LOL no they are his kids. He was married at one point ...
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LOL no they are his kids. He was married at one point ...
I know TX is cheaper for homes than CA but $50K in Austin? that home does look very modest. don't think I buy this storyHe thinks differently, as most geniuses do. We need that, especially now. I believe it is correct to say those are his satellites that are helping the Ukrainians win that war. Remember he has sold his multi-million dollar houses and lives in a small house in South Texas Rumor is when he is in Austin, he stays at his friend’s lake home
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Elon Musk Says He Lives in a $50,000 House. He Doesn’t Talk About the Austin Mansion.
The world’s richest man, who said last year that he was selling physical possessions, has been living in a billionaire friend’s estate and shopping for his own Texas palacewww.wsj.com
Study: Here's how much house $350K buys you in Austin
In Austin, the median home price is nearly $575,000.
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They were talking about him on the radio last week. He claims the 50,000 home in Texas at spacex as his home address but he’s actually couch surfing and doesn’t have a real home. It was a huge turn off for me, I can’t imagine being friends with someone so rich and they have the audacity to ask me to couch surf for a bit. You’re worth billions stay in a hotel not on my sofa.
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Billionaire Elon Musk Says He’s Couch Surfing, Doesn’t Own Home
The billionaire's admission comes over a year after he said he was selling all of his worldly possessions.
www.therichest.com
We have wealthy friends and they always ask to stay with us lol
I hate staying with others, but a lot of people prefer it over a hotel. I like that they're comfy at my house!
I hate staying with others, but a lot of people prefer it over a hotel. I like that they're comfy at my house!
Same, all my friends are welcome to crash at my place for a short time while visiting. I think its nice to know your friends feel comfortable enough to ask and want to stay.
They were talking about him on the radio last week. He claims the 50,000 home in Texas at spacex as his home address but he’s actually couch surfing and doesn’t have a real home. It was a huge turn off for me, I can’t imagine being friends with someone so rich and they have the audacity to ask me to couch surf for a bit. You’re worth billions stay in a hotel not on my sofa.
Billionaire Elon Musk Says He’s Couch Surfing, Doesn’t Own Home
The billionaire's admission comes over a year after he said he was selling all of his worldly possessions.
I bet his friends are super wealthy too. And have too many vacant vacation homes to let him stay as he wishes.
So Musk is not imposing on anyone. He's there all by himself living in luxury.
Didn't Megs and Harry stay at a wealthy friend's vacation home until they found a house?
Article from my original post is in the spoiler.
Elon Musk Says He Lives in a $50,000 House. He Doesn’t Talk About the Austin Mansion.
The world’s richest man, who said last year that he was selling physical possessions, has been living in a billionaire friend’s estate and shopping for his own Texas palace
Rob CopelandDec. 22, 2021 10:55 am ET
AUSTIN, Texas—When Time magazine last week named Elon Musk “Person of the Year,” it painted a spartan picture of his living arrangements. “The richest man in the world does not own a house,” the piece began.
The magazine was repeating what has become a core element of Mr. Musk’s public persona. Since last year, when the billionaire Tesla Inc. and SpaceX CEO announced he was “selling almost all physical possessions” in an effort to simplify his life, Mr. Musk has repeatedly portrayed himself as a man of modest tastes.
“My primary home is literally a ~50k house in Boca Chica/Starbase that I rent from SpaceX,” he tweeted this June, referring to a Texas town near the Mexican border near SpaceX’s rocket-launch facility. he tweeted this June, referring to a Texas town near the Mexican border near SpaceX’s rocket-launch facility. a Texas town near the Mexican border near SpaceX’s rocket-launch facility. “It’s kinda awesome though.”
What Mr. Musk hasn’t said, and what few people know, is that for roughly a year he has also been living in a waterfront estate in Austin owned by a rich friend nicknamed “Kenny,” people familiar with the matter say—a home so extravagant that it was the most expensive listed in the Texas capital when it was sold just a few years ago.
Mr. Musk has also engaged a series of real-estate agents to show him Austin-area mansions for purchase—and toured some houses personally, some of the people say.
The Austin home where Mr. Musk stays is owned by Ken Howery, a billionaire in his own right who has known Mr. Musk for decades. Mr. Musk’s stay is so secret that some friends of Mr. Howery said they were unaware of the arrangement.
The home in Austin where people say Mr. Musk has been living.
Photo: Pictometry
Mr. Howery co-founded PayPal Holdings Inc. —where Mr. Musk was an executive early in his career—and later, with famed investor Peter Thiel, co-founded Founders Fund, the venture-capital fund that has backed several of Mr. Musk’s companies.
The three men are considered part of what has been popularly termed the “PayPal Mafia,” a group of former company executives who went on to further success in business. In 2017, Mr. Musk tweeted that he had swung by a party attended by actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Orlando Bloom to say hi to Mr. Howery.
Mr. Howery served as U.S. ambassador to Sweden during the latter half of the ***** administration. Since his term ended, Mr. Howery has been traveling the world, including chasing tornadoes and other extreme weather events as a hobby, people who know him say.
