Bilt Rent Day Promotion May 2025: 25-100% Southwest Transfer Bonus

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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 around the corner, the details of the May 2025 Bilt Rent Day offer have just been revealed. For the fourth month in a row, we’re seeing a transfer bonus, which is pretty awesome!

Details of the May 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 a 25-100% Southwest Rapid Rewards transfer bonus

We’ve just seen Bilt add Southwest Rapid Rewards as its newest transfer partner, and for the May 2025 Rent Day promotion, we’re even seeing a transfer bonus. Exclusively on May 1, 2025, Bilt is offering a 25-100% bonus if you transfer points to Southwest Rapid Rewards. The size of the bonus that you get depends on your Bilt elite status. Specifically:

• Bilt Blue members can receive a 25% bonus
• Bilt Silver members can receive a 50% bonus
• Bilt Gold members can receive a 75% bonus
• Bilt Platinum members can receive a 100% bonus

Southwest Rapid Rewards is a revenue based frequent flyer program, and generally each point gets you around 1.1-1.5 cents toward the cost of a ticket on the airline. So if you have a higher tier status, this is potentially a pretty lucrative redemption opportunity, and could get you over two cents of value per Bilt point. However, it’s not going to be useful for everyone.

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 May 2025, there’s the opportunity to take advantage of a 25-100% transfer bonus to Southwest Rapid Rewards. I appreciate Bilt’s transfer bonuses, and this is one that has the potential to be quite lucrative.

Are you taking advantage of the Bilt Rent Day promotion for May 2025?