The Web & IDX tab in kvCORE is organized into different sections that each contain settings you may wish to use when fine-tuning your website. It also contains a button that takes you straight to your kvCORE website's settings list.

Please Note: Depending on the account you are a part of and what user role you have (Agent vs. Admin) you may not see all of the below settings. This is to be expected and does not indicate a technical issue with your account.

There are a few different ways to access your website settings.

TIP: The "Site Overview" button will take you back to the Web & IDX tab.

You can then choose which section of your website settings list you would like to jump to from the navigation menu to the left.

Please Note: When you update a setting you MUST click the blue 'Save' button right underneath (if one is present) otherwise your new update will NOT be saved or go into effect.

The Hero, Champion, Victor, or Warrior templates are recommended. To learn more, click here.

Preview templates using the 'View' button.

Important: If you have purchased a Semi-Custom Website Template, Custom Featured Areas, or Custom Widgets from your kvCORE Marketplace and Professional Services is currently working on it or has already set it up, the Homepage Widgets layout option explained below will override that customization.

If you have edited any of the Site Editor HTML code, the Homepage Widgets layout option explained below will override that customization.

Please Note: If you have selected the Victor, Champion, or Warrior template you will not have the below options as those templates have pre-added widgets. The pre-added widgets are as follows:

Victor:

Warrior:

Champion:

Instead of viewing the Hompage Widgets section below, with the Victor, Champion, and Warrior templates you'll see 'Homepage Content' where you can create a custom widget layout.

The first main section of your website settings list deals with your website Template. The second setting in this section is the Template Homepage Widgets and it contains two options for you to use.

Template Homepage Widgets

When you first log into your kvCORE account the Template Homepage Widgets drop-down will appear blank and it will default to the Standard layout option automatically.

If you would like to see a preview of the different layout options, you can click on the 'View examples' link underneath the dropdown.

This will bring up a list of examples showcasing each layout option.

Because you can change the layout of the widgets as many times as you would like, you can select an option from the blank drop-down and then click the blue "Save" button underneath it to apply it to your kvCORE website.

Standard Example

Modern Example

Luxury Example

Modern Side-by-Side Example

If you do not like the way it looks you can come back to this website setting and choose another until you find one you would like to keep.

Under the drop-down there are three links:

You do not have to enable any of kvCORE's additional default widgets or edit your homepage widgets' code if you do not wish to. The widget layout option will work with your existing default widgets and code if you want to just change their layout on your kvCORE website.

To learn more about kvCORE's additional default widgets, click here.

To learn more about the site editor, click here.

The first main section of your website settings list deals with your website Template. The third setting in this section is the Template Theme and it offers a lot of preset color options that will be used throughout your kvCORE website as the main and secondary colors.

Please Note: At this time there is no way to choose a primary theme color and a secondary complimenting color. You can, however, set Black as your secondary header color under Template Extra Options.

Your template theme will default to the color your Admin has chosen for the Company and Office websites, but you can select another option to change the color on just your website by clicking on the color from the drop-down and then clicking the blue "Save" button.

The colors are sorted alphabetically for easy reference, but the 'Custom' option will always appear at the top of the list.

After you click on 'Custom' from the drop-down list a color-picker tool will appear. This allows you to use a HEX color code, the RGB color spaces, or the HSL color degrees for the exact color you would like to use on your kvCORE website.

Once you are satisfied with your color choice, click the blue "Save" button under the color picker and it will be applied automatically.

TIP: If you already have your kvCORE website pulled up in a separate browser tab or if you go to your website immediately after saving the color choice, you may not see it change right away. If this occurs, please refresh the website by clicking F5 on your keyboard or the refresh button in your browser. It may take up to 10 minutes for the change to show.

Choosing From Default Images

Scroll down a bit to the Background Images section. Here you can select some of the default images to rotate through on your website. This gives your clients variety when viewing your website.
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To select the images you want to use click the checkbox to the left of the photo. Once you're satisfied with your choices click 'Save'.

When you choose more than one image at a time, they will be chosen randomly each time your homepage is loaded.

