Millionaires Who Live in Surprisingly Small, Modest Homes

1. Elijah Wood

Net Worth: $35 Million*
Purchased For: 1 Million*
Sq. Footage: 3,200-Square-Feet*

In the early 2000s, at the age of only 20-years-old, Elijah Wood went on an adventure that would change his life forever. As Frodo Baggins, in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Wood gained fame, fortune, and everything in between and, although he has since amassed a small fortune of, almost, $35 million, he chooses to live a modest life in a modest home.

Elijah Wood ©Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com | @lonnymag / Pinterest.dk


Elijah Wood ©Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com | @lonnymag / Pinterest.dk


It seems as though Elijah Wood missed the memo about everything being bigger in Texas, because his Victorian-style home in Austin, which cost him south of a million dollars, is only about 3,200-square-feet. However, after spending as much time as he did living in a hobbit-hole, this house, probably, feels like a mansion to Elijah.