Cutting Out the Noise — RISMedia
By: Devin Meenan | Published: 2025-06-20 18:30:00 | Source: www.rismedia.com
Above, Bill Flemming
Bill Flemming
CEO
HomeSmart Connect
Arlington Heights, Illinois
https://join.homesmart.com
Region served: Northern Illinois (Chicago) and Southern Wisconsin
Years in real estate: 39
Number of offices: 10, with another set to open before the end of the year.
Number of agents: 807
Best time-management tip: Cut out the noise and focus on what you’re doing.
What is the most important thing you learned this past year?
The significance of doing what everybody else isn’t doing. While everybody else was cutting back, I was opening offices and adding support staff. I saw the market slowing down, and my fear was that my core was going to slow down, which would cause both my agent count and transaction count to slow down as well. The year…