I'm glad you didn't get involved with her. Some people are really sucked in by her. I think she intends to be helpful, but she has extremely poor boundaries which ultimately ends up harming people - even if they still don't realize they are being harmed.
And yeah, she does always want money (which is fair enough - people do work to pay the bills - but one of the recurring complaints about her is that she takes the money and doesn't deliver the service in an acceptable time frame / or at all.