I love credit cards so much! v2.0 (see first page for add'l details)

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Yeah I know we recommend 3 months. That’s why I asked what was the soonest. But yeah I guess I’ll wait.
The soonest is 30 days...per Chase 1/30 rule for business cards....I’ve applied earlier than 3 months...once 6 weeks and got the card...really up to you...if your not approved, you can try again at 3 months
 
IME, Staples and Safeway, and iirc OD/OM ones work too.

What's IME? Safeway, OD/OM are all closer than Staples so that would be good. Never bought gc at safeway so hopefully mine takes cc for payment.
 

What's IME? Safeway, OD/OM are all closer than Staples so that would be good. Never bought gc at safeway so hopefully mine takes cc for payment.
I just used my AmEx Rose Gold at Safeway on Fri without any problems. Of course, I am on the opposite coast from you :)
 
How about group block room bookings, switched each day to the next host block, thus earning a new stay (for chains that consider 5 nights to still be only one stay)



I got the exact same thing. Got good news on the Monday following a Saturday application, via the Status Line: 800-432-3117 and follow the prompts #, 3, 1.

I just got my good news an hour ago! A rep called me to verify my identity. I had my Chase Bonvoy card stolen a few months ago and set up a password, so they needed to verify it was really me applying. After the verification he told me congratulations I'm approved.. I see it now when I login to my Chase Marriott Business account. Yay!

THANK YOU to everyone who gave me recommendations on cleaning things up so I could get approved! With dh's referral bonus and the 80k I will definitely have one business class ticket paid for!

Now what should my next move be?
 
I just got my good news an hour ago! A rep called me to verify my identity. I had my Chase Bonvoy card stolen a few months ago and set up a password, so they needed to verify it was really me applying. After the verification he told me congratulations I'm approved.. I see it now when I login to my Chase Marriott Business account. Yay!

THANK YOU to everyone who gave me recommendations on cleaning things up so I could get approved! With dh's referral bonus and the 80k I will definitely have one business class ticket paid for!

Now what should my next move be?

Congrats party:
 
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@CaliforniaGirl09 I'm really enjoying your ABD post, but wanted to ask a question that I thought belonged here instead of there. When you switched your DH and DS's flights from JAL to ANA, what happened to points you used to book them on JAL (Avios IIRC)? Asking because I always struggle to transfer points early on (when the seats become available) since I don't think I can turn them back into MRs or URs if we cancel.
 
I know that @punkin asked earlier, but we have just returned from the West Coast and I was able to use a Safeway GC to buy a Disney GC. I had a Disney GC and groceries, used 2 physical Safeway GCs and a CC to pay. No issues through self checkout. Hope you had good luck as well.
 
I just got my good news an hour ago! A rep called me to verify my identity. I had my Chase Bonvoy card stolen a few months ago and set up a password, so they needed to verify it was really me applying. After the verification he told me congratulations I'm approved.. I see it now when I login to my Chase Marriott Business account. Yay!

THANK YOU to everyone who gave me recommendations on cleaning things up so I could get approved! With dh's referral bonus and the 80k I will definitely have one business class ticket paid for!

Now what should my next move be?

Congratulations!!! :banana:

Next move, I'm trying to decide myself. Prolly CIP2, but something better may come along (like the AmEx Hilton Biz) and keeping in mind the cautionary tale learned from the recent AmEx point clawbacks
 
Wait, aren’t they still discounted when you use the one MR or UR and pay the remainder of the CC? Just not as large of a discount as using the Amazon GC.

Yeah, that’s still good. I didn’t finish my thoughts.

You could’ve stacked Amazon GCs you bought, for example, at an office supply store for 5x UR to pay for the discounted balance of the third-party GC. Other than these deals and lightning deals on certain third-party GCs (e.g., iTunes), I can’t think of when rolling an Amazon GC into a third-party GC is a better deal. Because deals on Amazon GCs are typically harder to come by than deals on third-party cards.

Sucks anyway.
 
Okay so it sounds like I need to spend on my Everyday and Aspire when I'm in NC this week. I'll have to look and see if the Aspire has the same coverage on rentals as the CSR. In my defense on my fast spends, the Aspire came at Christmas time, and my ex, dad, sister and mom are keen on me buying all the gifts and repaying me. The delta was hit thanks to buying $2k in bikinis (99% of which was returned, but the spend was still spent.

Do we have any data on what makes them happy on with spends? My Delta gold personal saw no love, my surpass kinda didn't either, hell even my SPG stopped seeing action. I was either working on a MSR, or putting it on my CSR. So I kinda felt Amex loved me since I got the Aspire in Dec, Everyday in Jan and Delta Gold Biz in April. Like I said, I have set up some of my recurring payments to be on my Amex cards so they were always getting hit with some kind of action, but obv nothing like the $3k/$4k in 3 mos like they were.

Also I signed both my kids up w/ AA accounts and had my daughter "work" for one of my photography businesses and my son for the other. They've gotten no love at all personal or business, LOL.
 
Ok. A little advice needed.
DHs cards
1/18 BOA Travel Rewards
5/18 CIP (cancelled 6/19)
8/18 Barclay’s Biz
12/18 CIC
4/19 CIU
7/1/19 SW Perf Biz

I want to go for the other SW Biz. When is the soonest I could safely do that?
I have $1400 in Insurance payments due in September and would like to use a new MSR plus I’d love to have the CP to maybe book a little fall getaway.
I know I'm an outlier and freely admit I sometimes play with fire, but this is what I did -
4/18 CSR
4/18 CSP
5/18 CIC
10/18 Barclays AA Biz ( so, inquiry only)
2/19 SW Premier Biz
5/19 CIP
6/19 SW Priority

Your DH doesn't look too much different, so I'd think as long as you're not making a habit of applying quickly it'd be safe enough to do 6 - 8 weeks. Took a week for each SW card to get to me so take that into consideration and probably just hold out as long as you can. Did you have any plans for more Chase cards this year for him? Even if I wasn't forced to due to 5/24, I planned to avoid Chase for the rest of the year. Next year I'm eligible for the Chase Marriott cards so I'm holding out for that.
 
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