Since Musk, the world's richest man and new owner of Twitter, said that he sold out his mansion and became a "homeless" renter, it has become a mystery where he lives.
A few days ago, the billionaire had been talking about a "rental house" worth 50,000 yuan for a long time, and was pulled out by a Texas reporter....
Beneath the dust of the Texas countryside, a single-story villa with a three-bedroom compound stands between rockets and palm trees, which is where Musk claims to be worth "$50,000."
However, behind the matter, it is not a simple "rental story" of the rich...
The story begins with the world's richest people announcing the sale of their houses and starting to rent...
In May 2020, Musk tweeted that he would sell all of his properties on Earth. While amazing everyone, he seemed anxious to implement this declaration one by one.
Last year, he sold six mansions in Los Angeles' upscale Bel Air neighborhood.
In June of the same year, he said he was already living in a $50,000 house in Boca Chica, which he rented from the company SpaceX. And he's going to sell the last property.
The last property he mentioned was the Guignécourt estate in Silicon Valley, which covers an area of more than 190,000 square meters.
The mansion has over 16,000 square meters of living space and has seven bedrooms, seven bathrooms, a music room, a large ballroom and a cocktail room with retractable library shelves.
The manor house was built in 1912 and is 109 years old. It was built by a French nobleman, the Earl of De Guine, who moved to California after marrying a wealthy local woman.
The manor house has a garden pond, which is lush and can be strolled along the internal paths.
After several twists and turns, the estate was finally sold by Musk for $30 million at the end of last year. That's a full $7.5 million drop from $37.5 million when it first listed in June.
After completing the deal, Musk achieved what he had said before, selling all seven properties of his property, netting about $127 million and making about $25 million in profit.
Most netizens felt unbelievable.
"The world's richest man said he didn't want real estate, only rented a house, and the house he rented was only worth 50,000 yuan, do you believe it?" What new concepts are being speculated about? ”
Not only netizens do not believe it, but the media does not believe it either.
A while, some media said that Musk wanted to adapt to Life on Mars in advance, so he decided to live in such a model house.
Musk did not recognize it, and immediately tweeted a response, once again emphasizing that he has been living in a $50,000 house, not this "product".
"For the past two years, I've actually been living in a $50,000 house in South Texas instead of a Boxabl model house (albeit a cool product). It felt more homely to stay in the little house".
A while later, the media said that Musk actually secretly lived in a friend's house, PayPal co-founder Ken Haorui's lakeside mansion.
The claim was also immediately denied by Musk: "I don't live there and I don't plan to buy a house anywhere." ”
So where does he live?
Where is there a house worth only 50,000 to rent to him? Still satisfying the billionaire?
The answer is the Boca Chica he mentioned.
Boca Chica is the southernmost point of the United States in Texas and the southernmost point of the United States, bordering Mexico.
There's a vast expanse of land with Boca Chica State Beach Park, where residents and tourists alike love to go fishing, swimming, surfing, and bird watching on that wide white sand beach.
There is also a Boca Chica village, a community of about 40 houses, mostly single-storey houses with soft orange brick facades. With no shops, restaurants, or amenities of any kind around, or even municipal water pipes, Cameron County regularly transports water by truck and then stores it in outdoor tanks. Most of the residents here have retired.
Due to the remote location, life, transportation and network are not convenient, and the house is cheap.
Of course, the rich people who have seen the beauty of the world of flowers and flowers will not choose to move here because the beach is beautiful and the price is cheap.
He has his own agendas.
In 2019, Musk said he wanted to use the Boca Chica village as part of the space company SpaceX's "Star Base."
SpaceX offered to buy every house in Boca Chica Village at three times its fair market value and offered VIP invitations to local residents to participate in future space launches.
That is to say, if the original price of the house is fifty or sixty thousand, Musk's company is willing to bid two hundred thousand to buy it. Sell? Of course sell! Most residents happily accepted the offer.
But there are still 9 residents who are reluctant to sell their homes, and they confirm that Musk does live here.
In October 2019, SpaceX purchased a single-storey waterfront property, as well as adjacent vacant lots and separate garages.
Jim Crawford, a 76-year-old neighbor, said he knew Elon Musk was coming when he saw staff start cleaning up the garbage near the house and tidying up his surroundings.
Sure enough, he later inadvertently witnessed Musk coming in and out of the house.
Jim said Musk "always goes home late at night with his bodyguards and rarely comes out." When Musk meets his neighbors, he usually just "waves" and never greets them or invites them to come to the house to see. Oh yes, Jim added, "You don't knock on his door, the bodyguards will come out right away." ”
As a billionaire, Musk is no simple tenant.
Local residents refer to the 1,580-square-foot plot of land where Musk lives as the "compound."
In 2021, an 8-foot fence was built around the house to enclose the backyard tightly. In this bay village, the high fence is very "spectacular".
This fence has aroused heated discussion among local residents.
Some neighbors are accustomed to the open and free environment of the bay, and they are very dissatisfied with this kind of fence construction, but they can only say helplessly: "Musk has set up a large fence around his house, which completely destroys everyone's view of the bay." But what do we do? He's a billionaire. ”
Richard, another former 75-year-old homeowner, said the house he bought from him was originally unhyarded and was now "airtight." He understands musk's focus on privacy, but also euphemistically says, "Wish he had a good stay" and could really enjoy life here.
Through the fence, you can still see a custom playground in the yard, which is built in the shape of a rocket, and there is a swing next to it, thinking that this is for their own children.
"They also have a terrace and chairs. Once I met him with two ladies and a small child, I guessed it was his youngest son. ”
The walls were repainted, new trees were planted in the yard, and solar panels made by Tesla covered the roof.
The most troublesome thing about the remote suburbs is that the network conditions are not good, but Musk has no such worries at all.
The "rental house" was equipped with antennas provided by his satellite wireless company Starlink to ensure that the network was high-speed and stable. For safety reasons, the house also has many cameras, and even some of them are hidden in palm trees.
It is said that this house is more than $50,000. After a county tax assessment, the property was worth $62,334 last year, and then SpaceX bought it for about $200,000 and rented it to Musk. The former owner expressed great satisfaction with the offer.
I just don't know how much Musk's monthly rent is.
The story of the richest man renting a house tells us:
As long as you have a space company, help you buy a house at 3 times the market price...
There are satellite wireless companies that help you install WiFi and signals....
I also have the cost of renovation...
With a "rental house" worth 50,000 yuan, you can live happily!