It's recession proof, crash proof, the investment cannot be seized by the IRS, or foreclosed on and the returns can be scalable. 

Not trying to sound fool hardy, but based on the situation I'm currently in and the wealth equation I used (current pay and number of hours worked minus taxes), I'd need to live two lifetimes before I could even fanthom my goal.I strongly feel like a job is not for me, that my heart is screaming to go into business and build a scalable asset.

If however you're planning to do multi fam on any scalable level, possibly syndicating one day, I'd suggest getting in on at least a duplex & focusing on your systems with good managers, etc, from the very beginning, as this will allow you to scale.

And they decided if they weren’t certain about the property then at least they were certain that they could trust Clayton as the operator.So what it seems like to me is that he started off with a good idea and scalable model (if the product and the operators had been good) and then it got too big to oversee and things started to fall apart so he tried to dig himself out of a hole by selling more pad products.

The goal of investing is to create as passive income as possible that is scalable.

You can leverage the power of scalability and syndication.

Scalability is dependent on systems and partnerships.Start with the end goal in mind, break it down to 90 day sprints and improve that 1% daily.

Managing my own rentals isn't scalable.

It is possible but not scalable. 

It’s also scalable, meaning you can have a group of you doing it and split the profits.