Hi! I was wondering if i can rent a frat house for a Halloween party this year, I’m thinking November 1st 

heyyo, 

soooo it seems like you are far from the only one to be curious about whether frats will let you host a party in their houses! because i actually just got a question from someone else about basically the same thing. so I’ll refer you to that post for a more detailed response. apparently it’s a hot rental market for frats at the moment! 

a lot of people want to be the reverse ned flanders. 

i was able to do a little bit more sleuthing for you, though! I dmed all of the frats listed here that were active on instagram. unfortunately no one got back to me at the time of this writing 🙁 

however, i do suspect that some of these frats may have been a littttle bit less willing to respond to poking questions about house parties from a uoft-affiliated account. i would recommend that you give it a try yourself, since i imagine you would be a lot less intimidating than moi. 

so i would say to give that a shot. i hope it goes well for you! i’m sure you’ll have an absolutely raging party, which aska here will sadly not be attending because they have two midterms right after reading week. thrilling, i know. 

cheers, 

aska 

i’m trynna host a party can i rent out a frat for the night and like which ones and how do i contact themm

hey there,

sooo i’m not even gonna try to pretend like that’s my scene.

but i will try to answer this as best i can.

usually, i can be such an effective internet sleuth when it comes to student life stuff. the problem with this is that there’s very little online or easy to find info about the frats. like, i dug and dug and couldn’t find much about renting out frats :/

the closest piece of info i could find is from 2015, and it says sigma chi rents their house out because they are “desperate for money”. lol who knows if that’s still true.

my personal thoughts are… do frats even rent their houses out at all? i would be surprised if this happens, because they are used as actual houses where people live. they don’t just exist during a party and vanish on other days. however, according to this ancient aska post, rumor has it that it is possible… so who knows… i’m sure any house will do it for a certain amount of money.

ok. here is a list of toronto frats. some are exclusive to U of T students and some are a mix of different universities. my top recommendation is to search each one up on google and go to their websites, where you should be able to find a “contact” page. on another day, i would do that for you personally, but right now my eyes are aching from looking at my computer all day!

tbh, you could also probably search them all up on instagram/tiktok and DM the accounts, or if you’re feeling really persistent, even DM the people tagged in their posts.

otherwise, if social media fails you, and the contact pages also fail you, there is something else you could do. remember when you were searching each frat up on google? on google you will also find their addresses :D. if you were a brave soul, you could, in a very casual and chill manner, show up to the houses and chat up the first guy you see. maybe he’ll hand you a beer and y’all will become bros, idk?! how are your social skills.

and if not, there will also be lots of parties during orientation week and the first few weeks of school — maybe show up then and ask. that is, if your party isn’t on a deadline.

but yeah, jokes aside, literally just go through that list i gave you and find their contact info on their official websites.

i hope it works out and i hope you get to party!

over and out,

aska