Originally Posted by
dcpilgrim
You may want to tackle some of the larger spends that get the bigger bonuses. Just get fewer cards each AOR. You are filling up valuable slots with lesser cards. Also, read (and decode) the "get spending up w/o the mint" thread, and (cough) amazon payments (cough).
I'd go US AIR 40K
UA 55K for $1K in 3 mos
AA 50K x2 for $6k in 4 mos (w/a little help)
Hopefully when you clear that spend the CSP 40K for 2K will be back, and then you can look at where else you can grow your portfolio.
Haha! Funny.
The only problem with Amazon Payments is:
a) the only person/people I trust to send money to are my mother and father
b) even if I do send it to them, they live in the same address as me (in a different apt.).
And then there is the issue of taxes.
Won't it be recorded as income if I send 1k to each of my parents? Won't this potentially raise their taxes?
c) even if the above hurdles are overcome, and I do somehow manage to send 2k to my parents, I will still be short of the 6k spend for the two AA cards alone.
Keep in mind that this is only 2 cards, there are others which I need to apply for that require $500 spend in 3 months on top of the 6k, which I can't even handle. This is exactly why the cards that I am considering all have a relatively low spend. Large spending requirements is
the major hindrance of all.