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My parents lived in the USC neighborhood when the McMasters lived in a house on the corner of Barnwell & Greene Streets. I never had any rental experience with them, but in 2 dog-related events I had while walking down the street, both were rude to the point of me wanting to kick them where it counts. Nasty people. And VERY homophobic.

If he is supposed to be working for the State and he s fixing up his rental properties, isn't that theft of State property and deception?

If the "black sedan" is a black Crown Victoria (with normal tags...AGs car always has reg tags rather than state govt tags for security purposes), that is his state car...I mean its the taxpayers car.

Multiple sources, lots of phone calls and checking the records. This is real journalism. One doesn't see a lot of that any longer. I remember some of those houses well from my own days at USC. I don't think McMaster owned them at the time. I'm astonished they haven't collapsed from the years of abuse.

"but because the McMasters often ignore the city’s occupancy laws, it is unclear how many tenants they currently have" How do you know they're ignoring occupancy laws if you don't know how many tenants they have?!

Yeah, we do have some Slum Landowners. And they know how to make things seems better than they are. Like, I had a landowner that painted the inside of a sink. Just to get through an inspection (I suppose), so that the place would pass the inspection. Well, a few months, showed the result (It started peeling off). By then, it was hard to get him to repair the sink/or replace it. And we know these "Slum Owners" JUST DO NOT CARE! So, if it takes reporting them for who they are for every repair, THEN DO IT! I realized where I needed to apply the heat. They will also hire some inexperienced person (sometimes, they don't speak English) that only has DUCT TAPE and GLUE in their toolbox. And expect that the two products will fix everything. Patch here and there!! Until neXt time.... Please stay away from those kinds of Land owners... THEY ARE NOTHING BE LEECHES!! Will suck all of your money... Check this out! I never met my land owner. my townhouse was managed through another agency. Probably they were somewhere out of the country, sipping on an exotic drink or just "living it up" buying boats and hosting parties (with the money we give them). They should be investing the profits back into their properties!!!! JUST SLUM! NASTY! A DON'T CARE ATTITUDE". LOOK FOR APARTMENTS/HOUSES THAT HAVE MANAGEMENT ON THE PREMISES! THE BEST! SAY AWAY FROM PRIVATE OWNERS!!!! A FRIEND OF MINE HAS A LAW SUITE FOR HIS LAND OWNER. THEY HAVE NOT RETURNED HER SEC. DEPOSIT YET. AND IT HAS BEEN ABOUT 4 MONTHS SINCE SHE REQUESTED IT. BY LAW, IF A LAND OWNER HAS NO REASON NOT RETURNING YOUR DEPOSIT AND HAS CLEARED YOU OF OWING HIM/HER, THEN YOU CAN ASK FOR THREE (3) TIMES AS MUCH IN MAGISTRATE COURT. HE SAID, JUST BE CAREFUL OF WHO YOU SAY OWES YOU. ASK THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR HELP WITH THE PROPER NAME & COUNTY OF BUSINESS OF THE DEFENDANT. We need to let others know of what we go through with these unprofessional SLUMS.

If McMaster is a 'slumlord', why do these morons continue to rent from him/his wife? Even reading the story, its pretty obvious that IF the properties are damaged, its the renters that damage(d) them. Thats like the dumbasses out in LA burning businesses during the riots and then complaining because there were no grocery stores in their neighborhoods. If you dont want to live in a 'slum', dont tear the houses up... If you aren't happy with where you live, then MOVE. Sounds like a bunch of winey ass liberals giving interviews to a whiney ass liberal piece of sh*t newspaper.

why don't you say what you mean? You Republican!6nsx

A few years ago Henry wouldn't vote for and in fact was a huge opponent of the Domestic Violence Bill that was running through the Capital. This story explains a lot to me then because Henry seems to be a victim too. He is a person bullied in his relationship with his wife and doesn't know how to stand up for himself. No wonder he thinks we don't need protections in place for people who are victims of domestic violence, he lives the life of someone caught in the cycle. Someone needs to do an intervention before he is elected Governor!

