Vacant Property Drama for those with Occupied Homes

I was victim to the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA) bogus assessment of my home as a vacant property, resulting in me receiving a horrendous property tax bill of 3 times what I really owed.  The situation was corrected, but it involved a lot of hassles on my part.  The worst part is that my stupid mortgage company went ahead and paid the crazy bill, even after I had called them and notified them of the problem AND they claimed that they would research the matter.  But, that too is fixed, and my escrow account is happy again.  I was happy to put all of this behind me, but I came across a City Paper article that talks about DC residents who had the same drama that I did when their properties were wrongly listed as vacant.  Thank God I didn’t have quite the mortgage company drama the people in the story had, such as their monthly payments increasing.