Solar Panel Foreclosure Prevented
In September 2023, Prime Solar, Inc. sent a couple of sales representatives to the house of Mr. and Mrs. Torres in Talco, Texas. When the sales people arrived, they claimed that their proposed solar panel system would provide numerous benefits, including a $0 electricity bill, thousands of dollars in the form of a tax refund from the government, and so much electricity that the family would be able to sell back extra electricity through a buy back program. However, more importantly, the solar company promised they would “buy out” the Torres’s other solar panel loan.
At the time Prime Solar visited the Torres’s, there was already a solar panel system on their home. Prime Solar promised the Torres’s that if they purchased a second solar panel system from Prime Solar, their first solar panel loan would be taken over by Prime Solar.
These promises led Mr. and Mrs. Torres to sign up to purchase solar panels from Prime Solar. However, after the panels were installed, Mrs. Torres noticed that their old loan was still in place. Later, she also noticed the electricity bills stayed the same. When Mrs. Torres complained to the finance company, GoodLeap, LLC, they cancelled her loan. However, Prime Solar didn’t. Instead, Prime Solar put a lien on the Torres’s home. Then, Prime Solar sued Mr. and Mrs. Torres to foreclose the lien on their house in order to pay for the panels.
Prime Solar almost succeeded. Prime Solar obtained a default judgment in their lawsuit against the Torres, which resulted in a court order allowing Prime Solar to notice the sale of the Torres’s house. And they did. On July 9, 2025, a sheriff showed up to the Torres’s house with a piece of paper informing the family that their home was going to be sold on August 5, 2025 at the courthouse steps in Mount Pleasant, Texas. That’s when Arnell Law was able to step in and help.
With the guidance of Chris Arnell, the Torres’s filed suit against Prime Solar based on the fraud and misrepresentations that led to the purchase agreement and lien. The Court authorized an emergency hearing to take this matter into consideration on a Friday, just days before the sale of the home on Monday. The Court granted a temporary restraining order, preventing Prime Solar from selling the home. Chris Arnell then obtained two additional court orders further protecting the home until the case against Prime Solar could be heard by a jury. For now, the home is safe until the case can be decided by a jury.
The case against Prime Solar is currently set for trial later this year.