After enduring the torture for what seemed like ages, my roommates and I finally broke free of the McMaster BS. Winters of no heat except for a hole in the floor from the heater downstairs (SCEG spoke out about how ridiculous this was), roof leaks, delay in move-in, gas leaks, sketchy maintenance men staring at our nice things and being woken up by pest control banging on our bedroom doors, sounds like paradise right? Poor Jay was our only saving grace. The over-worked service man (mind you the only service man for ALL of the McMaster properties) always had a smile on his face. We quickly found that if we wanted anything fixed, we should call him directly because Peggy herself would not help. All together they are just a group of b.s.'ers. Smile and nod until you truly need it. Mr. McMaster's title was damage control for wrongdoings of 'Miss Peggy' on many occasions. One of the sketchy aforementioned maintenance men said it best when they stated, "I can't do much until Miss Peggy gives me the orders and that won't happen until she's done soaking in the tub." Overall, I'd say the main family member that makes my blood boil is just the Queen Bee herself... although I still wouldn't trust the politics of this family to be carried into office.

I can scarcely believe I am in any way defending Henry McMaster, but since I married someone who owns and rents a few properties I have had my eyes opened to what a huge problem property management can be. I cannot even begin to tell you how disgusting it can be to clean up the filth people leave behind when they vacate a property, the damage that "upstanding" people will do to a property that they do not own. We gave up renting to college students - even graduate students - after too many problems. So now we have a new tenant, a single parent with two teenage kids, and are getting complaints from the neighbors about the kids' & their friends' behavior! This, however, is not basis enough to evict someone. The law sides with the tenant, NOT the landlord! And as to the tax issues, many people do not realize that non-owner occupied properties are taxed at a rate almost TRIPLE that of homeowners in Richland county. Between mortgages, property maintenance & repair, and taxes one is lucky if they are able to break even. The worst part of it for me, however, has been my loss of faith in the goodness of human character. Renters - you reap what you sow.

It is easy to merely refer to unhappy tenants as "just college students." It is also easy to try to deflect complaints by characterizing students as "booze-soaked, bong-ripping college kids." These college students (or in many cases their parents) pay rent & deserve the respect of their landlord AND not all students are drunk, drug users. Renters do have rights. The issue is not that there are problems with properties this old. The renters have a choice in whether they live there and can expect more problems; BUT the McMasters still have responsibility to safely maintain their properties - regardelss of their age. Old properties mean more repairs. All property owners recognize that. We provide shelters to the homeless when it is down to 32 degrees, so is it too much to expect the heat to be turned on when an apartment is that cold? Gas leaks are potentially DEADLY, so should a tentant be rebuked by their landlord for calling the gas company when they encounter a life threatening situation? Should a tenant in a downstairs apartment expect to be handed a bucket to catch the water coming through the ceiling from a bathroom above as a long term fix? Should the recommended solution to a rat problem be to leave the hole in the floor open to encourage the rodents to enter with hopes of catching them BEFORE they destroy the tenants' property. I am confident how a jury would react to these if a health and safety risk such as these had resulted in an incident. It is amazing how our attorney general of our state has responded with solutions such as these for years. And now he wants to be governor? Now, that is amazing.

I rented a great apartment near the USC campus from landlords who kept the place up beautifully. My neighbors in the building were nice & no problems unless they stemmed from neighboring apartment buildings that were just plain gross. Everything was great until the building was sold to a company who jacked the rent way up & did next to no maintenance. Now, that once lovely refuge on campus is a rat hole just like most of the other places. I once asked my landlord how they were able to rent to great people for years. The answer was "credit check"! I had friends in the neighborhood who were constantly ragging about their landlord & guess who it was! Go look at some of the McMaster properties & see if you want to live in them. I know of one really great building they bought -- not on Greene Street -- that's now a hellhole.

After reading this article and the comments that followed, it is refreshing to know that I was not alone in my disputes with the McMasters. Upon showing me my apartment, Mrs. McMaster promised me that a washer and dryer was going to be installed before I moved in. Trusting her and her husband was a mistake. Not only was there not a washer and dryer installed when I moved in, it wasn't even installed when i finished the lease 12 months later. Just one small example of how sometimes even the "honorable" members of Columbia will sacrifice honesty to make that extra dollar.

Good to see a well researched and balanced landlord/tenant story for once. You get the feeling that McMasters is trying, but just not keeping up. Let's hope he doesn't run his office, and the next, on such a short shoestring that it continually comes untied. South Carolina can't afford any more scandals!

I rented in the Gibbes Court property owned my the McMasters in 2000-2001. It was the same back then as it is now: they are most definitely slum lords. They are both very rude and all they care about is the money they can earn off of unsuspecting college students. And why do people keep renting from him? Because no one knew at the time that they were such filthy people. When me and my other 3 roommates moved out, we cleaned the place top to bottom, only to be charged exorbitant fees for cleanup they say we never did. I was there and worked my butt off to make sure we got our deposit back, only to end up OWING MONEY AFTER THEY TOOK THE ENTIRE DEPOSIT. We met with him and he went over the fees....it was ridiculous, BUT he was able to do it because of his shady lease agreement. Read the fine print, folks...

