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Reporter like many college kids Josh Goldenberg was excited about his newfound freedom after moving off campus in his sophomore year at boston university. I just think about the major impact that that place had on my life. Reporter while the house looks immaculate today, josh says back in 2012 it was very different when he lived there. It looked brokendown. It was a mess. Not ept kept up. Reporter joshs father david was alarmed too. The place was clearly not maintained. But we didnt want to hover and helicopter too much over josh. Reporter josh was asleep in his cramped attic room when a fire broke out on a january morning in 2012. Boston, youre saying your house is on fire . Yes, completely. Reporter josh was trapped in the attic as the house was engulfed in flames. He says with no other way out, he jumped from his third floor window. I hit the ice. In the driveway. Reporter josh spent two weeks in a coma. And he says he still suffers the effects of major head trauma. I still have double vision because of it. Reporter while the cause of the fire was never determined, josh sued the landlord, alleging the house was illegal, unfit, and unsafe. The case was settled out of court with no admission of wrongdoing. In boston, there are thousands of college kids like josh who decide to move into offcampus housing, looking for independence or to save money on skyhigh dorm costs. But all too often students say they can be taken advantage of by unscrupulous landlords. They must have been like soldering. Reporter many say here in boston theyre subject to decrepit, rundown housing. This is our bathroom. Disgusting. Reporter these disturbing images were captured by the boston globe, part of an investigation that scandalized the city over a year ago. The rats are disgusting. Theyre bigger than my kittens. I saw it crawling out of the toaster. I almost threw up. It was pretty appalling, the conditions that we saw these students living in. These kids are spending a lot of money to go to expensive schools. And yet some of them are living with rats and bedbugs and locks that dont lock. It doesnt stay shut. Reporter of course, many of us remember living in some pretty grungy digs during our college days. But as the globe investigation uncovered the real concern is potential safety issues. And landlords who are allegedly slow to fix the problems. We used the stove to heat our place during the winter since the heating didnt work. This door, theres no lock that works on it, it goes directly to the outside. We tried to open the window once and figured this out. Yep. This were exits that were blocked. Smoke detectors that wert there. Electrical wires exposed. Students were crammed into dangerous conditions. Reporter when asked about the globes footage, two landlords declined to comment. Another claimed he was unaware of the problems and said he would find a better property manager. Should they be living in conditions like that . Absolutely not. The mayor has been adamant he wants the Student Experience here not to be about their living residence. Boston fire. Were getting people out right now. Reporter the wakeup call came after a tragic case of deja vu. Just a year after joshs accident, the house across the street at 87 linden also caught on fire. Because of careless smoking. Over a dozen students crammed into the house desperately trying to get out. Two of them on the upper floor jumped to a lower rooftop to escape the flames. But in the corner attic room, one student is trapped. Anyone know where sunlin is . Reporter the boston senior never made it out. The body of the bright, promising marine science major was later found in her room. When you heard about the fire what were you thinking . That poor girl . That poor girl. I was thinking, that could have been me. Reporter as the victims brooklyn family and friends gather in grief attention turned to the conditions in the house. No criminal charges were filed but her family sued the Property Owner anna belokurova, alleging the house lacked a second upstairs exit and had a faulty fire alarm system. The manager declined to talk to abc news but her attorneys strongly deny the conditions of the house were connected to lees death. The citys very ineffective at monitoring and policing landlords. Even if the kids are savvy enough to complain to city authorities they can delay repairs and string it along until the kids are ready to move out. Reporter now rundown, offcampus Student Housing isnt just a problem in housing. This area of tiles reporter it was easy for us to find students complaining about living in squalid conditions in philadelphia, another big college town. Cool college room but you look closer and you see a mouse trap. You see a glue pad over there. Right next to your bed. Next to where i sleep, where my headrests. Reporter in philly some kids are fighting back against their land lords in the way youd expect online. A lot of times we feel like like we have to. Reporter ofo and felix, two enterprising recent grads, started a sort of yelp for college housing. Students can rate their landlords, share their horror stories, and post prominent warnings to tenants. What needs to happen is people just not accepting those things. Take a gander at that. That is mouse feces. Reporter Temple University student Anjelica Gibbs says her landlord ignored her repeated requests to fix the problems. Theres nothing