I am not a programmer and know how to create a program for that, nor do I want to deal with all of the automated payouts each day for the delegators. Yes you do get HP back while you are curating, that is how I will recoup some of my expenses.

As far as choosing to use dlease, I don't really know of any other way to get that amount of delegation. Purchasing the leased delegation will give me the ability to reward people a lot more than the vote value that I have now and allow me to break my votes up between a lot more posts.

It will definitely be a learning experience to try and maximize curation efforts to not lose too much during this whole thing.