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Bilt Mastercard®: Earn Points on Rent Payments Without the Transaction Fee (up to 100k points in a calendar year). Terms apply.
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Bilt Rewards is offering the first-ever loyalty program for renters that lets you earn points on rent with no transaction fees with the Bilt Mastercard®. There is no annual fee.
Thanks to staff member EfficientGame645 for sharing this deal.
Card Details:
No annual fee
Earn 1x points on rent payments without the transaction fee, up to 100,000 points each calendar year
Earns 3x points on dining
Earn 2x points on travel
Earn 1x points on other purchases
Earn double points on the first of each month (excluding rent, up to 1,000 bonus points)
Use the card 5 times each statement period to earn points
Point redemptions include airlines, hotels, future rent payments, credit card statement credits, toward a down payment on a home, etc.
No Foreign Transaction Fee
Trip Cancellation and Interruption Protection
Trip Delay Reimbursement
Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver
Purchase Security
Cellular Telephone Protection
Concierge Service
Lyft credits
Earn up to 5x Bilt Points on U.S. Lyft rides when you link your Bilt account and pay with your Bilt card
Select 'Apply Now' to learn more about the product features, terms, and conditions
Bilt Rewards is offering the first-ever loyalty program for renters that lets you earn points on rent with no transaction fees with the Bilt Mastercard®. There is no annual fee.
Card Details:
No annual fee
Earn 1x points on rent payments without the transaction fee, up to 100,000 points each calendar year
Earns 3x points on dining
Earn 2x points on travel
Earn 1x points on other purchases
Earn double points on the first of each month (excluding rent, up to 1,000 bonus points)
Use the card 5 times each statement period to earn points
Point redemptions include airlines, hotels, future rent payments, credit card statement credits, toward a down payment on a home, etc.
No Foreign Transaction Fee
Trip Cancellation and Interruption Protection
Trip Delay Reimbursement
Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver
Purchase Security
Cellular Telephone Protection
Concierge Service
Lyft credits
Earn up to 5x Bilt Points on U.S. Lyft rides when you link your Bilt account and pay with your Bilt card
Select 'Apply Now' to learn more about the product features, terms, and conditions
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Please be careful about when it says Rent Payments. Only specific rental companies are covered in it.Triple Check with your rental company if they accept it.
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10-27-2022 at 04:10 PM.
Please be careful about when it says Rent Payments. Only specific rental companies are covered in it.Triple Check with your rental company if they accept it.
i use this. building up a bunch of points that can be used on amazon so it's better than nothing. you have to make 5 small charges a month to keep it going....
Please be careful about when it says Rent Payments. Only specific rental companies are covered in it.Triple Check with your rental company if they accept it.
You can use the Bilt Mastercard and earn rewards on rent at any property where you can pay by (i) online payment portal (e.g. ClickPay®, etc.), (ii) Venmo or Paypal or (iii) physical check.
Please be careful about when it says Rent Payments. Only specific rental companies are covered in it.Triple Check with your rental company if they accept it.
Not true at all.
You get a routing number and an account number and can either mail a check to your rental company, or provide the rounting/account number like a check to your online bill pay system.
I got a bilt card in April, so feel free to ask me any questions, def worth it for all the free points, and I got a bunch of referrals, so got a bonus 50k points too.
Not true at all.
You get a routing number and an account number and can either mail a check to your rental company, or provide the rounting/account number like a check to your online bill pay system.
I got a bilt card in April, so feel free to ask me any questions, def worth it for all the free points, and I got a bunch of referrals, so got a bonus 50k points too.
I just won't carry a balance on it.
So then how do they verify you are actually paying rent and not just MS? MEaning, "yeah Joe Blow is my landlord" so I send him $2k/mo, get points, don't pay any fees, then just siphon that back to me. Seems too good to be true.
T&C are somewhat vague:
One point per $1 spent on rent paid through the Bilt App with your card account up to a maximum of Fifty Thousand (50,000) points each calendar year. If your rent payment is less than $250, you will earn 250 points for that rent payment. Note, rent payments can only be made to one rental property per month.
