While Elon Musk is certainly among the world’s most affluent individuals, he definitely does not appear to live that method– a minimum of according to himself. The CEO just recently spoke in a TED occasion transmitted on Sunday, where he stated, “I do not even own a location today, I’m actually remaining at pals’ locations.”
” If I take a trip to the Bay Area, which is where the majority of Tesla’s engineering is, I essentially turn through buddies’ extra bed rooms,” he continued. Musk dropped this information when asked a concern concerning the huge wealth variation in between typical Americans, and billionaires such as himself:
” For sure, it would be really troublesome if I was investing billions of dollars a year in individual usage, however that is not the case,” he stated. “It’s not as though my individual usage is high,” he continued, prior to advising the audience that he did own a personal aircraft– among the most inefficient travel techniques readily available today.
All of this asks the concern– does Musk truly not have an address? Let’s discover.
Elon Musk’s Current Address
According to The Houston Chronicle, Musk’s newest genuine address is an actual box– a 20 ×20 feet collapsible, premade house developed by Boxabl, a Las Vegas start-up intending to develop inexpensive, modular houses that can quickly be loaded, delivered, and established.
The ‘Casita’ design Musk is supposedly calling online was teased back in late 2020, when it made a look on the borders of SpaceX’s base in Boca Chica, Texas.
According to the Chronicle, the house is established just like a compact studio apartment or condo, with a separated area divided into a living room-bedroom location, in addition to a fully-equipped cooking area, connected to a restroom with a shower.
Musk verified this in mid-2021– with the $50 k evaluation fitting within Boxabl’s existing approximated prices. He likewise restated that he does own an occasion location house in San Francisco’s Bay Area, which he leases rather of residing in.
My main house is actually a ~$50 k home in Boca Chica/ Starbase that I lease from SpaceX. It’s kinda incredible.
Only home I own is the occasions home in the Bay Area. If I offered it, your home would see less usage, unless purchased by a huge household, which may occur some day.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 9, 2021
This most likely likewise describes the house that Musk’s (sort-of) partner Grimes described in a March 2022 interview with Vanity Fair While sharing tales of Musk’s non-extravagant way of life, she discussed what coping with him resembled:
“” Bro does not live like a billionaire. Brother lives sometimes listed below the hardship line. To the point where I resembled, can we not reside in a really insecure $40,000 home? Where the next-door neighbors, like, movie us, and there’s no security, and I’m consuming peanut butter for 8 days in a row?”
Sounds like a Boxabl to me.
Musk’s Old Homes
So, while Musk presently remains over with good friends and in some cases retreats to his modest onsite house, what about his previous houses?
Before the CEO notoriously ‘quit’ his physical belongings in 2020, he owned a number of high-end residential or commercial properties, with media outlets declaring that he owned a minimum of 7 within California, developing to a $100 million overall worth. A few of these were revealed that year, and 2 home listings were revealed through online brokers.
The very first was a $9.5 million house, referred to as a ‘thoroughly maintained, distinct, eccentric and captivating ranch-style previous house of Gene Wilder, the popular comic understood for playing the initial Willy Wonka in1971
Located in the expensive area of Bel-Air, the house ignores the Bel-Air Country Club Golf Course, and includes 2,800 sq. ft. (indoor) throughout 5 bed rooms, a pool, visitor spaces, and more.
Elon’s next Bel-Air house was much larger– a $30 million 3-storey estate that covered a sensational 16, 251 sq. ft.
It featured a big master suite, a double-storey library, a household wing, a theater, two-room visitor suite, a tennis court, wine rack, swimming pool, backyard and fruit orchard– the list goes on.
Musk’s other homes consisted of a $3.7 million ‘boomerang-shaped’ home in Brentwood, California, that made him next-door neighbors with Harrison Ford, Gwenyth Paltrow, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. He likewise offered a $23 million 100- year-old estate in Hillsborough, San Francisco, which was really near to Tesla’s head office.
So while Musk has actually scaled down considerably, he has actually invested most of his life living in crazy levels of high-end. Our guess is possibly he simply got tired.
( Featured Image Credits: TED, Google Maps)