July rewards is Lyft credit ($10 for Bilt members, $20 for members with Mastercard).

There's a puzzle for a chance to win up to $2,500 in rent.

Plus 5$ if you take a Lyft ON July 1st. I'm heading to Nyc for the long weekend so this works great.

It's also just 20 Lyft bucks - I think you don't actually need to use the Bilt card to pay for these rides.

I think the 2x alone on Rent Day is very useful and generous. I don’t have any other way to get 2 Hyatt points per dollar on regular spend. I save all my bills for the first.

Apologies if this has already been asked and answered in the thread - since Bilt seems to mail a check or allow ACH transfers, can that be sent to anyone? Do they allow for payments of that manner for non-rent expenses?

For those who use this to pay rent, can someone shed light on what is it that Bilt requires to set up the rent payment ? Do we need to upload a lease agreement or get some statement from the landlord ? I own my house (well the bank owns it :p ) but i've got a kid in college and living with a few friends in a house they have rented (from the parent of one of the friend). what sort of documentation is needed to have bilt send out a check every month for the rent ?

No travel extra points for Hotwire
 

Just wanted to share - if you want to pay for purchases at Hotwire with Bilt Mastercard, then your transactions won't be considered as "Travel". You will NOT get extra points as you might have expected. I reached out to their support team. They said it has to be only direct sales through hotels or airlines, not through a middleman. I feel this is unfair, but oh well...

Has anyone experienced issues with setting up recurring monthly charges on the 1st of the month? Whenever I try to do that, I have gotten errors or declines on a number of sites. For one time purchases or setting up recurring transactions on other days, I haven't seemed to have issues.

Unfair perhaps, but also explicitly made clear in their T&C that online booking agencies are not included in the travel bonus spend category:

Two points (1 base point plus 1 bonus point) are earned per $1 spent on qualifying net purchases made directly at retailers whose Merchant code for Mastercard is classified as Travel: airlines, hotels, motels, resorts, cruise lines, and car rental agencies (bus lines, passenger railways/trains, taxicabs and limousines, rideshares, ferries, timeshares, travel agencies, online travel sites, real estate agents, vacation rental platforms (e.g. VRBO, Airbnb), campgrounds, boat lease/rental, motor home/recreational vehicle rental, toll bridges and highways, parking lots, and garages are not included).

So the travel category is one place where this card seriously falls short of the Chase Sapphire Reserve - which gives 3x in the category and is very complete, including most of those exclusions.

I wonder if the reverse is true on dining. Recall that Chase removed a couple of merchant codes from dining a few years ago, such as bakeries and catering services.

They aren't the only ones with a restricted travel category. If I'm not mistaken, Amex Green and CSR are comprehensive, while Citi Premier is just flights, hotels, and OTAs (i.e.no parking, rental cars, cruises, trains, taxi/ride share). Of course, if you book a cruise or rental car via an OTA and are charged by the OTA, you would get 3X.

Paying a cruise line directly on the 1st got me 4x points.

The idea that something like Amtrak wouldn't code as "travel" is absurd.

Similarly - in my defense, it was Canada Day:

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...cf21ada95d.jpg

Yes, that's true. But naturally you would think online booking agencies would be included. And it is mostly the case for other cards. So this is a bit of a surprise. From the perspective of client, and not T&C, I am making a travel purchase regardless the business that sells it to me. As you said, "Perhaps unfair"...

On the side note, I don't really understand why would they want to do that? Does it really save them that much? IMO, it drops more shade on them than helps save anything. Yet, still, the card is unbeatable since it allows me to pay rent! This is supercool, without a doubt.