I'm dealing with the owner of a house facing foreclosure.  He wants/needs to sell but his wife is in the psych ward at the County hospital.  They will lose the house in 2 weeks unless $20,000 is paid to bring it curre...

We don't want to declare any rental income or file schedule E.

As @Steven Hamilton II points out - if you got insurance money, it was reimbursed - and therefore can't be claimed as a casualty loss deduction.If your casualty happened in a federally declared disaster area you can apply the casualty loss to the previous year's tax return (by filing an amended return) and it might get some money in your hands sooner. https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p547.pdfThe situation is continuing to unfold, so unless you were desperate, I'd wait.

That income is normally declared on Schedule B Part 1 of your personal tax returns. 

Great goal declarations and outline of your progress, I read that with great interest and respect.Second...How in the holy hell did you LOSE money on a VW Vanagon?!?!?!   

Bank owned (foreclosure), vacant category (depends on the city, but officially declared vacant and needing repairs), and auction properties.

If they're all stabilized leases I'm not even sure you'd be able to get an offering plan declared effective.

on top of it being the slower winter months to boot, declared to the team that they would henceforth "specialize" in FTHB as the solution.

They declared bankruptcy.

It may be impossible to get on track, because of the politics, opinions and finally, money.All condos have declarations and rules.