Financial Planning Services

Six Areas We Work In, For High-Income Families and Commercial Real Estate Executives

Envision Wealth Planners works in six areas: income and cash flow, investments, tax, retirement, estate, and insurance planning. Sean Gerlin, CFP® CPWA® ChFC® CLU®, is a fee-only fiduciary, which means the firm is paid by clients and earns no commission on anything it recommends.

Nobody walks into our office needing just one of these. Whether to convert to a Roth is a tax question, a retirement question, and an investment question all at once, and answering it in only one of those frames gets you a worse answer. We've split the work into six areas here because that's how people search for it. In practice, it all runs together, and that's the point of having one person looking at the whole picture.

Each page below explains what the work includes, how we approach it, and how it looks for the two groups we serve. None of it is personalized advice. It's meant to help you figure out, before we ever get on a call, whether this is the kind of help you're looking for.

What We Help With

The Six Areas

  • Income and Cash Flow Planning

    This is the work of deciding how your money shows up, where it goes first, and what shape it's in before it gets taxed. If your income is uneven or comes from your own business, it's the foundation everything else sits on. Until we know what's really coming in and when, every other answer is a guess.

  • Investment Management

    We build portfolios around your goals and how much risk you can actually live with, then keep fees and taxes in view the whole way. Where it fits, we add private investments like real estate and private credit alongside public markets. Envision is fee-only, so no product pays us more than another.

  • Tax Planning

    Tax planning is the work we do with you before the year ends, while there's still time to change the outcome. Tax preparation reports what already happened. We look at how your income is structured, where your investments sit, and when the big events land, then work with your CPA so the plan and the return agree. We don't prepare returns.

  • Retirement Planning

    Retirement planning at Envision is less about picking a date and more about buying yourself options. We help you build taxable, tax-deferred, and Roth "buckets" in proportions that let you choose when to step back and control what each withdrawal costs. If you'd like work to be optional in your fifties, this is where we start.

  • Estate Planning

    We review your wills, trusts, beneficiary designations, and business entity documents against what you actually want to happen, then work with an estate attorney to draft or fix anything that's off. We don't practice law, so the drafting is done by an attorney. Yours, or one we introduce you to.

  • Insurance Planning

    We review your life, disability, long-term care, property, and umbrella coverage to find the gaps between what you're insured for and what you're actually exposed to. Envision is fee-only, so we don't sell insurance and we're not paid if you buy a policy. So when the review concludes your coverage is fine as it is, there's nothing in it for us either way.

Who We Serve

Or Start From Where You Are

Services for CRE Executives

Uneven commission income, business-owner tax questions, and a career that leaves little time to manage any of it.

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