EDWARDSBURG ― Investigators say they need more time to figure out what started a fire that destroyed Legend's Restaurant. It took five departments more than two hours to get that fire under control Monday, but the cause of the fire remains “undetermined” at this point.

Sgt. Scott LeRoy, Michigan State Police fire investigator, said the investigation is complicated because it's a very large building with a lot of debris.

When WSBT asked if they figured out where the fire started, LeRoy would only say they’ve found “several points of interest" and they are still trying to figure out what happened.

LeRoy and other investigators sorted through what they said was the most heavily damaged part of the restaurant on Tuesday morning and afternoon.

Firefighters brought in a ladder truck to help take pictures from above, and a fire investigation dog searched the building for more clues ― standard procedure for a fire of this magnitude.

A company by the name of T & R Investments owns Legends. The man who runs that business, Troy Treat, didn't want to do an on-camera interview, but his dad did talk to WSBT.

“You’ve tried to put this way out of proportion. You've tried to glamorize it like news media does,” said Jim Treat. “You have no information. I'm not even interested in talking to you.”

On Monday, WSBT reported information from township documents and the Edwardsburg fire chief saying that before the Legends fire, T & R Investments owned three buildings that burned. All three fires were ruled "suspicious".

But after talking with the owner's dad Tuesday, WSBT did some more digging and found out T & R Investments did not own the vacant building that burned and destroyed the nearby Uptown Tavern in July of 2006 until four months after the fire.

WSBT has documents showing the company owned a building and was leasing it to Medicap Pharmacy when it burned in 2003. A reporter also verified the company owned a garage that burned in 2006, destroying restaurant equipment.

When asked if he would be willing to give his side of the story, Jim replied, “I don’t have a side. You guys are totally undocumented. You have no information that's correct, why would I waste my time with you guys?”

Troy told WSBT off camera his restaurant was his baby, and he is having a tough time with the loss. He also said insurance investigators and police never questioned him after the other two fires because he did nothing wrong.

On Monday night, T & R Excavating employees brought in some excavating equipment as if they were going to start tearing the building down. But it could be a while before anyone has authorization to do that.

As long as the investigation is ongoing, nobody can legally do anything to the building. It could take investigators a few more days or even weeks until they determine a cause, if they ever do.

In a matter unrelated to the fire investigation, a Niles attorney stopped by the restaurant Tuesday afternoon in an attempt to serve legal papers to Troy.

The attorney would not name his client, but said Treat’s company allegedly failed to pay more than $45,000 to have carpet installed in an apartment complex.

Troy told WSBT those allegations are not true.