For serious boat owners shopping the Palm Beach County waterfront, the inlet often matters as much as the house. The Atlantic does not open onto the Intracoastal in many places along this coast. Where it does, and how, determines what kind of vessel can actually live behind a property, how often the boat gets used, and how much planning every offshore run requires.

Four inlets shape the entire county. The Jupiter Inlet anchors the north. The Palm Beach Inlet, also called the Lake Worth Inlet, sits in the middle near the Port of Palm Beach. The Boynton Inlet, officially the South Lake Worth Inlet, handles the south-central stretch. The Boca Raton Inlet sits at the southern edge of the county. They look similar on a map. In practice, they are four…

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For buyers relocating to Florida from the Northeast, the Midwest, or anywhere outside the state, the appeal is easy to understand: the climate, the lifestyle, and a tax environment that includes no state income tax. That last point is a genuine draw, and it is one reason so many out-of-state buyers eventually decide to make Florida their permanent home.

Property taxes, however, are a separate matter, and they usually come up later in the process - often after a buyer has fallen for a particular home and started studying its listing. That is when a common and avoidable mistake tends to surface: assuming that the property taxes the current owner pays are the taxes the new owner will pay.

In Florida, that assumption can be off by a wide margin. Two…

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