PainCorp

18 months between apps for the same Citi card. If you are a Sole Proprietor you will only be able to do one Citi app in 24 hours (I believe). If your business has an EIN should be different.

Do the US Air cards first as Barclays is a pain to deal with.

Why not get both the UA and the CSP/Ink?

You can always manufacture spend, it should put you just at the threshold for some of these, and you can always accelerate the remaining.

carsnoceans

What do you mean here?

skitch23

There is a subforum on here about manufactured spend... but its basically stuff like buying gift cards to use later or prepaying on your cable bill, etc.

PainCorp

That's accelerated spending, manufactured is buying things that give you cash, like VR, or AFT which show you spending quite a bit more than you actually are.

carsnoceans

Got it. I haven't done this before so I wasn't sure if I should go for 2-3 cards at a time or can hit as many 4-5 application before going through the cool-off period.

PainCorp

How many cards depends on your credit, income, what you feel you can spend between real spending, accelerated spending and manufactured spending. I did 8 on my first churn in January and just finished spending.

carsnoceans

Sorry about more newbie questions - what is the difference between manufactured and accelerated spending?

PainCorp

Accelerated is just moving spending you would otherwise do later forward, such as per-paying utilities, or buying gas gift cards.

Manufactured spending is basically finding a way to purchase cash with your CC through some service. You can find a bunch of these covered in depth in the Manufactured Spending, it's tricky, and really only worth it (usually) for minimum spend.

wastedwords

Another good way to accelerate spending is paying for your auto insurance in 12 month or 6 month increments ahead of time. That's usually a large chunk of change.

carsnoceans

Should I cancel my Marriott visa from Chase to reduce my chase related credit line?? Don't want a rejection from Chase on Sapphire and Ink.

Is it better to apply for all cards now or do in two sets (now and then in couple of months)?

PainCorp

All at once. And never cancel a Chase card right before an AoR. You can always cancel it and move the CL over if you have to call reconsideration. Chase is one of the easiest banks to get approved with.

If you really have your heart set on canceling it, move the CL to another Chase card first, so you can transfer it over to a new card if you need to.

carsnoceans

Can I merge credit line (i assume that stands for CL) between a marriot cc and UR cc?

Okay, on it. I have my cards planned out. Just got the US Airways and now to the next application.

PainCorp

You can merge, split, transfer, etc between all Chase cards. They'll even let you take credit from a personal card to be able to open up a business card.

carsnoceans

Thanks PC. You have been helpful.

Now, time for a quick update.. went through the first app-o-rama and got 3/5.

Instant approvals:
US Airways World MC
Chase Sapphire Preferred
Citi AAdvantage visa (45K; 2500 spending in 3mos)

Pending:
SPG Amex
Chase Ink Bold

Now I applied as a sole proprietor (on Ink bold) since i don't have a business or business income and was half-expecting them to hold back. WIll try giving both places a call tomorrow. Any tips/suggestions on past experiences?

Also, I wanted to apply for Citi AAdvantage Amex but thinking of holding on it till tomorrow. The two pending cards have a spending requirement of 10K! It will be too much to handle. Would it be too late to try for Citi Amex card tomorrow if I don't get approved on the other two cards?

PainCorp

You can't get the two citi cards at the same time, you could do the Gold for 30k AA miles though.

Chase rarely approves business cards without a call, I'll see if I can scrounge up some information to send you about the recon calls for those cards.

Amex might just need to verify something, I wouldn't worry too much if you didn't lie about anything, worst case they say no!