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I was a founding father of my chapter of my fraternity and the one thing I think was a con in starting a new chapter was the lack of alumni. Our school is located in a big city and we had alumni from lots of other chapters coming and going over the three year period we were a colony. Each alumnus who helped was nice, but they seemed to always want to bring their chapter to us. A lot of suggestions were good if we were at their respective schools, but most of the ideas wouldn't work at our school, and many of the alumni were transient due to their jobs.
Stories were good but we lacked our own alumni, which with the other houses on campus was a huge advantage especially during rush...
Another big issue we as a colony had was that many of the guys in the colony would never think "big picture" and many of the actions the did or didn't do was always based on our house alone, and had a real issue trying to think of our group as being part of a national organization.....
Maybe sororities are different, not sure, but that was my experience.
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