I personally wouldn't go as far as to call them shady, but there's definitely been some fees and hurdles that weren't exactly laid out during the initial conversations and I'm in no way questioning your use of the description. 

Your desire to avoid a few pennies in taxes makes for a very convoluted description of the proposed transaction.

Buyer tells them the item doesn't match the description or something similar, paypal pulls the $ from my account to refund them.

You will see some listings on Craigslist but the descriptions are desperate. 

If my description of property management sounds like something you'll be good at and enjoy doing, it's a good fit, and I say go for it. 

I guess what I am trying to say is that my “preferences, ” such as they are, involve practical considerations and not geographical preferences.

Just that a 401k/QRP for an owner-only business is able to sidestep much of the complexity to which 401k plans are subject.In other words "Solo 401k" does not describe the type of plan; it describes the type of business that adopts the 401k plan.When you get a "Solo 401k," you're being given an honest description of the limits of the compliance support you'll be getting - adequate for businesses that don't have non-owner employees. 

Have you expanded the geographical range, and gone further back in time?

You can either go read 1239, or check out the plain english description of this exact issue in the article below under the last heading. 

Remediation involves venting it out of the home (for lack of a better description).