Fear and Leasing

John Macready
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Fear and Leasing is a darkly comic audiobook series set in the sweaty, surreal world of property management in tropical North Queensland. Follow John Macready as he navigates feral rentals, impossible clients, office chaos, and the slow administrative collapse of his own sanity. Equal parts satire, workplace comedy, and sunburnt fever dream, each episode brings a chapter of the book to life. New listeners, start at Chapter 1.

Episodes

  1. 13 hrs ago

    Chapter 5: The Handyman

    Ray Williams has a drill, a toolbox, and the terrifying confidence of a man who once nearly passed wood shop. In Chapter 5 of Fear and Leasing, a simple cupboard hinge becomes a hostage situation, before the office descends into a heatwave-fuelled civil war over air-conditioning, coconut water, and the very limits of workplace diplomacy.

    10 min

  2. 4 days ago

    Chapter 4: The Open Home

    Hungover, overheated, and trapped in a Grafton Street rental with a parade of increasingly alarming prospective tenants, Macready endures an open home from hell. In Chapter 4 of Fear and Leasing, termite hunters, fermentation influencers, drone-wary crypto nomads, possible ghosts, and eight allegedly well-behaved cats turn one Saturday morning into a slow-motion collapse.

    6 min

  3. 24 May

    Chapter 3: The Landlord

    A 2:47 a.m. phone call from Henderson, the owner of one very ordinary rental property and several extraordinary anxieties, drags Macready into a fresh circle of hell. In Chapter 3 of Fear and Leasing, shrinking skirting boards, surveillance-fuelled paranoia, and a blurry photo of a cloud push one property manager dangerously close to the edge.

    5 min

  4. 20 May

    Chapter 2: The Boss

    Back at the office, Macready is summoned by Chad, his procedure-loving boss, for a post-Trevor debrief that quickly becomes less “professional reflection” and more fluorescent-lit interrogation. In Chapter 2 of Fear and Leasing, workplace diplomacy, tribunal fallout, and one truly cursed breach notice collide in another day at the property-management coalface.

    7 min

  5. 18 May

    Chapter 1: The Tenant

    It begins with mould, a hangover, and a phone call from the office: Unit 3 has gone feral again. In Chapter 1 of Fear and Leasing, John Macready meets Trevor, the tenant who turns a routine inspection into a full-scale descent into tropical rental madness. A darkly comic opening chapter filled with mildew, mushrooms, ferrets, and the creeping suspicion that this job may eventually kill him.

    8 min
  • 5 Episodes

About

Fear and Leasing is a darkly comic audiobook series set in the sweaty, surreal world of property management in tropical North Queensland. Follow John Macready as he navigates feral rentals, impossible clients, office chaos, and the slow administrative collapse of his own sanity. Equal parts satire, workplace comedy, and sunburnt fever dream, each episode brings a chapter of the book to life. New listeners, start at Chapter 1.

Information

  • Creator
    John Macready
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    5
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © John Macready
  • Show Website
    Fear and Leasing

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