[Mooch279]

Josh good to hear things got straightened out and the zeta is alive. Just because you can't through a party in the house doesn't mean you dont have any options. Remember i think a 1/3 of our chapters dont have houses. You just need to think of rush as a 24x7 job. ANYTHING can be a rush event.....let me repeat that....ANYTHING can be a rush event. start eating in the dinning hall once or twice a week and call up some rushees to join you. my chapter has started to play dodgeball evey wednesday night oncampus in one of the tennis courts. also they have brotherhood dinner once a week, we dont have a house so everyone comes to one the oncampus apartments chips in $3-$5 for all you can eat pusta. just call guys up to come out and hang out to get to know you. hey three or four brothers are going to a movie want to come? you can reserve a lecture hall one night and have a greek movie marathon(animal house,revenge of the nerds, etc) and have a rush table for information.
I remember talking to a guy from UCLA one summer at conclave and they had a great rush gymmic. they would sell raffle tickets at the rush table all week and then that friday they would draw the winner. the catch was you had to come back to the house for the drawing. they gave away a surf board but i always wanted to get the ravens to sign a football and raffle that off and have the money go to charity(two birds with one stone on that one.) anyway before the drawing they would play pool have stuff to eat maybe some card games going, basically mini events within the main event designed to get to know guys and get them interested incoming out more.
also since you can't through parties in the house just invite guys to go club hopping with you. or go on a road trip and bring some along. remember the dumbest reason to join a fraternity is to party, this is college there are parties everywhere, you dont need to be greek to find some beer. you need to show guys the million other things about being in a fraternity they have no idea about.

if your having trouble with making the house payment why dont you just rent rooms to boarders, i know when i was in college, i would go down to the chpater at maryland and they did that and ended up rushing several of those guys.

just a thought, hope you can use some of these suggestions and i hope you guys have a good semester. keep posting and let us know how things are going and if you need anything else.