The home of 'Vanilla Ice' is for sale in Florida for $4.7 million.
The fourth season of the Vanilla Ice Project was aired on the domiciliary network.In it's 4th season, the Vanilla Ice Project is one of the hottest shows on the domiciliary network.In his hometown of Palm Beach, FL, Rob Van Winkle renovated dilapidated mansions and turned them into palatial estates.In addition to being incredibly entertaining, you also discover how talented and passionate Vanilla Ice is with fixing up houses.A side business for the international music superstar has turned into a very profitable one.
I am a fan of your shows on the doily network.You and your crew do a great job.Word to your Mother...Ice Ice Baby!Kevin Benn said!
The show that has become the hottest house flipping show on cable television is called theVanilla Ice Project.
Vanilla Ice Goes Amish is a new reality TV show in which he discovers the art of construction from the Amish.Set in an Amish community in Ohio with no frills, no music and no power tools,Vanilla Ice will live and learn from the best craftsmen in the business.I am sitting in with the Amish if you get in where you fit in.Rob said it was funny.
Rob Van Winkle is a reality TV star from his hit show TheVanilla Ice Project where he buys single family homes in the Palm Beach, FL area, renovations them and resells them for a big profit.The show Ice My House showcases Rob's renovation style, touch and creativity as he transforms other peoples houses.
The show is currently in production and will air later this year.Expect more of the same from this new show because his other two shows have been smashing successes.
The New York Times ran a story about the start of the second season.
It is advice, but really it is an order.In front of me is a knot of wood jutting out from a circular staircase, and I have a piece of thick burgundy 3M sandpaper in my hand.On this warm day, I am the power tool.
I stepped on a Bostitch nail gun as I tried to maneuver in the tight space.Obstacle avoided, I go back and forth with the sandpaper for a few seconds at a time and the heat generated sends my fingertips into paroxysms of agony, as if I'm gripping matches by the lighted end.Sandpaper on and off.Sandpaper on and off.As the wood starts to burst into sawdust and the grain gets more beautiful, the heat numbs my fingers.When the goal is near,Vanilla Ice leans in and commands, "Bulldog it!"
Vanilla Ice, once the most famous and reviled rapper in America, is a towering figure of hip-hop and identity crisis.He is still making music, but he is also flipping homes.
The second season of "The Vanilla Ice Project" will start next Saturday.Its accessibility and authority are more notable than its popularity.If you watch a few minutes of the show, you will see that Vanilla Ice is in charge of his kingdom.He has flipped or built more than 100 houses in the last 15 years and is at ease with all aspects of renovation.
On a sunny, optimistic day in September, I reported for work about midway through the renovation of the Season 2 house, hoping to instill some of that cold Ice wisdom, and to avoid causing problems that would infuriate the home's future owners.
The house is nice but not ostentatious for this relatively well-to-do neighborhood about 15 miles southwest of Palm Beach, one of several planned communities that unfold to the west of the Ronald Reagan Turnpike, just past the Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame.After Miami, where he lived, became overrun by tourists, he began exploring the areas around Palm Beach.I have never been up here before.
There is a sea of expensive, secluded homes surrounded by strip malls and big-box stores.There are lots of new developments, foreclosures, short sales and more to occupy a real estate investor's time.He says he keeps up on population growth and foreclosures.I am going to buy some land before they put that in.Where is the next Walmart going to be?Where is the government putting money?
We head to some home-supply shops once the wood is tamed because he likes to drive.He takes a V.I.P. when we get to Lowe's.He drives his S.U.V. from the parking spot.Right up to the door.We want to give the staircase a quick hit of faux dignity.He found a few light wood ones that were better to curve with the staircase and scoop them up.
A little girl freezes up when she sees him as he heads back to the cash register.Her mother says that her daughter loves her and that she stops for a picture.He reached into a small fridge in the store and grabbed a sugar-free Red Bull after paying with 50s and 100s stuffed in a clip in his pocket.He takes as an invitation, grabbing one more, this one with sugar, because I have never had an energy drink before.He insists that you will love it.Back in the S.U.V.I start to drink slowly, as if it could cause serious damage to my body.It tastes like baby formula.
