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# How to Use the Home Values Tool

How the Home Values tool turns a visitor's address into an instant home estimate and a lead, where to find those leads, and how to make sure visitors get their report by email.

Home Values adds a **What Is Your Home Worth?** page to your website. A visitor enters their address, confirms a few details about the home, and gets an instant estimate with nearby comparable sales. You get them as a lead.

The estimates come from public records through our data partner, Home Junction.

## What your visitors see

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### They search their address

The visitor types their street, city, state and ZIP (plus a unit number if they have one) and clicks **Search**.
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### They confirm the home's details

They pick the **Property Type**, **Beds**, **Baths**, **Sq. Ft.**, **Condition** and their **Interest**, then click **Generate Report**. Public records fill in what's known, so they only fix what's wrong.

![The property details bar with Property Type, Beds, Baths, Sq. Ft., Condition, Interest and Generate Report](https://2039430885-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2Fq65vhH2v4k5rpDOha9Vm%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-38fac973d0871d488e329885fddb81a3fdc4a98a%2Fhome-values-2-details.png?alt=media)
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### They enter their contact details

To see the report, the visitor adds their contact details. You choose how strict this is in **Customize & Settings** > **General**: **Registration Lock** (**No Registration**, **Soft Registration** or **Forced Registration**), and whether **Full name** and **Phone number** are required. The estimate and comparable sales then show on the page.
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## Find your Home Values leads

Go to **Site Tools** > **Home Valuation** > **View All Leads**. Each address shows one of these statuses:

| Status                | What it means                                                                                  |
| --------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Partial**           | The visitor searched an address but didn't finish. You have the address, but no name or email. |
| **Unable to Compute** | There wasn't enough public data to estimate this home.                                         |
| **Completed**         | The visitor finished and saw their report. You have their contact details.                     |

A partial lead is saved as soon as someone searches an address, even if they leave right away.

## Email the report to your visitors

The report shows on the page right away, but it's only emailed to the visitor when the auto-responder is on. To turn it on, go to **Site Tools** > **Home Valuation** > **Customize & Settings**, open the **Auto-Responder** tab, tick **Enable auto-responder** and click **Update**.

The same page has your other settings, like the look of the page, comparable filters, tracking codes and who gets notified about new leads.

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**Want names for your partial leads?** The **Home Values Enrich** add-on in the **Marketplace** adds more information to your partial leads, so you have more to go on with people who searched but didn't finish.
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## Common Questions

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<summary>A visitor got $0, an error, or no estimate.</summary>

There wasn't enough public data for that home. This happens more in non-disclosure states, where sale prices aren't public, and for homes with little public data. The lead shows as **Unable to Compute**. Reach out to them with a personal estimate instead.

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<summary>A visitor says they never got their report by email.</summary>

Check that **Enable auto-responder** is ticked in **Customize & Settings** > **Auto-Responder**. Then ask them to check their spam folder.

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<summary>Can Home Values send my clients an updated value every month?</summary>

No. A report is created each time someone requests one. They can come back to the page any time for a new estimate.

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<summary>Is my "What's My Home Worth" contact form the same thing?</summary>

Not always. Some websites have a regular contact form that only collects the address for you to prepare a value yourself. The Home Values tool is the page with the address search that creates an instant estimate.

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<summary>I activated Home Values, but I can't find the page.</summary>

Look for a **Home Valuation** page under **Pages**, and check your menu. If it's not there, email <support@agentfire.com>.

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