Repair expenses before renting

[Russ Roslewski]

We own a house that we were living in, but converted to a rental property in 2010.
We moved out of our house on Nov 18, 2010.
The tenants moved in on Nov 26, 2010.

To prepare the house to rent, we made several repairs, from filling in nail holes in the wall to getting a plumber to repair a sillcock outside.

I know repairs made after the tenants moved in are deductible.

Question 1 - if we made repairs before we moved out (Nov 18) to prepare the house to rent, are they deductible in any way?
Question 2 - how about after we moved out, but before the tenants moved in?

Thanks!