Advice for first rental

[Ashley Benoit]

I'm looking into purchasing my first rental property. I'd like to use hard or private money in order to do this. I'm seeing a lot of information about using the money lended to you to pay for the house cash and then do a cash out refinance to pay it back. But is it possible to use the hard/private money just for the down payment? If so, would paying that back be the same process?