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Old Jul 14, 2014 | 10:43 am
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joelpat
 
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Washington DC / Seattle
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Originally Posted by mike2200
I suggest that if you can not payoff your CC monthly, thus not carrying a balance, which would incur interest charges, you not get into the miles game.
I appreciate that. I carry a $4-5k balance from month to month as part of the work on my house, which is just part of where I'm at and I accept the inefficiency of it.

So, you see, it's no so much about getting into the miles game as getting the most out of what I'm going to have to pay anyway.
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