Musk has finally bought a house! The $50,000 Jane House features a children's theater and Tesla solar panels

Recently, the US media disclosed for the first time Elon Musk's humble $50,000 home in Texas — a children's playhouse in the shape of a rocket, Tesla solar panels and closed-circuit television cameras hidden in palm trees.

The world's richest man and new owner of Twitter has sold seven California mansions in the past two years after he vowed to sell his property portfolio and most of it.

He also denied the claim that he secretly lived in a friend's $12 million mansion in Austin — he insisted: "My primary residence is actually the $50,000 house in Boca Chica that I rented from SpaceX... But that's a bit of a stretch.

Boca Chica is a peaceful retirement village where SpaceX opened shop in 2014, bought most of the property and fired giant rockets at a waterfront test facility two miles away.

Last week, the media visited the dusty coastal enclave outside Brownsville, Texas, to find what Musk called a Spartan-style residence and figure out if the Tesla tycoon, who is worth about $219 billion, actually lives there.

Neighbors said the 50-year-old did live in Boca Chica, just two miles from the Mexican border, at least in some cases, in a three-bed ranch-style home, a street away from the starbase production facility of his space company.

County government records confirm that SpaceX bought the single-storey waterfront property in October 2019, along with adjacent vacant lots and separate garages.

Musk also listed it as his domicile when he registered to vote in the 2020 election.

Neighbor Jim Crawford, 76, told the media, "You know Elon Musk is coming because you see SpaceX people picking up trash and dressing up the place nicely."

He was never alone, he always took his bodyguards with him. He usually arrives late at night, and he goes straight in and rarely comes out.

He waved his hand once, but he never invited us over or said hello. You don't knock on his door, because the bodyguard will come out right away.

Locals refer to this 1,580-square-foot cushion as the "compound" because in 2021 an 8-foot-tall fence was built around the entire property.

His security guards live next door, and the 1970s property was guarded by more than a dozen cameras, several of which hung high on top of palm trees on the street.

The three-time-married man, who recently had a seventh and eighth child with his intermittent partner Grimes, also built a custom playhouse and swing in the backyard, much like SpaceX's rockets.

Locals refer to the 1,580-square-foot site as the "compound" because in 2021 an 8-foot-tall fence will be built around the entire site.

They had a patio and chairs there. I once saw him with two ladies and a toddler and I guess it was his youngest son," said Jim, one of the so-called 'stickers' who has so far refused to sell to SpaceX.

I don't like rockets, and I'm a little too old to consider going to Mars," he added. I'm more concerned about what SpaceX does on Earth.

Unlike previous owners Richard and Patricia Heaton, Musk will not have to contend with the unstable internet because his house is equipped with an antenna from satellite Wi-Fi company Starlink.

But he will have to drive 20 miles to the nearest supermarket and truck drinking water from Cameron County every week until SpaceX completes its proposed desalination plant.

The company is rumored to have spent about $200,000 on the property — more than three times the $62,334 county tax assessor valued it last year.

We are very happy with the offer we received. Richard, 75, told the media, "It's really quite generous.

I've seen the fence he put up, but you can understand why privacy is a big issue for this guy. I sincerely hope that the people who live there now can enjoy it as much as we do.

Musk, who has long dreamed of creating a home for humanity on Mars, announced in May 2020 that he was scaling back his living arrangements, tweeting: "I'm selling almost all of my physical property. Will not own any house.

According to the Wall Street Journal, from June of that year to November 2021, he sold seven mansions in California for about $127 million.

Musk further claimed in a recent TED interview that he surfs the couch with friends, depending on which city he needs to be in.

He also refuted a Daily report claiming he secretly resided in a luxury lakeside mansion in Austin owned by his PayPal co-founder, fellow billionaire Ken Howery, who tweeted: "I don't live there and I don't want to buy a house anywhere."

Howvery issued a similar denial, adding. Elon didn't live in my house, he lived in South Texas. When he travels to Austin, he occasionally stays at home as my guest.

Musk's 'legal' residence is actually 170 miles south of Austin, where Tesla is headquartered, in Brownsville.

Ride the expensive property he refuses to give up — a $70 million Gulfstream private jet — just a 50-minute flight away.

A driver-piloted Tesla plane, usually waiting on the tarmac, picks up Musk at the city's airport and takes the big man to Boca Chica, a 30-minute drive along a narrow strip parallel to the Rio Grande and the Mexican border.

For Boca Chica's last few "holdouts," however, Musk remains a polarized figure — including Trump's supporters and 74-year-old retired treasurer Rosemary Walkman.

She's glad the self-described "free speech absolutist" has vowed to make Twitter stop being hostile to conservatives, but she hates everything SpaceX has done to her retirement oasis.

Rosemary has owned a house opposite Musk for the past 20 years, and she's bouncing back and forth between Texas and her hometown of Minnesota, and the word "holding on to buy" is an offense — we came first.

Before SpaceX started its business in Boca Chica, this 35-house coastal idyllic landscape runs along a street and is known for its abundance of wildlife, lush wetlands and unspoiled golden beaches.

The company allegedly offers residents' homes three times the price, but some have complained that the company undervalued the properties from the start, offering them little real value.

However, SpaceX now owns all the houses, with just 9, and it paints all the acquired houses the same white, futuristic color scheme and turns those buildings into staff quarters.

It used to be a very peaceful area. We knew all the neighbors and once a week on a game night we filled two tables. Now we see new faces every week," Rosemary lamented.

Musk built a large fence around his house, completely destroying everyone's perception of the bay. But what can we do? He's a billionaire.

I came here for only one reason, and that was to retire. If he were the richest man in the world, he could certainly make a fair offer.

Rosemary and her husband Jim suspect that Musk's interstellar mission will eventually appreciate the village, and he will turn it into a space-themed resort.

People keep coming here from all over the world. We call them space lunatics," she laughed.

One of them came to us and offered to buy the house. We have already had two inquiries this month.

It's simple, our offer starts at one million, but we haven't received a response yet.