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Gateway Fiber Referral: Your Gateway to High-Speed Internet!

Fast Internet with Gateway Fiber – Get Your First Month Free!

Gateway Fiber has a Great Referral Program for new customers and existing customers, refer a friend is a great way to share the Gateway Fiber experience!

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So are you ready to get your Gateway Fiber Referral Link?

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Interested in our other referrals like Luba, Tesla, or Google Fi, click here!

GatewayFiber does not provide a referral code, you must click the link above to get your referral benefit!

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Google Fi Referral $20

Going to keep this short and simple, here’s a referral link for $20 off when you sign up for Google Fi Service.
Receive $20 off when you signup for Google Fi Service!

We switched our 3 lines to Google Fi in 2021 and have saved close to $100/month over our old Verizon service.
We are happy with the service provided, better coverage in areas, worse coverage in other areas, just like any other wireless phone service.
Looking for other referrals?

Liquid Web Hosting Referral

Our website’s are Hosted on Liquid Web’s VPS Service, and we are proud to be a partner with them and offer a Referral for the service.

Just click here for to use our referral link, we appreciate it!



In my 20 years of working on my personal websites, I have never had a service that checks all the boxes, performance, customer service and the most important, reliability. Our uptime is the best we have ever experienced with 100% over the last year other than planned server maintenance. That’s right, no unplanned outages.
We pay for the Fully Managed Service, which means our provider manages our OS and Server maintenance, we are still responsible for our websites. Over my 2+ years with Liquid Web we have been contacted several times from Support that they noticed a service had failed on our server and they either rebooted the server with our permission or restarted the service. A secure feeling knowing our Server is actively being monitored 24/7/365 by people that care.

Enphase Solar image showing output of our Enphase Microinverters

Enphase Solar Referral

Save on your Enphase System by using our Enphase Solar Referral Link below.

https://estimator.enphase.com/lead?referral_code=1JSFEBTNC

The referral can change overtime, at the time of this writing you can save $100 by ordering using our Enphase Referral.

Our system is 30 panels, rated at 7.65 kW using 30 Enphase M215 Microinverters. This system produced over 90% of our homes annual electric consumption from 2012 through 2021, at that time we purchased 2 Tesla Model 3’s and of course we are using more electric.
The Enphase Inverters have been reliable, we had one that had a communication issue, Enphase replaced this inverter with a simple process.
The Enphase system is simple and efficient, and if your into data, you can see your Solar production panel by panel.
If your interested, please consider using our Enphase Solar Referral.

Tesla Roof and Tesla Solar

Get Free Supercharging or a Discount with My Tesla Referral Code!

Thinking about buying a Tesla? Use my Tesla referral code and you’ll get free Supercharging miles or a discount on your purchase, depending on what Tesla is offering! Plus, you’ll be supporting sustainable energy and joining the growing community of Tesla owners.

Tesla offers fantastic benefits to those who use a referral code when ordering their new vehicle. Don’t miss out on these exclusive perks!.

My Tesla Referral Code: thomas14616

Or click this link! to save and start designing your Tesla!

Why Choose a Tesla?
Sustainable: Reduce your carbon footprint and contribute to a cleaner future.
Innovative: Experience cutting-edge technology and unparalleled performance.
High-Performance: Enjoy exhilarating acceleration and a smooth, quiet ride.
Long Range: Travel further on a single charge.
Supercharger Network: Access Tesla’s extensive network of fast chargers.



This referral code and link above is also good for Tesla Solar Roof and Tesla Solar Panel Systems.

Do we have a Tesla Solar array, well no we don’t, but will be installing Tesla Powerwall’s in the future for backup power and to assist in stabilizing the power grid as needed.

Our current Solar Array consist of 30 Solarworld Panels and 30 Enphase Micro-Inverters, a great system that is just missing the Tesla Powerwall’s for backup.


Interested in our Tesla ownership? Check out our story from ordering to delivery and more.
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TeslaFi Referral Code

I have always been fascinated with numbers, I quickly found that TeslaFi satisfies my need to dig deeper into how our cars are performing while driving or charging.
There is more than just energy usage/charging stats, you can control your car, automate actions like having your car heat or cool depending on the day, time, and the cars location.
TeslaFi integrates with Amazon Alexa voice control as well, quick way to prepare your car as you are getting ready to leave without having to grab your phone.
There are a variety of reports and mapping options as well as tracking the latest Tesla software updates and release notes.
I suggest giving it a trial run, 2 weeks is free, and you can extend that by another 2 weeks by using my referral code below. I do receive a $5 account credit for anyone that subscribes after the trial period if they use my code.
Appreciate you giving it a try as well as using my code……

TeslaFi Referral: tstolze

Or if you prefer
TeslaFi Referral Link: Click here to signup with TeslaFi

Mammotion Luba, Luba 2, YUKA Mower $100 discount off your order!

