Are there any reasons to use private properties in C#?

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I use them if I need to cache a value and want to lazy load it.

private string _password;
private string Password
{
    get
    {
        if (_password == null)
        {
            _password = CallExpensiveOperation();
        }

        return _password;
    }
}

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