Charles has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois, School of Business at Champaign, Urbana and has been involved in the real estate business for more than 25 years. He purchased his first real estate property in 1982. Since that time he has owned a total of 17 residential rental units. He has also bought and sold a few single-family properties: a home for rehab, a teardown for new construction and a vacant lot for new construction.