Posted on 05/06/2022 9:07:57 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Elon Musk's unassuming $50,000 Texas home can be revealed for the first time by DailyMail.com – complete with a rocket-shaped kids' playhouse, Tesla solar panels and CCTV cameras hidden in palm trees.
The world's richest man and new Twitter owner has sold seven Californian mansions in the past two years after vowing to offload his property portfolio and most of his possessions.
He's also denied claims he secretly lives at a friend's $12million mansion in Austin – insisting: 'My primary home is literally a $50k house in Boca Chica/Starbase that I rent from SpaceX … it's kinda awesome though.'
Boca Chica was a tranquil retirement village before SpaceX set up shop there in 2014, buying up the majority of the properties and launching giant rockets from its beach-front test facility two miles away.
DailyMail.com visited the dusty coastal enclave outside Brownsville, Texas, last week to locate Musk's supposedly Spartan digs and figure out if the Tesla mogul – worth an estimated $219billion - actually lives there.
Neighbors told us the 50-year-old does indeed reside in Boca Chica just two miles from the Mexican border – at least some of the time – in a three-bed, ranch-style home a block away from his space firm's Starbase production facility.
County records confirm SpaceX snapped up the single-story, waterfront property in October 2019 along with the adjacent empty lot and standalone garage.
Musk also listed it as his residence when he registered to vote for the 2020 General Election.
'You know Elon Musk is coming because you see the SpaceX people picking up trash and sprucing the place up,' neighbor Jim Crawford, 76, told DailyMail.com.
'He's never alone, he always has his bodyguards with him. He normally arrives late at night, he goes straight inside and rarely comes out.
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