That's great advice! When we bought our motorhome, we actually took it to a local campground at the insistance of our salesman. He suggested that we hook it up and try it out locally just for that reason. Like you, we had a couple issues as well. I was glad that we'd taken his advice.

I agree that it's excellent advice to stick close to home after you've just bought an RV!  We bought a used RV last fall and have been out in it 5 times so far and each time it is fairly close to home and we have lots of projects we do while we're in it getting it the way we need it to be (quite a few repairs that need to be done).  I think we plan to spend this year fairly close to home until everything is done the way we want it to be and then will plan to take it farther away next year.  It's still fun going away for the weekend close by and it's much easier to work on it while you're staying in it. Happy RV'ng!!!

Great advice!!