I’m Anthony. Hi, I’m Anna. And we’re the Gallos. We buy, renovate, and manage homes in Greenville,

South Carolina. While some investors chase the quick flip, we play the long game. Famous last words. Building our portfolio

for the future. Join us for the real story of the ups and downs and everything in between. Welcome to A Day in the Deal.

Previously on A Day in the Deal, the Gallos weighed their options, deciding to go all-in on the Park Avenue property. But with pushback coming from underwriting,

the couple now anxiously awaits word from their lender. Is Park Avenue still possible?

One concern, though, is, you know, we are getting to a point where we’ve got a lot of things going. So, a lot of irons in the fire. We’ve got new builds for you guys,

rentals, fix and flips, and whatnot. So, I’m getting a little bit of pushback from underwriting. But that being said, I just wanted to call real quick and…

…let you know that the numbers are approved and we appreciate it. Nice.

Yeah, we love you guys as borrowers. We love this market. We love the work that you guys do. Can’t wait to see the end product. Super happy for you guys. So, couldn’t do it without you, Ronnie. We

appreciate it. You and the whole FACo team. Yeah. Thank you so much. Can’t wait to show you what we do. Thank you again. Looking forward to it. Thanks, guys. All right. See you. All right. Bye.

Bye. Awesome. All right. Great job, everybody. How are we going to celebrate? Pastries, Rise? You going to go get it, Tyler? And an espresso. Espresso. I’ll get the espressos going.

It is really nice down here. It’s gorgeous. I’m glad that they chose not to enclose this structure. And I think they restarted the concerts here,

too. Just excited to have the music venues now. How many people are moving here a day now?

I think we’re up to 30. 30? 30 a day. Highest foreign per capita investment of any city in

the country. That’s your spirit animal. They’re out of control. That one

looks like you. What do you think about grabbing an espresso? Always down for an espresso.

Hi. How are you? Good. How are you? Good, good. You doing your regular? A lungo? Yeah. The long

one? Yeah, I’ll do the same. Two of those. How have you been? Good. Holding it down? I’m almost

done with my shift, so about to go hang out at the pool probably. Oh, nice. Beautiful day for that. All right. Thank you very much. Good to see you. Oftentimes we’ll spend weekends walking

through our beautiful downtown here and, you know, we’ll grab a coffee or go to your local

bakery just chatting about a project. Beautiful. Thank you very much. Cheers to another project.

Today I’m going to meet with Matt from Home Greenville Solutions and Cassy with Cassy Electric. Hey, Matt. Good to see you. Good to see you. How you doing? Good. How are

you? Like the house. Ah, thanks. Yeah, that’s our new project. I love it. It’s just like the last one we did on the street from you guys. Yeah. Yeah. What all are you

guys thinking about doing? We’re thinking about replacing some of the porches in the back. Well, do you want to go take a look at the porches and show you around? Yeah. All right.

It used to be a duplex, so we’re really converting it back to a single family. And I think we’ll need to demo the concrete steps here, but this will just be a freestanding, kind of like a little

balcony for that space. Yeah. Let me get some quick measurements of this. That’s it for

this one, and there’s another one out back. We’ll definitely need to have some different railing system here. And I think there’s a little structural damage here. So, okay. All right. So,

what are we thinking about doing here? You going to go back wood, aluminum, vinyl? Likely to be wood, painted wood. All right. Perfect. Need to do a fence, too? If we do, it’ll probably be

something very small right off this back porch. Okay. You guys got any more projects going on? Got a few in the pipeline. Yeah. I’ll have you take a look as soon as we’re ready. Perfect.

Hi, I’m Cassy with Cassy Electric. You hire, I wire. Hey, how are you? Well,

I’m the only minority woman electrical contractor here in Greenville, South Carolina. So, what do

you think? Oh, plaster walls, huh? That’s what I think. It’s got some good structure. Yeah.

