Link: Apply now for the no annual fee Bilt Mastercard®
The Bilt Mastercard® (review) is a valuable no annual fee card that I applied for and hold onto. This allows you to pay your rent by credit card and earn rewards, even if your landlord doesn’t ordinarily allow no-fee credit card payments. For us homeowners, you can potentially even pay your HOA this way.
There are many innovative things about Bilt, including that there’s a Bilt Rent Day promotion on the first day of each month. With a new month being right around the corner, Bilt has just unveiled the details of the August 2025 Bilt Rent Day Offer, and it includes a potentially lucrative airline transfer bonus.
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Details of the August 2025 Bilt Rent Day promotion
There are a couple of aspects to the Bilt Rent Day promotion, including the ability to earn bonus points (which is the same every month) plus at least one additional promotion.
Note that Bilt Rent Day promotions are generally valid from 12:00AM ET until 11:59PM PT, so technically you have around 27 hours to take advantage of them.
Earn 2-6x Bilt points on Rent Day purchases
Ordinarily the Bilt Mastercard earns 1-3x points per dollar spent, as you earn 3x points on dining, 2x points on travel, and 1x points on all other purchases. On the first day of each month, you earn double those rewards, meaning you earn 6x points on dining, 4x points on travel, and 2x points on all other purchases (except rent, where you earn 1x points).
With this offer, you can earn up to 1,000 bonus points each month. Keep in mind that you need to use your Bilt Mastercard five times each statement period in order to earn these points. It could be worth strategically making some purchases on the first day of each month to maximize this as much as possible.
Get up to a 100% Avianca Lifemiles transfer bonus
For the August 2025 Rent Day promotion, Bilt is offering a 20-100% bonus when members transfer points to the Avianca Lifemiles program. This promotion is valid exclusively on August 1, 2025. The size of the bonus that you get depends on your Bilt elite status. Specifically:
- Bilt Blue members can receive a 20% bonus
- Bilt Silver members can receive a 40% bonus
- Bilt Gold members can receive a 60% bonus
- Bilt Platinum members can receive a 100% bonus
The Avianca Lifemiles program can be useful for Star Alliance redemptions, so some members might find this to be worthwhile. There are definitely ways to get outsized value here.
My only hesitation with taking advantage of this offer is that I prefer using Bilt points mostly for transfer rewards that can’t be earned with many other points currencies. Lifemiles is one of the easiest points currencies to rack up, so I often prefer to use my Bilt points for Alaska Mileage Plan, World of Hyatt, etc.
Bottom line
On the first day of each month, those with the Bilt Mastercard can take advantage of the monthly Rent Day promotion. In addition to earning up to double points for purchases, for August 2025, there’s the opportunity to take advantage of a 20-100% transfer bonus to Avianca Lifemiles.
There are definitely ways to get outsized value with this offer. My only hesitation is that Lifemiles is one of the easier points currencies to accrue, so it’s not necessarily how I prefer to redeem my Bilt points (since I don’t earn as many points with Bilt as with some other currencies).
Are you taking advantage of the Bilt Rent Day promotion for August 2025?
Is it realistic to expect a Bilt rent promotion for WOH or AS miles? These are the most valuable Bilt transfers partners.
for AS - 95% no. for hyatt - 1000% no (Kerr has said this and it makes sense since its probably much costlier for them to acquire)