Looking for a referral code to receive a $100 discount off your Mammotion Luba, Luba 2, or YUKA Mower order?
I just happen to have one for you! (of course I receive a little something in return)

Receive $100 off your Mammotion Luba Mower!

I had to remove the Mammotion Referral code as it was reported as not working, please use the link above… Thanks and enjoy your Mammotion Luba!

Mammotion Mowers, Luba, Luba 2, and YUKA are the perimeter cable free automated lawnmower, no more stringing cables around your yard to guide your mower where it can go and can’t go!
This is possible through RTK GNSS Navigation. Quickly drive your new mower around the edge of your yard, save the zone, and your ready to go.
Create safe zones if necessary to get from zone to zone, like driving across a driveway or path.

Mammotion Luba handles almost any slope, rough terrain, charges automatically, avoids obstacles in its way, has multi-zone management, and can handle up to 5000 sq/meters.

Luba is protected with a 2 year warranty with 24/7 technical support.

Looking to power your Luba with Solar check out my referral links for Tesla Solar or Enphase!
Tesla Solar Referral

Enphase Referral




Kizik Rewards, $20 off your order!

I am sharing my Kizik Referral link below, this will get you $20 off your Kizik shoe order.
As simple as it gets, click the link and when you place your order a $20 discount will be applied to your order.
I just tried a pair and am impressed with how easy the Kizik shoes are to put on, hands free.
Thanks to my co-worker Garrett for pointing me to this wonderful product.

$20 off referral link

Black Tesla Model 3

Tesla Model 3 Delivery Day!

It is our day to take delivery of our second Tesla Model 3! It is many months in the waiting, but at this time unless a call is received that there is an issue, we will be a 2 Tesla Household.
This is many months in the waiting after having to reject 2 previous deliveries, one for quality, the other had the wrong color interior. Read the details about this Tesla Model 3 order.
Since writing last, Tesla has resolved our pricing concern and we have the 1st quarter price reduction applied to this Model 3. This is a Black Model 3, Long Range, All Wheel Drive, 18 inch Aero Wheels, and White Interior. It has taken many phone calls and emails to get the pricing resolved. Even up to the last 2 days they insisted the price was correct. Of all things to open their eyes that it was wrong, I suggested they look at our Blue Tesla’s documentation to see the price we paid. That is all it took, not sure whey nobody at Tesla thought of this, but sometimes you have to lead the horse to the water. 🙂
I’m up early, pickup is scheduled for late this afternoon! Pictures and a review of our pickup experience for our 2nd Model 3 will be coming in the next day or two.

Pickup of our Tesla Model 3

As always, thanks for reading, fingers crossed that our Tesla Model 3 Delivery goes well!
Here’s our Tesla Referral if you are in need of one.

How much electricity does our Tesla Model 3 use

How much Electricity does a Tesla Model 3 use?

April is done and I’m looking at how much electric our Tesla Model 3 uses. I know others are thinking how much electricity does a Tesla Model 3 use? Since this is our first full month, I’m anxious to dig into the data.
Our electric bill for April is $19.85, I have to add we have the benefit of rooftop solar installed in 2012. We drove our Blue Tesla Model 3 1157 miles in April. We charged 260 kWh’s at home and 107 kWh’s at Tesla Superchargers. The Supercharger visits were free due to using a Tesla Referral code for our purchase. If we look at it as all charged from home and no solar, we used 367 kWh’s for 1157 miles, or $29.36 cents at our current electric rate.
If you look at our electric use at home and charging our Tesla for April, we used less than 100 kWh’s net as seen in the graphic below.
Graphic showing our home's solar production and usage for April 2021

I’m very happy with this outcome, extremely affordable when looking at cost/mile of driving our Tesla. If we remove the Tesla charging from our April usage and calculate our electric bill, our April electric bill would be ~$4.50.
Now that we know much electricity our Tesla Model 3 uses, we can plan for our future electric needs.
Our previous car would have been able to be driven less than 300 miles on the total cost of electric we used to charge our Tesla Model 3 in April. What an improvement!

Previous Post: Still Waiting on our 2nd Tesla, We have a VIN!

Thanks for reading:
Tesla Referral Link: https://ts.la/thomas14616

I us a 3rd party service to track the performance of our Tesla’s, it is called TeslaFi
This referral code or link you will receive a 30 day trial of TeslaFi.
TeslaFi Referral: tstolze
TeslaFi Referral Link: https://www.teslafi.com/signup.php?referred=tstolze

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