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

Cayce Rental Market Overview

Four Cayce communities were researched for this guide, as of September 2026, and pricing (where published) splits into two bands by corridor. Otarre Pointe, on Fort Congaree Trail, prices one-bedrooms from $869/month, two-bedrooms from $1,043/month, and its one published three-bedroom floor plan from $1,205/month, directly on its own site -- though several floor plans in each bedroom count are marked "call for details" with no online price. Advenir at One Eleven, on Knox Abbott Drive, prices its studio at $1,413/month, one-bedrooms from $1,712-1,722/month, and two-bedrooms from $1,794-2,244/month. Two communities, Indigo at Brickworks and Fountains of Edenwood, publish no rent figures at all online -- Indigo's floor-plan pricing sits behind the site's own bot-detection challenge, and Fountains of Edenwood's pricing tool doesn't render outside a live browser session.

Common Lease Terms in Cayce

These are the lease terms most commonly seen at the Cayce communities researched for this guide.

• Otarre Pointe quotes a fixed $500 deposit on at least some floor plans, published directly alongside its per-unit rent -- most Cayce communities researched for this guide don't disclose a deposit figure at all
• Pet limits are consistent across the three communities that publish a pet policy: two pets maximum per apartment, with breed and/or weight restrictions specifically at Otarre Pointe and Indigo at Brickworks
• Several floor plans at Otarre Pointe (Elm, Magnolia, Poplar, Sycamore) list no online price at all, marked "call for details" even where every other floor plan in the same bedroom count is priced

Local Tenant Protections

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

• No dedicated landlord-tenant, rental-registration, or rental-licensing chapter appears in Cayce's own published Code of Ordinances table of contents (checked via Municode) -- unlike neighboring West Columbia's 2009 rental property registration ordinance
• No local rent control; South Carolina law preempts it statewide (S.C. Code §27-39-60)

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

Mandatory Fees at Cayce Communities

What follows is what each community's own website discloses (or doesn't), verified September 2026.

• Otarre Pointe discloses a $350 one-time pet fee plus $30/month pet rent per pet, capped at two pets, with breed restrictions -- application and admin fee amounts aren't published.
• Indigo at Brickworks discloses a $350 one-time pet fee, $15/month pet rent per pet, and a separate $30 pet screening fee, also capped at two pets with weight and breed restrictions.
• Advenir at One Eleven states that a pet fee and monthly pet rent apply, capped at two pets, but doesn't publish the dollar amounts on the pages accessible for this guide.
• Fountains of Edenwood discloses no fee amounts online at all.

No community researched for this guide publishes a complete itemized fee schedule covering application and admin fees -- only pet costs are disclosed, and only at three of the four communities. Get the actual number in writing before comparing a Cayce quote to one from elsewhere.

Cayce Is a Separate City From Both West Columbia and Columbia

Cayce incorporated in 1914 and has operated under its own council-manager government ever since -- an elected City Council setting policy, a City Manager administering it -- distinct from both Columbia's and West Columbia's city halls. Its city limits reach further than either neighbor's in one specific way: Columbia Metropolitan Airport and the interchange of Interstate 26 and Interstate 77 both sit inside Cayce, according to the city's own description of its boundaries.

Cayce also sits across a line neither Columbia nor West Columbia has to deal with: the city itself is split between two counties, primarily Lexington County with a smaller, largely rural portion extending into Richland County to the east. West Columbia, by contrast, sits within a single county, Lexington. That split means a lease dispute's magistrate court and code-enforcement office depend on which side of the county line a specific Cayce address falls on -- not just which city.

Cayce's own identity runs through the Cayce Historical Museum at the city's municipal complex -- a replica of an 18th-century frontier trading post on the site of Revolutionary War-era Fort Granby -- and the adjoining 12,000 Year History Park along the Cayce Riverwalk, where volunteer guides trained by the National Park Service lead tours covering Native American life, colonial trade, and the 1865 Civil War battle at Congaree Creek. The Riverwalk runs along the Congaree River -- the same river West Columbia's Brookland development faces from the opposite bank -- and the Cayce River Arts District on State Street adds studios, breweries, and live music to that same corridor. None of it belongs to Columbia or West Columbia; it's Cayce's own downtown.

Common Issues Renters Face in Cayce

These are the most frequent lease-related considerations reported by renters and researched at Cayce communities:

• Assuming a Cayce mailing address means Columbia's or West Columbia's city government actually covers it -- Cayce runs its own council-manager government and its own code enforcement
• Not confirming whether a specific Cayce address falls in Lexington or Richland County before a lease dispute reaches magistrate court
• Two of the four communities researched, Indigo at Brickworks and Fountains of Edenwood, publish no rent figures online at all, requiring a direct call to get a real number
• Treating Otarre Pointe's lowest listed floor plan price as the price for every unit in that bedroom count, when several floor plans in the same count are marked "call for details"

Negotiating Your Lease in Cayce

South Carolina is landlord-favorable with minimal statutory protections. Cayce's four researched communities disclose fee information unevenly, which affects how much of a lease's real cost is visible before signing.

• Confirm which county -- Lexington or Richland -- actually covers a specific Cayce address, since it determines which magistrate court and code-enforcement office would handle a dispute
• Compare pet costs directly: Otarre Pointe's $30/month pet rent versus Indigo at Brickworks' $15/month plus a separate $30 screening fee changes the real monthly total more than the headline rent does
• Confirm the current price on any Otarre Pointe floor plan marked "call for details" before assuming it matches the lowest published price in that bedroom count

Get the actual number in writing before comparing a Cayce quote to one from elsewhere.