Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in Texas

My grandmother died in 1995 and did not have a will. My mother has paid the taxes on her house and land since that time. My mother died in 2010. My grandmother's house has been torn down and all she has is a lot. The church beside the lot contacted me (the granddaughter) and would like to buy the lot for $7,000. That is the most we could get and my mother paid taxes and I have continued to pay to have it mowed this last year. Someone told me to contact a title company, but they said since my grandmother never had a will and nothing was ever probated, we cannot do anything with the property.

I guess my question is : Would it cost me more than $7,000 to get the property in my mother's name so that we (her children) could sell the property to the church? I do not want to spend anymore money on the property. I just paid the 2010 taxes, $265.

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