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Random information from random sources and own research about credit cards in USA

Do Your Own Research FFS

Major Starter Cards

Discover It Secure Card

  • Something like prepaid??? Put down security deposit and get it in exchange for that card
  • no annual fee
  • 2% cashback resturants, 1% on everything else
  • double in first year

Discover It Cashback

  • no deposit
  • 5% cashback almost everywhere
  • double in first year

Petal 2

  • No need credit history, base off of banking history
  • So most easy to get

Amazon Prime Rewards

  • 5% on amazon, 2% on rest, 1% on everything else
  • Very good one, get as 2nd or 3rd card (during the off periods of chase flex)

Chase freedom

  • quite hard to get as the first card
  • 250 bonus after 500 spend
  • Rotating 5% quarterly on different categories
  • 5% on grocery, 3% on dining, 1% on everything else
  • 0% interest
  • 3 months doordash, instacart

Citi double

  • 2% on everything
  • hard to get
  • very simple to manage (no need to think about where to spend to get maximum rewards as same on all)

Amex blue

  • "charge card", useful build credit history faster
  • pay back in full every month, makes it looks like ur a really good consumer
  • $200 cashback on $2000 spend
  • 3% supermarket, 1% everything else

BOA

  • $200 on $1000
  • 3% choose custom, 2% grocery, 1% everything
  • 0% interest

Some other stuff

  • monitor credit
    • credit karma, credit sesame (if you get chase cards then u get their own service for free)
  • get discover it or petal visa first
  • autopay it
  • after 6 months add another card - citi double/freedom flex/amazon
  • after 6 months add another card - amex blue (this one makes increasing score very fast)
  • after 6 months ask for increase in credit limit
  • in total at the end of 2 yrs should have very high score ~780
  • statement closing date vs due date
    • research more on this, didnt understand fully but seems to be super powerful
  • freeze credit history/score so that random people cannot query it
    • every time you make a hard query, it reduces the score (ffs why)

Important Note

  • getting rejected for a card is a very big black mark
  • almost similar to getting rejected for a VISA, every next appointment (even if its for a different country's embassy) theyre gonna ask about it (here in the context of banks)
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