Sometimes life can throw us curve balls. We spend years thinking ahead before college, we anticipate our future career while we learn our trade and wait for the opportunity to work in our selected career field. Yet we find ourselves having to re-adjust, thinking of how to turn all those years of dreaming and planning into a new career path. Mattison Ference with Hayden Outdoors Real Estate is an example of being flexible, but purposeful.
Mattison graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the Fall of 2017 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Agricultural Education and two minors: Agricultural Economics and Animal Science. She then proceeded to be Agricultural Education Instructor and FFA Advisor at Sandy Creek High School for the 2018-2019 school year. Upon completion of that school year, she married Johnny Ference (Ord, NE native) and moved to Ord. Considering her new husband and father-in-law were the Agricultural Educators for Ord…and with no openings at surrounding schools, Mattison began planning her next career move. After much thought, she decided to pursue her real estate license and became licensed in the State of Nebraska during the Summer of 2020. Not an ideal year to start a new business, but any time is a great time to find a new passion!
To Mattison, there is much correlation between being a teacher and being a real estate agent. Both provide opportunities to educate as well as guide and care for clients as she did with her students. After making phone calls to various brokerages in the area, Mattison made the decision to join the team at Hayden Outdoors Real Estate. She felt the dynamics of the brokerage and the services they offer, would be the best fit for the service she wanted to provide clients as well as personally nurture her agriculture/farming background.
Hayden Outdoors is a family-owned real estate company and brokerage with a background in the cattle and ranching business. In 1976, Leo Hayden founded the company as the Property Exchange, working with farms and ranches for sale near Hays, Kansas. The brokerage moved to Goodland, Kansas in 1981 and became Hayden Inc. In the late 1990’s, Leo was joined by his two sons, Dax and Seth, to help grow the business in multiple states. In 2003, Hayden Outdoors was formed to represent sellers and buyers on farm, ranch and recreational properties in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains. Over time, Hayden Outdoors has built a team composed of brokers and agents with experience and knowledge in their markets and an affinity to “Do what they say they will.”
Source: https://ordnebraska.com/july-chamber-spotlight-hayden-outdoors-real-estate-mattison-ference/
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