Basement full of water

They don't need resources to be able to do something about it, it's a council house, so the local council would rehouse them in better accommodation if the house was in the same state as the one portrayed in the movie. There's actually a mistake in the script to do with the house. In the first scene with Peggy Hodgson when she is talking on the telephone she asks 'How am I going to pay my rent this month?', which indicates that the house is rented from the local council, but later in the movie when Ed Warren asks her where the old chair came from, she said her ex-husband bought all the furniture with the house, which indicates that the house was bought privately, which it couldn't have been as the design of the house is a council house design and Local Council's weren't allowed to sell their properties in the 1970's. If the council built it they still owned it. Also, Local Councils don't supply any furniture with their rented properties. Anything left behind by previous occupants is disposed of before the property is re-let. It's a glaring contradiction in the script.

It also amused me greatly that the outside of the house was British sized but the inside was American sized. The inside was about three times bigger than it should have been, although it was explained in the Bluray special features that it was made bigger to make it easier to shoot in. Still, it just looks all wrong if you have actually lived in a British council house.

They weren't THAT poor, the -rented- house may have been in a *beep* state but they had a telephone, and a tv with a remote control, neither of which my family had in 1977 Britain (on a police officer's wage).

I prefer Imaginality to reality.