Planning your winter vacation? Perhaps you want to visit Hawaii? Why not do something a little different this time round?

Most of the time when people go on vacation they end up staying in one room hotel or motel rooms. How boring is that? Yes I know, if you’re having a good vacation you aren’t in the room all that much, but still wouldn’t it be nicer to stay in one of the beautiful Poipu vacation rentals or the Waipouli Beach Resort? Personally, I know I’d much prefer that to a one room cramped hotel room any day.

If you want to stay in beautiful vacation rental homes and condos you should visit the RE/MAX Kauai website. They specialize in rentals on the beautiful island of Kauai.

One of the great things about staying on a vacation rental is that you can stay with your family or friends because most of the vacation homes have two or three bedrooms. Some have several bedrooms. Share the cost of the rental with your friends. Maybe your vacation will even end up being less costly than if you’d simply rented a hotel room.

Visit the RE/MAX website and take a look at the Waipouli, Poipu and Kauai vacation rentals. You can browse through all of the listings and book vacation accommodations while online.

How would you like to get this in the mail?

Two packages that contained human body parts - a liver, and part of a human head - were delivered to someones home. The body parts were supposed to have been delivered to a medical research lab, but they obviously didn’t make it there did they?

The body parts had been sent from China. The gory package was mistakenly delivered in early March to the home of Franck and Ludivine Larmande by DHL express. The delivery company driver believed the bubble wrapped body parts were pieces of a table.

“My husband started to unwrap one and said, ‘This is strange, it looks like a liver,’” Ludivine Larmande said. “He started the second one, but stopped as soon as we saw the ear.

“Something wasn’t right. It was scary, and I’m glad I didn’t open them.”

The couple called Kent County, Mich. sheriff’s deputies who examined the packages and determined that the preserved body parts were for medical research.

Unfortunately authorities now believe that there might be 28 more bubble wrapped human body parts dispersed across the country. Two of five packages that had been heading to the Northern Michigan lab broke open scattering their contents. The shipping company, DHL, has been investigating whether it should have shipped the body parts and how the packages were dispersed.

“There will definitely be a shock to people if they see these things, but there is no hazard to health,” Parent said.

You have to wonder if anyone receiving these body parts will think that a serial killer is sending them to them, eh? What do you think?

It sounds like Dallas is moving up in the world just like our great city of Toronto. By moving up I mean instead of spreading out they are building up as there has been a huge boom in the Dallas Condos marketplace.

I don’t know the city of Dallas well. I only know what I’ve learned about it through books, television programs and the internet but it sounds like a great place to live. There’s a lot to do there and since I love the big city I’m sure I’d be happy if I lived there. I’d probably purchase one of the Downtown Dallas Condos if I was thinking of moving to the city, or if I ever had enough money to have a second home or out of Country vacation home. Actually that’s what I like about Condos. Since they are maintained by the buildings property managers you don’t have to be there day in and day out to maintain them. You could easily purchase a condo in a good area and rent it out to business people or vacationers most of the year and use it yourself when you go on vacations. That’s one thing that I’d like to do if I ever got a condo.

Have you ever thought of the potential and versatility of owning a Condo?

Real estate brokers in New York say that New York renters need their space just so, even if it mean making some pretty strange requests. Heres a few good ones that brokers have had to deal with:

• “One buyer asked for a large terrace for a pot bellied pig. The buyer, a prominent attorney, had married a cute young woman from the Midwest who came to the marriage with cats, dogs, a ferret, tortoise, and pot belly pig. They obviously needed a huge outdoor space for the menagerie. The building they found on the Upper East Side wouldn’t let the pot belly pig in. So they had a veterinarian sedate it, rolled it up in a rug, and smuggled it in.”
• “One of our clients had a phobia with the number four. None of the apartments could be on the fourth floor or be on 84th Street or any other street with the number four.”
• “A few months ago a client was looking for apartment that had to be close enough to a Starbucks. I kid you not.”
• “Years ago I had a gay couple that wanted a loft space that had to have concrete floors with, hopefully, a floor drain. When I asked why they would want a floor drain, they informed me that they hosted invitation-only sex parties that would be attended by 40-50 men, three to four times a week. They intended to cover the floors and walls with latex and wanted the drain so they could hose down the space after the party! I was not successful in finding them their dream house.”
• “A recent college graduate who just moved to the city was looking for a $1,000-per-month studio in midtown. I just had to laugh because no such place exists.”
• “A single woman in her mid-50’s was looking to rent an apartment only on an odd-numbered floor because every time she had lived on an even floor, one of her pets died.”
• “One guy was looking for a ground floor apartment with a basement that he could turn into a dungeon.”

Are any of my readers Real Estate Brokers? What kinds of strange requests have you heard?