here. As you can see, chain and lock on the windows. Thats not a way out. Reporter while the average student might give up in sheer frustration, not this aspiring law student. This isnt a safe place to be. Its again unacceptable. Reporter at first anjelica tried the tactic of withholding rent. She says when that failed she took her battle to city hall. Filing a complaint against her landlord. Housing inspectors found a number of safety violations, including missing carb mikds detectors, a broken fire alarm box, inproperly barred windows. Anjelicas gambit worked. While the landlord blamed the tenants for the problems and said they didnt pay rent, she did fix the violations. The ultimate goal is to help someone out so they dont have to deal with it. Reporter meanwhile in boston dozens of city inspectors have been canvassing reporter there are signs of positive change in the wake of the globes investigation. We have found 120 housing violations. Reporter the new mayor has led a crackdown where every single student dwelling is being inspected. Sadly, many students have already received a costly education in the harsh realities of offcampus housing. Anyone know where binlin is . Reporter her death a lesson theyll never forget as her young life was cut brutally short in the attic of a boston rooming house. Im gio benitez in boston for nightline. Next, how these jilted brides found happy endings after their fiances called off the wedding. Later, we ask the starstudded cast of the big short how they turned a financial crisis into a comedy. And whats the deal with ryan goslings wig . We stop arthritis pain, so you dont have to stop. Tylenol® 8hr arthritis pain has two layers of pain relief. The first is fast. The second lasts all day. We give you your day back. What you do with it is up to you. Tylenol®. During red lobsters ultimate seafood celebration. With jazzed up new dishes like the decadent grand seafood feast and the ultimate woodgrilled feast why wait to celebrate . So hurry in, it ends soon. Is giving you more. Americas bestselling brand the ford holiday sales event. With 0 financing for 60 months on 2015 f150 and focus and 2016 fusion and escape. Plus 1,000 dollars Holiday Bonus cash on 2015 focus and 2016 fusion and escape. Its the best gift ever. 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I was getting ready to, you know, just touch up with the deejay. You know, just make sure everyone was on board, remembers the time. Everything had gone out. We were ready. Reporter everything planned, paid for, ready to go. Well, i was ready. Reporter then it all came crashing down when she says her fiance called off the wedding with a text message. It just said, ive been having these back and forth feelings and i dont know if i can do this, i dont want to marry you. Thats kind of the gist of what the text message said. Reporter kylies exfiance couldnt be reached for comment but according to kylie, he ended it just one week before the big day. Leaving her and her bridesmaids all dressed up with no place to go. So instead of walking down the aisle, kylie walked a 5k color run in her wedding dress. Instead of, this is my pretty white dress im going to walk down the aisle and marry the man of my dreams, now its making a new memory for it. Reporter the video went viral. I think people really took to the story because i turned such a negative, devastating thing and i turned it into something positive. Reporter weve all seen brides being left at the altar on the big screen. In movies like sex and the city. I cant do this. Reporter but in real life, calling off a wedding is often even more painful to watch. Let alone experience. To call what these women are going through traumatic may even be a bit of an understatement. For women who are in this position, they have a hard time with trust. And then theres the humiliation factor. So when someone breaks up with you and you have to let everybody know, theres a selfesteem issue that can happen, understandably so. Reporter a canceled wedding can also be quite costly. The wedding industry is a more than 50 billion business. With weddings becoming more and more elaborate, thanks in part to reality tv shows like say yes to the dress. Thats a gorgeous gown. Its 25,000. Reporter the average American Wedding costs more than 30,000. And when a wedding doesnt happen, much of that money is gone for good. If the wedding is called off by a certain date, you will get some percentage of the deposits back. But after a certain date, unfortunately, most vendors wont budge and you will end up losing the deposit. Oh, yes, deposits were lost. I mean, it was a week before the wedding. Reporter stacy becker can empathize. Theyd also planned a big, elaborate wedding. We had our venue, i had my dress, brides maid dresses, our band, our photographer. Reporter she says her fiance called it off. There were nights i would spend crying my eyes out in bed. I couldnt get out of bed. Going to work and having to put on a normal face while im dealing with people. Then at home im just crying, sobbing. Reporter turns out canceling a wedding can be almost as hard as planning one. I was getting on the phone with vendors, having to explain while im completely devastated, over and over again. This is what happened, is there anything we can do to work this out . When a couple calls off the wedding the first thing they can do is hit their family and freps know. They can enlist family