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I will have to ask internationals that one never heard of them funding a house, and I have talked to quite a few guys from IHQ. The few restarts I seen around my area either don't have a house or their alumni helped get it.If it is true that they help fund houses for restarts then you have a valid complaint. I agree IHQ doesn't like to help the chapters that do well, probably because there always seems to be a chapter on the verge of closing that needs help. If you hate IHQ so much use the money you collect for dues and pay for the repairs to your house. Furniture is not a necessicty and if you really need it you can get cheap allready owned stuff real easy. 90% of the furnature in my house was donated by alumni when they got new furnture for themselves. Zeta Nu's drive way needs repairs too. We usually find way to fix up things. Yes Zeta Nu owes money to IHQ that probably because of house repairs. I guess basically you got decide what is more important house repairs or being a top teke chapter. Maybe at the next conclave someone can try to get a bylaw passed that top teke chapters should be eligible for money for house repairs. I bet that might get even more chapters to strive to achieve to be top tekes. I really doubt IHQ does not care about you. They are indeed your fraters and probably have seen many cases like yours. If they do fund houses for restarts then I think there should be a bylaw banning that and should use the money for the in worst shape TKE houses and the chapters that don't even have houses.
Does your school have a big greek community? If so maybe you can get the university to build university run houses. It sucks you have to follow the universiities rules for a house but you know they would keep it maintained.
I know you have heard or stories, but do you really know if they are true or not? Drill IHQ, email them and call them about it regularly. They may get annoyed but your dues pay their salaries. I wish some of the IHQ guys that are members here would come back and post about the topic they could answer the question alot better than any of us. I am always cautious about stories because I find out a bunch of them are not true. Like one story I have been hearing lately is if a chapter pays it's debt off to IHQ , IHQ will close them so they don't go in debt again. I emailed IHQ about that one and found out it never has happened. The story started after a chapter was being investigated for hazing. The chapter paid off their debt thinking it would help their case. The ended up getting shut down for hazing. After that angry fraters claimed they got closed down for paying off their debt.
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