I already checked in Hungary for the taxes and legalities about this, it is much simpler and taken care of almost automatically. That is why I'm only concerned with the US end of it. I'll try to get ahold of a clerk's office in the village. The bank loan route wouldn't work... She sold her house here in CA and took the cash to Hungary when retiring and building the house on the parcel of land she purchased, all using cash (she always hated owing anything to anybody), she even paid off her 30 year mortgage here in just 22 years. I'm just frustrated about the gifting of the house. She thought it would make my life easier than letting it be inherited. That's why the value of the gift (house) was stipulated in the paperwork.
