Episode Details

Listeners get a heartfelt invitation into the love story of Sid and Rhonda Pugh. This lovely, real estate couple share how they found each other in a GRI course and discuss why persistence is KEY when it comes to pursuing that "YES" that can change the entire course of your life. Tune-in to find out why anything is possible in real estate.

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Time Stamped Show Notes:

• 00:39 – Today's episode is not just about real estate, but relationships
• 00:45 – Leigh welcomes Sid and Rhonda
• 01:08 – Sid and Rhonda are in Huntsville and they work in North Alabama and lower Tennessee areas

• 01:37 – Sid started real estate in Colorado Springs back in 1979, before he moved to Huntsville
• 02:07 – Rhonda got her real estate license in 1975
• 02:51 – Sid moved to Alabama in 1981 because the real estate market in Colorado Springs was going downhill
• 03:09 – Sid was recently divorced then and he went to a week-long GRI class, where he met Rhonda
• 03:56 – They went to lunch and Rhonda asked him a hundred questions while Sid asked only one (if they could go out) which she declined

• 04:16 – Being a realtor, Sid knew that "sales" are made after the 5th or 6th "NO"
• 04:22 – After 3 months of Sid's persistence, Rhonda finally said "yes"

• 06:51 – They're celebrating their 34th wedding anniversary this November
• 07:01 – Their real estate businesses stayed separate for a while
• 07:11 – Rhonda was working with her mom when her dad passed away
• 07:59 – Training today in real estate is so good compared to what realtors had back then
• 09:03 – Sid and Rhonda are living proof of the training you can receive from GRI courses

• 09:34 – Rhonda didn't really have any desire to date back then as she already had 2 sons and had been by herself for 5 years
• 09:56 – Sid kept asking her why she kept resisting – Rhonda really didn't want to get involved
• 10:30 – Sid proposed