Consumer Guide Update: Prepare Your Home for Hurricane Season

Louisiana REALTORS® • August 14, 2026

With the peak time of year for hurricanes approaching, NAR brings you a new consumer guide, “Prepare Your Home for Hurricane Season.” If you work in an area prone to hurricanes and tropical storms—or one that has experienced the rain and flooding that can follow such a storm—the guide offers practical tips your clients can use to ensure their personal safety and protect their home and personal property. Use the new guide as a starting point for conversations with prospective clients, especially relocating buyers new to hurricane-prone areas. 
 
All guides in this series are available for download—in both English and Spanish—on facts.realtor. Please allow two weeks for the Spanish version of the latest resource to be translated and uploaded.
 
 New! Add your brand to consumer guides. All of NAR’s one-page consumer guides are available as PDF or image downloads. But now, for the first time, you can also download a PowerPoint version of “Prepare Your Home for Hurricane Season” that enables you to easily add your company logo, photo and contact information. Adding your branding to the consumer guides will help you build trust with your clients and potential clients. Later this month all the guides we've produced will be customizable with your branding. Visit facts.realtor to download the newly brandable guides. 

For ease of reference, below is a list of the most recent guides:

 

Thank you for your continued engagement with the “Consumer Guide” series and for sharing the resources with prospective clients to ensure they have the information they need to find success in their home buying or selling journey. Remember that these guides are for informational purposes only and are not meant to enact or change any existing NAR policy. 

 

The next Consumer Guide, scheduled for publication on Aug. 26, is on helping adult children prepare for homeownership.

Consumer Guide Update: Teen Financial Literacy

By Louisiana REALTORS® • October 9, 2026
Want Your Teen to Own a Home Someday? Start Talking Money Now Teens may not be thinking about mortgage rates or down payments just yet, but the money habits they’re building now can follow them for years. And 88% of teens surveyed by Fannie Mae and Junior Achievement said they want to own a home someday. This week’s Consumer Guide: Talk to Your Teens About Money and Homeownership makes those conversations a little easier, covering everything from credit scores and budgeting to debt, renting versus owning and saving for that eventual down payment. So yes, you may have to interrupt the doomscrolling. But helping teens get smarter about money today could put them in a much better position to get the keys to a home of their own down the road. Download all of NAR’s Consumer Guides in English or Spanish at facts.realtor. For ease of reference, below is a list of the most recent guides: NEW: Teen Financial Literacy Fraud Red Flags Helping Family Members Become Homeowners Prepare Your Home for Hurricane Season Condominium Insurance Thank you for your continued engagement with the “Consumer Guide” series and for sharing the resources with prospective clients to ensure they have the information they need to find success in their home buying or selling journey. Remember that these guides are for informational purposes only and are not meant to enact or change any existing NAR policy. The next Consumer Guide, scheduled for publication on Oct. 21, will cover winter cold and storm preparedness.

Constitutional Amendment Positions for November 3 Election

By Louisiana REALTORS® • October 9, 2026
Homeownership Is on Louisiana's November Ballot

Cookbook for the REALTORS® Relief Foundation On Sale Now!

By Louisiana REALTORS® • October 8, 2026
After months of gathering recipes from across our Louisiana REALTORS® family, the cookbook is ready! This 200+ page collection is filled with Louisiana flavor, REALTOR® heart and recipes contributed by our members. We launched sales of the cookbook at the Fall Governance Meetings. You can now purchase your copy for $30 directly from the printer and shipped to you! Additionally, we will have copies available at the RRF booth at NXT . After NXT, we will carry a limited stock at the LR office for you to purchase through the LR Merch Shop and pick-up from the office or at an LR event, as stock is available. Even better, $15 from every cookbook sold will be donated to the REALTORS® Relief Foundation (RRF) to help provide housing-related assistance to REALTORS® and their families following disasters. Pick up a copy for yourself, grab one as a gift and enjoy a taste of Louisiana while supporting a great cause!
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