Arkansas Real Estate Commission Executive Director (AREC) Bill Williamson will retire at the end of February.

Williamson started at the AREC as an investigator in 1978. He became the deputy director at the AREC in in 1985 and was named executive director in 1996.

You’d better believe we’ll have a huge story about Williamson in February’s printed edition of The Arkansas Realtor. That article will be posted here on the blog later this month, too.

The Arkansas Realtors® Association  (ARA) Realtor® ‘Rightings (now The Arkansas Realtor) in November 2006 as our official, printed publication. Williamson submitted his first column to the publication in December 2006 and hasn’t missed an issue since. He’s written 31 columns for the publication over the years and they have always been on time, very informative and widely read by our members. He’s been the “go to guy” when it comes to AREC rules and Arkansas real estate law for years and he was more than happy to share his knowledge with our members through his columns and personal visits with Realtors®.

We’ll miss Williamson because as he’s always had a great relationship with Realtors® throughout Arkansas. He’s a heck of a nice guy, to boot.

Regardless, we at the ARA wish him well and hope he enjoys his retirement. At least he won’t have to make that drive to his office in Little Rock from his home in Bryant every day — that’s a plus.

So, good luck to Bill and we do hope he makes it up to Little Rock to stop in and visit every now and again.

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