
FIRE Retirement
This short, informative article teaches the basics of the FIRE movement.
Wealth management in Palm Beach Gardens, FL for golf-community residents, affluent retirees, and pre-retirees in the city's gated developments. Served from our Boca Raton office, 30 miles south.
Palm Beach Gardens sits in northern Palm Beach County, about 30 miles north of our Boca Raton office. The city is defined by its gated golf communities: PGA National, BallenIsles, Mirasol, Old Palm, Frenchman's Creek, and Frenchman's Reserve among them. Median owner-occupied home value is $606,100 and median household income runs near $107,000. A large share of residents arrived over the last decade from New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Illinois.
Two things drive most of the planning conversations here. First, the fixed cost base. Mandatory equity club memberships and annual dues in the $20,000 to $30,000 range sit on top of property taxes, insurance, and HOA fees, and all of it belongs in the retirement cash flow model rather than getting treated as overhead. Second, the Florida residency reset. Clients who moved from a high-tax state usually need the estate plan rebuilt around Florida rules, the domicile documentation organized, and the tax positioning updated for a state with no income tax.
Three things Palm Beach Gardens 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.
The Palm Beach Gardens
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 from our menu is available to Palm Beach Gardens clients, whether you meet at our Boca Raton office or work with us by video:
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 Palm Beach Gardens clients fit one or more 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.
Palm Beach Gardens is defined by its gated country club enclaves. Median owner-occupied home value is $606,100 (US Census ACS). Buying into communities like PGA National, BallenIsles, Mirasol, or Frenchman's Reserve typically means mandatory equity club contributions plus annual dues.
These are structural inputs to the retirement cash flow model, not overhead. Annual club dues in the $20,000 to $30,000 range on top of property taxes, insurance, and HOA fees create a fixed cost base that shapes the withdrawal strategy from investment accounts and IRAs.
We build the projection with actual numbers, community by community, so the retirement plan reflects the real cost of living where the client actually lives.

Palm Beach Gardens has a highly educated, high-earning workforce. Median household income is near $107,000 (US Census ACS), with a large concentration of executives and successful business owners in peak earning years. The primary financial friction is often federal taxes.
Our approach with high earners is year-round tax coordination rather than a March scramble. Tax-loss harvesting during more volatile periods, municipal bond allocations, backdoor Roth strategies, and asset location decisions across the various account types all shift the effective tax rate over time.
For pre-retirees within five to ten years of stepping back from full-time work, Roth conversion timing during moderate-income years is often one of the most impactful planning moves. Our in-house Enrolled Agent handles the tax filings alongside the planning team so the strategy and the returns stay aligned.
Palm Beach Gardens has a strong base of successful entrepreneurs and private practice owners. For founders thinking about a sale or transition, the planning work that has the most impact begins 18 to 24 months before the transaction.
The sale mechanics (deal structure, seller financing, installment sales, tax deferral options) are worth modeling before the negotiation starts. We work alongside the founder's business attorney and CPA when a transaction is being contemplated.
Our part is the personal-finance side. What the sale proceeds need to fund going forward, how the estate plan should shift once meaningful liquidity is present, and how the mix of income and account types changes when the founder moves from operator income to portfolio income.
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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.