If there's one place you could do it in Houston right now, it'd be the Heights. The city can be affordable as hell, but there is a lot of urban infill starting (rather than building more surburbs). So the walkable/bikeable parts of the city have seen price increases for the last 3-4 years, and remain unaffected so far by the decline in oil prices (which people often assume will result in a decline in home prices).

Well, I am tempted to bid for a laugh and I am in the UK and unlikely to move there.

Looking at the tax history it looks like they might have bought it for around $300K so if that is the case they only need (a nice and even) 2000 people before they break even and everything after that is gravy.

2666 is actually not that many... if it goes even a little bit viral it will probably work.