See that we are telling WordPress to use a "static page" to become our Front Page (home), and we're selecting the blank spot, as it has no title, thus will display a blank here. You'll see that I arbitrarily chose to create this page as a child page to About Me. It doesn't matter where I place it, but this keeps it from showing up anywhere else unless I specifically link to it...which I won't. I just want this to be the front page when anyone comes to http://DemoTownRealEstate.com.
Once we save the information on this screen we can go to our domain, and we should see our custom home page, instead of blog posts in the center area. Get as creative as you like for this page, and hire an HTML person if you want. It shouldn't be too expensive to create some custom content for this space.