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Originally posted by honeychile
Great blazes, TStevens! Great idea! (are we having fun yet?)
I'd really like to see a joint NIC/NPC accord on this, but can you imagine if every GLO on every campus would cooperate? There would be an incredible sinking fund, for sprinkler systems, and anything else deemed necessary.
Now, how do we get this idea to NIC/NPC?
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Not that I would think anyone would have statistics on this... but I wonder what percentage of greek housing is equipped with sprinklers. I don't see every NIC/NPC chapter on every campus participating- because many already have sprinkler systems (like our own campus, honeychile).
I would hope that all newly built houses would have sprinkler systems, I'd imagine that the cost of installing it for new construction would be less than installing it on an older structure.
I do think GLOs should each have more low interest loans available to their chapters for things like this, or at least do more to assist them in securing the funds. KD, for example, has a chapter house loan program thing, where you can borrow towards renovations, etc. Back around 2000 or 2001, the interest rate on that, an internet loan program, was 9%. That high of an interest rate makes an already more expensive project more expensive. Obviously, there has to be some interest, but keep it down! (yes, that still irritates me to this day that the interest rate was so high)