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

Aynor Rental Market Overview

Two named apartment communities were identified inside Aynor: Pine Street Apartments (980 Pine St), a small, privately run 10-unit complex built in 1998 where water and sewer are included in rent, and Morris Manor (600 12th Ave), a 22-unit LIHTC and HUD Section 202 senior community built in 2004 that sets rent by household income rather than a posted rate, open to very-low-income households with at least one resident age 62 or older. The Census Bureau's geocoder independently confirmed both addresses fall inside the Town of Aynor's own jurisdiction. Third-party listing aggregators show Pine Street unit rents ranging roughly $500 to $1,300 a month, though that range comes from listing sites rather than the property's own published rate sheet. For a benchmark, HUD's fiscal year 2026 Fair Market Rent schedule for the Myrtle Beach-North Myrtle Beach-Conway area -- which covers all of Horry County, including Aynor -- lists $1,229/month for a one-bedroom and $1,465/month for a two-bedroom.

Common Lease Terms in Aynor

Aynor's identifiable rental stock splits into three shapes, and the paperwork differs across them.

• Morris Manor generally requires an income-eligibility application, an age-62-or-older household member, and annual income recertification -- a different process from simply signing a standard 12-month lease
• Pine Street Apartments, as a small privately run complex, is leased directly through its own management rather than a national property-management company's standard form
• Individually owned single-family homes -- a category likely to grow as new-construction subdivisions like Rolling Hills, Woodland Farms, and Spring Grove add housing stock to the area -- vary property to property in lease terms, application steps, and move-in costs rather than following one company's standard practice

Local Tenant Protections

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

• No dedicated rental-registration or landlord-licensing ordinance was found. The town's own regulatory reach over a lease is chiefly a general business-license requirement covering any business operating in town, including a rental property, per the town's own published rate sheet -- in 2015, Town Council publicly opposed a proposed state bill it said would be "devastating," since business-license fees supplied roughly $110,000 of the town's approximately $797,300 annual budget that year, an indication of how central this revenue is to town operations
• A 1.5% hospitality fee applies to gross proceeds from transient/short-term accommodation rentals inside town limits, per the town's own hospitality fee schedule -- relevant to anyone renting out a unit short-term inside Aynor, distinct from a standard long-term residential lease
• Aynor's Zoning Ordinance was revised in 2026 (version 2026.04) alongside a new digital zoning map, per the town's website -- current as of this review, though a revision this recent may not yet be reflected on every third-party listing site
• No local rent control; South Carolina Code §27-39-60 expressly bars any county or municipality from regulating rent on privately owned residential or commercial property

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

Fees and Costs at Aynor's Known Rental Communities

Neither of Aynor's two named communities was found publishing a formal, itemized fee schedule (application fee, security deposit amount) on its own website:

• Morris Manor (600 12th Ave): income-based and age-restricted; rent itself is calculated from household income under its LIHTC/Section 202 structure rather than quoted as a fixed price, and eligibility documentation (ID, Social Security card, proof of all income, bank statements, references) substitutes for a typical fee schedule
• Pine Street Apartments (980 Pine St): a small 10-unit complex where water and sewer are included in rent per its own listings; third-party aggregators show individual unit rents spanning a wide $500-$1,300/month range, which likely reflects differences between units and lease terms more than a single posted rate

With no published rate sheet at either community, confirming the current rent, deposit amount, and what utilities are included directly with the specific leasing contact is the only way to get a firm number for a unit in Aynor.

Aynor's Growth, Governance, and Local Economy

Aynor traces to a mid-1800s farm owned by Jacob Eyknor, and the town incorporated in 1913 after the Conway rail line established a terminus there; Gabriel Edwards served as its first mayor. Today the town operates under a mayor-council government (Landon Johnson is the current mayor, per the town's own website) from Town Hall at 600 S Main St, and it hosts the tribal office of the Waccamaw people. Horry County Schools -- which operates Aynor Elementary, Middle, and High Schools and is South Carolina's third-largest school district, with more than 48,000 students -- is the largest employer in Horry County as a whole. On the manufacturing side, PTR Industries, a firearms manufacturer, relocated to the town's Cool Springs Business Park (101 Cool Springs Dr) in 2013 after Connecticut passed restrictive gun legislation, with a stated target of a 120-person workforce by 2017.

Aynor's population climbed from 560 residents in the 2010 Census to 974 in 2020, a 73.9% increase that the Post and Courier -- citing the same U.S. Census Bureau data -- reported made Aynor the ninth-fastest-growing municipality in South Carolina that decade. That growth traces to new for-sale housing rather than the annexation of already-populated land: Starlight Homes' Spring Grove community (roughly 100 approved single-family lots near the U.S. 501/S.C. 22 intersection off S.C. 319, presales starting September 2025), D.R. Horton's Woodland Farms development at the Aynor/Conway line off the same highways, and the previously built Rolling Hills (421 homes) and approved Trestle Ridge (163 homes on 74.25 acres) communities along or near U.S. 501 near downtown are the specific developments behind the number. All of it sits inside Horry County, which grew roughly 30% from 2010 to 2020 -- the fastest of any South Carolina county, per the same Census data -- as coastal Myrtle Beach-area growth pushes inland along the U.S. 501 corridor.

That growth has produced real friction over local governance. Greenfield Estates, a subdivision annexed into the town in 2003, has residents publicly questioning what they get from town government: per My Horry News, the HOA president and other homeowners argue that roads, streetlights, and water service in the subdivision are paid for by the subdivision itself, even though Aynor's 65.8 mill rate is the second-highest line item on their property tax bill behind school operations -- and the HOA president has separately raised a question about whether the town's 2003 annexation was ever properly filed with the required state departments, noting no such filing appears on record for Aynor since 1998. Separately, in April 2026, Town Council approved annexing and zoning a parcel near the SunHouse and post office as B-2 commercial, showing the town's growth extending to its commercial base as well as its residential one.

Common Issues Renters Face in Aynor

These are the most frequent considerations for anyone renting in Aynor, based on the research for this guide:

• Not every property described as being in the "Aynor area" actually sits inside Aynor's town limits -- a 77-home subdivision approved on Costie Allen Road in 2025 is routinely described that way in local reporting but sits entirely on unincorporated Horry County land, meaning the town's own zoning, business-license, and hospitality-fee rules don't reach it
• Mailing ZIP codes split between 29511 (Aynor's own ZIP) and 29544 (Green Sea's ZIP) even within a single in-town subdivision -- Greenfield Estates addresses carry both across different listings despite the entire subdivision resolving to Aynor town jurisdiction on the Census Bureau's geocoder, so the ZIP code alone isn't a reliable signal of jurisdiction either way
• The town's rapid population growth (73.9% in one decade) means a lease signed even two or three years ago may reflect a different supply picture than one signed today, as new-construction subdivisions along U.S. 501 continue adding housing stock to the area

Negotiating Your Lease in Aynor

South Carolina is landlord-favorable with minimal statutory protections, the same statewide baseline that applies everywhere else in this guide. What differs in Aynor is that most of its identifiable rental stock isn't the kind of lease negotiating tips usually address.

• At Morris Manor, eligibility category and current waitlist position are the practical lever, since rent itself is set by income rather than a market quote
• At Pine Street Apartments or an individually owned home, comparing move-in costs, what utilities are included, and deposit terms against similar area listings is the practical substitute for negotiating against a large management company's standard lease, since neither community publishes its own rate sheet
• Verifying that a specific address actually sits inside the Town of Aynor, rather than in the surrounding unincorporated county or a neighboring town's ZIP-code area, is worth doing before treating any locally specific fact on this page -- or any other -- as applicable to that unit