A group of Staten Island residents forced to vacate their homes two years ago due to a flood are fighting yet another battle as they await word on when they'll be able to return. NY1's Amanda Farinacci filed the following report.

Empty beer cans, cigarette butts, takeout food and garbage litter the inside of 43 Waterview Court -- one of nine waterfront homes residents were forced to evacuate in 2007 after punishing rains and whipping winds caused the retaining wall behind them to collapse.

Residents are still not allowed back inside, and now squatters have moved in.

"People are defecating in the bidets, urinating in bottles and leaving them, cigarettes being put out on tables, on floors, the mildew, the urine, the bowel movements, it's disgusting. I can't believe people are doing this to other people's things," said Waterview Court resident Michelle Zelcer.

During a visit inside one of the homes Thursday, NY1's cameras captured one squatter who didn't seem to think she was doing anything wrong. Several minutes later, police arrested the young woman for trespassing. She told police that when she was there last week, and that it was filled with people just like her.

Waterview Court residents have been fighting since the wall collapsed to get back into their homes. The site's builder declared bankruptcy and was sent to jail on embezzlement charges in an unrelated case.

Owners of the remaining 18 homes that make up the Skyline Point Homeowners Association sued to avoid responsibility for the estimated $2 million cost of repairing the nine that were damaged.

A judge later ruled the entire homeowners association is responsible and appointed a receiver, Robert Rampulla, to make sure the work is done, and to secure funding.

"He has found nothing, he has just assured us that we are not, nobody wants to give us money," said Waterview Court resident Steve Kaplan. "I find that hard to believe, there's never been a plea made to the Island banks to try to help us, there's never been any applications to the federal government for funding, we've never even been assessed."

Before residents can return home, there is still some work to be done. Rampulla has to sign off on the plans and owners complain he has not done that.

Rampulla did return NY1's call for comment, but insisted he could not speak specifically about the Waterview Court situation because of a court-issued gag order on the case.