One of these developers, Lozman, has been most visible by how he has actively taunted local, state and federal enforcement agencies with law breaking, hostile confrontations with neighbors, fraudulent claims, and even going as far as to hastily put together sketchy construction on this property that has already led to significant environmental harm.

We’ll focus on this last bit for now. Lozman has been collecting old pieces of junkyard floating docks onto his property, many of which are joined together into sections 80-100 feet long. One of these big pieces has a small container home on it.

This container home is allegedly where Lozman lives.

You see, according to the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser, Lozman is on his way to claiming homestead exemption as he has in the past. (https://www.pbcgov.com/papa/Asps/PropertyDetail/PropertyDetail.aspx?parcel=56434222000010200&srchtype=map) In Florida, your homestead must be your permanent residence. So he must live in that container home, right? Surely a county government office such as the property appraiser wouldn’t get this wrong. By the way, we also documented that he didn’t get this container home onto the property before the deadline to get homestead exemption.

In 2020 with homestead exemption Lozman paid just $91 for the nearly 8 acres of submerged land he owns here.

(This is just one of the properties he owns in Munyon Cove, others are owned as a joint venture with others called Halo Development LLC.)

Monday night Lozman had a rough night. On a windy late night the 80 foot section of dock with his container home broke free, it drifted well over a mile and half across the windy and choppy Lake Worth Lagoon until it landed on the beach at Lakeside Park in North Palm Beach. It’s here on public property that we were able to get a close look at the condition of this “floating home.” Lozman wasn’t home unfortunately but I took a walk around to inspect the project.

I documented a lot of alarmingly sketchy details:

The whole structure landed mere inches away from a small jetty, impact would’ve likely caused a lot of damage to the structure, but it made into shallow enough water that it got stuck in the sand.

The concrete dock pieces are cracked open, taking in water, soaking up the foam cores inside. In other words, they are slowly sinking. The concrete itself is crumbling, and the lumber holding the pieces of dock together has deteriorated from being waterlogged. The metal rods and hardware holding it all together is rusted, in many parts the hardware is simply falling out.

Coming out of the cracks are small microplastics of the expanded polystyrene (think styrofoam) core that makes up the vast majority of the volume of each 10 foot section of dock.

Only 1 of the 4 mounting points on the corners of the container have a bolt “securing” it to the dock, and even that isn’t properly placed. The container seems to be in danger of sliding right off the dock and sinking into the water (a previous container on his property already did this, it had to be removed by crane).

The inside of the container is unfinished. It has just a single futon as furniture, the floors have taken water damage from waves crashing through the sliding glass doors. There are electric and water hookups on the container but there is nothing for them to connect to at Lozman’s property. For example, the drain from the sink goes out the side of the container and straight into the lagoon through a hatch in the top of the dock. Another drain similarly comes out of the “bathroom” side of the container.

Lozman must have had a really rough night on monday waking up in a floating container rocking and rolling as it drifted across a choppy and windy Lake Worth Lagoon. It seems even on a good night the container home is uninhabitable, or even safe for anyone to be on.

Unless of course… he doesn’t actually live there.

In that case, perhaps it’s time for Dorothy Jacks and the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser office to take another but closer look at Lozman’s “homestead”, surely they wouldn’t allow fraud to take place under their watch.