An older woman tosses him an "I love your show" as he tells me how health issues lead him to go vegan, and to quit smoking weed.I am very interested in the particulars of blood oxygenation and the Red Bull is taking hold.It tastes like clouds and glitter now, so I'm sipping slowly.
By the time we return to the house, I am set up with one of his garrulous friends and four or five silent laborers who are spraying wet concrete on stone slabs and then attaching them to all sides of some square columns.I use a trowel to spread the concrete evenly.It doesn't help that the friend says it's like peanut butter.I pressed the pavers against the column to make them stick.Everyone else is putting theirs around the columns more tightly to compensate for me.
At one point, I was allowed to drive a Bobcat loader, but it appeared to be out of fluid.He called someone to call the maintenance company.After the laborers have left, he checks in on the work.See this?He says carelessness as he wipes up some stray concrete.He looked over the backyard and it looked rich.I think you will want to live in this place.
He is correct.Everything looks perfect or on the way to it despite my best efforts.There is a grill and TV in the middle of the pool, all controlled by iPad.There are filters in the pool.He says it is what the space shuttle uses.
There are preposterous details in the house.There is a walk-in humidor and wine room beneath the staircase.One room has Murphy beds and another has video gaming chairs with built-in speakers.The helicopter landing pad is in the front yard.He signs off on an elaborate sprinkler system with hot sauce on the appraisal form.
What did we do when we were in high school?He says to find the new rap record.I want to show you how to put an iPad in every room, even the laundry room.Maybe you want to watch a soap opera.
He says that America has lost a lot of hope.I want to get some encouragement from these people.It is not about the resale value.It is about enjoying living.
Since the release of his 1990 multi-platinum major-label debut, "To the Extreme" (SBK), which spawned the genre-reshaping single "Ice Ice Baby,"Vanilla Ice has had nice houses.He said he felt like he was in a nightclub.He realized that real estate held its value after liquidating his properties.A second career was born.
An offhand comment to a TV producer about his side hustle a couple of years ago led to the opportunity to turn it into a reality show.Several parts of the house are being worked on and documented at the same time.He is so focused on the tasks in front of him that he forgets to look at the camera and explain what he is doing.The cameras may be slowing him down because he is efficient and methodical.
It is a nice life.He home-schools his two daughters to protect their innocence, and to give them the stability that he never had as a child, when he moved from house to house, school to school.In this least urban of places, he enjoys it.He says his house is nice.He lives in a gated community.
The house from the first season was sold to a Chinese family who saw the show on TV while visiting Disney World.A home for the show's third season is what Vanilla Ice wants.The whole roof is laying in the living room after it was hit by lightning.I know the structure is fine despite it being wet.
We are outside and bugs are eating us.I am ready to punch my card after abandoning all pretense of work.
He says, "You know what I'm going to do?"I am curious, but there isn't enough Red Bull in this town.The dog is resting.
The new year is here.Even though we are only a couple of days into the new year, most of us have broken at least one of our New Year's Resolutions.What can you do about it?There is some advice for a great new year based on the first line of Vanilla Ice's breakthrough hit "Ice Ice Baby."
1.Stop.Maybe this is the year to start a bunch of worthwhile endeavors.Life will eventually get in the way, but you might still be going strong during the first week of January.Act first and find something to stop.
What can you do?Start with your social media habits.How many of your status updates can be translated to say, "I'm awesome; check me out" without losing any information?You just said you are in an awesome place with an impressive person.Does this give your friends useful information on which they can act, or does it just tell them that you go to awesome places and hang out with impressive people?Jon Acuff advised me to ask "Why" about whatever I write for public consumption so as to improve the quality of my output.
