While some of us more unfortunates cannot attend Your Type of Prestigious Alma Mater and build new houses We I am sure admire you?

At @ 100-150 $ per square foot, it is expensive to build as I well know.

Some schools do not allow GLOs to build and want to keep them on campus in dorms. What is funny, the dorm space becomes smaller ergo no rooms.

Now in your infinite wisdom, if everyone who you do not think belongs to GLOs, and not at High Time Elite Schools, I guess Your Fraternity would be a lot smaller.

Somehow, I don't think that would bother them in the least.

That would clearly be the best option, and its not that we haven't the funds, its a matter of a real estate problem, the area is an over developed shithole, most of the lots in the area are scarcely 1/4 of an acre, so they clearly would not be able to accomdate a house that would be able to accomodate many men at all. Most neighborhood houses cant fit more then six without converting open areas into living rooms.

A dorm level is just one of the ideas we are toying with, there are two houses that will go up for rent year, both sleep six-eight and are across the street from eachother.

Thank you everyone for the input though, it is greatly appreciated.

One of my sorority's chapters did this for a long while and it worked really well - the girls liked it because if you were getting temporarily annoyed with the sisters you lived with, you could go across the street to the other house. LOL.

That depends on where you are as well. I went to school in Boston, and to build a house in the Boston/Brookline area is ridiculously expensive. The best alternative for us was renting a house.

Even renting wasn't an option in St. Louis. Buying enough land to put a house up on (that would hold more than 8 people) was impossible. The townhouses that did exist near campus were privately owned and expensive. The rest of the neighborhood was completely urban (and sometimes frightening) and there was just no land available. The school bought up everything anyway.

At my college, any program house with at least two years on campus (and no disciplinary problems) was allowed to apply for shared hallways. No one had houses, but the Greeks had sections of houses (and private lounges) because the property value in Providence is sky-high.

Speaking to Greek Life (to make sure you have an ally) before going to Res Life will save you a ton of heartache.

I don't think so either.

Try Malibu! :rolleyes:

Manoa's the same way. While not scenic and picturesque like Malibu, much of the neighborhood consists of homes on the State Register of historic homes:

http://www.malamaomanoa.org/WalkTours/2230Kam.jpg

http://www.malamaomanoa.org/WalkTour...0Ferdinand.jpg

http://www.malamaomanoa.org/WalkTours/2234kam.jpg

(The University President's House)

http://www.malamaomanoa.org/WalkTour...0Ferdinand.jpg

(This house was featured on LOST a few times)

Expect to shell out a couple of millions for any property surrounding the campus. That's why we don't have a house. :(

I actually don't think Malibu is very pretty in general. There are parts that are pretty, and the Pepp campus is beautiful, but the cost of living is inflated due to the celeb factor. Some homes have ocean views, but others are far off the water. The dumpy, small condos along the highway start at a million...and I really mean dumpy.

Ironically, land is not an issue for the greeks at my school. The university campus is something like 830 acres. Of course, building on that land is another issue. The Coastal Commission fights every new building that the university puts up, which is ridiculous considering the influx of houses perched on stilts and carved into the hillside above the highway are a far bigger danger to the environment and public.