Expenses you incur that physically affect the home are not deductible from the sales proceeds, even if they help make your home more saleable. For example, you canât deduct the cost of cleaning the carpets in your home, repainting, or hiring a gardener to make the lawn look good. Deducting Home Improvements From Home Sale Profit If you make substantial physical improvements to your home -- even if you did them years before you started actively preparing your home for sale -- you can add the cost to its tax basis.
1 Determine if Moles Are Active: To test mole activity in your yard, go out and stomp down the existing molehills. 2  Then, watch each day to see if the mole pushes them back up again. 3  Forget Grub Control: The popular wisdom used to be, that to get rid of moles, you must get rid of grubs.
Video Transcript. Hi this is Yolanda Vanveen, and in this segment we're going to talk about how to repel rodents naturally from digging holes up in your yard. Now anybody that has a large yard or has any property near natural areas usually has a problem with rodents digging up the yard.And I usually say if you've got rodents digging up holes in your yard that usually means you've got great soil, and you've got great drainage.And you've got to remember that gophers and moles have a purpose in this world and they naturally aerate your lawn.nd that way the rodents have dug your holes for you. You can put the daffodils in there, and you've got a beautiful spring garden in your lawn. So in the end I try not to hurt any of the wild animals in my yard.