POST ON BACK OF DOOR / LIVE PLANNER

In case of evacuation, your guests already know the way out.

Try it on your own rental: pick the county, the street, the layout, the room a guest is in and an official order. The floor route, the shelter route and the guest text redraw below.

County or city Street location Layout Guest is in Official order (sample)

RESULTBedroom 1 to the front door, then 2.8 mi to S1 Northside Middle School. Guest alert drafted for human check.

1 Floor plan COTTAGE2-B1

From Bedroom 1, the nearest way out is the front door, about 8 steps.

2 Zone map to shelter ZONE A / CITY OF SARASOTA, FL

Zone A is ordered out. Nearest open shelter: S1 Northside Middle School, 2.8 mi, 2 turns.

3 Guest text STORM DAY

2026-09-29 08:30 ET (sample) DRAFT / AWAITING STAFF CHECK

Evacuation order for Zone A and B covers your rental at Beach Rd, 1 block south of Palm St (Zone A). Please leave now. Nearest open shelter: Northside Middle School, about 2.8 mi. Head north on Beach Rd for 0.4 mi. The route map is on the back of the door. The official order always comes first.

On a real order, a staff member checks this draft against the official source before it is sent to booked guests.

ZONES: SARASOTA COUNTY KNOW YOUR ZONE LAYER VIA FDEM / SHELTERS: COUNTY PRE-SEASON SHELTER LIST, FEMA OPEN SHELTERS FEED ON STORM DAY / CHECKED MAY 12, 2026

This plan does not replace official orders. Always follow your local emergency management office and 911 instructions.

Like the route? Save it as your property. A safety reviewer checks it, then you print the posting and share the guest page.

Save this plan

$149 setup, then $99 a year per propertyManagers with 10+ units: $99 setup, $79 a year per unitSee the price

WORKING MAP. Street grids and shelters in this planner are simplified county working maps for planning. Every plan we deliver is checked by a person against the county's published zones and shelter list, and always defers to official orders.

What the owner gets for this property

Route map, ready to hang

Leave by the front door.
Head north on Beach Rd for 0.4 mi
Turn west on Palm St for 2.4 mi
Arrive at Northside Middle School.

SCALE: 1 BLOCK = 0.4 MI / 2.8 MI TOTAL

Guest guide page

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Guests scan the code on the posting to see this route on their phone, the shelter, and what to pack. The storm-day alert links to the same page.

Open the sample guest page

Storm-day alert to booked guests

2026-09-29 08:30 ET (sample) ORDER ISSUED / AWAITING CHECK

Drafted automatically from the order. A staff member checks it against the official source before it is sent.

This plan does not replace official orders. Always follow your local emergency management office and 911 instructions.

Ordinance checklist

CITY OF SARASOTA, FL / ORD. 25-5560 (JULY 2025)

Map of the evacuation route to the nearest hurricane shelters, displayed in the unit
Shelter named on the posting
Guest guide page linked by QR

Legend: how a plan gets made

01
You send the address and a floor sketch. Pick the layout in the planner or upload a phone photo of the unit layout after you save.
02
We draw the placard. Floor plan exits, your county zone, the route to the nearest usable shelter, and the guest guide page behind the QR.
03
We match your local rule. The plan is checked against your city or county's rental ordinance.
04
A safety reviewer signs it off. Route, shelter, ordinance items and disclaimer are checked by a person, who is named on the record with the date.
05
You print and post it. Or we ship it laminated.
06
We keep the data fresh, county by county. Zones from the official state or county zone layer (FDEM in Florida, Know Your Zone in North Carolina). Shelters from the county pre-season list, then FEMA's Open Shelters feed on storm day, refreshed every 20 minutes. Every county is re-checked each May and whenever an order is issued, and each map prints its source and check date.
07
Storm day, we message your booked guests. When an official order covers your zone, the alert is drafted, checked by a person, then sent.

Read how it works in full

A printed county zone map on a counter with a red route marked to a starred point, next to a radio and flashlight — Illustration. Not a real plan.

Where the rule is already written down

Public sources. Requirements vary; check your own jurisdiction.
Place	What it asks of rental owners	Source
Sarasota, FL	Display a map of the evacuation route to the nearest hurricane shelters. Ord. 25-5560, July 2025.	Shumaker
St. Johns County, FL	A posted evacuation route map location, and immediate evacuation on a hurricane warning.	St. Johns County
Hallandale Beach, FL	An evacuation route sketch with the vacation rental application.	City checklist
Tahoe Douglas, NV	A wildfire evacuation plan for vacation home rental permits.	Tahoe Douglas Fire

Next on the route: three more coasts and hills

LEG 1 / GULF

Walton County and Galveston

Walton County Ord. 2023-03 already asks for an evacuation notice by the main door and a map on upper floors. Galveston Ord. 25-060 (2025) asks for flood evacuation guidance in every unit.

LEG 2 / CAROLINAS

Outer Banks to Myrtle Beach

North Carolina's Know Your Zone covers 21 coastal counties with zones A to E, including Dare, Currituck and New Hanover. No posting rule yet, so this is a storm-day alert service. Myrtle Beach has about 19,700 listings.

LEG 3 / WESTERN WILDFIRE TOWNS

South Lake Tahoe, Truckee, Placer

The 2024 Lake Tahoe regional plan says rentals will post a QR code and link at every exit door. That is our guest guide page.

Why owners act now, even where no map is required: rental guests are rarely signed up for local emergency alerts, and the owner is the only one who knows who is in the house on storm day. Cities keep adding the rule (Sarasota and Galveston in 2025), so a plan posted this season is already in place when the ordinance lands.

A round blue roadside route sign with a white storm symbol and arrow, palms bending in wind behind it

Two tickets: one property, or the whole portfolio

SINGLE PROPERTY

$149

SETUP, THEN $99 PER YEAR FROM YEAR TWO

Print-ready route map to the nearest shelters
Guest guide page with QR
Ordinance checklist for your city or county

MANAGER PORTFOLIO, 10+ UNITS

$99/unit

SETUP, THEN $79 PER UNIT PER YEAR

50 units: $4,950 setup, $3,950 a year
Pre-season review and ordinance updates
Storm-day guest alerts, sent with a human check

Why $99 a year beats a $99 guidebook: a guidebook is a page the owner writes and keeps current, and it does nothing when an order comes. Our renewal re-checks route, shelters and ordinance each season and sends booked guests a checked text when their zone is ordered out.

Rush: $49 per property when your permit renewal is due within 7 days. The portfolio rate applies once your account has 10 or more units.

The numbers behind the price (labelled)

Build cost per unit: $10 for map and guide with a 20-minute staff check assumption
Laminated posting, printed and shipped: $6 assumption
Storm alerts, about 3 events a year: $2 assumption
Hosting and data: $3 assumption
Year-1 margin: $128 single (86%), $78 per portfolio unit (79%) derived
Renewal year cost about $11: margin $88 single, $68 portfolio derived
Sales cost: $90 single, $40 per unit on a portfolio deal assumption
Renewal churn check at 15% a year: about 5.7 renewal years, about $460 lifetime per portfolio unit against $40 to win it. At 30% churn: about $240, still six times. assumption

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Plans defer to official orders. They do not replace them.