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We had two...one official house (slept about 18-20), and then there was an apartment building that was 95% ours...we were very close with the house mom for the apartment, and she gave first priority to guys from our fraternity.
Here's the catch: they were both on fraternity row, only about one minute walk apart, yet there was still a schism in the brotherhood because of it. There were brothers who partied almost solely at the apartment building and would never come to the house despite the fact it was seconds away. In addition, we began having a hard time filling our house, despite that it only held 18-20 and we were a 90 person chapter at the time. Everybody wanted to live in the apartment building because you didn't have to put up with the smaller rooms and rules of the house.
On the other hand, it helped in a lot of ways. It gave us a space to do things when all the official fraternity houses were supposed to be dry or on moratorium, we were able to hold some meetings there (at the time, we were far too large for our house and the apartment building's large common room could hold us more comfortably), it was a fun change of pace, etc. But there is no denying that it caused schisms to the point that there were two groups, and some brothers even dropped the house but continued living in the annex.
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