Also ask the local corporations and government agencies who they use for setting up corporate housing.

Correct me if I am wrong but Joe Schmoe with no experience and no education can call himself a financial advisor.There is no governing body that administers the term 'financial planner' so I put litte weight into that title / profession, whether it is fee based / non-fee based. 

The apartment would most likely be classified as a condominium in the US; individual owners and renters of single family homes/units in a multi-story, multi-unit building, with security, facilities, and common areas.To the point: My landlord has informed me he is raising the rent by 8.5% upon contract renewal in October, but read on.Dubai has government regulations concerning rental increases.

(We don't want government officials coming after us and it being on our burden to prove why we're exempt.) 

Usually, only through the intervention of government in the form of low-income property improvement grants and rental subsidies can marginal properties in marginal areas be made profitable.

HUD, Fair housing, State Government, Local city councils, it's overwhelming. 

I’m being subject to what I believe to be discriminatory practices by a local government by whom has increased my tax basis by 50% and my usage of that tax basis by 20% with no evidence as to why which contradicts my inspections and appraisals and would result in a mortgage worth of taxes on a property that has been in my family for 18 years.  

Also, do you use government programs?

It's never guaranteed that the local government will approve anything done on the property.  

There may be a period of a "government shutdown" for a week or two when non-essential personnel would be furloughed and financing of some programs put on hold.That's it until the next debt ceiling dog-and-pony show.