Cardholders may not separate qualifying net purchases or rent payments into multiple transactions for the purpose of earning more points than would otherwise be available through a single transaction.
So then how do they verify you are actually paying rent and not just MS? MEaning, "yeah Joe Blow is my landlord" so I send him $2k/mo, get points, don't pay any fees, then just siphon that back to me. Seems too good to be true.
T&C are somewhat vague:
One point per $1 spent on rent paid through the Bilt App with your card account up to a maximum of Fifty Thousand (50,000) points each calendar year. If your rent payment is less than $250, you will earn 250 points for that rent payment. Note, rent payments can only be made to one rental property per month.
Cardholders may not separate qualifying net purchases or rent payments into multiple transactions for the purpose of earning more points than would otherwise be available through a single transaction.
So, I can "rent" from myself to rack up points?
Potentially? You could use bilt's rent portal to mail yourself a check at a different address to a different name in order to get the points? It's a bill pay portal similar to your online bank. I imagine it would get flagged if you mailed a check to your same address and made it out to yourself. So if you have an SO with a different last name, make it out to them and mail it to their work?
And to get around the 'you need 5 transactions a month to earn points', I just buy 5 x $1 amazon gift cards each month.
Potentially? You could use bilt's rent portal to mail yourself a check at a different address to a different name in order to get the points? It's a bill pay portal similar to your online bank. I imagine it would get flagged if you mailed a check to your same address and made it out to yourself. So if you have an SO with a different last name, make it out to them and mail it to their work?
And to get around the 'you need 5 transactions a month to earn points', I just buy 5 x $1 amazon gift cards each month.
Seems like it. I can't find anywhere that they go into what "rent" or "rental property" are. It does say you can't pay more than one rental property per month though.
I wouldn't think a company would open themselves up to such abuse, there has to be a catch. I wonder if they report the transactions - e.g. if you send yourself $20k/yr in "rent", are you liable to report that as income?
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You get a routing number and an account number and can either mail a check to your rental company, or provide the rounting/account number like a check to your online bill pay system.
I got a bilt card in April, so feel free to ask me any questions, def worth it for all the free points, and I got a bunch of referrals, so got a bonus 50k points too.
I just won't carry a balance on it.
You get a routing number and an account number and can either mail a check to your rental company, or provide the rounting/account number like a check to your online bill pay system.
I got a bilt card in April, so feel free to ask me any questions, def worth it for all the free points, and I got a bunch of referrals, so got a bonus 50k points too.
I just won't carry a balance on it.
So then how do they verify you are actually paying rent and not just MS? MEaning, "yeah Joe Blow is my landlord" so I send him $2k/mo, get points, don't pay any fees, then just siphon that back to me. Seems too good to be true.
T&C are somewhat vague:
One point per $1 spent on rent paid through the Bilt App with your card account up to a maximum of Fifty Thousand (50,000) points each calendar year. If your rent payment is less than $250, you will earn 250 points for that rent payment. Note, rent payments can only be made to one rental property per month.
Cardholders may not separate qualifying net purchases or rent payments into multiple transactions for the purpose of earning more points than would otherwise be available through a single transaction.
So, I can "rent" from myself to rack up points?
T&C are somewhat vague:
One point per $1 spent on rent paid through the Bilt App with your card account up to a maximum of Fifty Thousand (50,000) points each calendar year. If your rent payment is less than $250, you will earn 250 points for that rent payment. Note, rent payments can only be made to one rental property per month.
Cardholders may not separate qualifying net purchases or rent payments into multiple transactions for the purpose of earning more points than would otherwise be available through a single transaction.
So, I can "rent" from myself to rack up points?
And to get around the 'you need 5 transactions a month to earn points', I just buy 5 x $1 amazon gift cards each month.
And to get around the 'you need 5 transactions a month to earn points', I just buy 5 x $1 amazon gift cards each month.
Seems like it. I can't find anywhere that they go into what "rent" or "rental property" are. It does say you can't pay more than one rental property per month though.
I wouldn't think a company would open themselves up to such abuse, there has to be a catch. I wonder if they report the transactions - e.g. if you send yourself $20k/yr in "rent", are you liable to report that as income?