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Howdy! After the success of last week's discussion thread, I figured we should keep going. Feel free to comment below with anything and everything money related that is better suited to a conversation or a quick question and answer than a full post. Some ideas include:

  • Journaling about an ongoing job search
  • Asking for ideas about how to manage an emergency fund
  • Logging recent stock trades
  • Talking about the impact of inflation on your budget
  • Your plans for maximizing the rewards on a credit card

Again, those are just suggestions, if there’s really anything you’d like to talk about related to finance in your life, feel free to put it here.

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[–] shanghaibebop 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

SUB: sign up bonus.

For Chase, this is my 2p strategy:

  1. Churn all the flavors of business ink every 24 months, this is the highest ROI on SUBs alone. MS for SUB spend usually is very simple through buying groups. 2P so this is a new card every 3-4 months between the 2 of us.
  2. CSR is useful for me since I don't have / am too lazy to product switch into the ritz carlton card and I like the priority pass restaurants since I travel semi-frequently for work.
  3. Used to churn CSP for points, but now it's 48 months, so I've moved my focus all over to the business side.

I have actually put a lot of daily spending onto BILT card. The 3x dining and points on ACH rent is just too sweet of a gravy train to pass up on. Since my primary chase point usage is to Hyatt, BILT is worth it. Would highly recommend BILT due to their roughly equivalent transfer partners with Chase. If they keep this up, it might make me abandon chase for my daily spend.

Overall spending optimization for me:

Plat for airfare

Hyatt business and personal, which I MS to help hit globalist status as well as the free nights

Gold for grocery and dining (depending on if I need amex points more or hyatt points more)

BILT for dining and rent (100k+ points / year for me)

Chase ink prefferred or Chase CSR for hotel.

VentureX for rental car and the 300 travel credit.

[–] gyrfalcon 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How do the business cards work? Like I don't have a business, do they even care or will they let me have a business card anyway?

Also the BILT card looks really nice, but every landlord I have had so far wants payment via Zelle, which isn't supported :/

[–] shanghaibebop 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
  1. They don’t check THAT hard.

  2. For Bilt It’s worth it if it can work out. It’s been extremely good to me these past 2 years.