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The New 80k UR/$4k Spend Offer

The New 80k UR/$4k Spend Offer

The new public offer for the Chase Sapphire Preferred is now available to everyone: 80,000 UR after spending $4,000 in the first 3 months…
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The 80k UR/$5k Spend Offer is Dead

The 80k UR/$5k Spend Offer is Dead

Long live the 80k UR/$5k Spend Offer!
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New Offer: No Fee Electric Bill Payment with a Credit Card

New Offer: No Fee Electric Bill Payment with a Credit Card

Update: you now get a free Nest if you refer 5 friends in addition to the other referral offers.
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Resolve to Travel for FREE This Year

Resolve to Travel for FREE This Year

A quick checklist for how to get your first bonus worth $1,000-$1,200 to spend on travel.
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Quad CIP — The Best Poker Hand in Churning

Quad CIP — The Best Poker Hand in Churning

The data points are in: you can get 4 CIPs. Don’t forget to self-refer.
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The Easiest $50 You Will Make Today

The Easiest $50 You Will Make Today

SoFi has increased their referral bonus to $50 for new members or $100 for referring your friends. Valid through 9/23/19.
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Chase Ink Unlimited Referrals — Finally!

Chase Ink Unlimited Referrals — Finally!

Already have this card? Generate your referral code here, then share with your friends. You earn 15k UR for each referral. Your friends…
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The NEW Chase Trifecta

The NEW Chase Trifecta

Chase cards are widely known to be the most profitable when your goal is free travel. But they are also the most restrictive, which is why…
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Getting Your 3rd CIP

Getting Your 3rd CIP

Quite a few data points have come in confirming that you can get a third Chase Ink Preferred (CIP). And yes, you can refer yourself to…
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The Best Card To Apply For In April 2019

The Best Card To Apply For In April 2019

Spoiler Alert: It’s the Chase Ink Preferred
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No Fee Electric Bill Payment with a Credit Card

No Fee Electric Bill Payment with a Credit Card

Most utility companies charge a fee when you want to pay your bills but a credit card but Arcadia Power lets you pay your energy bill with…
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Are you writing a check? With paper? What year is it?

Are you writing a check? With paper? What year is it?

Use your regular bills to easily meet a minimum spend requirement, even if the companies don’t allow payment via credit card.
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Local Credit Unions: A gold mine for bank account funding.

Local Credit Unions: A gold mine for bank account funding.

If you’re looking for a way to meet your minimum spend requirement, credit card funding can be an easy and effective way to manufacture…
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Keep Getting Sprint’s One Year Free

Keep Getting Sprint’s One Year Free

The best deal in wireless service, Sprint’s free unlimited everything plan, is still available. You may not have heard about it since they…
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Jeff Peters
Active Duty Churning

Active Duty Churning

When credit card companies say “Thank you for your service”
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How churning affects your credit score

How churning affects your credit score

There are a few factors that that go into calculating a credit score. Some churning activity will hurt your credit score but the benefits…
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The Apple-like Chase Credit Card Ecosystem

The Apple-like Chase Credit Card Ecosystem

Chase is strongly recommended as the place to start when you begin travel hacking for a lot of reasons, but the most profitable reason is…
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CSR vs CSP: One is always better

CSR vs CSP: One is always better

With the Chase “One Sapphire” rule and the recent expansion of the 5/24 rule to extend back to 5/48 for Sapphire cards, you really only get…
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2018: $11,471 in Travel Redemptions

2018: $11,471 in Travel Redemptions

In the first year of churning, we have cashed in 671,057 UR points, 65,000 United miles, 15,000 American miles, $137 in airline gift cards…
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Exact steps needed to get 80k UR ~ $1,000-$1,200 in travel.

Exact steps needed to get 80k UR ~ $1,000-$1,200 in travel.

This is a quick checklist for how to get your first card and handle the $5,000 minimum spend requirement (MSR) to get your bonus: 80k in…
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Generate A Steady Stream of Free Travel

Generate A Steady Stream of Free Travel

How to generate up to $2,549.75 each year to spend on travel.
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DEAL: $50 Referral Bonus — $300 bonus when you refer 3 friends — No Max Limit — Swell Investing

Swell Investing is offering a $50 bonus when you sign up and invest $50 with them. That’s and instant 100% return on your investment! Plus…
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Essential Travel Hacking Apps

Essential Travel Hacking Apps

Stay on top of your travel hacking efforts with these apps that help manage everything from points balances to tracking MSR progress.
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The best way to buy a drone — 20% off, return policy and purchase protection

The best way to buy a drone — 20% off, return policy and purchase protection

How I purchased a new Mavic Air for $639 with free returns
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Earn 5x UR at Whole Foods, Uber, iTunes, and AirBnB with a single card

Earn 5x UR at Whole Foods, Uber, iTunes, and AirBnB with a single card

Chase Ink Cash (CIC) is the Swiss army knife of Chase Ultimate Rewards (UR) earning cards. While the only other 5x earning UR card, the…
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