I was given a car with a lien on it, now what?
This past August an ex friend of mine and her husband gave me their 1997 Ford Taurus Gl with 87,000 miles for free, and signed over the title to me. I live in Las Vegas, NV by the way. So I go to register the car and find out there is a lien on the car. At this time the girl and I are still frineds. When she gave me the car she told me it needed an alignment and a smog check before it can be registered in my name. My smog will turn out to be a $700 job and my alignment a $2000 job. I stop by her home one day to catch up and talk and had mentioned to her about all the repairs I would have to fix, but in a conversational manner. Later that week I find out that she has deleted me off her frineds list and when I call her she sends me an email stating how ungratful I am for mentioning the cost of the repair and that I am fake and was just using her for the car, and that she doesn't like my boyfriend, real petty and immature. From then I stayed in contact with her husband, the car belongs to him, and he keeps telling me he will try to find out what the problem is and get back to me and he never does. Before they gave me the vehicle I had borrowed it for one day and that day I was pulled over for their registration and insurance being suspened. In Nevada regardless of who is owner of the car the person who is driving is responsible. They told me they would straighten it out and that the DMV would send them a letter and that they would send it to me. Needless to say they never followed through and my $850 fine for driving their car is due next Friday. So that is another reason I have been trying to contact them. So just recently she sent me another email stating that I need to stop calling her husband because they do not want to be my friend and that the car is not in the husbands name anymore and 'the car is your problem, you wanted it you got it'. What am I supposed to do. I have contacted the lien company and they said the lien was around $3000. If I pay that I will be paying off their debt right? Plus the cost of smoggin gthe car and the repairs for the alignmetn it doesn't even seem worth it to me, even though I got the car for free. Since they signed over the title am I now resposible if I have to abandon it, I cannot drive it because I cannot register it and anyway drving it would cause more damage to the alignment. Do I give it to the financeompany. I just want nothing to do with this car and if I have to abandon it or have it towed I do not think I should have to pay for the cost of somehtin gthat I do not even own. Please help me, sorry for all the details.