Buying with using a loan for down payment

[Dustin Senor]

Good morning!

Does anyone out there know of any strategies for  buying a multi-family investment property by using a private loan for the down payment and closing costs? Is this possible?

I was doing some research into social lending with groups like prosper.com that "supposedly" doesn't affect your credit score and "supposedly" doesn't affect debt to income.

Thanks for any insight!