How this is handled? Get your employer to fork over as much as possible for housing rent and pray you find a landlord who will not ask for your children in addition to an exhorbitant rent. Rents are still an extortionate expense here in Qatar. Empty properties galore exist, but too many people can afford to sit on them at the moment. And most important - never, ever deal with any real estate agent here in the country. The most forsaken, thieving bunch here in business. Will rape you for all your worth.