It is quite achievable to invest back in the US from AU particularly with your past experiences!

PM me and I can give you the details.Their difficultly is probably their serviceability on the loans as banks assume that once at retirement age in AU (65+) that they are going to give up work if they haven't already. 

One person may have stellar credit, no evictions, and no criminal background, while the person they're applying with may have 2 evictions, be a sex offender and have awful credit.

Checkr accesses multiple data sources, including national criminal databases with millions of records, courthouses across all 3,200 counties in the United States, state sex offender registries, the Federal Court PACER system, and state Department of Motor Vehicles.

What if he's a registered sex offended?

Alternatively, if there is not enough width for an island, you could add a peninsula between the kitchen and dining room and essentially have a u-shaped kitchen.

But it's not protected under the Federal Fair Housing Act.Here's a link to what's protected under the Federal Fair Housing Act:RaceColorNational OriginReligionSexFamilial StatusDisability   Even apartments.com's own Terms of Service don't seem to prohibit what you posted (again, as long as you didn't reference source of income):Compliance with Fair Housing LawsAll Content is subject to federal fair housing laws, which make it illegal to indicate in any advertisement any preference, limitation, or discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, physical or mental disability, and/or familial status.

That was until the Persians came, and a man who was often derisively called "the whoremaster of Athens," aided by the contributions of, yes, despised, belittled, and often-abused sex workers, essentially saved the core Greek institutions of western civilization at their inception, in the naval battle of Salamis, circa 480 BC.

Once we rented a U-Haul truck, loaded it and drove it to the tenant's next destination to get the tenant out on time.

These days, state laws hold landlord responsible for renting to sex offenders and criminals, and I'm not sure how my insurance company would handle it if one of your subtenants, a known child molester, molested a neighbor's kid.