BUT you can try taking them out to lunch (golf country club) and discuss how you can help with their practice.You should consider marketing to PR's who reside outside the state of CA.

First you are going to examine what path you want which you dont seem to have nailed down.

Some might argue that buying strictly for appreciation or guess where the path of progress may be is highly speculative, however, in San Diego, there are clear indicators in some areas that a massive upswing is inevitable.

Which isn't worth selling as it's almost at the exact same value it was when she purchased it 7 years ago (320K)I did a quick search of some properties in some country towns with populations under 5k and the best I saw was to buy the land only for 65k. 

And in periods like we have now, in most places in the country - where appreciation is crazy - the gap between assessed value and asking price will seem even more extreme. 

This market is on the path of prosperity.

I have many out of state / country investors, as well as locals. 

The TSP advice is great by the way, I would mention the book "The Simple Path to Wealth" being that you're still young and the compounding power of money and time can only work for you at this point. 

My rental is on a country road w/ a 45mph speed limit that will be just in front of it.

If anyone has thoughts/advice on how to track these expenses in QuickBooks, I would definitely owe you a beer if we ever cross paths.