I'm guessing that the colony will form and with enough men return to living in the house in fall of 2010 with an established group.

BUT, the article from January said they were owners and bought the house, which seems odd considering getting land for a house is near impossible. Maybe it was a semantics error on the part of the Daily Evergreen reporter. Nu house is still operating this fall according to their website.

The way the website seems to be featuring the house, I'm guessing the Christian group only rented. I can't imagine that a house corp with that much on the line and plans for nearly immediate recolonization would sell the house in these circumstances. Nor would I buy the possibility that some random Christian group would just have a couple million dollars or so sitting around with which to buy the WSU Sigma Nu house.

The only thing that sticks out to me is the article mentions remodeling, especially in regards to the sleeping porches, and that house had massive work done because of the fire in 2000. However men's chapter in the local area have been considering or doing away with sleeping porches and trying to change the living style a bit with bathrooms in suites and what not. It just doesn't jive to spend the money to fix up the sleeping porch and then let the renters remodel.

I really don't find it logical to sell the house considering how there isn't any land to build a new one since the town and school are one and the same now. I am also impressed with the tenacity of the alumni, as this is the second issue with RM in a decade (a kid was found duct taped in a room when the fire happened in 2000). There are news articles about that I can access, but I'm not posting the links as most of you would have to pay, but it is something one can google.

Ok so I know this is an old thread but I'm here to help clear up some questions you guys have had! As far as The Delta Iota colony of Sigma Nu at WSU, we have already begun our re-colonization. This last fall (2009) we recruited 42 men, the largest pledge class on campus, to join the legion of honor. As the last two semesters have gone on we have lost a few members and we had a spring pledge class of 6 which is 3x as large as any other Fraternity on campus. As far as the house is concerned, it burned to the ground in 2001 and was completely rebuilt at a cost rumored to be around $4 million. After the last chapter lost their charter the alumni couldn't afford to keep it without a return on their investments. In steps a very generous alumni from our Epsilon Omicron chapter at USC who decided that he would like to own the Delta Iota house located at 640 NE Campus St. After the first year of owning it and no tenants he decided to remodel the house yet again to be more renter friendly environment; i.e. axing the sleeping porch. The current value of the house is rumored to be in the $5-$7 million dollar range, though with the economy and housing market the way they are I'm not so sure. Anyways, for the last two years the Nu House, as the tenants so affectionately dubbed 640 NE Campus St., has been home to a "faith based living" organization. The current owner of the house has pledged to provide housing for them until the Fall of 2011 when the Delta Iota Chapter will resume living in the house at 640 NE Campus St.