If you don't live in Cola and want to rent a place close to campus, you'd have no idea what to expect if these people become your landlords. Only if local gov't steps in and makes them bring these places up to code will anything be accomplished. They are tight fisted and could care less about anyone else's living conditions.

The McMasters know they can rent their properties because they are close to campus. Renting to college students does have its downfalls; late night music, cheap keg parties, and a few more cars parked in the road/driveway. Nothing out of the ordinary for a neighborhood within a block radius of a major University campus. However this is something they have been doing for years, and have continued to uphold their reputation of not fixing small or very serious housing/health/fire problems in their homes. The McMasters would not be able to rent OR sell ANY of their properties to tenets that were NOT college students. Their properties are only becoming more rundown. How can a landlord expect their tenant to respect and upkeep the house they are living in if the McMasters can not even install a bedroom door, fix an air-conditioning that has been broken for a year, check the smoke alarms, or update the fire extinguisher tags... I could go on all day. If a landlord refuses to address a tenets' concerns, whether it be a safety hazard, rodent problem, or common maintenance, how can that landlord expect to be respected. The McMasters blatantly take advantage of college students' lower standard of living. I would think that since these stories have been appearing in the media the McMasters would attempt to improve their response to their tenets. However, typical of most South Carolina politicians, they just make an excuse instead of actually trying to make an active effort improve/mend their reputation. (great display of character) It is a joke to think that someone who is incapable of keeping a handful of tenets even minimally satisfied, could be responsible for the wellbeing and best interest of an entire state. HAHA it is an absolute JOKE

As a former tenant of the McMaster's at a house on Greene St. I can honestly say that South Carolina is in serious trouble if he treats its residents anything like he does his renters. I rented from them my first year living in SC (d unaware of their reputations as landlords). They refused to fix a broken street level window that I was particularly worried about after having strangers knocking on my door at 2:00am Henry told me "darlin you're in the big city now you have to get used to that" despite the fact that I was a 24 year old grad student. The apartment had no heat to speak of except a vent at the ceiling that provided nothing, they referred to in the lease this as"older heating units". Once Peggy locked a cat that wasn't mine in my apartment for two days while I was out of town because she just "assumed" it was mine. No pest control was practiced on their property, I had to pay for Orkin myself because it was a basement apartment and baby roaches started coming out of the shower, among other things. Water would pour down the wall in the main living area during heavy storms. During a conversation with Henry once he said "Say that again sugar" because he liked my accent. I never really felt that I could do much about any of this since he was the attorney general. Now I wish that I had tried. Needless to say I have no respect for these people.

I cannot wait for Peggy Mcmasters to be running our state government. As if things weren't going to s*** already.

I am a parent of a student that rented from the McMasters. The rent was $1600/month for a 3 bedroom apartment that housed 5 males. I resent how the college students have been portrayed. Our family spent 1 1/2 days cleaning the apartment before my son moved in...and then I stayed awake several nights fearing for his life because of the condition of the apartment. Most of what I have read is what we also experienced. Students that lived there excelled in their studies. McMaster's responsibility is to uphold the laws that other landlords have to uphold. I would never vote for him again...yes I am ashamed to say that I voted for him. But never again.

wow, and their campaign seems to have plenty of money... SC will elect the white good-ol-boy with the cash again and again.

I'm soooo glad McMaster will NOT be the Govenor! Woohoo!

I currently live in one of their builds because it is convenient for me. Otherwise I would never have lived here. And don't worry I'm moving out. They are HORRIBLE about taking care of their property. And I live in one of the better ones. NONE of the damages are caused by us, the tenants, they are all from the buildings age and neglect. They fix things the cheapest was possible and only when they have to. They even found it necessary to ask for a second deposit this year even though they already have my first one and the apartment is BETTER than it was when i arrived. MY guess is they spent it on campaign money. I've repaired more than they have in this place. For what I pay for this place it should not be damaged like this! If you need proof I'm not some crazy party student I make straight A's and I don't drink. They take advantage of poor college students who have to have housing close to campus. Its a choice, be ripped off by the university for small housing or get ripped off by McMaster for slummy housing. All I can say is I BETTER get my deposit back.

I live in a McMaster property and the zoning officers came to my apt yesterday, there are 4 girls in a 3 bedroom apt...that's against the zoning rules and the girls above me is 5 girls under one roof-that too is against any zoning/occupancy laws.