I've got a lease with an old house on it that wouldn't be a bad place to stay but its run down and infested with snakes. Any suggestions on best way to get em out? (Note: most are rattlesnakes)

Get rid of the rats.

Barn cats

I'd just go ahead and burn it down!

Get a mongoose

Get one if these!

Lose the things that attract them. Anything that covers the ground (I,e, firewood, etc ), rodents, etc.

Solar mole chasers from harbor freight. No snakes in 3+ years.

@champsag how much do those run?

I've heard snakes don't like sulfur. I put some ammonium sulfate fertilizer down while we lived in Abilene after I killed 2 snakes in one night, nothing after putting the ammonium sulfate down. You don't have to use ammonium sulfate, I just used it because it was cheaper and I was also trying to grow in some bare spots in the yard(killed two birds with one stone). Just find a sulfur coated fertilizer and put it down. Look at the NPK analysis on the fertilizer bag and it will tell you how much sulfur it has in it. Be sure and water it in well, especially since it is 1000 degrees outside.

Went fishing in Venice, LA recently. All around the dock where the guide kept his boats smelled like moth balls. Asked guide what the smell was. He explained they had a snake problem. I said I didn't know snakes don't like the smell of mothballs. He said he doesn't either, but he knows rats and mice don't and without rats and mice around, the snakes don't have a food source.

Get this

http://www.nixalite.com/snakeaway.aspx

You can catch them on sale for $9.99. They were $12.99 regular if I'm not mistaken.

I promise these things work! I have recommended them to many friends and all have raved about them.

I know have one on each corner of my house and opposite corners of the dog pen. Main reason the house is so well covered is that my two year old loves to play outside and I'm taking NO chances.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg

The older moth balls are made of naphthalene. I know some of the snake repellent products are also naphthalene. Don't know if they work.

Clean yard with low grass and no clutter is the most successful. However the house is on a lease and snakes live in the area so they will turn up from time to time. What county is the lease?

San Patricio

Yeah, the mothballs have more to do with rodents than the snakes themselves. Some species, like rat snakes, could really care less and will readily crawl over them.

Used to find rattlers almost nightly down near Sinton. They were some of the most mellow rattlers I've ever messed with.

Why the picture of the billdookey?