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I lived-in for 2 years. All our rooms are doubles.

My best advice is to move in and enjoy it. Living in the house is like living in an all-female residence hall. You'll be deluged with fun activities and ways to be involved in the sorority-- and the first to hear all the gossip!

Warning: Manage your time wisely. Utilize the school library for study time. It's not that the chapter house isn't suitable enough for study, it is that many cannot resist hanging out or going out all the time. Find your "Away Place."

Don't live-in if you can't live without alcohol and boys in your room.

Keep your room door locked when you're not in it, even when you are physically in the chapter house. Purchase a safe and place all valuables, cash, jewelry, etc., in a safe, as well as setting computer passwords and locking your computer access. Keep your printer and toner locked up.

Valuables have a way of walking away anonymously when you don't lock your doors in a residence hall or sorority house-- whether it's members, their guests or house employees.... just be warned.

Have a good meeting with your roommate-to-be about your lifestyles and your pet peeves so you go into this experience with realistic expectations.

Tidy up after yourself.

Make sure you understand your lease before you sign it-- can you get out of it? How? When you move out, what specific things do you need to do to ensure you get your security deposit back (IE: One year, my roomie and I cleaned like mad, spackled any picture holes in the walls, etc.... and then lost our entire deposit because we left a bag of trash outside our room in the hall... because we had been told by a sister that the maid would take it out. No one got their deposits back because of the darn trash!)