In the coastal Carolina town of Leland, North Carolina, Chad runs Straight Edge Solutions, a fast-growing home improvement company specializing in precision painting, roofing, gutter systems, and full exterior/interior renovations. What sets his operation apart isn’t just the flawless lines and hurricane-ready installs—it’s the man behind the brush.
Chad enjoys an active, intentional lifestyle built around physical, mental, and spiritual growth. When he’s not on a job site, you’ll find him at the gym training alongside his partner, diving into the latest recommended audiobook, planning big adventures with family and friends, or giving back through community volunteering. Fresh off completing his term as HOA president for his neighborhood, the bilingual entrepreneur (fluent in both English and Spanish) proudly reps Chevy as the domestic truck king and yes—he can still wiggle his ears on command.
Born in Florida and raised in North Carolina since age three, Chad’s early life was anything but straight-edge. Chaos at home pushed him toward anything that promised escape. By his early twenties he had cycled through homelessness three times in four years, broke, addicted, and spiritually shattered.
Then, at 22, everything changed with one decision: he decided he mattered.
He walked away from the old behaviors, embraced an alcohol-free life, and started chasing what he calls true freedom. Ask him to define it and his eyes light up before the words even leave his mouth:
“Freedom to me means the overwhelming ability to be myself and live prosperous and autonomously in the world around me—financially, mentally, physically, and spiritually. It means having my life, my legacy, and my well-being be a standard. I’m free to achieve, give, and experience. It takes a lot of work to be free, but it’s the work I like to do.”
Today that work shows up in every perfectly taped corner of a Holden Beach, beachfront house, every five-star review from a client who finally feels “home,” and every young person in his community who sees a man who came from the bottom and built something solid—proof that the edge you choose to live on can change everything.
Straight Edge Solutions isn’t just a company name. For Chad, it’s the quiet, daily declaration of a life reclaimed and the relief of a practical solution for an impossible problem.
Visit the company at letsgetintothesolution.com
