Family & timing
The intended move, school-year priorities, travel commitments and any decisions already made.
Your Landing Plan
Every detail.
In its right order.
A written sequence for your home, family and South Florida arrival, built around the decisions that matter to you.
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What is a South Florida family Landing Plan?
Last updated: 1 November 2026
The Le Strand Landing Plan is a written working plan for establishing your family's home or second base in South Florida. It connects the residence brief, school decisions, arrival arrangements and professional work, with a responsible person and next action for each open decision. Independent professionals deliver the advice; Le Strand coordinates it into the Landing Plan.
We start with what is already settled, then separate confirmed arrangements from assumptions. Your existing advisers remain involved. Where you need additional expertise, we can discuss appropriate introductions and separately agreed engagements. The plan changes when the facts change; it is not a promise that every part of a move will finish on one date.
Request a Private Landing ConsultationWhat the plan holds
The whole arrival, in writing.
Residence & location
The purchase or rental brief, neighbourhood considerations and the practical sequence before committing.
Professional work
The questions for immigration, tax, estate and other appointed advisers, and how their work affects the local timetable.
Everyday arrangements
Banking introductions, healthcare, household setup and the details needed for a functioning Florida base.
A worked example
What the plan looks like in practice.
An illustrative example: a family of four is considering South Florida for the next school year. They have two children at different school stages, an existing tax adviser and an immigration discussion underway. Their next decisions are the school and whether to buy immediately.
The useful first output is a set of decisions and dependencies. Each preferred arrival month, school enquiry and property shortlist is marked with its current status.
1. Set the family brief
The family confirms who is moving, how the home will be used, the workable arrival window, the housing budget range and the weekly journeys that matter. We record the points still open, including whether a phased arrival would be acceptable. Output: one agreed brief to use for school, location and property comparisons.
2. Establish the school evidence
The family and each prospective school confirm the relevant entry stage, application steps, records requested and decision dates. We connect those answers to location and visit planning. Output: a school decision sheet that distinguishes an enquiry, an application and a confirmed place. Each child's place is confirmed by the school itself, and the Landing Plan records that confirmation alongside the home search.
3. Connect the professional answers
Appointed immigration, tax and other advisers identify the questions within their engagements that affect travel, ownership or timing. We record the practical consequences they authorize us to use. Output: a list of decisions waiting for professional input, the person supplying the answer and the date it is needed. Sensitive records stay in the appropriate professional process.
4. Test the residence options
We compare suitable locations and homes against the family's actual routines, arrange the agreed search or scouting work and record the trade-offs. If a school or professional decision remains open, the family can compare a purchase with a rental or temporary base, subject to real availability and terms. Output: a shortlist with reasons, unresolved questions and the next decision.
5. Prepare the arrival handover
Once commitments are confirmed, the plan brings together access to the home, utilities, shipping or storage, household arrangements and relevant local introductions. The family, property professionals and providers confirm their own responsibilities. Output: a practical arrival checklist, with incomplete arrangements still visible and a fallback for any essential item that remains unconfirmed.
A working sequence
Clarity before commitment.
Take stock
Establish what is already in place and where the most important questions remain.
Resolve dependencies
Bring specialist advice into the property and family decisions that rely on it.
Make informed commitments
Align the residence, school planning and arrival logistics around the agreed priorities.
Settle into the everyday
Move from transaction and travel to the routines, relationships and practical arrangements of your new base.
Working alongside your team
Clear responsibilities. Connected decisions.
Existing advisers retain their mandates. Le Strand brings their relevant requirements into the Florida property and arrival timetable.
Where Serena provides residential representation, that scope is agreed explicitly. The Landing Plan keeps each responsibility clear.
When a date changes
Change the sequence before it becomes a surprise.
In the example, a school decision may arrive later than the family expected. The next step is to revisit the decisions that depend on it: the location shortlist, lease or purchase timing, temporary accommodation and shipping. A change to the school timetable does not automatically require every other part of the move to stop.
Use a simple decision record
For each item, write the decision, current status, evidence still needed, responsible person, next action and next review date. Use plain statuses such as confirmed, awaiting an answer or provisional. Record who confirmed a fact and when, rather than letting an old assumption become the plan.
Begin with a short outline
Tell us your intended use of South Florida, the people moving, the broad timing and what is already in place. You do not need to send passports, account details, school records or confidential adviser files through the first enquiry. We agree the scope of the written plan, communication arrangements and any fees separately.
The plan in practice
Keep one family timetable.
Connect school decisions, a residence search and the visit that tests your assumptions. Scope and fees for a written Landing Plan are agreed after the first conversation.
For the planner
Every open question, one written plan.
Le Strand turns every open question into one written, dated Landing Plan. If you are a planner, the kind of family that likes to know everything and plan for everything, the plan is built for you. Each question becomes a line: the decision, who owns it, the source that controls it, the date it is needed and what depends on it. Immigration, tax and legal questions go to the independent professionals Le Strand introduces, and their answers are dated into the plan. Schools, the home, banking, healthcare and logistics sit in the same sequence. As each answer arrives, the plan is updated and the next decision comes into view. The amount you don't yet know becomes a dated list.
Request a Private Landing ConsultationBefore the next step
A little more
clarity.
Every arrival begins with a conversation
Tell us what
comes next.
Your plans, your timing, your questions. An introduction with Serena, at your pace.
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