Private Money for Buy and hold a good move?

[Chris Clark]

I am a new investor in the St. Louis, MO market. I have been doing a lot of research about real estate investing. I currently have my eyes on a few multi family properties but I do not have the funds to finance these deals. I have heard quite a lot about hard money lending and I was wondering if anyone could be so kind as to point me in the right direction as far as finding a private or hard money lender to finance the deal. Also would it even be a good idea to so because these are buy and hold deals not flips.