This is a great place to find information and contacts that can help you move forward with successful deals in Real Estate. 

There are quite a few wholesalers in the Houston area (or at least there were) and that might be your best chance for success.

and what level of success there had been importing measurements automatically?

Hope nothing but success for you!

I've been having pretty good success with a place called www.house-heroes.com.

This probably shows my inexperience but I am hoping to grow a successful business but also help people at the same time.

But you will get people looking at a worse property to achieve a percentage metric than translates into very little marginal income.Tip: If $20 per month represents such a material change that it would sway a buy/no-buy decision...don't get into real estate :) You will have WAY bigger issues over the years to contend with.

You have two options to avoid paying back the depreciation expense: 1) sell the building through a 1031 (this allows you to buy larger and larger properties each time without getting hit with capital gains tax or deprecation expense capture back, 2) refinance the property  and cash out your original equity (along with some or all of your appreciated equity you earned from the time of purchase) and use that cash to purchase another property.I intend to use both options in order to achieve my goal of 1,000 units. 

Is there anyone out there intentionally and consistently doing this with success? 

It seems as if most successful wholesalers "drive for dollars" and do direct mail marketing campaigns.