Could you force passive income?

[Bradley Pietrzak]

so if you were amazing at saving and absolutly sucked at finding deals. I mean like hopless god forbid anyone is and prey for the ones that are. Could you just get regular homes not fixer uppers at regular prices and put a downpayment big enough on them if your goal was only passive income and not roi. You just want to be able to retire eventually with income. Is this somthing that could be done? I know from a investment perspective its dumb but i still want to ask anyways. How practical would this be for passive?