I really don't understand some members not wanting to fulfill their one-year obligation to live in the house. It is SO MUCH FUN and you are pretty much there for everything when it happens... it's one of those things that is hard to explain I guess.
As property manager for my chapter, it completely boggled my mind why some members didn't want to fulfill their obligation -- ESPECIALLY because we will have a beautiful brand new house with brand new
everything inside it.
I really don't get it... especially if they are moving right out of the dorms like I did.... I guess it just makes more sense to me for members to move out of the dorms with little or no furniture as opposed to getting an apartment, and fully furnishing the apartment and then having to sell or put all the furniture in storage for the year that the member has to live in the house.
Personally, I am glad the sororities did what they had to do in order to keep the house full. Having a house is a HUGE part of a chapter's finances, so when there are open spots, the chapter is losing money because no matter if the house is full or not, all that money needs to be paid out.
ETA: I also think that if the chapters who did this had older members who hadn't fulfilled their one-year obligation, they should have been first in the "lottery" as opposed to the new members.
