{"id":145,"date":"2026-11-13T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/?p=145"},"modified":"2026-11-13T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T14:00:00","slug":"california-renovations-can-beat-buyer-credits-if-you-think-its-expensive-to-hire-a-professional-wait-till-you-hire-an-amateur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/13\/california-renovations-can-beat-buyer-credits-if-you-think-its-expensive-to-hire-a-professional-wait-till-you-hire-an-amateur\/","title":{"rendered":"California Renovations Can Beat Buyer Credits | If You Think It&#8217;s Expensive To Hire A Professional; Wait Till You Hire An Amateur!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/zana-l-cooper-410790\/buyer-credit-costs-remotion-videos-9d7b\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>In California, offering a closing credit often underperformed modest pre-listing updates because buyers responded more strongly to homes that already felt move-in ready.<br \/>\nWell-presented California listings typically drew 2 to 4 offers, while homes needing even cosmetic work created less urgency and weaker competition among buyers.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In California, offering a closing credit often underperformed modest pre-listing updates because buyers responded more strongly to homes that already felt move-in ready. Well-presented California listings typically drew 2 to 4 offers, while homes needing even cosmetic work created less urgency and weaker competition among buyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}