Fee-Only Fiduciary | Seagrove Beach & 30A

Fee-Only Financial Planning and Investment Management in Seagrove Beach

The quiet original. Financial complexity you didn't plan for until now.

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Who We Work With

Built for families with financial complexity.

Long-time Seagrove Beach residents and newer arrivals drawn to its quieter character. Retirees who have spent decades building wealth and now navigate the transition from earning to spending. Vacation property owners managing real estate across time zones. Families whose simplest asset, the house on Seagrove, has become their most complicated, carrying years of appreciation and the weight of succession planning.

Many of the families we work with have outgrown the advice they started with. The accounts got larger. The tax picture got more complicated. The questions stopped being about saving and started being about protecting, distributing, and transferring, which is where expert wealth management becomes crucial. That is where we step in.

The details differ from household to household. The need is the same: a fiduciary advisor who sees the full picture, coordinates every piece, and makes sure nothing falls through the gaps. That is what we do. Every client. Every plan. Every review.

Planning Challenges

Where complexity compounds.

Retirement Income That Lasts

You have spent decades building. Now your accounts generate your income. Social Security timing, pension elections, drawdown sequencing, Medicare surcharges, and investment withdrawals must work in concert. A retirement income strategy built for decades, not just the first five years.

Property Succession and Estate Coordination

A home on Seagrove owned for decades carries embedded gains and emotional weight. Estate plans must address whether heirs will keep it, sell it, or step into the tax liability. We coordinate with your attorney to ensure your plan works whether property is kept or sold.

Tax Complexity From Rental and Investment Income

Vacation rentals, taxable investments, and retirement account withdrawals each carry different tax treatment. Without coordination, overlapping income sources push you into higher brackets. A comprehensive strategy positions income to minimize tax friction.

Insurance and Risk Management for Coastal Property

Insuring coastal real estate at replacement cost while managing escalating premiums. Coverage gaps and over-insurance both cost money. We review your property and liability protection alongside your total financial picture.

What We Do

Coordinated advisory services. Not piecemeal recommendations.

Comprehensive Financial Planning

Cash flow analysis, retirement projections, tax strategy, insurance review, estate coordination, and education funding. We build the plan, implement every recommendation, and revisit the entire structure as your life changes. Nothing sits on a shelf. Learn about our planning process.

Investment Management

Portfolios built on institutional research, factor-based analysis, and tax-aware asset allocation construction. Managed through Farther's custodial platform with full transparency, no proprietary products, and no revenue sharing. Your investments serve the plan. See how we manage portfolios.

Retirement Income Planning

Social Security timing, pension elections, required minimum distributions, Roth conversion windows, and drawdown sequencing. Every decision is modeled before it is made. A tax-efficient income strategy built to last decades. Explore retirement planning.

Estate and Legacy Planning

Trust structuring, beneficiary coordination, titling review, charitable giving strategy, and multi-state property succession. We work alongside your attorney and CPA so your estate plan reflects your wishes, protects your family, and adapts to changes in the law.

Special Needs Planning

ABLE accounts, special needs trusts, Medicaid and SSI coordination, guardianship alternatives, and long-term care strategies. Todd is a father of two sons with autism. This work is personal, and it informs every plan we build for families navigating disability. Learn about special needs planning.

Tax Strategy and Coordination

Proactive planning that goes beyond filing. Roth conversions, capital gains harvesting, charitable strategies, entity structuring, and distribution timing. We coordinate with your CPA year-round so tax decisions are made in context, not in isolation.

Why FamilyVest

Who you work with matters.

Todd Sensing, CFA, CFP®, resides full-time in Santa Rosa Beach, along the Choctawhatchee Bay. As founder and lead advisor, Todd leads every client engagement at FamilyVest personally, bringing twenty-five years of experience across institutional portfolio management, fixed-income strategy, and private wealth advisory. The same analytical discipline that applies to managing institutional capital applies to your family's plan. Every recommendation. Every portfolio decision. Every review.

The planning process is structured and thorough. We start with what matters most to you, your financial goals, and how your goals impact your financial situation. Then we are able to work through every area of your financial life: cash flow, investment management, tax planning, insurance and risk management planning, estate planning, and retirement planning. Each piece connects to the others. Nothing is treated in isolation, and nothing is left to assumption. As a certified financial planner (CFP), we always act as your fiduciary.

This is not a firm that hands your plan to a junior associate. Todd builds the plan, manages the portfolio, and sits across from you at every quarterly review. You work with the person who knows your situation, not someone reading notes about it. That continuity changes the quality of the advice. It is also why clients stay. Meet the team.

FamilyVest operates through Farther, an SEC-registered investment advisory firm built by a team from Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, and JP Morgan. Farther provides institutional-grade technology, compliance infrastructure, and multi-custodian access. You get the personal relationship of an independent advisor backed by a platform built to manage wealth at scale. You see every holding, every fee, and every transaction in real time. Transparent reporting. No product commissions. Every material conflict is disclosed in our Form ADV.

100% fee-only. We do not sell insurance or annuities. We earn no commissions or product-sales compensation. That is how it should work.

Seagrove Beach in Context

The old heart of 30A.

Seagrove is the older center of the 30A corridor. Many of the families here bought their cottages decades ago, when the market looked nothing like it does today. The gap between basis and current value can be enormous, and it shapes almost every planning decision that follows — the choice to keep, sell, or transfer, the way to hold the property, and the conversations between parents and adult children about what "legacy" actually means in practice.

We work with Seagrove families on exactly those questions. Step-up basis strategy, entity and titling alternatives for intergenerational ownership, coordination of multiple family members who share a single property, and the broader retirement planning that the property has to fit inside. Our office is a short drive west at Destin Commons.

Next Step

One conversation. No obligation.

Tell us where you stand and where you want to go. We will listen before we advise. There is no minimum account size for an initial conversation, and no obligation afterward. If we are the right fit, we will tell you how we can help. If we are not, we will tell you that too.

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