They are providing owner's title insurance on a piece of adjudicated property I am purchasing TODAY through an online auction.

A "good deal" is a matter of your personal conditions, comfort level and where else you would be able to invest your money. 

How have you and your wife worked through trivial matters? 

As a possible solution, I located an online form submission site that allows me to create a custom form, to which I can provide a link in my advertisement.

I live in NYC myself and I strongly suggest people from here to start investing out of state but somewhere close by so you don't have to rel completely on other people and if anything goes wrong can drive to the property and take matters into your own hands.

So all the hard money lenders online are no good?

@Edith TenBroek  for whatever reason its very difficult to get people to post when they make a major boo boo in investing they just tend to slink off into the sunset and never come back on line.. 

., former employer 401k) to a solo 401k are not reported on Form 5498, but rather on Form 5500-EZ, but only if the air market value of the solo 401k exceeds $250K as of the end of the plan year (generally 12/31);When funds are rolled over or transferred from an IRA or 401k to a self-directed IRA, the amount deposited into the self-directed IRA is reported on Form 5498 by the receiving self-directed IRA custodian by May of the year following the rollover/transfer.Rollovers (provided the 60 day rollover window is satisfied) from an IRA to a Solo 401k or self-directed IRA are reported on lines 15a and 15b of Form 1040;Pre-tax IRA contributions on reported on line 32 of Form 1040;Pre-tax solo 401k contributions are reported on line 28 of Form 1040;Roth solo 401k funds are subject to RMDs;A Roth 401k may be transferred to a Roth IRA (Note that from a planning perspective, it may be advantageous to transfer Roth Solo 401k funds to a Roth IRA before turning age 70 ½ in order to escape the Roth RMD requirement applicable to Roth 401k contributions including Roth Solo 401k contributions and earnings.)

If you do the research then actually do the thing that will create money- then it matters.

Question #4: What should I have asked, but didn't (b/c I have no idea what I'm doing :)Also, not sure if it matters but I will be using a SDIRA for funding.