About Riezl Baker | Luxury Lake Oconee Real Estate Group

Meet Riezl

Riezl Baker

Realtor® | Founding Principal

Email Address
rbaker@luxurylakeoconee.com
Primary Phone
(706) 347-2625
Address

1011 Park Ln, Greenboro GA, 30642
Website
riezlbaker.com
License Number
#243063

Riezl is an award-winning Realtor® with over 20 years of experience representing buyers and sellers at Lake Oconee. A consistent top producer in the area, Riezl has been recognized for her business accomplishments and community involvement. In 2021, Riezl closed over 70 transactions amounting to $115 million. Riezl is active in the community and has been involved on a leadership level for different organizations. She and her husband were founders of the Lake Oconee Food and Wine Festival in 2010 to benefit education. She is Past Chairman of the St. Mary's Good Samaritan Hospital Board and was part of the original founding Board that helped open the local hospital in 2013. She served as Chair of the Heart and Soul Gala at the Ritz Carlton for three years. She was the President of the Lake Country Board of Realtors® in 2016. An advocate for the Arts, she is currently a Board Director for the Oconee Performing Arts Society and a Member of the St. Mary's Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation Board.

Riezl co-founded Luxury Lake Oconee Real Estate Group with a mission to provide the highest level of professional service to real estate clients. Riezl and her husband Ted were awarded "Experts in Second and Vacation Homes" for 2021 and 2020, and "Most Philanthropic Agents" for 2020 during an event in Atlanta hosted by Bentley. Riezl was recognized as a "Top Luxury Real Estate Industry Leader, 2021" by The Atlantan magazine. She was also nominated as "Best Bilingual" and "Best Community Impact."

Riezl has a Bachelor's degree in Hotel and Restaurant Administration with a minor in Journalism and Broadcast Communications from the University of the Philippines and joined the Hyatt Hotels as a Corporate Management Trainee. She worked for the company for 7 years in Operations Management and Hospitality Sales in Houston and Atlanta. While working for the company, Riezl served as a Board Director for years for MPI, Meeting Professionals International, the largest meeting and event industry association and was the Editor-in- Chief of "Breakout", Georgia MPI's monthly publication, distributed to thousands of members. She met her husband during the Atlanta Olympic Games and the couple moved to Lake Oconee in 1997. Riezl was the Director of Athens Georgia Convention and Visitors Bureau where she developed strategic plans to bring conventions to the city before obtaining her real estate license in 2000 and worked for Reynolds Lake Oconee Properties where she was consistently one of the top producing agents for twenty years.