Should You Make A Tesla Reservation to Make Minimum Spend?
I recently got another American Express Platinum Business Card because of its amazing 75,000 sign up bonus after $5,000 spend. One of the methods that I employed to meet the minimum spend requirements was by putting down a $1,000 deposit on a new Telsa Model 3. I must admit that I made a bit of
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Big Changes and Time for a Heart to Heart
You may have noticed that I haven’t posted anything for about a week and it’s not because there hasn’t been anything to share … it’s because there has been a significant change in my life. For the past few years, I have been employed as the Director of Business Development for a large multinational engineering
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Time Sensitive – Act Now for 5,000 SPG Points!!!
I don’t usually post on the weekends because that’s family time but I wanted to make an exception for this incredible and potentially time sensitive offer. I posted about the new offer on the American Express SPG card which provided a sign-up bonus of 25,000 SPG points rather than the regular 20,000. This is an
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How To Get US Credit Cards – Part 7 – Foreign Exchange
This entry is part 7 of 7 in the series How To Get US Credit CardsSo you’ve passed through the gauntlet and have your first US credit card. Congratulations! Now you face another challenge, meeting your minimum spend requirements in order to get your sign-up bonus. Luckily the American Express Premium Reward Gold Card that
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American Express SPG – Great Deal – Act NOW!
I’ve written about the SPG Personal and SPG Business card in the past. I have recently switched to collecting SPG points exclusively due to their extreme flexibility but the difficulty in my strategy is the inability to very quickly accumulate an SPG balance. Well, that’s changed … at least until Oct0ber 18th, 2017. For a limited
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How To Get US Credit Cards – Part 6 – Getting Your First Card
This entry is part 6 of 7 in the series How To Get US Credit CardsYou’re still with me? Good. I know that there’s been a lot of information thrown your way but if you’re reading this, it means that you likely really want that US card. Today we jump into the meat of the
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How To Get US Credit Cards – Part 5 – US Phone Number
This entry is part 5 of 7 in the series How To Get US Credit CardsAnother slightly annoying thing that is required for a US credit card is a US phone number. The reason the US phone number is required is that in the event you don’t get instantly approved for your card, the credit
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How To Get US Credit Cards – Part 4 – US Banking
This entry is part 4 of 7 in the series How To Get US Credit CardsOne of the things you will need in order to get your first US Credit Card is a US bank account. The reason for this is simple … you need to be able to pay your balance and in order
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How To Get US Credit Cards – Part 3 – Mail Forwarding
This entry is part 3 of 7 in the series How To Get US Credit CardsOne of the requirements you will have when you apply for a US credit card is a US mailing address. If you have close friends you trust then you can use their address as your own but if you don’t
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How To Get US Credit Cards – Part 2 – ITIN
This entry is part 2 of 7 in the series How To Get US Credit Cards ** UPDATE – December 1, 2019 ** There is now a proven way to qualify for your ITIN as detailed in my post in the Travel Hacking from Scratch Series – Part 5 – US Credit Cards. This updated
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