06/29/2021 9:12 AM
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Updated 06/29/2021 9:17 AM
Among the eccentricities that billionaire Elon Musk practices, in recent days there was one that attracted a lot of attention:
Despite having an estimated fortune of $ 160.6 million, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla
decided to move into a prefabricated house of just 36 square meters.
In early 2021,
Musk created a stir by announcing his plans to sell his entire real estate portfolio.
Despite the general disbelief, the businessman went ahead with the plans and sold the bulk of his mansions.
And for the moment, he resides in a studio apartment.
As confirmed in one of his tweets earlier this month,
He now lives at
Starbase, SpaceX's test facility in Boca Chica, South Texas, in a small house with concrete walls covered in foam rubber.
The size of the house is 6 by 6 square meters.
And although with his fortune he could have bought or rented a Texas mansion where he could settle in with all the comforts, he preferred to sacrifice luxury to demonstrate that austerity is not an exclusive condition of wage earners.
This is the entrance of the prefabricated houses.
“
I'm trying to make it clear how serious I am about this.
And it is not a matter of personal consumption.
People attack me because I have all these possessions, all those houses.
Very well, I won't have them anymore ”, he assured in interviews with international media.
The businessman began to dispose of several properties in order to accumulate
all possible resources to be able to carry out his initiative to colonize Mars
, a project that he leads through his aerospace company.
My primary home is literally a ~ $ 50k house in Boca Chica / Starbase that I rent from SpaceX.
It's kinda awesome though.
Only house I own is the events house in the Bay Area.
If I sold it, the house would see less use, unless bought by a big family, which might happen some day.
- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 9, 2021
In May of last year, Musk had posted messages on Twitter in which he anticipated that he planned to
dispose of "almost all of his physical possessions
.
"
The process of selling Musk's properties accelerated since 2020 when he
left several of his high-value homes, including the one in the upscale Bel-Air neighborhood of Los Angeles.
According to the
New York Daily News
,
Musk's last property was sold for $ 37.5 million
, while the Gullixson real estate company details that it is a mansion built around 1912
by a French count and that has a building of around 1,540 square meters and a land of more than 19 hectares.
This is Boxabl Casita
A Boxabl Casita costs 50 thousand dollars.
His new home is actually a
small towable prefab called Boxabl Casita.
Its price is not that cheap either, since it is
around $ 50,000.
This possibility had been hinted at by Boxabl herself.
when in November 2020, he pointed out that the company had been chosen by the headquarters that SpaceX has in Boca Chica to deliver one of its units.
Boxabl's home arrives in a truck and can be inhabited immediately.
La Casita can be made to live off the electricity grid or come prepared to connect to public services.
Also depending on these details, the setup may include a variety of additional costs.
The only way out of the housing crisis, says Casita's CEO,
is "by offering units that are more durable, more affordable and with shorter delivery dates."
It is not clear if her partner Grimes and her son X Æ A-Xii live in the same house.
The walls, floor and ceiling are
structurally laminated panels with a higher insulation and durability rating
than anything else in the traditional home building market.
The home is hurricane, storm and flood resistant and rated 90% for snow
.
It's cheap to maintain and can be made even cheaper by using solar panels, battery backup, and smart technology.
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