Selling or buying a
home? Getting a mortgage or home equity loan? Most frequent flyer programs have
arrangements with lending companies, movers, and real estate agents. I got 14,000
miles last year just from a home loan. It's possible to get the "hat
trick" of miles for buying your home, miles for selling your old home, and
miles for using a particular mover. You could earn so many miles from your move
that as soon as you get to your new place, you can fly away!
Keep your miles from expiring:
Most programs expire miles you earned more than three years
ago. But most of them have changed in the past few years, to give you a way to
keep your miles. As long as you earn any amount of miles, all your miles get
extended expirations for three years from the most recent earned miles. That means
that if you have miles you earned on a flight 2 ½ years ago that are going to
expire in 6 months, if you spend $1 on your airline's credit card, or earn a
few miles from long-distance or wireless or dining, all your miles get a new expiration date three years from now! It
doesn't take much effort to keep your miles while you save up for your dream
trip.