That left his home available for Mr. Musk, who said last year that he had moved to Texas. Earlier this year, he relocated Tesla’s headquarters to the outskirts of Austin.
Ken Howery, pictured in 2020, was U.S. ambassador to Sweden.
Photo: Barzan Dello/ZUMA PRESS
The property includes nearly 8,000 square feet of interior space on a peninsula that juts into the Colorado River at the foot of Mount Bonnell in an exclusive Austin neighborhood, property records show. It boasts a waterfront pool, jacuzzi and private boat slip, and is protected by several sets of gates and a guardhouse as part of a development called “Watersedge.”
The mansion sold for more than $12 million in 2018; real-estate agents say it would sell for multiples of that now, a reflection of the city’s booming property market. It couldn’t be determined if Mr. Musk paid Mr. Howery for use of the residence. Mr. Musk is worth around $240 billion. Neither man responded to requests for comment.
After publication of this story, Mr. Howery, in a text message, said: “Elon does not live at my home, he lives in South Texas. He stayed at the house as my guest occasionally when traveling to Austin.”
Mr. Musk, also after publication of this story, told the website Insider: “I don’t live there and am not looking to buy a house anywhere.” He subsequently tweeted, in response to a link to this story, “But what color are the pillow cases?? We must know these important details!!” and “I should probably live somewhere though,” adding emojis in both instances.
Mr. Musk’s extended stay in the Austin mansion, as well as his continued pursuit of a showcase property nearby, complicate the narrative he has cultivated. Several year’s ago, he was temporarily sleeping with a white, caseless pillow on the floor under his desk at Tesla’s San Francisco-area factory.
He pledged on Twitter last year to “own no house,” and has followed through by selling a vast portfolio of homes.
“I do live in a $50k house,” he wrote on Twitter in July. Public records show that he is registered to vote in Cameron County, Texas, near Boca Chica beach, at a home built in 1971 that occupies one-fifth of an acre. The house is owned by Space Exploration Technologies Corp., the records show.
The home where Elon Musk stays when he is in Cameron County, Texas, near Boca Chica beach.
Photo: Phil Kline for the Wall Street Journal
In recent months, Mr. Musk and his representatives have engaged a series of Austin-based real-estate agents to hunt for a trophy property in the area, people familiar with the matter say. His personal financial advisers have sent a slew of requirements to brokers, including a desire for a large expanse of land that is currently unavailable in properties on the market, the people say.
Mr. Musk has toured several homes in person, two of the people say. Among the homes he expressed interest in, those people say, is a custom-built mansion owned by the noted jewelry designer Kendra Scott. Ms. Scott, who through a spokeswoman declined to comment, was open to a deal, but Mr. Musk was a no-show at several appointments to tour the home, one of the people said.
Paramount to Mr. Musk’s concerns, say people briefed on the search, is privacy.
The home search is so tightly protected, the people say, that several high-end Austin home-sellers say they expect it will remain a mystery even after he purchases a property. When the most expensive listed home in Austin sold for around $39 million earlier this year to a California limited-liability corporation with connections to Mr. Musk, word buzzed around the neighborhood that Mr. Musk was the secret buyer.
He wasn’t, says Jonny Jones, a businessman who previously owned the house and has found himself forced to shoot down the rumor.
Michele Turnquist, a real-estate agent who represented Mr. Jones in the sale, said she continues to receive misplaced kudos. “I’ve had five people tell me, ‘You know, Elon bought your listing,’ ” Ms. Turnquist says. “I tell them that if Elon bought my listing, I wouldn’t know.”
—Rebecca Elliott contributed to this article.
Write to Rob Copeland at [email protected]
The world’s richest man, who said last year that he was selling physical possessions, has been living in a billionaire friend’s estate and shopping for his own Texas palace
Rob CopelandDec. 22, 2021 10:55 am ET
AUSTIN, Texas—When Time magazine last week named Elon Musk “Person of the Year,” it painted a spartan picture of his living arrangements. “The richest man in the world does not own a house,” the piece began.
The magazine was repeating what has become a core element of Mr. Musk’s public persona. Since last year, when the billionaire Tesla Inc. and SpaceX CEO announced he was “selling almost all physical possessions” in an effort to simplify his life, Mr. Musk has repeatedly portrayed himself as a man of modest tastes.
“My primary home is literally a ~50k house in Boca Chica/Starbase that I rent from SpaceX,” he tweeted this June, referring to a Texas town near the Mexican border near SpaceX’s rocket-launch facility. he tweeted this June, referring to a Texas town near the Mexican border near SpaceX’s rocket-launch facility. a Texas town near the Mexican border near SpaceX’s rocket-launch facility. “It’s kinda awesome though.”
What Mr. Musk hasn’t said, and what few people know, is that for roughly a year he has also been living in a waterfront estate in Austin owned by a rich friend nicknamed “Kenny,” people familiar with the matter say—a home so extravagant that it was the most expensive listed in the Texas capital when it was sold just a few years ago.
Mr. Musk has also engaged a series of real-estate agents to show him Austin-area mansions for purchase—and toured some houses personally, some of the people say.
