What you see are mouse droppings behind refrigerators, in the bottom and back of kitchen cabinets, etc. 

Assuming the plumbing is fully charged, and the home has been inhabited recently, you can use the moisture meter to probe around areas that are common to damage: plumbing walls, cabinet toe kicks and bases, kitchen and bathroom floors, shower or tub surrounds, below the washer drain box, etc.

It means I should not be picking the colors of floors, cabinets, pantries, and walls at the design phase unless I am choosing colors that I already know work. 

If you are doing basic updates like paint, cabinets, kitchen etc...           

Just some cosmetic things to touch up (paint, kitchen cabinet paint, cleaning)If the property sat empty, we would still be able to afford the mortgage payment rather easily.

I remember wanting to put in new medicine cabinets and bathroom light fixtures and, do premier painting on the walls.

We plan on doing new floors, paint, appliances, painting kitchen cabinets white, granite counters, new light fixtures, new vanities in the bathrooms, and landscaping.

The panel box in the bathroom is improperly located in a wet location (a bathroom) and the cover could not be removed due to the cabinet installed around it.

We also took out a linen cabinet that was in the hall butting the shower... gets us a foot of shower back, in what is a SMALL master. 

Jumping off cabinet doors and ceiling and even off the dog as they took him.