I can relate. Our city, county and home owners association (we live in a condo) constantly have their hands out. I just, begrudgingly, wrote a pretty sizable check for six months' worth of property taxes. Most aspects of being an adult are pretty great but not bills, bills suck.
Don't mention the T-word... Property taxes aren't that high here (yet), but I still have some red-tape to deal with for my mother's apartment...