All my personal card have a due date 3 days before the next statement close date. For my business cards it is 6 days before. It doesn't matter if I have changed my preferred due date or not. It is always 3 days for personal and 6 days for business.
If you're going to keep the card without the retention bonus I would look elsewhere for the $3k spend. You could probably do better than 15k MR.
I have my cash savings with Wealthfront which is still at 5% as of now. When I opened the account it was 2% which at the time was crazy high for a risk free return. How the times have changed.
He called on Friday, but the card arrived today. I knew it was a long shot, but worth a call. Paid the taxes last night with a different card. I am just glad that he got approved!
My husband stayed up until 3am a couple of nights this past August because we heard there were marginal conditions for the aurora. Now, I'm showing him the pictures from that subreddit and he's also trying to figure out how to get there. My son was volcano monitoring but it erupted 5 days after we left. I, on the other hand, am dying to see the midnight sun. I think a couple of trips are in order.DH and I would like to experience more phenomenon travel (think cherry blossoms, great migration, tulips, etc). We've loved our two trips to Iceland and so I follow travel info and pics about Iceland. Showed this to DH:
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Aurora and a volcanic eruption, at the same time!!!!! DH, who never, ever, ever asks for anything, said, we should go to Iceland now that we have time in October. And then he was like, let's just go see what kind of gear they have at the outlets...
So, on a whim, I booked a trip to Iceland in hopes of seeing the Northern Lights. If there's some new volcanic activity, that would be an incredible fortuitous bonus. We've only ever been in summer, so we are looking forward to some cozy winterish weather, just the two of us.
I scored The Reykjavik EDITION the one night of the month I could use a FNC.
Booked IcelandAir on the Chase Travel portal using CSR @ 46k/rt/pp (economy)
Will use up some Hilton GCs at the Iceland Parliament hotel.
Plan to explore the West Coast and Snaefelsness peninsula from a cozy Airbnb, using discounted GCs.
I requested and got a discount on car rental through Blue Car Rental, plus free driver, but I wish I could offset this cost somehow.
But a 5 nt trip to Iceland for 2 about $900 (outlet spending excluded). And hopefully we'll get lucky enought to see Aurora. But I'm so super blessed to have a hubby like I do and I'd cozy up anywhere with him.
Iceland is just so spectacular.
Not sure. I have a lot of spend I put on cards (probably six figures) because I pay my quarterly tax estimastes online so I can't put it all toward MSRs. I've really only been getting new Ink cards and I'm limited to 4 at most per year following the 90 day rule so that's < $40k of MSR. I would love to be missing something, but I'm not sure I am.
I've had them work once. I know at least two times they have not gotten them to work. I believe they were all at Home 2 Suites. And I tend to check out around 6 AM with a long drive ahead of me so there's no manager on duty. I'm hoping I can use them at the Waldorf Buckhead in December when dd graduates--I'm thinking they should have good customer service.
Data point: Denial after four days. This is putting a crimp in my SW Companion pass plans for both of us. I'm just 5,000 points shy and he's 10,000 points shy. Closing another Ink of his and I think a personal CFU since they referenced they looked at both personal and business information. We were still under the recommended $75k credit limit, but may have danced too close to it. (Though I was auto approved with the same stats, so who truly knows?)
I think both of you are so close to the CP that you could probably make it happen without opening a SW card. Have you looked at the shopping portal (up to 2000 bonus points [$350 spend] ends today), dining program, hotel program, and car rentals through the SW portal? FWIW, once the CP is issued I haven't seen it clawed back.
Yes, I had no idea they even did them in summer until that news. When we went, the park ranger guide told us it should only be done in winter (that's the rule at Vatnajökull glacier, but apparently not at Breiðamerkurjökull, where the accident occurred). But I understand!
Thank you. That's definitely Plan B. I had an offer for 500 RR points for doing a survey, so I did that. I'll be intentional about the portal, too. At least I have a couple more months! (I currently have a CP that expires 12/31/24, but with family travel next year, it would be very helpful for both DH and I to have it.)
I received an email about the 85K RR offer and it says to apply by October 9th, which is a week or so earlier than I'd want to, just to allow myself some cushion in January to make sure I don't hit the spend too early (or too late). I'll have to set myself multiple reminders to make sure I finish my spend those first couple days of January.
ok you answered my question......thanks
Ive just started using the portal recently when my points were about to expire so I could prevent them from expiring. They do have some shopping point bonuses. Looking forward to hearing what people have to say.
The shopping bonuses are pretty frequent. That's been helpful. I almost always buy through that portal unless SW has a much better bonus going (though SW points are easier to accumulate).
Out of specific points currency (for hotels, airlines), I value AA the most. I always get great value from my AA miles. We've gone R/T to Bozeman this year for 12k miles, we're going to Colorado next month for 12k roundtrip, and going to Punta Cana in December nonstop for 16k roundtrip. Maybe my home airport (CLT) factors in since it's a hub, but I love AA miles and can always find good value. With that said, I never pay cash for flights on AA. I value "free" travel more than cpp.
