I look forward to making connections here at BP and learning as much as I can via the BP platform.

What ways can he obtain this property without traditional financing?

As you might know, majority of the platforms of the kind are located in the US and UK.

Or those that are interesting like a deal diary or something similar that I just want to keep up with.I can see the utility of it, but dislike getting the auto follow on other platforms. 

Helocs and Home Equity loans are way cheaper in terms of origination costs compared to traditional mortgages.I take all rental revenue and apply it to the heloc until it is paid off and advance the heloc for all repairs, tax payments, insurance expense etc.  

Having a high net worth but no actual income hurts your ability to get a traditional mortgage.

With traditional lenders it will be very difficult with that small of a spread.  

As a trusted property contact said to me, "It would not be logical for these [EU] countries to kill the golden goose that has traditionally brought them such great numbers of buyers and wealth" - Nick Marr from www.europeanproperty.comProperty prices have taken longer to recover from the 2007-08 crash in European destinations popular with British buyers than prices in the UK.

Taking a neighborhood that is traditionally sfh and converting a house to a multi.  

I've heard that some that have purchased investment properties in LLC's using hard/private money have not been able to refinance them through traditional banks.