As long as you DO SOMETHING!. To micro-analyze the vast components will make this extremely fun sport, pure drudgery...Go with a 4 Chnl TX, an EP ARF, but most of all, Make the leap. lol. I have members of the club I belong to, that have worked out a financial plan, from the pure fact of affordability, desire, an income. They purchased one component every month or so, the whole time working with an instructor(Free) to learn how to fly. By the time they were proficient enough to solo, they were well on thier way to having everything,,,,,its just up to you......most of all have fun.
I, myself, am about to go out to our club field and fly my Uproar40, and complete my requirements to obtain an AMA All-Season Flyer Patch. Its 29 degrees, and wind from the north at 5-15mph,,,,,Oh what fun !!!!!