I'm looking to investigate this market a little further and wondering if anyone can help me out.

Any recommendations for free tools to do market research?

My investments were all what they termed private placement and was essentially funds used for lending, buying notes and recently land trust.After MIdland sprun this on us, my spouse also has accounts, I did some research but didn't see a purpose to remove our accounts at the time.I have not been with ET long enough to give comment on them and what little "issues" occured were technical.

I'm trying to figure out if this house would be a good mid term rental. 

Do not use American Money Loan Services or Tom Vanderlaan.  

The 50% rule - in my opinion- is used solely as a quick back of napkin calculation to determine if it is worthwhile to do more investigating of a property. 

I hope this helps you land on goals, then you can dive deeper into where.

New to the app & doing some research, I found this app might be a good resource.  

Use this meeting to gather their perspective on the property and understand their goals before making any offers.Keep It Informal Initially: Avoid jumping straight into specifics about pricing or terms.

I have easily done this using services like Skipmatrix in the US.