I suspected as much that there would be another side to the Karratha story. But what I penned is indeed what my collegue reports to be his experience about this place. I have nothing to back it up apart from that.
Another thing he complains about is being overcharged for fixing a tap for eg, the agent claims emergency repairs and hits him with a 1200$ bill and sends him a dodgy phone camera photo of the problem and the work. I suspect it's a lot to do with agents and tradies taking a piece of the fat pie. Easy to do to a landlord 5000 km away, so that's another challenge to be aware of, having a good agent to manage the place.
