3- Feel free to tag someone who is well versed in DC zoning here whether this person is an agent or a lawyer. 

Notably, there is often an unfortunate cycle where: (1) current ownership has financial struggles; (2) this requires the current ownership to fire sell or declare bankruptcy; (3) the development suffers as a result; (4) new ownership comes in and tries to fix it; and (5) the cycle repeats.

Anyways I sent him a notice through a lawyer about this issue stating that he is breaking the lease.

Otherwise, you could also provide prevention recommendations somewhere on the lease that includes what you've mentioned above.Assuming you don't have a lawyer to help with your rental agreement you can find some sample clauses on a site such as Law Insider.

Right now this sounds like most of the HOA's that we all hate that issue random fines for no real reason, and then attempt to justify it with their bass ackwards logic that they are actually somehow doing us all a favor.I'm not a lawyer, but I would imagine you could also open yourself up to legal action. 

I don't have any pending legal issues at the moment, but I've been thinking I should find a lawyer that I can go to for questions, to review documents, leases, etc so that I can have confidence that I'm not making any silly mistakes that will get me into trouble later on.

Practiced as a lawyer and also had various investments.

Obviously speak to a lawyer or someone with more knowledge, but I have heard of people leaving their FHA home before the first year is up for much worse reasons. 

He went thru a divorce both had lawyers .

A local lawyer approved lease worked for the tenants I chose; I took in rents on Apartments.com.