The airline also offers additional miles if you buy your home through one of its participating real estate brokers. If you buy and sell a home with them, you get miles for both transactions. Barsuhn says that the miles are paid for from agency and agent commissions. You could do even better if you get your loan from a lender that also gives miles. In order to qualify for the free miles you usually have to be a member of a specific airline s frequent flyer program.
Some airlines charge a fee.
If they do, you pay it. Make sure you are a member of the appropriate frequent flyer program and that the people you do business with know you re after the miles when you start talking to them. Rick Swartz, a credit analyst with Kern County Credit Consultants in Bakersfield, California, suggests that you make sure you understand the conditions attached to those miles. If you re like most people, when you buy a home you re not in a position either financially or psychologically to take a trip. It might be a year or more before you re ready for that big vacation.