During the recession, Mariner Real Estate Management LLC spent millions of dollars buying thousands of Kansas City area residential lots at pennies on the dollar. Now, principals in that Leawood-based firm are injecting an equity investment into a new Kansas City homebuilding firm that is not only buying the lots but changing the way new homes are built in this market. The company, Inspired Homes, was launched this year by founding partners Ernie Wassmann, a development consultant now serving as…
