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I Earned 15,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards by Paying Allstate Insurance with 2 Chase Freedom Credit Cards

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Grant. Leave a reply

Good afternoon everyone, happy Friday! I have 2 Chase Freedom Flex Credit Cards (the second was a downgrade from a Chase Sapphire Preferred Credit Card) and Laura has an older Chase Freedom Credit Card (Visa version). In case you missed the announcement, Chase Freedom celebrated it’s 15th birthday this year and to mark this special occasion, Chase added 2 more bonus categories in March: Tax Preparation and Insurance. Tax prep and insurance are not the most exciting categories, but the timing couldn’t be better for us since we had $3,000 of car and home insurance payments to make this month. Before I made the insurance payments, I made sure that our Chase Freedom cards were registered and that we still had $1,500 in spend to do on our cards.

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After 12 Years, I Finally Earned My First Hyatt Brand Explorer Award!

Posted on February 24, 2025 by Grant. 6 Replies

Good afternoon everyone, it’s time to pop the champagne bottles! After 12 years, I finally earned my first Hyatt Brand Explorer Award! If you are not familiar with the Hyatt Brand Explorer, you earn a category 1-4 free night certificate after every 5 different Hyatt brands that you stay at. As of now, Hyatt has 32 different brands, so you could earn up to 6 Brand Explorer Awards. Scroll down to see the current list of brands.

On Friday, February 21, I went to a Warriors @ Kings NBA game in Sacramento and stayed at the nearby Hyatt Centric Downtown Sacramento. Fast forward to today (Monday, February 24), I received an email from Hyatt congratulating me earning a Brand Explorer Award.

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Access Your Chase Credit Card Referral Links in One Convenient “Combined Referral Page” (Desktop & App)

Posted on February 23, 2025 by Grant. Leave a reply

Good afternoon everyone. Between my wife and I, we have 12 Chase credit cards. Previously, I would need to go to the Chase Refer-A-Friend website (https://www.chase.com/referafriend/catch-all), and then type in my last name, zip code, and last 4 digits of the card number. If I only had 1 or 2 Chase credit cards, it wouldn’t be that bad, but looking up 12 different referral link one at a time is very tedious and time consuming. Thankfully, Chase has a better way…

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To Reduce Scams, Chase Will Limit Zelle Transactions with Social Media Contacts (Effective March 23)

Posted on February 23, 2025 by Grant. Leave a reply

Good morning everyone, I hope your weekend is going well. I just downloaded my recent Chase checking account statement and saw this message regarding Zelle.

To help protect you from fraud and scams, you’ll no longer be able to send Zelle payments to recipients originating from social media such as social media marketplaces or messaging apps

Due to the significant rise in social media scams and to help protect your account, we’ll be updating our policies on March 23, 2025, limiting your ability to send Zelle payments identified as originating from contact through social media. As a result, we may:

- - Request details about your payment’s purpose and how you made contact with the recipient
  - Block or decline payments identified as originating from contact through social media
  - Decline payments, restrict your use of Zelle through Chase or take other actions as described in your account agreement if you do not respond truthfully to questions we ask

Here is the full message:

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The 7 Miles & Points Tools / Services that I Pay For

Posted on January 17, 2025 by Grant. Leave a reply

Good afternoon everyone, happy Friday! I love free stuff as much as the next person, but there are a few miles and points tools and services that are so incredibly useful, they’re definitely worth paying for. Keep in mind, this isn’t a complete list, so there may be other fantastic tools out there that I haven’t discovered or used yet.

AwardWallet Plus – $49.99 / year

I can’t imagine a world without AwardWallet. They track all my credit card programs, airline programs, hotel programs, shopping portal balances, dining rewards, and much more. I love that they constantly check my accounts, display the current balances, and display expiration dates for all my rewards. The flight schedule change notifications (which sometimes come days / weeks / months before official airline notifications) and upcoming expiration alerts are well worth the cost to me. If you are interested in trying it out, here is my AwardWallet referral link.