Custom Background Images

A custom background image may be used on your kvCORE site, but there are a few tips that you can follow to make this process a little easier.

To upload a custom image click on the grey area below the background image selector to upload your image or drag it into the space.

Once added, you will see some controls. Click on the edit icon (center option in the image below) to tweak your image.

In the edit interface, there are a few more controls that will allow you to tweak your image to your liking.

After your modifications are complete, you'll see the edited image ready to upload. Click the upload icon on the right.

While your image is uploading, wait for the success messages that will show on the left-hand side of the page.

Now your custom image is selectable from the background chooser at the top of the page. Select it and click 'Save'.

When you re-visit your home page, your custom image will be visible.

Scroll down past 'Background Image(s)' to see the 'Secondary Logo' setting.

Drag your image or click to upload your secondary logo.

Please Note: The recommended dimensions are 512px wide by 512px high. You will need to resize and/or crop your image into a square format in order for it to look the best.

Once uploaded, you will see three icons that you may use to delete, edit, or upload the image.

Click on the upload icon to add it to your site once you are satisfied with the way it looks. You will see two notifications pop up as kvCORE uploads and adds the logo.

Go to your website to confirm the logo is appearing correctly.

TIP: Because this logo may be included in notifications to your contacts from kvCORE, a colored or black logo is recommended so that it does not blend into the white email header.

Please Note: To save bandwidth background videos do not play on mobile sites. You'll want to select a background photo that will display when a user views your mobile site.

On your website settings page, click 'Template' on the left.

From the 'Templates' section you'll want to scroll down to the 'Background Video YouTube ID' field.

Here, you may specify a background YouTube video, that will play behind the header elements, graphics, and search bar on the home page. The YouTube ID comes after the "?v=" in the URL of youtube.com.
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For example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLxeyLyvw-0
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The ID needed is: tLxeyLyvw-0
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Do not include anything before or after the alphanumeric characters. Many times when you are looking at YouTube links they can be quite messy. You only want the portion after v= and before any other characters such as &, #, etc.
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For example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLxeyLyvw-0&t=1s
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The ID here would be: tLxeyLyvw-0
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This replaces the background images you have selected on all desktop versions of your website with the specified video. On mobile sites, the background images are used instead to save your users' bandwidth and keep your mobile site moving quickly.

Please Note: It is a possibility that the video is blurry or slow to start. kvCORE is unable to buffer the video as it buffered on YouTube. There isn't a way to uniformly change the way the video displays on all operating systems. If you're unhappy with the quality of a certain background video you will want to choose another one to replace it.

Remove the default 'Chat with us' widget that links to Facebook Messenger by toggling the Hide Chat Widget section on.

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The only option you have for your Office address (controlled by your Office Admin) is to show or hide it from your contact page completely. If toggled on, both the office address and map will be hidden from the contact page on your website.

Change the header from white to black.

Change the header from white to the primary color of the template theme you chose.

Change the Agent Profile image from a circle to a square.

Remove your Agent Profile image from your website homepage entirely.

In the case that you'd like to hide the 'Our Resources' page on your kvCORE website you can with this setting. The 'Hide Resources Page' setting is located in the 'General' section of the website settings. It specifically hides the resources page from the 'Resources' tab.

Please Note: All website settings trickle down.

The main component of your kvCORE website is made up of all the listings from your MLS feed(s) to showcase them to potential Buyers, encouraging them to engage with you as their real estate Agent.

One way kvCORE enhances your Buyers' website experience is by labeling your listings with applicable features that are based on the listing's information as entered by the listing Agent into the MLS.

Listing Labels

A listing label is a featured keyword that displays in the top left of each image for that listing on your website.

These labels are automatically applied by kvCORE based on the listing's description that the listing agent has added in the MLS as well as some of the features they selected to apply to the listing.

A few examples of the listing labels that can appear are:

TIP: The full list of recognized description terms and selected features is quite extensive and the above list is a short sample.

The listing labels that appear on your specific website will differ depending on the MLS feed(s) you have connected, whether or not the listing Agent used a term that kvCORE recognizes, and if there are specific features selected upon adding it to the MLS.

