I also started a Local but with the idea of affiliation with a National!
I dont know if the Nationals on campus looked down noses as severa members of the House I was booted out of and members of others helped us get on campus!
But in our first formal rush, we got no new pledges! No Soroitys would do run outs with us, going out on Group gatherings!
One of the guys was dating a Tri Sigma who we mad our Fraternity Queen and then they started going and recognizing us!
ADP did to but they were the worst house on Campus for Soros but # 32 is married to a very lovely lady and unfortunatlly ADP is gone!
I never look donw my nose at a local as you never know when it will come up and bite you in the butt!
I call it the wheel of life! It keeps going around! One day you are on top and the next oops you are on the bottom!
Some days your the dog and some your are the fire plug!