Celebrity Real Estate: Vanilla Ice on flipping houses and home life

Vanilla Ice offers real estate investing tips on DIY Network's The Vanilla Ice Project.

Bet you didn’t know that rapper Vanilla Ice is also a real estate investor and home improvement enthusiast.

The artist best known for his ’90s hit “Ice Ice Baby” and his crew renovate foreclosures and discounted properties in Florida and sell them for profit. Catch all the action on DIY Network’s The Vanilla Ice Project!

Vanilla Ice, aka Rob Van Winkle, sat down with HGTV’s FrontDoor.com to talk about the first home he bought, how he got into real estate investing and what home life means to him. Watch Vanilla Ice’s video interview.

Want Vanilla Ice to “ice” your house? Enter DIYNetwork.com’s “Ice My House” sweepstakes and you can win a room makeover from the rapper-turned-flipper. But hurry! Contest ends Monday, June 27.

Tour Vanilla Ice’s former pad on Star Island in Miami Beach, which is for sale for just under $15 million >>

Tour more celebrity homes for sale at FrontDoor.com/celebrity >>

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Celebrity Real Estate: Tour former homes of Britney, Lil Wayne and more

Pop singer Britney Spears

Britney Spears' former Malibu home is on the market for $15.95 million.

We love celebrities. Just ask the folks at TMZ. Whether it’s what they’re wearing or who they’re dating, we can’t help but love celebrity gossip.

And now you can satisfy your hunger for celebrity real estate at FrontDoor.com/celebrity. Tour celebrity estates for sale, find Hollywood-inspired design tips, explore star-studded neighborhoods and hear what celebrities have to say about their homes.

For instance, take a peek inside the former home of our favorite pop princess Britney Spears. In 2004, she and Kevin Federline paid $7 million for a home in Malibu’s secluded Serra Retreat neighborhood. The Mummy director Stephen Sommers bought it after the couple’s divorce in 2007 for $10 million. And now it’s back on the market for $15.95 million.
See pictures of Britney’s former home in Malibu >>

Rapper Lil Wayne

Lil Wayne is selling his Miami Beach home for $12.9 million.

Then there’s rapper and entrepreneur Lil Wayne, who’s selling his Miami Beach home for $12.9 million. Our friends at HGTV’s Design Happens blogged about seeing the rap artist in Bonnaroo, the annual four-day, multi-stage music festival in Manchester, Tenn.
Tour Lil Wayne’s Miami Beach home for sale >>

Now that you’ve got a little taste of the juicy celebrity homes on the market, head over to FrontDoor.com/celebrity for more.