I Gave Up My Savings for Grandma’s Health and Happiness, and the Only Inheritance My Family Gave Me Was Her Garden and Garden Tools

Hello Bright Side!

So a little background: when my grandma got ill and her insurance stopped covering some of her treatments, I spent almost $150k of my savings on her care. I put off buying a house, and I’m still paying off the credit card debt. She passed anyway, and at the will reading the lawyer said her garden and the property attached to it were going to me. It’s just the grass, roses and fruit trees behind the house.
She did the whole garden design herself, with no landscaping company, just her old garden tools. My aunt laughed and said, “You only spent that money because you thought you’d get something back. That’s all you deserve.”

I told everyone I didn’t want anything, but Grandpa stopped me at the door. “Don’t touch that garden
yet.” Confused, I went speechless when he pulled something unexpected from his pocket. He handed me an old key with a tag that said GREENHOUSE and a letter from Grandma.
She wrote that she never expected me to give up my savings and wanted to make things right without making me feel “paid” for loving her. She had put a rental property she inherited into a trust tied to the garden, and it’s worth way more than the house. The catch is that I have to keep the garden and greenhouse intact for five years, or the whole trust goes to my aunt.

It turns out my aunt had been pushing Grandma for months to sell the land to a developer. She even shut down the neighbors’ idea of turning part of it into a community garden. Now she’s telling the family that Grandma manipulated me.
The problem is that I really need the money. Selling now would clear my debt and let me buy a small place, while keeping it means five more years of struggling. Grandpa says her last wish was for me to keep it, but I don’t know if my own happiness should come second to that.