After several cancellations, the foreclosed Little Havana house owned by Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla — you know, the one he supposedly doesn’t live in because it’s outside his district — has been set for auction in November.
Unless he gets another last minute reprieve. Again.
ADLP’s house has been in foreclosure for more than 10 years, lost the case three years ago, and has had at least four different auction dates cancelled, according to records with the Miami-Dade Clerk. On Tuesday, a new attorney — his old attorney was suspended by the Florida Bar — asked Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Carlos Guzman for 120 more days to pay the debt with the equity he says there is in the property.
“Give my client the time to redeem the property and gather the funds,” said Jonathan Kline, adding that the commissioner’s elderly parents live in the home on the 1500 block of Southwest 19th Street.
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A representative for the bank said that enough time had been given. ADLP defaulted on the loan in 2012, said attorney Monica Darrow. Judge Guzman awarded the judgement in 2019, she added.
The judge split the baby and gave Diaz de la Portilla until Nov. 15. Then it goes to auction. Maybe.
That’s a week after the election. So, Diaz de la Portilla could lose his seat and his childhood home in eight days.
The 5-bedroom, 3-bath house was last assessed at $525,895, according to a public Miami-Dade Property Search. Ladra wonders if that includes the illegal additions that were built circa 2018. Did he ever pay his fines? What are the taxes on it and has he paid those?
Market value rose to $666,159, an increase of more than 50% in just two years, when the market value for the property was $434,625.
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Diaz de la Portilla still technically owns the house with his ex-wife, Claudia Davant, who is also named in the proceedings, and Ladra wonders how his current wife, Vanessa Garcia Azzam, feels about that.
But they don’t live there. Of course not! That would be outside his district. They allegedly live with brother Renier Diaz de la Portilla and his wife, Xaviera, and their child in a two bedroom apartment on the Miami River. Or at the East Hotel at Brickell City Center.
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