Kyle J. Paine and Linsey Lewis

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Solar panels on home in Las Vegas. (KLAS)

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The Nevada State Contractors Board suspended Titan Solar of Nevada’s license Tuesday after it learned of Titan closing its office in Las Vegas, the 8 News Now Investigators have confirmed.

Titan Solar has a disciplinary hearing before the contractors board in July due to a spate of complaints from homeowners and accusations from the board’s prosecutors that Titan has abandoned job sites, diverted funds, delayed installations and worked beyond the scope of what their license – and the law – allows.

Earlier this year, Titan had as many as 50 complaints against them. Last month, that number was 21, but a spokeswoman from Titan Solar said that the company had whittled that number to three. 

A contractors board spokesman confirmed the July disciplinary hearing will take place regardless of whether Titan is still in business. However the summary suspension of Titan’s license means the company cannot perform any business-related service, the spokesman told the 8 News Now Investigators.

Phone calls and messages to Titan’s spokeswoman, who regularly provides timely statements and responses on behalf of the solar company, have gone unanswered. A phone call – also unanswered – to Titan’s Arizona headquarters is forwarded to the spokeswoman’s cell phone.

Two lock boxes hang from the front door of Titan’s office building, which was shuttered and dark during a visit Tuesday during business hours to 3570 West Post Road. in Las Vegas.  

Public records dated in May and June show that the West Post Road office building was sold from a Nevada LLC with an address in Arizona that matches Titan’s Chandler address to LGC Post Road, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company. The Los Angeles address on the deed for LGC tracks to an investment firm named Ledo Capital Group in Los Angeles. The name of Ledo’s principal, Anthony J. Brent, is typed on the first two pages of the deed from Titan to LGC. The sale price, the deed shows, is $4.5 million.

Titan’s attorney, Donald Williams, did not return an email or phone call seeking comment and confirmation of whether Titan had ceased operations in Las Vegas and/or Nevada as a whole. Williams and Titan’s president, Kenneth M. Williams, blamed the 8 News Now Investigators, in part, for some of its struggles.

“We believe that some of the complaints, if not many of the complaints, are a result of, frankly, the news covering this matter,” Kenneth Williams said at a hearing of the contractors’ board in May.  

The 8 News Now Investigators have reported on the plight of several homeowners who felt wronged by Titan Solar.