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

Sellers Rental Market Overview

Sellers is a 0.7-square-mile town in Marion County, South Carolina, in the state's Pee Dee region near the North Carolina border. As of October 2026, this guide's research could not identify a single named apartment or multi-family rental community operating inside town limits, but City-Data.com's 2024 Census American Community Survey estimate does publish a town-wide median gross rent figure of $509 -- among the lowest figures found anywhere in this guide's South Carolina coverage. The town's current employment profile, discussed below, leans heavily on manufacturing and retail trade, sectors that most likely describe jobs held outside Sellers rather than inside its own small footprint.

Common Lease Terms in Sellers

With no identified apartment community or leasing office to source a specific lease from, what follows is pieced together from housing-stock data, a direct jurisdiction check, and the town's own economic profile rather than a single property's own paperwork:

• City-Data.com's 2024 ACS-based estimate puts Sellers' median household income at $34,038 -- less than half of South Carolina's statewide median household income of $72,350
• South Carolina's Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (S.C. Code Title 27, Chapter 40) supplies the default lease terms -- notice periods, entry rules, deposit handling -- for any Sellers tenancy where the lease itself is silent
• Checked against the Census Bureau's public geocoder, Sellers Town Hall (2552 Hwy 301) resolves cleanly inside the incorporated Town of Sellers -- though a nearby church carrying an identical Sellers mailing address resolves with no incorporated-place match at all, a reminder that a Sellers address alone does not guarantee Sellers jurisdiction
• City-Data.com's 2024 estimate puts the town's per capita income at $15,138 and its poverty rate at 57.8% -- among the highest poverty-rate estimates found anywhere in this guide's South Carolina coverage

Local Tenant Protections

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

• South Carolina law preempts local rent control statewide (S.C. Code §27-39-60) -- no South Carolina city or county, including Sellers, may enact an ordinance regulating the rent charged on privately owned residential property
• No zoning ordinance, zoning map, or business-license schedule could be confirmed for the Town of Sellers from the sources this guide checked, a pattern found in several other small South Carolina towns of similar size
• A church carrying a "Sellers, SC 29592" mailing address resolves, via the Census Bureau's public geocoder, to an address with no incorporated-place boundary attached -- most likely unincorporated Marion County land rather than inside the town's own jurisdiction -- while Town Hall itself resolves cleanly inside town limits
• Sellers' population has declined in every census since a 1930 peak of 690, and the most recent data (a 2024 estimate of 146, down from 147 in the 2020 Census) shows no sign of that decline leveling off

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

Mandatory Fees at Sellers Rentals

No fee schedule could be independently confirmed for a Sellers rental, since this guide could not identify any leasing office or managed rental community operating inside town, as of October 2026.

• City-Data.com's housing profile publishes a town-wide median gross rent ($509) but no property-level application fee, pet fee, or deposit amount for any specific Sellers property
• The Town of Sellers' own zoning or business-license framework, if any exists, could not be confirmed from the sources checked, so whether a landlord or small business must register with the town is unclear
• South Carolina law sets no statutory cap on application fees, pet fees, or administrative fees -- whatever a specific lease states is what governs

A town with no identified rental community isn't automatically a red flag -- but it does mean every fee, deposit amount, and lease term is worth confirming directly with the landlord, in writing, before signing anything.

A Shrinking Marion County Town With One of This Guide's Steepest Declines

The U.S. Census Bureau's decennial counts show Sellers in near-continuous decline since a peak of 690 residents in the 1930 Census: 277 by 2000, 219 by 2010, and 147 by 2020, a 32.9% drop in that final decade alone and a cumulative 47% decline since 2000. City-Data.com's 2024 current-year estimate puts the town at 146 -- essentially flat against 2020, which at least suggests the free-fall of the prior decade has slowed, though it has not reversed. The town sits on a 0.7-square-mile footprint in Marion County, in South Carolina's Pee Dee region, with a 2020 population density of 219.6 residents per square mile reflecting just how small that footprint is even at the town's current size.

Sellers' economic profile is thin by any measure this guide could verify. City-Data's 2024 ACS-based estimate puts median household income at $34,038 -- less than half of South Carolina's statewide median household income of $72,350 -- and per capita income at $15,138, with an estimated poverty rate of 57.8%, among the highest figures found anywhere in this guide's South Carolina coverage. The same data shows manufacturing (51.9%), retail trade (21.2%), and educational services (18.9%) as the town's largest current employment sectors, a profile that most likely reflects residents commuting to jobs elsewhere in Marion County rather than work available inside Sellers' own small limits. City-Data's separately published median house value figure for the town rendered as a negative number in this guide's research, which looks like a data error rather than a usable figure, and was not relied on for that reason.

A specific finding from this guide's own jurisdiction research: Sellers Town Hall (2552 Hwy 301) resolves cleanly inside the incorporated "Sellers town" boundary when checked against the Census Bureau's free public geocoder. But a nearby church carrying an identical "Sellers, SC 29592" mailing address -- Apostolic Pentecostal Church, on Slabtown Road -- matches an address on file with no incorporated-place geography attached at all, meaning it most likely sits on unincorporated Marion County land rather than inside the town's own jurisdiction, despite sharing the same mailing city. A third address this guide checked, a Baptist church on Church Street, returned no match in the geocoder at all -- a data gap in the Bureau's rural address coverage, not a confirmed mismatch either way. The practical lesson is the same one this guide has found in several other small South Carolina towns: a "Sellers, SC" mailing address does not, by itself, establish that a specific property falls under the town's own zoning or business-license authority.

Common Issues Renters Face in Sellers

These are the most frequent lease-related considerations identified for Sellers, based on the research for this guide:

• No apartment or multi-family rental community could be confirmed operating inside Sellers from the sources this guide checked, so a prospective renter should not assume the town has no options at all -- only that none could be independently verified
• A church carrying a Sellers, SC mailing address resolves to land with no confirmed incorporated-place boundary attached, a reminder that a mailing address alone does not establish whether a specific property falls under the town's own jurisdiction
• City-Data's 2024 estimate puts the town's poverty rate at 57.8% and median household income at less than half the statewide figure -- among the starkest economic profiles found anywhere in this guide's South Carolina coverage
• Sellers' population has declined in every census since a 1930 peak of 690, with a 2024 estimate (146) showing that decline continuing rather than leveling off

Negotiating Your Lease in Sellers

South Carolina is landlord-favorable with minimal statutory protections, and Sellers' rental market has no identified apartment community or leasing office to benchmark a specific offer against.

• A full written lease, rather than a verbal or partial agreement, is especially worth requesting in a market like Sellers', where the counterparty is more likely an individual property owner than a company with a standard template already in place
• Comparing a specific quote against nearby Marion, Mullins, or Nichols, all covered elsewhere on this site and all within Marion County, can help gauge whether a Sellers rent or fee fits regional norms
• Confirming a specific address's actual jurisdiction using the Census Bureau's free public geocoder is worth doing for any Sellers-area property, since this guide's own research found a nearby property carrying a Sellers mailing address that does not appear to sit inside the town's own incorporated limits

A market with no identified rental community isn't automatically a red flag -- but with no comparison listing to check a quote against, confirming every fee, deposit amount, and lease term directly with the landlord, in writing, matters more here than in a market with visible competition.