They Wanted a Backyard. Now They Hate It.
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real estate regrets They Wanted a Backyard. Now They Hate It. Outdoor space was the city renters’ pandemic dream. Then came the
rats.
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Molly* loved her backyard at first. She and her husband had moved to the garden-level two-bedroom in Crown Heights in early 2021.
It was pricier than their last place, but it seemed worth it: She had visions of a thriving garden and casual dinner parties
impervious to new COVID variants or indoor-dining regulations. But things slowly soured. She began to resent the backyard — the
constant maintenance, the rats and mosquitoes, a mulberry tree with fruit that stained everything it touched. The next two years
would become something like a constant battle against Mother Nature. “I went from being this ambitious gardener to barely being
able to keep my area of the yard clean,” Molly said. “I didn’t realize how much more work it was going to be, or how dirty the
work was going to be.”
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