The Austin home where Mr. Musk stays is owned by Ken Howery, a billionaire in his own right who has known Mr. Musk for decades. Mr. Musk’s stay is so secret that some friends of Mr. Howery said they were unaware of the arrangement.
The home in Austin where people say Mr. Musk has been living.
Photo: Pictometry
Mr. Howery co-founded PayPal Holdings Inc. —where Mr. Musk was an executive early in his career—and later, with famed investor Peter Thiel, co-founded Founders Fund, the venture-capital fund that has backed several of Mr. Musk’s companies.
The three men are considered part of what has been popularly termed the “PayPal Mafia,” a group of former company executives who went on to further success in business. In 2017, Mr. Musk tweeted that he had swung by a party attended by actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Orlando Bloom to say hi to Mr. Howery.
Mr. Howery served as U.S. ambassador to Sweden during the latter half of the ***** administration. Since his term ended, Mr. Howery has been traveling the world, including chasing tornadoes and other extreme weather events as a hobby, people who know him say.
That left his home available for Mr. Musk, who said last year that he had moved to Texas. Earlier this year, he relocated Tesla’s headquarters to the outskirts of Austin.
Ken Howery, pictured in 2020, was U.S. ambassador to Sweden.
Photo: Barzan Dello/ZUMA PRESS
The property includes nearly 8,000 square feet of interior space on a peninsula that juts into the Colorado River at the foot of Mount Bonnell in an exclusive Austin neighborhood, property records show. It boasts a waterfront pool, jacuzzi and private boat slip, and is protected by several sets of gates and a guardhouse as part of a development called “Watersedge.”
The mansion sold for more than $12 million in 2018; real-estate agents say it would sell for multiples of that now, a reflection of the city’s booming property market. It couldn’t be determined if Mr. Musk paid Mr. Howery for use of the residence. Mr. Musk is worth around $240 billion. Neither man responded to requests for comment.
After publication of this story, Mr. Howery, in a text message, said: “Elon does not live at my home, he lives in South Texas. He stayed at the house as my guest occasionally when traveling to Austin.”
Mr. Musk, also after publication of this story, told the website Insider: “I don’t live there and am not looking to buy a house anywhere.” He subsequently tweeted, in response to a link to this story, “But what color are the pillow cases?? We must know these important details!!” and “I should probably live somewhere though,” adding emojis in both instances.
Mr. Musk’s extended stay in the Austin mansion, as well as his continued pursuit of a showcase property nearby, complicate the narrative he has cultivated. Several year’s ago, he was temporarily sleeping with a white, caseless pillow on the floor under his desk at Tesla’s San Francisco-area factory.
He pledged on Twitter last year to “own no house,” and has followed through by selling a vast portfolio of homes.
“I do live in a $50k house,” he wrote on Twitter in July. Public records show that he is registered to vote in Cameron County, Texas, near Boca Chica beach, at a home built in 1971 that occupies one-fifth of an acre. The house is owned by Space Exploration Technologies Corp., the records show.
The home where Elon Musk stays when he is in Cameron County, Texas, near Boca Chica beach.
Photo: Phil Kline for the Wall Street Journal
In recent months, Mr. Musk and his representatives have engaged a series of Austin-based real-estate agents to hunt for a trophy property in the area, people familiar with the matter say. His personal financial advisers have sent a slew of requirements to brokers, including a desire for a large expanse of land that is currently unavailable in properties on the market, the people say.
Mr. Musk has toured several homes in person, two of the people say. Among the homes he expressed interest in, those people say, is a custom-built mansion owned by the noted jewelry designer Kendra Scott. Ms. Scott, who through a spokeswoman declined to comment, was open to a deal, but Mr. Musk was a no-show at several appointments to tour the home, one of the people said.
Paramount to Mr. Musk’s concerns, say people briefed on the search, is privacy.
The home search is so tightly protected, the people say, that several high-end Austin home-sellers say they expect it will remain a mystery even after he purchases a property. When the most expensive listed home in Austin sold for around $39 million earlier this year to a California limited-liability corporation with connections to Mr. Musk, word buzzed around the neighborhood that Mr. Musk was the secret buyer.
He wasn’t, says Jonny Jones, a businessman who previously owned the house and has found himself forced to shoot down the rumor.
Michele Turnquist, a real-estate agent who represented Mr. Jones in the sale, said she continues to receive misplaced kudos. “I’ve had five people tell me, ‘You know, Elon bought your listing,’ ” Ms. Turnquist says. “I tell them that if Elon bought my listing, I wouldn’t know.”
—Rebecca Elliott contributed to this article.
Write to Rob Copeland at [email protected]
He's crazy. Legend has it he used to sleep on the floor at work. Same legend refers his insane work ethic that he imposed on others. Don't get me started on his double standard when 2020 started.
I know he's worth an insane amount Yada Yada but every single one of his cars have been recalled. And his company is widely regarded as the do not fly list (ie don't work for them) in the valley.
Aspergers might explain some of it but not all.
I know he's worth an insane amount Yada Yada but every single one of his cars have been recalled. And his company is widely regarded as the do not fly list (ie don't work for them) in the valley.
Aspergers might explain some of it but not all.