This will force the client to paint the picture of their situation, and will allow you to find how you can help them.

ORAm I forced to allocate the expenses according to the proportion of the house that is rented vs. the proportion I live in? 

He thanked me for all the effort I had done cleaning up the place and that the property looked better then he had ever seen in it and he had grown up there and been on the police force for over 15 years. 

We built a house in 2008 my husband and I are not contractors but my husband gathered all the man power we needed, he would go to construction sites and speak to the workers to see if they wanted to do a side job that's how we were able to get all the people we needed, we also did a lot of the work ourselves like sheet rock painting and HVAC the biggest challenge was not the fact that we had never done anything like this before or that we built in a bad area and people would steel material to buy drugs, which forced us to buy a fifth wheel trailer park it on the lot and live in it, it was the money and time we did everything cash, my husband was working a full time job 5:30am to 6 or 7 pm (he is an AC tech, and here in AZ the heat is brutal ) and doing AC side jobs after work he would get back around 10 or 11pm than he would pick up the hammer and work on this house we were building, and go to bed around 2 or 3 am sleep for a couple of hours and continue the same rutine.

This wait is not convenient because I'm forced to wait 3 months before I have cash to renovate my FL property and every day I read news stories about the economy going down the toilet.

After much prayer and education, he got on board and decided to go full force. 

Sellers that are forced to sell that way have to sell at lower prices. 

Then, after they've invested tens of thousands of dollars, they're forced to sell their investment property for a meager profit, or worse, a loss.Most of these ill-advised decisions stem from bad information or a lack of knowledge.

Somehow, it is the forces out there somewhere that are to blame. 

As you can imagine the rents received upon rehab will determine the forced appreciation and future cash flow.If you bought this house and upon rehab the rent will be minimal then I do not think it was a good buy for the work involved.