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Bilt Rewards Becomes One Of Fastest Companies Ever To Hit Unicorn Status

by Gary Leff on October 25, 2022

Oct 25 2022

Bilt Rewards, the loyalty program which lets you earn points for paying rent and which offers probably the single best no annual fee rewards card in the market (the Bilt Mastercard), announced a growth round of $150 million in new funding at a $1.5 billion post-money valuation. Their round was led by Left Lane Capital and included Smash Capital, Wells Fargo, Greystar, Invitation Homes, Camber Creek, Fifth Wall, and Prosus Ventures.

These things can be somewhat challenging to date, but it appears to me that Bilt Rewards is faster from launch to unicorn status than Square, Instacart or Twitter were. And there’s two reasons this strikes me as important.

Put Your Spend On The Bilt Card Today, Also Free Points For Trivia Questions

by Gary Leff on October 1, 2022

Oct 01 2022

Today is the first of October and the first Bilt Rewards ‘Rent Day’. They’re giving away a lot of points, Bilt Mastercard cardmembers and also for people who don’t have the card. It’s a way of really owning a day in the marketing space – a day that resonates with a large chunk of the population.

The first of every month they’ve got promotions and offers. Today you can receive free points in the Bilt app with their Points Quest trivia feature. They have Virgin cruise discount offers and they partner with Virgin as a points transfer partner, so they’re giving you 500 free points for linking your Virgin account now. And you can earn a lot of extra points today spending with the no annual fee Bilt Mastercard.

Bilt Rewards: Earn 6x On Dining, 4x On Travel Once Each Month

by Gary Leff on September 26, 2022

Sep 26 2022

he Bilt Mastercard, the no annual fee card that lets you earn points paying rent at no cost (up to $100,000 per year) and earns double points on travel and triple points on dining, now earns even more one day a month.

Dubbed “Bilt Rent Day,” on the first of every month Bilt is offering up to 6x points, free points, and Virgin cruise discounts.

Bilt Rewards Adds 3 New Airline Transfer Partners: British Airways, Iberia And Aer Lingus

by Gary Leff on August 25, 2022

Aug 25 2022

Bilt Rewards is adding 3 new airline transfer partners, which will give them 12 airline partners and 14 transfer partners overall. In addition to being able to transfer Bilt points to American, united, Air Canada, Turkish, Hyatt and more you can now transfer points to British Airways – and coming next month will be able to also transfer to Iberia and Aer Lingus.

Why Do The Values Some Blogs Give For Miles Make Absolutely No Sense?

by Gary Leff on August 18, 2022

Aug 18 2022

Richard Kerr, formerly of The Points Guy and the Award Travel 101 Facebook group who is now with Bilt Rewards, offered a couple of provocative questions in his Instagram feed.

He asks why some people value clearly less valuable currencies more than a Bilt point. He may be asking about individual program members, but I’m going to ask it of those people who are supposed to know – travel bloggers who publish valuations of different mileage currencies. Much of the work those bloggers are doing fails to hold together.

Wells Fargo’s Marketing Team Doesn’t Seem To Understand Its Own Card Products

by Gary Leff on July 17, 2022

Jul 17 2022

Wells Fargo claims Autograph is their “best points card ever.” I’m surprised their lawyers allowed the claim, because it’s so obviously not accurate.

Bilt Rewards Adds Amazon As A Partner, Offers Transferable Points For Linking Accounts

by Gary Leff on July 6, 2022

Jul 06 2022

Bilt Rewards, which only just launched its travel portal with Expedia last week, has another big partnership out already with Amazon.com. They’re offering points for linking accounts and for first redemption with Amazon.

Bilt has come a long way now that they not only keep adding transfer partners and redemption options but (1) have Wells Fargo backing as their card issuer, (2) have partnered with Expedia, and (3) also now with Amazon. They’ve gone from program launch to the big leagues in just one year.

Bilt Launches A Travel Portal: Redeem Points At 1.25 Cents Apiece (Even For Disney)

by Gary Leff on June 30, 2022

Jun 30 2022

Bilt has launched a travel portal so that – in addition to transferring points to partners like American, United, and Hyatt – Bilt Rewards members can book their preferred trip (whatever it is) and pay with points instead of cash.

Each point is valued at 1.25 cents apiece when spent this way. That beats most credit card portal values, and matches Chase with its Sapphire Preferred Card.

Get A Credit Score Bump For Paying Rent On Time

by Gary Leff on June 14, 2022

Jun 14 2022

Bilt Rewards – even if you don’t have their credit card, which lets you earn points for paying rent – has publicly launched the option for residents of participating buildings to have their on-time rent payments reported to their credit. This is expected to generate an average credit score increase of 60 points for those who opt in.

[LIVE} Bilt Adds United Airlines, Cathay Pacific As Transfer Partners

by Gary Leff on May 4, 2022

May 04 2022

Bilt Rewards, the first major loyalty program for people who rent their homes or apartments, is bringing on two new instant points transfer partners: United Airlines MileagePlus and Cathay Pacific’s Asia Miles. This gives Bilt transfers to two major U.S. airlines (2 of the big 3!).