I really loved living at Congaree Villas as my first-time apartment. Kathy the manager is super friendly, she knows everyone and she'll text you if you got a package and make sure it's safe in the leasing office. I lived in the inner circle so you can sometimes hear kids having fun by the pool but for the most part its quiet, even with living so close to two interstates! Maintenance was good for the most part, except for the fact that the microwaves do not ventilate at all and they don't know... how to fix that. Driving into Columbia was easy, just take two lefts and drive 12 to 20 minutes on Charleston Hwy to get into downtown (it varies due to how many stoplights you hit, two of them you can wait at for 3 minutes if you just missed the green light). I will say that turning left out of the complex is difficult at certain times (7am and 5pm) due to a school being just up the road and the two stop lights are just far away enough so that cars never align, or its just bad luck on my part. Any other time of day it's not bad at all. Sometimes parking can get annoying if a lot of people live in one apartment but for the most part parking isn't too big of a problem. I wouldn't have minded having assigned parking if each apartment always had the two closest to its door. But overall, I would stay here again if I wasn't moving out of state! Read More

This review will remain here until you get assigned parking spots. I'm tired of having to park on the other side of the apartment complex at night.