You like it. Isn’t it so spacious? It is spacious. We’re thinking of redesigning and moving the kitchen right in the middle here. We’re going to open up this side of the

wall here. And we’re going to put the kitchen over here. So, probably a refrigerator, stove,

some lower cabinets, and then the island will have the sink and the dishwasher next to it. Well,

if this is going to be the kitchen, definitely, you thinking can lights? Yeah. And you always like your island, so you want some pendants, right? Yeah. So definitely we’re going

to have to redo the switching and everything in here. And are we going in the baseboard, Anna, again with these? I was thinking about the outlets? Maybe not again. I know we have

to do some patching. If anything, if you tell me it’s better just to demo all the walls, then we’ll do that. But I think we won’t do it in the baseboard. Not the baseboard. Not the

outlets. Okay. Okay. We’ve got some bedrooms here. We’ll probably need to make this a little bigger,

this opening. This is going to be the second bath. And then this actually gets closed

off. So this is going to become a closet for this bedroom here. So same thing here. We’re probably just going to replace the fan. Okay. Nothing crazy.

All right. So I guess the main thing that I want you to take a look at and just make sure that we do need the rewire, because if we don’t, obviously that’s the preference. But I’m looking at this wiring here, and you know this is

all old stuff. Definitely going to have to replace it. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Definitely a rewire. You

don’t even have a ground. It’s that old cloth wire you see there. All right. Well,

if you think it’s a total rewire, I’ll send you the full drawings. Yes. Think about it and think about what it might be and we’ll go from there. You got it, Anna. All right.

Thank you. Thanks. Appreciate your business, too. Yeah. I’m so excited to work with you.

Thank you. All right. I’ll talk to you soon, Anna. All right. Thanks so much. Bye.

We are here today at Tile & Marble Gallery looking for tile for the bathrooms for our renovation project on Park Avenue. How are you? Welcome back. So Ashley turned out wonderfully.

Thank you. We’ve got some new projects lined up and since you did such a great job, we wanted to bring some more business to you. So we appreciate this. Thanks. Yes. So we’re ready

for the next one. We’re ready for the next one. Well, feel free to look around. Absolutely. We

appreciate it. Thank you so much. Thank you. So, I think back to our game plan. So, long-term hold,

less future maintenance, but we want something that’s timeless. So, that leans me to a

natural stone. The other consideration I think that we’ve been leaning away from is minimizing

the grout joints. You’ve been leaning away from it. I’ve been leaning away, at least in the showers. I mean, I really like this one simply because it kind of mimics that older style,

but it just is a slightly more natural, timeless look. Wow, it’s purple. Too much. What?

Too much. No, I like it. Reflections. Pass. I’m out. I wish Anthony would consider different

color variations and different patterns. But that’s kind of my job right now, is to

make sure that maybe I can sell him on one of the designs. I vehemently disagree.

That’s nice. Good job. Thanks. So, are we on board? I think so. We’re going to do this

one for the bathroom floor with a matching tub surround. And this is going to be our shower.

Excellent. All right. I love it. Sounds good. Nice job. That was fast. We had record times on

those selections. I think we probably should get out of here before we change our minds.

Today is demo day. So, the first step to all of this is that I need to walk through with Juan and his crew to make sure that he knows which walls are coming out, all the measurements. And so,

we’re thinking through the doorways and openings and things like that. Again, it’s a renovation, so there’s a lot of nuances to what we’re doing. We have to make sure that the plaster walls that

we’re removing, it’s a little bit more work than drywall. So, we need to make sure that we’re very specific of which sections are being taken out. If we are taking out not enough,

we need to be cognizant that all the contractors that will come right after them, drywallers, plumbers, electricians, that it won’t be more difficult for them to do their work.

We talked through making sure that the water and the power is off so that they can work safely. And that’s that. So, we have a couple challenges with this project. We have an

existing wall finish that’s plaster that looks to be in good shape. So, we’re trying to minimize the demo because if you start taking more out than you need,

the costs quickly snowball. All right, let’s go. Anything in that orange goes. Let’s go.

Anthony did a great job today. We appreciate his help. I think he did okay. We’ll keep him.

Next time on A Day in the Deal, Anthony opens the doors at their Ashley Avenue property, showing off-market buyers what the Gallos have built. Then it’s back to Park Avenue,

where a plumber’s inspection leaves one big question hanging over the whole project.