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Beyond Airbnb: Capital One Introduces Short-Term Rentals With More Points And Stay Credits

Feb 27 2024

Marriott has their booking platform for short-term rental stays. They rebate part of the commission they’re generating in the form of points and elite credit. Hyatt is getting into this game as well.

Capital One now has an interesting play in the space. You can already redeem Capital One Venture and Venture X (and equivalent business card) points to pay for short-term rental stays (such as Airbnb). But they’ve got their own STR ‘collections’ now that come with enhanced earning and benefits.

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Vote For Your Choice Of March 1 Bilt Rewards Rent Day Offers

Feb 26 2024

The first of each month is ‘Rent Day’ with Bilt Rewards, and they offer several promotions – some of which have been the best one day offers we’ve seen like transfer bonuses up to 150% to Air Canada, Air France KLM, and Virgin Atlantic.

With March Madness coming they’ve created a bracket to determine the primary offer for this upcoming Rent Day, March 1st.

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The Left And Right Make Equally Little Sense Opposing Capital One’s Acquisition Of Discover

Feb 21 2024

Josh Hawley calls it “destructive corporate consolidation at its starkest” and says it will “create a new juggernaut in the credit card market, with unprecedented powers to extort American consumers.” Unprecedented? American Express operates closed loop payments (card issuer and payments network) today, and Chase issues nearly as many cards as this combined business would.

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Why Capital One’s $35 Billion Purchase of Discover Is A Big Win for Consumers

Feb 20 2024

Durbin-Marshall seeks to require cards to be used either on the American Express or Discover networks as a challenge to Visa and Mastercard. This deal massively bolsters Discover, creating more competition in payments processing.

Ultimately by promoting competition without legislative action (and legislative destruction), this is great for consumers and rewards.

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Earning on the Edge: Are Bilt Rewards New Milestone Rewards Truly Worth It?

Feb 09 2024

IHG and Hyatt both offer “Milestone Rewards.” American’s concept is “Loyalty Point Rewards,” formerly called “Loyalty Choice Rewards.” Of these, Hyatt was first. They award benefits for progress as you progress through the program, not just on achieving status tiers. That makes earning your next award closer than before, more accessible and keeps members wanting more because the next thing is achievable.

Bilt Rewards has introduced its own Milestone Rewards.

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Soon You’ll Earn Bilt Rewards For Mortgage Payments

Jan 25 2024

What’s really interesting is these new markets. Student housing means expanding beyond the core urban professional renter, but is still adjacent, reaching a demographic likely to graduate into their current core – earlier.

But “single-family” is interesting, too, since they also say that “Bilt plans to venture into mortgage payment rewards.” So earning rewards paying your mortgage like they currently offer rewards for paying rent.

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