The 'Open House' label is generated directly from the associated MLS if they pass that information to kvCORE through the connected IDX feed.

TIP: The 'Amenities' list at the bottom of each listing shows what additional features the listing Agent chose for that listing within the MLS and kvCORE can recognize some of these terms in order to apply a listing label.

Please Note: Because these labels are auto-generated, there is no way to adjust them manually. The listing Agent would need to update their listing's description or the selected features in order to change the label.

Occasionally, you may expect to see a listing label where it does not appear. This can be due to your MLS not passing that information through the IDX feed your website is connected to.

If you ever want to confirm why a listing label was or was not applied to a specific property, check out the listing's description and additional features.

Limited Listing Labels

In your website settings list you have the ability to completely remove the display of listing labels on your kvCORE website with the exception of 'Open House' and 'Just Listed'.

TIP: If you choose to use limited listing labels, this selection will not apply to the labels that may have been applied to your manually added listings, like your 'View' selection.

Force Lead Registration is a setting within your website settings used to determine how many properties a potential lead can view before they need to register on your website.

Scroll down to 'Force Lead Registration' and update your settings using the dropdown menu.

Click 'Save'.

There are four options you can select.

The website title is always shown on the website tab after the page has loaded.

Automatically a generic website title will populate using some basic information such as your Company name and location.
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This website title can be updated by first hovering over the Web & IDX tab from the main navigation on the left. Then choose 'Website Settings'.
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Then scroll down to the 'Website Title'. Update as you please and click 'Save'.

After refreshing your website your new website title will be visible from the website tab and will show on your future social media posts.

After the website title, we have the 'Meta Description' which is kind of like a subtitle. It's a very short description of what your page or site is all about. The system generates a default meta description that uses the format:
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Real Estate & Homes For Sale | [Company/Team Name]
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The default can be updated to what you desire. From your website settings page, scroll to 'Homepage Meta Description' (beneath 'Website Title'), enter your custom description there, and save it.

This new meta description can be found as the tagline when sharing your link on Google or Facebook.

The 'Header,' 'Body,' & 'Footer' all reference specific parts of the HTML that make up your kvCORE website. These fields are intended for you to be able to add scripts for tracking and other back-end functionality to your kvCORE website. To learn more about adding scripts, pixels, and more to your site click here.

Please Note: It's possible that adding code or HTML could break your kvCORE website. It's best if using any of these fields to save one at a time. If you change too many fields at once and something happens that changes your website in an undesirable way, you might have to delete everything and start over again to find the problem.

Common reasons why code may not work on your site:

The custom header is the HTML header of your website. Typically you would need to place special scripts here, such as the Facebook tracking pixel.

The header section of your website code is never displayed on the webpage itself, but the content in that section is used to provide resources that the browser needs to correctly load the page. This includes style or display information, tracking scripts, and metadata used to display previews and provide search engines with summaries of your content.
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If you were to insert something like an image or a paragraph, it would never actually be displayed on the page, or used by anything after the page is loaded.
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As such, this section of the website that is available for you to insert content into is typically used for verification pixels and scripts. It's also used for more complex scripts that provide the functionality to something that you might put elsewhere into a custom page or into other editable content that is displayed to website visitors.

The 'Header,' 'Body,' & 'Footer' all reference specific parts of the HTML that make up your kvCORE website. These fields are intended for you to be able to add scripts for tracking and other back-end functionality to your kvCORE website. To learn more about adding scripts, pixels, and more to your site click here.

Please Note: It's possible that adding code or HTML could break your kvCORE website. It's best if using any of these fields to save one at a time. If you change too many fields at once and something happens that changes your website in an undesirable way, you might have to delete everything and start over again to find the problem.

Common reasons why code may not work on your site:

The custom body is the HTML Body of your website. This is visible when someone visits your page. Typically you would only use this for adding Google Tag Manager scripts. To customize your sites' homepage, you should follow our website customization guide.

