Charlie is a native of Sumter, SC, where he spent his childhood hunting, fishing and cruising timber in the South Carolina Lowcountry, Piedmont, and Upstate. He earned his real estate license the summer before his senior year at Duke University, where he would receive his BA in History with a minor in Markets and Management Studies in 2001.

Charlie has been a land sales specialist in North Carolina and South Carolina since 2004. He is now located in Charlotte, NC, with his wife of twelve years and their two daughters, Lucy and Mary Charles. Over the past thirteen years, Charlie has brokered large acreage land sales in Western, Central and Eastern North Carolina as well as the Upstate, Piedmont, and Lowcountry in South Carolina.