Another idea: if you have friends who have experience with guitars- see if any of them have a spare guitar they don't use to borrow(buy perhaps?!?
) for a couple of months while you start perfecting your chops. Most guitar players will have something stuck in a closet somewhere that they aren't really playing anymore. This might give you the time to learn enough to have an opinion on what you will like/might like when you looking for your own guitar.