Bilt Rewards has announced Marriott as the latest travel partner. Members can transfer Bilt points to Marriott at a rate of 1:1. In addition for every 20,000 Bilt points you transfer in a single transfer you’ll receive 5,000 bonus Marriott points. You can also earn 100 Bilt points by linking your Bilt & Marriott accounts in the Bilt app.
Given Bilt’s other transfer partners and the transfer rate I don’t think this is a particularly interesting transfer partner and represents poor value. It might get interesting if Bilt offers an insane transfer bonus.
Did anyone receive the 100 points for linking yet? Has not showed up yet for me
Showed up for me almost instantly
Didn’t get anything either
Heads up, I had to request manual adjustment in order to get the points.
Forgive my ignorance, but aren’t Mariott points like $0.005 cents per point?
Usually between 0.5-0.8cpp, but I did get 1cpp once. But either way I won’t be transferring any Bilt points to Marriott
Anyone else have trouble linking some programs? I’ve linked a bunch, and just did Marriott, but some error out when I try to link. Specifically, United and Aeroplan won’t link.
No issues for me
Every partner works, except I am having trouble creating a Hawaiian Airlines and Iberia account.
Yes, I noticed when logging into United it would go blank. I hit back in the Bilt App, clicked the link account again, and then the United page loaded.
I had issues with British Airways but it eventually worked when I tried again a few weeks later. No problems with any of the others though
It would be nice if Wells Fargo allowed their Bilt card to be used to pay mortgages. Would change the game if they did this and would immediately catapult the card to being one of the most desired cards on the market.
You can: BILT needs to update your profile and then it works. That’s how I pay my mortgage.
Can you clarify what you mean by update your profile? This is the first time I’ve heard Bilt can pay for a mortgage.
You need to contact them to let them know you no longer rent and want to use your card to pay the mortgage.
They actually mentioned it to me when I first converted my points to offset (a tiny part of) the down payment. They offered to update my profile to enable mortgage payment.
A couple emails back and forth later, I was set.
Thank you for this clarification! This is surprising since Bilt’s FAQ says they don’t support mortgage payments but I think it’s worth a try.
what exactly did you say/who did you contact?
Tried this and it didn’t work
I’m curious if that’s a hidden feature for converting the points for a down payment, did you get the mortgage through wells fargo or another bank?
Probably won’t ever transfer to Marriott but loving the link bonuses, did a flurry of signup/links and got 1.3k for the trouble!