Craig Joseph

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277 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Jan 2025 last heard 19 Aug

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Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways · Bilt to Last? Grading Bilt Rewards Six Months On · 19 Aug 2026 podcast

Did you get a room upgrade and free breakfast and that kind of thing?

Let's also make sure that the listeners know the restrictions on those credits because you have to book at least a two night stay, and it's a prepaid stay, so you can't cancel it.

So the second that you book it, you're not getting a refund.

So if you're like me and I tend to book my travel last minute and my plans change all the time, it doesn't really fit into my travel wheelhouse.

But if you're not using those credits, one of the other benefits through Built's Travel Portal is they

You get 1.25 cents per point when you use points to book either airfare or cars or hotels through built.

And while I personally don't book much through the portal, since I can get a better value with transfer partners, people who want that, who want a flat rate cash value for their points, aren't gonna do any better than that because you get one point two five cents per point all day, every day.

Chase used to have that on the Sapphire Preferred and then they nerfed it so.

So I think Built's value comes way ahead for for that type of traveler.

I use Racketton almost every day.

So I have a uh nifty little points accelerator hack of my own, uh, which is that almost everywhere that I shop is available on Rackettin.

So for example, earlier this year I had a home remodel and I spent way more money than I'd like to admit, Sally, don't judge me, to buy my tile, to buy my wood, to buy all of the drywall, to buy all of the things that I needed for the ring.

Model, I actually placed the order online and Home Depot was on Rackettin at that point.

So I could place the order online through Home Depot and then pick it up in store.

And the benefit is not only that it's ready for me when I get to the store, so I don't have to walk around Home Depot, but I could earn bonus built points and then I pay with my built palladium to begin with.

So it turned my 2x card plus the accelerator, which I use, my built cash on.

So that turned into a three X card.

Plus I got two additional points per dollar spent through Rackatin.

So that actually gave me five X back at Home Depot for a really expensive home remodel, which gave me a huge, huge chunk of build points.

Honestly, no, it's been pretty straightforward for me, but I I do know that there are some horror stories out there.

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