If your home in Tallahassee, and unincorporated Leon County is not livable after Isaias, you may be able to stay on your own property while it is repaired. We deliver a furnished travel trailer to your driveway or yard, set it up, have it connected, and service it for the whole stay. When a carrier approves the trailer, we can bill the carrier directly.
Local rules. Tallahassee and Leon County each have a post-disaster program that lets an RV stand on the lot of a home made uninhabitable while it is repaired, once the city or county activates it, and Florida's shelter law applies too. Each rule is linked to its official source below.
Housing a crew? No code we found in Tallahassee or Leon County lets a crew live in RVs on a job site; both post-disaster programs are for owners, and the county's security exception covers a manufactured home office. Crew rules and housing
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Go back into an evacuated area, and plan a delivery there, only when local officials say it is safe, and follow road closures. For Leon County, official updates come from the Leon County Emergency Management (Emergency Information Portal) and Florida Division of Emergency Management.
Checked against the sources above as of . For current conditions, go to the source.
Whether a trailer can stay on your lot is decided by your city, or by the county outside city limits, and by your HOA if you have one. Here is what each one’s own code or official page says, in short. Our parent brand covers the residential RV rules for Tallahassee and Leon County in detail.
Leon County is named in Florida's Isaias state of emergency, so the state shelter law below applies alongside the local program. The local permit runs six months, extendable, and the state law protects one shelter for up to 36 months; ask the city or county how they apply both, and whether the local program has been activated for Isaias.
Florida law says that after the Governor declares a state of emergency for a natural emergency, a county (section 125.023) or a city (section 166.0335) may not prohibit one temporary shelter, which includes a recreational vehicle or trailer, on the residential property of a home that was damaged and made uninhabitable. That protection runs for up to 36 months after the declaration or until a certificate of occupancy is issued for the home, whichever comes first, and only while three things are true: the resident is making a good-faith effort to rebuild or renovate, such as applying for a building permit; the shelter is connected to water and electric utilities and is not a threat to health and safety; and the resident lives in it. Local permits for the hookups still apply.
Florida Statutes, section 125.023 (counties) | Florida Statutes, section 166.0335 (cities)
That depends on your policy and your adjuster. When a carrier approves the trailer, we can bill the carrier directly, so you are not fronting the cost. Our parent brand explains the claim side on 1st Choice Living’s Florida page. Once the placement is arranged, the trailer, delivery, and service are ours.
Every size arrives furnished, with real beds, a full kitchen, a bathroom with a shower, and heat and air conditioning. More on a trailer on your property while you rebuild.
We work with any temporary housing company. If one is handling your housing, ask them to place you with Temporary RV Living, or with our parent brand, 1st Choice Living, for a trailer on your own lot in Leon County. They send us the placement, and we deliver, set up, and service the trailer.
For restoration, roofing, tree, utility, and response crews working in Tallahassee, and unincorporated Leon County. Bring the housing to the work. We deliver travel trailers to the site, or as close as the ground allows, and set up and connect them the same way we do in a driveway. A two-person crew fits one trailer. A full crew takes a cluster, and the Workforce Bunkhouse sleeps six or more per trailer, with a kitchen and a bathroom the crew shares. One point of contact runs the placement, it lands on one invoice billed directly to the company, and we handle the LOA, COI, and compliance paperwork your office or your client requires.
Ask City of Tallahassee Growth Management, or Leon County Development Support and Environmental Management outside city limits, before delivery, with the address and how long the crew expects to stay. More on crew housing.
Water, sewer or septic, and electrical connections are completed by licensed, insured contractors from our preferred vendor network, so you do not hire an electrician or a plumber. We look at how far the trailer will sit from the water, sewer, and power it will use, and confirm the site with you on the call before the trailer rolls.
Electric service in Leon County comes from the utilities below. Each posts its own outage and storm updates.
Call the office for the city where the trailer will sit, or the county office outside city limits. Ask whether a travel trailer may be used there, for how long, and which permits the hookups need.
Answer a few questions in the request form and a rep calls you back with a written quote, or call (214) 493-1515.
Our sister brand LossMap covers documenting a property from the air before tarps go on and debris comes off, on LossMap’s Tallahassee and Leon County page.
Tallahassee's post-disaster program lets an RV be temporarily permitted on the lot of a single-family home the building official finds uninhabitable, with electric, water, and sanitary hookups, for six months from the declaration, extendable, once the City Commission or City Manager activates it. Florida's shelter law also applies. Ask Growth Management at 850-891-7001.
Yes, Leon County's code has the same program, activated by the Board of County Commissioners or the County Administrator, and Florida's shelter law applies after the Governor's declaration, which names Leon County. Ask Development Support and Environmental Management at 850-606-1300 whether it has been activated for Isaias.
The local programs run six months from the emergency declaration, extendable by resolution. Florida law keeps a city or county from barring one temporary shelter on the lot of a home made uninhabitable for up to 36 months or until a certificate of occupancy, while you rebuild in good faith, live in it, and keep it connected to water and power. Ask the city or county how it applies both.
No code we found allows it. Tallahassee has no construction trailer or RV crew housing provision, and its post-disaster program covers owners. In unincorporated Leon County, a manufactured home office on a construction site may be lived in only if the chief building official finds it necessary for security. Ask before delivery.
We deliver, set up, and service trailers nationwide, and have since 2004. Put the Leon County address in the request form and we confirm the site with you on the call. Plan a delivery only once local officials, including Leon County Emergency Management, say the roads are safe.
Official pages and official code hosts, checked October 9, 2026. Rules can change after a storm; the office that wrote the rule has the final word.
For your family or a crew, answer a few questions and a rep calls you back with a written quote.
