STEUBENVILLE — Residents at Heritage Place apartments are still waiting for the part needed to fix their boiler, days after owner Green National’s representatives said they expected it to be delivered.

The supplier, Armstrong Fluid Technology, has yet to respond to a request for information, but sources familiar with the situation said the Ontario-based company is insisting Green National pay for it up front before the replacement part leaves their building.

If that’s the case, attorneys representing residents who have been without whole-house heat since at least the beginning of December will likely push forward with contempt proceedings.

“There’s no heat, still,” resident Ronnie Mitchell confirmed Wednesday afternoon.

Mitchell, one of the four original plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed in January to force owners Green National and WG-Heritage Place Ohio and their then-property manager, ABC Management, to restore heat, said describing the mood among residents as unhappy “would be an understatement.”

Mitchell said radiator-style heaters were passed out to residents after a closed-door meeting among the attorneys — Pam Bolton and Kristen Lewis of Legal Aid of Southeast and Central Ohio; Kristopher Haught, representing Green National and WG-Heritage Place; and Elaine K. Souder, representing their management company, ABC Management — and Jefferson County Common Pleas Judge Joseph Bruzzese.

Under that agreement, residents without heat had to be offered radiator heaters which, theoretically, would keep their homes warmer than the infrared models some of them had originally been given.

“I had it about a day and gave it back to them,” Mitchell said. “I took the old one back — the infrared heater they’d given us before was much warmer than the radiator heaters.”

Haught declined to comment Wednesday and Souder couldn’t be reached.

Bolton also declined comment, but an amended complaint she filed on Feb. 6 offers new clues about the conditions in the affordable housing complex.

In the new filing, residents claimed they’d been without water and garbage service on multiple occasions in 2023 and earlier in 2024 “because defendants failed to timely pay the water bill.”

“Each time plaintiffs were without water to their units, the outage lasted several days,” they said in the complaint. “And, on or about the same time as the water outage, plaintiffs were without refuse collection at their apartments because the bill hadn’t been paid … garbage would pile up at the dumpster, creating a nuisance and health hazard.”

The complaint seeks actual and compensatory damages, “including, but not limited to, increased utility bills, retroactive rent abatement, costs and fees.”