Renting in Andrews? Here's What You Need to Know Before You Sign

Andrews Rental Market Overview

Of five apartment communities carrying an "Andrews, SC" mailing address, only Devonshire Apartments (715 N. Farr Avenue) could be verified against its own property manager's page: CAHEC Management's own South Carolina listings page confirms a 32-unit "Family" income-based community (8 one-bedroom, 24 two-bedroom units), reachable at 843-264-8141, with no published rent figure. The other four names surfacing for Andrews -- Elm Square Apartments, Magnolia Park Apartments, Cypress Lane Apartments, and Arbor Place -- appear only on the aggregator affordablehousingonline.com; no independent management-company or property website could be identified for this guide, so their unit counts and current availability can't be independently confirmed here. A Census Bureau jurisdiction check run on all five addresses found that Devonshire's own 715 N. Farr Avenue address, despite the identical Andrews mailing city, actually sits on unincorporated Georgetown County land outside the town's limits -- as does Cypress Lane Apartments (unincorporated Georgetown County) and Elm Square Apartments (unincorporated Williamsburg County). Only Magnolia Park Apartments and Arbor Place resolve inside Andrews town proper, one in each county's portion of town.

Common Lease Terms in Andrews

With the one verified Andrews property operating under an income-based Family housing program rather than a standard market lease, these are the terms most relevant to a specific unit here.

• Devonshire Apartments' rent is set through an income-based calculation tied to household size and income rather than a fixed published rate -- the actual monthly figure comes from the property's own certification process, not a rate sheet.
• CAHEC Management's own page for Devonshire publishes no application fee, pet fee, or security-deposit figure; reaching the leasing office means calling 843-264-8141 or emailing [email protected] during its Tuesday/Thursday, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. office hours, or by appointment.
• Elm Square Apartments, Magnolia Park Apartments, Cypress Lane Apartments, and Arbor Place each show as "income-based" or "subsidized" on the aggregator listing them, but none has an identifiable management-company page for this guide to confirm its actual lease terms.

Local Tenant Protections

South Carolina law provides the baseline for tenant rights, but Andrews may have additional local ordinances that affect your lease.

• No Andrews-specific rental-registration or inspection ordinance could be confirmed for this guide as of September 2026. The town's own website (townofandrews.sc.gov) and its Municode-hosted Code of Ordinances both render their content through client-side scripts that this guide's research tools could not retrieve beyond the page shell -- this is reported as an honest research limit, not a confirmed absence of any such rule.
• Andrews' two-county footprint is a genuine, address-specific jurisdiction question, not a formality. A Census Bureau jurisdiction check run against all five candidate rental addresses carrying an "Andrews, SC" mailing city found only two resolving inside the actual town limits -- Magnolia Park Apartments (3729 County Line Rd, Williamsburg County portion) and Arbor Place (100 N Beech Ave, Georgetown County portion) -- while Devonshire Apartments and Cypress Lane Apartments (both unincorporated Georgetown County) and Elm Square Apartments (unincorporated Williamsburg County) sit outside the town whose name they share.
• No local rent-control ordinance exists, and none could: South Carolina preempts local rent control outright (S.C. Code §27-39-60), so no South Carolina city -- Andrews included -- can adopt its own rent regulation.

For full South Carolina statewide tenant rights, see our South Carolina tenant rights guide.

Fees You May Encounter in Andrews

Because the one identified Andrews property confirmed for this guide is income-based Family housing rather than a market-rate community with a published fee schedule, there is no sitewide fee table to publish the way there is for larger markets.

• Income-based rent functions differently from a flat fee schedule -- request the property's own income and rent calculation in writing rather than assuming a fixed number applies across units or households.
• CAHEC's own listing for Devonshire Apartments states no application fee, pet fee, or security-deposit amount.
• No statutory cap applies to any lease fee in South Carolina generally; the lease itself and the federal program's own rules set what a tenant owes (see the state baseline above).

A flat fee schedule doesn't really exist at an income-based property the way it does at a market-rate community -- the number that matters is the household's own certified rent, which only the property's own application and certification process can confirm.

Andrews Market Dynamics

Andrews formed in 1909 from the merger of two rail-side settlements, Rosemary and Harpers Crossroads, along the Georgetown and Western Railroad, which had operated since 1886; the merged town took its name from Colonel Walter H. Andrews, who helped secure its incorporation and served as mayor through much of the 1920s. The Seaboard Air Line Railroad arrived in 1905 and ran maintenance shops in town alongside the Atlantic Coast Lumber Company -- by 1919 Andrews had grown to roughly 2,000 residents and was, by its own later telling, the fastest-growing town in the United States for its age during the 1920s. The Great Depression hit hard: Seaboard cut operations and the lumber company closed in 1932. Andrews later added an International Paper mill built in Georgetown County in the late 1930s, along with Brooks Veneer, other lumber firms, and the Oneita Knitting Mill. Comedian Chris Rock and rock-and-roll singer Chubby Checker are both listed among the town's notable natives.

Per city-data.com's presentation of Census ACS estimates, Andrews' median household income stood at $59,746 in 2024 against a South Carolina statewide figure of $72,350, with a 27.2% poverty rate. The largest reported employment sectors are administrative, support, and waste-management services (18.3%), health care and social assistance (16.9%), retail trade (14.5%), real estate and rental/leasing (12.5%), and manufacturing (10.3%) -- a mixed service-and-manufacturing base rather than the single-mill economy of the town's early-20th-century railroad-and-lumber boom. That profile lines up with the rental market found for this guide: the one verified community, Devonshire Apartments, is federally income-based Family housing rather than a new market-rate development, consistent with a town whose population has declined 10.0% since 2010.

Common Issues Renters Face in Andrews

These are the most frequent lease-related considerations for a market like Andrews', based on the research for this guide:

• Comparing "rent" across the identified properties, or against a nearby market-rate town, isn't a like-for-like comparison, since the one verified property uses income-based rent rather than a flat number.
• Confirming which government -- Andrews town, Georgetown County, or Williamsburg County -- actually covers a specific address determines what ordinances and code enforcement apply, since three of the five candidate addresses here, including the one verified community, resolve to unincorporated county land despite sharing the town's mailing address.
• Four of the five named communities have no independently verifiable management-company website for this guide, so their current terms and availability can only be confirmed by direct contact.
• No published market-rate comparison exists to benchmark a specific unit's rent against, since the only townwide figure available (the Census ACS median gross rent) describes the town overall, not any single property.

Negotiating Your Lease in Andrews

South Carolina's statewide landlord-tenant law is minimal, and the one verified Andrews property runs on income-based housing rather than published market pricing -- but there's still specific information worth confirming before signing.

• Confirm the actual income-based rent calculation for a specific household size and income directly with Devonshire's leasing office (843-264-8141), since CAHEC's own page publishes no rate.
• Confirm whether a specific address sits inside Andrews' actual town limits or unincorporated Georgetown or Williamsburg County land, since a jurisdiction check found this genuinely varies address-by-address even among properties sharing the identical mailing city.
• Request the full application and income-certification requirements in writing before scheduling a move-in date, since income-based housing carries eligibility paperwork a standard market-rate lease does not.
• Commonly negotiated at income-based properties: the effective date of a rent recalculation when a household's income changes mid-lease -- confirm how and when the property's management handles this.

With the one verified property here running on income-based rent rather than a market rate, the lease and the property's own certification paperwork -- not a public price list -- are the only reliable record of what a specific household will actually pay.