members, enlist the Wedding Party to help them spread the word. Reporter stacy managed to get her deposit back for the reception. But many cant. Like a family in california who ended up donating the canceled wedding reception dinner to the homeless. I thinkhat there are women that creatively handle a very difficult situation and its all about how you react. Reporter stacy penned her heartache into a book called knot the one. Now she says shes found her happily ever after with someone else whos grateful for the brokenoff engagement. He threw away the winning lottery ticket. So im happy, i like him. The wheels on the bus go round and round reporter theyre now married with a baby girl. Her former fiance, who she calls brad in her book, said in a statement, stacy becker was my best friend and i loved the time we shared together. Unfortunately, at 26, i was not ready to make a forever commitment. I am happy to have realized that and think that stacy and i are both in better places because of it. Kylies heartbreak is still fresh and reminders of her wedding are everywhere. These turned out well. And you made these. Reporter she plans to get the dress cleaned and donated to charity. It actually turned out really pretty. Reporter despite her despair, kylie says aside from the message coming over text, the breakup was actually for the best. Im not mad at him for calling off the wedding. I thank him. Because now im able to find true happiness. I thank him for that. I really do. Reporter for nightline, im linsey davis in new york. Next, theyre huge stars in their own right. 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Its very therapeutic, banging the crap out of those things. We did demolish those drums when we were filming, almost took a crew members eye out. Reporter bale, ryan gosling, steve carell playing wall street outsiders who saw last decades multibillion dollar economic crash coming, it was a bestseller. How many times did you read the book . Twice. Almost back to back. I needed to understand what i had just read. It felt its such a great book but its a very complicated subject matter. Reporter challenging enough to grasp the details of Michael Lewis epic account of the 2007 collapse of the housing market. Harder for writer director adam mckay to make the big short into a peoplepleasing ensemble laugher. What was fun about playing someone like jared . He is loosely based on a real person. And yet we had to take a lot of liberties because he became the narrater and also the tour guide through this world. I can feel you judging me. Thats palpable. What did you enjoy about that . You get to turn to the camera every now and then. I really liked it. Yeah, id like to do more of that. I grew up on i do saved by the bell. This is horrible. I just meant to get a car. If i dont find a way out of this, my life is over. Zach morris was my acting icon when i was a kid. I thought id be doing more of it, honestly. Reporter trying to follow Christian Bale . Oi. Before we started id call adam. Hows it going . And he said, oh my god, Christian Bale is incredible. Im back in l. A. Going, oh, no im in a movie with Christian Bale, are you kidding me . You know, everyone had that reaction. Because the first two weeks were all christian. And the crew and all of us fell in love with christian. Stupidly i would tell these guys that. Steves like, remember reporter it was mckay who spearheaded the project and attracted its alist cast. Eager to elicit laughter and something more from its audiences. Bale utterly transforms into michael bury, a doctor with a knack for high finance and a lack of communication skills. You have a very nice haircut, did you do it yourself . What . Reporter hed wear the same clothing the doc did along with learning those death metal drums. What was the most important thing for you in sort of telling michaels story . Mike was very understanding of the need for license. I was very surprised how understanding he was of that. You want to stay absolutely truthful to him because he is such a fascinating character. Reporter ryan goslings deep on the inside cynic is all, hey, guy, to carrel and his team. No, alex, no. Reporter with an attitude and sharp fin sharp as his twopiece. Just putting on the suit must have made you feel like, i got this. Right . I did, more it was putting on the wig, i felt like, i got this. I walked out of the trailer and saw steve and steve went, never do this again. Such a horror show. Hes such a goodlooking human being and he could not have looked creepier. Reporter for nightline im Chris Connelly in los angeles. Thanks to Chris Connelly for that report. The big short will be in theaters on december 23rd. Thanks for watching abc news tonight. Tune into gma first thing in the morning. As always were online 24 7 on our Nightline Facebook page our Nightline Facebook page and hey. Hey, frank. How are ya . Here. Whats this . I dont know some porcelain thing you gave us for our 30th anniversary or some other terrible occasion. Why are you givin it back to me . Maririe says she doesnt like it and she ver did. So she sent you over here with this . Thats right. Im maries stinkin Messenger Service since you two stopped talkin to each other. Okay, frank, okay. All right. Okay. You know who she does talk to . Me. Nonstop. So do me a favor if youre upset, please, shoot the messenger. object shatters hellooo. Well. 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