Maggie Hase has worked as a licensed realtor with Main Street Real Estate and specializes in senior real estate, but her impact on the community extends far beyond home sales. 

Outside of the office, she has dedicated her time to supporting organizations like the Wesleyan Kiddie Kollege preschool and vacation bible schools. 

“(Wesleyan) is extremely community driven, and just in bringing all the churches together to bring that faith to our community,” said Hase. “And so I sponsored meals for their vacation bible study.”

She helped to fundraise to purchase food for joint vacation bible schools between area churches held at Wesleyan and dedicated her time and efforts to selling “cocoa bombs” to raise money for school supplies at the preschool. 

Hase said she was able to make roughly 300 cocoa bombs and returned all of the proceeds, $800 in total, to put towards the supplies. 

“It’s not always money you can donate, but if you have time and talents, (you can) utilize that for the betterment of the people around you,” said Hase. 

She also credited Main Street Real Estate with helping her volunteer efforts, saying the real estate firm encourages its employees to be involved in their communities, and that they will even take on the costs of volunteer efforts for one initiative per employee. 

Hase lives in Marthasville and largely works out of the Main Street Real Estate office in Washington, but she maintains Warren County is her home. 

“I love giving back to this community and our Warrenton office area, Warren County in general,” said Hase. “I live in Marthasville, so this is my home.”

She previously worked as a nurse before making her transition into real estate, and tries to carry over the mentality of caring for, and helping others, when working with clients.
While she works as a realtor, she also specializes in senior real estate, helping the elderly navigate processes like downsizing and moving from larger homes they no longer need to maintain. 

“I just think caring for people is just kind of part of my heart, and so essentially, I just feel like sometimes seniors kind of get forgotten, or talked over, especially in a transaction that is as important as real estate and selling their home,” said Hase. 

Hase was named the Franklin County Realtor of the Year in 2024. 

She also pointed out that not all of her work is in helping seniors to downsize or leave their homes, since sometimes they are leaving even though they do not want to, whether that be due to health concerns or lifestyle changes. 

Hase continued, she also leans on her experience in geriatrics as a nurse when working with seniors. 

“It just gives you more ideas and tools for seniors, because it’s not always leaving their house. It might be ‘okay, let’s retrofit, or let’s bring in health care,’ and things like that,” said Hase. 

She said oftentimes she is working with family members when they are looking to downsize, and approaches it as a process as opposed to just selling a house. 

Hase meets with families multiple times before moving forward with a sale and said she also leverages connections in the industry to get more out of their house whether that be recommending services like a mover or a painter, or pointing out options they may not have known were available. 

“I think that process, and having a system is important for anybody, but especially seniors,” said Hase. 

Hase was nominated as a Hidden Hero by one of her clients, Sarah Collins, an example of how she goes above and beyond not only as a realtor, but as a member of the community. 

“It’s not about the property, it’s about the people and the relationships that I’ve created,” said Hase. “Once I got that I’m not a salesperson, I’m just helping people, that’s my why.”