The 'Header,' 'Body,' & 'Footer' all reference specific parts of the HTML that make up your kvCORE website. These fields are intended for you to be able to add scripts for tracking and other back-end functionality to your kvCORE website. To learn more about adding scripts, pixels, and more to your site click here.

Please Note: It's possible that adding code or HTML could break your kvCORE website. It's best if using any of these fields to save one at a time. If you change too many fields at once and something happens that changes your website in an undesirable way, you might have to delete everything and start over again to find the problem.

Common reasons why code may not work on your site:

The custom footer content will be inserted into a specific place at the bottom of your website, known as the "footer."

The footer is actually divided up into several different sections:

These sections all serve different purposes. For example, the MLS disclaimer MUST appear at the bottom of the site. As does the usage policy and privacy policy, etc.

The place where your content will appear is on the upper left side, just below your social media buttons:

Many things can appear in this section. The 'About Me' content from your Agent profile, office address(es), and more. Like the other sections provided in these content settings, it is intended for scripts. However as you can see by the screenshot above, it will render any HTML you enter.

This is a special usage area, that is triggered after a New Lead is captured on your website. Google conversion codes are typically entered here. This kind of conversion code usage does not rely on the URL to signal a New Lead is captured, but rather when a New Lead is captured, the content in this box is loaded to the page. Different conversion code methods will specify how they should be used. You will want to use the version that runs off of a script, not triggered by a URL change.

Instead of the standard Facebook Messenger chat widget, you can replace the Facebook Messenger/Chat script that is built into your kvCORE site with the chat/messenger script that you paste into this section. Some chat program options include Intercom, Olark, or tawk.to. You can also choose to "Hide" the Chat Widget under the Template section in your website settings.

Please Note: You can easily connect to either your personal or business Facebook chat using the 'Facebook Username for Chat' section.

Add your Business Page's username so visitors can chat with you via Facebook Messenger.

Add an extra address to your website footer.

Your CCPA contact phone number if applicable.

For more information on CCPA, click here.

Your CCPA email address if applicable.

For more information on CCPA, click here.

This setting is not available for all accounts. If you believe your account should have access to language settings please reach out to Support at kvcore@insiderealestate.com

To learn more about WCAG, click here.

You can fill in this field with plain text or HTML if you wish. This recruit text will be shown on the 'We're Hiring' page on your website.

Using this toggle, hide the Office information on your Agent site.

Toggle this setting on to hide connected Zillow testimonials.

Here, you can add your Zillow screen name or email so that your Zillow testimonials automatically populate on your site.

Please Note: You only need to add either the username or email. If you attempt to add both there may be syncing issues.

To learn more about Zillow testimonials, click here.

This setting is only available to Admins. Inheriting child testimonials for Office, Team or Company websites means that the testimonials added by Agents on their personal pages will also be available for viewing on those sites.

Update the label of your 'Search' page. This links to the /index.php?rtype=grid search page.

Update the label of your 'Sell' page. Links to /sell.php.

To learn more about your 'Sell' page, click here.

Update the label of your 'Finance' page. Links to /finance.php.

To learn more about the 'Finance' page, click here.

Update the label of your 'Resources' menu.

Update the label of the 'Agents' tab. The 'Agents' tab links to the Agent Roster or Agent Profile page.

For more information about the 'Agent Profile' page, click here.

Update the label of the 'We're Hiring' tab. Shows in the 'Agents' menu, links to /recruit.php

Update the 'Hiring' link to a custom URL

Please Note: You'll need to leave '/recruit.php/' and can add what you like after the slash.

Choose from your Custom Page titles the ones that you want to display in your main navigation. You can display a maximum of 4 individual pages.

To learn more about Custom Pages, click here.

Choose from the categories that your pages are filed under, which ones you want to display in your main navigation. Categories act as 'menus' and will show all pages in that category when you hover over them. You can display a maximum of 2 categories in your main navigation.

To learn more about Custom Pages, click here.

In the case that you'd like to hide the Resources page on your kvCORE website you absolutely can! The 'Hide Resources Page' setting is located in the 'General' section of the website settings. It specifically hides the resources tab from the main navigation at the top of a kvCORE website.
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When you add custom pages to your kvCORE website, they are added to a kind of master directory of custom pages called 'Resources'.

