[DubaiSis]

Your national may not be too keen on the off-campus apartment situation. If it is directly associated with your sorority (that's the apartment where the Alpha Betas live) if something happened, headquarters could be at risk. Although I'm sure it happens a lot, I would definitely involve your alumnae to make sure you're not upsetting the old broads.

Remember that your housing corporation can help with the money. It's not like you'd be expected to come up with 1/60th of a 2 million dollar house. The house would have a mortgage, just like any house, that is covered by your national. How you get the money you need will vary based on the school and your sorority, but if all parties agree a house is warranted, you'll get the money.

It's very exciting! I would shoot for houses that hold 30-35 comfortably (room to squeeze as you grow or a back yard to extend into), and somewhere that all 3 chapters can build simultaneously and be approximately the same size. If you are growing, building room for a couple more chapters wouldn't be the worst thing in the world, but that would require real support from the school.

Being someone who lived in my chapter house for 3 years, I definitely have a bias toward having a full-service house. I loved having all the girls there with me day in, day out. Good luck!