Woah Yeah! Inside Motley Crue’s Real Estate

They used to live in an apartment with a rotting door, holes in the ceiling and legions of roaches. They’ve destroyed hotel rooms and lit themselves on fire. Now they live in expensive homes, and deservedly so. Motley Crue has sold over 100 million albums worldwide, penned a best-selling autobiography, and produced a hilarious and at times heartbreaking movie on Netflix. 

Since that movie hit streaming in 2019, the band has seen a resurgence in popularity. And some of them, like Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee, have decided it’s a good time to offload their houses. 

Take a look inside the real estate of Sixx, Lee, Vince Neil and Mick Mars. That includes a tour of Lee’s and Sixx’s mansions in California and a peek into Neil’s and Mars’ homes in Nashville.

Motley Crue formed in 1981. Sixx, Neil and Lee moved into a two-bedroom apartment at 1140 North Clark Street in West Hollywood, California (the address is confirmed by Sixx).

As they were too broke to afford their own place, their manager, Allan Coffman, financed it. 

Tommy, Nikki and Vince moved into their new abode in June 1981. Mars, being older than the others, had little interest in hanging there and was living with his girlfriend. 

But the trio didn’t even make it a year, and they were evicted in March 1982.

There’s a good reason why.

To say you wouldn’t want them as neighbors would be an understatement. Lines of people filtered in and out of the apartment at night, drugs were everywhere and the place was never clean.

“Every night after we played the Whisky, half the crowd would come back to our house and drink and do blow, smack, Percodan, quaaludes, and whatever else we could get for free,” Neil writes in “The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band.”

Since the group was dead broke, they conducted their own pest control methods by burning cockroaches with a lighter and hairspray. When the upstairs neighbors banged on their floor because of the noise, Motley Crue responded by smashing their ceiling with broom handles and guitar necks, turning it into Swiss cheese.

When the trash and bottles piled up in the kitchen, they tossed it onto the patio, where it rotted and festered in the California sun. Even when the Los Angeles Department of Health Services showed up, they wouldn’t clean it up. 

It wasn’t only the guys who caused problems in the Motley House. Their visitors did too. 

Tommy was dating a woman his housemates named “Bullwinkle,” who had a jealous temper. When Tommy Lee locked her out, she hurled a fire extinguisher through the window. 

The band never bothered to repair the window. It just became another entry point into the apartment.