Have you had a look on the wheres everyone from thread, there might be someone with one nearby that you could meet up with.
Plenty of people use an pm3 easy as far as I can tell from the forum, the RDV4 is great and I highly recommend it but if you only are going to write to it every few years the easy might be a better choice. I think there are some threads on here with recommendations for where to get an easy.
If you get a proxmark I would recommend messing around with a keyfob or card style t5577 chip (same as in xEM and NExT) just to get a feel for it.
Also there are blue an white cloners, those links talk discuss them, I’d stay away from both of them personally.