September 1 Rent Day is a milestone. It’s the last one where you can earn double points on the Bilt Mastercard up to 10,000 points. It’s also the last one where tax payments will count towards the bonus. Starting with October 1 Rent Day the bonus will be capped at 1,000 additional points, and tax payments don’t count.

I’ve found Rent Day to be highly lucrative, and I’ve often maxed out this bonus. The card earns double points on travel and triple points on dining. That’s 6 points per dollar at restaurants on the first of each month. Plenty of people buy restaurant gift cards on the first.

Personally I’m happy earning 2 Bilt points per dollar, because I value a single Bilt point more than one of any other currency. So spending that doesn’t otherwise earn a bonus, which would likely go on my Venture X, goes on the Bilt card the first of the month. And I save up bills like my homeowner’s insurance, car insurance, and other big items to pay on the first and earn double points – helpful since the spending also helps me re-earn Platinum status in the Bilt program.

Platinum is great not just because it’s giving me Air France KLM Flying Blue Gold right now, and because I have a free Blade airport helicopter transfer to look forward to, but because they often offer bigger transfer bonuses to their elite members. That’s true this month, with one of their two transfer bonus offers.

• Avianca LifeMiles Transfer Bonus. Transfers to LifeMiles on September 1 earn a 50% bonus regardless of Bilt status. There’s no limit to the number of points you can transfer to earn this bonus. I will likely make a small transfer to extend the expiration of my current points balance.

  It’s a Star Alliance program that doesn’t add fuel surcharges to awards and offers really unique pockets of value, perfect for expert frequent flyers. For instance when you book tickets between the U.S. and Asia in business class, a connecting flight in coach usually brings the cost of the award down even though you’re flying more.

  Sometimes you’ll find that LifeMiles doesn’t make awards available that other partners can book. And sometimes that is intentional. Program executives have told me multiple times in the past that they see some awards that are unprofitable for them to offer and those may be blocked.

  

• Virgin Transfer bonus. Transfers to Virgin on September 1 earn up to a 100% bonus, depending on your Bilt status at that time.
  • Platinum: 100% Bonus
    
  • Gold: 60% Bonus
    
  • Silver: 40% Bonus
    
  • Base member: 20% Bonus

  
  I recently used 16,000 Bilt points per passenger that I’d transferred with a 150% to book four first class awards on Hawaiian Airlines. I still have a decent stash of Virgin points. Virgin itself used to have excellent business class availability out of Austin, but they’ve pulled that flight. And while the most highly leveraged use of Virgin points is ANA premium cabin redemptions, those are much tougher to book than they used to be. So since I still have a strong balance, I probably give this a miss, but others will find a ton of value.

  
  Credit: God Save The Points

In addition, they’re back with:

• Buy one get one Virgin Voyages Limited Edition. like last month (second passenger in the same cabin 100% off) plus ‘Bilt Access Key’ VVBILT gets onboard perks like unlimited premium wifi; two specialty coffees daily; $100 bar credit; exclusive cocktail event; complimentary laundry; priority boarding at embarkation.

• ResortPass BOGO. This lets you use hotel and resort facilities when not a guest.

• Dave Portnoy’s One Bite Pizza Festival exclusive tickets and Bilt lounge access at the event held September 14 on Randall’s Island Park in New York. Tickets for the afternoon session are $250 per person or 7,500 Bilt points. Tickets to the evening session are $180 per person or 5,000 Bilt points.

• Restaurant dining deals. Another regular feature they have fixed price tasting menus at top places including cocktails at $75 or 6,000 Bilt points per person.

• SoulCycle rides. complimentary bike in the special-themed class and one rider out of all the studios attending a Rent Day Ride will get a month of rent paid by Bilt.

• Rent Free game show. Family Fued-style game hosted this month with Dave Portnoy, with the top 10 scoring members earning free rent and the next-scoring 600 members receiving Bilt points.