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So I was thinking about housing, and what's important about housing. I broke it down into 5 categories:
Location, location, location. The house really needs to be in an area that is confined. This makes acquiring a house difficult. No one has stated who currently owns the former AOPi and AZD houses. I'd like to know. The new greek park is 2 miles away from the nearest sorority house. That won't work.
Exterior Looks: Not important, and no correlation. The Theta house looks like a 1972 dental office complex. The Thetas at FSU are awesome. The Sigma Kappa house is beautiful. They folded twice in the last 20 years.
Interior Looks: Somewhat important. It just needs to be presentable, but maybe the ladies at FSU can offer more insight.
Sleeping Capacity: I think that this may be very important. DZ used to struggle to make quota in their house. It was a very pretty house, and had the smallest sleeping capacity of any FSU sorority house at under 30 (26?) Then they did a renovation/expansion of the facility, and it became the FSU sorority house with the greatest sleeping capacity (over 70.) DZ hasn't, to the best of my knowledge, struggled since, and talking with my active chapter brothers, they are now held in high regard. Several even told me that DZ is their favorite house.
Parking: I think that this might also be important, and overlooked. KD is highly competitive, and has less than a dozen parking spaces behind their house. They also own a lot, used as a parking lot, across the street. Sigma Kappa had a parking capacity of 4 cars when I lived in that house.
So, from my observations, a house is needed that sleeps over 35, with parking in a good location.
The most important thing is that whoever colonizes, succeeds. If this colonization fails, it may be a while until another sorority is invited back on campus.
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