tax lien property.

@Andy MirzaI just closed a fund and have had several investors bail because they either needed funds elsewhere or were scared.I think people are panicking and do not realize note investors do not wish for a bad economy but their product is produced from it and in bad times it produces the potential for greater opportunity.Cuyahoga county put a 60 day stay on all foreclosure and eviction cases and my guess is the rest of Ohio will as well