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Elon Musk Lives in a Prefab Tiny Home That He Doesn’t Even Own, a Boxabl Casita
- smt88 5y agoOne wonders how he is a functioning partner to Grimes and/or father to his 7 children when he lives the life of an eccentric bachelor...
- mpfundstein 5y agohe VERY LIKELY isnt.
- captainmuon 5y agoExactly. I would assume one reason for living alone is because he alienated a lot of people close to him. I think it's quite tragic. The other reason is that he could be "broke", as in he has no cash. All of his wealth is in stock of Tesla, SpaceX,... and he cannot sell any of that without loosing control of the companies or pluging the stock price. I think that's also why he sold all his real estate some time ago.
- smt88 5y agoAlternatively, this could be another thing he's lying about in order to seem eccentric and interesting.
- nickik 5y agoBanks give practically cash loans against your stock. And the idea that the stock price of those companies would collapse if he sold a few million is frankly idiotic.
- mapmap 5y ago>Banks give practically cash loans against your stock. This is how taxes are not paid. No income, no tax. No realized capital gains, no tax. Propublica recently went into detail on this.
- nickik 5y agoDoesn't have to do anything with the thread. So not sure how taxes are relevant here. Fact is, Elon doesn't have liquidity problems.
- smt88 5y agoI know he himself has pushed the "no cash" narrative (perhaps to seem more like an underdog or a true believer in the various things he's pumping?) but it's ridiculous. He could get a loan of $10M, a tiny fraction of his wealth, in minutes. He could collateralize it easily with any of his assets, even if some aren't liquid (although we should consider Tesla stock to be very liquid at this point).
- ilaksh 5y agoI am guessing that it's something like, the wife and exes already have houses, he visits them there, he is really just using that place as a way to eliminate his commute.
- smt88 5y agoYou're probably right, which is why articles like this feel like gullible people believing Musk's incessant image-building.
- mlindner 5y agoWell the ex can live where ever she likes and Musk certainly doesn't live with her. The wife&baby though lives with him, as can be seen in many photos.
- gabrielsroka 5y agoNitpick: he has 6 living children. He had 7, but one of them died.
- tw04 5y agoNothing in the article says he lives there full time. I'm willing to bet he has long term rentals and just sold off all his property in a hot market with plans to re-buy when things cool off. I know several non-wealthy people who just did the same thing with their houses.
- carbonatedmilk 5y agoLove the idea of pre-fab, but this thing is just charmless. Fake-wood plastic floors Fake-wood MDF cabinetry, with superfluous detailing Plastic benchtops Horrible overhead lighting layout. The 'LCD television-as-wall-divider' is the cherry on top of this nightmare. The problem isn't simply that they've chosen cheap, poor-substitute materials, the whole thing has been thrown together with no sense of design or cohesion. Good design costs almost nothing - Contrast it with this Australian modular / pre-fab: https://www.dwell.com/article/wattle-bank-tiny-shipping-container-home-modhouse-2565dc27 https://www.dwell.com/article/wattle-bank-tiny-shipping-cont... It also uses inexpensive materials (Untreated plywood for the interiors, shipping containers for the structure), but it's thoughtfully designed and quite beautiful.
- hulitu 5y agoPre fab? We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out.
- drigby 5y agoLuxury.
- gabrielsroka 5y agoParadise https://youtu.be/VKHFZBUTA4k https://youtu.be/VKHFZBUTA4k
- sunstone 5y agoWhy not a retrofitted Starship with a circular staircase going up 160 feet. Engines optional, assembled on site.