
FIRE Retirement
This short, informative article teaches the basics of the FIRE movement.
Fee-based wealth management in Boca Raton for families, business owners, and pre-retirees. Coordinated planning from our local Boca office serving Boca Pointe, Royal Palm YC, St. Andrews, Mizner Park, and the surrounding neighborhoods.
Our Boca Raton office serves the city itself and the surrounding communities. Most of our clients come from established Boca neighborhoods: Boca Pointe, Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club, St. Andrews Country Club, Mizner Park, Boca Bath & Tennis, The Polo Club, Broken Sound, and the coastal neighborhoods east of A1A. The work is the same across the city; only the meeting location and the local context change.
Boca Raton sits along Florida's east coast in Palm Beach County, anchored by an established business district, the Boca Raton Resort, and several of South Florida's most recognizable country club communities. Many of our Boca Raton clients live in Boca Pointe, Royal Palm Yacht and Country Club, St. Andrews Country Club, The Sanctuary, Boca Bath and Tennis, The Polo Club, Broken Sound, Boca Del Mar, or the coastal pockets east of A1A.
The kinds of clients who live in these neighborhoods need the kind of work we do: planning coordinated across cash flow, investments, taxes, and estate. Many are 5 to 10 years from retirement (or already there) and want a relationship that handles the unglamorous administrative work as well as the strategic planning.
Three things Boca Raton clients tell us matter.
First meetings in person at our Boca Raton or Plantation office. After that, most relationships run mostly virtual with in-person reviews as needed.
Florida no-state-income-tax planning is its own thing. We work it into every recommendation, from Roth timing to the home-sale capital-gains calculation.
We're licensed in all 50 states. Clients moving to or from Florida keep the same advisor without restart.
Where we are.
Intercoastal Wealth Planning at Boca Raton
1200 North Federal Highway, Suite 300
Boca Raton, FL 33432
Monday to Friday, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM ET
Every service we offer is available to Boca Raton clients:
Full planning across cash flow, taxes, retirement, and estate. Where most local relationships begin.
Portfolio construction, asset allocation, tax-sensitive investing managed locally.
Income strategy, IRA rollovers, Social Security timing, RMDs, healthcare bridge.
Year-round positioning. Tax-loss harvesting, Roth conversions, charitable giving timing.
Beneficiary audits, trust funding, legacy planning, coordinated with your attorney.
401(k), 403(b), and old employer plan rollovers handled as direct trustee transfers.
When to claim, spousal coordination, and how the claim fits the income sequence.
Multi-year tax modeling for the low-income window between work and RMDs.
Education savings, Florida Prepaid, grandparent funding, FAFSA coordination.
Life, disability, long-term care, and annuity review without the sales pitch.
Behavioral coaching and accountability that turns the plan into actual decisions.
Donor-advised funds, charitable trusts, QCDs from IRAs, appreciated security donations.
Revocable living trusts coordinated with your estate attorney. Funding and titling, done right.
Family transitions, internal sales, ESOPs, plus the post-transition personal plan.
Pre-sale tax positioning, deal-structure planning, post-sale wealth strategy.
Most Boca clients fit one of these descriptions:
For clients in their 40s, 50s, and early 60s coordinating the Social Security decision, Medicare timing, Roth conversion windows, and the income plan that follows.
For founders and owners. The planning runs from operating the business through eventual transition or sale.
For C-suite leaders with concentrated equity, deferred compensation, and the planning that comes with senior roles.
For clients receiving an inheritance, sudden or expected. Help making steady decisions in a moment when steady is hard.
For women in their career-building years working through equity comp, executive comp, and the planning that supports both.
For women rebuilding financial independence after divorce. Coaching, accountability, and a real plan for what's next.
For women facing financial decisions for the first time after the loss of a spouse. Patience and a step-by-step approach.
We don't lead with proprietary products, structured notes, or non-traded REITs as a portfolio building block. We don't take custody of your assets. We don't promise market-beating returns. The honest answer is that nobody who has to tell the truth to a regulator can.
Boca Raton's economy runs on a different scale than the county average. Median home value is $722,700; median household income is $106,273 (US Census ACS). Many households here also carry multiple properties, business equity, or concentrated stock positions on top of the primary residence.
That mix reshapes what retirement planning actually looks like. Country club equity memberships in communities like Boca West or Saint Andrews Country Club, property insurance premiums that rise every renewal, and property tax bills that scale with home value all become fixed monthly obligations. They belong in the cash flow model from the beginning.
Our work with Boca Raton clients is individualized by default. For pre-retirees weighing concentrated stock options, for widows learning to manage an inherited portfolio, for business owners with equity waiting to be liquidated: the details are different every time. We map out required minimum distributions, structure taxable and tax-deferred accounts for efficiency, and coordinate with the client's CPA and estate attorney where their work touches ours.
Boca Raton is a real business hub. The commercial districts near Mizner Park and Arvida Park of Commerce house a large concentration of founders whose personal net worth is heavily tied to company equity.
The math of turning that equity into retirement income takes time to work through. The 24 months before a planned sale are usually where the most valuable planning happens: tax positioning, deal structure options, and the post-sale income plan all benefit from being built ahead of the transaction, not after. We work alongside your business attorney and CPA when a sale is on the horizon.
The work covers both the sale mechanics and the personal side. What the sale proceeds need to cover for the founder's own retirement, how the estate plan should shift once liquidity is present, and how the tax picture changes when you go from operator income to portfolio income. Founders build businesses with intention. We help you exit them the same way.
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1200 North Federal Highway, Suite 300
Boca Raton, FL 33432
Monday to Friday, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM ET
Serving South Florida Cities and Neighborhoods
Palm Beach County
The first meeting is a conversation, not a sales pitch. We'll talk about where you are, what you're working through, and whether Intercoastal is the right fit. In person in Boca Raton or Plantation, or by video from anywhere.