Don't say "yes" when people ask you to do things.Making an inventory of your commitments is recommended by a productivity expert.If you need to scale back, this will tell you if you have room for more.If you count the cost, you will know what you have to give up in order to do whatever you are planning.Is your estimate accurate?
It is harder to stop emphasizing and claiming credit for good intentions.The sad reality is that a lot of initiatives undertaken in the name of the poor actually work to the disadvantage of poor people.I will have more to say about this in 2012 when I read When Helping Hurts.It's my opinion that washing your hands with soap and water after using the restroom does more to alleviate suffering than a lot of things people do in the name of helping others.If you want to extend the right hand of friendship, make sure that hand is clean and not full of SWEDOW, but it probably does more for the people you are trying to help.
2.Contribute.Economics shows how division of labor creates wealth.We can accomplish more when we work together.As a result of an extensive network of friends, mentors, co-authors, and students, I am a lot more productive and happier.
The best way to learn something is to teach it.Looking for ways to teach others is one way to find collaborative opportunities.All areas of life are covered by this.You might be able to get a new professional mentor on the job.If you are going to get married someday, you should find someone who is willing to take you under his or her wing.And so on.This cuts both ways.You can use your knowledge and experience to mentor someone else, and you will learn a lot.
3.Listen.If you had listened more carefully, what problems could have been avoided?What can you learn from listening instead of waiting for your turn to speak?
If you drink from a firehose, you end up soaked from head to toe, and a quenched thirst is almost an accident.The drinking fountain has a higher volume, but you come away refreshed.Will it ever stop?It doesn't matter how much the Bible you get on you, according to a preacher I once heard.How much you get in you is what matters.It is an excellent thought for the 21st century information environment.
It's a pretty sure sign that you were raised in the 90s if you can rap "Ice Ice Baby" from memory.If you can rap from memory, you are at a point in your life where you have to be very careful about what you do and why.It will be easier if you stop and listen.
The Ice Ice Baby star, who will play Hook in Peter Pan at this year's Central Theatre show, attended his first rehearsal yesterday.
He said that he was excited to be here and that there could be more than one actor in the audience this year.
Ice, whose real name is Rob Van Winkle, flew straight from America to the UK for his first rehearsal and admitted he didn't have time to read the whole script.
The American said, "This is my first day here and I'm super jet lag and tired, but it's great because the cast are so energetic and it energises me."
I have yet to see anything in Chatham.I arrived at the airport and didn't look out the window because I was reading my lines.I am only half way through the script.
Ice said a few more famous faces might make an appearance and that he had fans flying in from all over Europe to see the show.
Adam Sandler is a good friend of mine and he said he was going to see the panto with me and my friends.
"Adam might be kidding, but I will let him know that I am two shows a day, so come on down and bring the kids over, they will love it."
Ice, who will be spending Christmas in England with his family, said that he never thought he would do theatre.It is an adventure for me.
There is a performance of Peter Pan at the Central Theatre in Chatham from December 8 to December 31.To book, call or visit themedwayticketslive.co.uk.
Light, lights, baby!Habitat for Humanity is one of the charities that I like to give back to.If you can help me by donating your old light fixture to any Capitol Lighting showroom in South Florida, I will sell it in a Habitat ReStore.Making Lives Brighter has more information.
Rob Van Winkle, also known asVanilla Ice, returned to Dallas today and was using his skills in the brutal North Texas heat.He is working on the home of Sean andErica Heatley, as well as North Dallas residents and avid fans of Ice'sVanilla Ice Project.
Vendor and construction cars lined the street as Van Winkle started work on the poolhouse.Van Winkle and the Heatleys were working on the poolhouse's outdoor shower when they were surrounded by production crews.
Van Winkle, whose rap single "Ice Ice Baby" made him a pop icon, attended high school in Carrollton and considers Dallas his hometown.He was happy to be home.
It has been twenty years since Van Winkle lived here, but he sees some changes.I used to ride dirt bikes in this place.It used to be just trees, but now they have developed cities with names that I don't remember.It was kind of out of the way.