The landlord is incensed after the evicted renter takes the entire garden with her.

A woman who was forced to leave her home described how she left her landlord "furious" when he took the garden she had grown with her.

In a 2019 discussion that has since resurfaced, the 25-year-old asked whether or not she was the a**hole for upsetting her landlord by moving her garden, adding some further background to the incident. The message was posted on Reddit's "Am I the A**hole" community.

The backyard was "a large piece of dirt, no lawn or anything, just a decently big backyard with a fence all around" when she first moved into the house, which she had been renting and lived in for seven years since she was eighteen.

The poster outlined the garden she created out of the space and said, "I signed because I wanted the backyard space, even though it was a cheap but not great house."

In the last several years, I have constructed a small garden shed, greenhouse, and pizza oven (all of which are moveable), planted numerous vegetable gardens in large transportable garden beds, laid lovely pavers, set up aquaponics, and overall transformed the backyard into a lovely and verdant space. It turned into the verdant haven where all of my pals congregated.

After learning a few months ago that the landlord intended to sell the home and that her move-out date was one week ago, she packed up everything.

encompassing her garden.

"I took my garden with me to my new home when I moved out; nothing permanent or buried in the ground existed in my previous backyard. With a lot of assistance, I cleared the backyard in three days, disassembled the greenhouse and sheds, and moved all of the pots and flower beds into a truck.

However, this did not exactly sit well with her landlord. "My old landlords are upset about this and insist that I restore the backyard to its previous condition. , They included images of the backyard when they placed the house for sale, and prospective purchasers were leaving when they saw how empty it was. They claim that I destroyed the backyard and stole their plants.

She did, however, mention that she is "legally fine" because her contract allowed her to garden and she has pictures of the backyard taken before she moved in to show that it is in the same condition as when she originally saw it. She was also able to have the same estate agent sign off on her deposit and final inspection.

The woman reported that she saw the landlord taking pictures of the backyard but "didn’t make the connection because [in my humble opinion] when pictures of a house have furniture in it, you don’t expect to also get free furniture." Despite all of this, she claims she has received "mixed responses" from people regarding the situation.

"Some of my coworkers suggested that IATA because the house valuation certainly has fallen dramatically because I didn’t tell them I was taking my garden with me, so they couldn’t plan to landscape before lockdown hit."

"AITA for moving the garden that I built from my former rental house into my new house, upsetting my former landlords who didn't expect me to take it with me?" the woman concluded by posing this question to the forum.

People overwhelmingly praised the woman in the comments section of her article, saying that the landlord was wrong to try to profit from the changes she made to the garden.

"NTA," one person wrote. This is a well-known tale of a landlord attempting to profit from tenant-paid home upgrades.

"Your landlord would have enquired about your desire to keep the garden in its current state if he had been sincere. You have no obligation to him.

"NTA. "Not at all," remarked someone else. "The owners pay and work themselves if they want the garden to appear good. Any respectable landlord or owner will invest in a property after a long-term tenant has occupied it, and you are not responsible for the value of their home."

Another person added: "NTA. Your property served as a selling element for them. You are not to blame for that. It would be easy for them to hire someone to plant.

"NTA they didn't build the garden and you left it in the state it was first in," said a fourth individual. "They tried to sell the house with all your hard work still there, which is not theirs to sell."