Exclusive | Homeowner-bashing Darializa Avila Chevaliers father is a landlord and rents his Miami condo for $1,750/month

Darializa Avila Chevalier once called for the government to seize all properties from landlords.But her own father is currently renting his Florida condo out for $1,750 a month, The Post has learned.The 32-year-old Mamdani-backed Democratic Socialist stunned onlookers this week when she defeated five-term incumbent Rep.

Adriano Espaillat for the Democratic nomination to represent New York’s 13th Congressional District, covering upper Manhattan and parts of The Bronx.  Avila Chevalier ran a populist campaign centered on limiting market-rate housing and fighting “corporate greed.”Still, her father owns market-rate property, and rents it out at market rate, to boot.Public records show Frank R.Avila purchased a condominium in Miami in 1998 for $92,900 — about $193,000 today. The unit sits inside a sprawling complex tucked into the Fontainebleau neighborhood roughly 10 miles west of downtown Miami, a densely urban area where 84.8% of residents primarily speak Spanish at home and more than 64% were born outside the United States.  It is a working-class immigrant community — exactly the kind of place Avila Chevalier says she is fighting to protect from the economic forces of appreciation and displacement.Those forces, it turns out, have been very good for Frank Avila.

And now he is charging his tenants for them.According to Realtor.com and Apartments.com, his unit was recently listed for rent at $1,750 a month — and found a new tenant in June, records show.

The two-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom townhouse-style condo with updated bathrooms, tile floors and an assigned parking spot has been actively on the rental market since at least 2011, records also show.Similar units in the complex now average around $375,000 in value  — a fourfold jump from what he paid nearly three decades ago. In July 2025, Frank and his wife Zoraya Avila took out a $190,000 mortgage on the property through A&D Mortgage LLC, with a maturity date of 2055, according to Miami-Dade Co...