They usually want to get out because it's mentally and sometimes physically taxing for that age or they just want to be fully retired from everything.

A little compassion (NOT a slack hand doormat mentality) will go a long way. 

As those are bought with a buy-and-hold mentality, the daily prices of them are largely irrelevant. 

The benefit of doing a 401K is that you can really have the set it and forget it mentality with it.

Honestly it seems like she has some mental health issues that I cant exactly pinpoint.

The reason I say that is because you're young and you already have the save more spend less mentality.

Recency effect causes people to put more mental weight on recent events.

Then you go back to work, mentally its much easier since your working toward a goal of adding another rental.

This is why practically everyone who has ever been raised broke and yet has managed to scrape some money together in their lives dislikes the lottery and the mentality of people who play regularly, to say nothing of the vermin in office who think it's good public policy. 

Most tenants don’t have the mental capacity to understand how those doors function so it’s best to just rip them off the hinges yourself before they do