Since founding Arizona-based HomeSmart in 2000, Widdows has grown the company into the nation’s 12th largest franchise brand with its streamlined agent flat-fee brokerage model and a vision to centralize services for its network of agents. In 2020, the company expanded into three new states as part of a focus on growing in the Midwest and east coast. HomeSmart’s network of over 16,000 agents do approximately $23 billion in annual sales.