Generally, you simply do not get on along with your neighbors, and Elon Musk isn’t any exception to the rule. Billionaires: they’re similar to us! Granted, most neighborly annoyances do not revolve round Tesla-driving safety personnel and attempting to construct a compound for his 13 (and counting!) youngsters … so possibly not “simply” like us. 

Musk made headlines in Might and June 2025 for extra than simply his explosive bromance breakup with Donald Trump. Roughly six months after it was reported that Musk was turning a number of Texas houses into a large compound for all his youngsters and a few of their mothers, The New York Occasions printed a chunk outlining among the many issues his new neighbors in an Austin suburb have been upset about. For one, they did not love the elevated safety of their area, particularly as a result of some believed the format of the road was by no means going to work for Musk’s explicit wants. “These have been refined patrons, and if safety was the prime directive, this was not the home for it,” complained one resident.

Then, there was the fence. In response to the annoyed neighbors, Musk hadn’t been given the go-ahead to construct one within the first place. The neighborhood home-owner affiliation’s president additionally identified at a gathering in regards to the matter that the fence itself was “not consistent with the neighborhood. Really, it appears to be like prefer it belongs at Fort Knox” (through KUT). Unsurprisingly, between the aesthetics of it and the truth that Musk’s crew solely tried to get a allow for the fence after already constructing it, the HOA president and the native zoning planning fee have been unimpressed. “If you happen to observe him in any respect within the information, he is at all times responsible of constructing stuff after which asking for permission later,” the HOA head complained. That is a method to make sure you’re not welcomed to the neighborhood with freshly baked cookies!

One other strategy to be sure to’re by no means invited to the group block celebration? Having safety that not solely annoys your neighbors however calls the cops on them, too. 

Per the report by The New York Occasions, sooner or later in 2024, certainly one of Musk’s safety crew members referred to as the police once they stated they’d seen the home-owner affiliation president lurking across the property within the nude. Nonetheless, the resident denied this model of occasions. Fairly the opposite, he claimed that he’d not solely been sporting underwear on the time the safety personnel thought they noticed him bare, however had been on his personal premises. That also wasn’t all, although. There was one other incident when the neighbor was out on a canine stroll and determined to, ahem, relieve himself, and the outward-facing cameras on Musk’s property caught him. “It is scary they’ve guys sitting and watching me pee,” the resident complained. Gee whiz, one would possibly say.

It is value stating that in all of the not-so-neighborly exchanges, Musk was by no means the grumpy man in an X hat yelling, “Get off my garden” (and never simply because he was finally allowed to maintain the fence, albeit with the proviso that or not it’s changed with one thing much less offensive on the eyes). As famous by The New York Occasions, the property was purchased by an LLC, although KUT famous that it was nonetheless traced to the billionaire’s private wealth firm by The Texas Newsroom. Musk was additionally by no means current on the conferences, and per The New York Occasions, the problem of not having the related permits was blamed on an unnamed ex-house supervisor. Proof of Musk’s shady aspect? Possibly. Both manner, we’re not precisely stunned his neighbors aren’t followers.