You could find yourself blazing down an unintended path with triple the effort you are expending now.

He hasn't really been reaching out to me to try and maybe re-strategize)The market is blazing hot right now.

MANY, MANY books have blazed the trail for us on almost all other topics. 

I was only talking about your average real estate agent that only feeds into the hype (real or not) of markets being super hot (some are and some are not) and need to go in guns a blazing regardless of what the actual numbers say.I actually think we are pretty much aligned with our actual thoughts about all this.  

I am not going to go in there with guns blazing.

We'll be blazing a trail to your door to get the deals!

Either way, Austin is blazing hot!

As I went ring shopping with my longtime girlfriend 6 months ago, I realized that I need to blaze my own path forward instead of burning in place.  3 or 4 months ago, I found BP on YouTube and I began to consume as much knowledge as I can about rental real estate to actively change my mindset. 

Numbers seem viable if the above stuff checks out, but not such a blazing good deal you can't afford to miss out. 

It seems like everyone I listen to on podcasts had help from another more experienced investor starting out that helped blaze the trail for them.