Best uses for Bilt points | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep297 | 3-14-25
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
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🗓️ 15 March 2025
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Bilt Rewards is a program that became famous for giving you rewards for your rent payments, but these days there are many ways to earn Bilt rewards. In this episode, we'll pay special attention to how you might want to use your Bilt points.
(01:15) - John writes in with a correction for Nick's statement that there's a "zero percent chance" the tax payment won't count toward the bonus.
(06:57) - Andrew writes in about applying for an Amex card by opening up a Private Browser and searching for the card there can bring up a higher offer.
(08:49) - Bilt 5x offers (targeted after asking for credit increase)
Learn more about the Bilt offer here.
Learn more about the Bilt spending offer for groceries, gas, and dining here.
(10:38) - Amex coupon credits and bonuses posting slowly (relax / don’t panic)
Learn more about Amex coupon credits and bonuses posting slowly here.
(13:30) - Marriott cracking down on "additional guest" reservations, which you can read more about here.
(20:47) - Southwest for the "win". Read about Southwest's disappointing updates here.
(23:28) - Check out our recent podcast episode about these Southwest changes here.
(23:38) - Nick finally gets his million
(25:14) - Reader winner updates
(28:38) - Excellent Virgin Atlantic business class availability as low as 29K points + $254
(31:26) - Aviator companion tickets for the win! Read more about this here.
(35:56) - Up to 40% transfer bonus from Capital One Miles to Etihad Guest
(41:25) - How not to use your Bilt points
(43:46) - 1.25 cpp: book travel through their portal
(44:41) - 1.5 cpp: Use points for house down payment
(46:23) - Transfer to partners
(1:16:55) - Here are the partners you shouldn't transfer to...
(1:18:20) - Wait for great Rent Day transfer bonuses
(1:20:26) - One reader asks about the Capital One pre-approval tool and whether or not it would cause a hard pull.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:03.9 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:11.0 | On today's show, a reader will assert that I was only 99.5% correct. |
| 0:17.0 | We'll talk about our final Million Mile Madness Update. |
| 0:24.6 | Marriott and Southwest are back, resuming their Bonvoid battle. And we'll discuss the best ways to use your built points. |
| 0:28.6 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:32.6 | Today's main event, best uses for built points. |
| 0:36.6 | Built Rewards is a program that became famous for rewarding you for paying rent with their built |
| 0:42.1 | credit card. |
| 0:43.3 | But it's actually more than that. |
| 0:45.1 | Built rewards are points you can earn by tying different credit cards that you use. |
| 0:50.1 | It doesn't have to be built credit cards to your built wallet. |
| 0:53.6 | And then you could earn rewards at places like Walgreens and various restaurants and things. Anyway, lots of ways to earn built points, but we're going to be talking today about how to use them. How can you get great value from those points? That's right. So if you've built up your built balance, you're going to want to listen to today's episode. If you want to skip ahead to a specific segment or you want to come back to something, by the way, don't forget that you can find the timestamps in the show notes. So just expand the show description. And wherever you're watching or listening, don't forget to give us a thumbs up, like this video, leave us a comment or some feedback. We always appreciate those things. Let's drag out this week's giant mailbag. This week's giant mail. I've got a double header. First one's from John. |
| 1:33.5 | John didn't like what Nick had to say last week. Oh, oh, going to take me to task. He's got a bone to |
| 1:38.5 | pick. No, no, he says it in the nicest way. John says, I wanted to write in with something of a correction for last week's giant mailbag. |
| 1:48.4 | Nick stated that there's a 0% chance that a tax payment, and as an aside, we're talking about making a tax payment with an Amex credit card in this context, |
| 2:00.7 | there's 0% chance that the tax payment won't |
| 2:03.1 | count towards a bonus. We can all agree that there's 100% chance it should count, but I'd |
| 2:11.1 | say there's only a 99.5% chance that it will. I agree that in almost all cases the bonus |
| 2:16.8 | eventually posts without issue, |
| 2:18.6 | and the first step is simply wait a few weeks. But there have been a few cases where an |
| 2:23.4 | amex bonus doesn't post automatically even after waiting months and months. While it's unclear |
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