HikerT- thanks for the question. I am certainly open to other views on the best approach.
It is my understanding (mostly from Rick, the Frugal Travel Guy's, expertise) that lumping them all together bunches inquiries, which then roll off 90 days later, and allowing another round. Love to hear others thoughts on this very important topic.
Re Chase- my understanding from reading FT threads is they will automatically deny you if you have two apps in 30 days, so I believed that only 1 at a time is possible with them, thus no attempt here to do two.
Originally Posted by
HikerT
Is there really a benefit to pulling the trigger on all apps at once? Back in the day of maximizing credit lines for 0% BT offers the conventional wisdom was to do an "app-o-rama" on the same day within a very short time period applying for the best offers first but I'm not sure it's value added if the goal is to maximize sign up bonuses while limiting inquiries and/or spreading evenly over the 3 reporting agencies. Better to pull the trigger only for the cream of the crop and leave capacity for future offers. I believe chase is the only one where you could theoretically save inquiries by applying for more than 1 (chase) card at the same instant in different browsers, but wouldn't be a benefit here since you are only applying for 1 chase.