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Housing
First i waneted to say good luck on building your house. After seeing all the different houses on campus, its interesting to look at what sets certain houses apart. I would say for a frat house it is definitly important to have a patio or balcony of some sort. I live on a street with six frats and one other sorority. The houses that get the most attention are those that have the big balconies for hanging out on when its warm. Even if its in the front, like the alph sigs house here, i know a lot of people like to just chill and watch the night progress on the busy street we live on.
I know that some of the houses here are beautifull. The Psi U and the Theta houses are really gorgeous with stone and such.
I think one of the most important parts of a house is having a big room with a couch and a tv to hang out in. Also as far as size goes i would think it is important to see how many people you would want to live in and think to the future too. I know that pi phis were in two houses prior to the one we have now and then we had a house built just for pi phis at MSU. Our house can house 45 girls and right now we are three away from capacity. Usually there is a large demand to live in and not so many spots usually available. I know that when they first lived in our house there was not so much of a demand but try to think about maybe where your house can be ten, twenty years down the line (in our case almost a half a century!).
Also one thing that i noticed is a big deal with all houses is parking. Make sure you have a big parking lot. With our house only our EC can park in back and everyone else needs to find somewhere else to park which gives us only one option and that is to pay a lot of money to park across the street in the frats parking lots. So i suppose if you dont always fill your lot up the first couple of years you could do what our frats do and sell spots to people who need places to park. (then again parkign might not be an issue at your college)
Hope this helps some...... good luck!
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