It used to happen a lot. Occasionally credit cards will offer 0% APR on balance transfers for 'X' number of months. Here is the best way to take advantage of those promotions. You need 2 credit cards (Card A & Card B). Card A offers a promotion of 6-12 month 0% interest on all balance transfers. Call Card A and have them transfer up to your entire credit limit to Card B. It will take a few days, but the entire amount will show up as a credit on Card B (assuming you didn't previously have a balance). Call Card B and have them transfer that credit to your regular bank account. Leave that money in savings or put it in a CD. Pay the minimum payments on Card A until the month prior to the promotion rate is over and repay the remaining balance (I'd advice you not to use Card A during the promotion period to keep things simple). I did this a couple of years ago and basically borrowed $25K for 12 months and didn't pay any interest on it (it was a NFCU Visa promotion). I put the money in a Money Market account that yielded 2% interest for the year. So the bank essentially just gave me $500.
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