About ResiLore
We built ResiLore because renters deserve transparency.
ResiLore exists to make residential buildings accountable. A permanent, searchable public record of what residents experience — complaints, responses, and resolutions — so that information asymmetry in housing stops costing people so much.
Origin
The building that changed everything
In June 2021, a twelve-story condominium in Surfside, Florida collapsed in the middle of the night. Ninety-eight people died. In the months that followed, investigators found years of documented structural concerns — warnings from engineers, complaints from residents, deferred maintenance — that had never been consolidated, never made public, and never acted upon with urgency.
Anton Kaminsky was a litigator in Philadelphia. He had spent years in courtrooms understanding one fundamental truth: notice matters. If you can prove someone knew about a problem and failed to act, everything changes. Liability shifts. Accountability follows.
Around the same time, Anton and his family were looking at units in a high-rise. He found himself asking a question that had no good answer: how do you actually research a building before you buy into it? There was no place to find out whether the elevators kept breaking, whether management responded to complaints, whether the reserve fund was healthy, whether residents were happy or miserable. You could look at a listing. You could tour the lobby. That was about it.
“I kept thinking — what if residents had been posting about those cracks in the garage for years? What if there was a public record? Would someone have acted sooner? Would those 98 people still be alive?”
ResiLore was born from that question.
The HOA that ran on Facebook
Anton also lives in a suburban HOA community outside Philadelphia — over 100 homes, families with young kids, neighbors who genuinely want to connect. He joined the board and found the same story playing out everywhere: governance by group text, announcements buried in Facebook posts, financial records locked in a spreadsheet nobody could find, votes conducted by paper ballot shoved under doors.
“I have small kids. I want them outside, playing with the neighbors' kids, part of a real community. But there was no infrastructure for that. No community page. No events calendar. No way to know what was going on unless you were on Facebook, which half the neighborhood refuses to use.”
The platform he wanted didn't exist. The tools that did exist cost money most small HOAs couldn't justify, required technical setup nobody had time for, and offered nothing for the residents themselves — only for the board.
So ResiLore would have a free tier. Always. Because community shouldn't cost money to participate in.
Onotiz: putting buildings on notice
As a litigator, Anton understood something most people don't: a complaint without a timestamp is just a complaint. A complaint with a timestamp, a public URL, and certified mail delivery is notice. Legal notice. The kind that shifts the burden of proof. The kind that, if a building later has a catastrophic failure, establishes what management knew and when.
Onotiz — phonetically “on notice” — is the formal notice engine inside ResiLore. When a resident submits a formal complaint through Onotiz, it generates a permanent, immutable public URL, a timestamped PDF, and optional USPS certified mail delivery. The building cannot claim ignorance. The record exists. And because it's public, the pressure to act is real: a building with unresolved formal notices loses value. A building that resolves them gains it.
“This is transparency helping capitalism do its job. Buildings that take care of their residents are worth more. Buildings that don't, aren't. The market should know the difference. ResiLore makes sure it does.”
Built with AI, by a lawyer with no time
Anton is a practicing litigator. He does not write code. ResiLore was built entirely through collaboration with AI — using Claude to translate legal and product thinking into working software, design, and copy. Every feature, every page, every database schema was arrived at through conversation.
“I had the idea for years. I just never had a way to execute it. AI changed that. I could sit down, explain what I wanted, and watch it come to life. It's the most remarkable thing I've ever witnessed in technology.”
ResiLore is proof that the barrier between a good idea and a real product has collapsed — and that the people with the most important ideas to build don't always have to be the ones who know how to build them.
Founder
The person behind ResiLore
Anton Kaminsky
Founder
Litigator. HOA board member. Father. Based just outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Built ResiLore because the product he needed didn't exist and, thanks to AI, he could finally build it himself.
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2025
Founded
Philadelphia, PA
Headquarters
15 major metros
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What we believe
Our values
Transparency
Every complaint, every response, every resolution is visible. We don't let property managers bury problems or erase history. The record exists so future residents can make informed decisions.
Accountability
Anonymity for residents, responsibility for buildings. We protect the identities of people who speak up while creating a permanent, searchable record that holds buildings and their management to account.
Community
Residents shouldn't have to fight alone. ResiLore connects neighbors, amplifies shared concerns, and gives communities a platform to organize, vote, and communicate with their building's management.