Depending on your website customization ideas, or branding, you may not want to show the resources tab at all. Toggling this setting on will remove it from your kvCORE website. Your custom pages will still be accessible as direct links. The custom pages or navigation items that you added will remain as well.

Use this setting to hide the 'Finance' tab from your website.

Use this setting to hide the 'We're Hiring' page from your website.

Your kvCORE website is designed to be consumers' one-stop-shop for all listings in the area(s) they are looking at. The listing carousels that are featured on the front page showcase the specific types or locations of listings that you would like to bring immediate attention to.

For instance, if you would like to feature properties whose price was recently lowered, you can feature listings under a Just Reduced carousel that fit that circumstance. Or you could set one of the carousels to show listings in a particular city or neighborhood to generate more leads interested in an area that you work in regularly.

When you click on the 'Area' option for a carousel, you will notice a second field where you can select your desired location from the drop-down that appears.

TIP: If you do not see a drop-down list or if the list does not contain the Area you would like to choose, you can adjust the list of Areas in the Web & IDX > Content tab.

For more information on Service Areas, click here.

This field is for your Google Analytics ID.

Google Analytics is a platform that collects data from your websites and apps to create reports that provide insights into your business. If this is your first time working with Google Analytics, you will want to start by reviewing Google's Introduction to Analytics article!

Please Note: You do not need to add the Google Analytics script to your header, just enter your ID into this field.

IMPORTANT: Please ensure you're using GA 4.

What is Google Analytics 4?
GA4 is a new kind of property designed for the future of measurement:

What do I need to do in kvCORE?

What happens if I don't update my ID?
On July 1, 2023, standard Universal Analytics properties will no longer process data. You'll be able to see your Universal Analytics reports for a period of time after July 1, 2023. However, new data will only flow into Google Analytics 4 properties. Learn more here.

How do I know if I'm using GA 4?
If you are using Universal Analytics, you'll see a blue notification at the top that says "Universal Analytics will no longer process new data in standard properties beginning July 1, 2023." (However, if you previously dismissed this notification, it will not display.)
You can also look at your property ID to see whether you are using Universal Analytics or Google Analytics 4.

For additional information on the differences between these two properties, click here.

This setting is only available to Admins. Turning this setting on will show Agents that have been marked inactive on the applicable Team/Office/Company website.

For more information on inactive status Agents, click here.

This setting will hide the 'Your Agent' section from listings on the website.

This setting is only available to Admins.

Turn this setting on to show blog posts Agents have added to their personal sites, on either a Team, Office, or Company website.

Update the website tagline without changing the website title.

The website title can be overridden in the website settings using the setting titled 'Use Agent Info For Tagline.'

When set to 'Yes', the tagline shows the agent's contact info instead on their agent website:

This setting will remove the 'Realtor' verbiage from the Agent Profile page on your website.

Please Note: Adding a position to your Agent Profile will override this setting.

One of the seven options available is the Types Served list. This is a list of property types that Inside Real Estate receives from the MLS board(s) that are enabled for your website.

If there is a property type that you are expecting to see and do not, this means that the MLS board(s) do not pass that type of property over to Inside Real Estate through the IDX feed being used. This is usually something that cannot be adjusted.

Checking a box means that a property with that selected listing type in the MLS will be included in search results and can be displayed where applicable. For instance, 'Multi-Family' properties will appear as an option to use when searching for properties and in the default widget displayed on your front page.

Unchecking a box means that the listing type will not appear as an option to use when searching for properties and, if it matches one of the types that the default widget uses (like Multi-Family), the number shown will say "0 Listings".

TIP: If you believe you are missing a listing from the MLS, check the listings type area first. Most "missing" listings are not displayed because the type of listing they are in the MLS is not enabled to display on your website.

One of the several options available in that Listings section is the Don't Scrub Areas setting. It is toggled on by default and it is strongly recommended that you leave it toggled on.

When this setting is turned on it tells kvCORE's system to look for misspelled or similar sounding locations and group them together under a main location that is widely used.

