Natalie Caruso has been busy.

"I've had about 115 people contact me, either through email, phone call, or they've knocked on my door," the Build It Back participant said.

NY1 reported earlier this year on plans by the Gerritsen Beach homeowner and five of her neighbors to file a class-action lawsuit against Build It Back, the city's storm recovery program.

Build It Back elevated Caruso's home to protect it from future flooding, the centerpiece of more than $830,000 in renovations and repairs, but the building started to sink within weeks of her return.

Many Build It Back families have similar stories of shoddy work, or contractors who didn't do what they promised or live up to their warranties. They contacted Caruso and agreed to join the litigation.

They're hoping the lawsuit will force the city to conduct a forensic accounting of every home in the program. They also want financial damages.

But so far, they've been unable to find a lawyer to represent them.

"We thought that one lawyer would say, 'Ok, we'll do it, you know, we'll take this on,'" Caruso said. "I mean, this is, it's big and it's only getting worse, because the years are going past and now the houses are starting to break down just on their own because they weren't held up correctly."

Five attorneys have turned down the group, which now consists of more than 100 interested homeowners.

Robin Effron, a professor at Brooklyn Law School, says some lawyers might not be interested because the case would be complicated, drag on for years, and be unlikely to generate a windfall for the litigants.

"Any time you have something where there are many individual questions — what were the damages, how did the damages happen, did you interact with different people? — those things are looked less and less favorably as class actions by the court," Effron said.

Effron recommends a tactic of some September 11th first responders who have sued the city: They filed each case individually and then presented them as a group, creating the same strength in numbers and negotiating power as plaintiffs in a class action.

The professor says if legal action is impractical, the only recourse in cases alleging government mismanagement is political pressure by seeking relief from elected officials, a group that so far hasn't come to the aid of the struggling homeowners.