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Elon Musk's $50K TX house is a humble prefab home that can be towed by a Model X
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has mentioned that he now lives in a ~$50K house at Starbase, Texas, where his private space company, SpaceX, is manufacturing its Starships. Based on images of the home, it appears that the Tesla and SpaceX CEO is indeed living modestly in a prefabricated housing unit that's only about 400 square feet.
Teslarati recently received a tip noting that Elon Musk's housing unit in Starbase, Texas is a Boxabl Casita, a foldable, prefabricated home designed for quick installations and maximum affordability. A 20×20 unit such as the one that Elon Musk reportedly owns is priced at only $50,000, less than the cost of a Model Y Long Range Dual Motor AWD. The Boxabl Casita is durable, too, being made of concrete panels and steel. It could be installed very quickly and transported easily, as well, with the home being light enough to be pulled by a vehicle like a Model X.
[...] The Boxabl Casita is designed to be customizable with different finishes and configurations. Yet a look at Elon Musk's apparent housing unit in Starbase shows that the CEO only opted for a base unit. Musk did mention that he has installed improvements to the home that would probably make it worth about $69,000 today, but even such an amount is less than the cost of a base Tesla Model S. The Casita is classic Elon Musk in the way that it's different and practical, though the idea that the 20×20 unit may be home to the world's third-richest person is very compelling. People with a net worth of $172 billion, after all, typically live in lavish properties.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 24 2021, @04:01AM (6 children)
The difference between Musk and most of the rest of us is that he paid cash.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 24 2021, @04:27AM (2 children)
Someone modded this off topic -- go figure. Do we have a Musk shill here?
(Score: 3, Touché) by takyon on Thursday June 24 2021, @04:42AM
Just an asshole, probably.
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(Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday June 24 2021, @06:52AM
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday June 24 2021, @02:09PM (1 child)
You too could pay cash for your home, if you already own one, sell it, and buy another. It's not really a buyer's market where I'm at, though. Considering you're likely to be paying $10k+ more than the asking price, because so many people are buying right now.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 24 2021, @03:19PM
Only 10K? The house I bought ~10 years ago for less than $200K jumped (based on neighborhood comparable sales) to about $350K in the last 6 months.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 25 2021, @04:28PM
I would have thought he used Bitcoin instead! :P