what’s the negative of living in a housed frat?

If you’re a freshman, unless you join one of the affiliated housing chapters (which is only like 3 houses) then you have to live in the dorms anyways.

I’m in a sorority, but my partner is in a fraternity, and he honestly hated living in for two years. A lot of the houses are old and falling apart, and he didn’t have any alone time or space of his own. But it all depends on the experience you’re going for. Living in can be cool too cause of already prepared food, always having friends around, sometimes it’s cheaper than Corvallis rent, etc. Some unhoused fraternities are still pretty involved in Greek Life. I’d recommend checking both out during rush.

Your chapter (like phi psi) has to bid a ton of random people to try to fill the house. Then your brotherhood sucks etc

some fraternities are doing some major renovation or building projects...DU is doing a major renovation, Lambda is getting a completely new house, Sigep is doing some major remodelling, etc. Otherwise, the downside is that fraternity houses are a bit rundown at times.

I would try not to think about the living in aspect of the fraternity experience as much when you are rushing. Look more at the guys, what the house has to offer and stuff like that. A lot of frats only make you live in one year and sometimes you can get out of it if there are enough guys living in that year. Also living in the dorms can be a very amazing experience but also some people hate their time in the dorms so it really depends on what dorm you get and the people in it. It really is what you make of it, if you find the right people you can really be fine with living anywhere.