They got passive income with 0 down or their living expenses covered, depending on how you look at it :)We than used our savings as the down payments for two pure rentals.

we have built capital by living below are means, renting out our personals properties when we move and buy pure rentals that are shorts sales and undervalue. 

Our model is buy and hold real estate through pure rentals, personals turned rentals all being class A properties so smaller margin but lower expenses.Check out the Blogs, Podcasts and forums.

Im finally able to do a property purely as an investment.

@Steven Hamilton II So for a pure landlord, its safe to assume that they're only subjected to long term capital gains of 15% ?

I'd sell if that's a pure investment house.

I'm not driven purely by fear.

Lately I have seen multifamily deals that were pure garbage.

Pure speculation, but I assume the goal was to take control of the whole building. 

I thought for 100% pure conversative approach, you need the Tenant to agree to vacate or likely to vacate?