For example, say that a listing agent adds a new property to your MLS, but is typing a bit too quickly and misspells "Albuquerque" as "Albequerque". kvCORE can tell that the city was misspelled and will display that listing as a result when a visitor searches the correct name even though it does not match exactly.

If you change this website by toggling it off then that misspelled location will be treated as a separate city from "Albuquerque" and visitors will need to purposely search for that misspelling in order to find that particular listing.

Available to Admins only. This setting allows Admins to hide listings that are manually added by their Agents from the Team, Office, or Company website.

Hide my exclusive listings on other Agent sites - Only available for Canadian Agents. This will hide exclusive listings you add on other Agents' kvCORE websites.

Do not display my listings on other Agents' websites and no other Agents' listing will appear on my website - Only available for Agents located in Quebec. This setting will hide your personal listings from other Agents' kvCORE websites and theirs from your site.

Enhance your website with geographical areas using this setting.

To learn more about geographical areas, click here.

One of the seven options available is the Default Sort setting. The default option for this setting is 'Price $$-$' meaning that when a visitor searches for listings they will see them sorted from highest price to lowest.

There are ten other options that you can choose from:

Each of these (other than the two price range options) will auto-sort the listings from highest to lowest. For example, 'Beds' will sort listings from most to least, 'Footage' will sort from most to least, etc...

The option you choose from the drop-down controls what visitors will initially see after searching for listings, but they are able to re-sort the listings using these same options as desired.

One of the seven options available is the Default Display setting. The default for this setting is 'Map', meaning visitors will see their search results appear in a list next to a map with the location of each property plotted out on it.

TIP: The white "Use Parent" button acts as a reset button; it will revert that particular setting back to the option that your Office Admin has chosen for the Office website you are associated with.

There are two other options that you can choose from (other than the Map):

1. Grid

2. List

Just like with the default sort option, visitors may change their view once they see the property search results page.

One of the seven options available is the 'Popular Options' dropdown list. It is a little-known, but helpful resource at the very bottom of your website settings list.

The dropdown options under this setting depend on the MLS board(s) you have associated with your kvCORE account. They reflect the additional features that listing Agents can choose to feature when adding a listing to the MLS.

For instance, if your MLS allows listing Agents to select 'Fireplace' as a property feature, then 'Fireplace' will be an option to choose from in the drop-down.

If you choose an additional search option to feature on your website, visitors can use that as an option when narrowing down their property requirements on your kvCORE website under the "More Filters" button.

You can choose more than one additional search option, but it is recommended to limit it to displaying no more than 5 or 6 at a time otherwise you run the risk of overwhelming your website visitors. It is also possible for a visitor to choose too many search options and see no results because they are searching too narrowly.

Quick Tip: When editing the site there may be a delay in your changes, to make sure that the change takes place you can flush the site cache, to do this just add this text " ?FLUSH_CACHE=1 " to the end of your URL reset the site and then you change will display.

Example: https://idx.officialiredemoaccount.com/?FLUSH_CACHE=1

Please Note: Only Agents in the states of Texas, New York, and California will have the 'Compliance' section in Web & IDX Settings.

In the 'Compliance' section, you can see/update compliance requirements by state. Here you have the ability to:

In kvCORE, websites can be managed individually for each Agent, Team, and Office.

This means that each entity (Agent, Team, or Office) can have its own roster settings, own blogs, testimonials, and other content.

As long as website settings remain untouched at the Agent level, they will always inherit the settings of the Office site.

In other words, your website settings are automatically updated by your Office Admin, unless you customize them yourself. If you choose to customize them yourself, your settings will remain permanently set until you change them again.

The trickle-down only affects the settings you do not touch. There is a separate save button for each setting.

The settings on this page control the more technical aspects of your kvCORE site.

Unless directed, you will probably leave your technical settings in place, unless you are looking to change some specific functionality of your site. Please reach out to Support with questions on what you would like to change, and the Team is able to help you change it!

If you have any questions on one or more of these options, please reach out to Support via the blue chat bubble to the right or by emailing kvcore@insiderealestate.com!

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