E.I during COVID non-liquified retirement assets could not be counted in your net worth due to the high volatility of the markets.

You owned shares during the most risky and volatile portion of the investment.

I have been listening to BiggerPockets for over a year now and feel like I have a nice little chunk of capital saved to get the ball rolling - however, given the volatility of this current market and my inexperience, I'm looking for advice for how to begin investing.

While that kind of return is certainly possible, my reasoning for doing this is driven by the following:- not sure anyone has noticed, but the stock markets been a bit volatile lately. 

Everyone always panics that X president will be good or bad for market and it causes short term volatility.

On the goods side, the typically volatile food and energy categories continue to live up to their reputations, with energy prices up 5.3% - a third consecutive month of 4%+ increases.

Even when the market collapsed, my portfolio was only down about 10% and it bounced back quickly.Crypto is tougher just because the volatility, you can have 20k in reserves one day, and wake up with 5k in reserves.

From some other reading I've been doing recently, there may be some extra challenging situations for landlords in the coming years due to Covid and market volatility, so is that something you want to face.I mean, if you want to get it and ride out the recession, you could probably make a decent return with the repairs in place for whenever you sell.  

And the x factor is that Covid makes all of these risks and others more volatile and harder to predict.  

My wife and I live in Ontario, Canada.  We have spent the past couple of years working on a full house flip in our spare time.  We are getting close to being done and will be working on the finishing touches this wint...