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I have little experience in recent acoustics, but since you are starting from zero, your best bet for your money is probably craigslist or eBay.
The problem with spending a lot on your first instrument is that you won't know what you really want until you've been playing a year. People will tell you "play it! try it! go for what you like!" But you don't know what you like. After you've been playing for a while, *then* you can go play stuff and find what you like.
But if you find a used mid-level instrument of a name like Yamaha, Ibanez, Fender, or maybe even Martin, something that sold new for $500 eight years ago and they want $250 for it, you can hardly go wrong, that's what I would do. And if you can find a non-student CF Martin for $300, go for it.
Tune using an electronic tuner. Don't bother training your ears to do it, your ears lie. A hand-held electronic tuner is cheap now, even new. Korg is the king of this market.
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