Full Opinion

Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida Opinion filed August 26, 2020. Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing. ________________ No. 3D19-2397 Lower Tribunal No. 19-7 ________________ Astrid Restrepo, Appellant, vs. Credit Solutions International Co., Appellee. An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Alan S. Fine, Judge. Reyes Law Group, and Adrian Reyes, for appellant. Gasdick, Stanton & Early, P.A., and August J. Stanton, III (Orlando), for appellee. Before SCALES, HENDON, and LOBREE, JJ. PER CURIAM. Affirmed. § 702.06, Fla. Stat. (2013) (stating, in part, that “[t]he complainant shall also have the right to sue at common law to recover such deficiency, unless the court in the foreclosure action has granted or denied a claim for a deficiency judgment”); Capotosto v. Fifth Third Bank, 230 So. 3d 891, 892 (Fla. 4th DCA 2017) (holding that a defendant cannot “raise an unpled affirmative defense as a basis for resisting a motion for summary judgment; stating that “[a] litigant cannot avoid summary judgment by merely asserting a fact without any evidence to support it”); Accurate Metal Finishing Corp. v. Carmel, 254 So. 2d 556, 557 (Fla. 3d DCA 1971) (“Affirmative defenses must be pleaded and it is not sufficient to sustain a defense to a summary judgment motion to allege such in affidavits.”). 2